Me: And so, I ended up continuing this... Eh, two reviews is good enough.
So this is the chapter where Garry/Zero comes in! I'm still not gonna tell you guys who's gonna be Mary :3

Oh yeah, if you still don't know what Ib is and you didn't even bother looking it up, here: /watch?v=wRYxXc9Yobs (type in youtube dot com then copy paste this)

Ikuto: Yuzuki doesn't own Ib, Vampire Knight or Shugo Chara. They belong to Kouri, Matsuri Hino, and Peach-Pit, respectively.

Chapter 2. Meeting Garry..err I mean, Zero

Ikuto's POV

Last time...

I went into the mouth, which led me to another room. With paintings of...guillotines. There were stairs on the other side, but when I got close to them, I sensed something was gonna fall on top of me. I quickly dodged out of the way before the giant guillotine could slice me in half. When it went back up, I quickly ran down the stairs, scared to death.

And so things continue to do things...

So, after that guillotine incident, I found myself in a red room, with, you guessed it. More creepy artwork.

Can I just go home and get high off of catnip?

Anyway, looking around the room for a bit, I found a very familiar painting.

The Lady in Red.

Still scary as fuck. *Shudder*

Not finding anything useful, I walk away. I suddenly heard a crashing sound. I turned around to see the Lady in Red crawling towards me. Her upper body came out of the canvas and she was dragging the frame behind her.

"ASDFGKHKG WHAT THE FUCK?!" I yelled, bolting into a run. The Lady in Red continued to chase me around the room, managing to scratch me and make me lose petals in the process. She was a bit slow so I managed to lose her for a bit. I saw a red key lying on the floor where the Lady in Red once was. I quickly picked it up and ran to the door that was on the other side of the room. The Lady in Red managed to find me and she crawled towards me. I opened the door and quickly slammed it shut. I could hear her nails scratch against the wood. It looks like she can't open the door. Good.

The room looked like a library, just had shelves full of books and a door on the other side of the room. I tried to open the door, but it was locked. Might as well poke around for a bit.

I looked around the room but couldn't find a key or anything useful, though I did find a storybook. Might as well skim through it to kill time. I looked at the cover.

'Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois. Written/drawn by XXXXX'

I couldn't stop myself from snickering. The pictures look like they've been drawn by a five year old. So the book is about a group of friends at a birthday party. They eat a cake with a coin in it (which was being cut with a freaking butcher knife) and one of the kids swallows the coin. Another kid brings back the empty plate and knife, then his mom was looking for the key to the study which was always on the table, but instead of the key, there was the coin that was supposed to be in the cake. The kid left the room with the butcher knife. The next paged showed the kid covered in blood, waving a key.

I shut the book closed and put it back on the shelf. Whoever wrote this is a fucked up little girl and now, I'm scarred for life. I heard a click and went to open the door. This time it opened. I found another vase, so I put my rose in it, watching the petals grow back. But what surprised me is that the vase still had water in it, even after I put my rose in. It took me a while to notice the painting which hung above the vase. It was a picture of a vase with a drop of water about to fall into it. The title of it was, 'Eternal Blessing.'

So does that mean I can put my rose as many times as I want and the water won't run out? Nice.

Anyway, now that I got my health back, I can keep going. I walked into the room on my right, not watching where I was going and I ended up tripping and falling flat on my face.

Wait, what did I trip on?

Holy crap, is that a person!? D:

He was lying face-down, so all I could see was a head of silver hair. Wait, where have I seen silver haired guy before? Oh yeah, he was one of the visitors at the gallery, the one that was checking out the 'Hanged Man' painting.

"H-hello?"

"...ugh..."

Uhh, okay?

I noticed he was gripping a key tightly in his hand. I took it and ran out of the room. Hopefully he won't be missing it. I keep running in the opposite direction, eventually finding blue rose petals scattered all over the floor. There was an empty space on the wall where a painting was supposed to be. All there was was a tag that said 'Lady in Blue.' Oh, fuck. I don't like where this is going...

I opened the door with the key I got from that silver haired guy. Inside the room was a stool and a bitch that looked exactly like the Lady in Red, but in a blue shirt this time. She was plucking the petals off a blue rose. Don't tell me that belongs to that guy.

The Lady in Blue seemed to notice me. She dropped the rose and started chasing after me. I ran out of the room and slammed the door shut.

"You can't do shit, bro, you can't do shit!" I taunted.

I heard a banging noise from the other room. Suddenly the Lady in Blue breaks through the window, clawing at the floor to get closer to me.

"ASDFHKLFGLKFKF SHE CAN DO SHIT!"

I ran back into the room and picked up the blue rose. It only had two or three petals left. I walked out of the room and immediately started running. I eventually lost her, much to my relief. I found the vase from earlier and put the blue rose in it, returning it to health. I went over to the boy who was still lying on the floor.

I poked him for a bit before he started to move.

"Huh? What's this? The pain is gone." He said.

"Uhh, excuse me?"

The boy looks up at me. Lilac eyes meeting mine. I held out the blue rose to him. "Is this yours?" I asked.

*After a bit of talking*

"So your situation is much like mine. It seems that if these roses lose their petals, were injured somehow. Thanks for getting it back for me and saving my life. By the way, what's your name? I'm Zero."

"It's Ikuto." I replied.

"Well, now, Ikuto, it's too dangerous to be in a place like this all alone. We'll find a way out together."

I nodded. "Yeah."

One of the paintings spit at Zero, causing him to fall backward and let out a scream, much to my amusement.

"Ah, I was just a bit startled, that's all." Zero said nervously.

Yep, I'm totally gonna like this guy.

We go east, to another room with a door, which was blocked by one of the Power Ranger suits (Headless statue, I'm gonna call them Power Ranger suits from now on)

"What the hell is this doing here?" Zero asked. I shrugged.

Zero pushed the Power Ranger suit out of the way. "Alright, now we can keep going."

The first thing we saw in the new room was a picture of a sad bride and groom and hands came out of the floor. Not taking note of those things, we keep going. We turn left and found a corridor with...eyeballs on the floor?

"Ewww..." I groaned.

"Ikuto, look." Zero said, pointing to one of the eyeballs which was pink and bloodshot. "That one has a congestion problem"

"You don't say?" I said sarcastically.

Zero doesn't say anything. "Well, there's nothing to do here. Let's go somewhere else."

We find another room with a bunch of stools everywhere. We move a few and found eyedrops. Seriously, who would have eyedrops in a place like this?

"Maybe we can put this on the eye with the congestion problem." I said, showing Zero the eyedrops.

We go back to the eyeballs and I put the eyedrops on the red eye. It healed up right away and it moved somewhere else and stared at the wall.

"Ikuto, the wallpaper is a slightly different color. Maybe there's something behind it."

We tear off the wallpaper which revealed a door to a secret room. In that room, we find a red glass ball.

"What the hell do we do with this?" I asked.

"I saw a painting of a snake earlier. It didn't have an eye, so maybe it goes in there." Zero explained.

We leave the room and found the snake painting Zero was talking about. I put the glass ball where the eye was supposed to go and a painting next to the snake fell off the wall. I picked it up and read what was written on the back.

'Behind the big tree'

"What the hell does that mean?" Zero asked.

I shrugged. "I don't know, but it may be important later."

We go down the corridor with the eyeballs and found another room. It was a maze with a bunch of Power Ranger suits walking around. Oh crap...
We go through the maze and we find a note that said 'Check directly south from the red paint'. We walked around the maze again and found a puddle of red paint on the floor. There was a switch on the wall, so I flicked it. There was a sound outside.

"Looks like we unlocked something." I said.

"We might wanna get out of here." Zero replied.

I turned around to see a few Power Ranger suits walking towards us.

"Oh fuck, run!" I yelled.

We ran through the maze and found the exit. We found a door that wasn't there before (or maybe we just never noticed it). There were a few sculptures in the room. One of them was of a tree. I saw something sparkling in the leaves. It was a silver ring.

"Now what to do with this?"

"Zero, remember that room earlier? With the sad bride and groom and the hands?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah."

We go back to that room with the hands. "Where do I put the ring?"

"You know when people get married, where does the ring usually go?" Zero asked.

"Left hand. Ring finger" I answered.

"There you go."

I put the ring on the sorrowful bride's left hand, on the ring finger. The bride in the painting threw a bouquet, which I caught.

"Hey, Ikuto, did you know that if you catch the bride's bouquet at a wedding, you'll get married soon?"

I blushed and looked at Zero, who also turned a bright shade of red.

"Forget what I said."

We looked around for a bit and found a painting of a creepy face.

"Ehehe, hehehe... Flowers... Flowers are nice... Give me that there flower and I'll let you through. Ehehehe... Eheheh...Your flower pretty please?" The painting said.

"What a creep." Zero commented.

"Tell me about it."

I thought about giving the painting my rose, but that's a VERY bad idea. "Do you want the bouquet?" I asked, holding out the bouquet.

"Ehehehe... Thanks. It smells niiice. Ehehe..." The painting giggled.

"This thing sounds like a retarded five year old." Zero said.

"Well, CHOW TIME~!" The painting said before it ate the bouquet. "Ah... That was good. Ehehe... Thank you. Thanks so much. As I promised, I'll let you through."

The painting turned into a door. "Just take this door~! Well, see ya! Ehehe~!"

We go through the door, going through a hall with creepy mannaquin heads, and found another room. We walked past a "Lady in Red" painting, which came to life and started chasing us. We lost her and found two doors. Both needed passwords to open. One of them said, "How many paintings of women are in this room?"

We counted fourteen, all of them are the "Lady in Red" or something similar.

"Does that bitch count?" Zero asked, pointing to the Lady in Red crawling around.

"Probably not."

We entered the password and heard a click. There was a table with a vase inside the room.

"Well, this room is pretty useless." I said.

"There is a vase. Maybe we could use it later." Zero pointed out.

We leave the room and looked at the next door.

"Ah, this needs a password too."

"Then let's go find it." I said.

We looked around and Zero found a familiar painting.

The Hanged Man.

"There's a number on his shirt." Zero said.

"Five, six, two, nine. That's the password."

We go back to the door and enter the password, but it wouldn't open.

"What the hell? I thought that was the password!" I yelled.

"Wait."

"What, Zero?"

"I have an idea." He said, as he went back to the Hanged Man painting.

He tilted his head. "Six...two...nine...five. That's the password."

"How do you know?" I asked.

"It's upside-down." Zero explained.

I banged my head against the wall. "Oh God, I'm such an idiot!"

"Hey, calm down. No one can figure that out at first glance."

We go back to the door and entered the password. The only thing we found in the room was a table. Damn, just as useless as the other room.

"Ikuto, try moving that table."

"Why?" I asked.

Zero shrugged. "I don't know, I just felt like it should be moved."

"Okay, which way?"

"Uhh, left."

I pushed the table to the left until I heard a click from the outside. We go outside to see what unlocked. Zero opens the door that was next to the Lady in Yellow painting. There was a mirror on the other side .

"Heheh, You're short." Zero snickered.

I glared at him and punched him lightly on the arm. "Shut up. I'm not that short."

I turned around to see a mannaquin head in the doorway.

"Was that there before?" I asked.

"I'm pretty sure it wasn't." Zero replied.

We look at the mirror again. This time, there was a mannaquin head peeking over Zero's shoulder. Zero fell over and screamed causing me to burst out laughing.

"Wh-wh-wh-what is that?!"

"It's just a mannaquin head. No need to hurt it." I chuckled.

"R-right. Come on, let's keep going."

We leave the room to see even more paintings come to life. A Lady in Green painting was guarding a key. Zero managed to lure her away and I picked up the key, but when I did, the Lady in Blue started chasing me. I used the key to unlock the door and we ran inside. There was a couch, a few bookshelves, and a painting of a girl with blond hair and purple eyes.

Wait. Blond hair? Purple eyes?

"Utau! What are you doing in a painting?!"

"Ikuto, what's wrong?" Zero asked,

"Th-that girl in the painting. That's my sister." I said.

"Really? What is she doing in a painting?"

"Exactly what I'm wondering."

"Anyway, we should try moving that bookshelf." Zero said.

"Which way?" I asked.

"To the right, so it's covering the window."

Zero and I pushed the bookshelf to the right, covering the window. Which was a good thing. Remember that run-in with the Lady in Blue earlier?

"Let's go. There's not much we can do here." Zero said.

Zero went back to the door to leave, but it was locked somehow. We heard a few banging noises. The Lady in Yellow came in through the hole in the wall, followed by the Lady in Red, Blue, and Green. They chased us around the room, hurting us a bit, until we escaped through the hole in the wall. We saw a lot of paintings crawling towards us.

"Zero, that door is open now, let's get out through there!"

We ran through the door which led to a room with paintings of creepy smiling faces crying blood. Luckly, the paintings stopped chasing us.

"Fucking hell..that should be...far enough...I think." Zero panted. "Haha, we sure showed them!"

I started to feel dizzy and fell to the ground, tired.

I found myself in a room, all alone. Zero was nowhere to be found. I heard a sound coming from the door behind me, so I opened the other door. In the next room, I heard sounds from the previous room, so I got to the next one. When I went into the next room, the Lady in Red, the mannaquin head, and the Power Ranger suit were surrounding me. They came closer and closer until...

"NO!" I screamed.

I sat up and noticed a black jacket covering me. Isn't this Zero's?

Zero walked over to me. "Good morning, Ikuto." He kneeled down beside me. "How are you feeling?"

"I had a nightmare." I replied.

"I see. You poor thing. I can't say I'm surprised, though. Being exposed to scary things. Sorry, I didn't notice earlier." Zero said.

I nodded.

"Ikuto, look in the pocket of that jacket. I have something."

I dug though the pockets, finding a piece of lemon flavored candy.

"You can have that. You can eat it if you want." Zero said.

"Thanks."

We talked for a bit before setting out again.

"Zero, that uniform. You go to Cross Acadamy?" I asked.

Zero nodded. "So you've heard of it."

"Yeah."

"Well, we came to the art museum for a field trip. I swear when we get back, I'm going to kill that stupid chairman for making me come here."

I laughed. "It's okay, my sister and her friend dragged me here too."

We leave the room and went down some stairs, leading us to a purple room. We find a maze made of ropes. We go in and the entrance was suddenly blocked.

"What the hell is this?!" Zero yelled.

"Zero, run." I said, looking at the Power Ranger suits that had started moving. We ran through the maze and found three buttons attached to the wall.

"Damn it, which one do I press?"

"Try the blue one." I said.

Zero pressed the blue button and the exit opened up. We escaped the maze and the exit closed behind us.

"Hey, Ikuto."

"Hmm?"

"Ever heard of milk puzzles?" Zero asked, pointing the picture of a blank puzzle.

"I have. My friend, Amu tried to solve them one time. She couldn't figure it out and she flipped the table."

Zero laughed and we continued on.

Me: Another chapter done. I had to rewatch Pewdiepie's walkthrough of Ib to write this. In the next chapter, the evil painting child comes in.

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