Chapter Four: Red & Blue
Garry screamed as the Lady in Blue attacked him. She tackled him to the floor and tried to reach for the rose in Garry's hands. 'Why does it want the rose?!' Garry wondered. He was finally able to push the Lady in Blue off of him and run. However, the Lady in Blue chased after him.
"Get away from me!" Garry yelled.
Garry found himself in trouble when he came into a room where the only door was blocked off by a mannequin. 'I'm trapped!'
The painting woman snatched the rose from Garry's hands and crawled away. Garry tried to chase after her but didn't get very far when pain entered his body. 'I don't... feel good...' He fell to his knees before falling flat out on his face.
After having to go through puzzles and obstacles, Ib found herself in between two hallways. She decided to go right. In the right halfway, she found someone lying on the floor.
It was Garry.
She walked up to him and kneeled besides him. "M-Mister... Are you okay?" She tapped Garry but he didn't respond. Ib noticed a key in his hands so she decided to take it.
Ib continued to walk down the hallway until she found the door with the mannequin in the way. 'Dead end.'
Ib went down the left hallway and found blue rose petals. 'Are these... blue petals?' The rose petals led to a room that was locked. Ib used the key and got in.
In the room, Ib found the Lady in Blue, who was picking the petals off of the blue rose. Gathering up some courage, Ib ran straight up to the Lady in Blue and the rose right out of her hands and quickly ran out.
'This needs some water.' Along the way, Ib learned that the roses damage you're health if a petal is taken off the rose. The roses can be restored along with you're health if put in a vase full of water. Ib put the blue rose in the nearest vase if water. All the petals quickly returned on the rose.
'What? The pain is gone...' Garry could feel the pain in him was gone. He looked up to see Ib, who was kneeling down besides him.
"Is this your's?" Ib asked.
"Yes. Thank you." Garry took his rose from Ib and stood up.
"So, what's you're name? My name is Garry." Garry introduced himself.
"I'm Ib." Ib wasn't sure if she should of told this man her name. She wasn't sure if she should even be talking to him.
"Wait a moment... I remember you! You were that girl that I found collapsed on the floor of the gallery!" Garry exclaimed.
"Guertena Art Gallery?" Ib asked.
"Yes! That was the place! I remember being there when the entire gallery caught on fire." Garry said.
"But, if we were at the gallery, how did we get here?" Ib questioned.
"Well, seeing as though once we got out of the gallery, we were both in horrible condition so... we must be in some sort of coma." Garry explained.
"How do we wake up?!" Ib asked.
"I guess we wake up when we find a way out of here." Garry answered. "So, let's find a way out together and wake up!"
"Yeah!" Ib smiled.
"But, we should be careful of these roses. Every time we lose a petal, we get injured. I guess once we lose all our petals, we die." Garry didn't want to say it, but he had to let Ib know so she wouldn't be in any kind of danger of her rose.
"I'll be careful with my rose. Let's go!" Ib started to walk ahead.
'She looks though, but she still is a little girl. I'll try to protect her the best I can. I won't fail this time...' Garry started to walk after Ib.
"There's a mannequin in the way here. Do you think you can move it?" Ib asked.
"Sure." Garry said. Garry used all of his strength to push the heavy mannequin out of the way.
The two of them took each other's hand as they opened the door to continue the adventure and find a way to wake up.
Ib and Garry have met! Things should start to get interesting.
I'll see you guys in the next chapter!