Lucy

Chapter Five

The gang members had left, deciding that perhaps they shouldn't kill Percy until they knew if it was okay. Percy sensed that that would annoy Lucy further. It had been hours (literally) since he'd seen anyone. His stomach growled and he would have sighed, had he been able to.

Was it the next day? Percy didn't even know how long he'd been out after he'd gotten punched in the head. He didn't regret standing up for Angie though. He wondered worriedly if she was okay.

Having tried for hours, Percy had loosened the rope that tied him to the chair in which he sat, he couldn't move the chair, however, it was bolted to the ground. Not that that would have done anything, the door was locked from the outside.

His wrists were raw and chaffed when he finally freed himself, without wasting time, Percy untied his feet and pulled the tape from his mouth, which hurt, but he couldn't care less because he was kind of free. Next, he ran to the door and tried to figure out what he could possibly do about it. 

Attempting to break the door seemed to be his only option, if there was a guard outside he would be done for, but he had to risk it. He couldn't use the chair, so he decided to repeatedly kick the door in its weak spot. Luckily, the door swung outwards, so it was breakable from the inside. It also gave Percy an indicator as to where he was, he knew that door's that swung outwards, clad in metal, were used mostly for commercial buildings. Maybe he was in a warehouse?

It was not a warehouse. It took Percy half an hour to get the door down (there was definitely no one around), and when he finally left the cell, he was dumbfounded. 

A hotel? Percy was in a hallway, carpeted and clean. The walls were white, the carpet grey, the door's a shiny black. It was a rather large hallway, tall and wide, which told Percy that this must be a very expensive hotel. Percy didn't waste another moment, he ran right, hoping to find an elevator. He didn't think about the fact that the hallways seemed to go on forever, or that one of the hotel rooms was a concrete cell.

A gleaming silver elevator came into view, Percy clicked the down button ten times, looking around him to make sure no one was coming. Luckily, the elevator was empty, Percy jumped on.

He gasped, there were buttons covering every inch of the elevator, how many floors were there? Where was the ground floor? Percy looked around frantically as a tall man in a dark suit stepped onto the elevator just as the doors were closing.

'What floor ya lookin for, buddy?' He asked.

'Ground floor' Percy said without thinking, still looking for the button. Surely this man was just a guest at the hotel and not a member of the gang that had kidnapped him.

'It's up the top, I know, weird, everything's backward here' The man makes a sound, multiple weird, deep grunts that must have been a laugh. Percy wastes no time, looks up for the top buttons and spy's the glowing button with a black G above it. Why is it so high? This elevator must be 8 feet high. 

'Don't worry, I got it' The tall man reaches up to press the button for him and Percy watches as the man's arm elongates. Seriously. It gets longer. The man presses the button, the elevator sinks, and his arm goes back to normal length.

He had been about to say thank you, but instead, Percy screamed, regrettably, he sounded like a girl. Percy looked at the tall man properly for the first time to find that his eyes were onyx black everywhere and his mouth was scarred and bloody. What the hell was happening? Was he on some sort of drug?!

There was a moment of silence as the 'man' in the elevator looked at him in confusion. Then he opened his bloody mouth, literally bloody.

'Are you alri-'

Percy screamed again. The elevator doors opened and he sprinted out without looking back. 

The hallucinations only got worse. He was in some sort of lobby filled with people lining up to the administration. He ran into one family and they all turned to look at him, rather angrily, as if he planned to cut the line in order to stay at this demon hotel. 

Percy hadn't technically ran into the family however, he'd ran through them and landed on the white marble floor with a thud.  

'What's happening?' Percy gasps, the world reeling around him as 'people' look down at him oddly 'Where am I?'

'Great question' Lucy is standing above him, having appeared out of nowhere. The ghost people cowered away from her, she smiled. 

'Welcome to Hell'