INTO HELL [e. munson]

fourteen.

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      EVERYONE FRANTICALLY RAN TO EDDIE'S ROOM TO LOOK FOR MUSIC. "Steve says you need to hurry!" Erica yelled.

"Yeah? No shit!" Dustin screamed.

"We're trying. We can't find anything," Max complained.

"I told you that you need to clean your room," Lila argued with Eddie.

"You literally have some in your hands!" Eddie yelled. "I mean, what are you even looking for?"

"Madonna, Blondie, Bowie, Beatles? Music! We need music!" Robin listed off.

"This is music!" Eddie gripped an Iron Maiden cassette in his hand.

"For you!" Lila yelled.

"She's okay!" Steve yelled.

...

"He showed me things that haven't happened yet. The most awful things. I saw a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins. Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this... giant creature with... a gaping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes. And then... he showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they... they were all," Nancy stopped speaking and began to softly cry. Her breath shook due to her trying to keep her composure.

"Okay, but he's just trying to scare you, Nance. Right? I mean, it's not real," Steve pointed out.

"Not yet. But there was something else. He showed me gates. Four gates. Spreading across Hawkins. And these gates... they looked like the one outside of Eddie's trailer, but they didn't stop growing. And this wasn't the Upside Down Hawkins. This was our Hawkins. Our home."

"Four chimes," Max finally said, "Vecna's clock. It always chimes four times. Four exactly."

"I heard them too."

"He's been telling us his plan this whole time."

"Four kills," Lucas pieced together. "Four gates."

"And then Hawkins is destroyed," Lila continued.

"Then the end of the world."

"If that's true... he's only one kill away," Dustin added.

"Jesus Christ." Eddie placed his face into his hands and Lila moved her hand up onto his shoulder.

"Try them again," Steve ordered of Max. She went over to the phone to dial the number again, but only a few moments later did she place it back onto the wall.

"Anything?" Dustin asked Max.

"No. Rang a few times, then went to a busy signal."

"Maybe you punched it in wrong. Try again," Steve insisted.