ECLIPSE [A KREW X OMORI AU]

8: Into the Cattail Field

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Where did he go? Where is he going??
These thoughts run through your mind, as you search for the familiar shadowy figure. You have never seen him before.. but yet.. you feel a sense of familiarity towards the figure.

All around you are tall cold coloured leaves, placed in certain places which makes you think of a maze. The leaves sorta look like Cattail leaves, thus the name Cattail Fields.. but there aren't any of the actual cattails..

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It is dark..
Once again, you notice red footprints. It leads towards an area as you follow it, you stop in your tracks. The figure stands in the middle of the path, he stares at you before leaving you behind. Hey wait.. hold up..! You run towards him, but even though you're running.. he doesn't seem to get any closer..

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You accidentally step on something, you pick the item up. A birthday card. His birthday card.

"A wish? What could I possibly ever wish for? I have everything I could ever want.. right here" a voice whispers to your ear.

The card fades away, you take a double take. How did it.. The figure.. you run forward, trying to find the figure once again. You take a corner.. and another.. and another.. Yet he doesn't appear after that. He seemed to have.. disappeared. Oh look..

.. a puddle.

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"Are you going on ahead?" The girl asks you, everything is cold.. and wet. "Don't worry bout us! We'll catch up in a minute!" She exclaims to you, waiting for her other friend to wear her boots. The sky's a dark shade, it was raining. You grip onto your umbrella, a purple umbrella.

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You trip on your feet. You're still in the fields.. trying to find that boy.. you decide to start jumping, trying to find the boy's head in the field.. but It didn't work.. so you just started to go THROUGH the leaves. You pry some space between two leaves and you walk in.. hoping you can find a shortcut.

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".....!! Stop hiding, Rainbow made cookies!!" The girl yells, forcing you out your hiding space. It was in a little bush in the backyard. "Cookies? Rainbow made cookies??" The boy yells, running from somewhere. "Yeah! Rainbow's cookies are so good.. you can really taste the love she puts in them!!"

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Where is that damn figure.. you feel like you see something.. a house, an abandoned one. Mother nature had started to take back the house, with its leaves growing all around it.. and even a tree growing from a corner of the house.. ignoring all of this, you walk in, as you finally notice the figure from earlier.

He stands near an opened window. Weirdly, the window shows clear blue skies, a complete contrast to the sky outside.. which was all dark and purple. He glances at you, before moving aside. Does he want you to.. look inside?

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"With a help from all your friends.. and a bit of my savings.. we got you a gift" Her soft voice echoes, as she pulls out a slightly long box. Behind her, your friends grin.. everyone excited to see your reaction. You can't help but smile.. whatever they bought you.. you'll treasure it forever. And you did.. and you did..

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You can't remember what happened.
But now you're in an abyss, the figure probably pushed you out the window. You slowly adjust to the lighting and notice you're not in an abyss, but a hallway. A dark and really long one. You get up and walk forward, looking around.. the hallway was completely empty, so the only thing you could really focus on was the wooden planks on the floor.