Chapter 6 – Exploring a New World...
The three of us ended up somewhere after we entered the TV with our eyes closed. It was really painful though, considering I landed on my goddamn head! When I opened my eyes after feeling the pain, I rubbed my head and looked all around at the sight before my eyes. Oh, and Yosuke mentioned something about landing on his wallet.
"Is this someplace inside Junes?" Chie had asked Yosuke.
"Hell no, it isn't!" Yosuke responded. "We fell through a TV, y'know."
Silence.
"Actually.. What is going on here?" Both him and Chie looked at me in astonishment.
"This is all so weird..." I added. "It's so foggy here, I-I can't even see."
"Hah, so..." Chie looked around. "We're still alive, right?"
"Are you guys going to be okay?" I had questioned. I mean, they fell, and... Well...
"I think my ass is cracked now..." Yosuke cringed.
"Of course it i-"
"Whoa!" Yosuke's eyes widened when he looked up.
"Oh god, please don't tell me you wet your pants!" Chie spoke with a fast-paced tongue.
"No, stupid!" Yosuke griped. "Look around!"
Dude, this place felt like a haunted TV station. There was fog everywhere, and the floor was filled with all these crazy colors. I felt like I was in a bee hive because of all the yellow, though...
"All this fog, or...smoke maybe?" Chie's head was moving every way it could as she looked at our surroundings. "There isn't a place like this in Inaba, right?"
"N-Not that I know of..." I blinked. The fog was kind of hurting my eyes... I could tell it wasn't anything close to steam, though. Anything like that, I would've probably collapsed from the heat.
"But man... This place is huge!" Yosuke just looked back at me as if I were some sort of freak.
"Q-Quit looking at me like that!" I freaked out.
Chie heaved a mourning sigh. "What're we gonna do..?"
"Well... I suggest we look around." I placed my answer into this. "We still have time before it gets dark."
"B-But-We need to get home and-" She turned her back to us as she continued to look for an exit. "...Which way did we come from again? I really don't see a way in or out!"
"Wait, what?!" Yosuke walked around in a circle. "That can't be right! How is that possible?!"
"I don't know!" Chie looked like she was about to cry, though. "I can't take this anymore! I wanna go home..!"
"Alright..." I could hear Yosuke mutter something like 'idiot,' "So how?!"
"Guys, please!" I hollered, having them turn back at me. "Look, nothing's going to be solved if we keep arguing like this! We need to calm down."
Yosuke hesitated. "You're right... Okay... I'm good.
Let's calm down, and think about this."
"Okay, then." I gave a serious nod. "Finding a way out... How do we do this?"
"Is there really a way out of here?" Chie looked with hope in her eyes.
"It shouldn't be impossible if we got in on our own." Yosuke answered.
"True, but-"
"I may have gotten us in here, but..." I gave a thought by putting my hand on my forehead again. "I promise you, I'll try my best to get you out of this... this... freaky-looking studio!"
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We continued to walk farther into the TV World, noticing that the sky was red and black, but there wasn't a possible way we could fall or anything.
"What is this place..." Chie spoke through our like.. ten minute silence. "It feels so different than where we were at from the start..."
"I think it's a building," Yosuke replied. "This freaking fog, though... I can't even see."
"Are you sure we're not wandering far away?" Chie asked us. I just looked down.. Why did it have to be me? Of all people... Me?
"We've gotta trust your instinct a little, right Remilia-san?" Yosuke must've seen the depressed look on my face, since he asked me something else. "Remilia..? Are you okay?"
"Huh?" I looked at him. "Yeah. I'll be alright... I just have a lot on my mind." That was half-truth, but I didn't let him see that by speeding forward and not looking back, walking into what seemed like a reddish door. Yosuke and I happened to find what seemed like the bedroom of someone's house. There were books everywhere... photos... a nice little window...
"Is it me, or is the fog lighter here?" I could feel his eyes on me.
"Yeah." I felt around. "The atmosphere doesn't feel so heavy."
I turned back to Yosuke, only to find him flip his cellphone up. "No service, what a surprise..."
"Can't you guys slow down a little?" Chie walked up to us. "It's hard to see where you're going."
My jaw dropped when we turned around into her direction. The room's "photos" were posters. "Not regular ones, but they had cut up faces... Blood was splattered, too... It was giving me the creeps.
"It's a dead end!" Chie scowled. "There's no exit!"
"I don't wanna sound like a wimp, but..." I shuddered. "This is so scary..."
"Not only that..!" Yosuke was jumping around again. "I can't hold it any longer..! M-My bladder..!!!"
He ran to the wall and unzipped his pants. I held my breath so I wouldn't scream from horror and...sickness. I covered my eyes so I couldn't see anything involving his lower organs.
"Yosuke, what're you doing?!" Chie screeched.
"I gotta let it out!!" Yosuke whined.
"S-So you're going to do it here?!" I asked him.
"Turn around, Chie!" He said through gritted teeth. "I can't go if everyone's watching!"
I heard his pants zip back up and uncovered my eyes to see if he didn't do anything stupid.
"It's your fault if my bladder bursts..." Yosuke glared at Chie.
"I don't care.."
"What's with this room?" I spoke. "Why are all the posters in here have faces cut out?"
"Somebody has to have a grudge on this person." Chie added.
Yosuke walked up to a certain spot in the room. "Dude, a chair and a rope in this position? Not good..."
"A-a noose?" I walked up to it. "It's a noose alright... But, why would this room have a noose? Not only that, but it's made with a scarf."
"H-Hey, why don't we look somewhere else for an exit?" Chie tried to smile. "Like, back where we came from?"
"Good idea."
We were all walking out of the room in a flash. That was... until we looked at the posters close up.
"Hey, isn't that poster from somewhere..?" Yosuke examined it in further detail.
"Who cares?!" Chie wailed out to us. "I am sick of this place! Let's go! I'm not feeling too good, either..."
"Erg..." I clutched my stomach. "This place..."
"I'm feeling it now, too..." Yosuke looked at them. "Come on... Let's get out of here."
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I almost collapsed onto my two knees as we got back to the entrance. "Jeez... I really feel tired for some reason."
"What's that..?" Chie looked another direction. When we turned that direction as well, I almost cried out at the figure.
"There's something over there." Yosuke, quit pointing the obvious...
A large, round figure appeared through the fog. It began to wobble it's way over here, into my clear view now. Uh, let's see... It's blue, it had the ears of a bear, a suit that looked like he was from a carnival... What the hell?
"What the-" Yosuke cut off in his sentence. Though, I wouldn't be the one to finish it either.
"That's what I wanna know," It can talk?! "Who are you guys?!"
"It talked!!" Chie raised her fists. "W-What are you? You wanna fight?!"
As soon as she said that, the poor creature cowered in fear. He was shivering as if he had been kicked around before.
"Don't yell at me like that..." He whi-y'know what, I'm just going to say 'cried.' He "cried" when he spoke. However, I was the one to take a stand before they hurt him.
"Well..." I thought of a question. "What is this place?"
He placed his hands behind his back after a few more seconds. "This place is what it is... There isn't a name to it. ...I live here."
"Seriously?" Yosuke's jaw dropped.
"If I were you, I'd hurry back to the other side." That bear gave some good advice... "There has been a person randomly throwing others in here. It gives off a really nasty headache."
"Wait, what do you mean by 'throwing people in?'" I repeated that last part. That seemed really interesting to know.
"I really don't know who's doing it," He stomped around, hollering at the top of his voice. "But, whoever is doing that needs to think before they go!"
"What gives you the right to yell like that?!" Chie's voice rose over his. "What are you?! Where are we?!"
Chie's rage signaled the bear to run around them and run behind me as if he were hiding from them. Poor guy, he must be frightened having people yell at him like that.
"I already told you..." He sighed. "Anyways, you should hurry back."
"It comes down to you wanting us out right?" Yosuke implied. "Well, so do we! We don't know how to, god dammit!!"
"Grr..." That bear began to raise his voice again. "That's why I'm saying I'll let you out!"
"Like I keep saying," Yosuke clenched his fist. "We don't know where the frickin' exit—Wait...what?"
The bear tapped his feet onto the ground, and in a second, three red TVs popped up right in front of us.
"Um... I'm not even gonna ask." Chie panicked, so I had to pull her with us to go in front of them and look at them.
"Alright, now go, I'm a busy bear!" He walked up to us and started pushing us towards the TVs.
"Oh god, not again!!!" I screamed as I closed my eyes to wait for it all to end...
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I was the last to wake up as we got onto our feet from our little TV adventure. There was a sale apparently beginning by the time we were making it back. I felt a little fatigued, but at least everyone was safe from any harm.
"Well, crap!" Yosuke's eyes dilated again. "It's that late?"
"We were in there for quite awhile, that's for sure." Chie sounded scared.
"Now, I have a total headache..." I rubbed my forehead to try to stop all the pain. I would have to sleep early tonight.
"Now I remember where that poster's from!" Yosuke suddenly exclaimed. "Check it out, that's the poster we saw."
I looked to the direction he was pointing at, and found out that there was a female that looked so familiar.
"Ain't that Misuzu Hiiragi?" I inquired.
"Yeah, it is!" Chie was pretty hyped. "She's been all over the media. Something about an announcer... and an affair, or something."
"With Mayumi Yamano, right?"
"Doesn't that mean that weird room we saw could be related to the Yamano lady's death?" Yosuke didn't seem too happy about this situation. "And then that noose..."
"Dude, we might as well not get ourselves stuck into a situation." I warned Yosuke. Who would want to get into some trouble we couldn't get out of? "We need to stop. It's just gonna worry us even more."
"Yeah... I think I'm gonna wipe my brain tonight." Yosuke bit his lower lip.
"Anyone else feeling a chill?" Chie spoke again. "I think it's best if we go home..."
Everyone's personality has changed ever since they went through the TV World... What'll happen to Remi and the others now that they've learned about this?
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