Page 40 of Hell's Fear

“We need to build a pigman. I reckon the parts are hidden in these crates,” Bunny called out from where she’d been studying a diagram on a wall.

“We’ve got fifty minutes. Let’s go,” Chance said, and we began tearing into the boxes.

We escaped with twenty minutes left and found ourselves in a black room with chairs.

“Shit! I thought we’d end up in a waiting room with everyone else,” Ramirez muttered.

“Me too,” Jase agreed, looking worried.

There was nothing to do but wait. Some of the guys paced back and forth.

The minute the door opened, we nearly fell over our feet to reach everybody.

Chance

“Fangs have infiltrated the Escape Rooms,” Phoe yelled as we all entered a large room.

“Who’s missing!” I demanded.

“Is anyone injured?” Ramirez snapped.

“The Fangs are here?” Inglorious roared as voices rose around us.

“Micah’s not here!” Phoe cried somewhat hysterically.

“Did you say the Fangs are here?” Nando called out.

“Fangs attacked us!” Ben loudly stated.

“We were too!” Clio yelled.

“Everyone shut up!” I bellowed at the top of my lungs.

Silence fell.

“Who is injured first of all?” I demanded.

“Kele has a slash on his arm. We wrapped it as best as we could. Phoe has a black eye and a bruised cheek, and Ben was stabbed in the shoulder. We performed first aid,” Celt said.

“Bunny, can you check them?” I asked, and she nodded and moved.

“Who’s missing?” I inquired next.

“Micah’s entire team is. If they ran into the Fangs…” Phoe cried, face pale.

“Who else encountered the Fangs? My team, Sunny’s team, and anybody else?” I questioned.

“Don’t look like nobody else did,” Inglorious said after silence met me.

“Who’s missing?” I asked.

“Marsha, Smokey, and Grey are,” Sunny announced.

“Welcome, players, to the final room. As you can tell, some of you weren’t clever or fast enough to escape from their rooms. They are now in my prison,” Marissa’s voice came over a loudspeaker.

“Marissa, let us out! The Fangs have infiltrated the rooms!” Phoe cried.

“To free your fallen friends, you have to find the keys to their cells. It’s one key per cell. Then you need to flee this room. If you do not arrive at the dungeon within the time frame, you all fail and go on our wall of permanent inhabitants.”

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