Escape The Night Season 5: The Delamont Carnival

Chapter 29: Diabolical Demons- Part 3

Author's Note: Hey, guys! So, this challenge is going 6 ways... literally! All 6 guests still alive- Gear, Lana, Lizzie, Oli, Zach and Valentina- will be competing in the Demon's Gauntlet. I'll try to keep it as detailed as possible as this will have quick pacing and an ending which will probably make you hate me, so please don't. I've never done a challenge this big before, so if characters don't get even screen time, I'm sorry. But, enough talk. Let's get into the six-way smackdown!

Your Author, Marbella. <3

P.S: This chapter is gonna contain a shit load of angst. You have been warned.

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"I think this is where I'm going to die...."

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Valentina's POV: 

We all arrived at the Demon's Gauntlet, and it looked creepy as hell.

At the end of it are the demons we've been facing for the past hour, each of them holding a flaming dagger.

We arrived at the long table and find a note.

Oli grabbed it and read it.

It reads:

'The last person among the six of you to complete the four challenges of the Demon's Gauntlet will be sacrificed to the Delamont Mistress by the demons. The first is the Demon's Chalices, the second is the Demon's Horn, the third is finding the lost soul in a jar and the last is spinning the pentagram off of the rotary post. Only the strongest five will survive.'

Gear: 'So, there are four challenges in this gauntlet. And the last person to complete all four is going to get sacrificed to the Delamont Mistress by these demons.'

Lana: 'The most heartbreaking part of this whole thing is not that I'm going up against my alliance, but I'm going up against Gear. I honestly don't want to die right now because I've come so far in the night, but I also don't want to break Gear's heart when he's come so far too.'

Lizzie: 'As somebody who's already died once, I'm not ready to get myself killed again. I'm surviving this challenge. And I'm surviving it with my alliance.'

Zach: 'And what could be in these chalices, anyway? It can't be that bad, right?

"Begin!" Heidi said, moving her arm.

We all grab the chalices and start drinking. To move on, we need to finish all three that are in front of us. And I think there was blood and organs in it, but I just imagined it was fruit punch.

Lizzie: 'So, here's how we're all taking this: There's Val and Gear, who are throwing this back like its water, there's Lana and Oli, who are basically Gear and Val, but they actually breathe, there's Zach who's really struggling and then there's me, who's barely keeping this down!'

Gear and I practically fly through all three chalices and get through them in about two minutes. We're both trying to work out the horn, which is a bit confusing when Oli and Lana catch up to us.

Zach and Lizzie are still drinking as I get the first few pieces of the horn, Lana further ahead of all of us still there.

Lana: 'This horn challenge is the easiest thing I've done all night. I did so many stacking puzzles growing up, so I just whiz through it and move on to find this lost soul in a jar.'