A/N: Just a warning, if you haven't done the Sunset House puzzles yet, there will be a few spoilers :)
Unease filled Alice from head to toe, nothing felt right about this place. The foyer of the mansion was covered in cobwebs and dust, and right in the middle, a skeleton hung from the ceiling. Two doors on either side were closed, as was the one in front of them. Beside the skeleton was a small table, an old note rested upon it. Alice picked it up, reading the rushed, cursive words.
If you are reading this, then the house has returned somehow. I feared this might happen, so before I burnt it down, I left a note for those that might follow. Then as the house burnt, I realized the note would be burnt too, so I wrote a second one. But when I went to place that note, I found that the first one untouched. So I had to write a third one to explain all of that, which is this one, but the point is, the house is cursed by an entity or pure evil and malice. It is the stuff of nightmare, so whatever you do, do not sleep here. You've been warned.
If the note didn't worry Alice, the door in front of her opening on it's own certainly did. She looked down at Sadie who was waiting patiently for Alice.
Alice sighed, before making her way through the set of doors that led up a stair case. The closer she got to the room, the clearer the sound of a bedtime tune was heard. Upon arriving on the final few steps, Alice was able to see the bedroom. The walls of the room were on fire, massive doll's the size of the floor to almost the room, sat behind screens that rested behind an old, rickety bed, centered in the room. The floorboard creaked under each step Alice and Sadie made, making their hearts pound.
The closer Alice got to the bed, the louder the music played. Her eyelids began to droop, and her movement became more forced to get to the bed. Sadie sensed Alice's weariness, clutching the fabric of the arm of Alice's white shirt, pulling it gently as she lead her to the bed.
Once there, Alice didn't make any hesitation lay on the old bed, no matter how unstable it looked. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she was gone in a deep sleep.
Alice's eyes fluttered open upon hearing the music stop. Her eyes soon widened, as she soon discovered she was no longer in the same room she fell asleep in. She was outside, but nowhere she remembered. The air was cold, and slightly misty, a light contrast against the darkness of the night.
She slipped out of the bed, noticing her loyal companion was no longer by her side. Alice frowned upon noticing a life-sized chess board. One side had life sized people and chickens as the chest pieces for white, whilst the other side, had different types of creatures; Hobbes, Hollow Men, Bandits and Sand Fury's.
Alice walked towards a chest, placed in the middle of the board. She lifted the lid up, finding nothing but a piece of parchment. She picked it up and read;
'Hello! Do you like playing games? I love playing games. Maybe if you like playing games too, we can be Super Best Friends! Let's play chess!
~Chesty, your friendly chest
P.S. I like killing people too, it's so much fun isn't it?'
Alice had to stifle a giggle, putting the note back into the chest. As soon as the lid of the chest was closed, it disappeared. She walked over to the white side of the chess board, standing at the smaller chess board to play.
Luckily for Alice, she knew how to play chess, each piece she moved on the smaller board, a life-sized piece would move on the main board.
Their game continued, until Alice managed to checkmate.
All the pieces of the board disappeared, and were materialized into the beginning positions. The chest materialized on the chess board once again. Alice walked over, opening it to find another note.
'I think we can be Super Best Friends, but this game is stupid! There are so many rules! Let's play a new game. I hope you will like it because I made it up myself. I call it, Chesty's Chest!
~Chesty'
The Hobbes, which were Chesty's pawns, came to life. Alice quickly pulled out her gun, and luckily it only took one shot to shatter the stone pieces.
Gaining a cut on her forearm, Alice shot the final Hobbe who had snuck up on her. But the silence didn't last long, with the rest of the creature chess pieces coming to life.
Alice rolled to the side dodging a Sand Fury's attack, before firing twice at it's head, it's stone form falling to the floor in a clutter of bits and pieces.
She continued to fire away, dodging several attacks every now-and-then, until the last piece fell to the ground.
The chest appeared, and hopefully for the last time. Alice approached it and lifted the lid, grabbing the note from within.
'You are the bestest Super Best Friend a chest could ever hope for. That's why I'm going to give you a present. My House! You can sleep here and kill stuff and play chess whenever you want!
~Love, Chesty.'
Alice shot awake, her chest heaving and sweat masking her forehead as she gasped for air. She breathed a sigh of relief to find she was back in the bed she fell asleep on, with Sadie beside her.
"Hey girl," Alice breathed, scratching Sadie behind the ear. She got off the old bed and immediately, and she and Sadie left the bedroom. When they came into the entrance room, the door on the left was opened. The pair went in, walking down a hallway, with a grandfather clock ticking away. The hallway lead to a dining room. On the further end of the dining room was a rather large mirror, frowning Alice walked towards it, noticing how the reflection showed an elegant and clean dining room. She only frowned more, staring from the dining room to it's reflection. Alice went to tap her finger against the mirror, only to find it went straight through. Her eyes widened, putting her whole hand through. Taking a deep breath, Alice walked through the mirror, and into the clean dining room she saw in the mirror.
Curious, Alice walked through the now clean hallway, and found that the entrance room was furnished and clean. This was new and clean copy of something old and dusty.
"Alice?" A voice asked making Alice turn quickly as she pulled out her gun, aiming it at the head of none other than Reaver. But something was different. His eyes were no longer dark brown…they were blue. Her eyes widened in realization.
"Alexander."
He smiled at her, taking long strides to get to her quickly, pulling her into his strong arms. Alice froze, her heart pounding. She was tense and he could tell, pulling away from her with a look of concern.
"Love, what is it?" he asked softly.
It took her some time to form her words, but when she did, all she said was. "Not you."
He frowned in confusion, but Alice gave him no time to respond as she grabbed his hand, pulling him back through the hallway, marching both of them the the mirror. She dragged him through, into the dusty, cobweb filled side. Turning to face him, she immediately saw that instead of Alexander stood Reaver.
Reaver turned his head to look at the mirror, scowling at the thought of Alexander. He turned his head back to Alice.
"What did you mean?" he question, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"What?"
He rolled his eyes, "When you said, 'No You'. What did you mean?"
Alice sighed, "This."
Reaver's scowl turning into surprise as Alice suddenly pressed her lips to his in a short, chaste kiss.
A/N: I finally did it! Woo! I hope that was okay, I wanted to do something like that without Reaver being out of character, so there you go :) Hope you guys enjoyed :)