Radiant World: The Underworld

Chapter 11: Decision

The walls were painted a white, they were bumpy, and strangely odd. Two beds split the room up. They had white bed sheets, with a black covering that eclipsed most of the bed. The room seemed absent, lacking emotion. The TV in the room sat facing backwards, towards the wall. The painting of the cat had a hole through it.

Sophia sat on the bed, seemingly in deep thought. Her lips were dry and taught. Her eyes sagged like bags of gold and her hair was greasy. She seemed to be absent from the room as she thought about Mya. She didn't know why she cared, the school was there, now she could go home, or could she?

I want to go home. It was something she didn't know was true or not. There were still things to do, but she was scared. Scared of what lied ahead. Scared of the monsters, the LOL's, Satan. It was all too much for her, but there were still things to do. Ildy needed Satan's blood to be healed, Mya was with the LOLs, and who was the man who helped them on the fifth floor? Who is Unity? Why is this happening to her?

"You seem angry." A voice came into her mind. She looked around in the room for a moment, thinking she had gone insane.

"It is me." The voice was recognizable the second time she heard it. It was the man from the fifth floor.

"Why... Did you help me." Sophia spoke out loud into the empty room.

"I will answer that when we meet." He spoke.

"When will we meet?" Sophia asked.

"If you go into the door... at the end of the hallway." Sophia thought about it for a moment and had the sudden urge to find out who this mysterious voice was, so she took off. She whipped open the door to the room out into the bare hallway. She looked down to where the elevator should have been, and the door sat there ominously.

She ran up to it and grabbed the handle. She stopped, her mind slowing down, questioning herself. What will happen? She thought, gripping tighter onto the handle, but it turned by itself. The door swung open, making her stumble back.

Ranch stood in the open doorway, with a confused look. "Go!" The voice urged her on. She pushed past ranch and started bounding up the stairs, up. She looked up into what seemed to be a spiraling tower of darkness and pushed herself up and up. She began to tear up as she thought about her family, her friends, and what she had put herself through for the sake of others. She hit a brick wall. Her mind stopped, she stopped running up the stairs, she stopped crying, it all stopped. She didn't know why, but it did.

"Calm... Calm Down. Please." The voice spoke lightheartedly. Comforting even.

The last of the tears dripped off of her face. Her heart pounded, she couldn't hear anything, except the man inside of her head. He spoke once more, "Don't stop now, keep going, I want to see you." reassuring her.

She looked down the stairs, at Ranch who stood at the door, and then she continued on. One step at a time. She felt as if she was drawn towards the voice, as if there was a connection between them. Why was he in the Hotel? Does Ranch know him?

"He does know me." He voice spoke.

"Who-No... How can this world be real? Who made it?" Sophia asked.

"The... Primordials."

"Primordials?"

"There also called the Old Ones, or Ancient Beings." The voice spoke of them in high regard.