I don't own any of the corpse party characters or story. Enjoy pt. 2!
Catlin stood up and stared down the hallway. It certainly wasn't the hallway she was used to. There were no lockers, no white paint and no big window. Well, there were windows, but they were old and the paint was peeling. When she tried to open them, they didn't even budge. It was like they were fake. The floor was covered in holes and dirt. The wood was rotting away in places on the ceiling and floor. This wasn't right. How did she get here? Where were the others? These thoughts swirled through Catlin's mind until she decided to find out for herself. Was she alone? No. She couldn't be. She had to find the others.
Catlin started down the hallway to the door at the end. There was grime crusted on the handle and down the side, making the door unhinged in places. It took a lot of willpower to turn it, especially since the grime looked a lot like dried blood. She tried not to think about this as she opened the door.
"It's a way out" she thought out loud
"No, it's just a way further in, unfortunately for you!" Catlin spun around to face a girl a few years older than her. She was laughing loudly to herself. She seemed slightly transparent, almost like a ghost, but that wasn't possible, was it?
"Who are you?"
"Me? I'm Naho Saenoki" the girl replied. She had dark blue hair and wore a red school uniform. Her skirt was navy blue and in her hand she clutched a book. "I'm the spirit of a girl who died here."
"D-died?!"
"Yes, don't sound so surprised" Naho laughed again, "that charm you did," she continued "that sent you here. One of you messed it up!" she seemed to think that this was all one big joke. Well, it certainly wasn't!
"Well, how can I see them?"
"You see, this place is made up of multiple closed spaces"
"What does that mean?" Catlin was getting more and more frustrated with this ghost. She couldn't take anything seriously. She just acted like it was the funniest thing that ever happened to her.
"It means that although you are all in the same place, you may not be able to see them. They are somewhere else. I do sense one other person that came with you though. You should be able to find her, if she isn't dead already! Naho burst into fits of giggles, but this time Catlin ignored it.
"No,no,no,NO,NO!" Catlin grabbed her head in frustration and spun around to face the girl angrily "WHAT DID WE DO? TELL ME HOW TO GET HOME" she stared at Naho then collapsed on the floor. Throwing her charm wasn't a good idea, but she did it anyway; then sobbed in anger. "I knew that we shouldn't have done that fucking charm, I told them….not to…." The girl turned to ask Naho a question, but she was gone.
After a while Catlin stood up and walked over to the ground where she threw her charm piece. It had vanished! She didn't really care though, the thing creeped her out. She had never been a fan of black magic, and this wasn't any different. She wondered where her friends were, were they also here? Catlin didn't really care anymore. They could go die and be with Naho if they really wanted!
"Why should I care, if all they did to me is do some dumbass charm and transport me to this godforsaken place?! They can go fall off a cliff for all I care!" she was laughing now, her face tinged with madness "HAHAahahaha…that would be horrible! Oh my god, did I just say that!" she now looked at herself in horror. "I'm going mad!" Catlin wailed to herself loudly now, not understanding what was happening to herself, one minute she hated her friends and the next she was thinking about how she could ever say something like that.
It's this place, its driving me round the bend. But I have to fight it! I'd better do some more exploring; I need to find out what is really going on here.
With that, Catlin stood up and walked through the door into a large hallway. Little shoes were scattered everywhere on the floor. It looked like children much younger than her were here. That must mean that she was in an elementary school. That would explain the school rules on the walls and the tiny desks. She didn't spend much time thinking about that, as she had spotted another hallway, but this one was an entranceway! Sure enough, when she ran down it, past all the shoe racks and coat hangers, she came face to face with the exit. Catlin wasted no time; she just wanted to get out of this place. Her right hand hooked round the door handle and she pushed with her left hand. Nothing budged.
Okay, maybe I need to pull it
She tried that too. The door wouldn't budge. Just like the windows this door seemed to be fixed to the wall like it was wallpaper.
"UGH, WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING WORK?!" It was true. There seemed to be no way of leaving the school. Frustrated, Catlin slid to the floor and sobbed. She just wanted to leave. Was that too much to ask?
A voice penetrated through her dreams. It was a voice she knew well, but she couldn't recognise it through the thick mist of sleep.
"Hey Catlin, wake up"
"Ugh, five more minutes mum…"
"Haha, I'm not your mother silly! Come on wake up!
"Hhh, whaa-, where am I? Oh my god, it's really you Amber!" the sight of her friend was so relieving, she wasn't alone here! Catlin flung her arms around Amber's neck and sobbed. I thought that you were dead!"
"Whoa, calm down Caitlin! Why would you think that I was dead?"
Catlin explained the story, all from waking up to meeting Naho. She left out the part when she went insane though. She didn't want amber not to trust her. At the moment she needed to focus on getting them both out of here.
"That's one hell of a story!" Amber laughed "Wait, are you being serious?" Catlin nodded. Amber was silent for a few seconds then nodded. "Okay, I understand. Wed better find out how to get out of here."
The pair walked out of the entrance way back into the hall. There were classrooms on either sides of it, so they decided to split up and search them for clues. Amber left to visit the classrooms on the left hand side of the hall. Sweat covered her hands and they shook as she turned the door handle and looked inside. Nothing. She breathed a sigh of relief and walked down to the next classroom. There was a certain sensation surrounding it that drew her in. Her hand turned the handle opening the door and she walked inside. The feeling left her, but just as she was about to leave, the door slammed shut behind her. Amber ran to it a hammered her hands one the door. It didn't even budge. It was as if it had become part of the wall, just a decoration. She sunk to the floor and huddled up, scared that she may never leave the room. A voice made her look up, to see a girl a few years younger than her standing ahead. She was gripping a pair of bloodied scissors and wore a tattered red dress. Amber wasn't sure that the dress had originally been that colour, the colour of blood. Long, dark hair fell down her back and covered some of her grinning face. The girl laughed insanely, and when she opened her mouth thick blood poured out.
"CATLIN!" Amber yelled, terrified and pushed even harder against the door, but it still didn't budge. The girl was slowly advancing towards her, holding the scissors out at her side.
"Aa-mber, Am-ber" come to me, I won't hurt you. The little girl laughed again and walked closer.
Meanwhile, Catlin had almost finished looking at her share of the classrooms. The first one contained nothing, but the second wouldn't open. At first she found this odd, but then she remembered the windows.
This must be the same, fake
She chose to ignore the room and moved on to the next one. Nothing. Maybe she'd imagined the whole Naho encounter. Maybe. Catlin sat down on the hard rotten floor for a few minutes.
Amber is taking a while
That's when she heard it.
"CATLIN!"
She got up and dashed to the other side of the hallway as fast as she could. At first the door wouldn't budge, but then it swung open to reveal a ghost standing over Amber. She was holding a pair of scissors to Amber's throat with one hand, and with the other she was choking her. Catlin ran in yelling at the ghost to stop. She turned her head to reveal a pale face full of anger and hatred. Greasy black hair dropped down her face and blood dripped down her chin. She grinned at Catlin, then vanished, leaving behind a small newspaper cutting.
"W-what was that?!" Amber breathed, her hands still shaking.
"It appears that she was Sachiko, the ghost of a victim that was part of a terrible crime committed here long ago."
That was the second part of my first fanfic, I released it quite fast but the next part may not be out so quickly. As usual, feel free to review below. Thanks! : 3