What happened?

Derek's Choices

"Let's go", Derek urged
"Go where?" Stephan replied in refute
"After the creature of course"
"No no no c'mon, there's have got to be another way"
"Look Stephan we don't have time for this, I'm not gonna die in here, I'm taking my chances so are you with me" Derek said boldly.
With stephan still quiet--
"I'm going with you Derek", Lena said softly
Both of them turned to Stephan with Derek giving him an intense stare like he was in a hurry.
"Damn it Derek,  you're such a hot head"
"Is that a yes?"
"Goddammit it's a yes, but if we meet that creature again you're fighting it alone" Stephan said in what almost felt like anger.
"Don't worry we will be fine"
Derek wasn't convinced himself--hell he wasn't even sure what he was doing was the right thing to do but he knew he had to make the decisions considering the people he found himself with.
Lena *a smart but a shy girl*  Stephan *he hadn't known much about him but was now discovering he was a wimpy kid*

They made their way through the dark passage way with neither of them being able to see a thing. Lena thought "we could have searched around longer to find something like a torch earlier" but she didn't speak up. As they kept moving Stephan thought "why do we keep going when we can't see a thing? What if there is a hole in the ground or a boulder waiting to fall on us?" but he didn't speak up either.
Gradually they started to sight light at the end of the tunnel*as far as they could see*.

After walking a few minutes they got to where they saw the lights but they were still in the tunnel but this time the tunnel was luminous with electric bubs. Derek tried to think of how this can possibly be but he wasn't much of a brainy explorer so he waved off the thought and instead felt grateful that they can see properly now at least. He wondered what was going through the mind of the others, he knew Lena was a shrewd girl, he wanted to ask Lena what she thought of the lights but he didn't want to trigger Stephan's wimpy attitude, so once again he decided to appreciate the silence.
Going a couple of minutes more the kids came to a stop.
"No way you must kidding me!", Stephan exclaimed with the tunnel echoing his voice.
"Shhhh", Lena motioned to Stephan with a finger on her lips. Then turning to Derek with a look like she was expecting him to say something. Derek just stood frozen backing others and facing the tunnel that had just split into 2 passage way.
"Uhmmm Derek" , Lena leaned forward snapping her fingers in his face as if to wake him up from whatever dream he is in.
Derek turned to face them with the same calculative expression on his face. Now is the time for him to say something, he knew it but was he gonna do what's safest for them or what was best for them.
"I think we are gonna have to split up" he finally said.
"You don't mean that", Stephan replied
"Yeah i think we should stick together",Lena agreed
"Look man we are trying to look for a way out,not that we're searching for something, so in this case let's move together okay".
"No Stephan, we are actually looking for something" Derek replied.
Hearing his words Lena went cold and faint as her sank to the ground,she just remembered, this was just too weird for Stephan almost like he was missing something.
"I'm sure you remember the writing on the wall Lena"
"What writing Derek? What are we talking about here? What's really going on???"
Stephan was now going impatient and very frustrated.
"We found something when you were asleep earlier in that room. I thought we could get out of here without you knowing about this madness but i guess you have to know..."

         *****What really happened before Stephan woke up? What are they not telling him*****