Doki Doki Literature Club

One Reality:


Disclaimer: I do not own DDLC all rights belong to their rightful owners, Dan salvato and team salvato and I do not own the fanart used for the cover which belongs to Eros panda.


Author's note : Okay everyone! One of you suggested thatbI should perhaps use cliffhangers with a bit more caution and a bit less often. I thought about it and it sounds like a pretty good idea.

So from now on I'll make my chapters a tad bit longer to avoid "useless" cliffhangers. (Necessary ones will remain though)

Thanks everybody if you are reading this, and thanks to you reader for making me think about this "issue" :)

Well I don't plan making a 16000 words chapter because of the author's note . So let's continue the story!


Chapter 6: Emissaries.


Sunshine

I face the horrors of the nights, the despair of the evening and the torture of the PM

Every day, I crawl into my bed near midnight

With the hope to not have to wake up the next day

But every time.. The sunlight comes to greet me

Like an alarm clock designed to plunge into my mind

Like a hammer to smash every thoughts I created overnight

The sunshine, never meets the moonlight

And I always meet both

I am the middle ground between lady moon and mister sun

One puts me down, the other picks me up

Like a toy to giants

Like a puppet to a puppeteer

The moonlight and the sunshine

Play with me...

Play with me...

Play with me...

Play with me...


I could have done without Sayori's phone call, to be honest, it would have been great if there was nothing she would call me for. But hearing her panicked voice telling me she woke up from a nap to see a strange man in the hallway made me spring up from the bed i just sat on, I had to go save her!

I first thought she would call me to talk about deep stuff, but apparently The God was already coming to delete "Irregularities" or at least that's what I think.

And that's why Monika and I ran out in the streets of the city to find Sayori before it was too late. Before she would turn into a morbid sight to see or even worse... Turn into nothing at all.

"What's happening? Why are we running?" She tells me with confusion written all over her face as to why we're running through the streets with each of us a knife in hand

"It's Sayori!" I exclaim, pushing my body to still sprint at my fastest speeds, even though every part of it is burning and my lungs are being torn apart.

"Why are we bringing knifes to see Sayori? I don't understand?" She blurts out still confused, but visibly worried.

I catch my breath and hold my knife to the point that it makes my hand turn red. I suddenly fan the knife open and look straight at the window where the man stands, trying to enter one of the rooms in the house, and I think it is Sayori's.

"The creature, HE is here.." I whisper to her, pointing at the man while still catching my breath; " And we're going to get some answers and save Sayori." I confidently murmur as i take a rock on my other free hand.

"Stop!" Just as I am about to throw the rock at a window to cause a distraction, Monika pulls my arm and makes me take a knee "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" she whispers

"I divert his attention from Sayori and lead him outside so he can't harm her!" I try to stand up once more, but Monika pulls my arm back down.

"Then what!? Huh!? What are you doing then!? We can't go with such a basic plan!"

"Wha-!? Why not!?"

"Because I doubt we can even harm him! He managed to break into this house and I think that he has more experience with fights than me and you combined ,what makes you think we'll be able to defend ourselves?" She makes a point, what damage does a knife do to a god? It would be like fighting the terminator with a toothpick...

"I have an idea.." I open my ears to any suggestion she might have as my scared mind is unable to form a basic chain of actions.

"Lay it on me. But make it quick, if not we'll have to get in there!" I eye the window where the man still stands, eyeing Sayori's door

"We don't have to fight him, we just have to save our friend... so what if we did just that?" She looks at me with a smirk, and it's my turn to be confused.

"What do you mean?" She briefly explains

"I mean that we are two and he's alone, one of us can distract him and the other takes off with Sayori!" I remain confused.

"Monika he's a god! He'll know it's us, and he'll find Sayori again!"

"Think for a minute darling, if he's really The God why did he not break the door yet, or why isn't Sayori dead yet?" That's true:

If he was indeed The God, Sayori and all the others would be dead, so why? And who is he?

It takes me some time to think about her plan, but i finally make a decision. "Okay, i'll distract him and you grab Sayori." She nods at me "Here are the keys of the house, I'll distract his attention and when you see him leaving towards another room you knock and Sayori's window for her to come and you rush back to my place. Okay?"

"Okay, be careful.. You are the only thing I can't stand losing.." I flash her a confident smile.

"I know, and I'll make sure we all see a bright future together" I say as I boop her nose and stand up, worry in her eyes.

Let's go! I think as I jump over the small bushes towards her house.

I arrive near one of the windows and smash it with the rock that I picked up earlier.

The shattered glass makes a loud noise and I take the knife to break any glass edges that may hinder my ability to jump over the window.

I can hear the steps of the man coming towards the window, as I slump into Sayori's house, the room I entered apparently being the kitchen, a pretty spacious room with a fridge, some sort of bar with a sink and a lot of basic kitchen utensils. The trash bin seems to be full of candy and snacks of various sorts. I see a good number of drawers on the wall and on the bar.

I barely have enough time to assess my situation as I jump over the bar and try to see where he is and how to lead him out of the house

He's coming as I hide behind the bar, balisong in hand. I can hear him as he enters the kitchen and probably looks at the broken window.

I take a quick peak to asses what he looks like

He seems like a man coming straight out of the wrong types of neighborhood, perhaps in his 20s, with a yellow jacket, black sweatpants and black bandana. He seems to carry some kind of rusty pipe. Fight is clearly a last resort as his muscles seem to burst out of his clothes.

Fear and adrenaline flow through me as I see him taking slow steps towards my hiding spot, and I'm barely out of view.

Fuck! If I don't distract him I'm as good as dead! Time passes by at an excruciatingly slow rate, as if everything around me was in slow motion

He comes closer and I still don't know how to lead him outside!

And that's when i get it, I take my phone and throw it on the other side of the room, for it to make a big sound when it hits the tile floor. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices.

The man intrigued by the noise grabs his pipe and goes to investigate, passing straight past me.

I have a one time chance! His back is turned, he doesn't know where I am and i have my knife!

I could try and stab him in the back or in the leg and throw punches until he passes out?

But I have one chance with this, and if he hears me, I'm in for the fight I desperately want to avoid.

"WheRe ArE YoooooUUUU? Come OuT WhEREvER YoU ARe!"His head twisting around as I see his hands hold on firmly to the metal pipe."If YOU Don'T ShOW uP NoW, I'LL KiLL YoU!"His voice while distorted appears to have some humanity left in it. He's clearly not The god Monika or myself met. But something is definitely wrong with him..

He bends down to grab my phone as I slowly get up, making sure not to make any noise. I have to take my chance, and this chance will not show up again...

It's make or break.


As soon as the man left towards the kitchen, I decide to get over the bushes just like my dear did and go knock on the window next to Sayori's supposed room.

I tip-toe over to the house as I quietly arrive at Sayori's window. I can hear her crying through the window.

It hurts me to see her like this, I know it's really terrible for ME to say that, but she's my friend and she always was.

The mere fact that I did what I did in the other reality, the game makes me want to face eternal damnation for my sins.

The excuse that they weren't real was just that: an excuse.

I knew they were real, ever since Natsuki's "poem" about her feelings about the club in act II. But at this point I convinced myself that it wasn't real, just a freak occurrence, a glitch in the script.

Everything went downhill really quickly, and I had to find a way to cope with my actions, a way to reason the fact that I killed Sayori and amplified the worst traits of Yuri.

I persuaded myself that they didn't exist. And in the end I find myself disgusting, horrendous, monstrous.

No! Now's not the time for self pity, I have to pull Sayori out of her situation, help her!

I knock on the window loud enough for Sayori to hear, but not loud enough for the assailant to hear either.

Her coral pink hair all over her face, filled with tears pop out of the window I just knocked on, and as soon as she sees me a smile pops on her face.

"Monika!" I put my finger over my mouth as to signal her to keep her voice down "What are you doing here? Where is MC?"

MC? Who the hell is MC? Is she talking about the player? I imagine she is.. I think to myself of a way to explain everything that is happening without telling her too much.

"He's inside making a diversion so you can leave the house safely and then we'll call the police." I tell her, lying about the last part. After all if The God can control this man, what says that he can't control police officers if he wants to..

"Is he safe? Is he okay?" She asks worry written all over her face.

"I don't know, but right now we need to get you out of here, come on, we have to leave!" I try to hurry her by making my tone louder, the quicker we leave, the quicker he leaves too.

Sayori nods and opens the window to be able to crawl out of it and join me. I can see her taking her shoes on and quickly putting one leg after the other out of the window.

In itself, the window isn't pretty high up, but to Sayori, considering all that's happening, this must feel like a huge task and a great challenge.

"Come on, you can do this! I know you can!" I encourage her, seeing her worried face. It felt like she was blocked in some kind of way and couldn't make the small jump.

"You're great and strong Sayori, You can do this, and if you need help, I'm here to catch you!" I extend my arms uttering this statement "You can do this!"

And she jumps making a small scream. I catch her but her weight takes me aback and just like that she stumbles on top of me, as I feel a bit of pain on my back. She rolls off of me to lay on the grass, then quickly gets on her feet and apologizes to me, for making me fall.

"Sorry! sorry sorry I can be such an airhead sometimes, sorry!" I see small tears forming on the corner of her eyes, probably from the stress and her emotional situation right now..

"It's okay Sayori, you're not heavy at all, I barely felt it." I lie about that last part, and I think she picked up on it as I got up "Come on! We have to leave: Right now!"

We both slowly pace towards the bushes where He and I came from, and I help Sayori jump over them.

I turn around with a worried look at the house seeing as he still didn't come back.. Is he in trouble? Does he need help? Will I lose him!?

I shut my eyes tight as I remember my task, I need to escort Sayori to our house. Then I'll rush back here to help him!

After jumping over the bushes I grab her hand and lead her towards our apartment, I sprint throughout the hole trip, not taking time for her or myself to breathe.

We quickly arrive at his house, and I push the keys inside the apartment's main door, giving the cinnamon roll time to breathe.

"Haah-hahh- Mo-Monika wh-who was this-this guy?" She asks me as I open the first door, leading to the stairs. " It's really not important Sayori, what's important is that you stay safe, okay?" I try to flash her the sweetest, brightest, most confident smile I can muster in this situation as we start to walk up the staircase to the third floor.

"O-Okay.. But will you tell me once this is over?" She asks.

Last time, in the game reality, the mere knowledge that there was a script and that we lived predetermined lives in the old reality broke her mentally.. If i lay on her the whole Multiverse, gods and destiny thing, she'll just succumb to her depression for good, and we won't be able to save her... What can I do?

"Fine, but not now or tomorrow.. okay?" I try to soothe her curiosity. I open the door to his apartment, and gesture my friend to walk in.

She settles on the sofa, and almost immediately gets dragged out of consciousness by Lady Sleep.

I decide to get her a blanket and quickly go back to her house.

I have to help him!


"AAAAaghghagh YOU LittLE SHIt!" He yells as the knife is lodged in between his shoulders. "TASTE THIS YOU FUCKING BRAT!" He swings the pipe at my face, taking me by surprise, I barely have the reaction time to duck down, and take a few steps back

Blood pours out of his back, where my weapon is lodged, but he seems to not feel a great deal of pain, which makes this incoming fight heavily stressful for me.

I planed for him to feel so much pain that he takes a knee or tries to pull the blade out! But nothing! Except for his initial scream of pain.

It's like he felt it for a microsecond and then nothing..

"GoD GaVE ME STreNGTH, As LONG as I kILL yOu kiDS, ANd I'LL dO jUST tHAT!" His eyes are twisted as he rushes towards me, and i'm stuck in front of the bar

He swings the pipe at my knees and I manage to barely jump over it, latch myself onto his torso and make him fall down onto his back, plunging the knife deeper.

He drops his pipe as he uses both hands to take me by the hair as i try to choke him.

It HURTS! It hurts SOOO much! Like his hands could rip my head at any moment, as a result I pull my head back as he takes one of his hands away from my hair to throw a punch at my unguarded throat.

My entire body drops to the ground, convulsing for air as my vision goes numb. My eyes start to tear up due to the pain and I feel my throat progressively taking air in again.

But my respite is short lasted as I hear him stand up and see him take the knife out of his back.

"THiS iS foR You, BrAT!" He screams as I feel a quite literal sharp pain in my left arm, only to realize the knife went through my sweatshirt and onto my flesh.

I scream in agony, as it isn't a slight cut like what I'm used to during the small fights, but the knife went completely through my arm, only the handle sticking out.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! FU********!' I can only scream as I feel a hot liquid, which I can only guess is my own blood driping out of the hole in which the knife entered.

"I'LL KILL YOU, YOU SICK SADISTIC BASTARD!" I stand up, adrenaline taking control of my body, as I prepare myself for a blow with the metal pipe that he picked back up.

" You dOn't KnOw how GOOD bEinG thIS strong feeLS LIkE! YoU'LL nEVeR knOW, BuT mAn! I LoVE IT! If KiLLiNG A fEW GirLS Is THe PrICE to PAy, Then I'LL do IT" His face turning into one of a twisted beast, ready to stop at nothing to get what it wants.

I grab another knife from my sweatshirt, which I always carry because of these sort of situations.

I Look directly into his eyes, defying his stare with my feeble one, knowing that this strike and my string of action will be definitive.

Either I can avoid his attack and plunge the knife in his chest, or I die trying.

We're now both standing up in the living room, Sayori's pink couch being the only thing that separates me from him, and the lights turning dim as the ceiling fan automatically turns on.

The difference between us is spectacular. I am covered in blood that I coughed up, or bled out.

While he just has his wound on the back.

But I can't flee. I can't beg for mercy. I can't charm with words into an alliance.

I can only fight.

He charges to me, throwing the couch at my wounded body as I take a roll on the left to avoid it, and it slams with force onto the bar's counter.

I look at him as he takes his weapon and attacks me overhead. I roll to the right with my left arm feeling like it's going to burst. I'm stuck with a wounded arm and an unresponsive body as I fall down on my butt.

It feels like the elements are thrown at me with a passion for my suffering when I see lightning strike as he swings the pipe that is going to hit my cranium.

My thoughts go to my family, the literature club.. Monika... I'm sorry.

I expect the shock, the pain, and the huge nothingness that follows, like a trip towards the world of darkness, death. The world that she faced everytime I left her game, the world which she faced and fought with all she had to be with me.

No! I can't leave her alone! I will hug her again, I will spend time with them all, we will all face a bright future. I will hear Natsuki's remarks as to manga being literature and my competences being doubted on! I will read with Yuri about her book, I will delve into her world! I will spend Time with Sayori just talking about things via the phone or looking at a movie! I will taste Monika's lips again, and smell her sweet scent of mint and pine tree!

"DIEEEEEEEEEEE!" He yells as my eyes flung open, determined not to accept my fate, when the pipe passes just on top of me, as I pushed his arm a little bit above my face.

My right hand forms a fist as I punch Straight into his nuts and hear his voice crumble into gibberish. I take the knife from my left hand and I plunge it Onto his chest, fear and adrenaline making the blade come straight in, and then straight out.

He looks at me not being able to form a single word as his mouth vomits the crimson substance and he falls on his back, eyes lifeless, drowning in his own blood.

I am too shaken up to even show emotions, as I simply take my knife out of my arm, feeling just a slight sting as I do so.

My face showing a small smile as my world shifts around me and I go out the window and fall flat onto Sayori's small garden.

I feel my mind drift off and become foggy as I see auburn hair floating towards me.. and on that sight my eyes start to close on their own, my mind drifting off as I only see the darkness starting to surround me.

The smile on my face doesn't dissipate as lightning still strikes and I feel Monika's hands touch my chest to feel my heartbeat.

I know I'm in good hands, and like that I drift off to sleep, still not being able to hear what the lovely club president is screaming at me...


And that's the end of chapter 6!

I have to admit I feel tired as it is currently 3 AM when I am finishing this up, but knowing that over 350 people watch this fanfic drives me to continue and make better chapters as the series goes on.

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