Sorry I haven't updated this in a while, I was working on another story. I just decided to work on this one because I'm thinking of more ideas for the other one. Plus, I missed working on this. I mean, it's just getting interesting! So, here's the fifth chapter. Enjoy! :3
Disclaimers: DGM doesn't belong to me it rightfully belongs to Katsura Hoshino.
As Lavi strolled through the forest, he continually had to think about what was going on.
"If I die here, does that mean I wake up?" He thought. "Or do I actually die?" A million thoughts went through his head. He should've asked his friends more questions, so that he'd understand better.
"Damn it, there has to be clothes somewhere!" He cursed. While thinking to himself, he tripped over a rock in the dirt.
"Gah-oof!" Since he was still wet, the dirt stuck to his face.
"Ugh, why does this stuff always happen to me?!" He mentally asked. As he looked down at the ground, he saw a wedge where had tripped. He scraped off the dirt, and noticed it was a door. Lavi stared at it confused.
"Ok, so there's buried houses now?" He told himself. He went to open it, but it wouldn't budge. He tried prying it open, still didn't budge.
"Locked." He huffed. "I need to find a key, but where am I going to find a key in this place?" He glanced right and left to figure out where to go. He decided to go left, but before he went, took a rock to mark his place.
"It'll be a good idea to keep track of where I'm going." He started walking in the direction and marked the first tree. He continued this method until he found…a very strange tree.
"The branches…almost look like a path." He said. Without thinking, he started climbing the branches as if they were a ladder. Some of them were close together, some were far apart, and it took a lot of effort to get to it. When he got to the top, there was only a candlestick.
"What the heck?" He grabbed it and put it in his pocket. Lavi didn't notice the uneasiness in the atmosphere. He went back down to the ground.
"Ok, now to head ba-"When he turned around, his eyes filled with shock and terror. All of the trees were demolished, half destroyed, and it was a mess. Lavi stepped over the fallen trees and broken tree branches.
"What happened here?" He said aloud. "It looks like something huge came through here." Great, how was he going to get back? He couldn't find where it was in this mess.
"I still need to find the key though." He sighed. He went in a different direction, still marking his place. Before he knew it, he came across a cave. He gulped.
"Should I check in there?" He asked. He looked around and realized he really didn't have a choice. He sighed once more.
"Well, I'm not going to get anywhere without checking." He took a deep breath and hesitantly went in.
"It's so dark." He said going in deeper. His mind clicked. "The candle!" He took it out of his pocket and lit it with a match. He swung it around looking for a way to go. He found a path and followed it. Was it just him, or was it getting darker?
"This is freaking me out." He admitted. "I need to find that key and get the hell out of here!" As he went in deeper, he found an area unlike the others. It was almost like a room. He started a search for the key. He looked everywhere. Where could it be? Then, he saw a hole in the wall. He walked towards it and looked through it.
"A key!" He announced. He stuck his hand through the hole. It was one of those situations where you're reaching, but your shoulder gets in the way and you can't reach it.
"Nng, come on." He muttered. "Almost got it." As he muttered those words, his hand grabbed the key. "Got it!" Then the wall closed on his arm.
"Gaaaaaaahhhhhh!" He screamed bloody murder. Damn did it hurt. He tried desperately to get his arm out. "Get out!" He screamed. "Get out, get out, get out!"
"Guys, Lavi's arm is losing blood circulation!" They had to move Lavi to the infirmary because of…certain situations. The nurses came over and started checking out his arm.
"How is he losing blood circulation?" One of the nurses asked. Out of everything that was going on, they only knew it was Komui's fault. How was all of this happening?
"Nng." He grunted as he pulled and heaved. He didn't even know what happened, he just grabbed the key and BAM! The walls closed on his arm. He started kicking the wall.
"Open, damn it!" He literally cried. "Please!" After a few more minutes of torture, the walls released his arm. Lavi fell to the ground once they did. He was holding his arm, it wasn't bleeding, but it was severely bruised.
"What the *sigh* the hell?" He got up, the best he could, and got out of there. He wasn't going to step foot in there again. He ran out tripping and panting. He just needed to find that door. He found the area with the torn up trees, then went from there. Following the areas he marked, he found his way back to the random door in the ground. Then again, everything here was random, so it…wasn't random?
"Ah, found it." He said bending down. He lifted the poorly made key up and stuck it into the key hole.
"It fits!" He celebrated. As he twisted the key, he heard a clicking sound. He opened the door to find a passage way, but you had to jump down in order to get there. However, there was one problem. If he chose to go down there, he couldn't come back up. He thought about it long and hard, then decided to head down. Before he went, he lit the candle. Then, he jumped down the hole…doorway…whatever it was. The area was dark, and a little bit creepy, but it had a strange look to it. Like it's been used before.
"A draft; the tunnel must lead somewhere." Going in the only direction he could go, he followed the draft and where it was coming from. You were able to hear the dripping of water and the echo of his footsteps. There wasn't much to see, besides the fact that all of this was still in his head. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he found a small ray of sunlight. Lavi ran towards it, relieved that there was actually a way out. When he slammed open the door, he became more confused than ever. He blinked a couple of times; was he upside down? Just as he thought, he noticed that his hair was going up. He looked up to realize that he was indeed upside down. However, he didn't fall. Was it supposed to be like this? He started to travel.
"How strange." He whispered to himself. "It's as if all logic was lost in this place." He traveled for a while, noticing the strange things on the ceiling/floor. Chandeliers, gravity defying furniture, and just about any other strange thing you can think of. Right as Lavi was starting to get comfortable, he heard a sound so revolting, so familiar, his whole body stiffened. There, in the room, he heard an unearthly creaking. Mixed with a moan that was unbearably loud, and a new form of growling. And it was right behind him. He gulped.
"Please don't tell me that's what I think it is." He prayed. He slowly turned around, only to regret doing it. A black, dense fog with shaded, pointed teeth was there. It appeared to have footprints, yet there were no feet. Lavi started backing up, terrified. It was so close, and he didn't have his innocence. He was so vulnerable at the moment, and he didn't like it at all. All of a sudden, the fog darted towards him without warning. Lavi took it as a tip to run, and so he did. He sprinted as fast as he could without looking back, he didn't want to. He kept running even when his legs ached, when his sides burned, and when he could barely breathe. He kept running. He just hoped he was losing it; better yet, he already lost it and he was just getting farther away. Either one was good for him.
"Gah-"He shouted shocked. He automatically fell to the ground. What happened? Doesn't matter, he needed to continue running. He went to get up, but fell again. He looked to see what the problem was. His face suddenly grew pale. There, in plain sight, his foot was stuck in a crack in the floor.
"No, no, no, no, no." He muttered. He tried desperately to pull it out. "Come on!" He grunted. "Not now!" As he continuously pulled, he heard the sound again. His face stared in horror as he watched the monster peer into the doorway, snickering at Lavi's patheticness. As it came closer, Lavi tried even harder to get his foot out, but it was no use. Every time it got closer, he started to sweat more and become even more scared than he was before.
"No, get away." He said trying to scoot back. The…thing chuckled as he floated closer. Just like in a horror movie, it sprinted faster than Lavi could respond. And just like that, Lavi was consumed by his nightmares, just like he was told to not to allow.
"Nng." He grunted. As he slowly began to gain consciousness, he remembered what had happened. He went to get up.
"Ugh!" He replied. What the hell? He turned his head. He was strapped down by chains. His arms were bound together above his head. His legs being the same, except they weren't above his head. He tried to break them, not working. Where was he exactly? He twisted around, starting to panic. Then it struck him, he had read about them many times before and had gotten sick just reading it. He was on something known as, "The Rack." A torture device used in medieval times. As he tried to find a way out, something strange came in to view.
"A- a butterfly?" He murmured. That was strange. Wait, he was in his nightmares. Nothing good was supposed to come out of it! If that was the case, the butterfly could only mean one thing. His favorite Noah was somewhere in the room.
And there you go! This took me days, but I finished it! I'm going to the beach next week, but no worries! I can take the computer with me! Though, I'm not allowed to be on it the whole time. Sorry. But, I'll make sure to update ALL of my stories. I'm even going to start some new ones. So, look forward to it! See ya! :3