I wake up in a suitcase. Suddenly it all comes back to me.
Running from Mono only to ask for his help...
Running away from the Bullies with him...
Drawing a smiley face his cheek with soot...
Hearing him tell me he loved me before I dropped him...
I put my face in my hands crying. If I hade those seconds back I would pull him up and tell him I loved him too. I continue crying wanting to bring Mono back. I wipe my eyes on the sleeve of my raincoat and reach in my pocket. I feel something papery and when I pull it out I see it's Mono's paper bag. I look at sadly before putting back in my pocket and reaching into my other one for the lighter I found. I pull it out and flick it on staring at the flame. I turn off my lighter and hop out of the suitcase heading for a hallway. As I walk into it I see a nome scuttle off and I flick on my lighter lighting up the hallway full of pipes. I try to follow the nome but they scuttled away into the darkness. I come across a lamp and light it.
The hallway is bathed in light and I see a door to a vent. I pull on it and open the vent. I crawl inside and see a small area I have to climb up. I flick off my lighter and crawl up. I flick open my lighter again and crawl forward. There's water falling into the vent from a grate above and I flick of my lighter so it won't get wet. I put it in my pocket and crawl forward the water hitting the hood of my raincoat. I crawl forward and jump out of the opening of the vent onto another suitcase.
I flick open my lighter again and see some stairs in front of me. I start to walk up them and when I look above me I see huge chains. "Wow." I say. Mono probably would of came up with a joke. Tears prick my eyes as I think that and I wipe them away with the sleeve of my coat. As I reach the top of the stairs I walk past a door and some boxes. I see a little closet like place and see a geisha doll. Curious I go over to it and pick it up. It's made of porcelain. I'm confused as to why the doll is here. I go to put it back down but it slips out of my hands and breaks on the floor. A black mist floats away from the broken pieces and I watch it dissipate.
I shrug and turn around going back to the hallway I was walking through. I come across a hole in the wall. I crawl under some boards and see a couch and a chair hanging from the ceiling. I walk past a door with a peephole and I think I see an eye in it but before I can get a good look the peephole turns dark. "Huh?" I shake that off crawl onto a bed and jump up pulling myself into a vent. I fall down onto a mattress on the floor and see a man hanging. "Wow Mono what do-?" I cut myself off remembering Mono isn't with me. "Right." I sigh and see a door with a eye on it that Mono could've helped me open with a boost. I go over to the chair and drag it over to the door. I hop up onto it and open the door dangling from the handle. I fall to the floor and flick open my lighter to see some black sludge ahead of me on the floor.
"What the hell is that?" I walk over to it curious. I see more leading away and soon it turns to footprints. "There's someone else here?" I follow the footprints to a fridge that has handprints on it and they drag away from the fridge as if the person was holding onto the door but got dragged away. "Oh." I sigh and look over to see a hole in the wall. Maybe they escaped through that." I crawl through the hole into a vent and when I come out the other side I see a lamp in front of me. I light it and the room lights up. Going back through the hole and open the door to the fridge. I see a nome run towards the hole in the wall and I chase after it.
When I make my way through the vent and into the room the nome is warming his hands by the fire. "Aw." I go over and pick him up in a hug. When I sit him back down he continues warming his hands. I wave as I crawl back into the vent and he waves back at me. When I make my way back into the room with the fridge again I see on the second to top shelf has shoes in it. "Hm. Shoes in a fridge? Ok?" I go over to the fridge and start climbing the shelves. I reach the top and look down. It pretty high up here. I would probably die if I fell.Just like Mono.
I try to stop the tears but they flow and I can't stop them. I wipe my eyes on my sleeve but the tears keep coming. Eventually I sit down and cry again wanting to give up everything just to bring Mono back. I would give anything for Mono to be here with me. I make a promise to myself. I will go back to the Pale City. I will see if he's alive. And if he is, I'll apologize for everything and tell him that I still love him.
I wipe my tears away again and see the slanted floor beside me. I crawl up onto it, walk forward towards a higher part of the floor, and climb onto that. I walk forward and see a gap in the floor coming soon. I near it and see it's not that big of a gap. I hear something fall onto the floor behind me and I waste no time running and jumping across the gap. When I reach the other side I flick open my lighter and turn to see a leech across the gap. "Disgusting." I walk forward and when I walk under a pipe I here something hit the floor behind me. I run forwards and see a leech pulling itself up out of the floor. I dodge that and run into the next room. I climb onto a box and pull a lever opening a door in front of me.
I keep my lighter on and continue running. I run across a metal bridge thing and see that there's a small gap. I waste no time and jump it. I run into the next room and see a boarded up wall. I pull on the bottom board and make a hole big enough for me to crawl through. When I reach the other side I start walking forward and a nome scuttles away. "Hey!" I run after it and some boards fall out from under me.I stand up and my feet feel like they're in a oily substance. I flick on my lighter and see I'm standing in some of that black sludge. "Ew." I hear a werid screeching sound and see leeches coming for me. "No way!" I run forward dodging leeches and make it to a board blocking a doorway. I push it down and run. I see a small gap and run towards it jumping over the gap. When I reach the other side I see the oily residue sliding off of my raincoat. "At least I'll be clean." I mutter. I see another lamp and go over to it lighting it and making a small circle of light appear. I see a ladder made out of boards and go over to it and climb it. I flick open my lighter and walk forward sending a nome scuttling away.
I chase after it across a board and up some stairs before I lose it. I sigh and I hear a loud wind blowing through somewhere. I walk across a small suspended bridge. I come to a place were I turn right and I walk forwards until I have to turn again. I see a gap and jump across it and I walk up some more stairs. I reach a closed door and see another bridge leading away. It goes forward, then right, then forward, then left, and then to a crank. "Why not a straight bridge?" I mutter. I start using the crank and remember something.Mono throws a crank at me and jumps down from the cupboard and goes over to a body shaped bag. As I put the crank into the hole it goes in Mono climbs onto the bag. I pull him up with the crank and when I reach the end of the pulley Mono turns and jumps towards a key grabbing onto it enough to knock it off the hook it's on. When he hits the ground he lets out a soft cry. I rush over to him. "Are you okay?"
My thoughts get interrupted as the crank stops. I see the room is bathed in light and when I look over my shoulder I see the door that was closed is now open. I let go of the crank and to door starts to slowly close. I run across the bridge and when I come to the gap where it turns I just jump across and continue running. When I reach the door I slide under it as it closes behind me. I stand up to see I'm in a big room. I walk forward and see a hole in the wall. Curious I go over to it and crawl through. I fall through onto a box I flick open my lighter so I can see. I walk forwards and hear the screech of metal being dragged across metal.
I turn towards the sound and see a huge person with long arms dragging something behind them. I shudder and really wish Mono was here.
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From The Maw
FanfictionBook 2 of 4 Six regrets dropping Mono. She regrets leaving him behind. She regrets hating him in the end. And most of all. She regrets not telling him she loved him too. Now she must traverse the Maw alone. Six decides to return to The Pale City aft...