Rouge wave

chapter 4

Back in the nightclub Elena is walking over and around dead bodies and destroyed furniture mumbling to herself and closing some peoples eyes then praying for them, after around 5 minutes she spots a bend piece of pipe and a fallen girder and starts to climb it when she suddenly screams as someone grabs her wrist and she looks down to see a drunk man glancing around as he asked " what have you done to all these people".

The group of seven steadily made their way into the kitchen, the room was completely destroyed with small fires scattered everywhere with a several dead bodies hanging off shelves or on the floor, as everyone slowly and carefully makes their way through the kitchens Tom walks in a different direction quickly asking the waiter " hey those are the service stairs right?" while pointing to a door way that is being blocked by shelves filled with food, a mini blazing fire and some dead bodies, they try to unblock it but there's too much in the way. " hey, hey map where does this elevator lead to" Tom asks quickly whilst walking over to it, " that's the service elevator" he says and Tom, Severus, Lucius and Robert start trying to pull apart the doors to the lift while Hadrian (holding Teddy) and Narcissa stay back, however Hadrian begins to cough, all the ash and smoke not helping his asthma, " are you alright Hadrian dear" she asks concerned rubbing his back "I'm ok it's just all the smoke and ash" he waves it off but Narcissa promises to keep an eye on him. " find something to pry it with" Tom demanded looking at the map, he picks up a broken piece of metal that looks like a spade and they plunge it into the gaps between they doors and they others put their hands through the gap and pull both sides to force it open.

Now full opened Tom turns on the torch and shines it up and down but there's no elevator, then she shines it forward and see a set of closed doors across from them then another set with a small gap open a level above them. "what's threw there? Is there a way up?" he asks map "stairs, more stairs" he answers, sweating because of the heat. " okay let's find something else" Tom said patting him on the shoulder. Meanwhile the elevator above several levels is beginning to slip down and bits of metal on fire fall down. The four men find a long metal table and carefully line It up "ready! 1..2..3!" and they push it through missing by a few centimetres as it falls a little scratching the door below. They quickly grab a hold of it and pull it up to set it across the tiny ledge.

Tom carefully walks across the metal table holding the metal piece and try to pull apart the doors, "I can't get leverage" he said straining slightly "hey what If we go from up there?" Tom asked while pointing towards the slight open doors above. "yeah the entertainment sections up there" the map guy says holding one of the table legs. "give me a hand" Tom asks waving over Severus offering his hand as Sev slowly makes his way over. "put your back up against these doors" he says as they quickly change positions and Tom has to push Sev into the doors before they both fall "hurry! Hurry!" Hadrian shouts panicked covering Teddy as the flames grow and some cutlery clatters to the floor behind them.

Severus bends his knees as he puts his hands together and Tom steps on them and he boosts him up to reach the doors and he stands on his shoulders. While that happens Hadrian puts Teddy down and hands Narcissa the pocket knife and Narcissa cuts her dress to just above her knees to move easier. Tom carefully plies apart the doors and pulls himself through just as the fire grows and makes something clatter behind them "AHHHH" Teddy screams terrified "it's ok, It's ok" Hadrian calmly says hugging Teddy close and facing him away from all the carnage.

Tom turns around and hangs out from his chest threw the doors laying down as he calmly says " come on, send Teddy first" and Lucius and the map guys (both holding a leg of the table) help him stand on it and walk across. They all encourage him to walk across as Severus leans forward with his hand out to help him and focus on something else. "excellent" praised Sev as he picked him up and help him towards Tom "reach your hands up for me" as he reaches down and pulls him up into the room. "good boy" Hadrian praises.

" come on Narcissa" Tom says "you'll be fine Cissa" Lucius encourages kissing her cheek, and she slowly makes her way across being mindful of her heels, Sev gives her a boost and tom pulls her up. "Hadrian you next" Tom said, Hadrian made his way across until he started coughing and had to grab onto the middle legs of the table. "Hadrian!" they all simultaneously shouted worriedly. "I'm fine, I'm ok" he assures them quickly with a slight wheeze to his words and continues making his way across and Sev helps him up. "Lucius you next" and he carefully but quickly makes his way across.

"who's next" Tom asked them, "you, you go first I got this" the map guy tells Robert. Robert starts making his way across as the elevator drops lower and the map guy struggles to hold it by himself. Robert is swiftly helped up by severus but the table slips but the map guy manages to push it back on. " thank you map guy" Sev said nervously heart beating fast "valentine" the map guy (valentine) said back slowly starting to walk along just as several metal racks and shelves fall down with the fire growing and getting closer. "yo.. you go first, you go first" valentine demanded, they switch places and Lucius and Tom lean down to grab hold of Severus's hands, as soon as they grab hold of him the elevator starts falling only stopping just above them causing them to startle badly an the table falls down completely making them dangle mid-air and valentine grabs hold of Severus's foot. With Lucius and Tom holding onto Sev and Valentine grabbing his foot its too much weight, "he's going to bring them both down" Tom yelled straining trying not to let go, Hadrian and Cissa pull Teddy away and cover his ears so he can't full hear what's happening while they both looked panicked and scared. Robert grabs onto Toms foot and ties a belt around it and his hand then him and Lucius grab a hold of a pole just as Tom's grip slips and valentine starts screaming "give me one of my hands" Severus says trying to remain calm stretching his hand down to try and grab valentines hand "I'm loosing him!" Tom shouts at Lucius and Robert, the elevator continues to slide down with chunks of metal on fire continuing to fall down "you've got to kick him off" Tom orders readjusting his grip " kick him off! Now! Or you'll both die!" he shouts again when Severus looks at him and Valentine continues to scream having not heard him over his panicked cries. "I'm sorry!" Severus exclaims as he starts to kick him off, he struggles because valentine is clinging to his leg but the elevator starts falling not looking like it'll stop "kick him off!" Tom yells panicked, Severus starts kicking him in the chest and valentine loses his grip and falls screaming and they all pull Severus up just as the flaming elevator comes rushing towards them and falls down to the bottom and explodes causing a huge explosion through the kitchen and up the towards them as they struggle to close the doors in time causing a small flame to burst at the top of the doors.

The ballroom felt the mighty explosion causing the lights to flicker and bits to fall over and everyone started screaming and panicking again "what happened" Bradford ordered "the gas shut off it must have malfunctioned sir" an officer said "will It keep the fire out" he asked "yes captain" the officer reassured before running off to help calm people down "God rest our souls" the captain prayed shaking his head.