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Havenxxx · by **Havenxxx** on Mon May 04, 2009 2:31 pm

Sunny continued next to Red as she stared up in a daze at the sky. She watched as lights crossed the sky so freely and like many other things, it made Sunny desire to have a free mind even more. She was sucked out of her own thoughts as Red spoke of people.

People in the forest? If Sunny had real skin she knew her face would've brightened at the meer thought of new people. It was rare that there were visitors to the Netherworld and as Red said they were people, Sunny was beginning to hope that they would turn out to be harmless. It was already hard enough having to keep her own self together but adding on a few more evil creatures would be too much of a challenge.

"Were they good? How many of them were there? Oh no, you can't kill them, Red!" Sunny placed her thin, stitched her on Red's shoulder, stopping her in her traces. "I want to meet them! We have to get to them before someone else, Red."

BurningBridges · by **BurningBridges** on Mon May 04, 2009 3:02 pm

Red knew she shouldn't have said anything. After shrugging Sunny's hand off of her shoulder, she quickly turned to stand infront of Sunny, shoving her hand over the doll's mouth. "Would you shutup!" She hissed as her eyes scavengered the area. It was mostly occupied by the good but that was where the evil creatures liked to lurk. It was an easy feast.

"I don't know if they were good and I don't know, there were probably five or six of them," She replied after slowly pulling her hand away from Sunny. Red pulled her hood farther over her head so that her face was much darker, almost just a shadow.

She sighed, turning around slightly as if she were going to go back to the forest with Sunny. "I don't kill people, Sunny. What a silly thought," She said as she shoved the lie aside and began walking towards the forest. "I don't even know if they're still in there but I might as well just bring you. You're arms are big enough to carry wings, right?"

She continued walking as she kept her eyes straight ahead, tightening her grip on the wooden basket after every small noise she heard. Most of it was just the wind or Sunny stepping on a twig or something but Red knew she could never be too careful. As she walked she came up with a miniature plan. If anyone was to jump down from one of the towering trees that they were now approaching, Red would just trip Sunny and let them take her.

Saint Lucifer · by **Saint Lucifer** on Mon May 04, 2009 11:09 pm

Ev couldn't take her eyes off the limbs the girl in the bloodstained labcoat was holding, even though she had clamped a hand over her mouth, and was trembling, and felt as if she was going to be sick at any second. She wanted to look away, but couldn't quite do it.

Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God.

Ev could deal with blood. Ev could deal with dead people. Ev could deal with foreign objects poking out of wounds. The one thing Ev couldn't deal with was severed body parts.
She stared wide-eyed at the girl with the glasses and the armful of limbs. This is sick, she thought weakly. This is so sick. It wasn't fucking funny before, but this has gone well beyond a joke now. It's just wrong.

And this girl said she could help them get out of here?

"Oh my God," was all Ev could manage.

And then Ev was pulled away from the horror of the limbs by Alec, who was announcing to the group that he was, of all fucking things, hungry. How could anyone say they were hungry when there were a pile of fucking limbs staring them in the face?

"Are you crazy?" she choked out at him, her voice wobbling.

SaveYou · by **SaveYou** on Tue May 05, 2009 11:59 am

Alyssa's eye narrowed as the other boy announced he was hungry. That wasn't good. She knew occassionally, out of desperation, people trapped here may cannibalise each other, but only after a few days of wandering around, lost. This was worrying.

She didn't speak as the girl in the ripped dress talked with Scissor-Boy, and Wings questioned the hungry kid; she just calmly picked up her limbs, and beckoned for them to follow.

Will watched her uneasily as she collected the limps again, but when she beckoned, she knew Madam Crazy was their best bet. Grabbing ahold of Zack's wrist so she wouldn't wind up following her alone, she started after her.

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It took half an hour of walking towards the ominous spire to reach Alyssa's home. She barely spoke to them as she walked; the most she said was her name, and that they had to keep close to her unless they wanted to get killed, before she fell silent. It had taken Will ten minutes to work up the courage to let go of Zack's hand, and she was still terrified of something jumping out at her.

Mountains rose around them halfway down the path, and ash floated in the air as they walked over ruins of houses towards a burning city.
"Alyssa...?"
"It's safe; trust me. The worse it looks, the better it is. Just watch out for the Shadows," She warned. "They take the form of someone you love, and lure you away to their own branch of the Netherworld; they let you believe for about a day, and then they kill you,"

Will had kept her mouth shut after that, too afraid to ask anything else. Finally, they came to a three-story building, that was actually in good condition. Her arms still full, Alyssa kicked open the door, and Will followed her inside.

It was just a massive room, with a spiral staircase leading to the upper two floors over to the left; up there, Will felt her face go green as she saw various stacks of body parts on the next floor. Alyssa disappeared upstairs and came back with empty arms.

"I'm working on a new project," She said, indicating a curtain around one corner of the room. "I'd appreciate it if you didn't look until he was finished,"

Will didn't need to be told twice.

"Now. Tell me about yourselves,"

St.Jimmy · by **St.Jimmy** on Tue May 05, 2009 1:37 pm

Although he wouldn't have admitted it aloud, Zack had had a minor breakdown when Will let go of his hand. He had been depending rather a lot on the comfort of squeezing her hand with his left hand - if it had been the right, she wouldn't have had a hand left after the scissors had finished with her - and had been able to disguise his dependancy under the mask of acting like he was only doing it to reassure her. As soon as she let go, his only source of comfort disappeared and he felt horribly vulnerable and exposed. The burning city just terrified him even more - this stuff had become far too elaborate for it to be a Halloween hoax, and his last lifeline had crumbled to ashes.

Inside Alyss' home, he nearly passed out. The limbs she had been carrying were nothing compared to the collection she had stacked upstairs, and the whole place stank to high heaven of rot and dead bodies. When she mentioned her new 'creation' behind the curtain, it was just too much for Zack. There was no way he was dealing with a real life Frankenstein's monster. Did it have the bolts through its neck and everything? Panic pulsing through him in waves, he dropped his hand down to Will's again and held it tightly, hoping she wouldn't think he was too much of a coward.

SaveYou · by **SaveYou** on Tue May 05, 2009 1:52 pm

Will squeezed Zack's hand as soon as he took hers again; she'd been on the verge of doing it herself. Alyssa was bustling about, waiting for an answer from them, and Will spoke first.

"It doesn't matter who we are. We just want to get out of here, Alyssa,"

"That's exactly why I need to know about you,"

"W-what?"

"The Netherworld, a.k.a, here, isn't real. It's all in your head, and your heart. Made of your nightmares. It feeds off your dreams, hopes, nightmares, desires, wants, needs. It creates itself from imagination and memories. For an example, just say you and Sicssors were going out," She said, choosing that because they were holding hands. "Remember I told you about those Shadows? If you loved him, or he loved you, and a Shadow found either of you, it would become one of you, seduce the other, and either kill you, or trap you here for eternity,"

"How do you know all this?"

"Because I was a human once too, but I didn't get out before the Gateway closed, and I was trapped here, forced to take on the persona of my costume. You think I wanted to spend my days harvesting organs and limbs, skinning and scalping people? You think I wanted to give my own eye to one of my creations? No. I was forced into it. And unless you get out, you'll both become practically weapons to the evil here,"

Will looked over at Zack in alarm, squeezing his hand again. The more Alyssa spoke, the more afraid she became, and she was glad Zack was clutching her hand; she was scared and confused, and he was offering her comfort, and that was all she needed.

"Where's the Gateway?"

"Eldin province,"

"Where?"

"Dark Tower; the giant spire you saw. The very top. Few ever make it there. You'll be lucky to do it, but I can help. Ethan - he's my new project -, he could guide you there. But I need a few days to finish him. Can you wait?"

Will turned to Zack for this; she'd never been a great judge of character, and hoped he could tell if Alyssa was lying or not.

parisx2xrome · by **parisx2xrome** on Tue May 05, 2009 2:01 pm

Alec's eyes drifted to Ev in a 'oh-my-god-shut-the-fuck-up' look.
"Not the food type hungry. Do you really think I'd be thinking about my stomach --, wait. Forget that. Seriously though."

The limb carrying girl took them to a building; The only piece of civilisation that seemed to be around for ages. They went inside, and the stink made Alec's head spin.
Ew. This place hasn't been cleaned in a while.. He said, trying not to step on anything too disgusting.
His hunger was growing by the minute. The stacks of limbs looked....appetising? Alec clutched his head; It seemed like a migrane was growing.

"This place is making me crazy." He whispered to himself.

St.Jimmy · by **St.Jimmy** on Tue May 05, 2009 2:06 pm

Zack fought a very strong urge to hide behind Will and hope very much that this would all just disappear. If there had been some ruby slippers kicking about, he would quite happily have put them on and chanted the familiar mantra of there's no place like home. Unfortunately, there was nothing red in Alyssa's home except blood, and he was hardly like to start daubing that on his feet or something.

"I don't know," he said, noticing that Will was looking at him for an answer to Alyssa's offer. His voice was considerably higher pitched than he would have liked, and he tried to compensate for this by clearing his throat in an attempt to sound a little more manly.

"Would we have to sleep here? In like, the House Of Death? I'm not becoming part of her next creation, Will; I'm not donating one of my fucking eyes!" He was getting shrill again, and he tried to calm down, but that was the moment that a severed limb chose to topple over upstairs and the thud nearly made him scream like a girl. God, his nerves were so frayed he thought he might just start unravelling. No, that was a horrible thought - who knew what use Alyssa would put an unravelled person to. He fought hard to keep his body firmly in one piece and clutched Will's hand even tighter, grateful of the small comfort.

SaveYou · by **SaveYou** on Tue May 05, 2009 3:06 pm

Unlike Zack, Will couldn't restrain herself; she let out a shriek and gripped his hand even tighter, which got a laugh out of Alyssa. Sooner or later, they were going to break each others hands.

"You don't have to sleep here," She assured Zack. "This isn't my home; just my lab. I live somewhere a little fresher. I just leave all my surgery stuff here," She said, but her eyes were drawn to Zack's other hand. Part of her was wondering if she could persuade him to use his hand as a tool for her; another part of her was wondering if she could transplant it with a real one.

"You two should let go of each other; people are going to think you either want to snog each other, or break each other's hands,"

Will's face went red at this, but she wouln't let go of Zack's hand, because that would mean forfeiting her comfort. It got another laugh out of Alyssa, who disappeared behind the curtain to work on her project, and she turned to Zack again.

"I really don't know if we should trust her Zack, but I don't want to go anywhere else - what do we do?"

St.Jimmy · by **St.Jimmy** on Tue May 05, 2009 3:16 pm

"I don't know," Zack said, still wincing with pain - when Will had tightened her grip on his hand, he thought she might actually have broken several small bones. Trying hard not to let this show, he looked uneasily at the curtain that Alyssa had disappeared behind, and then shook his head.

"Maybe we should just see how it goes," he said at last. "As much as I want to get away from this place, I don't know what other option we have. Would it be better to sleep under a roof, even if it is with that lunatic, than out in a forest in the dark, on our own?" Both options had their advantages and disadvantages, and the forest really did look attractive because Alyssa wouldn't be in it. On the other hand, being out there alone just seemed like a hideous prospect.

"I think we should trust her. For now."

Saint Lucifer · by **Saint Lucifer** on Tue May 05, 2009 11:08 pm

Ev was very, very close to losing control completely. She felt even sicker than before, and clammy moisture had broken out on her forehead and the palms of her hands. She was digging the fingernails of one hand into the palm of the other, because the pain was the only way she could make herself believe that this was real. Alyssa's words had become one big blur running through her head over and over, words which she was trying to force herself to believe.

She said nothing, out of fear that if she opened her mouth she'd vomit. Ev kept her lips tight together, trying not to breathe any more than way necessary, because the smell of this place made her stomach twist with nausea.

She hated, hated, hated this. She despised being here; she didn't think she could last more than another few minutes in this place, let alone wait a few days for Alyssa to finish her freaking project so they could get to the freaking Gateway.

skatexx · by **skatexx** on Mon May 11, 2009 3:39 pm

"I like ice cream, cherry pie and lemonade with summer breeze. I like rainbows, leafy trails, and puppy dogs with bumble bees. I like cotton candy candy gum and bumper cars and carnivals, golden skies and hazel eyes and sand in between my toes. But something tells me that I hate you, something tells me I must kill you,"

The Joker chanted the phrase over and over again as he walked through the forest. He had caught the scent of Red wandering around outside the forest and he was quickly following the trail. It wasn't that he would kill her or anything, but considering that he was a character from the nightmares of children, he was always attracted into haunting people younger than himself.

He was now catching multiple scents though. As he got closer to the scent he made out that they were somewhere in their teen years and he also was able to determine a familiar smell of someone he knew, although it wasn't strong enough for him to know which Netherworld creature it was.

The Joker chose Red over the group for now, only because she was closer and it wasn't too long that the dark haired, white faced clown stumbled upon Red and Sunny on the outskirts of the forest. He crept behind them slowly before grasping the cloak-covered girl by her waist and pulling the basket from her hands.

"Mornin' to you, Miss Red and Sunny. A pleasent day for killing, aint it?" He asked as he looked at them. His black eyes were shining with hunger and is bright red smile had evil written all over it. He would not kill them, though, for they were what he considered friends. And The Joker knew only to hurt friends.

parisx2xrome · by **parisx2xrome** on Tue May 12, 2009 3:59 am

Alec looked over at Ev; She looked as if she would pass out. He placed a hand on her shoulder, stopping her swaying a bit.
With a grimace, he took in all that Alyssa was saying, about freakin' Gateway and the Netherworld. It didn't seem real. Alec shut his eyes tight, then opened them, hoping that he was wake up, in bed with a massive hangover, but when his eyes opened again, he could still see the severed limbs, and blood everywhere. Alec bit his lip, trying to stop himself from having a breakdown right there, but it hurt when his teeth peirced his lip, and...........he liked the taste of the blood.
"What the hell?" He said to himself, restraining from drinking anymore.

Saint Lucifer · by **Saint Lucifer** on Tue May 12, 2009 4:50 am

Ev was comforted by the hand Alec placed on her shoulder. She drew closer to him almost without realising it -- right now, anything at all could send Ev right over the edge, and she needed all the comfort she could get.

Moments later, she was somewhat distracted from the various horrors of the world she found herself in when Alec spoke: "What the hell?"
She turned her head slightly so she could look up at him. Confusion showed plainly on his face.

"What's wrong?" Ev's voice came out softer than usual, which was something she couldn't help.

parisx2xrome · by **parisx2xrome** on Tue May 12, 2009 5:02 am

Alec looked down slightly as Ev came closer to him, and when she spoke, he snapped out of this, daydream like state. His eyebrows moved together in a frown.
"Well, err," Alec stuttered, with a short, scared and manic laugh "I think I like the taste of blood."

Alec always loved horror stories, horror films, and playing tricks on his family and friends, but not the prank was on him. He'd seen too many films to not realise what was going on:
Blood lust, sharp teeth, more blood lust.

"Ev, I think I'm a vampire." He said, now more confused than ever.

Saint Lucifer · by **Saint Lucifer** on Wed May 13, 2009 4:28 am

"A.. what?" Ev's eyebrows pulled together in confusion. "A vampire?"

She looked him up and down: he had dressed as a vampire for the halloween party, but when he said I think I'm a vampire, she knew he didn't mean he thought he was dressed as one. Her thoughts immediately went to the wings on her back -- the wings that no longer felt like a separate, lifeless item, but a part of her body. She touched one and then, getting brave, she attempted to move them. They twitched, rising from her back just slightly before folding neatly back behind her.

Then she recalled Will's inability to remove her wig and Zack's glove which would not come off. Was it possible, that in this place, the Netherworld, their costumes had become part of them?

"I think.." she said slowly, "that our costumes are.. have become what we are."

parisx2xrome · by **parisx2xrome** on Wed May 13, 2009 4:44 am

Alec's mouth moved slightly, making him seem a bit like a gold fish. He didn't know what to say. Christ, he didn't know what to think. Alec moved behind Ev, and looked at the black fake wings. However now they weren't fake. Alec was so confused. He remembered helping Ev getting the wings to stay in place, while Will helped Zack with his gloves. He turned his body around slightly looking at his friends. Alec hadn't really realised it, but Zack's scissors were real, as was Will's knife.
Alec turned around again, and gently touched one of Ev's wings. It felt real. It looked real. He took his hand away from the wing, and moved next to her again.
Taking a big gasp of air, he looked at her straight in the eye. "Shit. I think you're right."

Saint Lucifer · by **Saint Lucifer** on Thu May 14, 2009 3:25 am

Ev stiffened slightly as Alec touched one of her wings, not because he was touching it, but because she could feel his touch and that confirmed what she clearly already knew: her wings were real. She took in a deep, shaky breath and exhaled, trying very hard not to freak out at the latest addition to the frightening collection of facts about the place they were in.

She bit her lip, looking back at Alec. "I could feel that." she said. "In the wing. I.. I don't think we can deny it anymore. This is what we are now."

parisx2xrome · by **parisx2xrome** on Thu May 14, 2009 3:39 am

Alec swayed a little. Turning to Ev again, with shock in his eyes.
"This can't be true. I mean, this stuff is in books and films, not fucking real life --" Alec stopped his ramble, trying to calm himself down. It wouldnt do anyone very good if he decided to keel over. He shut his eyes, trying to focus on the good point...if there was any about this place.
"Your wings are awesome." He blurted out, not really knowing why.

With a sigh, Alec rubbed his temples again. Yup, this place was turning him crazy.

Saint Lucifer · by **Saint Lucifer** on Thu May 14, 2009 3:56 am

Ev was surprised by his comment about her wings, but despite herself and the horrible place she found herself in, she felt the corners of her mouth twitching into a smile.

"Thank you," she said, her voice still somewhat shaky. "This place is fucking crazy, though. I keep thinking it's a dream, but everytime I blink, it's all still there.."

She trailed off then and turned to the others: Will, Zack, and the scary girl, Alyssa. "What.. what happens now?" she asked them: Will and Zack seemed to be the most clear-headed right now, and Ev was still stumbling over her thoughts as well as her words.

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