After a few minutes of fan interactions, we all return to our home. The fans surprisingly dropping us off like an Uber service. We walk inside and head back to my room, where the laptop is black, but still perched at ready. We leave the door open wide this time, just in case. I log back onto the computer and locate the Tor Browser.

"I wonder if this site is going to be like proof that ogres are real and have layers like an Onion..." Jonni remarks.

"Ogres aren't real, Jonni. Good lord." Tyler smacks his forehead.

"Those fans were really nice," Fabien remarks, rubbing lotion onto his hands. "Kinda odd y'know..."

"Yeah, I agree with that..." I say as I navigate my way to the forum, my attention focused heavily on the computer screen in front of me.

"Dude, Radim, look!" Jonni remarks, pointing to the screen, where a messenger-themed chat room website has come up. At the top reads 'Welcome to the Twisted Onions Forum'. Below it is some weird text that says, 'Feel free to discuss whatever you'd like here, heck you can even ask how to bury a dead body or just ask to be straight up kidnapped. Whatever you're in the mood for, my lovely fools.'

"My neighbor is very smooth and crunchy. That girl tempts me with her irresistible body. Again, tonight, I shall satisfy myself. Her parents are always out, to the girl's content..." I trail off as I read the latest post and turn to look in Spencer's direction.

"What the hell?" the captain groans.

Jonni reads one off now, "I know where you live. I will find you, and I will take you and do unimaginable things to you. Very soon, say hello to my dark basement." He smirks at the thought. "Kinky."

"That's disturbing," Spencer states.

"And who would want to go say 'hello' to a dark ass basement. Probably cobwebs and spiders and...just, yuck," Fabien comments, twirling a strand of hair around his finger. "You will not find me there!" He then leans forward toward the computer. "And don't you dare even THINK about it! I'll sick Katzy on you."

Tyler stares blankly at the screen, oblivious to the comment from Fabien about him.

A loud chime makes all of them jump as a new message is posted. Jonni reads it aloud to them all, "How does one clean up roughly a gallon of blood off a carpet very quickly before her parents get home?"

"Uh, Fabs, you might want to watch yourself, bro..." I say, speechlessly. This site is giving me really bad vibes, but it isn't like we can just stop and return to our normal lives. The hacker knows who we are, knows where we live and fear will stop at nothing to drive us to just follow the directions and play along in this sick, twisted game.

Hannibal's chat box pops back up in the corner. 'Enjoying the nice forum talk?'

"No," Fabien snaps. "Sicko!"

On the website, a few posts pop up. I notice one of them, the anonymous user asks for a video called Alex's Annihilation. I roll my eyes instinctively. Whatever that junk is...probably something disturbing like the rest of this crap...

Spencer shakes his head. "Close out of that now!"

"Why?" Jonni whines. "I wanna know about this video thingy!"

"Well I don't. If it's associated with the dark web, chances are, it's something really really bad."

A series of quick messages pop up next in the chat room.

"C'mon Finnikins, we might as well explore and get more of an understanding of the crap here if we're stuck...no sense in just staying idle and letting hacker boy have all the fun," Jonni urges. "Besides it'll probably get a hell of a lot darker, might as well get the feet wet now as we'll be heading that way soon enough."

Spencer sighs, tossing Jonni a glare. But he's not wrong. Soon there could be the unimaginable material and there was no escape. At least maybe if we played willingly, the hacker might get bored and eventually let us all go. It was worth a shot.

"I agree with Jonni," I pipe up. "Let's ask!"

Jonni spins to me and smiles. "Radimiekins has the point!"

Spencer sighs again. "What more damage can you both do...?"

The chat room lights up again with a new message from another user named 'PrettyGurl90.'

Jonni smirks and proceeds to read her message to everyone. "Hi! I'm a 15-year-old girl! Who wants to rape me and abuse me, and make me their slave?"

I blink and shake my head. Are you for real asking that?

Another message pops up as a response from a user named 'CarterTheRapist'. And of course Jonni reads this one, "What? Are you serious?"

The girl in the forum replies almost immediately in a calm excitement with: "Totally serious."

Carter the Rapist replies with, "Here's my number: 813-666-6666. Hit me up."

"What the hell is this? Okay, please, I'm asking nicely, as someone with the utmost respect for women, please go somewhere else," Spencer says, turning his head away and pinching his nose.

Jonni flexes his hands and decides to lean over me, typing in: "Link to Alex's Annihilation video please?"

There is a brief few minutes, before Hannibal's reply comes in the private chat box with, "There is no link for this. The true link, the original and only file remaining, lies in a single computer that is in the heart of New York City. You of course need a key and location. I shall send these via text to Jonni. But, you will only get it once you are in New York City. Central Park should be a good starting place."

And with that the chat box vanishes and the screen of my Mac goes black.