Wasn't it me you used to call "One of a Kind.. ? "

The Beginning.

Iris’s parents were moving to a new house far away from their old one. They packed up and left for the new house. It was an old mansion in the middle of a forest.

Iris found some dolls in the attic and decided to touch them. She held one and saw something on the hand. It was red and smelled like metal. She asked her parents to come up and see the dolls she found. She found a doll that was in terrible condition; one of the eyes was gone and the clothes were frayed and ripped in some spots. The hair was a little messy too.

Iris wanted to fix the dolls she found, so she tried to fix them up a little. She asked her parents about them and they said they didn't know where the dolls came from. She started with doing the hair. She didn't want to damage anything, so she brushed very lightly.

She finished doing the hair and tried to see the eye back in. It sort of worked, but not fully. Part of it was still coming out a little, and the paint was very chipped off. She hugged the dolls and her parents called her out for breakfast because school would start soon. Iris left for school and the dolls woke up. Minus the blue one, he wasn't awake yet.

The blue one woke up to someone wrapped around his body. They were dark blue and looked small. He moved his arm up and hugged back. He may be an old creaky doll, but he can still move fine. His voice was messed up and he actually had a hole in his chest from past damage.

He coughed and stood up, still holding the smaller doll in his arms. He was clearly pretty weak from the damage. The smaller doll held on tighter and it started to hurt a little. The bigger doll knew who was hugging him and continued to hold them gently. He could feel the smaller doll shaking and could feel their tears. Another doll who was a pale teal came over and tapped his shoulder. He jumped and they said he needed to rest his body. The blue doll was now resting his broken and damaged body. He was over 100 years old, but he'd be fine if he wasn't so broken and damaged.

Iris came home early and the toys didn't know. She saw them moving around her room and said hi to them. She was sick. The old blue doll slowly got up and walked over to her. He hugged her arm and she picked him up and hugged him properly. She asked if his eye felt better and he said it did and was wondering why. She said she sewed it back in. He leaned forward on to her and hugged her more.

Everyone said their names. The old blue doll (the one who hugged Iris) was Neptune, the light teal one was Uranus, the lighter tan ish one was Saturn,  the darker tan ish one was Jupiter, and the dark blue one was nameless, so Iris asked what name they wanted and they said X. She asked if anyone had any major damages and Neptune gently moved his shirt out of the way so Iris could see the hole in his chest. Iris quickly got her sewing kit and sewed the hole back together. It hurt a lot but he knew it would be better than suffering for the rest of his existence.

Iris asked how they were alive. None of them wanted to say, but Uranus did accidently without realising it (he tends to do that). They're dead souls of children who were killed in the house by Iris’s great great grandparents before they died. They all had mental trauma because they remembered their lives fully.

She asked if anyone else was damaged and she noticed X’s face had many rips. She asked if they were okay and they said it hurt. Iris hugged them and they hugged back and started to cry. X was just four when they were murdered with their brother, Neptune. The two knew they were siblings. Neptune would often cough because of his damaged chest.

Iris fixed X’s face rips and hugged the crying doll again. Iris made sure everyone was okay by looking around for rips, etc. Iris heard a cough and could smell something very metal like. She checked around to see who coughed and saw Neptune coughing still, and clearly holding something back. Saturn was holding him so he wouldn't fall over, but Saturn couldn't hold him up. Uranus ruffled Neptune's hair and hugged him, then made him lay down to rest. Iris looked at Neptune's blood stained hands (his hands had fresh and old blood on them, and his mouth had fresh blood only). Iris cleaned up Neptune and made sure he was resting. She then told everyone that it was bedtime and that she was also going to sleep.

Jupiter explained that they all had a piece of something they used to care about inside of them, and if it gets too destroyed, that's when they die, and because Neptune was hurt, he was very weak and could barely stay alive. Iris asked how old everyone was and was shocked about it. She didn't mind though, and said to herself that she'd be even more gentle with them so they don't get in a really bad condition.

Iris was sleeping and two dolls were still awake. They didn't want to wake up the others, so they talked quietly. One of them was holding back a cough so they didn't wake everyone else up in the middle of the night. They ended up coughing anyway, but no one woke up. There was blood on their hands again and they didn't know what to do about it. The other one tried to wake Iris up and tell her but she wouldn't wake up.

The one who coughed continued to cough more until they physically couldn't anymore. They didn't pass out, they were just too weak to move much. It hurt them. They could feel the pain inside them. He got a sudden flashback to the one who used to play with him.

Flashback (start).

I look at her dead in the eyes, I'm unable to move. I'm unsure of what's going on. What year is it ? I don't remember. Someone is running at us. She was stabbed and the knife got me too.

My chest hurts. Where am I.. ? I remember everything.. It hurts a lot now. I can see them both at least.. but seriously.. Where am I ? This place looks like an attic of some kind.. wait.. who are they ? I don't recognise them. I want to close my eyes and rest.. goodnight..

Flashback (end).

Iris woke up eventually and took care of the blood thing. She made sure everyone was okay and decided it was a good time to wake up anyway (5:23am). She was still sick and could take care of the dolls. She had to help with keeping Neptune from coughing out more blood and asked what she should (or could) do. He said to try seeing if something was severely damaged. She asked how she'd do that and he said to basically do surgery with the blade in the attic. He also said he could help her find it.

Neptune showed Iris where the blade was and asked her to slice gently and slowly, so she did. He was in pain but knew it would help him later on. Iris saw that part of him was completely open and bleeding inside him. She sewed everything together and said it would take a while to heal.