Garten of Banban: Ruined Lullaby

Chapter I

The year was 2019, where the previously famous daycare Garten of Banban was no longer spoken, in a matter of fact, people didn't even know it existed back in time. It was like some sort of ghost building, where no one knew where it came from and much less the people who worked there. Documents that were leaked were still to this day unidentified if they were real or a total hoax. This was something that had to be discovered, and it all started with a normal girl, seven years old, living with her mother who was currently married to a man who is missing. It was known that the man worked for a daycare and Lily, the child, always wanted to investigate this issue despite being too young. These thoughts of starting an investigation by herself in order to find her father started back in February, almost at the end of the month and her summer break. Once it hit March 1st, it was time to school all over again. During the evening of March 26th, an evening, almost seeming like it was about to rain, there was Lily sitting in front of a computer in her room, which they had at home, where she would be able to use it for normal things a kid would do, like playing web video games. It was nothing much to do since it was old, barely could run some few games and its main purposes was for studies only. During that evening, she was feeling extremely bored about the games and was thinking of what to do, when she suddenly remembered about her father, Jack. She was always told that he was such a great father, and took care of kids really well, by her mother. She couldn't just believe that her father just disappeared from nowhere, even years before she gained consciousness of herself, with her father disappearing when she was only three years old. Feeling sad and not knowing what to do about this, she kept looking around the room and just thinking about life, thinking for the first time that not everything with be a sea of roses for her, when all of the sudden, an idea popped onto her mind. As she looked around, she then saw her computer once again to think about her father's name. The disappearance of her father was commented a lot by her mother and to this day, she couldn't overcome the disappearance of her husband. It was just out of nowhere, as he went to work and never came back again. Lily knowing about his name made her decide to search it up on the internet, to see what would happen. She adjusted herself on the chair, going a bit forward to reach the keyboard, and looking at the screen and back at her hands, slowly typing his name 'Jack Callister', some suggestions popped up. 'jack callister missing', 'jack callister dead', and one of the most important that caught the eye of Lily, 'jack callister garten of banban'. Despite working there for weeks, she never got to know where her father was used to work, so seeing such a name was a surprise for her. Holding the mouse and slowly dragging its cursor towards the suggestion, she clicked on it and saw the page slowly load and show other results. In a forum, with not too many interactions within it, there was someone talking about the disappearance of Jack Callister followed by many other workers who worked for the Garten of Banban, and was talking about this supposedly daycare where he used to work on, Garten of Banban, and how there's supposedly chance that his body was there, but no one believed it yet. Despite it being told it was a lot, Lily was still confused and wanted to know if this place actually existed, and going back one page and looking through some images, some of the results that appeared showed the same daycare, followed by other that supposedly may contain his body and sure enough, clicking on links related to the image showed other forum posts with not many interactions talking about his disappearance and how it supposedly could be there. There were so many questions inside Lily's head that she just couldn't think properly, she couldn't even make answers and theories about the disappearance of her father since she is not really smart, only seven years old. However, when it seemed like she was almost building an answer to these questions, suddenly she hears her mother call her name right from below the room. Her mother saying her name, Lily, out loud as if she wanted her to come down the room to hear what was necessary for to be known. Lily felt annoyed at first when she was being called, but decided to get off of the computer and go down the stairs. Getting up from the chair, leaving the room and going down the stairs to meet her mother who was right next to the door, to hear what she wanted to say. Her mother was a bit tired, but calm at the moment, who decided to say " Could you come with me to buy you some school supplies? School starts in a few days. ". School, the place where most children hated to go, and Lily was no different. She already felt a bit afraid of school since she now would have to deal with tasks and homework in a few days. She stuttered and didn't know what to say properly, until words came out of her mouth. " N-N-No, I don't want to. ", she said, looking away in a bit of fear and torment, not wanting to think about school in any shape of way. Her mother seemed to realize that her daughter didn't want to think about school, much less go with her to buy school supplies. School was a common fear between children, but hard to deal. Her mother sighed as she saw her daughter reject going with her mother to buy school supplies, and decided to comfort Lily a bit so she would convince her to go with her to buy school supplies, stepping closer and getting on her knees to stand in a similar height to her daughter. She wasn't angry, she was more pleased to convince her daughter about school and wanting to bring her to the shop. " I know you don't like school, and you may even be afraid of it, but I know we can overcome this fear. I promise. If you go with me, I'll let you buy the supplies you would like. ", her mother said, with a smile on her face. It was like she wanted Lily to have the freedom to choose the school supplies. Lily second guessed herself as she heard her mother's sentence, thinking of the girly supplies she could get by asking, even the prettiest sets of colored pencils. Sighing a bit, she finally chose her answer. " Okay, I-I'll go. ", she said, grunting a bit. Her mother, Alice, giggled a bit by her daughter's attitude, and stood up to then hold her hand as she held the keys with the other, " Let's go shopping, then. ", Alice calmly spoke. Lily held her hand, and leaving the house with her mother after the door was unlocked with the keys, Alice locked the house and they could finally walk to the car her mother has and get inside of it, by unlocking its doors with the car keys that Alice had. With Alice sitting in the driver's seat and Lily in the backseat, it didn't take much long for her mother to turn on the car with the keys and slowly but surely drive away from her house. Midway this trip, it seemed like nothing was happening, it seemed quite boring at first. Lily was just watching the small town they lived in through the car window, feeling quite bored, when all of the sudden, something really important caught her attention. Looking in the end of one of the streets, she could see for a split second the same daycare she saw on the internet, Garten of Banban. She couldn't really figure it out completely of what was there correctly, since she could only have the time to see it for a split second, but she could see that everything inside the daycare was dark and there were no cars present in the place. This left her to wonder if there was anything to do with her father, and upon further questioning to herself, she had the plan to go in there and investigate the place, all by herself, but first she had to prepare to go in there and also try to sneak out of the house during a night for her to successfully start her research. A minute later, arriving to the shop, they could finally look around for school supplies they could buy. However, instead of both walk together and slowly pick up the items they're going to buy, her mother Alice decided to go in a direction to buy the essentials for her daughter while Lily decided to go into a different direction to look for the best school supplies for her. Upon walking around, she would find many of the supplies she wanted, carrying some on her arms. They all had a brand that nobody knew about, but would just buy it since their child would like it, and Lily was no different. It didn't matter what brand it was, as long as this girl was happy, it was perfect for her. Walking around a bit more, checking for other items she could grab for her mother to buy, she stumbled around the section where it had the most cases for pencils, pens and others. However, as she thought that the weird daycare was just about to be in this unique place, she was wrong. Upon looking onto some pencil cases, she suddenly found one that caught her attention the same way before. She grabbed the white pink pencil case that she saw with a weird character on it, followed by the same name, Garten of Banban, with the other name below it, being more highlighted that the daycare title, Banbaleena. It was a bit shocking to see the same brand in the same trip. She kept inspecting it and upon turning it around, she saw the following quote, ' Kindness is free, so sprinkle it everywhere! '. Some things seemed like it started to make sense, and some answers for it started to form, until her name was yet called again. She immediately started to look around a bit disoriented, left and right, until she saw her mother calling for her to finally go to the check out and buy the school supplies. A few hours alter, it was already night time, the hour for both of them to sleep. As they were already home, both of them were sleeping in their beds on each bedroom, Alice on her bedroom while Lily sleeps on the other bedroom with the computer. It seemed like that everyone was sleeping normally, but in fact, Lily was wide awake and just pretending to sleep. She slowly opened her eyes in this night and noticed how the entire house was quiet, no one speaking or any noises coming around the house. It was the perfect chance for Lily to escape and finally start her investigation. Using the backpack her mother just bought, she managed to pack some stuff inside of it like a toy camera and other toys like a teddy bear, since she was just a child after all. The problem isn't about packing some things and going into this adventure, and it is actually leaving the house, since it's quite difficult for her to not make any noises within the house. She was afraid to wake up her mother once she left the bedroom and started to sneak in the hallways and face the stairs, seeing how the stairs could make crooking noises form the wood used on it. She took a deep breath and then started descending the stairs. At first it didn't seem like there was a problem, so she started trying to descend the stairs a bit faster, but it just caused to make a noise on the wood that bothered her mother's sleep. She kept slowly going down the stairs as she didn't want to make more noises that would disturb her mother's sleep, taking as much caution when taking any step in the stairs. After some time with this much caution, she managed to get down the stairs successfully and sneaking around, managed to grab the keys that were hanging next to the door and then came to the most difficult part, which was opening the door without having to do much noise. It was pretty difficult for her to do it as the keys making the clanking noises inside the door, with the doorknob that made even more clanking noises, but after what seemed to be an eternity to leave the house, she managed to open the door with caution, leaving and closing the door, as well as trying to lock it with the keys. She was a bit concerned as her mother didn't have other keys to get in and out of her house, but at some point, Lily imagined that her mother would some time understand and not blame her daughter. With that, off the girl goes to her journey at night, in order to get into the Garten of Banban.The daycare was minutes away from where they lived, and walking there wasn't easy at all, having to walk more than a kilometer to reach there made her extremely tired and sweat as there was no way she could take a transport to bring her there, after all, she is just a kid and adults would be weirded out easily to see a random child just walking around the city unsupervised. Upon arriving to the daycare, she was surprised to see something that would block her way easily: the windows were all locked with a metal curtain, incapacitating her from entering the abandoned daycare without having to break the glass from the front door. She stared at it as she started to rethink her decisions of coming to this place and thinking better, it seemed like it was better for her to go back home than break the glass from the abandoned daycare, despite no one working there or the place being used for researches. She slowly approached the glass and tried to stare into the darkness of the entrance, trying to see if there was anything she could overlook and go back home, when all of the sudden, the lights were turned on by itself as if the place was haunted, revealing much more that the girl couldn't see before. The place was both sad and happy at the same time, with characters drawn on the walls that would draw her attention towards. From the other aspects of the daycare, something caught her eye: another one of those characters with a quote. It seemed like that many of the characters would have a quote written somewhere around the daycare, and the giant green one that was present on the wall was no different. On the wall, it was revealed the name of the giant green monster was Jumbo Josh, followed by the quote ' Eat vegetables and fruits to become strong. LIKE ME! '. Lily wasn't really interested on this part, as she imagined only boys would like characters like Jumbo Josh, but by the fact they all seemed really weird from design to design. She distanced herself from the glass as if she was about to leave, when like the other anomalies from the place, the door slides open for her. This caught so much more interested into investigating the place, making her feel the need to get inside the daycare and research the place to find more clues about her father's disappearance, making the door slide and close. As soon as the door closed, she couldn't anything other than the morbid silence from this place. The sounds of her steps followed by the morbid silence were the only things she could hear, as if this place was much bigger than just a simple daycare. She could inspect the area a little bit better, seeing the stickers around the walls and the signs such as 'Creativity Area' seeming placed in a door that was currently closed. She saw a door open on her left but first she decided to get into the so called creativity area that she felt interested. Walking up to it, she noticed how there was a massive button on the top of the wall, where something was necessary to be used in order to press it. At first she tried to jump to reach it, trying her best to jump high enough to reach the button but she wasn't capable of it, as well as being too short to reach it. She realized that she needed something that would help her reach the button, like a stool for her to stand on, however, she was too afraid of standing on stools or chairs because of the fear of falling and hurting herself, as something similar happened a year ago that made her traumatized. Looking around, she would go to the right and notice there was a small cafeteria where children would eat their lunch, however, instead of seeing what would be snacks all over the table and vending machines, she would see one single battery on the table. The morbid silence was scary for her, so as she slowly walked up to it, she grabbed and inspected the battery to see what was so interesting about it. Noticing that it was a normal battery and then looking at the vending machines, she saw something weird. Walking up to it made her see a little sign that said ' The vending machine is under MAINTENANCE and the buttons aren't labeled. They go in the LEFT-TO-RIGHT order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, #. ', and most weird of all, there were an egg instead of a random snack in the vending machine. Looking through the buttons and the egg placement, it seemed like the button to be pressed was the button number six. Upon pressing the button, the egg slowly descended from the metal coil to fall in the vending machine and almost crack it open, and Lily was quite confused as soon as she grabbed the egg, because the egg didn't seem to be made of plastic but an actual bird egg, spilling the egg white on the floor. She decided to open the egg and was quite disgusted as there was nothing but the egg white and the yolk spilling on the floor, leaving an orange stain. As she didn't want to check the cafeteria anymore, she left the room and decided to go for the other room located to the left of the entrance to the daycare. Upon entering, she noticed some boxes and something that shocked her mind, as if she got a free toy, a controller with a drone. She was a quite happy to see it, so she immediately ran up to it and grabbed the controller to use the drone, however, she noticed that upon pressing the large button, nothing happened. Looking in the back, she noticed that there was only one battery placed on it, and it was at that moment where the first battery would come to solve this issue. Placing the battery in the back and immediately pressing the large red button from the controller, she finally managed to make the drone work smoothly. Playing with the drone a bit, pressing the button and making it bump around the walls gently, she suddenly noticed something important from the drone. " Maybe I can use it to press the large button on the wall. ", she said to herself. Making that discovery, she managed to control the drone to the main entrance room so she could point it right up to the large button on the wall and like she just imagined, the drone managed to press the button, opening the yellow door to the daycare and opening a lot more space for research and more discoveries. Slowly walking up to the hallway, she noticed two different rooms through the glass. The left one had its lights on and showed what seemed to be a small classroom, where children go to study the most simple stuff, while to the right was a massive dark room, with no lights on and super hard to see what was inside of there. As Lily had fear of the darkness, she decided to first go to the room on the left, being greeted by colorful furniture but most importantly, disturbing messages. She met with a whiteboard with the sentence ' The end is near. ', written with a black sharpie, followed by a message on the left wall that showed what seemed to be the male version of Banbaleena, Banban, a red monster with birthday hats for horns, saying the quote ' Sharing is caring! Your pancreas is mine! '. Lily was too young to understand this, but she was afraid by the messages and felt like she shouldn't be reading this kind of stuff at the moment. She just slowly headed to stay behind a desk which was present there, on the left while the naughty corner was on the right. When she least expected, there was a door right behind her, which slided open as soon as she rested her head on it, feeling how smooth it was. She ended up hurting her head from that, as she immediately hit her head on the floor with how smooth the door was to slide, but everything was okay and she didn't cry. Now noticing that the door was open, she decides to look over it after standing up and cleaning herself a bit, by patting her clothes. She notices that other than supplies like pens, there was a keycard of some sort, that could be used on a door or something similar with a sensor. She didn't know where to use tho, so she just kept carrying it around as if it was a toy. Still scared from the whiteboard and the quote said by Banban on the wall, she started to leave from behind the desk and have a better look onto the place, of course avoiding the other room hidden in complete darkness due to the fear of the dark. She just slowly started leaving the classroom, slowly approaching the darkness, and then making a run for it and going deeper into the hallway. When she looked to the walls, she saw the same character and quote, Banbaleena saying 'Kindness is free, so sprinkle it everywhere!', meaning Banbaleena was an actual character from the daycare. She was still a bit impressed about how she managed to find a school supply that was no longer being produced end up being the same brand as this weird place. But then, disaster struck as when she tried to go further, the doors were locked. Lily never knew how to open these doors in the first place. Never researched about keycards on the internet and in the world of fiction in the cartoons from the TV. When she thought this was the end of her research, something much bigger opened on her way, and it wasn't her choice to continue, and yet to be something she was about to get forced to. From the giant room covered in the darkness, she started hearing the sounds of a bird flapping its wings. It seemed like that a bird was trapped inside the building on which still scared Lily a lot, however, as it started getting closer, the bird seemed much larger than a simple city bird she would see standing around on buildings. As the wings stopped flapping and sounds of steps scratching the floor, it was clear that it was no city bird and more of a mutated creature that is trying to assimilate itself as a bird. Upon seeing the figure, it was clear that it was another one of the characters from the daycare, which seemed to be supposed to bring joy to kids but as they seemed so mutated by the first glance at the creature, it was a complete horror show. The bird seemed to just stare menacingly into the girl's eyes from that distance, which not only scared her a lot, but it managed to make her do something about it once it started stepping closer to her. Lily didn't know what to do correctly so by impulse, she grabbed her toy camera by taking her backpack off and opening it, quickly, and then pressing the button towards the bird in an attempt to temporarily blind it for a few seconds for a chance to escape this place, however, it did nothing. Lily was just slowly backing away as the bird seemed to step closer and closer to her, to a moment where there was no more space where she could run, getting her back to touch the other sliding door, which was locked, behind her. She didn't have other choice, almost crying of fear, and in a mome t of impulse she decided to punch the bird in the eye, which previously was just trying to inspect the girl and someway help her out of this place, but as the bird was attacked, it was too late and it became hostile. With that reaction, the bird immediately grabbed the child by the feet, pinching her ankle severely to the point it was about to open a wound, and started to drag her into the darkness, where Lily wouldn't be able to see properly. She started to move, cry and scream in fear of what was going on, calling for her mother and father, someway where her father would be inside this place, " M-MOMMY! DADDY! ", however, nobody was around to help. She just had to witness as the bird slowly dragged her into the darkness and into a room where she couldn't have coordination to understand what it was, but something was really clear as upon getting dragged into a room, the girl was then held after a metal fence, where she hit her head and was making her cry a lot more. " LET ME GO! LET ME GO! ", the last words of Lily in this space of the daycare, swinging her arms and her leg in order to try hitting the bird's beak. She successfully managed to do it once, but it made the bird angry enough to let her go into a closed ball pit, empty that seemed to have no end. The room where both were located was an closed ball pit room, where instead of having many plastic balls to play and swim in, there was nothing, just a long way down to somewhere no one had the idea of. The bird could only hear the girl's pitched scream echo from the massive hole in the ball pit as she kept falling and falling. Eventually, it was so much fear, and the hyperventilation of the girl followed by the pain she was feeling on her head and ankle that her brain wasn't capable to handle it all, making her brain turn off and eventually lead to her fall while she is unconscious. It seemed to never end on her mind, as it was really, really deep. There was just the gloom and darkness covering her during that moment, leading to what seemed to be a total nightmare, but in reality it was completely real. After falling unconscious, a few minutes later there was she, laying on a bunch of plastic balls that seemed to be staying there for a while. She couldn't understand what really happened, even seeing the lights made her confused thinking she was just in her bedroom and it was all a nightmare. She hoped that it was all a dream, trying to stand up and scratch her eyes only to realize that she was not laying on a bed but in a bunch of plastic balls used for ball pits, making her disoriented at first. Her eyes were still watering because of the injury she suffered on her ankle, bleeding from how much that bird was punching her foot when holding her from it. " W-W-What was that? ", she asked herself, scratching her eyes and trying to clear off the tears from her face, staring forward and seeing what that shiny light was. Instead of a lamp, it was actually a door leading to a hallway with a pattern of windows: giant windows on the left, right and top. She was confused of what was going on but still showed fear as she was still moving slowly and keeping caution as much as possible. When she started to get up from the pile of balls, she realized what happened and immediately went to look around for her toy camera, leading her to get into the pile and grab her toy camera. She was really upset when she got to grab the camera because due to the immense fall, it broke, but somehow didn't injure the girl. A piece of the handle was missing, the plastic glass used for the lens was cracked and two buttons, which played noises and songs from the toy, was missing. She was really scared to walk around the place, but the only way to leave the ball pit was to head into the hallway that was presented upon falling into the pile of balls. As she started walking, she kept feeling the pain of her bleeding ankle, but she was trying her best to not stop which would just make her cry and give up on everything. As she kept walked and looking into the windows, she kept shouting, with a fear in her voice, " D-Daddy?... Are you there?... I-I'm scared. ", believing that at any moment her father would show up. The other side of the windows wasn't helping in her emotions either, as all of them showed total gloom and darkness, probably because no lights were on or there was much more void and space outside there. A few minutes passed and what felt like hours of walking with a wounded ankle, she finally managed to reach the final of the hallway, leading to a wide door that slided open for her once she got close enough of it. There, she was presented with what seemed to be another cafeteria like in the main entrance of the daycare, but with green details, playing spaces for kids and a general displacement of school furniture. The tables were not placed correctly, leading to extreme imperfection. As she kept inspecting the room, even seeing what seemed to be a poster for another one of the characters, this time being some monster called Captain Fiddles, she still kept trying to call for her father who was still missing. Walking around and ending up what seemed to be a kitchen where food would be prepared for children, Lily decided to walk around and see if there was anything she could take into her backpack in case of emergencies, but instead of it, she found another keycard. There was the same issue where she would not know how to use them, leading for her to opt out entering rooms that didn't require the keycard for her to use. Taking another look around, she would find what seemed to be a chocolate bar inside a package. She didn't mind it since there weren't ants in the kitchen and the place was surprisingly clean. " Bazinga chocolate... ", Lily said, reading the chocolate's brand before putting it into her backpack. She now had two keycards, but unfortunately one of them was useless at the moment, since it would be used near the entrance of the daycare. Leaving this kitchen, she would walk over to the middle of the cafeteria and wonder where should she go next. She was indecisive as she was in both confusion and fear, sitting in the middle of the room and just looking around as she didn't know where to go. She even started crying a bit yet again as she regretted going to the daycare and doing the investigation. It wasn't because she didn't want to try finding her father anymore, it was because she wasn't brave enough to take onto the abandoned daycare and its anomalies and abnormalities. She tried to think a bit more while looking to one of the entrances to a different area of this place, and taking a deep breath and scratching her eyes a bit to clear off the tears, she stood up and decided to walk over to it. When entering this other room, she was introduced with what seemed to be a playground, filled with places where she could play in. It would be cool to have a playground just for herself and nobody else, but this wasn't the moment for it at all, since the morbid silence was bothering her and there was no way she would be jumping around in happiness with what seemed to be eternal gloom, despite lights being on, a happy choice of vibrant colors for the place and figures on the walls with the objective to make her feel as comfortable as possible. It seemed like the place was trying to be forest themed as much as possible, as the green tones and the playgrounds with trees and puddles as themes seemed like the deal to make it look like a forest.There were so many places where the girl would be able to stay for ehr to sleep, rest or survive during the nights in this daycare, and it seemed like it should be used now, as suddenly she started hearing the voices of two guys walking around the place. This immediately alerted her of the danger of getting caught by these people and getting grounded right by the end of the night, or even worse that could happen if she wasn't careful enough. She looked around to see where she would be able to hide and upon seeing a fake tree castle, she immediately went right for it, climbing the plastic rocks with caution and jumping into this small room on which she could stay hidden behind the walls. As soon as the both adults were inside in the cafeteria, they continued chatting. " I keep looking around this place and... is there any way we could recover and open doors for the kids again? ", " That is never going to happen, Banban. Don't you remember the many incidents reoccurring in here? ", " I-I know, but... nevermind, forget it. Let's just help Opila Bird again. ", following by steps that seemed to head into the ball pit room due to its echo on the long hallway, later being heard some noises of people getting rid of some balls by throwing them around, probably to find the supposedly body of Opila Bird and restore its bones, which seemed to be a recurring accident. It was now known that one of the guy was speaking to the character Banban, but the question was if were they still mutated in this same way as the Opila Bird, now known after being talked about in this short conversation. Lily still didn't move a single muscle when hearing them start to scatter the balls around from the ball pit to find what would be the Opila Bird after the fall, but it was then clear for them that the bird was no longer there or it just wasn't what they expected to be. For some few seconds, one of them would stop and scatter the balls around as if they thought they were going crazy if they just missed the body, until they actually realize that Opila Bird's body was no longer there. As they both realized it, the sounds stopped, keeping this morbid silence once again. " Is it just me or Opila Bird is not here? ", the voice of this same guy, who was identified to be Banban, said, questioning to his friend who was following him around. " You're right... something or someone may have fallen into this place. We need to check around, now! ", the other voice spoke, leading for both of them start walking, scattering around the balls once again. The steps started getting closer and closer, and then Banban's voice was heard saying " Do you prefer going that way? ", which was then responded " Sure, you take the other. ", leading to this creature start to walk around the forest themed playground. Looking through a small window from the tree themed castle, she was able to see the figure walk around and inspect a bit of the toys, to check if there was anything hiding in there. Banban was just like the figure that was shown at the entrance of the daycare, with the red skin, two birthday hats for horns and followed by his smile with the tongue out, still being quite creepy as it was extremely realistic for a cartoon such like the one seen from the start being into the real world. She was so scared to see him, despite not being looked at. As he kept looking around, he started feeling a weird smell, a smell that called for his attention to kill his hunger. He kept sniffing the air for a moment, making Lily feel weirded out, until the fear almost made her faint again, as the creature slowly turned to the way where Lily was located, inside the tree castle. It was like he knew that she was there, and the way to look was just to scare her away enough to make her cry or scream. But for some miracle, it was like he didn't know that the girl was present there, just turning away and walking to a different direction with a smile on its face, while he said " I think I left something in the other rooms somewhere. ", leading him to go into another room. Lily kept watching as he started going into a door and suddenly hold out a keycard, similar to what she had in her pockets, and use it towards a machine on which upon displaying a green light, opened the door for the red creature to enter, locking him behind. At that moment, she finally understood what were these cards for, and they were actually a more futuristic way to lock and unlock doors. She didn't hesitate to slowly and carefully leave the tree castle and try making its way towards the other rooms. With the keycard that she had, she went back to the cafeteria area from the place she fell in and looking on the doors, she noticed both doors had the same machine used to identify the keycards. It didn't take much for her to pull out the keycard and approaching towards the machine, managed to open the door and open much more options for her to use. Passing through the door, she was met with so many other doors she could enter, and almost all of them didn't require a keycard to be used. She picked the first door, and right there seemed to be an office and there was a little paper she could read. She did not think twice and immediately ran up to it and grabbing it and reading, it was a confidential document from the daycare, containing the informations of one of the creatures, Captain Fiddles. It read about something about experiments on a person who was disabled, and they tried to remake the technology of movable limbs and put it into the person. However, the experiment failed severely and made the flesh of its victim grow into a mass of flesh, making the biological suit into his own body. It was extremely scary, but the other scary part was just about to come on the way. As the door was still open, the other person who was investigating the place to see if there were any intruders ended up finding the door opened. They started to sneak and not so long, they managed to get into the doorframe. Seeing the girl just reading a confidential document made this creature, a brown one with a golden star on its chest and a sheriff hat, a creature similar to a frog, feel the need to investigate much more of this girl, and to prevent from her to leaving this place so soon, he immediately ran up to her and knocked Lily out with a punch against its head. It was so strong, but so strong, it managed to knock out the girl before she had a reaction of crying and screaming, making her slowly black out as her brain turned off once again. As she was about to fall into another memory loss, the guy who knocked her out said " That was really dumb of you. ", before starting to drag her to another place. She couldn't do much due to the massive pain she was feeling, even her eyes watering without being able to cry for help was super terrifying. But, like said previously, she couldn't do anything, and her brain turned off before she could know where she was being brought to.


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