Chapter 27: Healed
While the gang had hit a crossroads back at the mansion, Misery was beginning to relieve herself of her pain.
She was still sealed inside her room, but had been bawling so much her eyes were now too sore to continue.
She shook herself off realizing she had to get over her worst nightmare and move on. She began to speak to herself.
"Ok Misery, Frank doesn't love you, and now he never will. But you can't cry anymore or else I might get cataracts or my retinas could start to bleed. It's hard enough being cursed with bad luck I don't need to lose my vision too. I guess I'd better go upstairs and let everyone know I'm okay, I'll just accept it how it is, you are a strong independent girl who doesn't need a boyfriend to be happy, I can face it."
Once Misery had finished her monologue of acceptance she reached the top of the stairs and slowly opened the door into the kitchen.
"Hello? Ruby? Skull Boy? Iris? Poe?" She called out questioningly.
Misery then began to search through the mansion for her housemates, in the great hall, the halls, their respective rooms, the bathroom (she remembered to knock first), and the closet but no one was anywhere to be found inside.
"Maybe they're all outside?" She pondered.
She then began searching the grounds outside the front entrance, Poe's dwelling that looked much skinnier from an outside view, Frank and Len's garage, Scaredy's hammock, the graveyard and all throughout the backyard hills but no sign of anyone.
"How long was I in there for?!" Misery said quizzically. "Ok Misery all of your friends have disappeared without a trace, what are the implications of this? What if I was in there for so long I lost track of time?! For all I know I could've been in ther for years, maybe even decades! I've gotta get to the bottom of this!" she said in a panic.
Misery ran back into the house as quick as a cheetah (well maybe if said aforementioned cheetah wearing a long dress it could easily trip over).
She ran up to Skull Boy's room and made her way up to his telescope, she then peered at Luna the moon, with her big eyes staring directly back at her, now the lunar calendar probably wasn't the easiest way to tell the date, but don't forget the gang uses radios and phonographs for entertainment.
Misery managed to figure it out after a few tries getting the trajectory lined up. According to the lunar stages Misery was relieved to see it hadn't been years, heck it hadn't even been a full day. Relieved to say the least she headed back downstairs.
"There's gotta be a reasonable explanation for where they've gone." Misery told herself before closing the door that lead to her subterranean room. Much to her surprise she found a note hanging on the door, which she had failed to see due to leaving it open. Given it was the only clue she had she began to read it.
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"Dear Misery,
After you retreated to your room, Zaí was kidnapped by an unknown assailant, thanks to Doom we know where she went, so we have all gone to rescue her. Knowing the state you are in now and however you feel when you find this note, we had no choice but to depart without you.
If you wish to come and find us, we may need you if we get into a predicament. I know you and Zaí aren't really on speaking terms right now, but her life may be in grave danger, and right now she needs us. We can't just abandon her, she's one of us and we promised we'd keep her out of harms way.
Zaí would do the same for any of us, so just take some time to think about it, ok? If we don't save her soon I fear the worst for her and her kind being left to the mercy of the witches armada. We're not coming back without her. We're a family, and that means we all stick together no matter what.
Sincerely, Ruby."
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Misery was in shock.
Zaí was in dire need of help. Misery was upset with her but although she had originally wanted Zaí to hurt as bad as she did, she never would've wished death upon her. That's over the line even by her limitations.
"Misery, this is not a game, Zaí's life is in danger, you're friends lives are in danger, Frank's life is in danger." she held back a tear. "I've got to find them and come up with a plan." she said heroically. "I may have lost Frank, but if I lose all my friends I'll have no one." Misery said with a drop of saline liquid trickling down her cheek.
She ran into her room to pack her bags, she didn't care if she came back dead or alive, or even if she came back at all. She then looked down at her casual dress and decided "I'm gonna need some more appropriate attire for this mission."
The determined young banshee girl dug into her other clothes she never wore.
Misery then dug into her most intense outfit, a little number that would make any mans heart flutter.
She threw her dress over her head and left it on her bedpost before looking at her new attire.
"You're time has come."
She changed into the outfit, zipped it up, grabbed her supplies and headed upstairs. She wore a black one piece suit made of leather, it had long sleeves and a zipper on the front, instead of something long the suit had shorts that exposed her legs as they barely went halfway down her thighs and she kept her black fingerless gloves and all of that paired with a pair of black high heeled boots with a stiletto heel. She had also removed the veil from atop her head. She looked almost entirely different. But now was not the time for that.
She went out the front door and saw that a vast blanket of mist had rolled into the grounds. Misery took a breath of fresh air into her lungs before taking one last glance at the mansion. She then set off into the misty night.
"Time to go save my friends."
(Huh? Whaddya think, pretty cool. Misery as a spysuit wearing badass. I know it's not really in character for her but roll with me here I had to give her a motivation to go. Plus the Gloomsville girls rarely ever change their outfits and never expose any of their legs. We've only ever seen the males shirtless or in swimwear.)
BTW, The next chapter might be a little more...intense.