BEHIND THESE DOORS

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Firedamp POV:

I was simply lapping around the hotel as I usually did, when I stepped into door 78... I heard a faint coughing noise coming from somewhere. It peeked my interest and I began looking around.

Whatever was coughing began to sob, I could hear its struggle to get up. Just in case, my hand rested on my pocket knife... I followed the noise to see a familiar face... his black hair hung lazily over his light blue eyes, tears and sweat ran down his face. He knelt on the ground, coughing up blood, his limbs bound in those god damn cyan chains.

Screech had been exorcised. I immediately knelt next to him. "Screech?"

He looked up at me, his usual bright smile wiped off his face. "Firedamp...?" He choked out.

"Holy shit— look, everything will be ok. Hang on, I'm gonna go get someone."

He nodded and just fell back onto the floor. I got up I made my way over to the nearest closet and shifted it out of the way. I didn't usually go down there... I had my own room in the hotel, and that was enough. I didn't want to deal with them.

"Yo," I called out. "Anyone down here?"

"Yeah, I'm here. Got done my thing." Halt responded, surprisingly chill. They were just reading a book on the couch... welp, that good mood wouldn't last much longer.

"Screech got exorcised."

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Halt sprung up and ran to the hallway I came out of. I contemplated it for a moment... did I really care about Screech that much? I decided "fuck it I'm just gonna follow Halt."

I kept up with Halt's speed walking, but a bit slower, lagging behind. "OH MY GOD!" I heard her screeching from far away.

I found the doorframe that led to Screech and leaned on it. "Need help?"

"Yeah— how many more people are there?!"

I paused, thinking back on what I'd seen of the humans... "I think it's only one."

"Fuck— find Ambush, tell him to go kill that last human, go get Shadow and Eyes, tell them to get to the hideout... I'll get Figure."

"Why those people??" I tilted my head, confused.

"Shadow is a fuckin' "dOcToR" or whatever he prides himself on, Eyes is Screech's best friend, and Figure knows how to calm people down. Now go do it, damn it!" He knelt next to Screech and began to wrangle him out of the chains.

"Damn, ok! Fuck!" I threw my hands up in mock surrender before leaving to go get Shadow and Eyes.

I began progressing through the rooms backwards, going from door 78 to 77, 77 to 76...

I knew Eyes wouldn't be far behind Screech, so I began calling out for him. "Eyes?? It's me?? Firedamp? Get your ass out here— AH—" I covered my eyes as I stepping into door 75, his purple glow blinding me.

"Oh, shit—" he'd mutter, shifting back into his more humanoid form that didn't blind whoever looked at it. "Everything ok?"

"Yeah— well, no— Halt told you to go to the hideout."

"Why??"

"Screech got exorcised."

"WHAT THE FUCK!?"

He turned to the nearest closet and practically threw that bitch out of the way, began sprinting down the hall, only to immediately start hyperventilating. I swear to god, what these gays do for their dumbass boyfriends... young love...

Oh, woe is me. If only I had young love. (Foreshadowing)

I laughed at my own thoughts... I was so damn funny. I didn't need anyone else, I knew it... I smiled to myself as I went to find Shadow. "SHADOW!" I yelled. "IM HERE TO CONVINCE YOU TO DO SIN!"

It didn't take long to find them— they usually just sat off in the shadows and told people when to attack, either way. "Hm? Sin?"

"I was lying about the sin part, cmon, your nurse practitioner skillz are needed."

"FUCK YEAH!" They rejoiced, pumping their fist in the air as they human-ified themself.

"Screech got exorcised."

"How fun!" They smiled and went to a closet to get to the hideout. At least one of us gets to live out our dreams... I kid, I kid. Who needs anyone?

Huh... I wonder how Hide is... haven't talked to them in a while.

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Figure POV:

"YO WHAT THE FUCK!?" I called out, seeing Screech's half alive body on the floor being resuscitated by Shadow.

"AH, AH, AH, AH, STAYIN' ALIVE— STAYIN' ALIVE—"

"HE DOESN'T NEED FUCKIN' CPR, SHADOW—!" Halt policed, standing over their shoulder and supervising the whole thing.

Shadow snapped their head up to look at Halt and stopped the CPR for a second. "YES HE DOES, HE'S CHOKING ON HIS OWN FUCKIN' BLOOD—"

This was the worst possible moment for everyone to come back in, due to all the humans being dead... but of course, they did!

"Yo, that run was crazy—" Rush was just casually talking with the others— "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?" —when he screamed out and caused everyone to look at the whole Screech thing... and Shadow began CPR-ing faster.

"AHAHAHAHSTAYINALIVE— FUCK!" Shadow yelled, cracking fucking ribs...

"DUDE, YOU'RE BREAKING HIS RIBS!" Halt screeched.

"THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW ITS WORKING— I FORGET THE REST OF STAYING ALIVE—"

Glitch began singing staying alive for Shadow. "Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk. Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around since I was born!"

"SHUT IT YOU FUCKIN' GAY PERSON—!" Seek made his way through the little crowd of entities and knelt next to Screech.

"Seek, I need space to save his fuckin' life—" Shadow said, breathing roughly as he gave Screech CPR and Glitch yelled the lyrics to staying alive.

"HA!" Rush laughed. "HE'S BREATHING LIKE HE'S BEING BUTTFUCKED—"

"AH, AH, AH, AH, STAYIN' ALIVE, STAYIN' ALIVE—!" Basically everyone joined in.

I covered my ears— it was all a bit too loud for me... but I had to be there. So I plugged my ears and continued on. Despite the feeling of wanting to rip off my skin... I had to stay there for Screech. "ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive..." I muttered as a means to distract myself.

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(I loved writing this chapter. Sorry if chapters are coming out a bit more spaced out— I've been working on a lot of shit for the book. You'd be surprised what I'm planning. Here's a sneak peak for all the cool shit I got coming up! (It's firedamp in case ur confused.))