Art Walk: Peter and Annie Have a "Great" Day

     It wasn't everyday that Peter and Annie stumbled upon the entrance to the Underworld, and it certainly wasn't making their day any better.
     What they had planned to be a normal day, very quickly turn sour.  Peter and Annie had planned on hanging out at Peter's mom and stepdad's apartment to play video games and watch movies, but Peter's mom needed some flour and salt to make pizza.  She handed the two friends a twenty dollar bill and sent them on their merry way. They made it to the grocery store alright, they even managed to check out, but they barely got out the front door before trouble found them.  It wasn't like they went looking for it, but it always, without fail or a day off, found them.
     As soon as they walked through the sliding glass doors, the monster, or as Peter has so creatively named it, The Grocery Store Monster, picked them up and flew them over the city.  Peter and Annie were past screaming and struggling, but they did both pull out their respective sword (or pen, whatever you want to call it), and wickedly sharp dagger and start hacking at the talons and feet of the thing carrying them. Having no success with that, Peter looked at Annie for the plan.
     Annie shrugged saying, "I say we just hang on for this one.  If he drops us, then we're dead so we might as well wait till he puts us down."
     It took them all the way down to the coastline before setting them down, and as soon as it did, Peter and Annie were on guard, weapons at the ready.  But upon looking around, they realized that they had been set down surrounded by more of the hideous creatures.  They tried making a break for it, but as soon as they started running, they were being followed.  They each turned around and tried fighting off another before continuing their sprint from the scene.  Around the third turn and swipe, Peter actually caught one of the creatures off guard and managed to cut right through it's chest.  As soon as he did, the thing exploded, sending Peter and Annie soaring, again.  As they went, Peter recalled that he really did not like flying.
     They landed hard on some sand around quite a ways away from their original projection point, the fall knocking the breath out of the both of them.  It took a few minutes for them to sit up, and even longer for each of them to stand without falling back to the sand.  Not wanting to go back in the direction of the Grocery Store Monsters, Peter and Annie hobbled up the beach in hopes of finding people who could help them get back to the city, or at least a phone to call Peter's mom. They had been walking for about 20 minutes when Annie saw the glowing red strip and Peter insisted on investigating it.
     As they approached it, an eerie dread settled over both of them and Annie almost pulled Peter and turned around.  It was startlingly hot compared to the frigid air and they could hear moans coming up through the crack.  As soon as they were standing on the cracks edge they knew, they had found an entrance to the Underworld, and they had no plan of entering it, that was, until they were pushed.