Fireplace

And so there they were.
Surrounded by the beasts that emerged from the fireplace. He knew it would happen after all, they shouldn't have stayed there, because they would eventually fall asleep, and that was all they were waiting for.
The plan was to keep one awake for each 2 hours. But it doesn't matter now, it was just too obvious that they would sleep sooner or later, why did they even try to follow such a stupid idea?
They couldn't even point out the guilty one since the three were probably too tired to know who was the one up to the guarding duty.
The room smelt brimstone. The creatures resembled gorillas with brass skin, their eyes were crinsom red. They resembled statues, static around them, with those fixed eyes. L looked at him, he just moved his head in an acknowledgment. L prepared his sword.
The three had their weapons in hand, yet no moviment from their foes. He tried to figure what was going on, it wouldn't be wise to attack first. Though wise or not, L went into one of the beasts.
He knew it wouldn't be possible to stop L now, he just got back to back with A, waiting for some kind of response from the gorillas. A was trembling, probably she was too afraid of all those stories of monsters coming from fireplaces.
All of a sudden, the gorilla aimed by L opened his mouth and yelled. It was a bizarre mixture of a war cry and a lament. L went to the floor like his legs got paralyzed. All other gorillas started to yell, the three tried to protect their ears but it wasn't any effective. The whole place got on fire, A and L seemed to disappear... voices in his mind, of things and situations he knew, strange carvings appearing on each gorilla's belly... he felt an urge to puke as the whole world seemed to twist in fire.
He closed his eyes.
And then it all began.