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Session 10

Red Rose Garden

The trio continued their way down the hallway, with everything seeming quite normal at the moment.

Unlike the previous room they had just left, blood red walls and a poop brown floor were all they got. Not a single light could be found within this area, making it a tiny bit harder to traverse the area. Occasionally, a brief chill came over them. Yet every time they checked, they found themselves to be the only ones in the hallway.

"Who's there?" Polly whispered, taking a deep breath.

Polly was forced against the wall, a transparent hand grabbing hold of her neck.

The monk looked down at her hand, finding it not there at all. The rest of her body quickly followed suit as she faded away.

"Okay then." Aaron remarked, only for the hallway behind them to suddenly disappear in a flash of thick grey smoke.

They continued on for what seemed like an eternity, coming upon a wall. Not that there was anything special about it, since said wall looked like all the other walls in the hallway. After staring at the damn thing for a couple of minutes, Aaron finally decided to place a hand against it, only for it to make no contact. He then pulled his hand back and walked through.

At first, it looked like he was going to make it. With each step, he fell a little bit farther into the void below. Eventually, he fallen so far that Joey was unable to make him out within the black darkness of the void.

He took a deep breath, sitting himself down. As much as he didn't want to accept the possible fate these people had planned to give him, it was best to wait for the moment. The cold feeling then returned to him, only for a sudden force to push through the wall and hit him...

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Elena opened her eyes.

Currently, she found herself chained to a post, bathed in the light of the moon. The corsair was currently in her digimon form, yet something felt off about it. The past couple hours were a hazy blur up to this point, unable to put any of it into the cohesive piece. She made a quick glance down at the ground, finding a single undeveloped Polaroid at her feet. She made a quick glance at it, the events coming back to her.

"What have I done?" Elena thought, taking a deep breath as her gaze focused on the pole opposite to her. Chained to that pole, was the plush from the previous chapter. She had seen the toy only a couple of times yet, it seemed to want something of her.

Memory Blast!

The beam shot out, only for nothing to happen. She then balled herself up, which was quite harder than one expected it to be. Her next escape attempt involved slamming her large body into the chains, only to get the exact same result.

"Concentrate, Elena, concentrate."

The hybrid took a few more deep breaths and did the closest thing to stretching a chained large rubber bird thing could manage. After a couple of repetitions of this, Elena managed to switch back to her human form. She then went for her kris, managing to grab hold of both blades.

Gale Strike!

Elena threw both daggers above her, watching as both blades twirled through the air and slam into the chains. The bindings promptly shattered, releasing their grip upon her.

"I did it." she thought, quickly dusting herself off and headed over to the opposite pillar. Compared to the "prison" she had just broken out of, this pillar had twice as many chains upon it.

"Good, you're awake." a voice announced, breaking any silence that remained in the area.

Elena looked all around, eventually settling on the plushie chained in front of her. It was that of a succubus, dressed in a red tank top marked with the drogaciji symbol with a matching short skirt and sandals. Two small purple bat-like wings hung out from the back, complementing her pale yellow eyes and a pair of small fangs hanging out of her mouth,

"Uh... Hello?" she whispered, cautious of her fellow prisoner. The plush's face then moved, possibly in a small attempt at acknowledging the girl.

"Free me and I shall fix it." the voice added, the thing just about ready to do it without help from Elena.

The two stared blankly at each other, possibly attempting to send some sort of telepathic message between the two.

Gale Strike!

The corsair's daggers charged with bluish green energy once more, easily slicing through the bindings.

The plush then jumped down to the ground, holding her free hand open. Elena only stared at her, unsure what to do next. She knew what the person wanted but, could she really trust her? While this thing did know something about the device, she couldn't be too sure whether or not it would double cross her.

"You helped me, so I'll help you." After saying that, the plush then jumped into the air and whispered something into her friend's ear. The corsair then pulled a plain pocketwatch out, watching as the cloth and stuffing creature carefully fixed it. While the device looked mostly the same, it still didn't actually tell time yet.

"Thanks." Elena whispered, heading towards the right side of the room. Her friend followed right behind, as if this was the mother duckling she had chose to raise her. "Do you have to follow me?"

"Yes, for that is our promise." the plush answered and clapped, making a yumi appear in her hands. Elena stared towards her, possibly racking her mind for that coming conversation. "For now, just think of me as your companion."

Elena only sighed. For as much as she wanted to question her new-found partner, that would have to wait.

"At the very least, you can tell me your name."

"Lily." the plush whispered, sliding her hand against the wall. Elena followed suit, searching intently for some sort of hidden secret. Eventually, both sets of hands grasped onto a metallic object, and pulled it open. On the other side, they found themselves in a quite plain room. Four white walls engulfed them, which sort of went with a boring grey carpet. As with all the other rooms, the darkness had already taken hold. But, the dark now seemed softened by the coming dawn. As such, light shadows had formed off of something further down. Just the sheer chance that the shadows were their friends was merely enough to get Elena to break into a run. Lily followed suit, making sure she had an arrow ready to fly.

As they got closer, the shadows became much clearer. It was three more masked figures. While they hadn't noticed either Elena or Lily, they were currently dragging the bodies of her teammates, who were still out for the count.

Gale Strike!

The corsair then grabbed Lily off the ground and threw her into the air. She then slammed both of her daggers into her partner, watching the mini succubus fly through the air and fire off a barrage of arrows upon their possible opponents.

As Lily did that, Elena charged towards the group and unleashed a flurry of stabs and slashes upon the three opponents.

"This matter is none of your business!" Goon #1 announced, shooting a stream of bubbles into their direction. As terrifying as that sounded, the attack was as even less effective than the move 'splash' from Pokemon.

After a couple rounds of arrows and stab wounds, their first opponent retreated. The two then turned their attention to goons #2 and 3. While possibly tougher than their previous opponent, it probably wouldn't matter at the moment. As long as they tried their hardest, nothing could strike them down.

"Uh.. aren't you going to attack us?" one of the goons remarked, not at all realizing what they had just said.

Full Auto Fire!

Before either Elena or Lily could attack, a stream of bullets slammed into the two figures and forced them to retreat. In the process of that, the opposing duo dropped the two other bodies.

"Uh thanks?" Lily whispered and looked over the now awake humans.

"So much for investigating."

"Mom, it's Saturday."

Joey didn't say anything, checking his notes. The group then turned their attention to the wall, which was more of a window than a barrier. On the other side, stood Alice...

Notes:

Personally, I think this is better than the original chapter. I could be wrong though.

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Next Time: Now, let's have a tea party!