FORGIVE THE BUCKET GIRL! (Bows down furiously) I had so much time to write, but I didn't! I deserved to be punished! Don't compliment me on my crappy work! Don't give me false hope! Don't even review this chapter! Well...actually...you can still review...BUT PLEASE FORGIVE! (Cries)
The song Numb/Encore used in this chapter belongs to Linkin Park, not me. Chapter 6!
Flashback
It had been so dark. Like an endless gaze of nothingness. She couldn't move. She could barely breathe. She couldn't remember the last time she ate. Her stomach growled; it was the only noise she had heard since she first got in the box. The very idea of cramming herself in a tiny box and taking a day-long plane ride to England was sheer stupidity itself. She would have began sobbing if she was able to move. Oh, how she wished she could have just stayed in Japan...
...Wait...there was a light...did the boxstop moving? Someone was opening the box...someone with blue hair and black pits for eyes...it's an angel! And angel has come to save her! She couldn't wait to tell Mr. Kyuzo...
She jumped out of the box, but all of a sudden her memory was lost. She couldn't remember a thing. As if...everything she had ever been had gotten erased...forgotten...what was happening?
"...Nani?"
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Possession: Day 9
Noodle woke up with a frightened startle. She was panting hard, like she was having a nightmare. But it hadn't been a nightmare; not really. It was more like...a memory. She thought of that day clearly, when 2D had opened her box to a whole new world of toys and video games...and love. The Japanese girl blushed.
"Wakey wakey, Noodle love."
Noodle stared up and realized she wasn't where she had been before. The bench she had been sleeping on was a large snake, which slithered away when she stood up. The ground wasn't cement, but a hard and cold dirt ground with weeds and fungi growing everywhere. The sky wasn't even a sky. Just an endless array of darkness, with no sun or hope, just like her old box...
Noodle shivered, looking around for her axe. This place had an evil feel to it, as if it was a place where Satan himself dwelled in lonliness...and he only brought her here to have company for the rest of eternity.
"Well, you're partly right. Satan comes here sometimes when he wants a drink or two. But it's usually just me and a couple others."
Noodle felt a chilling wind blow past her from behind, and, feeling a strong presence, she craned her neck. She was face to face with another girl who looked exactly like her. Her entire facial structure was the very same as Noodle's, her violet hair, her skinny waist, her almond eyes, everything...except her pupils. Well, pupil. Some of her long hair covered her right eye. But her pupil...this other girl had none.
"You look...just like me."
The girl smiled. "On the contrary, Noodle love, you look just like me."
The wind came again, even more brisk than the last. Noodle could see her breath in the air.
"Where am I?"
"You're in my world, Noodle. See where I must dwell? See where I have to suffer for you? See where I have been for the past 300 YEARS?"
The girl took a few angry steps forward. Noodle took a couple awkward steps back. The girl would have had so much hatred in her eyes, if she had had any at all. Now, they were just two colorless holes to look at and wonder what they actually were. Noodle's breath quickened with the cold.
"You are the Axe Princess."
The girl smiled. "Yes, Noodle. Yes I am. This is the world of the Axe, my world, the world I had to live in before you killed Murdoc. I've been inside the Axe ever since my own soul was sealed to it...when I was alive."
The other girl swept away the long hair hiding the right side of her face, and Noodle was shocked to see a dagger jammed into her eye. Dried blood gathered around the edge of the blade, a grueling and horrifying sight to see. Noodle stared at the Axe Princess, not because of the dagger or the ugly girl she saw before her, but because of the unbearable sadness she abruptly saw in her left eye. Before, it had been completely empty and full of nothing, as if shenever felt anything at all.But now it was icy blue, full of coldness and melancholy feelings. It seemed to be telling Noodle a story, a story of love and betrayel, one only the Axe Princess could tell...
"When I was alive, I was so happy. I had met the love of my life. His name was Jacob. He was the most handsome man I had ever been fated to meet...he looked a bit like your 2D. Anyway, we were in the meadows one day, and I had a ring in my hands...I was going to propose to him. I know the man is suppossed to ask the woman, but...I was afraid...he was never going to ask me...
"...I was on the ground and so was he. I took out the ring and asked him, 'Jacob...I know I must be crazy for asking, but...will you be kind enough to marry me?'"
Noodle waited for the Axe Princess to finish patiently. The other girl just stood there for a moment, her hands covering her face, probably sheilding tears. Noodle thought of a song that would fit the setting, one she had heard while listening to the radio for 23 hours.
Tired of being what you want me to be...feeling so faithless, lost under the surface...
The Axe Princess spoke again.
"He said, 'And why would I do such a silly thing like that?' I told him that I thought he loved me. He said no, that it was a lie."
Don't know what you're expecting of me...put under the pressure of walking in your shoes...
"He told me he loved me before! He said I was the only one for him! HE TOLD ME HE WAS IN LOVE WITH ME!"
Every step that I take is just another mistake to you...
Noodle watched the other girl with half-closed eyes as she felt the familiar bittering wind blow upon her already chilly body. It was then she finally realized she wasn't wearing a coat. The Axe Princess was hurting; she could see it in her eyes. Noodle didn't want to look, didn't want to feel the same hatred this other girl felt. She balled her fists tightly and didn't dare look at the Axe Princess.
She just listened. And softly sang Numb to herself.
I've become so numb I can't feel you there, I've become so tired so much more aware...
"It turned out that Jacob was gay. Not just with any other gay guy, though. The other one...the one Jacob said he loved...he was my friend. In fact, he was one of the best friends I ever had. I even told him I was going to propose to Jacob..."
The Axe Princess looked at Noodle. Noodle was still cringing.
"You know, Jacob's lover looked a lot like that Murdoc we killed. Well, technically, you killed him, but I helped you. I told you to do it, because he reminded me so much of the friend that betrayed me."
Noodle opened her eyes with a starled jump at the reminder of Murdoc. Suddenly, a haunting memory came flooding back, one she had almost forgot about, one that scared her to this day...
Flashback
Noodle had been playfully stringing her guitar in her room. It had been 12 days since she first arrived at Kong Studios, in her little claustriphobic box. She had made quick friends with the one named 2D-san, and tremendously adored the big dark one named Russel-san, but she had hardly ever seen the dirty one named Murdoc-san. She didn't speak a lip of English, except for the word noodle, but she still wished she could talk to this mysterious man...as creepy as he was.
Suddenly, there was a loud thump on her door. Noodle strummed a strange note on her guitar and jumped a couple feet in the air. Her dark purple hair stood up on straight end. She waited for someone to come inside, but no one did. It was probably just a zombie. Noodle shrugged and began plucking her guitar again, until she heard the same thump. This time, the young girl put her guitar down gently and walked over to the door to see what it was, and stared with amazed eyes once she saw what it was.
There was Murdoc-san, leaning against the door! She could finally talk to him now! A big smile grew across her face as she greeted him cheerfully, "Konnichiwa!"
He didn't reply. All he did was grin wickedly. The rugged man fell on top of the girl, almost crushing her. There was a beer bottle in his hand, which he threw on the ground. Noodle watched it shatter to pieces, fearing for her life. She looked at Murdoc with wide eyes, waiting for him to destroy her. But he never did.
He did do something, though. Something much worse.
"Hey, sexy, want me to butter your muffin?"
Now, Noodle didn't know what a muffin was, or what sexy meant, but she did know that Murdoc wasn'there to talk to her. She wanted to scream, but the fear of having Murdoc hurt her was enough to keep her silent. Slowly, he rolled off her and and onto the floor, closing the Japanese girl's door so no noise could escape. Russel, two rooms down, was quietly listening to his hip hop CD, unaware of the screams and thumps and cries for help issued down the corrider...
End flashback
A small tear ran down Noodle's cheek ata recallof that incident. It had been eons ago, but still clear in her mind. Murdoc had sexually harassed her, and had almost caused her to lose her virginity, but luckily 2D had heard her cries and put a stop to it before it was too late. The three men always thought Noodle was too young to remember, but she did. In fact, that was the reason she loved 2D so much. That was the reason she feared Murdoc. That's the reason she killed Russel, because, in the one moment that she needed him, he wasn't there. All the other times, when she was perfectly fine by herself, he was there. But not when she needed him the most.
Noodle stared at the Axe Princess, who was now grinning evilly. The dagger's blade shined like it was her own pupil giving Noodle a curious wink, but there was no sunlight to reflect the light. The wind was dying down, and Noodle felt her warmth slowly returning to her. In the distance, she could see more darkness approaching.
"Wondering why I have a dagger shoved in my eye, Noodle love? Well, there's actually a funny story to go with it. You see, when Jacob rejected my proposal, I wasn't just sad, but angry. Angry that Jacob loved a man more than he loved me. So I decided to kill his lover. I grabbed an old rusty axe and ran over to his house, but he was ready with a brand-new shiny dagger. I got him with my axe, but before he died he stuck the dagger in my eye. I could never get it out. I don't mind, though. It doesn't hurt as much as it used to. Besides, it makes me look pretty, don't you think?"
The Axe Princess gave Noodle a big toothy grin, which revealed a mouth full of spiders and grime and other gruesome features. Noodle had to hold her hand over her mouth to keep from puking. The Axe Princess was so ugly, yet so...beautiful. It was hard to describe such a person, or rather, a zombie.
"I sealed my soul to the axe so it would help me if I ever felt weak, and we vowed that if we ever saw another soul get so heartbroken, we would assist them in getting their revenge. You just happened to be the one that got to us first."
The darkness Noodle had seen before was now closer than ever, and Noodle felt herself being swept away into its grasp. The Axe Princess stood as still as a cold, dead body. She cringed as well.
"Our time is almost up, Noodle. The axe and I have helped you as much as we can. Now it's time for you to help yourself."
The darkness picked up the Japanese girl. "But I do not want to kill anymore! I do not want to hate!"
"You have no choice."
Noodle looked into the Axe Princess's eyes (well, eye) with such a fear it grabbed her attention.
"You did...you did not kill Jacob, did you Axe Princess?"
The Axe Princess did nothing but smile. Nothing but smile and cackle the most evil cackle the girl had ever heard. And that was all she heard while plunging through and endless vapor of darkness, and that hatred she saw in her eye was all she could see, and the thought of the Axe Princess getting hurt sobadlywas all she could think.
Surprisingly, she didn't cry the whole way back to her world.
(Pant pant pant) So...tired...must drink...Red Bull! (Grabs a can of Red Bull) All that for such a crappy chapter, too...
Well, that took me long enough to write...so sorry, you guys! I'd say I was busy, but I wasn't really. Just unispired. Anyway, this is the last author's note I'm going to post, to keep the mood of the story, so...enjoy it! I still plan on taking down When Gorillaz Ruled the World, but you probably don't care so YEAH! (Cheers) There's only going to be 2 chapters left to this story, or at least, that's what I plan, so get ready for a big climax. And don't expect a happy ending...that's all I'll say.
Thank you all for reading, and don't forgot to review! Reviews feed the voices inside me!
Reminder: Jacob, the Axe Princess's old love, was not Jacob Niccals. Jacob Niccals and the Jacob in this story are two totally different people. Also, the fact that the Axe Princess and Noodle look exactly the same is just coincidence. They are not related in any way except by the axe. Thank you, have a nice day!