Yellow Roses (Joseph x Aesop)

First Encounter

A/N: What did you think of the first chapter? was it too long or is it fine? anyways here's chapter 2 :P

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(Aesop has been at the manor for about a week and has met all the hunters besides joseph)

Aesop's POV:

I walked downstairs and checked the match board to see if I was in this mornings game:

7:00AM - 4v1 - Aesop, Helena, Emily, Eli 

"damn it" I sighed as I went to get my makeup kit ready "matches first thing in the morning are always so draining"

After I got my case, I went back downstairs and into the waiting lobby. To my surprise Eli was already sitting at the table talking to his owl.

"Oh hey Aesop what are you doing here so early the match doesn't start for 5 minuets?" he asked tilting his head towards me. 

I shrugged my shoulders and sat down. "I like to be prepared..." I mumbled "why are you so early...?"

"couldn't sleep so I just got ready for the match ahead of time." Eli replied going back to talk to his owl

It wasn't very long after I sat down that Emily and Helena came in however it wasn't a surprise because they where normally early to all their matches. Just after that, the room went dark and I felt a bit light headed. But soon my eyes opened again into "Leo's Memory".

"this maps alright I guess, I like the snow so its one of the maps I prefer" I thought as I ran over to the nearest cipher and began decoding. 

"Hey Aesop." Emily came running over to help me decode.

"Damn this isn't good  I don't do well at decoding with others" I thought to myself as my hands started to shake on the cipher. Emily must have noticed how uneasy I was because she sprayed graffiti on the floor and ran off to find a different cipher. I was around half way done decoding by the time she was hit by the hunter. 

"oh no this is my fault "   I thought    "she should've just stayed decoding with me"

I spawned a coffin and started to embalm her as quickly as I could, remembering each detail of her face and making an exact copy onto the surrogate, before quickly running back over to finish decoding. In no time I finished it and ran to find another cipher to decode. I stopped as I caught a glimpse of a strange looking object in a corner. As usual my curiosity got the best of me and I went over to have a look at it.

"A camera...?" I mumbled "what a strange weapon of choice."

I was brought back out of my little daydream when Emily got hit again. I continued running to the cipher and started decoding. Emily was then tied up in the balloons and placed in a rocket chair. I sighed in relief as she was quickly teleported to the coffin and ran off to help Eli decode.

"only 2 ciphers decoded..." I mumbled just as Helena was terror shocked and placed in a chair. "damn it that's not good at all Helena's our best decoder."

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Time skip brought to you by Helena supremacy >///<

(Aesop and Emily are the only ones left and there is 1 cipher left to be decoded.)

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My hands were shaking as I worked on the last cipher, sweat dripping down my forehead and Emily was trying her hardest to distract the hunter to make sure I could get the cipher done in time. 

"no dammit !" I sighed as Emily got hit "I don't have another surrogate to use if you get chaired"

My anxiety had gotten even worse under the pressure and I still hadn't managed to decode the cipher. To make matters worse Emily soon got hit again and chaired.

"I'm coming, don't move!" I yelled to Emily.

"Focus on decoding!" Emily Yelled back "Get out of here!"

As much as I didn't want to listen I knew there was no chance of both of us escaping if I went to save her so I just continued to focus on the cipher. Emily was soon sent back to the manor and the map fell silent.

"sorry..." I thought to myself  "Aesop you idiot you should've helped her."

Finally I managed to finish decoding the cipher and hurried over to the exit gate. 

"I cant hear anything, where's the hunter...?" I thought

 I shook away the thought and continued to the cipher, it didn't matter where they were as long as they weren't near me. When I reached the gate I typed in the password as quickly as I could. 

"come on this is taking too long!" I sighed 

But then that dreaded purple light lit up around my chest and my heart started racing faster and faster. where was the hunter! I spun around quickly trying to find the direction they were coming in, but I couldn't see anything.

"S...SHIT!" I was struck down, blood flowing out my shoulder as I grasped at it on the floor. My head was spinning "Where did he come from! He terrorshocked me out of nowhere!"

The hunter stood over me and looked into my eyes, as I cried and flinched in pain on the floor. He wasn't very tall but he was slim and he had silky white hair which was tied in a low ponytail. Like the other hunters he didn't have normal eyes yet his were different from the rest of the hunters. Instead of the normal hate filled black orbs like the others, he had ocean blue orbs that looked sad and sorry.  

He carefully lifted me up and stared at me "please don't struggle Dear it just makes my job harder."

"Dear!" I thought, surprised! "what's going on! He hasn't even tied me to balloons either, he's just carrying me!"

I stopped struggling as he walked me to the rocket chair, its not like I could get away anyways. However he paused in front of it and looked at me again, I was breathing heavily to try and stop the pain. He turned around and walked over to the dungeon, carefully placing me in front of it.

"You look like your in a lot of pain, I really am sorry Dear..." He sighed brushing a bit of hair behind my hair. "Go on you can escape."

Slowly standing up, he turned around and walked away.

"T..thank you." I whimpered but smiled at him.

He turned around and nodded, with a sad smile, before turning back around and walking over to one of the cameras. I crawled my way into the dungeon and was sent back to the manor.

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A/N: ajdhdjh josephs sad eyes make me cry I swear! anyways this chapter was a bit shorter than the last one and I added more text. Do you prefer it more like this? Anyways I hope you enjoyed. In the next chapter ill add something from Josephs POV I promise :)