CHAPTER SIXTY: OBLIVION

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As soon as Viktor and Lila, they saw Reginald first, he was standing by the hotel door with his back facing the elevator as he was reading in his notebook.

Then suddenly they saw Klaus  laying barely conscious on the floor. 

"Oh my, Klaus. Are you okay?" Viktor suddenly shouted.

"Lila!" Diego said causing Lila to stop in her track before looking at him "How'd you get out?" Diego asked her.

"What happen?" Allison asked as she rushed over to Klaus "We thought you died" Viktor said "If only. Hey" Klaus said as Viktor and Allison helped him up "Hey, you okay?" Allison asked him "Yeah, I think so" Klaus replied.

The the elevator door opened and Five, Ben and Sloane exited.

"You look like hell" Viktor suddenly said to Five "Why don't you try killing a guardian?" Five said as he looked at him "We just did" Viktor gestured to Lila "So did we" Ben said.

 "I told you to stay in the--"Diego said to Lila but she slapped him across the face before kissing him.

Lila pulled away to look at him "I love you!" she said to him with a grumble sound.

"Klaus, I thought you were dead" Sloane said to Klaus as Five patted him on the shoulder "Yes, yes, I'm alive and amazing despite Dad's attempts to bash my brains in, but tearful reunions laster. What you guys need to know right now is that Dad killed Luther and Y/n!" Klaus said and everyone turned to Reginald.

Klaus then turned to Five "Y/n sent me to tell you about what really happened and that she loves you and is proud of you and that she will always be with you, keep fighting" Klaus said and a single tears was shown in Five's eyes.

"And dad locked me out of the tunnel, and he rang that stupid bell!" Klaus said and everyone turned to Reginald.

"What's your plan, old man?" Five asked with his arms out to his side as the family started walking towards Reginald.

"We don't have time for this" Reginald said "You killed Luther!" Sloane said aggressive as they all walked closer to him "You killed Y/n, my girlfriend" Five said aggressive as the anger in him was boiling.

"I had no choice. You refused to come together as a team. And all of this wouldn't have happen if Y/n would just be able to convince Five. Beside she was useless" Reginald said.

"Another word about my Y/n and I will kill you" Five hissed, looking like a lion ready to kill "I should kill you" he said.

"All your stupid myths and stories. There were never seven bells or Norsemen. You brought us here to die!" Ben said aggressive.

"That's not so. Somewhere in this hotel is the key to resetting the universe. We just need to find the sigil" Reginald said and Five glanced down on the floor.

"I don't care about your sigil! None of us do" Sloane said "We barely survived that guardian with his stupid helmet and his sickle!" Diego said as Five ran towards the stairs that lead to the balcony to get a better look at the floor in the lobby. 

"The guardian we killed had an axe" Viktor said as he was looking at Lila "Ours had a ninja sword" Sloane said before Diego and Lila glanced at each other "There's one left" they both said.

"We have to go after it" Sloane said "Because that worked so well the first time" Ben said to her "You got any painkillers I could use, just please shut up?" Klaus said as he rubbed his head "Could you just keep it down to a dull roar?" he asked.

Five walked up to the second floor and he grabbed the railing as he looked over the balcony, to scanned the floor to see the seven stars on the floor and he realized something causing his eyes to widened.

"Hey, I found the sigil!" he shouted "Is on the--" but he was cut off when a loud shattering of glass was heard and they the last guardian fall through the glass ceiling before it throw its chained sickle at Five.

The weapon hit Five, cutting off his left arm, causing him scream in pain as his arm got cut off.

Five felled on the floor with his arm landing behind him.

The guardian swung it's sickle at Klaus, slicing his stomach open causing him to groan before he fell on the floor.

It then grabbed three explosives from its armor before throwing it at Allison, Viktor, Lila and Diego making them all grunt as they fell to the floor the same time Ben felled to the floor.

Five got up with a gasp as he was holding his hand to his left arm while blood spurted out from his left arm.

It hurting a lot, so much that it was almost like he couldn't breath.

He leaned against the wall of the railing, ignoring the pain that coursed through his body. He let out a grunt as he grabbed the end of the tie with his teeth while he grabbed the other end with his hand before he bit the tie and closed his eyes as he tightened the tie as much as he could around his left arm before he let go.

Even so he have just lost an arm, he kept going. So he ignored the pain and he started straining as he took off his tie and started wrapped it around his arm to stop him from bleeding out. He was trying to applying a tourniquet with only one hand.

He couldn't give up, he couldn't give into the pain, not now.

Diego got up and the guardian threw the sickle towards him but he dodged it.

He fought against the guardian with nothing but his bare hands, but it punched him across the face causing him to groan before he fell to the floor.

The guardian then looked at Sloane before walking towards her.

She stretched her hand towards the guardian, trying to hold it back with her powers while she with her other hand was holding on to her cut on her side.

The guardian then looked at Sloane before walking towards her.

She stretched her hand towards the guardian, trying to hold it back with her powers while she with her other hand was holding on to her cut on her side.

The sound of metal creaking was heard as Sloane constricted the guardian's moments and Sloane gritting her teeth together.

But she was too tired and injured to hold it back for long, so her power weakened 'cause she was exhausted and injured but she kept strained and struggled against the guardian before her powers faded away and the guardian swung the sickle towards her.

But then Luther grabbed the guardian from behind "Nobody hurts my wife, you son of a bitch" he said before he threw the guardian away.

Klaus had being the one who had summon Luther for assist and to see Sloane once more time.

Luther and Sloane hugged each other tight and while hugging his wife, Luther lifted his head to look at Reginald behind Sloane.

"All those years I stayed loyal to you. You wasted my life on the moon, and for what? To use me on this stupid mission?" Luther asked "You did have a purpose. I left you to guard the most precious thing in the universe" Reginald said "And what was it?" Luther asked "You'll soon understand. You all will" Reginald said.

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One moment you were sitting on the chair in the desert living room, watching TV and then the next moment you were standing up face to face with Five.

You looked around to see you were back at the hotel before looking back to see Five sitting on the floor and missing an arm.

You could see that he stuggle to tie his tie around his left arm where blood was spurted out from.

You rushed over to him before grabbing the tie and started to tie it around his arm.

Five looked up to see you in front of him, tieing up his arm which was impossible, because you were dead.

"Hey there, stranger" you smiled.

Five couldn't take his eyes off you, the fact that you were right in front of him was unbelievable.

The unbelievable torment he has had to endure without you felt everlasting, that he would never see you again. 

But everything clicked as you appeared in front of him again, a trick of fate, a moment of hope as you grabbed a loose scrap of his blazer and tied it around his wound before coming up to his line of vision.

Right now he actually thought he was dead. 

His eyes were glassy as you reached out to cup his cheeks in your hands while staring into his green eyes "You're here" he mumbled as tears started appearing in his eyes while you smiled softly at him.

"I'm here" you whispered, looking into his eyes as tears fell down your cheeks "I don't know what's going on, but I'm here, but I don't think it would be for very much longer" you said "I'm so sorry, I failed you" he said "You didn't fail me. It's not your fault, it's mine, I should never have walked into that Suite when Reginald wanted to talk to me in the first place. But listen to me now. I want you to know something. Fight for this. I will always be with you, but you gotta live for the both of us now, carry me in your heart" you said and he nodded "I promise. I will never forget you and I will fight and live for the both of us" he said with tears in his eyes "I love you and I always will" he said and you smiled.

His right hand came up to your own cheek, feeling your hand underneath his as he shut his eyes.

You took him in completely as he was in the moment, trying to engrain the last time you would see him, truly see him. He had sweat beading at his hairline, his hair a mess on top of his head.

You looked at him, admiring the way he looks when his eyes are close in bliss that he found from your touch. You ingrained the pout of his lip and the curve of his nose. You leaned forward, your lips finding their place on his cheek, where this freckle lied, softly kissing the skin before you started to fade away from his touch, and when Five opened his eyes all that he could see of you was the invisible outline of your body.

"No" tears fell from his eyes. "It's okay" you rested your forehead against his as tears fell from both of your eyes. "Be the hero, save the world. I will always be with you. I love you Five Hargreeves. Hold on to that, never let that go. May we meet again" you said as you lay a kiss on his lips which caused him to close his eyes, kissing you back before you faded away. Tough he would never forget the feeling of your kiss on his cheek and lips. And your skin touching his.

He would never forget you or the pain he had to suffer. Or the pain he felt when he had to leave you behind. He felt overwhelming sense of guilt that he could've done more, he shouldn't have left you out of his sight. Five would never let Reginald hurt you. He doesn't know how Reginald did it, but he knew he did.

His last ounce of trust if there was any was gone the moment he walked out of that tunnel and Klaus wasn't behind him. It was all slowly crumbling in on him, but he had not choose but to fight. To fight for you, for his family. That's what he did as he aimlessly wandered the halls following through the stupid quest. He would do just about anything to save you, or to simply honor you and the premature love the two of you shared. It might have being short but it was memorabel and real. That love you and Five had was a once in a lifetime. 

Luther pulled away from Sloane and placed his hand on her bruised and cut cheek while they both looked at each other with a smile.

But then he saw that his body began to disappear and he looked over his shoulder to see Klaus "Klaus" he said "I can't...hold it" Klaus said faintly while his hand was shaking from exhaustion and blood loss.

Luther then looked back at Sloane "I will love you forever. Okay?" he said and she cried while nodding and Luther disappeared as Klaus took his last breath as the guardian got up.

Five spotted the watch you once gave him, still on his left arm that was laying on the floor. He took the watch off the arm before putting it in his pocket. He then looked over the railing to see the guardian getting up.

He looked at the stars on the floor "The sigil is in the lobby floor. It's the stars!" he shouted "Children, find the star on the sigil. Stand on it!" Reginald said as the others all got up while Klaus sat up with gasp as he just came back to life, again.

"Ben, now's your time, boy! Quickly!" Reginald said to Ben who stood up as he was clutching to his stomach.

"Seven points, seven of us? We're the bells?" Viktor said.

Energy was powering up as they stood on each stars and Allison was about to walk over to stand on one of the stars but Reginald stopped her "No. Not you" he said and she looked at him.

Five ran down the stairs, holding his severed arm as the guardian turn to them.

"Hurry! It's the only way to stop him!" Reginald shouted as the rest walked over to stand on a star each causing the floor to made a panels clicking noise and the stars to light up underneath their feet.

The guardian started snarling before it walked towards them.

Five looked over at Allison to see that she was looking at the last star on the floor in the middle of the other stars. "Number Five, quickly!" Reginald said.

Five then blinked over to the last star and as he landed on it, he let out a scream as white bright blue light started coming out of them, causing them all to scream out in pain as their head tilted back up to the ceiling.

The light connecting them to each other before it hit the guardian like lightning making the guardian fell to the floor with a thud.

The light powered down and the guardian turned into cockroaches who crawled away.

Life started to drain out of Five. Not just out of him but from the rest of the family too. The ones who were standing on the stars.

The pain was immeasurable. It was like Five could feel every cell of his body being ripped away gorily, there was simply no comparison to the physical pain Five had felt earlier when his arm was cut off. This was much worse. It was agony in its pure form. And the worst, he couldn't move at all. He couldn't stop that. Five couldn't save himself. He couldn't save his family. He couldn't save you.

There was a whirring and clicking sounds and Five and the others still had their tilted up as they started straning while the hotel transformed into a bright golden chamber that resembled the hotel.

Five's brain tried to distract itself from the pain in any way it could. His sense were much sensible now. He watched as the version of what was before the hotel now disintegrated into a yellow-ish room of some sort energy, pulsating on very corner, something completely out of this world.  

Reginald smiled as everything started turning bright golden while energy was fluctuating as the whole hotel started crumble and turn into golden yellow lines while the others stood on the sigils, still with their heads tilted up, staring at the light that was shining above them.

They gasped as the machine inflicted pain on them and Reginald walked passed them before he walked over to a desk that was formed as a C.

The desk was the only furniture that was still standing.

He walked into the middle of the table and as he stepped into the spot, a hologram was turned on.

The hologram started beeping as Reginald was putting his hands on something on the hologram.

Allison looked over at the others that was all groaning in pain. Reginald hadn't mention to her that her family would be tortured.

"This wasn't part of the deal. You're hurting them" she said as she turned to Reginald "I can't stop now. It'd shut down the machine" Reginald said "What machine? I don't understand" she said "The hotel was just a facade. We're stuck inside a machine in another dimension. Whoever created the universe built this place" he said "What does any of that have to do with them?" she asked. 

Reginald didn't respond to her, but Five knew. They were the batteries, the power, the energy that sustained that entire place. You were mere objects to be used. Reginald planned on killing Five and the others.

Reginald pressed a button and energy pulses was heard and the others all started screaming in pain as the light was sucking their energy, powers and life out of them while small orange lights was coming out of them before floating up to the ceiling.

"The particles inside their bodies are the only things that fuel the machine" Reginald said as the orange particles that had given Five and the others their powers was torn from their bodies while they screamed out in pain as their energy particles were being sucked out of their bodies.

"You are all particles from our dimension that were put into the mothet's of the Umbrella's and Sparrow's. Those are the particles needed to reset the universe" Reginald said.

It now make sense. The hotel absorbs life in order to power the machine to reset the universe. The Oblivion contains a machine that can rebuild the universe should it ever be destroyed but the hotel had to absorbs life in order to power the machine to reset the universe.

And Reginald only had Five and his siblings so he could used them as humans vessels and in the end to use them all as human sacrifices.

He only raised Five and the others to use them as a power source.

Five and the other's faces began to look pale and fatigued and you could see that they were being tortured, slowly killed by the device, by Reginald.

Each person groaned and cried out in agony.

Reginald's answer was what Five expected and hearing him say that like his family, that Five spent a lifetime to save and would spend another one if needed was so disposable it angered Five. He had to try one more time. He would soon not be able to speak anymore.

Allison looked at Five who tried to look at her "He killed Luther and Y/n" he said, straining as he was getting all his life and energy sucked out of him.

"He tried to kill Klaus. He won't stop until we're all dead" he said and Allison looked at Reginald as the machine powered up more.

"Okay, we need to stop" she said as she turned her head to him "I'm almost done. And when I am, you and I will get what we came here for" Reginald said "No, you're killing them!" she shouted at him.

"Everything in life has a price" Reginald said in a tone like he didn't care what happen to the others as long as he got what he wanted.

Allison looked at the others as they were all screaming in pain.

Five's and the others' faces began to look pale and fatigued, they were being tortured, slowly killed by the device, by Reginald.

Five's pain increased once again. Five could feel his own skin starting to cling onto his bones, almost no more muscle or fat between them. His eyes felt dry, just as his mouth and throat, his body was losing its strength to properly function.

Allison then looked back at Reginald who smiled as the sound of a panel was beeping.

Her eyes glowed orange before she scream stop, her voice echoing but the energy wave hit around the machine, so it didn't hit Reginald's ear.

Allison then looked around until she spotted the guardian sickle.

She grabbed the guardian's sickle before she walked up behind Reginald and she swung the sickle at him, slicing his head clean in half with the blade.

The machine powered down and the others felled to floor all grunting, groaning and coughing.

Reginald turned around to exposed his face behind the mask which made Allison let out a gasp as she saw that he was an alien and her eyes followed him as his dead body fell to the floor.

Then it was all gone, Five's body fell to the floor all of a sudden, life consuming his being again like a punch in the gut. He grunted in pain, coughing like his lungs were filled with sand. Opening his eyes that he didn't feel like closing before, he saw it was the same for all of those around him. Reginald was dead on the floor. Five didn't even manage to question the reason for this blood to not be red and instead a dark green color. Everyone there was fine.

Except for one person. 

He saved the world, but lost his reason to staying in it.

There was no point in standing up.

Suddenly Five felt some arms around him and he looked up to see you, which made him think that he was dead.  

"Y/n" he said weak "I'm here" you wrapped your arms more around him as his body was rested against your chest.

"I'm here" you kissed his forehead.

There was a sound of faint pulsing sound and Allison walked over towards the red button on the hologram and she lifted up her hand before she stretched it towards the button.

"Allison...Allison, don't touch that button. We don't know what it does" Five said "Allison, stop" Viktor said as he got up and Allison turned to look at him to see that he was about to use his powers.

"Don't make me do this!" he said "Do you turst me?" she asked him.

He didn't responded but he powered down and Allison smiled, knowing that he trust her.

"Viktor, what are you doing? Stop her" Five said as Allison turned back to look at the button "Allison, wait" Klaus said "Allison, don't do it" Five said, before everyone started yelling at her to stop.

Five then looked at you "Don't leave me again" he said "I wouldn't" you hugged Five tighter as Allison pressed the button.

Five closed his eyes, ready to die as the world suddenly disappeared around him, every sound distorting and fading into nothing.

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