A day in the life of Pururu. – By The-Derp-We-Call-Taruru

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{{A/N: Well hello readers! I have returned after almost four days of sleeping. I actually forgot to wake up on Friday and missed one of my deadlines. I don't even care anymore okay. I didn't like that subject anyway. Gahhhh quantum physicssss.
I feel better now. Much more awake. Yes.
Geez I feel like I can't live up to that last chapter. ._.
Now everything will seem short and stupid and….oh to hell with it. I'll do my best anyway.
I was stuck for ideas for agessssss, I had chapters planned but I lost inspiration and wanted to do something a little more spontaneous. Then my friends woke me up at three am to go round the old school house. We're not allowed on the grounds at night, but rumour has it that it's haunted because people died there hundreds of years ago or something dumb like that. XD Ahaha, we concluded that it was not haunted after all. Although we did get detention. It was totally worth it, so much fun, everything is more fun at three am. Anyway it got me thinking about ghosts and BAM, inspiration smacked me in the face like a wet fish. Suddenly I had the urge to write again. Yay for really stupid ideas!
So that is the story of how this chapter was conceived. Now comes the hard part of giving birth to this little chapter baby. GAH writing. I'm going to mess this up I just know it.
*Deep breaths*
Okay. Well, as I always say, I apologise in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors, and mistakes in punctuation, and most importantly, anything slightly…or very out of character.
OHHHH and I almost forgot. Thank you everyone for all your reviews, they brighten up my day and stuff. I love you guys. As long as what I am writing makes y'all happy, I may never ever stop writing. MWAHAHA never ending story! You guys are gonna get SO sick of me one day.
Anyway this A/N is too long. Sorry, I can't help it, I waffle on about things.
Enjoy~}}

{{Edit: I feel like I should warn you guys, this turned out a whole lot darker than it was supposed to be. If you are someone who doesn't like scary stories then you might prefer to skip this chapter.
I will write something really happy and funny tomorrow to make up for this I promise! I'm so sorry this turned out so…uh, creepy-ish.
You have been warned.}}

Work diary: day 36

Greetings again headquarters. Glad to see the old mailfrog is back. Now we can send our journal entry's individually again. Goodness, I didn't even realize the others were still keeping theirs up until the other day, I've never seen them writing them before. Except the leader once or twice. I guess they must just write in private or something. Me, I'm just happy to write anywhere really. As long as it's not distracting me from anything important. I must admit, it's a little annoying when people start rudely looking at what I'm writing from over my shoulder though. Like, at the moment Taruru will not stop watching me write. Even though I am writing this down, he still doesn't seem to be taking the hint. =_=

Ahem~

Anyway. I apologise for not updating yesterday. I was about to sit down and write in the evening when we suddenly started to have some um…ship…issues. Before you say anything, I know. This is starting to become a recurring thing isn't it? It's not like we mean to crash. The leader pilots the ship very well, and I know he's as careful as he can be. But bear in mind though, we're still a pretty new platoon. Even if we're one of the best, we're still only just over a month old. It can take years to master the art of flying such a great spaceship. For a month and a bit, I think we're doing pretty darn fantastic.
Anyway, I better start at the beginning of yesterday to try and make sense of things.

So, first thing in the morning we arrived back at Keron, at the grand star docking bay. It was bustling and full of people rushing about to get on their flights. It reminded me of my first day, when I waited in that exact spot to meet my platoon for the first time. It didn't seem that long ago really. I guess time flies when you're fighting bad guys in outer space. Ahaha ^^

They took away the backup ship for repairs, then we got given back our old ship which they'd finally fixed up. I think everyone was pretty happy, I guess that old ship was our first ever ship as a platoon, so I suppose it is kind of important to everyone. Anyway we didn't waste any time, as soon as we had out transportation back, we were off and back into space again. I think I'm beginning to get my baring's with flying everywhere now. When we first started out, all the flying around everywhere 24/7 made me a little nauseas. Now it's okay though.

Our next mission was supposed to be on Galuneputunion. The water planet of Galutron five. Something to do with finding a supplies ship that had been sent off course after being attacked by pirates. I didn't hear the whole brief, I was trying to deal with Taruru who had gotten a plastic dinosaur super glued to his face and…just…don't ask okay. Don't ask. Anyway, I'd missed quite a bit of it, the leader was going to explain it to me again later.

The problem way, we never made it to Galuneptunion. It turns out, when the ship was being repaired, they changed a few of the ships controls and functions, and moved around some of the switches. I suppose they must have given it an upgrade. Unfortunately, we were not informed of this. So while we thought we'd put the ship on auto pilot, in fact we'd just turned on the window wipers…

Next thing we knew, it was the oh-so-familiar situation of being alerted just as we were about to go to sleep, to the ship crashing down into a nearby planets gravitational field.

We all rushed to the control room but by the time we got there we were too late and the ship nosedived down into the planet, strait into a large dead tree. It got stuck. No-one was hurt, except Taruru who had swallowed the same plastic dinosaur as earlier…for some… reason. Well, we all got thrown against a wall quite violently, but we are soldiers, so we can move on from that without calling it an injury. The leader was horrified that this had happened again, he was so pale I thought he was going to throw up, I think the others felt his horror too because no-one dared say anything to him. Poor guy, I know it wasn't his fault. You guys at headquarters better not issue a punishment for this, he's doing his best, we're all doing our best okay.

We didn't trust the state of the ship, it was smoking pretty badly and after a while the power went out. The lieutenant decided it would be safest to exit the ship for the time being, just in case it blew up…or dislodged itself from the tree and crashed again. It was an awful lot of trouble trying to get down from there. It was really high up, we had ropes but they did not reach the ground from where we were. In the end we had to climb down from branch to branch. Well, me and the lieutenant climbed down. Tororo refused to climb, he ended up riding on the lieutenants back the whole time, Zoruru of course just zipped down doing that assassin thing he does, and Taruru, well…Taruru just fell down and landed on his face. He was okay, he had a bloody nose and whined for a while, but he'll live. That child is the clumsiest boy I have ever met. I'm amazed he hasn't gotten himself killed yet, I have to be totally honest.

Anyway by this time it was almost midnight and everyone was exhausted, and I'm pretty sure the leader was verging on going into an almost depressed mental breakdown or something, after realizing not even one day into getting back the ship, he was responsible it getting trashed again. So we decided we had to look for some place to stay. We would have camped out, but we had no idea where we were, what kind of dangers could be lurking around, what kind of aliens lived here. We had left our weapons on the ship, we couldn't possibly have carried them down with us, climbing down without heavy weapons was a challenge enough in the middle of the night. To make matters worse, it began to storm. Thunder and lightning, rain and hail. Goodness, I can't tell you how much I hate hail.

Luckily…or at least, we thought it was lucky at the time, we found a large old mansion. It looked almost like a giant pekaponjin castle. Big and stone, with great big gawping windows and a large looming door. There were dead trees all around and I'm almost certain I saw graves. It was pretty creepy to be honest, not that I was going to say that in front of the boys, heheh. ^^;

When we went inside, it seemed totally empty. It was kinda cold in there, and dusty and…well it needed a woman's touch, let's just say that. But it served as shelter from the rain, so we…rather foolishly…barricaded ourselves in there. It was the middle of the night okay. It seemed logical at the time to lock ourselves in and cover all the doors so that nothing could attack us while we slept. We didn't even have the passing thought that there could be something already inside with us. It's hard to consider all of the options so late at night.
We then set up camp, Taruru and Tororo managed to find some old dusty blankets in some of the rooms. There were plenty of rooms, some of which had beds. It had seemed as if we had landed in a pretty good place. You know, we had shelter, we had resources.
Just…something was….off. You know, something just wasn't…right.

It started with Zoruru. Poor guy just seemed so uncomfortable all the time, he kept fidgeting, you know, jumping at every noise. He didn't seem nervous or anything, he just seemed so…on edge. I kept asking him what was wrong but he would only reply with a dismissive shake of his head. After a while I saw him go and talk to the leader quietly about something, but the lieutenant just shrugged whatever it was off and dismissed him.

No one could really sleep, something seemed really…not right. Personally I just felt like I was being watched, it was really creeping me out. I got my own room but I didn't feel like I was alone. For a while I wondered if Zoruru was watching me through the ceiling tiles or something. I've caught him doing that before. It's…a little creepy. But no, this felt different, it felt like the walls were watching me.

After a while someone knocked on my door, it made me jump out of my skin. Turns out it was just Tororo. He let himself in and started ranting on about Taruru sneaking into his room and throwing things at him. This seemed really strange, Taruru is incredibly clumsy, not to mention loud. It didn't seem possible that he could sneak up on anyone. All the same, I was far too tired to go and sort it out so I told Tororo to get his blankets and come and camp on my floor, that way if Taruru did it again I would be there to scold him. So Tororo went off to go and get his blankets…but he didn't come back. It made me a little nervous but I passed it off as maybe he'd just decided to stay in his own room after all.

After a while I had almost lulled myself to go to sleep, but I started hearing this strange clattering sound. It got louder and quieter, but it was persistent. I tried to ignore it for ages but it was really irritating, so I got up to see what it was. As I was walking down the hallway towards the sound, I felt someone tough by back. I swear I did anyway… It scared the life out of me, I was about to scream. When I turned around…there was no one there. I couldn't catch my breath afterwards though, I thought maybe it was just my imagination….but it really crept me out okay.

I eventually found the source of the noise. I sort of expected it to be something scary, but it was just Zoruru. He looked even more uncomfortable at this point, I'm sure he was visibly shaking, although it may have been the flickering candle light that lit the place at night, playing tricks on my eyes. He was frantically trying to open one of the large windows, but every time he lay a hand on it, it glowed purple. It was really odd. I think my presence surprised him…which is odd for Zoruru because he normally knows when someone is in the room before anyone else knows.
Poor guy was so on edge. He explained to me that he could sense peoples auras and presences, but he said this entire house had an aura. He said every wall, every window and door had a life force inside it. He confided in me that it was making him extremely uncomfortable, it was like being surrounded by a thousand people all the time. He wanted to get out, but he said the windows were all blocked off with some sort of force field.

I remember thinking since everyone was tired and this place was really creepy, maybe he was just imagining things. But either way, it was clearly causing the poor guy a great deal of distress. I tried opening the window myself but he was right, it was blocked. I'm not sure how long it took to hit me, but when the realization that we were trapped suddenly smacked me in the face, everything suddenly got a whole lot more scary. Zoruru kept telling me to calm down, I think for a few moments I was almost hysterical. I'm normally quite calm, but it was the middle of the night and I could feel the prospect of a very long night looming ahead, I guess I let fear get the better of me for a few minutes. I was okay after that though. Zoruru assured me it would be okay, then suggested we go and get the others.

He went to go and get Taruru and Tororo, and I went to go and find the leader. We really shouldn't have split up. This is when all the horror began to happen.

I couldn't find the leader in his room…in fact, I couldn't find the leaders room at all. I was walking down this hallway and it seemed to go on forever. I'm not exaggerating, I couldn't see the end of the hallway, it just kept going and going, leading into darkness. It was really creepy with just the candle light to see. I must have gone past hundreds of doors before I stopped, realizing that this couldn't be possible. The house was NOT this big before. I looked back and I couldn't see anything that way either. It was so silent and dark, I tried calling out for the lieutenant, I thought maybe he'd hear me and come out of his room. But no-one answered. I even tried calling back from where I'd come from for Zoruru. No answer either. I suddenly felt really really alone. I remember there was this sudden breeze and my candle flickered, so I started running in the direction I had come. The hallway just kept going through. It was so frustrating.

It must have been hours before I gave up and collapsed. No matter how far I ran, the hallway just kept going and going. There was no end and I felt so trapped and alone, I couldn't help but cry. I know it sound unprofessional, and I know I'm an army nurse, I'm supposed to be brave and strong. I just felt so hopeless at that moment, like I would be stuck there forever. All alone. There's nothing scarier in the universe than the prospect of spending the rest of your life completely alone.

I decided at this point to try going inside one of these hundreds of doors. After all, they must heave lead somewhere other than this endless hallway, right? I figured maybe one of the rooms would have a window that I could break and climb out of or something. So I picked a random door and opened it.

To my surprise, inside was the leaders room…well it looked like the leaders room. The lieutenant was sitting there on his bed with his back to me silently. I was so over joyed to find someone else at long last that I didn't even think of it as slightly suspicious. When I ran over he…he was clutching his stomach…it took me far too long to take in the sight of blood running everywhere. I felt the blood drain from my face as I stared at him. He looked so weak, he was so covered in cuts and wounds, all over his face and chest and stomach and…oh god it was so awful. I was so…so distraught. I didn't know what to do. I didn't have my medical supplies with me to help him. There was nothing around the room that would prove resourceful. He was so hurt and there was nothing I could do. I felt so useless. All I could do was sit with him and try my best to stop the blood from the huge slash to his stomach with the dirty old blanket from his bed. I was scared it would infect the wound, but it was better than him bleeding to death.

I was so horrified and scared and I couldn't think strait at all. Then suddenly I heard this voice from outside calling me. It was…the lieutenant's voice. It was defiantly his voice. I was so confused because I was sitting with him…but his voice was outside. It was calling me, yelling and saying not to trust anything I see. I looked at the lieutenant sitting right beside me, his face looked so shadowed all of a sudden, I really carefully lifted his head with my hands to see if he was okay and…I screamed…I backed away and….oh goodness it was so scary I'm not sure I can even explain. His visor thing was gone….his eyes weren't there at all. Just empty holes in his head. His mouth twisted up into the most sickeningly horrifying smile. It was so wide it shouldn't have been biologically possible.

It was at that moment I realized that it wasn't the real lieutenant. I realized that this all must be some sort of horrible trick. Something was trying to scare me. To dig up my deepest fears, like not being able to help my friends when they are hurt.
I ran out the door and slammed it, leaving that creature inside. I was back out in the hallway and it felt even more creepy than before. The walls appeared to be moving in and out, almost as if they were breathing. Everything seemed to be lit in a red glow. It was like being trapped in some sort of chilling scene from a horror movie.

I tried opening another door, completely unsure of what else to do. I figured the others must still be inside the house somewhere, maybe by luck I would run into them. Behind this next door I suddenly found myself inside my lecture hall back at the keron medical university. I know that seems impossible…but I was really there. Really.
I was…right at the front and everyone was staring at me…and the teacher was asking for my finals paper…and I didn't have it….of course I didn't, I was inside this huge house, why would I have a finals paper with me? But the teacher was so angry…he kept getting madder and madder until he started yelling at me…he said I'd achieve nothing in life…that I was going to be failed because of this…that I'd let him down…let my parents down…let myself down. Everyone in the room was staring at me and laughing.
It was so horrible. I felt like I couldn't hold back the tears anymore. I knew deep down that it wasn't real…but it felt so life like. Their mocking voices were so crisp and clear.

I ran back out of there and kept going. I went through so many haunting doors. I kept pressing on. Kept wandering through even though some broke my spirit and others broke my heart. Some just filled my soul with fear. But I am a soldier, I kept going.

Some rooms I watched my friends and family suffer, other rooms I was being chased by zombies and monsters I used to see under the bed when I was young. Some rooms I looked at myself in the mirror and saw an old lady, all alone. Other rooms I saw myself being kicked out of the army for failing at my job. It felt like I was re-living every nightmare I had ever had.

Eventually after what felt like hours, I came across this large white room inside one of the doors. There didn't look like there was anything inside. It was just an empty white room. So I stepped inside. Suddenly the door had slammed behind me and disappeared. There was no escape. I was about to panic, but then all of a sudden there was someone in the room with me. I could just…feel it.

I turned around and there, there in the centre of the room was this little girl…She wasn't a Keronjin. I'm….I'm not sure what type of alien she was. She looked slightly transparent…like a ghost. She was a beautiful alien, not that I had paid much attention at the time, you know, being terrified and everything. She was only about my size, she looked like she was on fire, her whole body glowed many shades of reds and oranges, and she lit up the room. It took me a while to snap back to reality and greet her. I was a little nervous, but she just looked like a little girl, so I held out my hand to her and smiled, trying to be as polite as possible.

She didn't respond for a long while, she just furrowed her brow and gave me a disapproving glare. Finally she spoke and asked me why I hadn't broken yet. I honestly wasn't sure how to respond to that, what did she mean by broken? I tilted my head at her and she seemed to realise I didn't understand, so she went into more depth. She asked me why I was still running into each room, why I kept putting myself in these horrible situations over and over rather than just giving up and staying alone in the hallway.

I sat down with the girl, she looked angry but I didn't feel threatened by her at all. Behind that anger, she still just looked like a small child I suppose. I talked with her for a long time, all about how we crash landed here, and how I couldn't just give up, not when my platoon could be somewhere in the house in danger. She didn't seem to understand why I would put my own safety before someone else's. I asked her what was going on. She didn't seem to want to tell me at first, but it was clear the poor girl had been on her own for a long time, and guess she warmed up to the idea of talking after a while. She explained to me that a long long time ago, she had lived in this house with her parents. She said that this planet was inhabited by a whole race of aliens called the Hyboglobeenions. She explained that she was a quiet child, and other children didn't like her. It seemed she must have been bullied or something by the sounds of it. Either way, it sounded like her childhood was not nice. She said one day a group of girls took it too far, they came in the middle of the night and set her house on fire.

She died in that fire. She was a ghost after all. I guess maybe that was why her body glowed as it did, because her last coming of existence was when she was burning alive.

I know, not a nice thought at all. I was in tears by the end of her explanation. Poor poor girl.

She wanted revenge for what they did. She said she haunted the people of the town. Caused them to go insane with fear until they either died or ran. Then she was all alone.

The next thing I knew, I was back out in the hallway. It didn't feel creepy anymore though. I could see the end. I looked back and the others were there. Tororo was scrunched up in a quivering ball by the side of a closed door. Poor little guy looked petrified, I wonder what kind of horrors he got put through? He's just a kid...
Both the lieutenant and Zoruru had their weapons drawn, as if they were in some kind of battle. They both looked so confused that they'd suddenly snapped out of it. Zoruru still looked furious, he was so angry. The leader looked…somewhat heart broken. I'd never seen such a crushed look on his face. I can't help but wonder what kind of nightmare he had been forced to witness. I think this version of the leader looked even more scary than the version I was in that room with the creepy face. The leader rarely shows emotion but at that moment he looked completely broken. They both snapped out of it pretty quickly though.

Taruru was hanging from the chandelier with his face painted like a tiger, yelling something about evil clown robots.
…I wasn't even going to ask.

We all decided to get the heck out of there as quickly as possible. We un-blocked the exit and everyone fled back to the ship. No one knew what had just happened, but I don't think any of them wanted it to happen again. Even the broken ship suspended precariously in the branches of a dead tree looked less of a danger than inside that house.

As the others left, I couldn't shake that memory of the girl in that room. I waited until the others were out of hearing range and wandered back into the hallway. I didn't know where she was, but I decided to speak anyway, just in case she could hear me. I told her that those awful people she had once known were gone forever. Long long ago. That she had no reason to feel threatened anymore. I told her she shouldn't spend her existence trying to put others through the same pain she went through, she should spend it making sure it never happens to anyone else. Maybe then she wouldn't have to be so alone.

As I finished speaking, the door clattered open and I'm sure the house suddenly looked just a little bit brighter. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but I like to believe that she heard me, and that what I said perhaps made an impact to her.
No one should have to be alone. Not even scary ghosts.

So that's basically what happened. Geez I don't know how long we were in that house for, it felt like days but I'm pretty sure it was just hours. It was around midday when we got out and back to the ship. No one wanted to talk about their experiences, it was kind of an unspoken rule that we were not going to mention it again. Everyone was absolutely exhausted, I personally thought I was going to collapse, haha. ^^
Tororo managed to fix up the ship while Taruru and Zoruru managed to dislodge it from the tree enough so we could fly away again. It's still a bit worse for wear, but hey, at least she still flies.

This time I'm certain we have found the auto pilot button for real. It's kind of late now, and although I'm utterly exhausted, I just can't sleep. All those horrible nightmares just lingered in my mind. I decided there wasn't any point just lying there and suffering so I got up to go and watch television or something to distract my mind. I thought if I had the sound down then no-one would wake up.
Turns out the others must have all felt the same way because when I got to the main room they were all already there, watching a movie on the sofa. I didn't dare question, I just quietly joined in. It's a funny movie about a group of Kocklmainian soldiers from the Sarhahy galaxy getting into all kinds of silly situations on their missions. I kind of lost interest a while ago because Tororo keeps narrating the story line. I think he's nervous. People talk more when they're nervous. I guess today has been pretty harsh on everyone really. Even Zoruru looks a little uncomfortable, he even came down to sit with us rather than being on the ceiling for once. Geez this sofa is too small, I feel squished. Taruru still won't stop looking over my shoulder as I write. He doesn't even seem to notice that giant robotic clown behind him and….eheheh, that made him look away. :3

Anyway, tomorrow we will defiantly make it to our next mission. Sorry about the delay headquarters. Hopefully this has given you some insight.

Goodness I feel so tired. I feel much safer with my platoon, I don't want to go back to bed by myself.
…I wonder if the leader will let me lean on him to sleep.

…

He said no. Geez is everyone reading what I'm writing. Has no-one ever heard of respecting people's privacy?

Urgh. I better go. I shall update again when I can.

Sincerely, Pururu~

{{Woooow that was too long and sad, sorry. As I said, I'll write something funny tomorrow to make up for this. Sorry 'bout the creepy, sad, twisted tale of the haunted house. Ehehe. ^^;
Ishouldhavepostedthisonhalloween.
See you guys later~}}