Meeting an Inescapable Fate

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I kept wandering the carnival from hell with this robo bitch, every so often her head would jerk and she'd give off this loud electronic screech. She kept pacing and panicking at every turn I made. Maybe the one she told me about is going to jump us?
"What's your name? I'm Kim Seokjin. Jin for short."
"I know who you are, we all do. I'm Hatsune Miku, or as he calls me, hunk of useless metal."
"Uh I like Miku better... so where am I supposed to be going?"
"Where your heart wants."
"That's cheesey." I rolled my eyes. Up ahead I see an indigo haired boy, he looks tired, and mangled more than Miku. "Is that him?"
"Ah! No it's not, stay away from him!! He's not as dangerous as Machigerita, but he is a creation..."
So they call themselves creations. Pretty ominous isn't it? I shuddered, thinking of how they could have been made. They're robots made of flesh, and metal. "How did he make you?"
"That's a story for another time. You'll probably see first hand anyway."
"Is that a threat?"
"It's a promise."
That's not okay. "Get me out of here then!"
"It's too late, he knows you're here. And he really wants to meet you face to face."
    "I don't ever want to meet him!"
And just like that, she violently swung me into her arms in a choke hold, as if I offended her. Maybe she has a high opinion of the freak who made her. But back to choking I guess. "Gh- h-help! Hnnn!! P-please... let go of me!"
   "Do not disgrace him! He will hear, he will find you and butcher me for your mistake!"
    All I can manage out is grunts and pained noises, gasping out particles of the language I can't remember anymore, the lack of oxygen getting to my bursting brain. It feels like my vision is going white and my head is going black, to an abyss of suffering, like my soul will stay in this metallic smelling, cryptic place to be hunted by the other botched robots and the ruler of this place.
   But then I feel a thud, and I feel back to normal, a little wheezing never killed anybody... I hope. I looked up to see the broken girl robot thing shaking and staring in the distance with a look of horror. I feel like I didn't have to question it, assuming it was another awful evil villian, and I was right. Growls and howls, smoke bellowing every corner, no doubt it was the ruler. There was an overwhelming sense of dread and bloodlust, but then 2 glowing red eyes made contact with my widened brown ones. "Please help me out of here..."
    "There's nowhere to run. We would know. So now you are his to be played with."
    The rides, the carnival confections, the stuffed toys, all seemed to close in around me, their faces twisting to cruelty, the smoke wrapping itself around my nose, the voices of the past clinging to my spine. I felt like this was the part where I fall asleep and wake up to see nothing has changed, but I never fell asleep. All I saw was the truth of this place. And the king standing right before me.

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