Bue got up from her long nap and saw D sleeping right next to her, his hand was right by hers. I be' he was holdin' it,...wasn't he. She blew up her flap and looked back down at her sketched outfit, it was a little difficult to make out but the basic features were plain, despite having been drooled on. Pure black sunglasses, long sleeve, thick sweatjacket, wool gray gloves, long white sweatpants that tighten with strings, and her tall combat, tightly laced boots. Just then, mal snuck in from behind the beanbag in the corner of the room, the puppet had returned to it's worn and old teddy bear form. He was still shaking terribly and despite being nauseous, he still managed to crawl out from under it, teddy bear still in hand. But bue heard him come in but luckily it was just after he had pushed the beanbag back to hide the evidence. He tried to remain calm but couldn't help his hyperventilating, the bear looked up at bue after she had gotten up to walk towards them, it's head was motionless but it's eyes gazed up at her, my has it been a long time! I'd almost completely forgotten how those two looked back then! The bear laughed, though only mal could hear him and what he'd said got him a little paranoid though tried to ignore it. "What're 'ya shakin' fer?" Mal was lying down and so swiftly hid the bear behind him and rested his head on his chin like someone modeling for a shot with an idiotic smile, trying to look casual, he giggled a little nervously and bue yawned but had a suspicious glare aimed at him, about to repeat her question. "I w-w-was j-just a-a little c-c-cold, j-j-just got up and I-I w-was cra-crawling t-to the b-bed since I-I passed out o-on the beanbag." It was a rather good excuse as the way he said as though he was shivering instead of shaking (yes, there's a difference). Bue continued to glare then yawned again, nice one! the bear proudly told him with a chuckle, mal couldn't smile or it'd screw up his plan. "Hey d'ya finish with the outfit?" They all turned around to look at D groggily getting up, mal threw the bear under the bed fast while bue wasn't looking, there was a groan when it's head hit the wall, this time, all 3 of them heard it. "Wha' was tha'?" Mal rubbed the back of his unhurt head, "oooowww...oh, uh, that was me. I accidently dropped my head on the ground because I was so tired." D sneered then, imitating a basketball player, made a dribbling motion with his hand and mal's head started hitting the ground then came back up and hit it again like the ball he was pretending he had. Mal couldn't move the rest of his body as a large bump was beginning to form, bue didn't know what to do, if she stopped D then there's a chance he'll say no again to her going outside, if she doesn't mal could get some concussion. She snapped her fingers and a pillow appeared under his head so mal couldn't get further head injury. D turned her way and bue got worried of what he might do, knowing his awful temper. He smiled cockily and she was getting paranoid waiting for something to happen such as, get electrocuted like in his dream, though his smile looked sincere, puzzling bue. Mal gained control of his body again and saw D smiling at bue and noticed her getting creeped out. "If you think I shouldn't hurt him then that's fine with me, bue." Her jaw dropped in shock at what D had said, mal's too. "Yer valuin' ma' opinion?" "Of course, I listen to what my girl has to say." Bue's face was frozen, just in utter shock and slight horror, mal's too. D laid back on the beanbag, arms under his head and legs crossed, looking smug as ever. "What? YOU kissed ME!" "NO I DIDN'T, YOU kissed ME!" "C'mon now, you asked if we were a couple, I said yes and you didn't deny it." D walked over to her, put his arm around her kissed her cheek right in front of mal. Mal picked up a nearby firetruck and threw it at D's face, he fell back, a huge red mark on his face. Bue was both annoyed and glad then looked back at her sketch, put her hand over her face and created the image from the picture. She topped it off with an umbrella just in case as back up. D saw and got up, "Just remember, if you try to stay, I'll personally come over there and take you back, whether I die or not. Got it?" Bue, a little intimidated, nodded while mal got scared in remembrance of his previous training experiments. "D! How 'bout a mirror for 'just-in-case'?" Mal asked worriedly, D happily obliged and flung up his hand and created a mirror. It showed mal's old room, "I didn't know a room residing in someone's head could grow webs." D joked, mal glared while he wasn't looking then, without warning, bue jumped into the mirror with a fast dive in between the two boys and landed right on her feet. The room was almost completely dark except for some small light shining from the bottom of the wall beside her. With their eyes, the room was perfectly clear, every little detail of the room was visible as bue turned to stare at all the features of the room. "I don't 'member there bein' a desk an' a full body mirror."
"Me neither." Mal responded despite no question having been asked.
"You guys don't seem to have retained much memory from back then I suppose." D stated, mal was getting uneasy.
The puppet slowly crawled out from under the bed quietly and rubbed it's sore head.
"I 'member a hallway and tha's 'bout it." She told them as she walked over toward the door after opening her umbrella and pulling up her hood. With her glasses on, slowly opened the door by just a crack to just let her eye see through the hall as much as it could. Both mal and D were on the edge...of their knees, mal gnawed on his lip while D chewed his nails, the puppet couldn't make many facial expressions and so, merely watched with a blank stare, his blank doll eyes were wide open and non-blinking. Bue progressively creaked the door open until she could squeeze through, the door having been closed for so long, the hinges were rusted and old even though it'd only been...two...years, somebody's been speedin' up the agin' process! Bue thought, mal and D could hear and got annoyed at the news, mal especially. It was only when bue had gotten all the way through that she heard footsteps and started to panic until a thought came to her, her umbrella was facing where the light shined through at the end of the hall and so, she did what D always did and began flashing around, giving the illusion of teleporting and invisibility. It was manitoba, he was taller but only as tall as D and mal, that being two inches taller than her, she rolled her eyes at this and managed to flash right by him. After she'd made it past him, he saw the door to mal's old room half open and was frozen with shock as she just stood a few feet behind him, completely silent. Manitoba ran to close the door but before he did, he turned around to see a small shadowy plain black figure in the shape of a young girl with a hoodie and some uncontrollable hair sticking out. He put his hand close to his mouth in the form to amplify his voice, ready to yell, bue once again, panicked. There was a flash right where she was and she disappeared, manitoba was horrified, "EVERYBO-!" Before he could finish his sentence, the shadowy figure had jump-kicked him in the face with full strength, knocking him out. D and mal's jaws dropped, WHAT THE HECK'D 'YA DO THAT FOR?! NOW YOU LOOK MORE SUSPICIOUS THAN EVER! Mal thought, frantically worried and paranoid.
Well wha' was I suppos' to do?! Let 'im call all 'is(his) pals to come an' see me?!
'Ya gotta point there. So what now? You gonna drag him into the-. D wasn't able to finish his sentence since bue was already doing exactly what he'd said, dragging him into the room. She could tell that the both of them had slapped their foreheads from the sound she heard in her head.. And what if the others come by and see you as well, you gonna knock them all out? Maybe…. They slapped their foreheads again but then manitoba started to wake up halfway through the door, bue shoved him in and made the door disappear into the wall. Great, now he's trapped in here until he's let out, nice one buena!
Aye aye, it's no' like I killed 'im, 'e's(he's) still breathin' an'...wakin' up….
"BUE! IS THAT YOU?! HOW DID YOU-". He stopped talking after he heard footsteps running away. Manitoba was completely blind in the room and started feeling around for a light switch. Mal and D watched nervously hoping he wouldn't find the lamp and sure enough, he did, it was only when he was about to pull the switch did the two freak out. "DON'T PULL THAT SWITCH!" "Those voices...D...mal? H-how did you guys…-." "We're from the darkness and still in mike's mind, plain and simple." "Where IS mike by the way?" "I'm not tellin'!" "Grrr." "So just what's stopping me from pulling this switch, huh?" "DON'T!" He yanked the small beaded string and the lamp turned on, they screamed, mal hid behind D holding his head while trying to cover the rest of his body, D's eyes were tightly shut as he held himself and shook. Manitoba regretted the decision and turned it off despite it'd make him blind. "What happened to you two?" They couldn't answer because of their pain and nausea. They continued to shake, bue stopped dead in her tracks from the sound of their screams then more footsteps came her way and she flashed out of sight. "Lon time no see, svet." Svetlana very faintly heard the voice then turned around to see nothing with the small sound of her flash movement trailing behind her through the long hallway as she tried to remember which way led to the end since her sense of direction around the mind had faded with her memory as well, everything she remembered was all fuzzy. Damn! If I keep on runnin' into these guys, they'll all eventually see ma'. If I get caught before I can take control then D'll take me back. I'monna see the sun no matta' what! Bue thought to herself as she slowed down and began to walk in hopes of something coming back to her after getting a better look at things. The hall, dark and plain, made of stones giving it a dungeon-like-feel, it was odd considering how upbeat and 'peppy' the other side was. "Can't complain 'bout the hall, leas' it's dark, I'm no' hurtin'. So then...wha' 'bout the light at the end, I recall it leading to some plain land, all bare except for the sky an' ground. Despite it bein' a min', you'd thin' some creativity would come from it. Mike sure is boring." It's been a lon' while, I wonder how he looks now, pro'ly jus' like manny. I bet the othas' look 'exactly the same as well only talla' basically. No time to dawdle, jus' nee' to fin' the enda' (end of) the hall then I can pull up a mirror an' hop through an' I'll have control, unless…. Bue stopped walking then put her hand to the wall and focused in hopes of creating her own mirror to jump through and take over. A small shining outline appeared as it progressively got bigger and took the form of a large door, glass started to show up and come come down from out of the corners until it became a complete mirror. D and mal were afraid of what might happen next, D had his prediction and mal was just biting his nails, they both refused to tell manitoba of what was going on, knowing he'd flip out. The door may have been gone but that doesn't mean he can't find another way out, he's the smartest of the personalities.
Their fears came true after the mirror fully developed and portrayed it's image of where it'd go, it showed the sun in the deep blue sky shining brightly, bue didn't have time to shield herself with the umbrella and was thrown back against the wall, she hit her head. Bue quickly brought the umbrella fourth and covered herself, the white clothes helped a little but merely stopped her from shaking when, really, she could throw up anytime. Her head came down, hidden by the hood and her hair fell forward, covering her whole face while she coughed and couldn't stop. Because her face was hidden, D nor mal noticed anything wrong with her head other than the normal symptoms, mal crossed his arms and glared at D until he saw and glared back in prediction of his words that didn't need to be said; "I told you so." D heard his thoughts and was about to smack him until he oddly started shaking again despite no light having been turned on for several minutes. "How come you've gotten over it so fast, last time, you were sick in bed for TWO days!" Mal shakily asked D who was wearing a surprised and actually worried face for mal, mal tried to ignore it as he just held himself. "It was just a dim lamp, hasn't been used since you guys left, barely works!" "Left?" Mal looked him dead in the eyes with a serious scowl that'd stab him through the heart, manitoba could only hear their voices and, with his own eyes adjusted, see their vague outline. He wasn't able to tell what their faces expressed, only their words, it made him feel helpless and weak, not being able to see someone he thought of as the enemy.
Mal and D had two mirrors set up after bue jumped through the first one, one watched manitoba in the room, the other was invisible that followed her through the hallway. The two went back to check on bue and D paid mind to her unseeable face. Her hair wasn't it's parted flap and looked completely loose all around her face which was now covered in her jungle of locks. He could tell she was conscious by how she was still holding the umbrella up with her arm but looked fine, as though the light wasn't touching her at all and had some odd immunity to it but still refused to show her face until the very last second when she stood right outside the mirror. D gasped for a split second but then glared, seeming to have predicted this. Mal turned to face him and grabbed him by the shirt collar. "What the hell is wrong with you?! If she's 'your girl' then why the hell would you let her do something so dangerous as letting her see the sun?! Wouldn't she shrivel up like dust?! Don't you care?!" D's glare was much worse then mal's and way more intimidating as his eyes glowed their bright crimson, mal quickly let go and D punched him in the face (straight to the nose...ouch). He rolled over holding his broken, bleeding nose and facing away from D for him not to see his sadness welling up and forming tears. Manitoba was able to hear the cracking of his bone and the subtle wail that came after, knowing it was mal's, he felt pity for him. He saw glowing red eyes and remembered those were D's.
"It's bueno that's taking care of her now. I can't stop that bastard no matter how hard I try, if she didn't get to go, she'd cut her hair, I'd never let that happen, nor would I let her get hurt over there… 'YA HEAR ME?!" Mal heard him but was in too much pain to bother much. D was growing very impatient as he walked over to him and lifted his head up by his hair and didn't at all flinch at how bloody his face was. "I asked...did...you...hear me?" "Y-y-yes." "Yes…-what?". D was getting cocky and mal's pride kept getting struck as he started to break down and give in. "Y-y-ye-...y-yes…...s-s-sir." D grinned then let go of mal's head, allowing his bloody,bruised, and broken face to hit the ground once more, D just walked back over to the two mirrors. Mal was tempted to cry but then the thought of it flew out of his mind as his face turned furious, he knew when to keep his mouth shut and was already devising a plan to return the 'favor'. The puppet, sitting right across from him and just watched continuously with it's black doll eyes.
I hope I made the puppet creepy enough for you guys...have fun with those nightmares! sincerely, astrid