Puppet ~Mary fanfiction from the game Ib.

Chapter 1; Lonely

I'm slowly walking through the long purple halls. Again, there is no sound. The only sound I hear is the sound of my own footsteps. I don't know how long I have been walking nor do I know what I’m looking for.  The dolls are following me again but I don’t care. As long as they stay with me, I’m okay. 

I stop and hear footsteps. I hide and see a girl my age passing. I see an ant talking to her. She nods and heads to another corridor. I follow her in the shadows. She seems so nice. I want to be friends with her. She jumps as two hands try to grab her. Those hands annoyed me too. She stumbles to the other side of the corridor right in another pair of hands. She screams and falls to the ground. She rolls over to the middle and carefully walks to the end of the corridor. She looks at a painting and takes it. It was a painting of an ant. The ant probably ordered her to get the painting.

I know how he loves himself.  The girl shows the painting to the ant but seems to keep it herself. She looks around in confusion. As if she doesn’t know where to go next. Eventually she heads right and walks in another room. I want to follow her, to be her friend. I must let her stay in the gallery, she may not leave. I’m thinking of many ways to keep her from escaping.  I hear her picking up a key. They key to the entrance of this room. I can’t let her leave so quickly.

I order a red mannequin to get the key whatever it takes. I manage to hide before the girl runs out of the room she disappeared in. She is not carrying the painting anymore. Short after that, I hear a crash. The crack in the other room probably caused its downfall. Soon I understand the girl used the painting of the ant to get over the crack without falling. I smirk in the shadows. This girl is clever. It’s going to be hard to keep her here.

I follow her into a room in the shape of a cat. She walks over to the key hole in the middle of the room. Her fingers follow the shape of the key hole. It’s the shape of a fish. There are two directions she can choose. She seems to doubt, but chooses left. I’m still following her in the shadows. She looks around as she sees where she ended up. As she walks past a wall I hear a weird sound. Slowly she turns around . Someone has written something under the stickman’s painting. It seems to be the stickman self. I try to read it but it is impossible from this distance.  As if she can read my thoughts, she reads it out loud. ‘’Play Hide and Seek?’’.

She frowns. I want to help her but I can’t let her see me.  Suddenly the stickman disappears.  The girl understands she has to seek the stickman. She looks around. The room is filled with paintings with curtains covering them. She opens one curtain but sees a red hand. She falls backwards. The hand seems to harm her. She brushes away a tear and continues the game. Short after she finds the stickman. The stickman seems surprised he is found so soon. The stickman writes something on the wall again. ‘’Found me. You get prize’’.

Her voice sounds in disbelief as she reads the weird message. Something in the front of the room catches her attention. As she walks to the object she sees it’s a wooden fish head. One half of the fish key. She sighs, knowing she still needs to find the other half. As she walks back to the cat room she drops something. I stop to look what it is. It’s a red petal. She must’ve lost it when slapped by the vivid red hand. I rush out of the room to catch up with her. As I enter the cat room, I see the door to the other side closing. As I’m searching for a way to get in unseen I remember my mission to let her stay in this gallery.

I must stop her from getting out of the cat room. I give a head mannequin an order to get away with the key.Somehow it gets my order wrong. The head mannequin thinks it has to destroy the girl. I shut my eyes. I hear the girl scream followed by a crash. I open my eyes and hide as soon as the girl comes out of the room. I peek in the room and see the head mannequin in thousand pieces on the floor.

The girl obtains the other half or the fish key. As I follow her she walks over to the key hole and combines the two pieces to one fish key. I swallow when she puts the key in the key hole. A sound of thousand cats fills the room. The girl seems frightened at the first but relaxes after a while. She carefully walks through the small doorway that is created. I follow her unseen.

As she walks in the next room I grimace. It didn’t work to let her stay. She has to stay forever. I’m trying to come up with something to make her stay forever. Sadly I can’t think of anything.  I watch as the girl passes a painting. It’s a cursed painting, that spits every time someone walks by. The girl avoids it and stares at it in disbelief. As she heads on through the hallway I follow her slowly. Suddenly I come up with a brilliant plan to let her stay forever.

I know it will work.