Chapter 24 ~ Not good at goodbyes (p1)

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SW: December 13 2024
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3rd person POV
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Where.......you ............mikhail...!?


Mik.......hail.........

Mik...ail......!

So......cold....dark

Mikhail.............

Don't.....leave.......me

MIKHAIL-

"Huh!? Where-"

'deformed clocks? Floating words? And whoever the hell Mikhail is....'

'A cluster of memoria....... Could this be the true dreamscape?!'

Lucia Gets up off the couch and walks towards the door, only to find out the door is no longer there

'well I guess the weird looking painting with a crack in it is my next best shot' she thinks

She delicately places her gloved hand on the surface of the painting, it flashes a bright white light before consuming her vision

She cracks her eyes open after a moment only to realize she's falling,


*Thud*

"AHHH fuck, that's my tailbone. Just because I heal quickly doesn't mean I can't feel the pain......I really gotta be more careful.. although this place seems to be messing with my senses quite a bit..." she mutters to herself before slowly getting up and surveying her surroundings

'what is up with all these TV's and the ambiance? Why the hell are there 6 different doors-'

Her thoughts are cut short when a group of 3 people come barrelling through door number-.............. One of the doors

She quickly draws her guns and aims directly at them, she almost pulls the trigger before seeing the 2 grey haired twins with someone else

She lowers her guns but keeps them ready in case of an emergency

"What are you guys doing here and who's this girl you're with?" Lucia asks, as far as she knows they were supposed to be in the Golden Hour, not wherever the hell they are now

"Ms.Lucia!?!!" Stelle and Caelus yell out in unison as they run like abnormal titans towards her, leaving the girl with them, really confused. Her confusion grows when the twins hug the woman now known as 'Ms. Lucia', on top of that, their dramatic asses blow the situation way out of proportion

"OH MY GOD WHERE WERE YOU"

"EVERYONE WAS SO WORRIED"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU RESPOND TO OUR TEXTS!"

"OUR FAMILY GROUP CHAT?!"

"YOU DIDN'T EVEN RESPOND TO MR.YANG!"

"OR HIMEKO"

"OR MARCH"

"OR US"

"DO YOU HATE US!!?"

"OH, STELLE SHE HATES US😭"

"WHYYYYYYYYY"

"REMEMBER THAT ONE TIME WHERE WE DID THAT ONE THING! WAS THAT ALL A LIEEEEEE?!?!😭😭😭"

*SMACK*

"OW-"

*SMACK*

"Ouch-"

"Stop making a fuss, now who is this girl you're traveling with?" Lucia asks impatiently

"I'm Firefly, a performer from the family, Umm are you also part of the astral express? It's just that Stelle and Caelus mentioned a bunch of other people but I don't think I heard a 'Ms. Lucia'."

The twins quickly glance away from Lucia's piercing gaze that threatens to slice them in half


(Like Goj- 😭)

The twins stay silent, whistling a tune and looking anywhere but at Lucia

Her gaze shifts off of them, knowing it's pointless to ask them for any information they may have, she instead turns to Firefly

"Apologies, I'm Lucia of the Astral Express. For 2 people who just made a fuss about me, they sure don't seem to talk about me much. More importantly, has anyone figured out what the hell this place is!?"

"I'm sorry but we recently just met back up with each other and I don't even know how we got separated in the first place- so I really don't have anything to go off of, I'm sorry-"
Firefly is cut off by none other than Lucia

"It's okay Firefly, I didn't expect you to know much, you don't have to apologize for something like that, in fact it would be more odd to understand this situation" she says gently

Having nothing else to go off of Lucia proposes that they just keep running through the door at random until something happens

The twins agree because of the gacha like element to it and because their Caelus and Stelle, the chaos twins (Camden and Allegra reference)

Firefly thinks for a moment before coming to the conclusion that there literally isn't anything else they can do either than run through random doors

And so that is exactly what they did, every time they would end up in that same room and everytime it would become more distorted

Lucia stops in the middle of the next one, halting everyone else

"Somethings different about this one-" she attempts to say, but multiple clock alarms go off at the same time

The space turns dark, the TV's are the only source of light. Lucia, Stelle and Caelus create a circle of protection around Firefly as they draw their weapons. It becomes silent as they all wait for something to appear in the dark

"ABOVE-" Caelus and Firefly warn everyone just in time for them to avoid the huge knife like thing that came through the ceiling

As the dust clears, the figure of this Cocaine Dragon named 'death' becomes visible, everyone has been separated in different corners of the room, Stelle immediately runs over to Firefly and acts like her meat shield, protecting the girl and herself with a bat

(Thanks to Curiosity_Naivety for coming up with the glorious name, Cocaine Dragon. If you somehow see this and don't want me using the name anymore, please tell me♥️)

Caelus jumps into action and delivers a powerful hit on the cocaine dragon, only for it to hit back with triple the amount of force, sending him flying past Stelle and Firefly and into a locked door.

While that's happening, Lucia is sending a flurry of bullets towards one of 'deaths' eyes, memoria fluid leaks from it's wounds

'Death' aims directly at Stelle and Firefly, sending one of its scythe like claws right at them, it cuts through the air swiftly-

*CLANK SHINNNNNNNG-* Stelle just barely manages to block the scythe with her bat, when the 2 weapons connect, to sparks are sent flying all over the place as well as a horrific screeching sound loud enough to to make your ears bleed

Stelle just barely stays standing after that attack, she's clearly out of breath

Stelle turns towards Firefly behind her






"Firefly! Can you-!"

Only to find her not standing there anymore

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Writers block has hit me like truck kun but I wanna post what I have written so far so here ya go lovelies 😘

~jae~

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