Puppet ~Mary fanfiction from the game Ib.

Chapter 3 Invisibility

I follow the girl back to the man. When I arrive, he is still lying on the floor. ''What? The pain is gone,'' the man says. He quickly gets up and sees his rose in the girls hands. He gently takes it, smiling down at the girl. ''What's your name?'' I listen carefully at that sentence, I've been curious too. ''Ib,'' she says. ''Ib,'' I whisper, ''do you want to be my friend.'' The man glances at my direction. ''Ib, my name is Garry.''

The girl and the man smile at each other and head to the other side of the hallway. I lead on and see a statue blocking the doorway. I flutter past it as I wait for them to come. ''Mmh this statue seems to be blocking our way out,'' Garry mumbles. Ib only nods. Garry places his hands on the statue. ''Let them pass,'' I murmur at the statue.

This is bad. We need to let the girl stay. I want to have a friend but with this man, well let's just say we need to get him out of the picture as soon as possible. He could stay with us but, he might be a lot harder to convince than the girl. On top of that, the girl is around my age while the man probably is in his twenties.

The statue gives in and the man pushes it to the side. He steps aside and lets Ib go first. He glances behind him and then follows Ib through the door.

I already know where they are now.

The grey area.

I see them walking through a rather disturbing room. On both sides, a hand can be seen. As if its reaching for something. The wall facing the hands, has a doorway in the middle. On both sides hangs a painting. A bride and a groom. ''The grieving bride and the grieving groom...'' Garry says, reading a short text out loud. Ib shrugs while shaking her head as a sign she doesn't understand it.

Garry heads for the doorway and Ib follows closely. The door locks behind them and I am about to follow them when I see the lights flicker. I turn around and face a doll with a sketchpad in its.... hands? I don't focus on whether it are hands or not for long because what it wrote on the sketchpad catches my attention.

''I see, thank you,'' I nod at the doll and quickly catch up with the others.

I see them standing in a grey room, how odd for the grey area. They are debating in which direction they should proceed. They go left through another door. As they turn around a corner I hear Ib shriek. The entire hallway is decorated with eyeballs. I watch as she carefully walks through the maze of eyeballs until she stops. Looking closely, this eyeball is oddly bloodshot. I slightly jump as Garry suddenly shouts; ''Ib, let's get out of here, we have to look what's in the other hallway!''

I feel the sudden urge to sneeze but I have to keep it in because they will definitely hear it. I fail and my sneeze sounds through the hallway. Ib and Garry turn around at the sudden sound.

''Was that you Ib?'' Garry asks, fear growing in his voice. Ib shakes her head violently.

They keep staring in my direction but like usual, they can't see me. Well, I figured you might be curious why they are not able to see me right? It's kind of an odd story. I am born in this gallery, if you can call it 'being born', I was painted by the creator of this gallery. You read that well, I am not a normal human being. As the Red Lady, the Blue Lady and lots of other paintings I came to life here.

Since I belong to this gallery, I can shut myself out for outside things such as Garry and Ib. Basically I can turn invisible for the outside world. But whenever I wish I can make myself visible, an ability that took long to control. Why don't you make yourself visible now you ask? Well, my task is not to make new friends here no, my task is to keep all outsiders in the gallery, so they can stay with us until they die.

However, if something goes wrong, my backup plan is to become visible and act like their fellow 'outsider'.

How excited I am to use that plan.