Sorry for the delay!... It was unexpected to not be able to post for this long! Once things start to ease down and get off my shoulder I'll be back to write more frequently! Thank you for understanding and for reading this for so long! I REALLY appreciate it!
Chapter Nineteen: Small Talk, Little Girl
White's POV
We stood stunned and reluctant at the door of the old, ravaged, spooky mansion that looked like it was pulled straight out of a horror movie with widened eyes and expressionless faces except for Black who wore a small smile across her sleeping face. It was painted in a trembling brown colour that peeled off and stuck out like broken thorns on the rotting dark brown, bacteria infested wood that greatly intimidated me and halted any further thought of entering the mansion. It was double storied and EXTREMELY massive, having to around thirty broken windows to the right and left and each side having two white, half destroyed balcony a that looked so fragile, that even the beat of a butterfly would make it snap off like a twig.
The ground we stood on was no other than rotting, hole infested wooden floorboards that served as the verandah. Except that most of the safety bars had been eaten away by termites and other uncanny forces, making them look more like pikes for human skulls in cannibalised areas. Literally. This place was FILLED with the feeling of devil sorcery as well as sacrifices... And what's worse, is that Melody's friend LIVES here! Just who IS she?! Everything behind the house was bare and empty. Not even the sunlight seemed to pass through it for whatever reason... To the right of the double wooden doors that had a strange, uncanny appearance that made it look like a stronghold, was a small, rectangular wooden block with a white plastic circle that had a small portion of the dark grey, raw plastic exposed due to a tiny absence of paint.
"Should we ring?", Nova asked in a low, worrying tone that had a hint of fear hidden in the way she spoke.
"Not sure...", Melody said, trailing off as she took a hesitant step forward with her right leg, creaking the ancient, rotting floorboards loudly like an old bed as she slowly extended out her right arm towards the doorbell. She had a very unusually look on her face that reminded me of Black in a way. I blinked blankly, enduring the suspenseful silence that choked us violently in the three slow seconds it took for Melody to finally, push the button...
At once, my heart skipped a beat and began an extremely fast tempo that bashed at my chest furiously like a wild animal the moment a loud, horrifying chime of bells rung from deep inside of the house like it was it's voice...
"Creepy", Nova whispered...
"Creepy?", a voice from just underneath my chin said, causing my eyes to widen in happiness, easily replacing my everlasting fear permanently as I knew exactly who it was. "Where are we?", Black asked in a tired voice before yawning ever so cutely with her adorable, meek voice that sounded so helpless...
"Apparently at Melody's friend's house", Nova sighed as I looked down to see two, colourful, glistening eyes with the colour of light blue and light red glowing from deep within, causing me to flush a shallow shade of red in both awe and wonder...
"Let's go in", Melody immediately said, letting out a frustrated, long, loud sigh which caused me to look back up and to my right to see Melody staring deeply and angrily at the diabolical gates of hell with her flaming light green eyes that told a story of once upon a time... A girl broke down the doors of hell and barged in with her friends... I braced myself and followed her in suit, still carrying Black in my arms before suddenly, upon taking the FIRST step inside of the dark, poorly lit mansion... I was struck to the back of the head by a hard, blunt object that literally made my vision got WHITE as I tumbled to the ground face-first, letting go of Black who called out my name in desperation in fear before a loud, cracking sounded ceased her completely... Melody... What is she up to...
Black's POV
"So this is Vortex...", I sighed, rubbing the back of my head where I had been hit point blank by a half rotten baseball bat that lay just to the right of the entrance to this bedroom where me, Melody, White, nova and last but somehow not least, Melody's friend, Vortex. I sat upright on he bed, crossing my legs while White decided it'd be best for her to lay down and get used to the migraine that made her eyes spiral like hypnotic wheels.
Nova sat to the right of the bed, holding a strange map in both her hands that looked frail and ancient in front of her face, covering her almost entirely. To the left of us however, were both Melody her close friend Vortex sitting on the sunken rim and stared at me with smiles plastered across their faces, causing my heart to be at unease in anxiety. I had no idea what was going on let alone the situation, but, what I DO know is the fact that Vortex is completely different from what I imagined her to be... When I first heard Melody say her name, I imagined someone with pitch black, long unknown hair who had glistening purple eyes and horrifying blades that rested on her back inside of their blood red cases... But to my surprise and relief, she looked beyond dangerous. Her hair colour was a dark purple tied up in a long pony tail that reminded me a lot about Mindy. Her face was white, her eyes were the colour of gold and her attire was damn stunning. A black miniskirt that covered a third of her thighs, a white undershirt and a light purple, silky shirt that hardly clung onto her soft, white body.
"Black Melody, how do you feel?", Vortex asked me with a smile watered across her face, giving me a strange, narrowed stare that sent chills down my spine for an unknown reason... Like my personal space was being invaded somehow. Maybe it's because of Melody? "Are you feeling a little light headed?".
A little? Damn... It feels like I'm drugged! That's MORE than just a little! "A little doesn't come close to what I'm feeling right now", I stated passively, blinking once before I shook my head from side to side, causing my long, jet black hair to flick twice behind me as the bed moaned in pain briefly. "Besides, why do you live in a place like this?", I asked her, staring I to her deep, golden eyes with my light red and blue which made her smile widen as she leaned forwards in slight awe.
"Why? It's perfect", she simply said in a creepy tone of voice that IMMEDIATELY changed the way I thought of her drastically from an a-ok cute, innocent girl to an actual demon... Heh... "And by that, I mean it's not...", she sighed warmly for a moment, causing White to yawn from right beside me, to my left, before she suddenly spoke.
"Hmm. Then why are you here?", she asked.
"Awww!", Vortex suddenly exclaimed from out of the blue, causing me to blink blankly and wonder what on earth was the matter with her. Does she have a mental illness?! "Say that again! You too Black!".
"Eh?", I said automatically, blankly staring at her with broadened eyes that shown nothing but pure confusion and emptiness to what was currently going on. "Say what?".
"Hmm?", White hummed and a once, Vortex jolted up in electricity as her cheeks flushed a bright, glowing red. Her eyes shut tightly as her smile widened severely...
"Ahhh! I love hearing that noise being made so perfectly!", Vortex exclaimed and as fast as a bullet and before I could even THINK, she leaned over the bed and instantly grasped both of my hands that sat on my lap, causing my pupils to contract to a tiny dot. "You do it!".
"Hmm?", I hummed automatically in confusion without knowing that 'Hmm', was the noise she wanted from me, resulting in one hell of a reaction.
"White! Black!", she exclaimed in pure delight, shutting both her eyes tightly closed as she rose up from the side of the bed, causing it to moan in the sudden loss of weight before she smashed her right hand into the air above her, then, pulled it back down to her face, and finally throwing it out forwards right at me with her index finger extended out. My eyes widened and my blood seemed to cool down to below freezing, for it my heart to pump in an irregular fashion as she spoke once again in her enthusiastic, cheerful voice that induced all sorts of adrenaline rushes into my very dark red bloodstream. "Both of you are soooo adorable! Ahhh! I can't wait to hear the noises you two make when you're touched!"... E... E... E... EH?!
I recoiled back from those words, gaping my mouth slightly to reveal a small portion of my red, slimy insides that Nova stared at with a cherry red face, taking in deep, desperate breath of air loudly before poking my forehead with her finger.
"Hey... W... What do you mean?", White asked shyly from my bottom left innocently with a strong hint of embarrassment and curiosity.
"Hmm... If you touch Black or White, then I'll throw you out", Nova said in a defending manner, easing my heart perfectly down to the right rhythm of the proper beat as Vortex suddenly went silent and flushed and EVEN more red...
"Ahhhh! Nova too?! Haha!", She cried and began to laugh hysterically like she was some sort of villain from a bad cartoon. My blood curled and shifted to the right slightly, wanting to distance myself from a typical quote on quote 'maniac'. She's fucking scary!
"Hmm?", Melody hummed, suddenly ceasing Vortex's laughter and smashed it to bits before saying something.
"Nope! There is NO way that you'll match these three let alone BLACK! But still, you have the nicest breasts out of all of them... Well, us!", Vortex exploded like a volcanic eruption, making White gasp in pure utter shock and confusion to what was going on with Vortex. Heck, I have way more than thirty thousand questions about her right now and I AIN'T getting an answer anytime soon! "ANYWAY! Let's cut to the serious talk", she said from out of the blue, calming down ENTIRELY in the blink of an eyes that added another thousand questions into my list. How the hell does her mind even operate to begin with?! "Black, you asked why I was here if I remember correctly", she began and stared at me with a small smile across her amazing face that held me in a trance of concentration. "That's because I'm trapped in this place. So are you guys... There's no way of escape unless we defeat the boss in this place", she explained slowly, sinking it into all of our minds in an amazing manner...
"I see...", I said, blinking before letting out a light sigh escape from my slightly gaped, pink, soft lips. "Then we'll find it and kill it", I stated.
"Find it? How long do you think I'VE been looking for it?", Vortex said in a commanding tone.
"Impossible", Nova simply said from my right, sounding slightly muffled due to the map she held in front of her white, amazing face. "How do you even get your food?".
"Wisdom doesn't need proper food to live", Melody sighed, instantly making my eyes widen as a bright, glorious purple hue invaded my mind, clogging many of my various thoughts about the situation for a brief moment before everything came back to me as clear as day.
"Purple...", I whispered to myself.
"Yes?", Vortex replied almost immediately... Ah... I think I'm getting somewhere...
"You're the Maiden of Truth, which means you have a lot of wisdom, am I correct?", I simply said to her.
"Mhm!", she replied cheerfully.
"And purple is the colour of wisdom...", I said in a low tone of voice, staring at her in the eye as she did as well.
"Hmhm! I love how smart you are! That's right! I'm the colour purple!", she announced in a cheerful manner as the sound of paper being scrunched emitted from my right, sounding like the person who did so was in pure utter shock.
"A Maiden can't also be a Colour!", Nova cried with confusion.
"Then a Maiden can't also have the Heart of Lightness, am I right?", Melody said, backing her friend up and obviously referring to a special someone by the name of 'Star'.
"Then if you're a Maiden with the power of wisdom and truth, how haven't you found the 'Boss' yet?", White asked in a tired voice from below me from my left, causing me to blink blankly and agree with her after a split second debate with my instincts.
She let out a warm, slightly depressed sigh as she dug her face into her right palm with a quiet, soft slap. Her hair bounced once and scattered all over the place like rope behind her even tho it was tied neatly in a long pony tail.
"If I knew where to find it then I would've been out three years ago!", she exclaimed in annoyance, gritting her teeth slightly as she stared at me and me only... "Only Black is able to bring it forth by letting out a scream of pleasure!". ... E... E... EH!? T...there's no way... That I'd let ANYONE touch me!
"Then let me do the honours!", Melody yelled with an uncanny voice that chilled my blood to the freezing point as the room suddenly shook for a split second...
"What honours?! She's mine!", Vortex protested against Melody as once again, the room shook... What's going on? But nothing seemed to be effected by the miniature earthquake...
"W... We can share her right?!", Nova exclaimed from behind her paper, sounding as muffled as can be which made the other two grunt and sneer at her painfully with anger and greed... The room shook again...
"I can feel it too...", White whispered slowly in shock as my eyes widened to what she had just said, causing me to look down to my left at her with a frightened face of what was going on... But what IS going on?
"The shaking?", I asked.
"Yes...", she whispered...
White's POV
How the hell can Black walk through these rotting, half-eaten, foul smelling corridors like they're nothing? She looks so calm and collected with that small smile plastered across her creamy, silky smooth face. We walked in silence inside of the mansion that was much more larger on the inside
then the outside, giving it a haunted effect that sent chills and strange vibes up my spine every now and again. We walked in an ordinary fashion, hearing nothing but the slow and steady breaths of ice steaming out of our mouths and the creaking of the broken, dark brown floorboards that bared nothing underneath. Just an endless pit of nothingness.
Black walked to the right of me, staring up ahead with a pleasant smile plastered across her face. The corridor was somewhat wider than the usual, over a good four meters in length and five meters in height. But what really made the corridor completely horrifying, was the fact that it was lit up by eerie, ghastly orangey flames that were plastered across the walls of the haunted hallway that was bare of absolutely anything... And the fact that at the far end, there was just an utter blackness that not even my own light could penetrate...
But I could feel something behind us... Something following us... Something... Close...
"White...", Black whispered, causing me to look to my right, staring into her eyes with slight shock due to the sudden breaking of the solid silence that held us like chains of despair. Black' eyes were as broadened as day and her facial expression was more than just terrifying... Her eyes trembled ever so slightly as her pupils were as small as pin holes... "Whatever you do, don't look back", she whispered in a tremble of pure utter fear that was as contagious as bacteria... W...what?
"What is?", I asked before suddenly, my eyes widened and my pupils contracted to a child-like giggle from close behind, echoing eerily like a ghost which caused my heart to react violently. An explosion of blood and oxygen ravaging all around my body with a lethal dose of pure adrenaline, inducing twice as much fear into my very body... "A child...", I whispered to myself right before another giggle was made...
"Not just a child...", Black trembled in pure, utter fear as she stared straight ahead whilst I stared at Black's face with widened eyes and a face filled with terror... "It's... Another Reaper..."... A Reaper as a child?! Impossible!... Ack... My heart... My heart... My...
"Whiiiieeettttt! Look behind youuuuu!", The voice of a littler girl said childishly in an eerie manner, forcing my heart to BASH against my rub cage point blank at the left area, causing me to flinch forwards and cringe slightly in pure utter pain... No... I won't ever look behind! I never will!... "Okayyyyy! You asked for it!"...
"RUN!", Black yelled out at the top of her lungs as she immediately grasped onto my right wrist with her left, soft hand before rushing forwards with excruciating speed, dragging me behind like I was a piece of cloth hanging onto her... She's fast!
"Haha! I never thought Black would have such fear towards a child!", the child screeched like she was on the verge to both death and life, sounding painful and blood curling which caused Black to sprint twice as fast into the deep darkness of the abandoned corridor that had every inch of it filled with nothing but fear and despair...
"White! We have to make it to the end! Try to slow her down", Black commanded in desperation... But... That means I'll have to... "Turn around quick! I won't last forever!"...
Instantly and reluctantly, I grunted and cringed in pure utter fear and hesitation to her command, still running as I turned my waist to the right, facing Black and my head looking right behind me... My heart skipped a beat as a surge of ultimate fear struck me like lightning point blank at my heart... A... A... A... No... Way...
What I saw, right in front of my every eyes, was a little girl... A little girl who's eyes wielded nothing but... Blood...
"NOW WE CAN PLAY!"...
"Time goes on for those who accept it".
"Who's one to say such things to you?".
"Believe in yourself. You won't believe what you can truly do".