I'm back! Please enjoy this new installment of Kitsune! I don't own Ball Jointed Dolls (song), so don't spread sues, spread reviews!
Hunter POV:
We had been walking for god-knows how long and my feet were aching. I normally ok with walking for long distances, but I mean, give me a break! My leg and tails had only just healed up completely after being on the road for at lest a week.
Our little ragtag group of weirdoes had see a plethora of strange things, such as trees carved with strange symbols that even Vector couldn't decipher, ruins of buildings, and doll parts scattered every where. Sky had screamed really loud when she stepped on a human-sized doll arm attached to the torso. Adian, who had been looking at the trees, had run over to comfort her, which had worked, strangely enough, as he normally sucked at the fine art of stopping people from screaming louder than they already were.
Vector, Shade, and I came over and figured out that it was, in fact, only a doll limb, which had really crept everyone out.
Now, about an hour after, the sun had long since set, Shade was still going on about it. "Shade! Can we please stop talking about it?" I asked forcefully after a while.
"What's the matter? Scared?" She teased me. I knew she was only joking, but dolls really did freak me out, much more than clowns. And that was saying something.
My ears burned and I looked down. She looked at me in surprise. "You are scared? Oh my god! I can't believe that you're afraid of dolls!" She laughed in disbelief. I spun around. "It's not that uncommon of a fear! And they're just so creepy, with their glassy eyes that follow you and the ball joints that allow them to move around. And the singing! Oh, god, the singing! It's just not natural!" I shook my head.
Then the sound of a piano made itself present. I looked around wildly, searching for the source.
"Guys, over here!" Adian called in a hushed voice.
We ran over and peered out from behind the tree and we saw a large stone platform and dancing on it were two girls. No, I realized, as I looked closer. They are not girls. They're dolls. My eyes widened and I strained to see them better.
The first had long red hair that fell in waves to her chest. Her skin was porcelain and her eyes-oh god, her eyes! They were a bright green, but they were glassy and stared into nowhere. One of her eyelids had been chewed off or something and the eye had long since fallen out of its socket, hanging down by the mouth, connected only by a tread of white wire. Ball joints connected her limbs and she spun around gracefully on pointed toes, her dark green dress flowing around her.
The second was much like the first, only her hair was black, her eyes purple, and both connected to her. She had a large part of her midsection missing and half of her face was torn, but that did nothing to stop the sound that flowed out from both of their mouths in sync.
Un
Duex
Tois
I am just a tiny doll. Just a ball jointed doll.
Take me, wind me, turn my toy spring, else I won't move at all.
Lu, lu, lu, lu, lulu, lu, lu, lu.
La, la, la, la, la, la, ah, ah
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Tiny dolls with little ball joints. Fastened by drops of glue.
Master moves me, as he pleases. I move only for you.
Lu, lu, lu, lu, lulu, lu, lu, lu.
La, la, la, la, la, la, ah, ah.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
I am such a precious doll. I'm here to calm and sooth.
I don't move well on my own. Take me, make me move.
Lu, lu, lu, lu, lulu, lu, lu, lu.
La, la, la, la, la, la, ah, ah.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Un
Duex
Tois
Someday my springs will stop working. Then my movement will cease.
When dolls don't move, then we slumber. Dolls will then fall asleep.
Lu, lu, lu, lu, lulu, lu, lu, lu.
La, la, la, la, la, la, ah, ah.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this body rots
Dancing and dancing until we drop. Until this…body…rots.
Then as soon as the song stopped, they both froze in the position they were in, one arm above head, back bent, and the other arm across their waists.
"Well… that was strange." I muttered, earning a nod of agreement from James.
We walked away from the tree followed by Shade, James, Sky, and Adian, who all looked as if under a spell. They're eyes had turned as glassy as the ball jointed dolls and they're ears, tails, and wings hung limply from their bodies, as if they didn't belong there.
I spun on my heel and tapped Shade on the shoulder. Her skin was strangely cool. "See, I told you that they were really creepy." I said triumphantly, although I was still shaken from the dolls performance. She just nodded listlessly. I raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong with you?" I wondered out loud.
I shrugged it off and continued walking, as I was sure she was just tired. But it was still worrying, as they all showed the same symptoms as Shade, except James.
I guess they were just tired.
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I couldn't sleep that night. The song echoed in my mind, pulling up some unknown memories from dark places. I feared that if I fell asleep, I would only have nightmares.
So I sat, propped up, shivering in the cold. I had time to reflect on today, and the strangeness of it all.
It started normally, but then, after the night fell, things started happening. We found the ruins, the symbols, and the doll parts. Then the ball jointed dolls performance, and the other behavior. It just wasn't natural.
I must have sat there for at lest an hour when I became aware of movement from the camp. I looked over and met the glassy stare of Sky's normally bright green eyes. I blinked and looked at her closely. I almost screamed.
Her joints were gone, replaced by ball joints and her skin shared a likeness with fine china. The life seemed to have been sucked out of her and she moved in jerky, sudden strides. Sky's mouth was split down the sides, to her chin, to enable her mouth to move.
Sky's mouth opened and the tune from earlier spilled out.
I am just a tiny doll. Just a ball jointed doll.
Take me, wind me, turn my toy spring, else I won't move at all.
A rustle from my left and Vector emerged, looking like Sky.
Tiny dolls with little ball joints, fastened by drops of glue.
Master moves me as he pleases, I move only for you.
A twig snapped and Adian came forth, looking like a puppet on strings.
I am such a preciouses doll; I'm here to calm and sooth.
I don't move well on my own. Take me, make me move.
Shade joined them, just as listless.
One day my springs will stop working, and my movement will cease.
When dolls don't move then we slumber…
They all sang together.
Dolls will then fall asleep.
Lu, lu, lu, lulu, lu.
La, la, la, la, la, ah, ah
Dancing and dancing until we drop, until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop, until this body rots.
Dancing and dancing until we drop, until this body rot.
Dancing and dancing until we drop, until this… body… rots.
They then started to move farther into the forest, restarting the song. I felt useless, still frozen in shock, and all I could do was watch.
"What in the hell?" I managed to mutter, finally coming out of my delirium and ran back to the camp to get James.
"James, wake up!" I shouted at him. He merely rolled over and muttered something about his eternal love for pancakes. A tick mark appeared on my forehead and I slammed my fist into his face. He shot up screaming, "I swear it wasn't me! The evil panda ninja's did it!"
I stared at him.
He turned to face me.
I blinked.
His face turned a nice hue of dark red.
I face palmed.
"…What happened shall never be spoken of again." -James
"Agreed." -Me
He took my out stretched hand and I hauled him to his feet. "Anyway, we have bigger problems." I said, face grim.
"Like what?" He asked skeptically.
"Oh, nothing really. Just the fact that Sky, Adian, Vector, and Shade turned into ball joints dolls. But, you know. That's not really a big deal. We'll just leave them to succumb to whatever evil thing has them in its grip. Then you'll have to live with the guilt for the rest of your miserable existence. And then, knowing that it was you who held me back from going to help my friends, I will hate you forever." I said, shrugging. "But, you know. Nothing that bad."
James was now as white as snow. "Hey, I have an amazing idea!" He said with forced enthusiasm. "Let's go find Shade, Vector, Sky, and Adian!"
"I knew you'd come around!"
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And that was how we ended up wandering around in a dark forest in below freezing temperatures. I was in my element, James, however was a liiitle out of his.
"Ahhhh! It so cold! And I can't see my hand in front of my face! Ouch! That's the tenth time I've ran into a tree!"
… Ok, so a little was an understatement.
"Will you shut up! For god's sake, it really isn't that cold!" I shouted at him. "Honestly, the moron. Only Thinking for himself." I stuck my nose in the air. "Shameful."
"OH, I'm the one who only thinks of myself! Who was it that broke into my home and dragged me on this wild goose chase? YOU!"
"Why you little punk!"
"Oh, look, sister! A lover's quarrel!"
"IT'S NOT A LOVER'S QUARREL!" I screamed.
"Umm… Who are you?" James asked and I realized it wasn't someone I knew.
"HOLY ******* WITH *** TATER***SQUIRRLES*** CHOCOLET*** ** ANIME IS AWESOME!" I yelled, tripping over my feet in the process.
"Watch your profanity." A girls voice called impishly while James stared at me in shock.
Two people jumped down in front of us, a boy and a girl.
They looked almost the same, with blond hair and sneaky grins, but the boy had bright blue eyes and the girl green. But that wasn't what shook me. Instead of pupils, they both had a yellow positive and negative signs, in their left and right eye respectively and blue neon wires wrapped around their bodies, connected to black headphones around their necks.
The girl was wearing a sleeveless hoody lined with white fur on top of a gray shirt that had a picture of a bow and black shorts. She was wearing black knee socks and black convers and her hair was pinned back with two black bobby pins.
The boy was wearing a black hoody with a long back on top of a black tee with the white outline of a tie. He was wearing long back pants and black convers. His hair was pulled up into a small ponytail.
The both reached into their pockets and whipped out remotes.
The girl's was red and white, and she held it horizontally.
The boy's was black and he held it vertically.
They pressed a few buttons and the world around us shimmered and warped, and soon we found ourselves in a large, futuristic looking room.
It was a room that kept changing colors every few seconds and those things you would find on a radio, that monitored the sound were lining the walls and there was two TV's in front of them, but four chairs.
James and I spun around to face the twins-I guess they were twins.
"Hello. My name is Gadget and this is my sister Aruna. Welcome to our world."
All done! Thanks for reading! Please tell me what you think of Gadget and Aruna in your comments below, it would be much appreciated!
Anyway, once again, thanks for reading!