Hey guys! Looking back on this story I realized many things... So this is going to be an alternative ending, if you didn't like the first one! Haha I said that I won't be doing a sequel and probably not another story on Ib but doesn't mean it was going to be the last of it :3 I don't know but something just pulled me back to Ib. I just bothered the hell out of me honestly.
Enjoy your alternative ending~ I think I might possibly be doing little fragments of Ib if anyone requests anything but I doubt anyone will. Just throwing it out there though.
[AU: Mary did not take over Marline's body and talk to Garry in this ending]
Marline's eyes fluttered open to see violet eyes staring at her worryingly. Garry grabbed her shoulders gently and sighed in relief. "Thank goodness! Marline what happened to you?" "I don't know exactly what happened. I felt something hit my head then I blacked out." Marline rubbed the sore spot on the back of her head.
Garry was about to say something until he remembered something. "Where is your rose?" He asked hurriedly. Marline searched around and couldn't find her green treasure around anywhere. "I can't find it." Marline had slight panic in her voice. She kept searching around until a small voice spoke up, picking up both Garry's and Marline's attention. Ib held Jolly close to her as she looked at Marline with confused eyes. "It doesn't matter, your rose. You're a painting like Mary, your roses are fake." Ib pointed out. Garry looked like he totally forgot about that but Marline shook her head.
"I am not a painting." Marline revealed. Garry was confused and shocked. He truthfully didn't know what she was but he would have thought that she was a painting. Ib looked confused to see that she was wrong.
"Then what are you..?" Garry trailed off, wondering what Marline really was. "Wait, so does that mean that your rose is just important as ours?"
Marline just stared down at her lap, she was still sitting against the wall. "I...I don't know what I am. Mary was the one who created me, not Guertena. And about my rose, that's just half of it. If all my petals fall off I won't die like you two, but something bad would happen. I don't know what it is though. But when a petal falls off, I don't feel pain like you do, I just lose power. The worse it can do is just disable me from creating passages" Marline dusted off her skirt as she stood up.
"But Ib is right anyways, my rose doesn't matter. It has too many petals for anything to affect me." She started walking down the hallway where Garry and Ib walked down before turning back. As soon as Marline turned the corner, she instantly froze. Garry was confused as to why she stopped and looked himself only to find Mary with a green rose.
Marline clenched her fists. "So you were the one who attacked me and stole my rose..." She muttered. This was dangerous, Mary had her rose and could just pluck all those fragile petals off. Mary giggled and amusement danced in her eyes. With a swing of an arm, a wall came down between Marline and the others. Now it was just Mary and Marline.
"You want this back don't you?" Mary teased Marline as she plucked one petal off. 8 petals. "How about we play a game?" Mary plucked another petal off. 7 petals. Marline could feel her energy being sucked away. "What kind of game are you thinking" Marline hissed. Mary frowned at her actions. She plucked another petal. 6 petals. "How Bout a game of 'find that vase'?" Mary grinned. She plucked yet another petal. 5 petals. Marline started growing a bit dizzy as petals were being plucked off the stem of her rose. Oh how she wished her rose was fake. Another petal had fallen to the ground. 3 petals.
Mary's fingers stopped grabbing at the rose and she tossed it back to Marline. "You will be placed in a hall full of vases filled with poison. There are only 2 vases filled with water to refresh your rose with. If you chose a vase filled with poison, a petal will fall of, so that means you only have three you refresh you rose with water then you win, I won't bother Ib, Garry or you. But if you fail, Ib and Garry stay with me! They will be happy, I'll make sure they will." Mary chuckled darkly. Marline rolled her eyes and glad at Mary, knowing very well what she would do. "Brainwashing them won't make them happy forever. They are stronger than that! But I won't lose anyway, so you don't have to go through the trouble of brainwashing anyone." Marline held her rose was determined to win, for the sake of Garry and Ib.
"That's all I have to say about this game, Ib and Garry can help if they want but if they touch a vase, it's game over. Have fun my dear sister~" Mary disappeared into the shadows and the wall between Marline and Garry and Ib was lifted up, allowing them to be together. Garry checked if Marline was okay and glad she wasn't hurt but after Marline told him what Mary talked about he grew worried. "We'll help you for certain!"
In a flash, they were placed in a long blue hall with vases lined up on each wall. There were about 60 vases in the room, and only two were safe. Marline sighed frustratedly.
Mary had gone off to the creator's room and watched the four search the vases. Allie popped up next to her and Mary giggled. "I wonder if they will notice that all vases are filled with poison." "I doubt they will."
Garry didn't know how long they were searching these vases. It's been over half an hour by now even though time was frozen in this world. He leaned against a wall that was clear and slouched. He was ready to collapse until he felt something poke his back. Garry stood up straight and reached for his back, then he felt a big bag. "ah! How could I forget?" Garry swung his bag off his back and rummaged through it, searching for a water bottle that he had packed. After shoving aside many papers, he pulled out a water bottle that was half full. "But I've only used it once, and there was more than that!" he was confused but decided not to pay any attention to it. He rushed over to Marline who was ready to give up and just throw her rose into a random vase. She's already done it two times and a petal fell of both times. it was her last chance. She stopped and turned to Garry with questioning eyes. "Here!" Garry had tossed the water bottle at her and she caught it easily . Her eyes widened, she had forgotten that Garry had a water bottle with him, it seems like Garry had forgotten for a moment that he had it too. Her eyes held relief as she uncapped the bottle and placed her rose in.
Her rose glowed a bright green and they soon appeared in front of the Fabricated World painting. Ib's eyes widened as she stared at nothing in awe. Then a smile lit up her face.
Mary, who was watching, was shocked that they had actually made it out. "You're so lucky Garry." She glared at his figure on the screen. He'd always get in the way and ruin things one way or another.
Marline had fallen to her knees. Tears brimmed her eyes as she smiled at them with glad eyes. "You...can go now. I'm so glad I could get you two out safely. Now go before Mary does something!" Marline hurried them. She didn't want to face any more problems with Mary right now. Ib placed Jolly down onto the floor and walked over to Marline and kneeled down in front of her. Ib embraced Marline in a hug and whispered to her. "Come with us." Garry smiled at the two girls and heard Ib's whisper. "I told you I'd take the both of you out right? Come with us Marline." He softly spoke to her. He couldn't, wasn't going to leave her in here, no way.
Marline stared down at her lap after Ib released her. "I don't know if I can, the painting might not let me..." Jolly finally spoke up after a while. "But you're not a painting so it can't hold you back!" "And you'll never know if you don't try!" Garry added in. Ib nodded in agreement.
Marline stared at them with wide eyes for a moment but realized they were right and couldn't help but agree. " Alright, I'll try." She whispered loud enough for them to hear.
They three cheered and Marline stood up, facing the painting. It soon turned into a painting that looked like the art gallery back in the real world and Garry hoisted Ib up to let her go into the painting first this time. Then he threw Jolly in gently and turned back to Marline. "Let's go." He offered his hand and Marline gladly took it. They leaped into the painting together and everything turned white.
Marline stood in front of a big rose sculpture next to a man with purple hair and a girl with brown hair who was holding a blue doll with creepy red eyes in her arms. The girl and the man turned to look at each other, then at her. Big smiles grew on their faces as they realized that they hadn't forgotten but the smiles were wiped off their faces as they turned to look at Marline.
Said girl didn't know what those strangers were doing and then the man with purple hair called her name. The only thing she remembers.
"Marline? Are you alright?" Garry looked at her with skeptical eyes and grew worried, in fear of what he thought had happened. " Who are you? And how do you know my name?"
Marline looked at him from head to toe and noted that he didn't look like a bad person. "We," Garry pulled Ib to his side. "Are your friends. You don't remember us?" He looked at her incredulously with sad eyes.
Marline shook her head no and Garry hung his head, his assumptions were correct. Marline does not have any memory expect for her name. Ib had tears in her eyes that you could barely notice and the doll in her hands suddenly looked depressed for some reason.
"I guess we'll just have to get your memory back, or make new ones." Garry brought his head up and smiled at her. "Don't worry you can trust us." Marline looked hesitant for a second but nodded her head. "I'm Garry and she is Ib. I think you'll stay with Ib, if you don't mind. I'm sure Ib doesn't mind and neither will her parents, right Ib?" The girl with brown hair and red eyes nodded eagerly.
"We'll have fun together, I promise."
I hope you guys enjoyed that ending too, sorry its short, I have a lot of work to do and I'm surprised I got two chapters in today. ( but they were short D:)
EXCUSE ANY GRAMMAR/SPELLING MISTAKES~
