The Secrets Within The Underworld Hotel

#4

I walk in and the floor beneath me creaks. I walk through the big, red, very silent room to get to the room with the desk. The desk has a computer with someone hidden behind it. The room smells completely of cigars and something burnt. I look around for where the burnt smell is coming from and realize it's not from anything at all.

"Excuse me, Sir."

The bent over someone looks up from the computer and stares right at me. He has gray eyes, he is made of stone. Then it hits me. A gargoyle, of course. I realize there is an odd feeling sitting inside me, I choose to ignore it even tho it has been rising in me each minute I have been here.

"What do you want." The gargoyle says in a solemn tone.

"I'm here to make a deal with the dark lord."

"Follow me."

The gargoyle leads me down some stone stairs. It's a spiral staircase and gets colder and wetter every step we go down. He leads me past an abandoned prison, then into a room.

"Where's the dark lord?" I ask

"Not here...yet."

I shiver, but I can't tell if it's from the cold, the fear, or both.

"He'll be here in a few minutes." Says the gargoyle

Then SLAM

"Okay tha-"

I couldn't even finish my sentence as the door behind me was slammed shut, just after. A light flickered on showing a table with two chairs in the middle of a dark room. I walk towards the wooden chair near me and stair at the red leathered seat on the opposite side of the table.

'CReaK'

I look back to see a guy with black hair, black wings, white eyes in a red suit and shoes come through the door that was slammed shut. He doesn't look at me just walks to the red leathered seat, sits, then his eyes meet mine.

"I-"

"Sh, what's your business here." He cuts me off and asks.

"Are you the dark lord?" The curiosity got the best of me and lept out before I could even think of what to say.

He stares at me, it's a cold and very dead stare. Finally he states

"I'll be asking the questions, now why are you here."

I sigh and state the reason I came

"My sister..she..she..got kidnapped and i heard that if you make a deal with the dark lord he will grant you a wish."

The black haired boy sighs, froze for a few seconds, and then pulls out a paper and a quill. He dips the quill in some some ink and hands me the quill and paper. I look at him, then my eyes draw to the paper. He doesn't say anything as I begin to read the large words. I skim through not wanting to waste time and then I sign. The paper disappears, the guy grabs the quill, and tells me to follow him.

We go out the door, and up the stairs, past the gargoyle, and out the front. He walks toward a tree, all I do is follow him in confusion over to the tree. He knocks three times then the tree opens and there is a ladder going down. I look at the black haired guy and he only is holding his hand in a curious way signaling me to go first. I grab my muddy and messed up silk nightgown I decided to wear for the walk here.