Garten of Banban Book 1: Never Let Go | Wings of Fire x Garten of BanBan Fanfic

Chapter 7: Journey

~ A Brother Who Lost two ~

~ May Become Three ~

~ To travel below to find kin ~

~ Blueberry's POV ~

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Blueberry strained his muscles to pick up the heavy hammer. He half dragged it across the building and swung it into the crooked wooden planks blocking the entrance to the ball pit.

He shivered as he stepped in. He had thought he would never have to come back here. He had hoped he would never have to come back here. 

He froze as he saw the abyss. The very pit where Firefly had fallen- where Toucan had fallen. All his fault. He couldn't save her. He had been too late. She was gone.

He shook his head. No, you are fucking a idiot. He thought. She's still alive. Somewhere down here, she's alive.

Blueberry stepped forwards and scanned the purple keycard on the scanner. Part of the wall unfolded, and a carrier came out.

If this was any normal endless pit that meant certain death, he would have just flown over it. But the truth was, he didn't trust his own wings to take him over. He expected guilt to make his wings fail and send him down there too.

He leapt onto the carrier and gripped it as he was pulled across. It jolted to a stop and he half-fell off it onto the platform.

He stood up and looked around. Along the wall there were the main characters- except colorless. Below them were buttons, all with white on them. Blueberry guessed he would have to press it until it got to the right color.

Jumbo Josh: easy, green. Bambaleena: keep it the same. Banban: red. Opila Bird; pink. Captain Fiddles: blue. Stinger Flynn, Orange. And Toucan... also orange.

Blueberry heard the familiar jingle and turned to see a gray cupboard swing open. Inside was an orange keycard.

He scanned the purple keycard over a button, and it pushed the wooden pathway over the pit. He shivered again.

He knew that falling down that pit would surely mean death... He knew his sister had gotten lucky when she landed on the platforms below. He took a deep breath and stepped forwards.

His claws were nearly touching the wood when he saw it. Or, rather, her.

Opila Bird was riding a carrier across the pit, staring right at him. She stepped onto the concrete and came right towards him.

"Stay still and she won't provoke you."

Clay's words echoed in his mind. Blueberry froze, holding his breath and barely blinking. Opila bird stopped stalking him and tilted her head curiously.

It came closer. He began to panic. He couldn't stay still forever; the bird would either get bored and kill him anyway or he would collapse from exhaustion and hunger.

He prepared himself. When Opila relaxed, he spun around and raced across the wooden path and heard a furious squawk behind him. He didn't turn back to look but kept running.

He skidded across the concreate platform, looking for something to deter the bird with. He saw a scanner for the orange keycard on the wall- above it was a sign that said, 'Emergency Switch'.

Blueberry fumbled around in his pouches and pulled out the orange keycard. It slipped out of his sweaty grip and fell to the ground. Blueberry quickly reached forward and scanned it.

Opila bird squawked as the wooden platform vanished beneath her. She fell down into the abyss, vanishing into the darkness.

"Oh, my fucking hell," Blueberry gasped, leaning backwards and slouching against the wall. He breathed a sigh of relief.

After a few moments of sitting there and wondering how he wasn't dead, he went back into the playground. His heart was still racing after that. he stepped onto the cool grass and continued to the hallway, where at the end there was an orange door. The principal's office.

He reached forwards and scanned it. He stepped inside and looked around the room. It seemed pretty ordinary. A desk with an old computer in front of the doorway, and a large, open expanse next to it.

Blueberry went to the blank space. he noticed something in the floor, a rise, barely a millimeter tall. He turned around.

It looked like something that could vanish under the rest of the floor- so he began searching, for a scanner, button, lever- anything that could help.

He looked under the principal's desk, and, sure enough- a scanner. He scanned a keycard across it and heard the familiar jingle. He turned and saw the ground had vanished.

He heard a rustic metal squeak and a red elevator rose from the depths. Blueberry froze. That's from my dream.

Did he really want to go onto that? What if one of those... those things were down there? He shook his head.

Come on, Blueberry. He thought, taking a deep breath. You've made it this far. How bad could it be?

Blueberry stepped forwards onto the rusty elevator. There was an ear-splitting squeak as the old gate twisted shut, and Blueberry began to plunge down into the depths.

I was never really the one for adventures or rescue missions.

He shivered as the roof above him closed up, plunging him into darkness. his only light was an old lamplight sitting on the railing.

Suddenly, all around him, red lights started flashing, with a distant alarm going off. Blueberry spun around, trying to spot what had caused the issue.

Yet, as I plunge deeper, I begin to realize:

A groan was sounded from below. Blueberry froze as a giant green talon appeared on the side of the railings.

Maybe it doesn't matter who you are.

Two eyes appeared, and a green head emerged into the light. Blueberry walked backwards until he felt the railing against his tail. The creature swung at him, and he ducked, narrowly avoiding getting crushed.

Maybe it only really matters if you do whatever you can to save loved ones from shadow.

There was a crack, And Blueberry looked around and saw that the railing where the wire was attached had cracked, with the wire slowly sliding off. He shot forwards and gripped it, trying to stop it, But the weight of him and Jumbo Josh was too much for him.

Even if it means giving away your soul to the darkness within.

Josh groaned again, and there was a scratching noise. The wire slid off the railing, letting the elevator plunge to the ground. Blueberry screwed up his eyes as he felt a pain in his head, and all went dark. 

It's lucky I'm not afraid of the dark.

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