Met You Here (Ash x Reader)

Chapter 3: A Wintery World

(Your POV)

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"Hi Mum." I greeted, Abigail waved at her presence, she waved back, just a small 'hello', "Dear, do I leave you two here alone, I must've left." she said, looking worried, "We're fine, nothing's bugging us." I punned, "Ayyy..." Abigail finger-gunned, then L.A., laughed...? But why? Did she just, laughed at my puns? "Oh dear..." she said, then she stopped laughing to hug us, "I am so glad you two are okay..." she said, then she stopped hugging to continue her book that she's reading, I looked and I saw stairs that lead to the basement, I decided to ask L.A. about this, but... should I?

"Abigail, can I ask her about this?" I whispered, for Mum will hear our conversation, "Hmm... I guess...?" she said, I brought my things and walked to the living room, to see L.A. reading her book about... flowers? I stood by her and she then asked, "Oh, hello there! Wanna know about the book I'm reading? It's called, hmm, kinds of flowers and some benefits. How about it?", "Umm, can I at least go outside?" I asked, "I'm really sorry to say, you can't. Please, I don't want to lose you..." Lose us? What does she mean by that? "Please, stay here... I'm doing something." she then stood from her seat and went out, Abigail followed her, I stayed behind her... then L.A. said, "You really want to go home, do you not? Ahead of us, lies the end of the RUINS, please, be a good child and go upstairs." she then moves on, we disobeyed and we still followed her, "Every Naturals that fall down here meets the same fate... I've seen it again and again, they come, then leave, and they die, please, if you leave this place... the King, may kill you. Please, go back..." wait, there are other Naturals that fall down here? We still followed her, then she said, "You really wanted to leave? So badly? So then, there is one solution to this... prove that you two are strong enough to survive!" then the room turns black, again, but now with four buttons: FIGHT, ACT, ITEM, MERCY. the battle goes on!

"Great, now what?" I said, feeling rather guilty, Abigail pressed MERCY, "..." she doesn't speak, then a wave of fireballs happens to move in our SOUL's way, Abigail dodged them, while my indigo SOUL, standing and doing nothing, I braced for impact, then all of a sudden, the fireballs flickered then disappeared, L.A., looking surprised but... suddenly faded after a second, we pressed MERCY once more, "..." she doesn't speak, again, "Abigail, how do I get to move this thing?" I point to the indigo heart, "Control it with your HEART" I don't get it... I tried many times then it worked, still losing some of the HP, (Luckily, Abigail stored some Magic candies and doughnuts for later) "Fight me or run away!" she shouted, then the fireballs stopped moving towards us? But why? "I know that you wanted to leave but--" she stopped, we kept pressing MERCY, "Please..." she started to cry, we kept on pressing MERCY, "Just go back!" then, "Ha... ha..." she then smiled a bit, "Hahaha... pathetic, is it not?", "I can't even save a single child..." she then breathe out a sigh, then the room faded with colors again, "I know that I can't lock you here forever, but... if you really..." she stopped and said, "If you leave this place, just keep going, as long as you left here, you'll never go back here again... please be good alright?" then she gave us a hug, "Before you two go, may I know your names?" she asked, who pulled us away from hugging, "My name is (Y/N), and you know Abigail, do you?" I said, "Ah, I see... Goodbye then (Y/N) and Abigail..." she said.

I picked up my bag, and we exited the room, which L.A. was there, there was this long hall, we kept walking and walking, nothing bothering us, then a huge door, which may seem hard to open, we pushed through our way, instead we fall into the same room I entered a while ago, then this ghost person appeared again, "Clever... Very clever... you two think you're smart, do you...?" they then cackled with malicious joy, then disappeared, "Darn you!" I mocked, I kicked the grass until it was brown, I then continued with Abigail...

Everything goes white...

I stepped on white snow, wait-- snow? "Brrr, it's s-so cold!" I shivered, I pulled out my (F/C) hoodie and put it on, well, Abigail is wearing her own jacket so she's fine for the weather today... We kept walking through the snowy path, and a large stick happened to be in the way, we took care not to step on it, and after a few steps-- (*snap), a snap is heard, 'Goodness! I think someone's following us!' I thought, we hurried through, and stopped by a bridge which had wide wooden bars... then, crunching steps is heard from behind, getting louder and louder... then a calm, low female voice rang out, saying, "d o n ' c h u  k n o w  h o w  t o  g r e e t  a  n e w  b u d d y ?   j u s t  t u r n  a r o u n d . . .  a n d  s h a k e  m y  h a n d . . ." Without hesitation, we turned around, I held out my palm to shake-- (*whoopee cushion noises)... her hand... "(*pfffft)" I snorted, trying to hold back my laughter, Abigail burst out laughing, "hehe, the old whoopee cushion in the hand trick! gets them every time!" she stopped holding my hand, then introduced herself, "sup'? the name's ash, ash the human-legend." she then paused to see two of us, "wait a minute? are you actually two humans or am i vision-blinded?" she squinted her eyes, "That's right! We're TWO humans! From the Natural tribe." I replied, "anyways, i'm s'posed to keep watch on NATURALS right now, but, i don't care about capturing anybody. and there goes my sister, Leila, who is a NATURAL-HUNTING FANATIC, i think she's right over there." we looked behind us, "quick! hide behind my post right there... i'll take care of the rest." we proceeded to the post she's pointing to. In any minute now, her sister came...

Word count: 1080 words

A/N: Whoa! Did I went too far? It's like a 1000+ words, well... wonder what happens next... (sorry for the lame plot ;_;)

Noted by: Author-chan; L.A.