999
Bad Ending #2
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Previously on 999: 9 Shinobi Behind 9 Doors with 9 Hours,
After opening the door from the cargo hold, the gang found themselves on the 'D Deck' again. Just on the other side of a steel grate that separated a set of elevators. But that wasn't all there was to this hallway. There was something that stood out, a door. A door that was fancy like the one to the 1st class rooms on the 'B Deck'.
Since it was not numbered, the group decided to try it out. When they did, they were in for their greatest surprise today. When they entered the room, it was an altar like from the inside of a church but no one bothered with that. They were all looking at the door they were facing as soon as they entered. It had the one thing that they all were looking for, the number [9]. It was the Ninth Door! They had made it!
But without the others, the discovery meant nothing. So they used the elevators to hopefully meet up again at the main staircase. The others were there alright but something was wrong. Their expressions were nowhere never happy at all and Clover is not with them! "What is going on? What's the hell is wrong?"
Seven looked at Naruto and answered with a sadden tone that sent the whole world shattering down. "Clover is missing."
"Missing!?" Naruto yelled like a parent after seeing one of the house windows broken by one of the children. "What the hell do you mean she is missing!? She was with you and you still lost her!?"
"I don't know! We thought she was still with us until she disappeared once we turned around!" Lotus yelled in her defense.
"Dammit! We finally found the ninth door and now we have to look for Clover! How are we all going to get out!?" Naruto yelled in frustration which brought hope only to Lotus and Seven who must have hit a dead end with door [1].
"You did!?" They begged and Naruto nodded,
"But without Clover, we all can't get out through the Ninth Door. I say we look for her!" Naruto said and he was meet with these answers.
"But we don't have the time! We only have an hour and a half!" Lotus protested while looking at the clock on the wall which said 4:30 A.M.
"So you want a little girl to die so you can escape!?" Naruto retorted and that silenced Lotus. "I say that we will look until 5 o'clock and if we can't find her, we will need to figure out who goes through Door [9] and they will try to figure out to get everyone else through the door. Okay?" Naruto proposed with at one that was daring everyone to challenge him; they just huffed and went into their own ways. Naruto did the same.
After a half hour had passed and now sign of Clover, Naruto returned to the altar to find no one there. He was getting worried, especially about June so he started to look for them. He started by using the elevator in the main stairway room which led to Door [2]. What he found had halted him in his tracks cold.
There, lying in a pool of blood, was Lotus. The one woman who challenged Naruto's ideas and all he ever did was shoo her away like a common housefly. He hurried to the body and found that the skin had started to turn cold and there was no breath or pulse. Naruto didn't know what to do until it happened. He felt a burning pain in his back, around his spinal cord and heard the sound of something that was all flesh being pieced; his own.
Losing strength in his legs, Naruto fell to the ground. He couldn't feel anything in his arms and his vision was losing sight. Naruto couldn't even move his head to see who had did this to Lotus and to him but he couldn't. Then his world died out, there was only darkness surrounding him like water only he was not drowning.
Naruto then saw a light drawing him in but this time, he saw something else. He saw himself! A copy of him that didn't seem to see him as they both were dragged by the light. The copy which seemed to be transparent like glass had then ran into him. Naruto then saw everything; door [4] that led to being trapped in a freezer, the accused door [3] with the dead body in the showers and then door [2] which led to everyone dead and yet someone managed to Naruto who was just approaching a submarine. Just like before when Naruto 'first' awoke in a cell of the sinking ship.
None of this made any sense as Naruto had to try and shield his eyes from the light glowing bright enough to blind him. Then he felt it again, like in a dream he was falling into some room and landing a very thin but comfortable bed.
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Like waking up from a nightmare and to the shaking of an earthquake, Naruto fell from his bed and on the hard steel ground. But the pain was nothing to what Naruto was sweating from. He was dreaming about running into eight strangers as two of them died until he found another one who died; then he died as well. All of it made no sense, like a twisted sense of déjà vu.
After trying to make sense of this, the window to his room unleash a gusher of water, flooding the place! Naruto hurried through the puzzles and remembered just what happened before today. Naruto managed to get out of the room and ran up the ship and meant the other eight strangers that matched with his strange memories perfectly. Especially seeing Hinata again for so long and yet with the feeling that this is the first time he had seen her. Even the Ninth man who had held the one with the code name [Clover] hostage, forcing another by the code name of [Ace].
All that had set off the explosion behind door [5] and settled in the fear of suffering the same fate into everyone's hearts. Naruto managed to get everyone in the game and they separated into teams, he wanted to stay with Hinata so he chose door [4] and made it through the passenger quarters and into the kitchen but something she had brought up in the freezer had somehow had more impact than anything else yet; about Ice-9, the ice that won't melt until it reaches room temperature, the mummy who seemed to only be sleeping instead of dead. It all made Naruto remember it with all his might.
Now it was time for the three doors in the hospital room, Naruto feared door [3] because if he wanted to stay with Hinata or [June] as everyone called her, then they couldn't go anywhere else and that will be a waste of all that from 'back there'. Instead Naruto chose, "Door [7]."
End of Chapter 11.