“Why did you bring me here? I didn’t even do anything!” I demanded. I was yelling at the police officer that brought me and 10 other prisoners to a hotel. We were being forced to do community service at a hotel with over 50 floors. The hotel was dark and creepy. Everything was dusty and destroyed. I thought to myself “How are we going to get this done?”

We started cleaning up the hotel, everyone on a different floor. The prisoners were Cole,  Jake, Josh, RT, Autumn, Maelee, Nico, Tom, Chris, and me. We were shipped in a bus from Los Angeles to this hotel in San Diego. I was working when Chris came up to me and said that he found a secret room on the first floor. He thought we could somehow escape through there. Nico and I followed him, the room led to a very long hallway and at the end of it was a dark room where a light, barely visible, was flickering. A very uncomforting disguting smell came from the room. We walked through the dark hallway passing doors on both sides of us, shocked at what we found at the end of it.

My heart started beeting faster and faster, feeling like it was going to explode out of my chest. What we found at the end of the room was a pile of dead bodies. Every body had its eyes ripped out of its head and there lips stitched together. Blood was all over the floor and the stench was unbearable. All of us were too shocked to move. Then suddenly Chris turned around and sprinted through the hallway and went through a door. We called his name but he didn’t slow down. Nico and I split up and went through different doors to try and corner him. We met in a hallway with an elevator. Chris was waiting at the trying to get to the third floor. The elevator made it to the first floor and blood starting coming out of the bottom of the door.

The doors opened and there stood a man about seven feet tall with blood all over himself and a dead pesron in his arms. He dropped the body and pulled out a long chain with a giant hook attached to it. Chris turned and ran, afraid that he could lose his life any moment now. The giant man swung the hook right into Chris’s chest. He screamed in agony, his blood splattered on the wall. The man dragged him along the floor, held him by the neck and slammed his head against the wall until he was dead. The body was dragged into the elevator and they were gone.

I was completely still, trying to comprehend to what had just happened. I looked over at Nico, his face was pale and he looked like he was going to throw up. I tried to talk to him but he wouldn’t respond. He turned and barfed on the floor and almost passed out. We realized we had to tell the others. We ran upstairs and told the police officer to follow us. I showed him the room full of dead bodies, he had the same facial expression we did. Next we showed him the elevator. Blood was still all over the floor and on all of the walls. He noticed how serious this was and pulled out his gun. He pushed the button on the elevator to investigate the other floors. The numbers of the floors were counting down, we were terrified that he might show up in the doorway again.

It reached our floor and the door opened. There was no one there but blood was all over the place. We were about to walk in when we heard a loud bang coming from the air duct above us. The police officer aimed his gun up where there was a hole in the ceiling. He shot up three times in hopes of hitting something. We thought it was just nothing and were about to proceed on when a chain with a hook came down and hooked the officer in the throat. The blood in his mouth made a gurgling sound and he was pulled up. We heard several shots go off then silence. About ten seconds later a body fell through the hole in the ceiling. It was the police officer, his eyes were missing and his stomach was sliced open.

I grabbed his gun and we sprinted out of their and started gathering everyone to get out of there. We got Rt first and were going to go up one floor when we ran into the psycho. He pulled out an axe he had behind his back and ran after us. Nico and I busted through a door and locked it behind us. Rt didn’t follow he kept running. We waited for almost 30 minutes then finally left the room. We cautiously walked down the hall and turned around a corner to find Rt’s body headless hanging from a rope. We knew he might have died but i never thought it would be this horrible to see. I tried to ignore it and pressed on to find the others. Next we found Cole, explained everything that happened and that we needed to find some sort of weapons to defend ourselves. Next time that psycho came after us we’d be ready.

We didn’t see the killer on that floor and went up one more. While walking up the stairs I started thinking about everything that’s happened. I couldn’t get the gruesome images of dead the dead bodies I’ve seen out of my head. I started daydreaming about what we had all been through. I realized how crazy all of this was and started questioning myself if this whole thing was just a dream. None of this could be real it all seemed impossible. I woke back up into reality to the sound of someone screaming my name. I looked up and saw the killer. He grabbed me by the throat, I could feel his grip getting tighter and tighter. I was gasping for breath when I saw Nico behind him swing a huge pipe at the back of the giant’s head. It landed with a crack, he dropped me I landed trying to get air back into my lungs.

The blow the killer took to the head knocked him down and we were able to get away. The next person we needed to get was up three more floors. This endless stair climbing made my legs feel numb. I wanted to take a break, but we had to get everyone as soon as we could.. We made it to the next floor and sprinted through the hallway trying to outrun that psycho and get a head start. We were yelling out to anyone on that floor, a high pitched scream came from the room ahead. We tried to get there in time but when we opened the door it was too late. The giant had her by the hair and was taking the eyes out of her head while she was still alive. Cole looked outraged. He was fed up with everyone that has died and all of the horrible things that have happened to us. He yelled out in rage charging the giant with Nico and I standing behind him ready to fight.