Crumble When You Cry

Episode 9

Episode 9: Isolation

After getting an overwhelming call from Zelda, Roy had connected several stories. One, the strange doctor that helped Daisy, two, the strange man that all the hospital staff are silently freaking out about, the strange man in the car Palutena pointed out when she found Daisy, and whatever car hit Zelda's car.

He tried to put together a timeline in his head, but it was too confusing for his little brain. For now he'd just keep the fact that all of this happened well under an hour.

Peach noticed him thinking. He could see it in the concerned wrinkles on his forehead as he scrunched his eyebrows.

"Roy?"

"This is all suspiciously close together right?"

"Yeah— but I mean it's not like it's going after us specifically—"

"He was Daisy's doctor."

Now, that did put a bad sinking feeling in Peach's stomach. She peered into the hospital room where Daisy was passed out on the bed.

"Imagine what he could've given her!" Roy exclaimed.

"We're getting another nurse to give her a check up."

Roy didn't respond, but dropped his head down, facing his lap. Peach looked over at Rosalina, in which she shrugged sadly. Peach, not knowing what to do, patted Roy's back. It certainly wouldn't make him feel better, but it was all she could do.

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Pit laid on the ground, regretting his actions as of two minutes ago.

He laid on the ground at the bottom of a mini hill on the right side of the sidewalk, his bike not too far from him.

It was his mistake, he got caught up in thinking about how guilty he felt for leaving Zelda and Link with that car, but what was he supposed to do anyway.

His knee burned. His elbow ached. And he just laid there.

He stayed for about five minutes before finally getting up, grabbing his bike. He looked around.

He didn't even realize what road he took.

The side of the road was an entrance to a forest, tall yellowish green trees surrounding the area. The forest wasn't exactly a hiking area, but it wasn't really a place where you'd be trespassing. Pit, not caring about anything anymore, decided to explore.

It was mainly just trees, a few large boulder piles, an old bonfire, etc.. As he walked, he noticed a steep hill in front of him. It looked vaguely familiar.

He hopped on his bike and rode up. It was hard for him, not just because of his minor injuries but the fact that he was small, but he pursued.

When he finally made it to the top, it was more trees.

An odd pathway started fading in farther away from him.

And when he really squinted, he saw a building behind a large group of trees.

"If there's a cult or something in there... I don't care." He muttered to himself.

He continued to ride his bike over to the building, trying to stay out of the way of any of the crunchy chip-like leaves on the ground.

Then, he stopped. In front of the building.

The building was a large white barn. Some of the paint decaying on some parts of the wall.

He recognized the building.