A/N: Alright, I've been gone for a while and I deleted my first fanfic (why because it sucked). Now I haven't played Klonoa as of YET! But I read alot of info about the game and other stuff about it. Now there's not gonna be any romance between my OC and any of the Klonoa charcters (unless I change that but, I don't think I will)!
Disclamer!: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS OF KLONOA!!! I ONLY OWN HOLLIS AND ANY OTHER OCs!
Wonderland, Oz or, Neverland?
Written By: BadLuckCat
Chapter 1: This Can Not Happen!!
How could they? How could they do this to me?! The poor girl lied on the ground holding her stomach from all the beatings she was given by her father and remembering her brothers and even her own mother watching with delight. They would always watch. They always wanted to see her suffer in every bit of it. Why? Because they hated her. Why? Because they didn't want a daughter they didn't wanted a sister, they wanted a son they wanted another brother. But no, God wanted to give the Grime family a baby girl.
Hollis J. Grime was this girl's name; she is fourteen years her birth day is coming soon in ten more days. And she knows that something terror able is going to happen to her, something that would take something of her's she wanted to keep until she fell in love. She hated to admit but she was afraid that she will never love for she does not know what love is.
Getting up off the floor she started towards the bathroom to clean the wounds up. Her long wavy orange hair that was to her mid waist was messy and tangled from it being pulled. Taking her clothes off and stepping in the shower and letting the warm water touch her skin. As she sat down in the shower she listened to the 'pitter patter' of the water hitting her body. Her body was tired. She was tired, tired of her no….this abusive family.
After cleaning herself and putting fresh new clothes on, Hollis started heading to her room when she stopped at the old grandfather clock. The seconds went by as it was only five more seconds till it hit midnight.…5…4…3…2…1…BONG! 'Now its nine days till my birthday.' she thought to herself as she continued to get back in her room.
Shutting the door and heading to her bed and laying down to try and get some sleep. 'I have to get ready, tomorrow I have to go to church...' was her last thought as she drifted off to sleep.
Waking up from the morning sun beaming at her, in the face telling her 'its time to get up'. Opening her light brown eyes and rubbing the sleep out of them and began dressing for church.
Walking down the hall of the rickety old farm house. Going to the kitchen, seeing her family there frighten her. "Took you long enough." Said Mrs. Grime, from behind the kitchen counter.
Hollis remand silent, even if she answered or even said sorry she would get hurt physically or emotionally. "Well are you just gonna stand there and look like a fool or are you gonna come!" Yelled, Daniel, her oldest brother, who was seventeen years old.
As they we're on their way to church her mother kept complaining how Hollis was taking all the room in the car and how it would have been better if they never had her. All Hollis did was look out the car window and watch the other cars go by. 'It's y'all's own damn fault for wanting so many kids...' she thought to herself as they finally pulled up to the church.
At church it was even more worst because her whole family all wore a mask in front of others and the only real problem was that everyone thought they were good people. It disgusted her. How could they be so stupid and not even notice how unhappy she was around her family? She would always sit in the back away from them for they always sat in the front close to the preacher to seem like they we're really godly people. But almost everyone thought that Hollis was not very godly because she never smiled, never read any part of the bible aloud, and because she always strayed away from others.
They just don't understand. They would never understand of what pain she has to go through.
The preacher would sometimes ask Hollis questions. "But Brother Davidson, if I told you, you would not believe me." That was her only answer to one of his questions. She could trust the preacher sometimes but it was hard for her to trust him to tell the truth about her family and how they mistreat her. Because he might tell them and if he told them that means more beating or maybe her father might even do something worst to hurt her. She gulps at the thought. It would be terrifying, and more hurting to her then any other she ever thought of.
When church was over she walked outside into the cold air as it rushed past her and made her whole body shook from the cold. "Com'n kid hurry up." Said her twin brothers, Harry and, Samuel, following her family to the car. Both her parents got in first and then her twin brothers got in the back Daniel in the middle Derek next and then there once again was no room for Hollis. "Can you move other a bit, Derek," She tried to hide back the bitterness in her voice as he looked up at her. ", please?" She said as politely as possible for her.
"Now Hollis, don't you think it would be best if you walked home instead of making the car even more crowded?" Replied Samuel, with a smirk of wickedness, this was beginning to get annoying. Closing her eyes and trying to count to ten without exploding in a rampaging rant about how 'you better move it or I will rip one of your arms and feed it to the coyotes in the woods back behind our house'. And if that didn't work then she would begin cussing them all out. But Hollis knew if she did so, the consequences would be dear. It would most likely bring more misery to her life then she can handle.
So holding back her fierce tongue, she just squeezed her little frame into the small car as best as she could. After further more complains from her family she just began to daydream about a place take that would take her away from her worries. A place that would be wonderful and laying out in the sun without worrying about getting skin cancer or, the landscape would be breath taking. Giving her the time of her life where there would be adventures, friendship, and most importantly love. Love. Was that special word she would like to hear but, then again it sounded like a bunch of mush, which she did not want?
Sighing as they finally made it home, she quickly got out of the family car. As she got to the middle of the lawn she watched her family go in side. Standing infront of the small country styled house and watching the people that were inside stir around. This seems to take her some place else. She closed her eyes and smiling to herself, and imagines that place again. That is until her mother broke it. "Get in here you runt or I'll get your father out here and drag you by the hair!" Hollis stared into her mother's narrowed eyes, and saw that she would do it if she did disobey.
'How did I get myself into this mess?' Hollis thought as she scrubbed the floor in the hallway. Rinsing out her sponge, her brothers walked into the hall. Talking to themselves, hoping they wouldn't notice her and that they continue walking by. But it didn't happen. "Well, well, well. It seems little sissy is cleaning while we're gonna go out and have some fun." Taunted Daniel as he smirked at her then Derek began to speak. "Hey I have an ideal! How 'bout we 'help' little Hollies." The older boys looked at him with confused looks and then finally got it. "Oh yeah lets 'help'." Said the twins grabbing the bucket away from her, Hollis began to panic.
So after going though a lot of crap with her brothers, she had to clean the whole house again.
'Dumb bastards,' she thought to herself as she pours the dirty water out of her bucket and began to clean it out so it won't attract pesky insects.
After that was done Hollis, made her way up to her room, 'I gotta get to bed, I have school in the morning,' she thought to herself as she fell on her bed to sleep.
Waking up from hearing her parents speaking to themselves, Hollis began to eavesdrop on to what they were saying.
"I can't believe you're actually gonna do this!" Hiss her mother, "What's wrong, Lily? Afraid that I might like the girl's body more then yours?" Questioned her father as he sat on the bed, Lily Grime was not a woman to get her angry with. "Have you no shame!? She's just only turning fifth teen!" Lily screamed at her husband, well it's good to know that her mother is kind of on her side.
Mr. Grime just looked up at her and then he felt rage inside him. A woman should never raise her tone to a man!
Hollis flinched at she heard a banging sound hit the wall and her mother crying. Even though Mrs. Grime did hurt Hollis and be mean and make her do all the chores. Hollis was a little glad that she had her to sometimes talk her father from doing curtain things to her.
After all the noises stopped Hollis again tried to sleep for her sake but felled sadly. 'Great, now in class I'm gonna fall asleep.' Hollis thought to herself.
Hollis didn't wake up to the regular morning sun blazing on her face instead she woke to the rumble of thunder.
Slowly opening her eyes Hollis stretched and got out of bed to get ready for school.
Turning on the closet light Hollis pick her usual overalls and navy blue shirt. After slipping on the navy blue shirt and buttoning the buttons on the overalls. Hollis gathered her school supplies and headed down stairs to eat breakfast.
Seeing that her family wasn't awake yet wasn't odd for Hollis. She was always most of the time the first one up, because if she didn't get up before her family she would most likely miss both breakfast and the bus.
Walking to the refrigerator and getting out the eggs, butter, and bread. Putting the slice of bread in the toaster and getting out a pan and the grease. Hollis began to cook everyday breakfast.
After eating her breakfast Hollis cleaned up her mess. Hollis soon heard footsteps climbing down the stairs. She quickly grabbed her things making sure she had everything Hollis ran out the door to meet at the bus stop.
After two hours of waiting Hollis soon saw the bus coming from up the road and also at the same time she heard the footsteps of her four older brothers. Not wanting to look at them Hollis lowered her head to the ground.
When the bus pulled up Hollis was about to climb the bus stairs when she got pull and pushed to the ground by Harry, as the older boys snickered at this they then climbed the bus' stairs. The bus driver looked down at Hollis with pity but, quickly shielding it she as she then recovered her voice. "Um, hey kid hurry up and gather yourself up I have other kids to pick up too." Hollis got up off the cold rocky ground and dusted herself off and then climbed the stairs.
On the bus Hollis sat by herself, daydreaming to herself. As a small smile crept onto her rosy pink lips, Hollis daydreamt of that same world again.
She was in some place but she was younger and she was wearing a sundress that was yellow like the blazing sun. Spring flowers surrounded her and the sweet aroma filled her nostrils. Soon a there was someone beside her-
But it was all cut short when the bus came to a halt. The bus was soon in front of a high school. Hollis gathered her things and then headed to the high school.
Hollis was the youngest and smartest of the small high school. Because of this Hollis skipped 8th and 9th grade and was soon in her second year of high school. She made straight A's and was usually the goody, goody of the 11th graders. But in result to this smartness her brothers were jealous of her good grades and threaten many times that she better fell all of her classes or they would make her pull the fire alarm. At this threat Hollis has been keeping her grades a secret from her family. This was pretty easy for they never ask about her grades or rather anything at all about school and, she asked the teachers and principal if they could not present her name on any sheet of paper or announce her name for the honor roll. But the teachers had always given her the papers of her awards in private. And Hollis always kept these awards to herself and hid them from her family by putting them in a large leather box and digging a hole in the woods and every now and again when she got an award Hollis would sneak out at night on Saturdays and dig up the box and add another piece to her collection. But Hollis didn't know how long she could possible keep this up.
Hollis loved all of her classes and was classified as the little but cute nerd.
As Hollis sat in her last class of the day, she noted all the things she had to know for the up coming test. After severely minutes the bell rang and the students soon began to move out of their sets and head to the door. When Hollis was about to walk out the door Ms. Hedge her geography teacher began talking to her, "Hollis dear may I have a word with you?" Hollis looked over her shoulder at Ms. Hedge and nodded her head.
When Hollis sat down in her chair as the older woman sat a crossed from her. "Hollis dear, I've notice ever since you came to my class in the first semester. That you and your brothers seem to all have strange vibes." Ms. Hedge stated, Hollis looked at her geography teacher but said nothing. Instead she looked down at the ground looking at her feet. There was a long silent from the two females when Ms. Hedge broke it, "What I mean is that your bothers all have bad vibes. But you Hollis on the other hand have something very different from everyone else in this school." Ms. Hedge looked at Hollis for a few moments before Hollis began to talk. "Ms. Hedge, I'm afraid that you don't understand even though you say you would, you wouldn't. But I don't understand the 'vibes' you're talking about."
The older woman looked at Hollis for a few moments again until Hollis finally spoke. "I'm sorry to cut this meeting short but I have to leave now or I'll miss my bus." Hollis got out of the chair and walked out of the room.
While Ms. Hedge watched her youngest student rush out of the room she thought to herself. 'Oh poor dear Hollis, if only you knew that I knew about your parents. Especially of your father...' At that last thought Ms. Hedge slipped on her glasses and began to grade her classes work papers.
Hollis sat in her seat as the older teens sat in theirs'.
'Why must I turn home? Why can't I just go out of there and run away forever?' She lowered her eyes to her feet.