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Angel here! So, like I last said in that author's note at the end of GFA, the sequel is being really pushed out. With some editing (that might continue on into the actual sequel) of the first story, my Bendy story picking up speed with chapter 4's release, my Danganronpa story-you get it. I'm a busy person.
Not too mention normal life stuff too. So while I'm running around like mad with tire machines and trying to wrap up a murder game with a sadistic teddy bear, I figured this was a good way to continue on with the spirit of Gravity's Fallen Angel. Behold: a collection of different ideas, one shots, and other junk with our favorite teen, triangle, and pairs of twins.
"Speaking"
Thinking
Floating. That's what I felt like. Floating, and... warmth. N-no, not warmth. It was... a middle ground. Warm, and cold, all at the same time. I blinked away the heaviness on my eyelids, lifting a surprisingly sore hand to my face and rubbed my eyes tiredly, pushing my glasses around. It felt as if my entire body, my entire being itself, was on fire. Burning, with energy that wasn't my own, and leaking out from inside me. Torching, and blazing away at my skin. Wh... why am I so... in pai-?
I was... not in my room. Or, better to be technical, I was not in a real place. If I had to call it, I would say a living nightmare would be the best term. A swirling sea of bright colors churned around me, with lightning crackling around and striking the meteors that drifted by. Gravity was... lacking. In fact, there was nothing holding me there in place. I myself was floating in the air, the oxygen rich with... the smell of burnt hair? The heck...? At least I understood that weightlessness sensation when I started coming to now.
"This is... this is just a bad dream," I mumbled. My outfit, a pair of green shorts and a dark blue tank top bobbed slightly where the fabric didn't cling to my skin, and my long brown hair flew up over my head. "Y-yeah. I'm just dreaming. Wake up, Elaine. Wake up. Wake up." I pinched my arm, but all I got was another ache to my already damaged bo-wait, what!?
My arms... th-they were burnt. Raw. Strips of skin, on them, and my legs, showed possible second degree burns. Scratches also littered them, with several large purple bruises to boot. My clothes were stained in red, and to my relief, it appeared as though my bleeding had ceased at the moment. Why the heck am I looking like this? Wh-why am I looking like I just came through a war zone!? I shook my head, trying to rid myself of worst case scenarios, and looked around again.
There was nothing else around for miles, and I rolled back and forth repeatedly while trying to maintain a normal position. I wasn't flipping, but I was very close to it. My legs would shoot out from underneath me, and I would swing my arms around rapidly like a madman to correct myself.
I was known for having many weird, bizarre, and twisted dreams. Losing my teeth was a common theme, and having them pulled out to reveal misshapen and bloody sets instead. Then there was the glorious one where the entire county caught fire, and I was in a desperate and tearful rush to escape before I too caught ablaze. This, though... there was no way my imagination could have created, have spurned... such a nightmare. And the pain. The pain was far too real to be considered lucid dreaming.
Small, wispy trails of crimson floated up from a few still bleeding gouges on my arms, having been stretched during my panic to stay upright. "O-okay... j-just focus, Elaine. Think. You're... injured, bloodied, and somehow able to breathe in a foaming mass of horror." It could have been worse, I suppose. "At least... at least I'm alone in he-"
A roar. A roar that shook the asteroids around me, and even rattled my floating form and rocking through my very being, came from off in the distance. It was a melody of terrible sounds. A demonic choir, a mixture of howling, combined with the sound of sharpened claws raking against a chalkboard. I slapped my hands to my ears, shrieking in pain. It hurts! My ears are bleeding! I hoped they weren't. I already lost enough blood.
N-now that I thought about it... I was a little lightheaded. I... I need somewhere to rest. Pronto. If I didn't hurry, there was a chance I... I could... no. None of that. I had to focus, and hurry.
The howling ceased, and I breathed a small sigh of relief. Lowering my hands, and finding them free of any fresh blood, I began to move my hands forward. I figured mimicking a swimming motion would be the best choice. Doing an awkward breast stroke, I moved forward. Gently, I swung my legs and paddled through the air. Was it air? I could breathe, and it didn't seem dangerous. Though, there didn't seem to be any form of vegetation in this place.
Travelling was lonely, and I began to quietly hum to myself in attempt to occupy myself and avoid fearing for whatever I had previously heard. "It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all," I sang. "It's a small world after all. It's a small, small world." The air seemed... different now, then when I first woke up. Heavier, and... sour. There was a feeling of something like death in the air, and I drifted to a halt.
I couldn't run. All I could do was float, and trying to move any faster would create more blood loss. You're fine, Elaine. You're fine. You're fine. You're... you're... "dead." The word left my lips in a whisper, as my hazel eyes moved up. High, high up. "I'm... dead."
Nightmare fuel. This, was absolute and complete nightmare fuel.
A massive monster made of cleaned raw muscle, the stuff that was supposed to be under your skin, was twisting and curling around the air in the kaleidoscope of confusion I awoke in. Its entire body radiated a glowing yellow aura, and it got bigger and bigger towards the front like a snake. It reminded me partially of No-Face from Spirited Away. But much, much more horrifying. The monster's tail-end connected to something behind it I couldn't see from my angle. Inky black arms branched off its body, supporting itself on other meteors due to its sheer size. Shiny, slimy arms, like tentacles. At the front though… enormous, jagged yellow fangs the size of a full grown man, lined where its mouth might've been, if it had one. It didn't seem to have any defined features. It was just a mash of different muscles shoved together without reason and order. I counted at least two long slippery black tongues wagging around it on either side of its face,, and I almost felt my heart jump out of my throat.
Its eye… it was like it was looking through my soul, even if I was out of the way. It was at least as big as a truck, maybe even bigger. Black veins ran out of the eye, and back into the muscle around it. A shining slit yellow pupil, surrounded by a sea of empty black.
The eye maneuvered around, the pupil not bound by normal laws and observing everything around it. Until finally... it locked onto me.
"... OH, CRUD!" I screamed, as the monster began to use the meteors around us to slither towards me, shoving them aside with such force they were sent flying behind them. Growls erupted from its maw, and I paddled as fast as I could, slipping around the space rocks for dear life. Where could I go? Where could I go? Where could I go!? My mind repeated the question like a broken record, until-"there!"
A meteor, with a crater that was much deeper than what would consider normal. It-no. Not a crater. A cave. An escape. Breathing deeply, I slipped around the meteor, and doubled back, throwing myself inside just as the monster caught up to me. Once I was far enough in, gravity chose to kick back in. Hitting the dirt and dust in a thump, I scrambled to hide behind a boulder.
My filthy hands slapped over my mouth and nose, smothering my pants in an attempt to hide myself. Peering around a corner nearest to the cavern's wall, I watched as the giant glowing eye peered inside. The slit pupil rolled around, examining every nook, every cranny for me, but when it saw nothing, the beast backed away with an annoyed snort. I watched it crawl away, but not before I caught sight of something... odd. Something that didn't really make much sense.
There was a top hat floating directly above its head.
"The heck... was that?" My voice finally found itself, and I began to crawl back further into the tunnel. The rocks dug into my palms and knees, and while I winced through the pain and knowing how infected these injuries would get, I was more centered on what I just went through. There I was, trapped in a world-no. This wasn't a world. This was a different dimension entirely. "Where... G-Gail... where are you? Wh-where am I...?"
Shuffling. I whipped around, throwing my arms behind me to keep myself low to the ground as a light suddenly ignited a few feet from me as the ground dipped a little. Faces of fear, concern, and anger were cast in the warm glow, and shadows were thrown around us. Their clothing was tattered, and badly stitched up. But... but I did notice one highly important fact. N-no one was human. None of them. But... but it appeared that, just like me... we were all victims in this game. This game of cat and mouse, brought upon by that monster. That... demon.
My breathing became shallow, and the room began to spin as my head slumped to the cold dirt. Their eyes widened as they took in my state, and I could only pray now that they would do something to spare my life, instead of cutting it short. "H... h-help... me..." darkness overtook my vision, and with that, I was lost to the outside world once again.
Well, that was the first chapter. Size will remain small, as it's a general idea to pass the time while I focus on every other story and rewriting. Updates should be one-two weeks, I'm guessing.
Also, for the really dedicated people who have parts of GFA memorized, I took Bill's description from that chapter and edited it for this moment. Sort of hard to really describe it better than I already did.
As you can tell, the idea we have first is Elaine winding up in the Nightmare Realm instead of Gravity Falls. I have eight different ideas created for this story in general, and there might be scenes that never made it to GFA thrown in as well. There's a lot of potential for this, and I hope you all enjoy it.
In some cases, I'll let you know if an event is actually canon to the story or not. After all, I'll be making an AU of an AU.
Until next time!
Angel
