apocalypsehow | Hotel Obsidian

You know what Five needed to ring in the end of everything? A bowl of cereal. A massive bowl of cereal even. And that was just what he had, walking down the hallway to go watch it happen as he saw Viktor up ahead.

Viktor	"What are you doing?" Were you blackout drunk again, Five?
Five	Rude! But not right now, no. "Eating cereal, retracing my steps."
Viktor	"Why?" he asked. There were things Viktor saw last night that he never wanted to retrace again. Ugh, those stairs were tainted.
Five	"The old man is hiding something." Anyone shocked? Anyone?
Viktor	"Feels like a lot of that is going around," Viktor admitted. Which was weird considering the apocalypse. Weren't they supposed to be all honest and teary at this point?
Five	"How do you mean?" Yes, let's have all the pieces come together. Or, you know, some of them only too late.
Viktor	"Allison apologized to me." Which was rare for any sibling, but especially this one.
Five	Yeah, but she was consistently the nice one. "Okay, and that's suspicious, how?"
Viktor	"Last night she was ready to go ten rounds with me at the wedding, and this morning it's all family and Dad and love." Three words that should never go together. He shrugged. "I don't know. Something must have happened last night, but I don't know what."
Five	Five let the truly massive bowl of cereal fall out of his hands as the blur from the night before filled in with Allison as the person that Dad had been making a deal with.
Viktor	"Five!" Well that was a mess! "Five, what--"
Five	"It's Allison!" Yeah, because that made a lick of sense to Viktor.
Viktor	"What is--" Whatever answer Five had would be cut off with a scream from the white buffalo room. Viktor took off in that direction, knowing Five wouldn't be far behind him. When he got to the room he found they were the last ones there. Everybody else, Diego, Annie, Klaus, Lila, Reginald, Ben and Allison were crowded around Sloane who was hovering over-- "Oh, god. Luther."
Five	"What happened?" Five demanded.
Sloane	"He went to go get ice," Sloane said shakily, cradling Luther's dead body in her arms. "I couldn't---he didn't come back. I don't know."
Lila	"It must have been him." It seemed obvious to Lila, but she also probably wasn't as emotionally taken aback as the rest of them. (Though -- she'd liked Luther. Shit.) "The guardian."
Diego	"She's right," Diego said, trying to remain clinical and not lose it over seeing yet another dead brother. "Whoever did this had a long curved blade." Or a sharp tentacle, but who had that, come on.
Viktor	"How can you be sure?" Viktor asked.
Diego	"I don't know much, but I do know knives," Diego replied.
Annie	"Oh my God, Luther," Annie murmured from between her fingers, her hands still covering her face in horror. Part of her kind of still wanted to check his pulse, see if she could cauterize his wound, just to go through the motions, but -- But that, she knew from her own training, was shock talking. Luther was very much beyond their help now.
Reginald	Reginald shook his head sadly. "Poor boy."
Ben	"If we attacked first, he'd still be alive," Ben said. He was about to add another 'I told you so' to the mix but a loud crash caused the room to shake. Which didn't seem great. He opened to the door to the white buffalo suite to find-- --well to find the hotel literally dissolving before him. "Guys? Hey, guys!"
Sloane	"What are we going to do about Luther?" Sloane asked, sounding nearly hysterical.
Reginald	"We are out of time, the kugelblitz is here." Reginald pulled open the door that led to the mirrored hallway. He designed the hotel, of course he knew where it was. "Into the passage, it's the only way. Hurry, children!" For the most part, they didn't have to be told twice. Ben, Lila, Diego (who grabbed a harpoon gun), and Annie were quick to head into the passage. Sloane, however, had to be forcibly dragged away from Luther's body by Allison. Viktor followed after them. "Come on, what are you waiting for?" Reginald asked Five.
Five	Five did need to be told twice because none of this was adding up and he had a suspicious streak a mile wide. "This isn't over," he warned Reginald even though it kind of was with the whole... universe collapsing thing there as he rushed past him.