Andy's Apple Farm: Dolce's Game

SIDE CHAPTER #6: THORNS OF A ROSA (pt 2.)

PREMISE: After going to Dolce directly for help, a powerless Peter soon finds himself at her mercy as she tries to obtain some answers on the his and Rosa's true natures, and perhaps a way to free everyone and herself from his hold.

A/N: THIS CHAPTER DOES CONTAIN SOME SHORT SCENES OF TORTURE. ALSO THIS IS JUST MY INTERPRETATION AS TO WHAT THE ENTITY COULD POSSIBLY BE AND HOW IT CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THOMAS. (*NOT TO BE TAKEN OVERLY SERIOUSLY, THIS IS JUST FOR THIS AU'S STORY-TELLING PURPOSES SINCE AT THE TIME OF THIS CHAPTER'S POSTING--"AAF CH. 2" HASN'T BEEN RELEASED YET.)

Over the course of several months spent here in the game world, Dolce herself had seen and been put through many various sorts of shenanigans either brought on by her friends or by her own hands in her quest to escape the strange, colorful realm of talking, cartoonish "food / object hybrids." She had faced many challenges, threats, and dangers—both from herself or whenever Peter decided to show his face to them and toy with them to break up his day. Regardless of what they were or how deadly they posed, in the end, she met them head-on and overcame all them—some narrowly through the skin of her teeth.

Today seemed like any other ordinary day, especially when things over the course of several days started to look a littler brighter for her. Andy, being supportive as he was always—agreed to help oversee some new training exercises Dolce devised for herself. That was all cut short when they found some lost, rose-like character calling herself "Rosa."

Rosa...on the surface she seemed normal and innocent: An amnesiac like Dolce—another possible victim to Peter / the Entity. But that could not have been further from the truth...

That cutesy-timid (even naive) face she carried was nothing more than a facade to cover up the true dark nature of what she really was—A cruel, sadistic, shadowy Entity. Just like Peter; or perhaps even worse. It didn't help either that she possessed an ability even Peter himself lacked: the power to disable another Entity's powers.

Dolce knew it would be a dangerous—if not suicidal task, in going to Peter himself seeking what he knew about Rosa. With her powers still nullified, the chance of being killed by him was as high as ever.

So it came as a surprise to her to find herself face-to-face with the pumpkin-Entity in disguise at Andy's front door. Never she would have thought Peter would come straight to her, asking for her help.

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After wandering around the apple woods for some time, he took her to an isolated part of the woods that was a good distance from Andy's house and the barn Rosa commandeered by force from Peter mere moments ago. All the while Dolce said nothing; wary, and guarded the whole way.

Peter eventually came to a stop and looked about the woods surrounding them. "This should be far enough. At this hour no one would b-"

WHAM! Dolce instantly PUNCHED Peter in the gut, catching him entirely off-guard.

Stumbling backwards, he held out his other arm in front of him. "Stop-! I'm not here to fight-!"

She didn't seem interested in hearing what he had to say when he suddenly saw a shadowy tendril manifest out from Dolce's shadow that transformed into a fist at the end of it, soaring straight at him!

Peter instinctively reacted by jumping backwards what he believed was out of her range limit. To his disbelief, her tendril continued on in his direction!

"It's longer-?!"

He immediately raised his arms to protect himself, unable to finish that thought when her tendril SMACKED him against a tree.