A/N: So…? How did you like the first chapter? I can tell it's a lot different than the original XD oh well, next chapter onward!
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Poppy and Sonic's Adventure
Chapter Two: Preparation
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The beauty of dawn bloomed through the shady windows, bringing in a form of light into the dark, spacious room. It taken a few minutes for Poppy to finally awake conscious from her restful slumber, and then another minute to realize she was shivering. The cold chilled her skin pale and grazes of goosebumps formed below her knees, and then turning her head Poppy found Lenny all snuggled in her comfy blanket, leaving no cover for her… ''Leeeennnnny…'' The girl whined loudly, only to receive a muffled response.
The child frowned, wrapping her sleeves around herself. She tried again.
''LEEEEEEEENNNNYY!'' Poppy wailed as small hands shoved against the ghost. Finally… ''What?'' Lenny snapped, shrugging his shoulders off the girl, ''I'm cold.'' She said, pouting as she rubbed her arms in a friction motion.
''…So…?''
''I'm cold! I don' like cold.''
There was a brief silence. ''Why do I care? You've asked me to stay with you.'' Early October had the sense of its chilly, autumn breeze, heading down to the temperatures of low fifties and nearing around possible forties, but that's not enough to make the grumpy ghost more generous. ''I was scared…'' She mumbled, ''you was gonna leave me again…'' Poppy whined. When around cold seasons her big sister would usually give her a large furry coat most of the time, though, she hasn't lately… think it was use for something else… Lenny groaned loudly.
''Whatever, I don't need it anymore; you woke me up with that annoying voice of yours.'' He tossed the entire blanket over Poppy's little head. ''Eep!'' she squeaked, and with a jerking motion tried to push off the covers, ''ah! Help me Lenny!'' She squealed, trying her best to find her way out of the dark.
She couldn't see.
She couldn't see! Blindly, Poppy fell back on her bed, whimpering loudly. Another long, drawn sigh and with a quick, instant motion Poppy can see once more… and she can see that Lenny holding her blanket and staring down at her with a deep scowl. ''Did you serious have to act like that?'' He asked, annoyed, ''Sowwee…'' The little girl shift her feet and smiled nervously.
''Whatever.''
''Time for breakfast! Time for breakfast! Lenny!'' She giggled and propped herself off the bed with a grin. ''I'm not in the mood to eat with you.'' Lenny stated and Poppy frowned. ''Why not?''
''Because I can't eat anything.''
''Then why do you have lips?''
''Because I do! Anyway, I'm outta here.'' ''b-b-but- nooo… I want you to stay!'' The ghost had already reached towards the door, he halted, glancing back at the little girl. ''I freakin' slept with you… what more do you want?'' I want you to love me again, I want you to play with me… I don't wanna be in this room anymore… I don't wanna be alone. ''I…'' She just couldn't form the words. With a frown, Poppy shrugged, ''dunno.''
''Yeah, and so I'll be leaving now.'' It hurt her knowing that her family doesn't have much care for her as they once did, and now, it just seems like she's just here… to be here. ''W-wait! I'm coming too!'' Lenny rolled his eyes and slid through the door with the child following afterwards.
Another morning, another day that meant every other day, which meant nothing special. It was like a movie on constant replay. ''So where we going?''
''We're going to see Luna and Finny.'' Lenny replied stoically, eyes darkening and lips firmed into a tight line. ''Oh.'' Poppy simply said as they- or rather, she walked through the hallway. She liked it when it was daytime around the house… it had more light that showed off in her room, and everywhere else brightly, that's her favorite part of the day, because she won't be so afraid of being alone… in the dark. The morning sun beamed through large sets of glass windows panes, showing a burst of light through the darkened grey walls that revealed multiple paintings as the two passed by. Poppy wondered how they have these type of paintings… she wondered about a lot of things, but for odd reasons when she asks specific questions, none of them would answer her.
The hallway was quiet, a little too quiet for her liking. ''Lenny?'' Poppy asked, hoping to receive some form of attention.
''What?''
''How come you have a big house as this one?''
''Dunno, we found it.''
''How did you find it?''
''We just looked, and then we did.''
''Oh.'' And then as quickly they went through the hallways, the ghostly two went down the steps. Poppy liked questions… it somehow kept them interested in talking with her. She was hopeful for each morning, that maybe, maybe something thrilling would happen… ''So, what are we going to do today?'' She asked curiously.
Lenny glanced at the child briefly and snorted. ''You mean me? Because I scare for a living, you? Like I damn know. However… you might become a potential scarer, like us.'' He grinned, flashing his fangs. The girl gasped loudly and place both hands on her cheeks, ''really?''
''Hm, maybe, that is… you don't screw up anything.''
Excitement glowed through her eyes as Poppy jumped, ''yea! I wanna be a scarer! Wanna be scarey! Yea, yea! Can I be a scarer? Pweaaase?'' Hand clasped together Poppy beamed innocently at her brother. The ghost frowned- second later turn into a sneer…. And then into a dread line, ''…I will have to talk to Luna about it later on. Until then, maybe.''
''Yay! I gonna be a scarer…!''
''Don't get your hopes up kid.''
They continued trekking throughout the household in silence, well, except Poppy who was humming loudly. ''Where do you think sissy will be?'' She asked, staring at Lenny, ''she should still be in her room…''
Boredom slowly took over. ''Can I go outside?'' Poppy didn't have much to do in her free time besides watching movies and playing tea party with her stuff animals. She saw once in a movie that children played on swings and other fun stuff, but she never had a swing to play on… or really did anything fun; she likes fun time, it only occurs on really special times… that happened… two times.
Poppy missed those times.
''Sure, whatever, I don't care.''
''Yay! Thank you Lenny!'' The girl raced out the foyer and tries to reach the doorknob. ''I-I can't reach it…!'' She was too short! Now she can't go outside and play!
''…Use your ability.''
''…Oh.'' Embarrassment reached Poppy's cheeks. ''Whoops! Sorry.'' Using her power the girl pushed herself through the walls slowly, a white blur enrapturing her and Poppy moved through the wall. That's another thing she wondered, how come she can go outside and play but her brother and sissy can't? They never had interest in go outside.
Ever.
Especially when it's daytime! The sun is shining and birds chirping! Sweet butterflies… and… and… it would be nice to swing on a swing set. However, Poppy knew she could never swing on one, because she don't have one! Oh well, at least she can play and run and dance and sing and talk and jump and play hopscotch and climb trees! Poppy scurried over to a large tree and hid behind it. ''Bonnie, I'm going to hide and you're going to find me.'' She never really had anyone to play with, so she always had her imaginary friends to spend time with, ''you have to count to ten, okay? I'm going to hide and you have to find me.'' The area was very spacious with nature- well, besides the tombstones and stuff.
''Okay… go!'' Poppy scrambled away from the tree to find a place to hide. She started exploring outside when she was around four years old, out of curiosity. Counting the seconds the child quickly tried to find a hiding spot ooh! Maybe there! Running over towards the gap underneath the house, Poppy crawled under the gap.
It was dark, very dark. Poppy doesn't like the dark.
She swallowed, waiting for her 'friend' to find her. Poppy frowned as she glanced out, ''…wow, she didn't find me.'' It surprised her, usually- ''ah! You found me!'' Poppy gasped and then creeps out the gap with a smile, ''great! Now it's my turn!'' She ran towards the center of the field, closed her eyes and began counting… ''one…two…three…'' It makes her sad that she doesn't have anyone to play hide and seek with like she sees in movies- it sad she don't have another child to play with…
Why can't children go through walls like she can? Sissy did say something that she's really different but… other kids can go through something, right? Just like her family. ''Ten! Ready or not here I come!'' Opening her eyes, Poppy grinned mischievously and prepared to find Bonnie. Actually, why haven't she seen any ghost kids around her home? Shouldn't there be neighbors? Really because there's tombstones everywhere here! And she never met a child like herself. ''I'm gonna get you…'' She whispered.
Now where would be the best place to hide?
''I'll check the bushes.'' She scurried over near the thick bushes before slowing her pace, smiling wickedly, ''hm, I don't know where she is… I guess I will look somewhere… else! Huh?'' Her grin faded and brown eyes widen, staring inside the bushes in confusion. ''What's that?'' There was something small and entwined inside the bushes and Poppy narrowed her eyes in inspection. ''Hm…'' Her hand reached out to grab the mangled object, and she gasped. ''Yeah! I got a blanket!'' Pulling and yanking with all her strength, she finally managed to pull out the raggedly and somewhat torn cloth. Also, it was a blue color! ''Woah, it's a blue color! Sweet!'' She earned treasure! Now it's time to do some treasure hunting!
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''We need to prepare for Halloween in the next two weeks.'' Multiple of papers were scattered everywhere across the table, and a large notebook held in Luna's grasp. Pencil twirled lightly between her fingers, the girl hummed as she began listing things, ''we need the house scarier than anything else this month, visitors will be coming to visit the place and so we need it to appear haunted.''
''Yes ma'm.''
''So, what we need to do is darken all the curtains, add more spider webs and keep this place dark as possible at night. Another thing, check the mirrors for any cracks… if you are going to scare the humans then you must use a clear mirror.'' The ghostly meeting settled in Luna's room every year… it was like an important factor of life itself. ''Recharged your cameras and make sure to use stealth!'' Every month of Halloween was important role to play- since they were ghosts they have to have the purpose of scaring!
The two male ghosts nodded with a grin. ''Oh, don't you worry sweetheart! I'll stealth quieter than a ninja!''
''You may stealth, but you certainly can't scare!''
''Quiet Finny! I was talking!''
''Says who?'' Luna groaned loudly as the brothers glared at eachother, ''please, not now… it's sweet for you fighting over me, but we have more important matters to tend to.'' The brothers huffed and Finny grinned, ''he still sucks.'' ''why I outta…!'' Luna shook her head and sighed. They need to switch up the tactics, and game change for better scaring then repetitive acts… they need to use a different route.
…
Maybe… maybe Poppy can have some use. She snapped her fingers and grinned, ''Guys, we're going to freshen scaring up a bit.'' The brothers were too infatuated with rivalry that they completely ignored her… ''You long-nosed dork!''
''Chubby lard of ice cream!''
''Kiss my ass.''
''Like I-'' ''THAT'S ENOUGH!'' The anger blew over faster than she could blink. The ghosts stared at her, startled, ''…'' That seemed to gain their attention… damn, she hates being ignored. Exhaling, the ghost girl sighed, ''…now, as I was saying… we need to switch up scaring techniques, and what's not scarier than a creepy little girl in a dark house?''
A/N: Poppy is going to scaring school now! :D haha, anyway, it's short, yes but I don't want to strain myself with long chapters :p I want to keep completing the stories with enough chapters that'll satisfy readers and myself. Next chapter onward!