Me: Sup guys? I'm back, with yet another Zeruto fanfic. Jeez the only pairings I write for is Zeruto or Spamano. I really need to get creative, seriously, bros, but I had this idea buzzing around my head for weeks and I'm like, Why not? I highly doubt anyone is gonna review on this, cuz no one reads crossover fanfics anymore. ; ^ ;
Anyway, this is based off an RPG game called Ib. Don't know what it is? GOOGLE IT. GO TO YOUTUBE AND LOOK UP A WALKTHROUGH OF IB. RIGHT NOW.So you at least get what the hell is going on. But if you do know what it is, good. I will do the Promise of Reunion ending and the Forgotten Portrait ending as an alternative ending.
Ikuto: Okay, we get it. Quit rambling already.
Me: Shugo Chara belongs to Peach Pit, Vampire Knight belongs to Matsuri Hino, and Ib belongs to Kouri
Enjoy!
Chapter 1. Damned Art Gallery...
Ikuto's POV
"Ikuto, please?" Utau begged, looking up at me with puppy dog eyes.
"No. I'm not going to some stupid art museum. Amu's going with you, why do you have to ask me?"
"Because it'll be more fun with the three of us. Pleeeeeease?"
I sighed."If I say yes, will you stop bugging me?"
Utau just looked up at me with her puppy dog eyes again.
"Fine."
*timeskip*
"So why are we here, again?" I asked, clearly uninterested.
"We're here to see the works of an artist named Guertena. " Amu explained. "Not only they have paintings, but they have sculptures and other stuff as well."
"I've always admired Guertena. I can't believe I'm seeing his artwork up close!" Miki, one of Amu's Charas, exclaimed.
Speaking of Charas, you guys are probably wondering where Yoru is. Well, yea...I kinda ditched him.
I shoved my hands in my pockets, feeling the hankerchief my mother gave me. Shut the hell up. I know, carrying around a hankerchief isn't what guys typically do, but I carry it around anyway. It feels like I have a piece of my mom with me.
"I'm gonna look around." I said.
Both Amu and Utau gave me surprised looks. "Uhm, okay. Just be careful." Utau said.
So I explore the gallery for a good 2 hours, not really finding anything interesting. Though I have to admit, Guertena's artwork is quite...different. And by that, I mean creepy. Especially the headless statues that remind me of Power Ranger suits for some reason. And don't get me started on the "Lady in Red" painting. I noticed a silver haired boy looking at the "Hanged Man" painting, but I didn't pay him any attention. I went into a room that had a huge mural hanging on the wall.
I read the title. "Fabricated World? That's a weird title."
Suddenly, the lights flickered on and off before turning back on.
'Probably just a power outage.' I thought.
Then I noticed something strange. The museum was quiet. Too quiet. I walk around the museum and there's no one around. At all. I try to open the door, but it was locked. I groaned. Great, I'm trapped in an art museum all alone. A bit freaked out, I go back to the "Fabricated World" painting. This time, there was blue paint leaking out of the frame. Red letters were stamped on the floor, spelling out "Come Ikuto." I look at the blue paint again and there was text this time.
'Come down below, Ikuto. I'll show you someplace secret~'
I go downstairs to the first floor. Strangely enough, the ropes surrounding the huge floor painting were torn and there were blue footprints near it. No way, I can dive into a painting? It's like someone wants me to jump in. I closed my eyes and reluctantly let myself fall into the painting. The weird thing was, it felt like diving into water. When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a blue room. I turn right to find a door with a table and on the table, was a vase with a red rose in it.
'It's pretty.' I thought, though I'd never say those kind of things out loud.
I take the rose from the vase, not knowing what else to do. Then I pushed the table out of the way and opened the door. There was a painting of a smiling woman on the wall and a blue key on the floor. I had a feeling I would need the key, so I grabbed it. Suddenly, the painting changed. The woman had a creepy, twisted smile, her eyes showing nothing but insanity. Alarmed, I quickly left the room. There was the word "Theif" written in red all over the walls.
There was a note on the wall that said 'If the rose wilts, you will wilt away, too'
"What the hell does that mean?"
Going back to where I started, the stairs I came in through were gone.
I sighed, "Guess I gotta go left."
Walking the other way, I found another blue door at the end of the hall. I twist the knob but the door was locked. Then I remembered the key I picked up earlier. I unlocked the door with the key and walked into a green room. Another note was on the wall.
'Beware of edges.' it said.
Not knowing what it meant, I continued walking down the corridor. Suddenly, a hand popped out of the wall, pulling a few petals off my rose.
"HOLY SHIT!" I screamed (manly scream, mind you)
I ran to the other side of the hall and as I did, more hands popped out of the wall. I felt a bit of pain in my arm, so I pulled up my sleeve.
"Shit." I cursed, looking at the gash in my arm.
I rolled my sleeve back down, ignoring the wound. There was an ant painting hanging on the wall and it looked like you could take it off, so that's what I did. I went back to the other side of the hall, carefully avoiding the hands. Turning left, I found another door which led to a room with a large crack on the floor and a door at the other side.
'Ah, I can put the ant painting on the crack and walk across it.'
So that's what I did and it worked. Though, I somehow ended up crushing the ant in the painting. Sorry about that.
The door lead to another room that had a green key on the floor and a headless statue. I picked up the key and suddenly, the headless statue started walking towards me. Panicking, I ran back into the other room, walked across the ant painting, and ran back to the room on the other side. I heard a crashing noise from the other room, so I cracked the door open and peeked inside. There was a hole in the ant painting, so I'm guessing the statue fell through it.
Walking down the hall for the third freaking time, I used the key to open the door on the other side. The next room had a wall that looked like freaking Totoro and there was a fish shaped hole in the wall. Going into the room on my left, there was a painting of a stick person and under it said 'play hide and seek?' Then the stickman disappeared. Guessing, I pressed one of the buttons, revealing a picture of a moon. Suddenly, the lights in the room got dim. I pressed another button. A girly shriek filled the room. The painting was of, well... My reaction ahould say it all.
"Holy shit, it's a naked lady!"
A hand came out of the painting and slapped me in the face, causing more petals to fall from my rose. Taking another guess, I finally found the stickman.
'You found me. You get a prize.' was written under him.
I heard something fall on the other side of the room. It was a wooden fish head. I picked it up and went to the other room on my right. It was just a few statues and art supplies. There was a vase filled with water. My rose was missing a few petals, so I'm like, why not? I put my rose in the vase and it returned to health within seconds. I looked at my arm to see the wound completely healed. Then I remembered the note from earlier.
'If the rose wilts, you will wilt, too.'
Now I understand. My life is connected to the rose somehow, so if it loses it's petals, I get hurt. So does that mean I'll die if the rose loses all of it's petals? Why didn't I realize this sooner?
I heard something moving behind me. I turned around to see one of the statues moving towards me. It fell to ground, breaking into pieces and inside it was a wooden fish tail.
"So I'm guessing you put the fish head and tail together." I said, talking to no one in particular.
I went into the other room and put the fish in the fish shaped hole. The wall made a meowing noise and opened up a path leading to yet another room. There was a painting of a face moving it's tounge. As I walked closer to it, the painting spits at me.
"Ugh! For fuck's sake, man!" I yelled at the painting.
Next to that painting, there was a picture of nothing but white. I looked closely and saw a small red number nine. There was another corridor. I walked through it cautiously and sure enough, more fucking hands came out of the walls. There was a door with a sign that said, 'Liars' Room.' Nothing special about it. Just a bunch of paintings of women and another door.
I looked at the one in blue. "The only truth-speaker wears green!" It said.
I walk over to the one in green. "Stand in front of the statue, go west four steps, the south one step. That is the answer!"
"Well, this is called the Liars' room. I'll check the other ones."
"I agree with the one in yellow!" the red one said.
The yellow one says,"The one in white speaks the truth!"
"Stand in front of the statue, go east two steps, then south two steps. That is the answer!" The one in white says.
I looked at the one in brown. "Stand in front of the statue, go east four steps, the north two steps. That is the answer!"
"No one is agreeing with you, so you must be telling the truth." I said.
I go into the other room. There was a statue in the middle of the room. I stood in front of it and walked right four steps then up two steps. There was a loose tile, so I picked it up. It had a purple number four on it. I suddenly heard crashing noises. I ran back into the Liars' room to see all of the paintings covered in blood. The one in brown was badly damaged and the other paintings were holding bloody knives, all of them calling the brown one a liar.
How more fucked up can this get?
I walked out of the Liars' room back to where I came from. There were dolls hanging from the ceiling to my left. I felt like they had a clue so I checked all of them. One of the dolls had a green number eighteen on it. There was another door at the end of the hallway. Appearently it need a password to open it. There was a sign that said "Red x green + purple = ?"
"Oh I get it. Nine times eighteen plus four is one hundred sixty six, so the password must be one hundred sixty six!"
I heard the door click. I walked into a room with a tree sculpture in it. There was a wooden apple hanging from it, so I took it and left the room.
'What the hell am I supposed to do with a wooden apple?'
Nothing to do on this side of the room, so might as well check out the other side of the room. I found myself walking through the corridor of hell again and another hand pops out of the wall, startling me.
Seriously, what's with corridors and hands?
Turning left, I saw a sign that said, 'Beware of lips.' I kept walking and found a pair of lips attached to the wall.
"Hungry...Give food...That food...Give to me..." It said.
Okay, does this thing have mental issues?
I took the wooden apple and practically shoved it in the mouth.
"This tasty...I let you pass now. Go through my mouth." The mouth opened wide enough for me to go through.
"I don't trust this thing..." I shrugged. "Oh well, there's no other way to progress."
I went into the mouth, which led me to another room. With paintings of...guillotines. There were stairs on the other side, but when I got close to them, I sensed something was gonna fall on top of me. I quickly dodged out of the way before the giant guillotine could slice me in half. When it went back up, I quickly ran down the stairs, scared to death.
And so my epic adventure to a fucked up art gallery where all of the artwork comes to life and attacks me continues...
Me: *stretches* Ahhh, done! Don't worry guys Ib/Ikuto will meet Garry/Zero in the next chapter and Mary/? will come later. I have this weird feeling no one is gonna review, so if I don't get any reviews, I'll delete this story and turn it into a SebSea instead.
So if you really like this story so far, drop a review and I'll continue it! ;)
