The Puppeteer's Assistant

Chapter 6: Betrayal

When Puppeteer clicked open the door and walked into the room he found Sebastian with a look of fear in his eyes. He circled around him a few times, until he wrapped his strings around his waist and pulled him close. In his ear, he whispered;

"So.. Where's Vanessa..?"

"Who, Vanessa? Psh, I don't know where she's at.. Isn't she sleeping..?" Sebastian answers. "Don't play dumb with me you fool!" Puppeteer shouts, now clenching Sebastian's wrists tight within his grasp of his strings. "She wasn't in her room, so where is she?" "Why would I out of all the people would know where she's at? I don't keep an eye on her, you do!" Sebastian began to mumble. "She is your responsibility, you know.."

"That's not the point! Your lying to me.. I know it, I just know it!!" Puppeteer yells at the top of his lungs; making Sebastian quake back in fear. He watched as Puppeteer scowled the room for Vanessa, checking every nook and cranny for that girl. "Vanessa, where are you..? There's no time to be playing hide and seek with your dear ol' friend, Darling~"

While his eyes were ocupated with the space he was searching in currently, Vanessa peeked out of the closet and looked at Sebastian- waiting for him to signal her for when she had the open opportunity to make her great escape. Sebastian then waits.. Until..

"Now.."

Vanessa bursts out of the closet and runs out, Puppeteer picking up his feet after her. "I KNEW IT!" He screamed. Vanessa watched her step as she ran down those steps as Puppeteer was quickly catching up to her. 

"It's no more fun and games anymore.. I can't keep playing this any longer! I need to get out of here!!" Repeated in Vanessa's head while she kept at it. Not looking where she was going when she reached the bottom, she tripped over a wooden plank and fell; getting the skirt of her dress caught on a nail in the floor. Puppeteer had finally caught up to her, and she couldn't get away now.

"Haha.. You really thought you could get away, didn't you..?" He chuckled. Vanessa looked up into the Puppeteer's eyes, and just before he was about to grab her he was tackled down by Sebastian; who yelled loud and clearly;

"GO VANESSA! RUN.. NOW..!! WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!" Without hesitation, Vanessa snagged her dress free and ran out of the house. She didn't even stop to look back. She just ran and ran and ran..

"You.." Puppeteer cackled and grabbed Sebastian with his strings, lunging him towards the wall. "YOU FOOL!! MY PLAN IS NOW RUINED!!" Puppeteer looked around, but it was too dark for him to see.. Vanessa was gone, long gone by now.

In anger and frustration, he wrapped his strings around Sebastian's neck and lifted him high in the air- where he reached up and took his heart out with another pair of strings. "Prepare.. To undergo the most pain you've ever suffered in your entire LIFE.." And with that, Sebastian's heart was busted; his bloody scream to be the last thing Vanessa heard before she tumbled down a hill into a field filled with bushes upon bushes of brambles..