The rain tickled  the window, a soothing sound, if not for the constant bleeping of an angry phone. It rang and rang, even started shaking as it rang, until someone finally found the strength to pick it up. With the great reluctance a cracking voice answered after swiftly swiping the answer button. "...geez.....do you even know what time it is? What the hell is wrong with you..." grumbled Lucius. "Ugh.." Lucius turned around in bed, pulling up the sheets as he listened to the far too wake and happy voice on the other side. He hardly understood what the other was saying. His pal Drake was calling, about something he had found, but more of it Lucius couldn't understand. Lucius turned the screen of his phone and sighed again. Why, oh why, did that bugger chose to call in the middle of the night, whilst Lucius had to get up early in the morning?  Drake always managed to wake Lucius in many ways whenever Lucius needed to get up early, despite not knowing Lucius his schedule.<br/><br/>"Drake.. Shush.. I want to sleep..." Lucius pleaded in vain. "...please... sshh.... go to bed.."<br/>"Come on Lucius, don't be such a party pooper.. I<span style="font-style: italic">know</span>this is it! You'll love it! Come on.. At least come by and have a look, then I'll stop bothering you and you can go back to your boring sleep... Just fifteen minutes? Or ten, or even five! Just come by!"<br/>Sighing again, Lucius grumbled "Fiiiine... I'll come.. But there better be something interesting or I'll be making it something interesting.."<br/>Lucius hung the call and threw his phone on the nightstand, then turned around and pulled up his blanket. Just a bit more sleep. Having Drake wait for a bit longer couldn't hurt, could it?  But a deep thunder roar awoke him instantly, ruining any chance on sleep. "...I hate you Drake.."<br/><br/>Zombie-like Lucius got dressed, spending way too much time in front of the mirror as he battled his hair. His white hair had decided it was a good moment to explode, or so it seemed. Lots of hair products managed to tame the white locks again. With his hair done he swiftly took care of the rest. Knowing Drake longer, he knew it was foolish to think he'd be getting any sleep this night before having to go to work. So he made sure he looked well enough for work.<br/><br/>Finally he began packing his bag. A phone, some miscellaneous items, another set of clothes and lots of sweets with a bottle of water. Quickly Lucius swung the bag onto his shoulder. He loved shoulderbags, they were so easy in use and matched most of his outfits. Just like his simple outfit now; darkblue jeans with a royal blue shirt and a short neat black waistcoat over it. Simple accessories finished his look. A quick flash of lighting convinced him to put on his black leather jacket.<br/><br/>Then he was ready to go. He headed out, but within the first steps he heard his phone buzzing again. It was Drake, apping him the address he needed to go. Shaking his head in frustration Lucius put his phone away. With his hands in his pockets he wandered along the pavement, until he finally reached the place. He wondered what it was that Drake had found at this site, it was merely an abandoned hospital, which had been closed down due to some accidents happening. Lucius walked along the fences placed around the old building, then entered where he saw a hole in the fence.  Of course, Drake wouldn't have found something outside the hospital, Lucius was sure that Drake wouldn't even take the effort to step outside the hospital to wait for him, not in this weather.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">'Why oh why did I go? I could have just silenced my phone.. Then I'd still be in my warm bed..'</span>Lucius thought, as he rubbed over his tired eyes. The only positive thing right now, was that there was little light hurting his sleepy eyes around these corners. Of course, that also meant he couldn't quite see what lured in these bushes or what hid itself in those shadows, close to the wall. This unofficial path to the old hospital wasn't a reassuring path to take.. Steadily he walked faster and faster, until he almost ran to the entrance. No, Lucius wasn't scared.. or something.. Nah, the surroundings just had something very unsettling. As if he shouldn't be here. He had noticed before that old buildings had the habit to do this to him, making him feel haunted, eventhough there were none there: and he could know, as he was able to see ghosts.<br/><br/>Finally he reached the entrance. Some stone staircase led up to a huge building, which looked very bleak with the light from the sky, just grey, dark grey with dirty patches of algae. Some of the countless windows were broken, others were too dirty to see through or hand plants growing over them. Always interesting to see how quick nature took command again after humans left this place. Thinking about it, Lucius pushed the door open, which on its turn made a very heavy metal noise. "Hwwl..." With goosebumps all over Lucius continued the hallway. In the midst of the room he stood still, looking around and wondering where to go. There were so many paths to take..<br/><br/>"<span style="font-weight: bold">Hey!</span>There you are!" yelled the cheery voice suddenly. A very startled Lucius turned to see a very hyped up Drake. He didn't  even have time to see anything more than a big grin, before Drake pulled him along.<br/>"Come on ya sleepy head! Been waiting long enough!" Drake laughed at him.<br/>"Geez! Not so fast. I just woke up!" Lucius protested, still being dragged by Drake.<br/>After some minutes they arrived at a room. "Would ya look at that? Isn't it pretty, isn't it marvelous???"<br/>"...what?" Lucius frowned, looking around in the room. Just a plain room. Almost completely empty, except for a panel on the side of the wall and a huge platform in the middle of the room. The platform seemed to have small diamond shaped patterns on it, but it was hard to see with only the emergency light helping them out in the darkness.<br/><br/>"Don't you see? Don't you see it Lucius?! It's teleporter! You know, one of the first! That's  what they had here all the time, that's what made those accidents. Don't you see, this treasure?! With just a bit of tweaking it, we'll be able to make our own teleports, think of it, saving all that money and even making some in the process haha" Drake made all sorts of big hand gestures along the conversation, trying to get Lucius just as excited, in which he failed.<br/><br/>Mildly interested, not because of what Drake said, Lucius walked closer to the platform. He crouched near it and gently tapped the surface. It seemed to be dead anyway. It made a soft sound, alike tapping on a wineglass. Curiously Lucius stood on it, tapping his feet on it. He grinned, it was making a soft sound with each step. Whilst Lucius was just playing around on the platform, wondering if it made different noises if he tapped different on it or perhaps a bit harder, Drake was fooling around with the controlpanel, after which suddenly the light of the platform flashed on. As Lucius covered his eyes with his sleeve and cursed at the sudden brightness of it, the platform started to rotate. Once realizing so, Lucius tried to jump off it, but it was too late. A pulsing high noise filled the room and the light got brighter and brighter as the room seemed to fade away. Lucius couldn't move, it felt as if he had been packed under pressure.  He held his  breath as colours flashed by and he felt panic arising, unknowing what the hell was going on. If he could scream, he'd probably curse Drake with the most creative cusses, but all he could do, was watch and hope this was over soon.<br/><br/>Not long after he could see more colours  around him, slowly forming more and more. Then came the terrifying realization that he was actually falling down from the sky as he spun round. He tried to stretch his arms, seeking anything at all to hold on to, to break his  fall before reaching the ground at this deadly speed.  Some tree-like forms met him halfway, one by one their arms snapped at the combination of his weight and speed as he tumbled down. Eventually they did manage to slow his fall. Eventually, he just fell a feet after hitting the last branch-like structure and landed on the ground, where he lay as he tried to puzzle out what the hell just happened. His head also took the necessary time, before everything stopped twisting and turning. Only then did he manage to sit up and glance around in amazement, whilst feeling his sore body throbbing. Just as he sat up, he fell back to the ground too, with a deep growl. He reckoned one would feel like this after doing a triathlon of a week within a day without any preparation or condition and after that, having fallen down the highest tower into the sea; feeling completely broken, out of breath, dizzy and disorientated.