Nothing but a Painting (Ib Fanfic)

Insanity

(Whatever chapter that was that I said was really long, this probably ties it/overpowers in length so yeah. Just saying.)

~9~

Garry's screams could be heard even from the distance I was at. I kept plucking the petals and wandering the halls until I found Ib. She stands alone in a large room with many paintings and sculptures, and several doors dawn the walls.

"Ib?" I ask. She turns her head and sees me, but then backs up away from me. She's looking at Garry's rose. "No, Ib. It's fine," I said, realizing what it looked like. There was one petal left on his rose.

"G-give me Garry's rose," she says trembling. This was the first time I had ever heard her speak. Her voice is soft yet stable, but strong and trembling. It's strange.

"I'm not going to hurt Garry," I said. "He just needs to know what I went through." I see a vase of water a few feet away from Ib, walk to it and place Garry's rose in it, the petals growing back. I turn around to see Ib gone, and I stand alone for a what seemed like an eternity. I couldn't wait for them to come back because chances are Ib went to look for Garry. But I couldn't leave the rose here, because Mary might come back.

Suddenly, I hear screams emanating from one of the many rooms. I open a door to a hallway where I find a blonde mop of hair crouching over... something. I can't see it.

"Mary," I say. The girl continues screaming.

"IT'S YOUR FAULT! STOP! GO AWAY! DIE! DIIIEE! DIIIiiiEEEeeEE!!!" she screams. I walk around her and see that she's stabbing a mannequin head, blood not only leaking from the stab wounds but from it's soulless, dead eyes. Those eyes followed me. I walked to the door and turned around. The eyes are looking at me. I slightly shiver and turn the doorknob, walking through the doorway (I wanted to say door, I've been saying door but it's not accurate xD just think of it as doorway and ill continue saying door, okay? xD).

When I leave the room Mary was in, the screams stop. I hear something clatter to the ground but I continue walking. I look at the base Garry's rose was in. It's gone. I can't guaranty that Ib and Garry got to it first, but I hope they did.

I hear a door open and I turn around, Mary coming out of the previous room. She walks up behind me and places her hand on my shoulder, I turn around in response.

"Where's Ib?" she asked worriedly. "She said we would stick together, we promised we'd stick together." I shrug, because in the time that I found Mary, Ib and Garry either passed us or are still in their way here. I'm assuming the first. I continue to walk forward, but Mary follows me.

"Lorelei, where are you going," she asks in a slightly panicked voice. "Please don't leave me behind like Ib did." I hear her footsteps stop. "PLEASE!!!" she screams, whipping out her palette knife, dashing towards me.

"Hell no," I say, running into the nearest room. I may have beat her in the past but something about this place has to have changed, because it looks the same as it did as a few years back. Something's got to be different. Not only that, Mary spent more time here than I. I refused to leave the room my painting was in until the Blue Lady let it slip that I could escape. That's the only time I left, and I made a certain route to the Fabricated World painting that of which I never strayed. Mary seems like an outgoing person, so she probably spent some time getting to know other paintings and learning her way around the gallery.

The door opens up to a staircase, I sprint down it and through an open door, which leads to another staircase.

Woaaahhh, wait just a minute.

Why am in in space?

Seriously.

I'm on a pink staircase and there's an outer space like place all around me.