Darkness Reigns Page #6

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I hear, I hear music

or something.

- Shh, shh.

It's coming from upstairs.

- Slowly.

- Seriously?

There's a landing here

and a door.

Okay, let's check it out.

Quietly.

What do we do?

Well, we see what it is.

Maybe it's nothing,

just a recording.

Take a seat anywhere.

We need help.

We were with the film

crew filming the movie

and people got hurt.

We need to call the police.

We already did.

Emergency crew is on their way.

Some of your friends are here

recovering with a good

stiff drink.

You should join them.

How do we get out of here?

Well, the way you came,

I suppose, the elevator?

It's not working.

So stay, join your friends.

- Oh, my god.

Casper...you're okay.

Stop filming me.

- We thought you died.

I mean it.

I don't need this showing

up in the tabloids.

- This is amazing.

I mean, you survived

a horrible accident.

- Daniel,

let's get out of here.

- It's okay.

How's this for a money shot?

- It's phenomenal.

- Stop filming.

- It's okay, it's okay.

- You're not listening.

- Daniel, let's go now.

- This is not

real, none of this is real.

We need to go.

- Okay, okay,

okay, let's go, let's go.

Down here.

Sidney, what do we do if

those things come after us?

Sidney, please.

Wait.

Sidney.

Sidney, just wait.

There is nowhere left to run.

Then why don't you just

go back to the bar?

Order a Cosmo,

tip the piano player.

Maybe he'll play your

favorite tune for you.

Don't be an a**hole.

- Look, it's not safe

just standing in open.

Oh my god, the walls.

- Oh my god,

that smell.

Guys, go, go, go!

- Run!

- Oh God.

- Jesus Christ.

Daniel, there's an exit.

- There should be

a door on the next landing.

- Okay, yes.

It's locked.

Oh.

- Whoa, whoa.

- Everyone stop.

- Hold on, hold on.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- I switched

over to night vision.

Am I good, Daniel?

Am I good here?

- You're okay.

There's nothing in front of you.

Just take it slow.

- We need to keep going.

He's just playing with us.

- Okay.

-- Down and--

-- in the front.

- I see you, I see you.

- Okay.

- You're okay.

- Keep going.

- Okay, okay.

Kill her.

- What was that?

- What?

- What?

- That voice.

- I didn't hear

any voice.

What did, what did it say?

- Nothing,

just keep going.

Jesus Christ!

- What?

- Oh!

- What happened?

- Vanessa!

- What happened?

- Vanessa.

- What happened?

Oh God, something pushed me.

- Hold on.

- Oh, oh, God.

- Oh, Jesus, your leg.

- I think it's broken.

- Oh, my god.

- Just, sweetheart, listen--

Guys this door is open.

We gotta get out

of this stairwell.

- Like four or five flights.

- We shot on the fifth floor.

- Put your weight on me.

- I'm gonna get you up,

- I'm gonna help you, okay?

- Give me your hand.

- Up.

There we go.

- Okay, you're okay.

- Okay.

You're okay.

- Put your weight

on your other leg.

- I got you.

- Come on.

- I got you.

Hold on, hold on.

- Vanessa,

you're okay, you're okay.

- Hold on.

-I don't wanna die.

- Ah, okay.

- Okay.

- Let's go through

those doors.

Oh, come on guys.

This is just, this is

just slowing us down.

Okay.

Why don't you just go

and see if there's a way

out through those doors.

Ah!

She's right.

I'll be quick, it might

just be a dead end.

You stay here with her.

Why don't you put her

in that wheelchair?

- Oh, sh*t.

Okay.

Easy, easy, easy.

Oh, oh, ooh.

Oh.

Here.

What is this?

St. Benedict of Nursia

for protection.

Tell you the truth, it's never

really done me much good.

Maybe you'll have better luck

with it.

Hey, Sidney, Sidney.

Be careful.

You see anything, Sidney?

- Sidney?

Oh god, Daniel, this is

unbearable, I might pass out.

I know it hurts like hell.

Hang in there, okay?

Hang in there.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh.

- Sh*t.

Oh, please. [crying]

- It's okay.

Get me out of here.

- It's okay, it's okay.

No, it's not okay.

- It's okay, it's okay.

It's really not okay.

- It's okay.

- Sid, is that you?

- Oh Danny Boy the

pipes the pipes are calling

- Let me get

the camera.

If I am dead, as dead I well

may be

You'll come and find

The place where I am lying

And kneel and say an ave there

for me

It's you, Daniel.

You're the one he wants.

W- where did he go?

- He was standing

right here.

He was literally standing

right here.

We have, we have to find him.

- Okay, okay.

Oh my god, Sidney?

- Sidney?

You know, that thing was right.

It said I'd lost my faith,

that I was as empty as those

vapid talk shows I appear on.

I sold out.

I got too comfortable

and I lost my faith.

And that's why I

couldn't expel it.

Now, look at me,

just lying there.

- You're losing it,

buddy.

What are you talking about?

Come, take a look for yourself.

- Oh, my god,

Vanessa, go.

Get out!

Go!

Oh!

No, no, no, no.

- Sh*t.

No, no. [crying]

- Oh f***.

Oh, oh.

- It won't open.

- Move, move, move!

F***ing come on!

You just got here, Daniel.

Why do you leave so soon?

We have so much to talk about?

We've got nothing to talk about,

man.

Let us go.

W-, who are you talking to?

The voice, you're not

hearing it?

Ah, no, I don't hear anything.

A deal's a deal, Daniel.

It's time.

Why did those people have to

die, man?

You never said anything

about that.

Oh, please.

That was just a little fun.

They all had families,

lives, careers.

Man, Aaron had a family

and you snuffed them out

like bugs.

W- what's wrong, Daniel?

This is insane, who are you

talking to?

Tell her, Daniel, or shall I?

So be it.

- Okay, okay!

Okay!

I'll tell her.

Tell me what?

- This whole

thing is my fault. [crying]

I think it's because of me.

Oh, how is this your fault?

- I, uh ...

- What, Daniel, what?

- I made a deal.

What do you mean a, a deal?

I wanted, I wanted a

meaningful career.

I wanted the work

and the success

that I saw others

getting and so I,

I summoned something ...

dark.

I didn't think it would

actually work,

but I figured why not just give

it a try?

I mean,

nothing else was working.

And I just needed a break, but

I, I didn't think it would,

I didn't think this

would happen.

I, I didn't think people were

gonna die.

- You sold your

soul to the devil for,

for what, Daniel, fame?

I just wanted to be a

great filmmaker.

All that footage you shot.

You captured all those things

that actually happened.

Yeah, lucky me.

I get to be known as the guy

that captured the paranormal

and proves to everybody

that it f***ing exists!

Quite clever, am I right?

No, this isn't what we

agreed on!

That's not your decision.

When you summoned me,

we never discussed what

you'd become famous for.

And now, I've gifted you

with something extraordinary.

Look, you got

what you wanted, man.

My soul is yours.

Let Vanessa go.

No.

- Yes.

I told you back then I would someday

need you to give me

something in return.

What do you want?

Take a life.

What?

No, I--

Then I will extinguish you and your

friend and move on to the next

needy soul.

- This is crazy, man.

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