ISLA LUCIDITY (BFDI au fanfiction)

(CHAPTER 9): don't wake the birds

Hidden within the middle of the forest, both Chloe and Penelope were wandering through the trees trying to find somewhere safe to stay in from the brutal rainfall and merciless cold, during their search, Chloe tried to talk with her.

"Penelope, do you see anything out here? anything that we could use as shelter?" Chloe asked.

Penelope didn't say anything as usual, but then a minute later, Chloe became surprised once she heard her voice.

"That depends, do you see anything we could use as shelter?" Penelope asked.

"U-uh..no?-" Chloe said before being cut off by Penelope.

"Exactly, there's nothing here, just trees and the creatures within waiting to kill us" Penelope said bleakly.

"Oh no, Penelope, don't think like that! I swear, we will get out of this situation soon, we'll all be safe!" Chloe said while attempting to cheer Penelope up a bit.

"Since when were we ever safe here? all of this was bound to happen no matter what" Penelope responded.

"What gave you that idea?-" Chloe was then cut off once again.

"Have you even properly SEEN these objects here? haven't you seen what they are capable of? any one of those things could easily kill any of us, there was no way they could have stayed within their cages at all.." Penelope said loudly before looking down a little bit.

"..Chloe, may I tell you a little secret about me?" Penelope mumbled.

"Yes, what is it? I promise, I won't tell anybody" Chloe asked.

"Well, the truth is..I didn't want to go onto this island, I was forced to"

"W-what? really?" Chloe said in surprise.

"yes, really, late one night, I saw the email about this place on my laptop, I replied to them saying no, but then a couple days later, I was woken up by two men pulling me out of bed and shoving me inside of a helicopter.." Penelope explained as Chloe looked at her in shock.

"..My god, that's horrible, why did they force you?" Chloe asked.

Penelope sighed a little bit.

"I have absolutely no clue why, all they said to me was that they wanted something from me, they didn't tell me what it was though.." Penelope said.

Chloe could only look over at Penelope in pure shock at what she just told her, she had now found out the truth about why Penelope was always so weak and tired, it's because of the fact she was forced onto this island despite the fact she said no, all because the people there wanted to take something from her, the sheer amount of stress Penelope must have been feeling throughout this entire trip must have drained her of her energy.

"..Hey, hey I think I see something over there, it looks like a small shed! we can stay in there!" Chloe suddenly moved up a bit as she noticed the vague outline of what looked like a small metallic shed from afar, it may have looked quite tiny and such, but it was atleast a good enough shelter to hide from the rain.

"Finally, somewhere we can warm up in.." Penelope mumbled as she started running over to it.

Chloe then quickly went and followed her, until-

(CRACK!)

"AAH!"

Chloe suddenly found herself falling over due to tripping over a tree root and tumbling down into the bushes.

Once she managed to get up after her tumble, Chloe could see she had simply fallen down a small hill that she could easily climb over, but then of course, she quickly realised something.