cornflakes are good

Part Twenty-Five

Warning: This part mentions violence

[On Earth]

"AHHHHHHH!" Other Child screamed. She crash-landed into the earth. "OW!" She tumbled into a ditch and groaned with pain.

Child followed after her. "OW! AH!" She groaned. Her side hurt so much from the fall. She looked up at Other Child. "Other Child!" she exclaimed happily.

Other Child clutched her arm and said, "Child, what are you doing here?!"

"I came with you, I guess," Child replied.

"Oh," Other Child said and blushed. "Well, we need to get out of here." She stood up. "Yikes. . . How deep is this ditch?" She tried to climb out of the ditch, but the sides were slanted to almost a ninety-degree angle.

"How about you go on my shoulders so you can climb out of the ditch and then hoist me up there?" Child said.

"Okay!" Other Child agreed.

They worked together to get Other Child up on Child's shoulders. It took a lot of time and work, but eventually it happened.

"Woo!" Other Child cheered. "Alright, we need to get out of here and then go back to the #segsy spaceship. . . And hopefully teach Emily a lesson." She peered over the ditch and gasped at what she saw.

"Well, well, well. . . If it isn't Another Child's friends. . ." a familiar high-pitched voice said.

Other Child's eyes widened. "ABORT MISSION! ABORT MIS—" she shouted.

Bunny gagged Other Child and dragged her out of the ditch.

"MMMMM!" Other Child screamed as Bunny dragged Child out as well.

"LET US GO!" Child shouted.

"I'm afraid that just can't happen," Bunny said with a mischievous smile. They held up two chloroformed handkerchiefs and shoved them in the children's faces. Almost instantly, they both blacked out.

[Thirty minutes later, in an unknown location]

"Hello dearies, I see you're awake," Bunny said.

"Ugghhh," Other Child moaned. She lifted her head and looked at her surroundings. They were in a small, cramped area. . . Looked like a basement. There was a weird metal box in the corner. She wondered what that was for. She looked to the other corner. There was a wooden box there, probably as big as her. There were also some chains and a few cabinets lying around. . . Weird.

Child opened her eyes groggily and looked around as well. The two of them were bound to chairs with rope and duct tape. She tried to move. She couldn't.

"Don't try to escape, children. It'll just waste your energy," Bunny said. "Anyways. . . Let's get down to business." They pulled out a knife and walked over to the wooden crate and began to cut it open. "I know that you know where Another Child is. . . So just tell me, and nothing bad will happen to you."

"What are you going to do to us?" Other Child said. She considered that since Bunny needed information, they wouldn't kill them. If they did anything else as a torture method, it wouldn't be anything they haven't already suffered.

"Tsk, tsk. Well, I bet your octopus buddies haven't tried this yet," Bunny said with an evil grin. Child almost shuddered, but she didn't want to show any signs of weakness. "Let me offer you a lesson, kids. I bet you haven't gone to school, considering your imprisonment. So. . . Did you know. . ." Bunny paused to focus on cutting the lid of the box. "That seventy-nine percent of demons possess people from ages six to twelve more than any other age group? This is because demons prefer younger vessels for more energy. . ." Bunny grinned and tore the lid off the crate.

A child, who apparently was trapped in the box, stood up slowly. She had long brown hair and tan skin. She looked like a completely normal person from profile view, but once she faced Child and Other Child. . . They knew she wasn't normal. Her big bright eyes were all white, and she was grinning like a mad person. Suddenly her expression changed and she hissed ferociously.

"Now, now, not yet. Let's see what they have to say," Bunny said, putting their arm out and separating the demon and the children.

"We'll never tell you where Another Child is!" Child shouted.

"Yeah!" Other Child said.

Bunny frowned. "Is that so?" they asked. They let their arm fall back to their side.

The demon smiled once more and hissed at the children. It suddenly leapt out and slashed their faces its talons. It was only until then Other Child had realized how disgustingly long the kid's nails were.

"AHH! OW!" she shrieked.

"OW! AGGH!" Child yelled. She tried to kick the demon away, but her legs were taped to the legs of the chair. So there was no other option other than to simply suffer.

"Now, tell me where Another Child is or else I'll get your eyes scratched out," Bunny snarled.

Child winced in pain. She could feel the trickles of blood falling from various areas of her face, but she didn't care. "We won't snitch on Another Child!" she said.

"So be it," Bunny said with a frown. So stubborn, those two. They snapped their little bunny fingers, and the demon scratched both of the children's eyes out. This was followed by a lot of screaming.

Other Child breathed heavily as her eyes grew back. It was an affect from the lizard potion they all drank a long time ago. . . It was day four of imprisonment, and the three were eavesdropping on the octopuses' daily luncheon. They heard that the octopuses were planning to saw their limbs off the next day, so Child made a potion with the materials found in the basement and made a limb-regrowth potion. But they called it the lizard potion. It had stuck ever since. Other Child grew sad at the thought of all of them together again. She missed those days. So simple. But then again, she didn't regret meeting Sophia and running outside and smelling the fresh air. That was nice too. But after that they were targeted for a long time. Now Another Child was in danger. She couldn't let Bunny know where he was. Suddenly she was snapped back to reality when she noticed Bunny was looking at her dead in the eye.

"Oh, Other Child," Bunny said with another of their evil grins. They had a black wand with a skull and bow at the end in their hand. What was that? They handed it to the possessed kid. "Who do you think you're more loyal to?"

"W-What?" Other Child stammered.

"Let me rephrase that so I can be clearer," Bunny said. The possessed kid walked over to Child and pointed the end of the wand to the side of her head. "You can tell me where Another Child is, and Child here stays alive. But. . . If you don't. . ." The demon pushed the end of the wand harder into Child's head. "Your dear friend here dies."

Other Child's eyes opened wide with panic.

"What are you going to do?"