Ruby took a seat by the dressing table and looked at herself in the mirror. She never got a good look at herself till now. Her skin was as pale as snow and her red hair was short and messy. There also seemed to be stitches around her eyes and had freckles on the bridge of her nose. And just to complete the description, she had a black dress, with red and yellow striped stockings, and black shoes.
'What did Gregory mean by "forever"? Was he just joking, knowing I would hear it? Or was he planning to kill me in some way? Maybe I'm over thinking this.' Ruby kept having thoughts like that for most of the night as she waited for sleep to take her. There were no dreams, just darkness, as she slumbered. Until she heard something.
"Wake up. Wake up. Please wake up. Please"
Ruby woke and look down from her bed. She saw a small sheep, wearing blue and white stripped pajamas, sleeping on the floor. He was saying 'wake up' over and over again, maybe he was having a nightmare. She gave the sleeping form a poke and...
"AAAGGGHHH!
The sheep woke up. He looked around and saw Ruby on her bed. "Sorry. I was having... a very noisy dream. Kept hearing the same thing over and over again."
"Hello." Ruby gave the sheep a smile but he just stared and gave a yawn. "I'm Ruby. What's your name?"
"Sleepy Sheep." the sheep yawned. "Gregory said I can sleep here tonight while room gets fixed."
"That was nice of him."Ruby giggled. Her eyes began to wander before realising the room was missing something. "There's no clock here."
"A clock? I think there some clock people around here that have clocks. Gregory might know where they are."
Ruby didn't know if that was a good idea trusting the rat now, he did seem very strange with that last word, but Sleepy fell asleep again before she could ask to come with her. Against her better judgement she walked out of the room while Sleepy had the dream again.
As Ruby walked down the corridor, she started to hear a small jingle and it was coming closer. She saw two lights, one pink, and one gold. When it got closer, she saw some scales attached to an orange box and orange and purple striped pyramid with the word 'THE JUDGEMENT DAY' attached to each other. She step out of the way as it zipped by singing its jingle.
"Do you know, who I am? They call me, Judgement Boy."
Ruby watched it go as she walked through the hall. She should've watched where she was going though.
"Ow! Watch where you're going Senorita." She bumped into a cactus girl with green braided pigtails. She wore a blue dress, a cow skin patterned vest and an orange sombrero. And on her face, an annoyed expression.
"Sorry about that Miss..."
"I don't care. You're just lucky it was not my brother and you're a girl. Otherwise he'll duel you at sunset."
"Okay." Ruby replied nervously at the hostile girl. "Do you know where the clocks are?"
"The Clock Master? Yeah I know where he lives. He's downstairs near the back."
"Can you take me to him?"
The cactus thought about it for a bit."Okay. No funny business." The two went down the stairs and made their way to the Clock master.
"I'm Ruby by the way." The cactus just ignored her. "What's your name?" Still more silence."Have you been staying long?" Every question Ruby asked was just met with silence. Before she made another attempted, the cactus stopped and took out a lasso.
"Quiet." The cactus glared down the hall, the sound of weeping echoing through. "She's coming. Stay back. When she comes closer, I'll tie her up and we can get pass her."
"What are you talking about?"
"The Lost Doll."
A small figure was walking down towards them. She looked like a little girl with red pig-tails and a dark green dress with blue and yellow patches. "My dolly? Where's my dolly?" She said with a teary-eyed expression. Ruby saw the girl and walked over to her.
"Senorita! What are you doing? Get back!" said the cactus.
"It's just a little girl." Ruby replied and then turned her attention towards the 'Lost Doll.' "What's wrong? Are you looking for something?"
"My dolly. I want my dolly."
"Don't worry I'll help you find her." Ruby kneeled down and put a hand on her shoulder. "What's her name?"
"Katie."
"Do you know where you put it?"
The doll shook her."No. I've looked everywhere for her. Where is she? Where is my..."
"DOLLY!"
All of sudden. The little girls head turned around and was replaced by a blue one, with yellow eyes and pointy teeth. Ruby fell on back in shock and tried to crawl away as the girl float towards.
"How are you going to help find help find something that's not missing? I'm the doll she's searching for and will never find!" Lost Doll started laughing manically. But then the cactus girl threw her lasso around the doll and slammed her to the ground knocking her out. The cactus approached Ruby and gave her a glare.
"I told you to be careful." When Ruby got back on her feet they continued on their way. After a while Ruby was giggle for some reason. "What are you laughing about?"
"Sorry. It's just she played a really good prank on us."
"A prank?"
"You know, putting us in a false sense of security and then BOOM! Gives us a scare."
The cactus didn't say anything else for the rest of the walk until they made it to the Clock Shop.
"Daddy, Daddy! We got guests!"
A small clock boy with a nose bleed and a golden clock key on his head, wearing a white shirt, black trousers with black suspenders and a black bow-tie. He ran over to an older clock man with a purple vest instead of suspenders and two clock hands making a mustache.
The two girls were in front of a room filled with objects to measure time. Hour glasses, sun dials and even digital clocks.
"Hello young ladies. What brings you to my workshop?" asked the older clock.
"Nothing from me. Buenos días senorita." Answered the cactus and then walked away.
"I'm looking for a clock." Ruby said. "There wasn't one in my room."
"Well you come to the right place. For I am Clock Master, ruler of time and I have a wide collection of clocks for you to choose."
"Can I find the perfect clock for her daddy?"
"Of course My Son." The little clock happily looked through the shelves and found a miniature grandfather clock. It was painted dark blue like the night sky, even had little white dots for stars and the base was purple. The face was white and had two dots and a curve drawn on it making it look like a happy moon.
"It's perfect. " Ruby said happily.
"Hope you enjoy it. After all, time is..."
"Wait daddy." The boy cut in. "We have to see if it's working before we give it to her."
"Ah yes My Son. My age must be getting to me if I forgot something as important as that. Wind it up."
"Okay daddy." As the clock boy wound up the clock, he found it couldn't move. "huh, must be a jam inside." he attempted to open the door to the pendulum but it was also stuck. "I can't get it open."
"Sorry, but I'm afraid we'll have to take the clock out back and fix it. Would you like a different model while we repair it?"
"Sure. Thanks anyway." Ruby took a regular clock and made her way back to her room.
As soon as the clock room was out of sight she heard laughter coming from behind her. As she turned around, she got pushed down to the floor. Luckily the clock was fine. When she got up, she turned around and gasped at what she saw. It was a little dog wrapped in bandages and was wearing a red shirt with blue dungarees. But what really got her attention was the cleaver that was in the middle of his head.
"Sorry lady. I wasn't looking where I was going." The dog went closer to Ruby. "Are you okay?"
"Am I okay? Are YOU okay? Your head. There's a...a..." the dog cut her off before she could finish.
"Now that you mention it, I do have a nasty headache. I think I may have a cold or something."
"Maybe an axe in your head."
"Now that's just silly."
Ruby didn't know how to react to this one. He was paying no mind to the open wound his head, even though it was still bleeding. It was then she remembered that she had to find the nurse. "Say, uh, what's your name?"
"Mummy Dog."
"I'm Ruby. Do you know where the nurse's office is?"
"Oh. Yes, yes. It's right next to you." She looked to her left and indeed, the nurse's office was next to her. Dog took a peek inside. "Nobody's in there right now."
"Can you do me on small favor?" Ruby asked Dog.
"What?"
"Can you please take this clock to my room. It's room 205." She gave Dog the clock and he hurried off to her room.
"What a lovely little rascal isn't he?"
Ruby turned around and saw Gregory. "Yeah he is." Said Ruby. "The other guests are quite...interesting."
"Well, we do attract the most, shall we say, colourful of people." Gregory chuckled at that. "We're all friends here. Like a big happy family."
"How long have some these guest been living here?" Ruby asked. She wanted to be sure he wasn't serious about the 'forever' thing.
"Why for as long as I can remember. Most came here with nowhere to and nobody to go back home too. They love it here so much they want to stay. And I let them."
"huh. So what's the nurse like?"
"Oh. You'll love her. She really likes new patients. Of course she and the doctor don't see heart to heart."He then walked past her and continued on his way."Anyway, I hope you enjoy your stay. We don't anyone fighting in our family." And then he was gone with a sinister chuckle.
How to run a rollercoaster.
Black Duck Red: Okay. ah we are gonna show you how to run this here rollercoaster.
Black Duck Blue: There's the Speed Mouse over there and we got a full car of people.
BDR: Now first, we must check if everyone has their safety bars on.
BDB: Then we turn the key and press the button to start.
BDR: And as you can see. Everyone's enjoying the ride and nothing looks like is going to go...
(The Speed Mouse crashed when it ran over a huge gap)
BDB: Did we ever fix that gap?
BDR: No.
BDB: Are we ever gonna fix it.
BDR: I guess not.
BDB: Okay.
A/N the mention of the doctor was a last minute addition as I just watched the Bloody Karte and I liked Dr. Fritz. It may be the worst season but Fritz was the best part.
Also now when a new guest makes an appearance, I'll list them off with what "I" think they mean.
Sleepy Sheep: Troubled pasts
Judgement Boy: Split second decisions
Cactus Girl: Harming a loved one
Lost Doll: Missing something special
Clock Master: Getting old
My Son: Expectations
Mummy Dog: Illness
Also please review.
