Some doors are better left closed...

by **Shadow Demon** February 21st 2009, 2:38 am

Inside a buisness room, people are crowding around. Some talking to colleagues and admin, others walking into crowded lifts. A particular overweight man bustles over to a lift and presses the up button. He waits for the lift to open as other people join him. But still the lift doesnt open and the others walk through other open lifts. The man thought about doing the same, but then he remembered that pressing a button for a lift and then leaving it was very bad manners.

So he waited. After a while he looked at the current floor indicator. It was BLANK. He thought: "it must have broken down..." So he was about to enter another lift, but suddenly the doors of the lift opened. The man thought a little bit before stepping into the lift. Apruptly, the lift doors swung closed behind him. The man looked a little confused but pressed for the number 16 floor. But the button didnt light up. The man, confused again, pressed the button a second time. Still the lift gave no reaction whatsoever. Panicing, the man pressed the open doors button...

Still no reaction. The man shoved his hand into his pocket hurridley, and pulled out his mobile phone. He was about to call someone but suddenly the mobile flew out of his hand and smashed against the wall as if by an unatural power...The man screamed and banged against the lift doors. The man turned around, only to be grabbed by someone and held up by the collar. Its Shadow Demon.

Overweight Man
Wha-Hey y-y-your Shadow Demon...

Shadow Demon
(laughs) Indeed i am.

Overweight Man
What do y-y-you want?!

Shadow Demon
I want you to do some dirty work for me.

Overweight Man
What dirty work?

Shadow Demon lets go of the man

Shadow Demon
I know you own a personal protection company, body guards and....all that. I need you, my freind, to organize a squad of them.

Overweight Man
For what?

Shadow Demon
Since i killed this dumbass family the cops have been all over me and the Asylum, and we dont want to get anymore blood on our hands than we already have. In short i want your squad to give us enough time to be over the hills and away before they can track us anymore. What do you say my freind?

Ovweight Man
You killed a family?!...What if i dont want to do your dirty work?

Shadow Demon
(laughs) If you do indeed refuse my kind offer, i will be inclined to kill you slow and painfully, with my selection of instruments...

Shadow Demon opens his coat to show a collection of surgical instruments, scapels, buzzsaws, even a drill.

Overweight Man
Ok, ok ill do whatever you want just dont...dont hurt me please.

Shadow Demon
Atta boy, now which floor you headed for my freind?

Overweight Man
uhm...16.

Shadow Demon presses the button, and the lift activates. The man is about to ask him how he did that, but Shadow Demon has already gone, leaving the man alone in the lift.