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You entered the hotel. You were only here because your friends dared you to stay after seeing it online.

You had heard about it before, rumors that the people who went there never returned, and while it was most likely fake, you still didn't want to risk ending up dead.

It will be fun they said. Theres NO way its actually haunted. Jokes on them. You stood in silence, as you started rising up the elevator. The Cheerie music not fitting the atmosphere of the hotel. Finally after a few minutes, the metal grates creaked as they opened, and you were allowed entrance into The Lobby.

"Weird." One of your friends said. "There's no clerk or bellhop, or anyone here."

"Maybe They're on a lunch break?" You questioned

"Bro, It's 10:30 at Night." Another Friend Answered

Your friend, Walking up to the front desk, pressed the bell, and suprisingly... no one came. You Looked behind The Desk, and you saw a Key to Room 001. You crouched under a luggage trolley and walked over to the wall where the key is, slowly reaching your hand over to grab the key, before a crash of thunder startled you, causing you to flinch and drop it.

"motherfucker" you muttered under your breath. Ever since you were a kid you had been scared of thunderstorms, and there being one right now wasnt helping. You bent down to pick the key back up, although it looked like it hasn't been used for a while.

You went back through the luggage trolley, and went over to the other door in the room. You fumbled with the key for a second, before inserting it into the Keyhole, hearing a satisfying click.

"I guess we... Go on through."

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As you walked down the hall, you looked at the decrepit peeling wallpaper, and the dark oak floor. God this place was old.

You Came to a stop, and looked back up. There were multiple halls, one leading to the left, one leading to the right, and one right infront of you.

"Guys, which direction should we-" You looked behind you to see that your friends were gone.

"Guys if this is a prank, this isn't very funny." You desperately called out to no answer. "Guys?" You asked again. "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck" you repeated, wondering where the hell they had gone.

You started wondering the halls. Having walked through numerous doors, you started panicking. Adrenaline pumping through your blood, heightening every creak of the floorboards, or buzzing of the lights. Your breathing getting louder as you started hyperventilating.

You walked to a door, and opened it, to see a small room, just with a bed, cabinet, drawer and grandfather clock. You walked over to the drawer and opened the top shelf, and found a lighter, picking it up and stuffing it in your pocket. You pulled open the bottom drawer, only to have a spider jump on you.

"JESUS CHRIST!" You yelped as you violently shook the spider off and ran out of the room.

You wandered around for a bit, before coming to the end of yet another hall, slowly opening the door, and tensing as the lights flickered.

"shit..." You muttered. You felt like something was coming, and You needed to hide. You looked to your right and spotted a dresser. You rushed into the dresser, closing the doors harshly. You clamped a hand over your mouth, and pressed your back against the cold wood of the dresser, but as you looked through the crack, you saw that all the lights had turned off.

Your eyes grew wide, looking through the crack you saw the thing rush from one side to the other. Holding your breath, you waited until it disappeared before letting the air out of your lungs.

After a couple seconds though, it became harder to breathe, a rushing noise crescendoing in your ears, buzzing getting louder and louder to the point where it was unbearable, as you suddenly pushed open the doors, falling and hitting your knees on the cold hardwood floor.

The lights were pitch black, and you were panting heavily, tears forming at the corner of your eyes, from the stress of what just happened. You wiped them away with your sleeve, slowly getting up, and you continued to the next door, but as you looked over your shoulder you saw an inky black eye peering at you from the wall, the only source of light in the room.

"What the fuck are you!?" You yelped as you jumped back. Like most eyes, It didn't respond, since it couldn't speak.

As you Grabbed the lighter from your pocket, and flicked it on, you took a closer lookat it, it almost looking, concerened? You inched closer to it, reaching your hand out to touch it, the eye blinking in response to your hand getting closer.

As your fingers brushed the black substance around the eye, the eye looked over at your hand, seemingly amused.

When you pulled your hand back, you saw an inky substance on your fingertips.

"w-what are you?" You muttered softly, this time questingly.

"Can- can you understand me?" You asked.
The eye Blinked in response.

You gasped

"What is this place? Where did my friends go? Who are you?" You asked in rapid succession.

It rolled its eye.

"Asshole" you pouted, causing the eye to sink into the wall, disappearing without a trace.

"Wait! I was joking! Please come back!" You pleaded. After not receiving a response you sighed and walked over to the door to the next room.

But when you opened the door...

The walls were plastered with the same inky eyes that you saw in the previous room. "what..." You whispered, while walking through the room, you looked around to see the eyes glaring at you.

"This is so creepy" you murmured while walking to the end of the room.

Grabbing the Doorknob, you took one last look at the eyes behind you, all of them still staring at you. Looking back to the door infront of you, you gave the door a small push, it opening to reveal a long corridor.

"Oh. . . Shit." You said, hesitating, before you started walking slowly down the hall, now being eerily silent, the only noise being the creaking of the floorboards beneath you.

You looked to your right to see a bottle of... something on one of the drawers, reaching for it, but pulling back when you saw a flash of lightning, and heard a clap of thunder.

Getting to the end of the hall, you stopped, as you heard a noise behind you, and turned around in horror as an inky humanoid figure, with a singular eye on its head, like the one you had seen before started crawling up out of the ground.

You froze in horror as the figure looked up at you, and started running towards you, The Stomping of the feet growing louder and louder, before you unfroze and started to dash to the door in front of you, slamming it open, before running through the door to see bookshelves slamming into the floor.

Looking ahead, you saw a blue glowing light on a fallen bookshelve to the left of you, so you slid under it, gashing your leg on something sharp, causing you to stumble. You didint look down, but you could feel the warm blood spreading through your pant leg. You cursed through the pain, biting your tounge to stop yourself from yelling, Hard enough to draw blood.

You ran ahead, dodging falling bookshelves and sliding under them too, before shoving your way through a door, the sound of that... thing behind you getting closer and closer.

You used your shoulder to break through another door, but you gasped when you saw that there were inky black arms on the wall, grasping for you, and fires in the room.

I'm almost there! You thought, seeing the ajar door ahead of you, but before you could reach it, you heard a cabinet fall directly behind you, and heard a sickening crunch, as it fell on your leg, pinning you to the ground, lighter falling out of your pocket.

You let out an agonizing cry, before blacking out for a second from the pain. Tears were cascading from your eyes now, every second causing you pain.

You lied there, whimpering on the ground, as you saw the thing slowly stalk over to you. It looked worried.

"P-please don't kill me" You managed to stutter out as you looked up at it.

You didn't know why you asked this, it was probably just a heartless being who killed humans for the fun of it.

It bent down, and lifted the cabinet off your leg, as another whimper escaped from your trembling lips.

"Im..sorry" You heard it say, surprised to hear it speak, regardless of the fact that it didn't have a mouth. It's voice was was low, and full of distress.

You felt it pick you up, bridal style, you resting your head on its chest, exhaustion taking over you. Its (skin?) feeling nice and cool to the touch, but also comfortable.

You could feel yourself drifting in and out of consciousness, your leg still throbbing in pain. You could feel your eyelids getting heavy, wondering, why did it save me? Before letting your eyes fall, and drifting off to sleep.

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You were Back In The Elevator. Listening to the Music while you were waiting for the gates to open. You didint know how you got here. Last you remembered, you were being carried by that thing. You didint know if it wanted to kill you. Maybe it was bringing you to the other entity's to kill? Yeah. That was probably it.

Then again, why did it say it was sorry? Why did it let you rest your head on its, surprisingly comfortable chest.

Wait, No! Ew! It wasn't comfortable. It was a monster. It was suppose to be scary and evil. But, why did it feel so nice then?

You were snapped out of your thoughts When you heard the ding of the bell, and saw the doors start to slowly open, but you were suddenly falling. Surrounded by a black void. But then...

You were Suddenly Back in the dresser. Your breathing Heavy as you put the hand around your mouth again.

You readied yourself as you looked through the crack to see that thing again, but were taken aback when instead you saw a green thing?

It rushed from one side to the other, a whimper escaping from your mouth, before it stopped. The noise quieting down. It was safe. It was gone. You slowly pushed open the cabinets and climbed out, closing the door behind you, letting out a sigh of relief.

You started to turn your head, only to see it come back and rush towards you, you letting out a scream, only before jolting up in a bed, your eyelids fluttering open.

Shit. It was only a nightmare. You rubbed your eyes with your hands, yawning, before looking around, excepting to be back at your house, only with the crushing realization that, as a matter of fact you were still very much at the hotel.

You let out a sigh, before flopping back on the bed before pulling the covers up over your face, tears slowly staring to fall from your eyes, as you snuggled your head, and wrapped your arms around something cold and hard next to you.

Wait, cold and hard? You slowly looked up only to see the thing from before looking down at you. It's eye staring directly into your soul. You let out a yelp as you pushed yourself away from it, nearly falling off the bed in doing so.

"What are you doing here!?" You asked, your breathing getting faster and faster.

"I live here" It said "This is my room."

"Oh..." You said, both of you staring at each other as you sat awkwardly in silence.

"Why did you save me?" You tentatively asked

"Most people that come here, they are either here to loot the hotel, or destroy it. That's why you probably encountered Rush, the one outside of the cabinet, and Hide, the one who pushed you out of it." It said, a worried look on its face.

"But when I saw you get injured, and saw how you interacted with me, I knew that you weren't planning on doing that. You were scared, and I knew I couldn't just let you die."

"Oh." You said. You didint expect it to actually care enough to let you live, or even save you. Not many people even at home would've done that. "Thank you..."

"Seek. My name is Seek" It said looking down at you

"Oh, That's a nice name." You said smiling, Telling Seek your name too, a warm feeling bubbling up inside you.

"Your welcome" Seek said looking over at you as you felt a blush spread across your face, before realizing what you were doing, quickly standing up.

"Well I should probably be go-" You said before feeling pain flair up your leg, letting out a pained gasp and falling back onto the bed.

You looked down at your foot seeing a deep gash on your leg, and your foot was bent at a horrifying angle.

"You're still hurt, you need to rest" Seek said, resting an inky black hand on your leg, looking concerened.

You could only give a pained nod as you laid back down on the bed.

"If you want to, I could heal your leg." Seek said, looking away shyly.

"You can do that?" You asked, eyes wide, wondering why someone who usually killed people was able to heal.

"Yes, although it will hurt a bit"

"Okay" You said, letting out a shaky breath. "Im ready"

Seek gently placed its hand on your leg where the cut was, taking a sharp intake of breath when you felt the pain. You grasped onto its hand, your fingers in its inky palm as you felt your skin slowly start to stretch back together, tissue reparing itself, muscles mending back together. You squeezed your eyes shut to stop any tears from falling out, concentrating on the feeling of your hand in seeks.

"Alright, I'm done with your leg" Seek said gently, removing its hand from your leg, even if you wished it was there for a little longer.

You looked down at your leg, the only trace that there was ever something there being a long black scar, the same color as seeks own body.

"Now I will have to do your foot. It will hurt quite a bit though." Seek said apatheticly..

"alright, just... do it quickly please." You asked, Seek giving a little nod, it looking very clearly stressed about your well being.

"You might want to... come closer for this." Seek said, you crawling over the bed to sit on Seeks lap, it feeling nice and cool, Seek putting an arm around your waist.

Even though Seek gently grasped your ankle, It still hurt a lot, and you let out a whimper as It did so.

Seek slowly started to heal it. At first it didint feel much like anything, but then you could feel your bone slowly snapping back into place, and Holy shit, you were not ready for that. You Let a groan escape from your mouth, as you grasped Seeks chest, Seek pulling you closer, your head on its shoulder. Tears started rolling down your face as you cried, sobs escaping from your mouth every couple seconds. Digging your head into Seek's shoulder, Seek whispered to you, comforting you.

"it will be okay." Seek said, moving the hand that was around your waist to your head, It's fingers soothingly running through your hair. "it will be over soon."

After a couple tortuous minutes, Seek was finally done. It removed its hand from your ankle, which revealed that the spot around where its hand was placed was now ink black.

"will it b-be like this f-forever?" You stuttered out between sobs, slightly brushing your fingers against it, still hurting a bit. It felt like Seeks skin though, a bit cold and slimy.

"Im afraid it is Permanant." Seek said, sorrow apparent in its voice. "You need to rest. I may be able to heal it, but I can't fix it One-Hundred percent."

You let out a nod, lying back in the bed, not trusting yourself to start crying if you started speaking.

"Goodnight, I'll be back, I have something Else I have to check on"

Panic setteled in as Seek started sinking into the ground. You didint think you could stay here by yourself.

"Wait!" You called out, grabbing Seeks hand.

Seek Stopped and looked up at you curiously before rising back up.

"Yes?"

"Please don't go, I don't want to be alone in here!" You said looking down as Tears started rolling out of your eyes. Again.

Seek let out a dramatic sigh, before slowly walking over to the otherside of the bed and getting in beside you.

"thank you.." You said, scooting closer to Seek.

Seek Then Put an arm around your waist, pulling you closer and a hand on your head, running through your hair comfortingly.

"It's okay, I won't let any of the others hurt you" Seek said, Its eye looking down at you lovingly.

You caught It's gaze for a second, you both staring at each other before you broke it, and looked down, blushing.

"Goodnight Seek." You said, resting your head on its cool chest, your rapid breaths becoming more soft and steady.

"Goodnight." Seek said, rubbing circles into your back with its hand, you both held in each other's comforting embrace.

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Your eyelids fluttered open. You looked around, wondering where you were, only to remember that you were in seeks room. You felt his cold arm around your waist, holding you possessivly.

The bed was comfortable and warm, you didn't want to get up, but you knew you had to continue into the hotel.

"Good morning" Seek said, his voice hoarse.

You flinched, a little startled from the sudden noise.

"morning" You mumbled out tiredly, relaxing back in the bed.

Seek gripped you tighter, both his arms now fully wrapped around you. You relaxed into his grip, your stomach now fluttering. It felt so nice and comfortable to be held to be by him.

You nuzzled your head into his chest. Both of your legs tangled in his. As you let out a yawn you could feel your eyelids start to droop. You relaxed further into him, his hand going up to pet your hair, before bringing his hand down underneath your chin, and lifing it up slightly to where you were both looking at each other.

You stared into his eye, before averting your gaze, your face burning red.

"You know we have to get up. We can't stay here all day." Seek said

"I know, it's just... very comfortable." You said, your face heating up. You could have sworn you saw him blush.

He let out a sigh.

"I didn't want to have to do this."

"Do wh-?" You said before getting cut off. A yelp emerging from your throat as he picked you up, and carried you out the door.

"Let go of me!" You said, trying to crawl out of his grasp

"Hmm, No. I don't think so" He said, holding you tighter so you wouldn't escape.

The two of you started bickering, not noticing the quiet, "psst" in the room until it was too late.

"Quick get behind me!" Seek said

You hopped down out of his grasp, your foot still huting a bit from being broken. You painfully crawled under a bed behind him, holding your breath, as you looked up and saw something appear.

"Screech, what are you doing here?"

"I was bored, I wanted someone to play with and I heard you had a human friend with you!" Screech said energetically, a mischievous smile spreading across his face

"There's no one here Screech. Go away."

"Oh... okay." Screech said Disappointedly before floating away.

You let go of the breath you didint even realize you were holding. You started to crawl out before you heard a soft "psst" behind you. You looked behind you and saw the creature that was talking to Seek, smiling at you widely.

You yelped and jumped out from under the bed, running over to seek.

"Screech!" Seek scolded

"You said you didn't have a human." Screech giggled childishley. "I just want to play!"

You looked down at it. It honestly looked pretty harmless and weak.

"Look. We have something to do. Maybe after that we can play. Okay?" Seek said, gripping your hand.

Feeling his hand in yours, your fingers interconnected made you forget about all the horrors of the hotel. You looked up into Seeks eye blushingly. You were so glad he was here with you; helping you escape this place.

Screech's eyes darted back and forth between you and Seek.

"I didn't know you and Seek were dating." He said, a shit eating grin creeping up along his face.

Your jaw dropped to the floor. You looked quickly between Seek and Screech, a harsh blush on both of your faces.

"I- No, It's not like that!" You said Flabbergasted.

"No. We're just- We're just friends!" Seek said quickly, both of your words blurring together.

"Yeah. Definitely." Screech said, Definitely not believing you.

Before you could respond Screech quickly flew out the door, slamming behind him, leaving you two alone.

You stood there in awkward silence for a bit, staring at Seek before clearing your throat and speaking up.

"We should... probably get going." You said timidly

"Yup" Seek said shortly.

You started to walk to the door, before feeling the familiar pain in your foot. You let a quiet hiss from the pain, before Seek walked over to you. You draped your arm over his shoulder, and used him as a sort of crutch. Putting all the weight on your right foot, and none on your left.

You continued walking for a while. Going through various doors and hallways before asking if you could take a break. Seek led you into a random room, before gently setting you down on the bed in the corner.

You let out a long, exasperated sigh, before lying back down in the bed.

Seek put a gentle arm on your shoulder. He looked over at you in what could only be described as a smile. Even if he didn't have a mouth.

"Don't worry. We'll get out of here eventually. I promise you."

You looked away from him. "I know, it's just... What's the point of going back... if you have nothing to go back to? No one who cares what happens to you. No one who cares if you get hurt or... die." You could feel a lump caught in your throat. Were you always this sweaty? "Just the same monotonous cycle every day. Nothing changes. It's just wake up, eat, work, sleep. You don't even have any friends who care. The ones you did once have abondned you. You know?" At this point you could feel warm tears running down your face. You felt so helpless and alone. Like you were trapped in an endless dark abyss.

Suddenly you felt a pair of arms wrap around you. You buried your head into Seek's shoulder, you were now crying heavily. His hand slowly stroked your back.

"Hey. Don't say that. I care about you." He said softly. That warm fluttery feeling igniting in your stomach again.

"thank you..." You whispered out, relaxing into his touch.

You just sat in his embrace for a while, enjoying it. God you didn't deserve a friend as nice and as caring as Seek.

After a bit you fell asleep in his arms, his touch comforting. He was still softly stroking your back. Eventually you both fell asleep, you being held in his warm grasp.

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You opened your eyes only to see nothing but inky black. Your face was buried into his chest.

You slowly raised your head, and you felt him pat the top of it.

"Good morning. Are you ready to go?" Seek said, staring into your eyes.

You yawned and rubbed your eyes.

"Yeah just... give me one sec." You said, before hugging his chest.

"Okay. I'm good." You said, picking yourself up, and dragging yourself out of bed. Seek stood up beside you, offering you a hand, which you gladly accepted. You both walked over to the door, before you grabbed the cold hard handle and swung it open.

You and Seek were walking for a while, exploring different rooms. You found a bottle of vitamins and took it, along with a bandage.

Eventually you came upon a set of taller, fancier doors with the numbers, "0050" on it.

"Uhh, Seek what's this?" You asked curiously.

He looked down at you caringly before saying,

"Don't worry. This is the library, my friend Figure is here. I'm sure he can help us."

"Oh. Okay." You said nervously, biting your nails.

Seek squeezed your hand slightly, before grabbing the handles and swinging them open.

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The Doors to the library swung open with a whoosh, causing air to run up the back of your neck, your spine tingling, an uneasy feeling settling over you. 

Suddenly something emerged from behind one of the bookshelves. A lanky, flesh colored monster. It's face consisting solely of a gaping maw with razor-sharp teeth, and 6 ribs emerging from its chest. 

It suddenly broke into a run, and went towards you. You whimpered and latched onto Seek's cool, inky black hand. He grasped your hand reassuringly.

"It will be okay." He cooed. The shaky breath in your voice subsided.

The figure suddenly stopped, recognizing Seek's voice.

"Seek? Is that you?" It said scratching it's head.

"Indeed It is." Seek said, looking down at you. You looked up into Seeks eye. You felt him pat the top of your head, causing you to giggle. That Butterfly feeling in your stomach returned. 

The things voice snapped you out of your trance.

"What are you doing with a human? Did you bring it for me to eat?" It said

Your eyes widened in terror. Seek saw the expression on your face and quickly went to reassure you.

"No Figure! I'm helping this one escape." Seek said, putting a comforting arm around you.

"You. Helping someone." Figure said Disbelievingly.

"Most people only come here to do bad things to the hotel, but they are nice. Nothing bad deserves to happen to them." Seek said, his words sweet.

"If you say so. I trust you." Figure said. It had a growing suspicion that there was something between Seek and the human thing, but it wouldn't say anything about it.

"I suppose you need the books. Follow me." It said, before getting up and walking to the nearest bookshelf. It pulled out a greenish book that had a triangle and a six.

You, Seek and Figure looked around for about 20 minutes, Seek guiding you along by holding your hand. You all found various books, needing some and not needing others. By the end you had 4 numbers: 6235.

You were all looking for the last book when Figure spoke up.

"So, human. Why aren't you scared of us? Why aren't you scared of Seek?" Figure asked

You thought about it for a second. "Why would I be scared of Seek? He healed me when I broke my foot. He's been nothing but kind to me. Both of you. You've been helping me find the books." 

Figure stopped. "You really believe that?"

"Of course I do!" You said with enthusiasm.

"Thank you." He said, then continued to look for the book.

After a couple more minutes you eventually found the book. You walked up to the locked exit doors. You saw a pad lock with 5 numbers on it. You rolled each into the correct slot. 61351, then pressed the little green button on the side. It opened with a click. You gave a silent cheer.

You turned back. "Thank you Figure." You said before turning back around and walking through the doors, the doors closing with a slam behind you.

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After a couple more doors you took a staircase going down. You pushed open the door infront of you and saw all the lights were off. You could barely make out stacks of barrels on top of each other.

You walked around, using your hands to make sure you didn't bump into anything, before you came upon a wall with something on it.

You had to squint to properly see what it was, but apparently it was a lever. You guessed it did something important. You grasped your hand over the cold metal before pulling it down and hearing a clank.

Seek guided you back up the stairs by your hand, before coming to another door and opening it. Inside this one was four paintings. 

You could see that some of the paintings weren't properly aligned with the turquoise colored outline on the wall. 

You walked over to a painting, the rain pittering against the windows. You picked up the painting and moved it into the correct spot, before going to another painting and doing the same. The fireplace suddenly moved down, revealing another door.

After a few more doors you came to a metal barred door and pushed it, opening with a creak. You walked out and were met with the sight of a garden. It was raining heavily. You were actually outside.

You walked over to the dirt path and put your hand out. Rain was falling on it. You slowly took a deep breath in, savoring the smell of rain, since it would probably be a while before you were outside again. You slowly exhaled.

You walked over to a bench and sat down, taking a look up at the Giant statue, there seemed to be some sort of presence emitting from it.

You closed your eyes and enjoyed the garden for a minute before you felt Seek sit down next to you. Seek entwined his hand with your hand, squeezing it gently. You rested your head onto Seeks shoulder, Seek putting an arm around your waist to pull you closer.

You just stayed like that for a while, both of you content with where you were. After everything that had happened it was nice to take a little break. 

Nothing could last forever, and before you knew it Seek gently tapped your shoulder.

"We should probably get going. We can't stay here forever." 

You nodded gently before standing up and walking over to the metal grates, and pushing it open. 

You went through a few more doors, finding a lighter in a drawer, but nothing else of interest happening.

Eventually though, you reached a door where all the lights were off. A certain greenish-blueish hue being emitted in front of you.

"Hey" Seek gripped your shoulders and turned you around to face him. "I have to leave for this. I can't interfere, but just listen to what he tells you to do. Alright?"

Before you got the chance to respond Seek sunk into the ground.

You turned back to the corridor before walking slowly forward, clearly nervous. You saw lights spin around you every couple seconds. The lights making you nauseous whenever you saw them.

Suddenly something came twords you, it eyes shining like stars. Your head Filled with static, The words, "Turn around" Replayed in your mind over and over again, like a broken record player. You felt like you were going to pass out, but did as the thing said, now running. 

You did it over and over again, it felt like it was lasting forever. You were so tired, you felt like giving up, but just when you were about to, you burst through a door in front of you.

"Hey, Hey its okay. I'm sorry I had to leave you." Seek said when you collapsed in his arms, rubbing soothing circles into the back of your hair.

You were so tired. You just wanted to sleep, and so for the second time, you passed out in his arms.