What's Worse Than Death

Chapter 1

Crimson's POV

I don't think I can continue running, my legs are starting to feel weak and a bit numb. I don't wanna go back to that house. I hate that house, my mom is so cruel and also my dad, they both don't care about us, they are just using us but I don't know why. WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS KIND OF LIFE? I always cry I'm such a crybaby, "Crimson, are you okay?" Deerg asks, we both stopped, my tears flowed like a river, I can't seem to stop the tears from flowing, I suddenly hugged my brother, "Shhhh, everything will be fine, once we find someplace to rest" Deerg hushed. 

I found a church-like-silhouette in the distance, "Brother, Look" I pointed to the silhouette, "a church, lets head over there" said Deerg. 

We reached the church. "It looks abandoned,"  Deerg continued, "Might as well explore the area before it gets dark", Deerg explored the rooms while I explored the hallways."The hallways are quite dark and its only light source are candles hung on walls, like medieval candles, there's a lot of these kinds of candles in my house, usually hung on hallway walls.

 I remember when we were still trapped on the house, I sneak out of my room and see maids blowing some of the candles on some hallways - I usually sneak out from my room and go to the library, and look at the telescope, I have a hobby of  looking at stars, they are like diamond. I find Compact stars so cool because it's so colorful. 

As I walk a hand grabbed my shoulders, "EEEEEK" I squealed. I turned around to find a dark brown haired girl, a bit taller than me, her eyes are black and dead, cross neckless is hanging on her torso,  she seems to be wearing a uniform that has cross symbols on her skirt. "what are you doing here?" she asks, "me and my brother are finding a place to rest for a while" I respond, she turned around "Its seems like your not alone".

 We walked towards a door with a labeled "library", brother would love this room since it is filled with lots and lots of books. we both entered the room, "by the way, what's your name" the girl asked, 

"I'm Crimson, Crimson Ckulenip, you?"
"I'm Sophie, Sophie Daerk. may I ask your brother's name?"
"His name is Deerg, Deerg Ckulenip"

"Crimson" Deerg yelled from the distance. I looked outside to find my brother's silhouette, I quickly approached him and gave him a hug, "I'm glad you're fine, I heard you squealed from the distance" he said then pointed at Sophie, "Who's that?", Sophie introduced herself, "I'm Sophie Deark", "It's good to see you" Deerg greeted. "same to you as well".

I woke up and looked around, this place seems different... Oh right, we're on an abandoned and right now we're resting in the library. "Crimson, we better get moving," Deerg said, I stood up and we both went outside, Sophie guided us to the main door. 

"have a safe trip" she waved goodbye, "May I ask you a quick question?" Deerg asked, "you may" Sophie responded, "What do you usually do in this place?", "read, go to the cemetery and water the flowers", "do you wanna go with us" I offered, "But you guys bearly know me, isn't it a bit sudden?", "Yeah, it might be a bit sudden, but you seem to be so lonely, plus we both can know each other while we walk", "Okay" she smiled then continued, "I never met someone as kind as the two of you.

I've never felt so happy, I can finally do things that I can't. Seeing different trees, different breathtaking views, different animals and... insects, I honestly hate insects, they are so icky, I might sound so melodramatic but I just hate them - I do like butterflies, but I'm scared if a butterfly flies towards me, I'm such a coward. I've learned a lot of things in this no-rules forest, 
I've made friends with trees, that sounds really weird but I feel like friends don't have to be humans or animals, friends can be objects that don't grow and breathe.

It's been so long since I've smiled, We're finally free from our abusive and dangerous parents. I remember when I was little my mom always spanks me whenever I make a small mistake, it's like she doesn't even know that everyone is imperfect, she keeps saying we are a mistake, very cliche, and I think its kind of immature, to be honest, I'm mature and responsible but I don't show it because I don't want my brother to feel left our considering the fact that he is a bit immature and may sometimes be very immature, and plus I don't want to make him look bad, he's the oldest one, anyway... 

Mogu's POV

The tea is delish, when we finally finished our tear we started making our plans, the plan is about going to AUs (Alternate Universes), right now we are planning on buying the pieces of equipment and tools we need to make a machine that can make traveling to AUs possible, this world is filled with magic after all...

If you're curious about what AU I'm from, Maglettic, Maglettic is a universe that I live in, the perspectives are quite hard considering the fact that there are a lot of AUs and you, might be from a different AU, b ut from your perspective, you call it "Universe", each universe have different personas and ambiance, in my Universe we have magic that we use to power up a machine, we don't have magic like mages, wizards, etc. our magic comes from a stone called, "Matech", its a weird name, I honestly don't know why they call it that, I call it magic stones, well Matech literally means magic stones in other languages. What's our language you ask, welp, its Technic, and we are called "Maglenians"...

"Mogu" a whispered startled me, "sorry" Summer apologized, I forgave her. "anyways, are you done with the sketch?" she asked, "Yup" I smiled. I made a sketch for the machine and it doesn't look like a police box from Doctor Who, and yes the author is totally not running out of ideas...

Summer took off to give it to Earlotte, since we need his approval first before we start buying the equipment - just in case we start changing our minds and think that I could have done better... 

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