Boarding House Of Madness

Readers Choose Part 6

J-san, on the river option: This feels right...

Drawfey:It seems interesting to go downstream.

Image: Downstream we go!

Everyone gets in the small wooden boats, 12 people in each. They float back downstream to where they came, through the water tunnel, and past the first set of docks. Eventually, they reach a turn and go deeper into the forest.

Aqua: I like this. It's kind of relaxing.

Greninja: Yeah, it would be better if everyone were here.

Image: Let's just hope that power spot does more than boost imagination.

Alika: Let's hope that it's real first.

The boats keep floating away until they come to an old, beat up, broken dock. It was messy and rotting, and there were plants growing all over it.

Bendy: Wow... That's interesting.

Aqua: I guess this is our stop.

Aqua and Greninja stop the flow of the water around the wooden boats and bring them close enough to the shore to park. There are no boats at the dock they've just arrived at. Ela begins walking deeper into the forest, then Alika, and then the rest of the group follows.

Image: I'm picking something up. There's definitely something powerful around here.

Alika: That's a good sign. I'm not sure if anyone else will be able to sense it though. It doesn't correspond with anyone else's power themes. So, you lead the way.

Image walks in a straight direction with the group following. It's only a little while before they find something.

Image: Hey, look!

There's a ring in the forest, marked by gold rocks. The grass inside the ring is silver and gold, and any trees whose branches hung over into the circle turned the same colour. In the middle of the circle, a stone pillar half Image's height, covered in multicoloured flowers that glowed. Image walks up to the pillar, the others still following. As soon as they step in the ring, they change to their signature colours, and all of Image's multicoloured specks turn gold.

Alyssa (Light Blue and Dark Cyan form): This is cool!

Ela (light green form): Yeah, but why is the colour change necessary?

Alika (Red and Gold form): Don't ask me. I just think it's cool that I'm my Island's official colours now. I'm noticing that everyone here had turned entirely one or two very important colours to themselves. I'm red and gold because these are the colours of the Masters Of Heat Energy.

Aqua (Light and Navy Blue form): That's true.

Greninja (Blue form): Why though?

Nightmare (Black Shadow form): Who knows.

Image (Gold Speck form): I'll explain. You all look like creative voices from the Void. Except for Nightmare, he resembles more of a negative voice. This is what the people looked like where I came from. Just glowing colours in the shapes of humans, or whatever creature they were going to be born as.

Asriel (White with Specks form): I'm white with specks the colours of the seven human souls.

Image: Not rare. It was uncommon however, since most creative voices were only one or two colours. Mostly one, occasionally more. The most powerful imaginative voices are entirely white with the freedom to change any colour they want in their voice form. Like a blank canvas.

Frisk (Purple and Pink with Red Specks form): That's so cool! So are we creative voices now?

Chara (Green and Gold with Red specks form): Let's see! The rules of the power imagination come to life are anything you can imagine, you can make real, right?

Image: Outside of AU#1, The Real World, yes.

Chara: Well, we're not in AU#1! I imagine... I have a crown of gold flowers!

A gold flower crown appears on Chara's head.

Asriel: That's so cool!

T.B. (Light Blue and white form): This is awesome! I imagine we... Know which direction to head for our friends!

Everyone feels a sudden tug in a certain direction, and T.B. follows it, but as soon as he steps out of the circle he goes back to normal and the feeling is gone.

Image: I guess you guys are limited to inside the circle.

Bendy: (Black and White form): Aw man.

Calla (Dark Green form): So what's the point of this? Is there anything in this circle that we can use?

Aviana (Light Pink form): Image, you have plenty more experience with this than us. What do you think we do?

Cyan (Light Cyan form): I stayed the same colour, just all over now.

Clementine (Orange form): Same!

Star (Yellow form): Why are we still discussing the colours-

Radio (Dark Green form): It's fun!

Gray (Gray form): Yeah but it's off topic.

Canada (Red and White form): Yeah? At least we're not all acting like these two. *He points at Ontario and Quebec*

Ontario (Red, Green, and Gold form): MY COLOURS ARE COOLER THAN YOURS!!!!

Quebec (Blue and White form): YOU HARDLY HAVE A COOL COLOUR ON YOU!!!!

Everyone else: ...

Image: Yeah okay let's see what the stone pillar has to offer-

Image takes a look at the pillar. There are four buttons on it. Each one has a group of letters carved into it. The buttons are placed at the corners of a square carved into the top of the pillar. Image goes to stand at the side of the pillar facing away from the river to read the letters easier. The bottom left reads CVS, the bottom right is GRDN, the top right is RNS, and the top left is HOTI.

Calla: Who here wants to bet GRDN is for Garden?

Alika: If we just have to add letters to complete a word, CVS could be Caves.

Ela: And RNS is the final landmark, and the only one we haven't found yet.

T.B: You mean RNS is Ruins, right?

Ela: Yep.

Nightmare: But what's HOTI?

Image: ... *Presses the HOTI button*

.... But nothing happened.

Image: looks like that one doesn't work. The others might though. I haven't tried yet.

Alika: I think we can rule out going back to the caves since we've already been there before.

Ela: But we haven't technically been in the garden, and we haven't even seen the Ruins yet.

Greninja: Well readers, you all know what to do.

Your Options:

- GRDN

- RNS