Hey guys I'm finally finished with chapter nine! Definitely a lot more work went into this one. I'm sure I captured Flandre's loneliness and insanity... interestingly in this chapter. I am very happy with it, and hope you will be too. Also an update: Chapters might be a bit slower starting now since I'm definitely taking more time to work on them... anyway enjoy!
We've been running for a good while when I notice a big forest entrance, I start to feel nervous as we get closer towards it. Sister, on the other hand, doesn't seem concerned at all, though, so I must proceed forwards. Currently it's me, sister, Meiling, and Reimu. We are just trying to find this person Alice, since she may have been turned, and if so we have to save Marisa. I will kill Alice if necessary, I don't care what my sister says!
The forest looks strange and creepy as I hear birds chirping theoughout. A grey mist blankets the entire forest, and I'm wondering how "safe" we really are here. Suddenly I see a spark shoot towards us, and I jump out of the way dodging it. It explodes when it contacts the ground, luckily nobody was hurt. I get up slowly and look around, trying to spot the source of the spark.
As I keep looking I see another spark fly directly at me, but I jump too late and it grazes my arm, then explodes directly behind me. The pain hurts drastically and I scream. Everyone runs over to me to see if I'm okay, but I shone them off. "Get away!" I yell, "In the trees, look for it." I'm able to stand fine but my arm has blood trickling down it, a sure sign that I'm injured.
I keep looking around and notice a small sparkling light flying from tree to tree, I decide to try something. I grab my wand with my good hand and wait, eying the little light. It keeps jumping back and forth, eventually landing on the tree next to me. I firebolt the tree and it collapses sending the light with it. Dodging it I notice everyone else does the same.
As the smoke clears I can finally see the light more clearly, it's a fairy! It has bright green wings that glow, and it grips a small wand. "What the..." Meiling wonders, "Why?" I shrug and ask the same question, but it seems barely awake. Suddenly it's eyes shoot open and it raises it's wand towards us, so I do the same towards her.
"Why are you here?" She asks, a bit rudely. "Don't make me attack" this is concerning but I just see sister calmly walking towards her without a single fear, I wonder how she does that?
"We need to see a friend, Marisa Kirisame." She says, the fairy surprisingly let's her guard down, slowly though. I think she realizes she's outnumbered.
"Very well, but don't do anything you'll regret!" She says, and then immediately vanishes. This world is really something special. We continue walking until Reimu eventually stops us.
"Let me lead." She says, "I know where Alice's house is." We agree and simply follow her. She takes us through a strange path, and sometimes off the path onto another until we finally reach a nice and interesting house. It seems perfectly cleaned and tidied up. It must be Alice's. Reimu walks up to the front and knocks on the door. After waiting a bit, what seems to be a witch opens up.
"Hey, Reimu!" Marisa exclaims, but then she sees us, "What are these two doing here?" She doesn't seem happy to see us, what has sister done?
"Well, there has been something going on. Another incident, it has to do with souls being taken. Simply extracted from the body!" Marisa just stares at Reimu while she keeps going, "Can I see Alice?"
"Um, s-sure." Marisa says, unsteadily, "Wh-why?" Reimu just moves on through and so do we. I see someone that has to be Alice, she's surrounded by dolls, moving and doing their own things. It's kind of creepy. She looks at us with a soft smile on her face, but I notice her eyes. They're red! This isn't good at all. I nudge Reimu and point to Alice's eyes, she nods and moves back over to Marisa.
"Mari, I'm sorry to say." Reimu starts, "But Alice... is gone." Marisa lets out a small gasp, and questions Reimu. "Because Alice's eyes, they're red! Have you ever seen them like that before?" Marisa slowly shakes her head, "Exactly! We can't save her anymore. We don't know how." Alice suddenly moves to Reimu while she's talking and taps her shoulder. Reimu turns.
"Hello, Reimu." Alice says, politely, "What are you talking about?" Reimu jumps and shrugs.
"Um, n-nothing! Don't worry about that." Reimu doesn't know what to say, I'm so tempted to destroy Alice right now, but I have to control myself... at least this moment. Alice looks closely at Reimu, her red eyes glowing more viciously than ever.
"I don't believe you." Alice says, and suddenly all the doll's eyes start glowing red and come alive! "For those who don't know, I can control dolls, and I don't think you want to know what they can do to you. If you let me do what I have to do, then you won't feel a thing!"
"And what might that be?" Reimu asks.
"Well, I need to make sure you can cooperate with... a bigger power." Alice responds, "So I'm going to have to steal who you people are." She means take our souls... she can't do that! Surprisingly sister just looks very calm, Reimu is looking very serious but not scared, so is Meiling and even Marisa! Do I even fit in?
I can feel a twitch coming on, I can't let her live if she's going to spend her time trying to destroy us. She's a threat, a threat that must be eliminated! I eye her every move and keep a strong grip on lævatein. Reimu doesn't have a clue towards my intentions, and that's a good thing! I wait for a little bit and that's when Alice turns towards me, her chest wide open.
I throw my wand and it nails her directly in the center, Immediately dashing straight towards my target before she can move I push the wand deeply inside of her. Then I grab hold of the wand tightly I slice downwards until it exits between her legs, making her bottom flop two different ways and causing a ridiculously bloody mess. This is so much fun! I can even remember that I might've been singing a song I used to sing in the basement locked away:
Why are you running?
You know you can't hide,
Even with your cunning
Your thoughts, they have lied.
Look into my eyes and you will see
A fire and a vengeance that burns inside of me
Can't you see the problems you have caused?
Because of that your life, it has paused.
While I'm singing I notice a fairly sharp knife on one of the plates next to me, since they might have had dinner. I take one and pick up Alice holdingher against the wall I proceed to nail the knife through her skull into the wall. She just hangs there, lifeless, with blood raining from her pathetic weak corpse. I have won.
Suddenly I feel a bit dizzy and fall backwards, I don't know what's going on. I see sister ontop of me and everyone else shortly after. I can't see straight and when I try to sit up I fall back down again.
The world just keeps spinning as I hear: "Flan!" Shouted multiple times.
I don't know how long that went on until I finally blacked out.
I really did like this... tell me what you think! Please please please review it I need ALL the feedback I can get. If I'm getting worse at this, let me know why! If I'm a god, let me know that! If I'm at least improving please let me know that and tips to improve more!