Frankannestein

🎃Rise Of A Monster🎃

"You already have to go?" Marcy asked, sounding crestfallen.

"Yeah but you'll be fine without me," Maddie assured, seemingly taking account the darkening skies.

This wasn't the first time that her mentor had begged her to stay longer, and as of now, it wouldn't be the last.

Though she couldn't exactly blame her. In fact she actually held some pity towards her. Being treated as an outcast from the town and forced to stay alone up in a tree house with no other means of company must've been really isolating and detrimental.

It wasn't exactly an optimal lifestyle...

"No I won't! It really gets lonely in here..." the 16 year old argued with a pout.

"You can always make new friends," Maddie insisted, letting out an exasperated sigh. "I'll come back if I can, but I really need to go right now. I'll see you later, Marcy!"

As she left, Marcy scratched her chin. "Make new friends...? Hmm..."

Taking her thought into great consideration, she started looking around the empty room.

"If only there was a way..."

From the open window of her treehouse, she scanned the environment outside the deepest depths of the night. Her gaze ended up drifting off a graveyard nearby.

Her eyes widened, as an idea came to mind. "Wait.... there is!"

***

After many, many hours, Maddie had managed to sneak out and come back to check up on her mentor.

"Marcy, I'm back....."

She didn't even get to finish her sentence as she couldn't believe what she saw upon her. It was the body of a girl, close to Marcy's age, who was stitched together along with a screw impaled in her neck. She had a torn up shirt around her upper body, accompanied with orange shorts. She was also hooked up to a machine of sorts with tons of wires attached.

"Maddie you're just in time!" Marcy exclaimed, stumbling on her feet as she went to greet her. "Behold, my beloved creation! Isn't she neat?"

Her apprentice's jaw dropped. "Y-you actually—"

"—Yea, why not? You said that I needed a friend, and here you go! Just made a quick trip to the graveyard. I even found a blue gem as a power source for the heart!" Marcy said, sounding pleased with herself.

"J—just like how the scientist, Victor, made t—the monster, Frankenstein?" Maddie stammered nervously.

"Yes! Except, she's not a monster. She's a person like you and me."

"B—but y—you do know what happened to him?"

"I do know. The monster killed him and his whole family, yada yada yada!

But luckily for me, I don't have a family!" Marcy chuckled awkwardly, her voice laced with undertones of sadness and loneliness.

"Which might actually be kind of tragic... but I digress! Victor only made one crucial mistake. And you what that is, do you?"