Chapter 3: An Emotion

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We all looked at each other after he left. Various voices started to rise up.

Cherry: "RPS game? The hell is that!?"

Girl with blonde hair: "Is he being serious? Are some of us... going to die?"

Boy with blue eyes: "I am not staying here to find out what happens."

Cerulean: "Is there any other way to get out of here?"

Suddenly, a loud voice erupted from the sea of chatter.

Loud voice: "BE QUIET!!"

We looked to where the voice was coming from. A man with red hair and a jacket was standing a little ways-off from where the rest of us were.

Guy with jacket: "We're not going to get anywhere with questions. Right now we need to calm down and think."

Scarlet: "Actually, the best course of action right now would be introductions. My name is Scarlet."

Everyone started going around the room introducing themselves to the others. I picked up quite a few names from that. A young girl with white hair told me her name was Luna, a girl with black hair told me her name was Hikari, and a boy with an 0 on his shirt told me his name was Zero.

Hikari: "Wait a second, everyone stop."

Everyone stopped talking and looked at her.

Hikari: "I think one of us is missing. Lumiere said there were 16 people right?"

We all scanned the room and she was right. There were only 15 of us.

Hikari: "Does anyone know who's not here?"

I started to feel a sense of dread. Words started forming in my mind, "There's a lack of purple in this crowd", I thought. Then it hit me.

Beth: "V-Violet!"

Violet was missing.

Scarlet: "There's a third door that none of us came out of over there."

She pointed to a door behind where Lumiere was standing.

Scarlet: "That's the most likely place she went to. We should split into three teams of five just in case."

Zero: "How should we determine the teams then?"

Scarlet: "I'll decide randomly."

Scarlet: "Beth, Jack, Cherry, Nine, and Catty. You five investigate the middle door."

Scarlet: "Cyber, Sol, Luna, Apollo, and Artemis. You look through the door to your left."

Scarlet: "Me, Marine, Hikari, Zero, and Cerulean will look through the door to your right."

Scarlet: "Does anyone have any objections to these teams?"

Nobody said anything.

Scarlet: "Good. Then let's get going."

My team started to head towards the middle door.

We pushed it open and we found ourselves in what looked like a library.

Cherry: "Wait... the hell just happened? This doesn't look anything like the room before."

Guy with jacket: "What's going on with this place?"

I spotted a familiar figure sitting in a chair reading a book.

Beth: "Violet!"

I ran over to her and she looked up from her book.

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