Prologue

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In an imperfect world run by monsters and a powerful Signal Tower that twists normal citizens into glitchy nightmare fuel creatures that send children scrambling into the wild wilderness to try to survive another day, there exists a single cycle. No one knows the exact origin of the cycle itself, not even the five children who are trapped in it, but it always starts the same.
A young girl in a yellow raincoat riding a hot balloon that she somehow made crash lands into a tall mansion resting at the top of a large rock called the Nest. She would go through the mansion, rescue the children trapped inside, run across another runaway girl named Six, team up with her, attempt to escape only to die by the hands of another girl called the Pretender, the young ruler of the Nest as they splashed into the deep waters below the mansion.
Six, the surviving girl of the trio, would then catch a ride on the raft both her and the girl in the yellow raincoat had set up for their escape and collapse, heart broken in so many pieces that she swore no one could put it together. Next Six arrives at the Pale City Wilderness, with her heart and soul shattered, but with no other option as she could never change the past, she heads into the wilderness in order to survive and possibly find a new home. The journey took several miles with the little girl having to stop and eat wild berries along the way but the end was nowhere in sight and night was starting to fall.
Six then decided enough walking was done for the day or rather night and went to set up camp. But as she looked up for a perfect tree to climb, she caught sight of another child wearing a brown trench coat and paper bag sitting on a long tree branch right above her, the light of the moon making him a dark shade in the night. Six paused in her search and stared at the boy and he stared back once catching sight of her, confused as to who this child was and why he was here.
Was he a runaway like her? So many questions filled her mind and with her being so distracted, she didn't notice the large hulking figure behind her until she was grabbed roughly around her middle and thrown into a cage before being carried to his cabin with the runaway boy, Mono, being the only witness. This starts the second phase of the cycle. Mono will chase after the Hunter, outwit his traps with natural resources of the forest, break into his cabin and rescue Six from his hands before being chased by the Hunter then later dispatching him.
With the Hunter now dead, the two children gathered a raft aka a broken piece of door then they sailed off toward the Pale City. There they traveled through the school and hospital, met with the Bullies, the Teacher and Doctor and through several close calls, one that involved Six being kidnapped by the Bullies and Mono having to cut her free. Both Mono and Six managed to escape and with each escape, a bond started to form between them, healing the broken heart Six had within her chest from watching her friend with the yellow raincoat die. However that bond would soon be shattered by one foe and one move by Mono.
Upon reaching the heart of the Pale City and dealing with the glitchy monsters called the Viewers. Mono came across a TV, went inside it and freed a creature that was his once beloved father, called the Thin Man, hellbent on destroying both Mono and Six for reasons unknown. With his powers, the Thin Man kidnapped Six and chased Mono through the Pale City express.
By sheer dumb luck, the little boy managed to escape the Thin Man and later kill him using his own powers before heading into the Signal Tower to find Six and save her one last time. After a while of running around, he finally found Six by the sound of her music box, transformed into a horrifying monster by the Signal Tower. What he did next sealed his fate, Mono grabbed a hammer that appeared out of nowhere and smashed the music box to bits, causing Six to turn back to normal.
With the little girl back to normal, the Signal Tower revealed it's true form attacked, causing Mono and Six to flee. They ran as fast as their little legs could carry them till they reached a cliff. Six made it but Mono had to make a jump for it, Six caught him but let go once she saw his face. Her eyes went wide and terror spiked through her veins as she was reminded of the Thin Man, the one who kidnapped her and twisted her into that thing. She jerked her hand away from Mono and ran out of the tower, leaving Mono to sit on the Thin Man's chair and eventually become the Thin Man.
After Six's escape from the Signal Tower, the third phase of the cycle happened. While wandering the Pale City with a regretful heart now back in pieces from what she did, Six got kidnapped by a strange creature called the Ferryman and taken to an odd place called the Maw, a place where you could eat all you want, run by who was Raine and Mono's mother, Thin Man's wife and would become Six's last victim, the Lady. Survival instincts kicked in within Six once again and she fought through to escape and after dealing with the workers and visitors of the Maw: the Janitor, the Twin Chefs, the Guests and devouring some questionable things in cursed hunger such as a rat and poor Nome who happened to be another runaway boy who had escaped from a terrifying Granny and befriended the other Nomes, Six reached the Lady and defeated her, devouring her in the process.
With the Lady's shadow powers in her system, Six escaped the Maw and dispatched several of the Guests that tried to eat her with the other Nomes watching in awe. The fate of Six is now unknown, either Six becomes the next Lady or she disappears, never to be seen again. Then the cycle repeats itself, it was nothing more than a cycle of death, betrayal and hunger, all to keep the Signal Tower alive, meant to keep going forever, never to stop...except for one little thing. Even though the Signal Tower was a cunning creature who kept its puppets on their strings, it was unaware that sometimes small changes in a timeline could affect the whole show or the outcome of the show.
The cycle would end soon enough, even the most hopeless of situations could have a little spark. All it took was the flap of a butterfly's wing for the cycle to break.












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