A/N: A story based on an RP with my dear friend. Surprisingly, this one isn't about a movie or cartoon, this is about a game that only a few people know. She saw the gameplay of this game a few days ago and I saw it last year in my Independent Study class with my friends in our teacher's backroom computers. We only own our OC's, mine will be introduced later. The OC being used right now is Lavender. Read & Review.
The sky was dull and grey as four people entered the art gallery. There were three females and one male. The little girl had long dark red-brown hair and was in a school uniform. The first woman looked just like the girl only her hair was up. And just like the youngest girl had red eyes and pale skin like them all. The other girl was younger than the first woman but older than the girl. She had grey-green eyes, and had black hair. She was wearing a black and purple spotted dress with black netting under the skirt to make it poof out a bit. Her hair was tied back with a lavender ribbon. Her name was Lavender.
The woman who was known as the young girl's mother was asking her some things as they were going to visit the art gallery this afternoon. As they were in, it was finally time to settle, explore and educate. "Well, we're here. This is your first time in an art gallery, right Ib?" she asked the young girl who was her daughter.
Ib turned to her mother to listen.
"We're here today to see an exhibition of works by an artist named Guertena, and they don't just have paintings, but also sculptures and all kinds of other creations! I don't doubt that even you'll enjoy it, Ib, remember to stay close to me, your father, or your friend, Lavender."
Ib nodded and looked up to the older girl who was like a sister to her.
Lavender turned her red eyes to look at Ib. "We'll be fine, right Ib?" she asked the girl, taking her hand. "Can we go ahead?" she then asked.
Ib's father looked at his wife and then the two girls. "Well, as long as you can stick together..." he consented.
"We'll go to the reception desk and get some pamphlets, we'll meet you girls later." Ib's mother added. "Just make sure you're quiet in the gallery, okay? Don't make a ruckus."
Ib nodded, not really speaking and clung to Lavender. She followed the older girl around the gallery to go exploring for themselves while the parents would be busy with 'boring grown-up stuff'. Lavender waved to her friend's parents. She walked along with Ib and pointed out the most interesting pieces of art work. She loved this guy's works, they could bring up so many emotions.
Ib was curiously looking at some of the plaques and tried to read some. She had some struggle though because she was young and didn't know certain words. She was only nine. She then saw a beautiful rose and went to look at it and saw a boy was anxious to pick some of the petals.
"They'll get mad..." Ib gently told the boy so he wouldn't do what he was thinking of doing.
Lavender nodded to the boy, agreeing with her sister-like friend.
"You're boooooring!" the boy told Ib and Lavender, then looked at the rose again.
Lavender rolled her eyes at the boy. She smiled slightly at Ib. "Shall we go and see the big mural on the wall?" she then asked the girl.
Ib went to follow Lavender to see the mural that a lot of people seemed to be enjoying. The one that was mostly being observed was 'Abyss of the Deep'.
"Is there a thing you'd like to see?" Lavender asked the younger girl.
"I think I saw these colorful dresses on the top floor." Ib suggested to the older girl.
Ib's parents had seemed to have left the desk and were now looking at some art like the other people inside.
"Okay, we'll go and take a look." Lavender grinned. She held the girl's hand both so she wouldn't get lost and so that they would stick together.
When they arrived they saw it was called 'Death of the Individual'.
Ib looked at the dresses. They looked so pretty and she wondered if she would grow up to be pretty enough to wear at least one of them, specifically the red one. She then saw a colorful painting that had some stray splatters of red, yellow, and blue on it titled some kind of World. As Ib came closer to that one, the lights flickered, and suddenly, everyone around her had disappeared.
The only other there with Ib was Lavender, luckily due to her holding Ib's hand. "Whoa, this is weird... Stay close, sweetie." she told the girl.
Both were shocked when writing appeared. 'Come to me, Ib and Lavender, come deeper and I'll show you a secret' it read.
"No one's around..." Ib said quietly, but followed Lavender. She was a little nervous and scared of what was going on. The atmosphere felt instantly freaky, some fruit fell from a painting, the entrance was locked, and there was those strange letters luring them. The girls were told to come down to someplace secret and there were blue shoe-prints on the marble white floor by the 'Abyss of the Deep'.
Lavender looked at the mural. "Come here." she said, offering a piggyback ride to the girl.
Ib climbed onto her neighbor's back and looked anxiously as they saw the blue smudges. It looked as though as Lavender was getting closer to the creation, they were being sucked into a different world. They were now in a deep blue room with one framed picture with red background and another one similar, but a lighter blue.
"Where are we?" the younger girl wondered.
"I don't know..." Lavender says softly. She kept the girl on her back and looked at the paintings.
"Look..." Ib pointed to a vase that had a red rose and next to it was a white rose. "Should we take them?"
"Well, they are pretty..." Lavender says, her voice gentle. She felt they should take them, that they were important. She took them both and handed the red one to Ib.
Ib kept the red one close, red being her favorite color. "I wonder where we are...?" she looked around their new surroundings such as a strange painting with a woman with long blue hair and something underneath the plaque.
Lavender walked over to the painting to read what it said on the plaque and underneath.
There was a warning about the roses on the plaque. Ib couldn't understand some of the words but collected the blue key that was under the plaque. "I wonder where this goes to?" she asked herself, nearly whispering, even though she was alone with Lavender.
Ib nodded and saw the blue door, it only made sense to use the key for that door. The girl used the key to open the door and she walked in to see a garden like room that had paintings of insects such as a ladybug, a bumblebee, a butterfly, and even a spider. "Beware of the edges," she read aloud a note that was in the room before they would furthermore explore.
Lavender placed the girl down a little. "Ib, stop there a minute..." she says softly, preparing to see why they would have to stay away from the edges.
Ib stopped and braced herself for the possible dangers. It looked safe for now, but what would indeed happen if they came too close to the edges they were warned to stay away from? Lavender, after making sure Ib was staying where she placed her, walked towards the edge of the gap between two walls. Ib cried as she saw some dangerous hands crept out to reach out for Lavender, but luckily, the older girl had dodged them. There were also two green doors where Lavender was right now. There was also a painting of an ant that looked removable.
Lavender looked relieved. She came back walking straight down the middle. "This way, sweetie..." she says and offered to give her a piggyback again.
Ib nodded and hopped onto Lavender's back. She looked around and tried not to panic from the clinging hands that were coming for them, but they didn't seem to be too long enough to successfully grab them and possibly kill them. Ib saw that Lavender had put the ant painting down to work as a bridge and they made it to the other side where the one green door was locked, but there was a green key where one of the dressed headless models were now in the room.
Lavender looked around carefully. She headed to find the key with Ib on her back. "Keep a hold..." she gently warns the girl.
Ib nodded and did as told. The key was so blended into the darker green floor that you could miss it if you weren't paying attention. However, Lavender managed to find it. Lavender grinned and picked up the key. She kept one hand holding Ib to her back and had her rose stuck in her hair while she picked up the key. She didn't notice the headless statue start to come to life.
Ib pointed anxiously as the statue was coming to life. "Lavender..." she whispered softly and slowly as the statue was slowly coming to life.
Lavender looked up and saw the statue. "Uh, just keep a hold..." she says softly. She planned to get past the statue quickly while keeping her friend safe.
The statue started to make its way to grab them and to destroy their roses.
Ib held on tight. As they walked past the ant painting, the statue that was after them fell through the painting, leaving a hole in it. "That was a little scary..." she said shallowly and wheezily from the sudden chase. This was no ordinary art gallery it seems.
"Don't... worry, sweetie..." Lavender pants. She gave a smile and held up the key. "Let's find the door to this key." she says.
Ib nodded. The girls had used the key to get into the new room and it appeared to be a giant cat-like figure with a fish-shaped hole in it with what looked like giant eyes staring not directly at them, but it was very noticeable. Ib was hoping they wouldn't be watched by it. There were two open walls on the sides leading anywhere, there were no doors.
Lavender looked both ways. "Which way should we go first?" She asks Ib giving the girl a chance to decide.
Ib hummed. "That way!" she pointed right which led to a room with a bunch of statues, some were full-bodied with a body and head, some were just heads, and some were headless with blue dresses. There also appeared to be boxes.
Lavender looked around. "Okay, we'll search for a key or that fish..." she says. She let Ib down. "We'll both search together." she suggests with a smile. She looked warily at the statues though.
Ib nodded, then looked around the room. She so far couldn't find anything as she looked through the boxes and strange statues. The lights flickered down suddenly, surprising her. Lavender took Ib's hand as the lights flickered. She had checked herself and was near Ib when the lights did that.
Ib came closer to Lavender as it was now pitch black in the room. "Nothing here..." she whispered.
Lavender held Ib safely close. "We should find a light switch..." she says quietly.
"Uh-huh." Ib agreed. "But where?"
Lavender started to carefully feel around for a light switch. Ib did the same and tried to stay put wherever she was so she wouldn't get lost, hurt, or in trouble without Lavender. Lavender kept a hold of Ib so she wouldn't lose the girl. She picked her up when something smashed, she then noticed something in the mess, a wooden fishtail. She picked it up.
"I wonder if that goes back there." Ib wondered, looking to see that the piece resembled a fish tail and remembering the fish-shaped hole that they passed on their way in here.
Lavender took Ib out of that room after they replenished their roses. She then let the girl down and walked along the next one. She still held Ib's hand as they walked along. Ib was surprised that the rose petals were like health to their life. If they got hurt, they would have to get new petals from the vases and they would be okay. She tightly held Lavender's hand as they were in a new room with strange buttons and a voice asked them if they wanted to play hide and seek. Whoever said it told them that if they found it, it would give them a prize.
Lavender seemed to like the sound of finding this stick figure. She looked at Ib "We'll have to be careful as we search..." she tells Ib.
Ib nodded and decided to carefully look. She shrieked as she pressed one of the buttons and it released a lightning bolt upon her. Luckily, the rose had protected her from the sting to kill her. She then went to see a crescent moon piece. The lights faded and it seemed it was now night.
Lavender made sure Ib was okay and looked at one. It was of a nude lady and she screamed before slapping Lavender, causing a petal to fall off.
Ib rubbed herself and looked in concern for Lavender. "Are you okay, Lavvie?" she asked in a hushed tone.
Lavender chuckled sheepishly. "Yeah..." she says quietly. She then made sure Ib was still okay. "Okay, I have a good feeling about this one..." she says pointing to the one opposite the lady picture.
Ib waited and the picture didn't harm either of them this time. Ib also saw a very sinister painting, but it didn't seem to jump out and get either her or Lavender.
Lavender went to the one she pointed to. It was the picture of the figure. "Well done, you get a prize..." she reads. She grinned at Ib, her red eyes sparkling.
Ib had a small smile. She felt like she had accomplished something worth winning. "Now, should we go to that other room?" she asked the older girl.
"Hold on a sec," Lavender says and went up to the top of the room with Ib and picked up the fish head. Both peices joined together. She handed it to Ib. "You can put this one in." she says with a smile.
Ib went with her to the room and put the pieces into the odd cat-like form before them. The eyes on the strange cat lit up and there showed another doorway to another room. Lavender walked along with Ib's hand in hers. She saw that they came up to a corridor and a picture was wagging its tongue at them.
Lavender looked disgusted. "Ib, don't touch it sweetheart..." she gently tells the girl. She went to look at a note a little way away from Ib.
Ib looked back at her and decided to do as she was told. There was a yellow smear on the wall warning them to "Beware of Lips".
"Just when you'd forgotten..." Lavender reads. She looked at Ib. "Shall we go ahead?" She asks, confused about the message.
Ib nodded in agreement. She was on her way to go down a hall with Lavender and winced as one of the grabbing hands came out. As they came to the end of the hall, there were hanging bodies from the ceiling much to their horror. Lavender had brought Ib behind her. She slapped at the hand for trying to hurt her almost-sister.
Ib looked and turned her head to see a yellow, unlocked door which was labeled, 'The Liar's Room'. 'Wonder what's in there?' she thought to herself, and looked ahead.
The hand 'squeaked' and drew itself back, making one of the bodies fall from the ceiling. It had actually been a doll and not a human body.
Lavender smirked at the hand. "Okay, we'll go in that room first..." she agrees.
Ib led the way into the room and looked with Lavender. There were framed portraits of people in colorful clothes and didn't seem at all dangerous. The paintings had hints about something, such as a speaker of the truth. Ib wondered what that could have meant and what it was all about. Some of the paintings agreed with one another and it spoke of a statue in another room to find an answer to something.
Lavender nodded as she tried to figure out the puzzle. "It's the brown colored one who tells the truth..." she tells Ib.
Ib made a mental note of the brown-clothed picture. "Stand in front of the statue, go east four steps, then north two steps, that's the answer". She tried to arrange it into her brain so she would remember and keep track and went with Lavender inside the yellow door and found the statue the paintings had told them about.
Lavender opened the door. "This seems okay..." she says softly.
There was a nearly all emptied room with just the statue. It appeared to be holding something in its hands. Ib then tried to remember the pattern she was told from the other paintings and went to find a tile. She tried to pull it up and had success! Lavender was outside the room, having wanted to not end up ruining things as it seemed only one was meant to. She saw the color wearing picture people were coming out and they all destroyed the brown wearing painting. They then returned and Lavender looked shocked.
Ib had came out after pulling up the tile. She had the code and memorized it in her head over and over so she wouldn't forget: four. That seemed very important to remember so she coached herself to think only but that. There were blood splatters against the paintings. They all said "Liar" to her like they had lost her trust or something.
"What's happening?" Ib sounded frantic about the paintings.
"Don't worry, sweetie..." Lavender says softly and took her hand gently and headed towards the exit.
Ib nodded. "I learned a way to get past that door by the dolls." she told Lavender in a hushed tone.
Lavender smiled slightly. "Come on, then..." she says softly and led the way holding Ib's hand.
Ib and Lavender came to the door as another doll dropped, but not harming either of them. As soon as Ib solved the password, there was a sound and they were able to open the door and saw a bunch of tree sculptures and one of them had a wooden apple.
"This is it?" Ib raised an eyebrow. "Just an apple?" she took the apple, wondering what it could be for.
"Didn't it say something about the lips?" Lavender asks Ib.
"It said to 'beware'," Ib remembered. "Maybe the lips need something to eat!" she held the apple close and went out the door, avoiding another doll on the ground and went to the lips with Lavender, a little nervous.
"Hungry... Give food..." the lips demanded, hungrily.
Lavender scowled at it's rudeness. "Give it the apple, sweetie." she says but kept her hand on Ib's shoulder to be ready incase she needed to pull the girl back.
Ib looked shyly back at Lavender, then gave the wooden apple to the lips.
"This tasty," the lips munched and was pleased by their gesture. "I let you pass now, go through my mouth." The mouth then opened ferociously wide, but they were able to walk in like it was another door.
Lavender took a deep breath but went through with Ib. She looked around as they entered the room.
Ib looked around too. She saw paintings of what looked like blades going higher and higher. They walked around and walked down the hall, but carefully dodged a real-life blade slamming down into the floor. Thank goodness they were lucky and smart enough to miss it. It was then going back up slowly and there was a set of stairs from the cracked edges. Lavender scooped Ib into a piggyback. She didn't want Ib tiring out.
Ib looked around as they were in a deep red room. Something appeared to have ran across the floor they were far from that was in front of a painting called 'Breath'. Curiouser and curiouser. "Lavvie, do you think we'll ever find a way back home?"
Lavender smiled. "Sure we will." she says. She would do all in her power to make sure that Ib would at least escape.
Ib looked around as they were now in a dull pinkish reddish room. There were colorful sculptures that had unusual titles and many of the paintings in this room related to the muscle known as the heart. Must have been a theme.