Bue and mal heard a click sound come from the door they had just come through after they had set D on the bed since he had gotten hurt. The click sound came right after D had turned his head, which they noticed and thought he was simply getting comfortable. Bue was the first to realize what he'd just done. "D did you jus-?" Mal looked confused until he looked back at D who had a sly grin on his face while bue ran to the door. It was locked as she started pulling on the knob and banging on the door. Mal ran over next, he snapped his fingers in the attempt to unlock it himself, didn't work, bue tried to summon a mirror to see if she could find manitoba, it didn't work. D laughed, "YOU PSYCHOPATH!" He continued to chuckle, "what a nice compliment, my bue…". She held on tight to mal with fear but then D coughed up a storm, they were raspy and you could tell he was in dire pain. Mal took the opportunity and summoned a pistol, he cocked it, took aim, and just as bue looked away, he fired immediately. D flew up his arm and in an instant, the bullet disintegrated. "Don't you two understand? I'M the one with the control here, with a snap of my fingers I can close the second portal, I can lock and unlock any door here, I and ONLY I can summon a way out of here! Haha!" "'Ya nutty li'l-!...I remember this place being fun….and the teddy bears….and the comfy huge bed. What happened to 'ya back in the room on mike's side?" Bue asked curiously, D looked away and coughed one more time. "Once you've been in the darkness for at least a year, light becomes your most painful weakness. It can be both psychologically and physically traumatizing, I can get over this within two days max! But...nonetheless….you're both here to stay…-". He chuckled again. "-Until the day that mike dies, correct?" Mal looked down feeling nervous and annoyed at how calmly bue was talking about mike's death, while, yes, it'll be many many years in the future...it still was something that tormented him. D winked at the two of them whom were right by the locked door, his expression showed no sign of emotion so bue assumed it wasn't about her or mal. Then the sound of powerful wind came from behind the door which, after a few seconds died down until it became mute. "What'd you do?!" He laughed maniacally as they guessed something horrible…. "The second portal's gone…". "Don't worry, you'll learn to like it here!" D grinned as the two shuddered and held each other in paranoia, worry, and fear. "I doubt it 'ya crackpot!" D chuckled while bue glared.
~Two years after the portal had been closed in the darkness~
"Tha' one kinda looks like a bunny holdin' cotton candy." "I see a fox with a bunny in it's mouth." Bue glared and D smirked. "'Ya know what I see?" Bue and D turned their heads toward mal with curiosity. "I see a ceiling covered in bullet holes." Bue glared at mal then threw an old mutilated teddy bear at him. The three had been lying down on the ground side-by-side, none of them could tell time anymore but their bodies still grew according to mike's so they had the body's of ten year olds, they couldn't tell the difference except in height. Mal and D were now 2 inches taller than bue, it made her feel like a midget which of course, they'd tease her about. Mal turned to D as he sat up and stretched, "hey D, how 'bout some Moonlight Tag?" Then bue turned her head to D, "we've been si'n (sitting) here fer almos' an hour now an' ma' legs're startin' to get numb." D sighed then looked toward bue, "half, crescent, or full?" "...Crescent." Bue told him, he snapped his fingers and the bullet hole covered ceiling became a night sky which was then illuminated by a large crescent moon. The boring dark purple, almost black floor turned into grass, bue smiled, same as mal. "Alright, same rules as last time…. 1,2,3, NOT IT!
NOT IT! NOT I-...dang it.." MAL'S IT!" D quickly snapped his fingers once more and they became surrounded by forest as the two dashed into the woods and split up. "Eenie meenie minie...mo! BUE!" Then he took to his left and began chasing after her. Bue noticed mal had taken her side, she had a feeling he'd follow her like a keen torpedo and so, she made a fast turn toward a large tree. "You really think I'm gonna fall for that one?!"Then D came around from where bue had gone, mal smirked and tagged him. Forgetting they were so close, D 'tagged' him back by pushing him to the ground, "CHEATERS!" "Hey, you know the rules…-". Mal gave an annoyed glare then blew up his hair flap. "-There ARE no rules!" Mal finished, right after D chuckled and ran off. But then mal got an idea, he snapped his fingers and the forest disappeared. "CHEATER!" Bue yelled and mal smirked. "'There ARE no rules!...Right D?" D moved some stray hairs toward his own hair flap, after a very small pause, D started running again and mal took after him for the trick he pulled. Mal made a large jump (about 30 feet in the air) there was the pure black silhouette of mal's body in the moonlight, as he started to go down and made his way closer to D he just continued having the smug look on his face. He ended up landing even farther than D, mal moved his leg over to the side, tripping D. Because he had made contact with even his leg he's it, mal rolled away on the grass then got up and ran toward bue. "I'm not it anymore!" She stopped and crossed her arms then looked behind mal to see D running after him, bue pushed mal out of the way as she ran towards D. She jump-kicked him in the face, leaving a bue shoe print then snapped her fingers and the room returned to normal. D was on the ground feeling dizzy. Bue sat beside him on her knees with an inspecting look, "the mark is so light as though I merely poked him, and he has no reaction when the tiny mark gets poked either!" "What's your point?" "I nee' new shoes! DUH!" She took off her worn out and dull black flats and threw them at the wall, waking up D. "I'm thinkin'...steel toed!" "NOOO!" "Oh hey, your back from your tiny kick to the face." "YOU GAVE ME NO WARNING!" "It's Moonlight Tag, you're not SUPPOSED to give warnings! Stupid!" With that, she snapped her fingers and her barefeet got big, laced, steel toed, combat boots that went up to her knees. She admired them with a smile. "Who wan's to be the firs' kick victim, hmmm? 'Ya know, to break 'em in?" They backed away slowly, "oooor...how 'bout this?" D snapped his fingers and a punching bag appeared, chained to the bullet hole covered ceiling, bue just paused and stared while rubbing her chin as if inspecting it for bombs that D would put in there as his usual cruel jokes. "Feel free to kick it all 'ya want." "Yeah, so that you won't kick u- OW!" D punched mal in the shoulder, then bue started kicking it. She jumped up in the air and began hitting and kicking it at light speed, mal and D got a little scared, "that could've been us!" D nodded reluctantly in agreement. After a while of just watching her 'break in' the new shoes they progressively got bored then D turned to mal. "Wanna play detective?" Mal shrugged, he took it as a yes. Snapping his fingers the room changed to that of some big city with one of the bigger teddy bears as the fake body, police tape surrounding it. Bue stopped kicking when she noticed she was kicking air. Mal snapped his fingers, giving everyone trench coats and old style paper boy hats. Bue tried to hide the smile that was coming across her face, D saw and smirked, "so...detective buena, what do you think was the cause of death?" She imagined a bubble blowing pipe as she walked over toward the police tape. "My guess is decapitation." "I'm betting on impalement." "Either way, the red fluffy stuffing is everywhere." "I know, such a sickening sight for teddy bears everywhere." Bue couldn't help but chuckle at D's last statement, D heard her and grinned, bue saw and quickly looked away, his grin turned smug. "Any thoughts on who the culprit might be?" Mal asked ignoring the two. "I have an idea o' who it is." Mal and D turned to bue after she spoke. "Every murderer nee's a hideout an' the killer is usually the person you'd leas' expec'!" D rubbed his chin after bue blew her pipe. "I think I know who you're talking about…". Mal said. "Hey look, a note! Whaddaya bet it's a clue?" D asked them. Bue paused, "I thin' so, D read it." D picked up the note and began speaking, mal and bue listened intently.
"You'll never catch me, for I am Letter 3 and I am back toward the glasses, you shall never depict the code for it is beyond you alone. 'What sinks but never sinks, and floats but never floats.'"
Everybody cocked an eyebrow in confusion, bue blew her pipe then looked at D. "D, 'ya made this world, so wouldn't 'ya have 'magined the letter, what's it mean?" He shook his head, mal giggled. "I guess we have a REAL...teddy bear murderer on our hands, right?" Mal told them with a chuckle, bue and D started to crack up and play along. "I suppose we won't be getting any sleep soon otherwise the stray doll will come after us." D remarked, grinning but then bue's face changed to scared, mal and D noticed. "You think it's one of them girly dolls, like the haunted kind?" She asked shaking. "What would a GIRL'S doll be doing here, do you really think D would imagine a Talky Tina?" (This being a particularly creepy Twilight Zone episode) Mal asked her, then laughed, same as D. "Haha, maybe to mess with you guys but a Sally Sunshine would go to sunny hell for me!" D chuckled, bue pouted, "when you guys were sleeping I was watching doll horror movies-" "-so now you're paranoid that a psycho killer doll is in the darkness that'll come for you…". Mal chuckled, as well as D. Bue pouted then got mad and stomped on D's foot with her steel toed combat boots, she smiled that she finally got a chance to use them 'properly'. D started hopping on one leg with his right foot in his hands, mal laughed until he got kneed in the gut by bue, the two fell to the ground in pain. Bue snatched the note from D and blew her pipe once more. "What floats but never floats...and sinks but never sinks….". She reread then began slapping it against her hand to try and think. There was a long sidewalk, after D and mal got up they saw bue headed down the walkway then ran after her. They noticed, when they caught up, that bue was very heavily wrapped into the note obviously in deep thought, she didn't even see the boys run up not even when they started speaking. "'Ya think something's wrong with her, I've been reading her mumbling lips and she's read the note 8 times and counting!" Mal told him, D smirked. "She's just getting interested in the game, duh!" He taunted, mal looked annoyed then he reread the note. "How could 3 be a letter-?" "-It's either the name of the killer or a proper noun." Bue answered with no emotion, the two boys were a little surprised that she spoke but started thinking about the note too. "What about the 'glasses' hmm, detective buena?" D asked, a light bulb shot up from bue's head. "THE MIRRORS! MIRRORS ARE MADE OF GLASS!" "He said glassES...meaning plural so it's not just one mirror but a bunch instead!" Mal exclaimed. D looked down, understanding where they'd need to go but still pitched the idea,"the mirror room." Mal turned his head, half frightened as he remembered what had happened. While the memory was distant it had still been burned into his mind, when D showed weakness to him, all three of them have pride of unimaginable feats, D showing any sign of that dwindling was a moment that deserved a spot in the history book. D read his thoughts, remembering himself crying and tried to knock the thought out of his head by thinking about bue. This usually helped him when he'd get mad or something even though he'd never show it. D looked at bue who was still trying to figure out the rest of the note by mumbling the words several times. She turned to D, "hey D can 'ya change it back, I know where to look!" D snapped his fingers and the room changed back, bue smiled. D still looked a little grumpy but let up after seeing bue's kind expression. "Well then, let's find the teddy bear murderer! Follow me!" D laughed fakely, enough to fool bue but obviously cracked a little bit halfway which mal payed mind to.