'Kumi' - Chapter 8

Splitting Up

 

 

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Francine & Kumi arrived at the locked purple door. They used the purple key and thankfully, it unlocked.

 

 

In the room looked like a storage room, with headless statues and boxes full of unknown stuff. Both decided to investigate around the room.

 

 

"I would love to take this stool.." Francine said while looking at the stool in the room. "But, It looks like it's stuck to the floor..." Kumi gave Francine a weird look and proceeded to look in the boxes.

 

 

Kumi and Francine decided to look in the opened boxes.

 

 

"Hmm, Is there anything useful in here?" Francine said while digging around "....Ah!"

 

 

Francine picked up a palette knife

 

 

"Maybe this could cut down those vines!"

 

 

"I don't know, but let's try it."

 

 

Francine giggled

 

 

"Ahahaha, I was just kidding. You're not good with jokes, are you, Kumi." Francine then regain herself. "But I'll hold on to this. You know, just in case."

 

 

They then decided to look for more things that were useful in the boxes

 

 

"Hmm, I really don't see anything useful. Should we just go back to Vaultor for now?" Francine asked

 

 

"I think so." Kumi replied. Just then, the lights began to flicker.

 

 

"Wah! Huh!"

 

 

Then the lights turned off.

 

 

"EEEP!" Both girls squealed.

 

 

The lights then flickered back on again.

 

 

"That scared me." Francine quivered. Both girls decided to head back to where they came into the room but were stopped when a statue blocked their way.

 

 

"The exit?!" Francine pointed. "It's blocking the door!"

 

 

"When did it move? It was against the wall when we came in" Kumi said

 

 

"Move it, Kumi."

 

 

Both decided to push it to the wall.

 

 

"Ready, Heave!" They tried to push it but nothing happened

 

 

"Pant, No good. It's too heavy." Francine tried to catch her breath

 

 

"What do we do, Francine? We can't get out!"

 

 

"It looks like we're going to have to continue on without Vaultor."

 

 

They headed to the door at the end of the room

 

 

"Not much else to do but to go this way..." Both opened the door and walked ahead to a brown room.

 

 

They walked up the stairs and came upon a figure walking in the window.

 

 

"What was that?" Francine asked quietly. Then a knocking came from the other window across the floor

 

 

BANG! BANG! BANG!

 

 

"YIKES!" Francine jumped

 

 

"Let's keep going!" Kumi pulled her along while she quietly protested

 

 

They walked down the end of the floor and down the stairs til they heard a sound, a sound that resembled something falling down a flight of stairs.

 

 

Both girls ran down the stairs to see a ball of red paint smash into the wall, leaving a splatter of red paint.

 

 

"So that was the noise." Francine rubbed her head.

 

 

They then walked up the last flight of stairs and came to a hall that ended with a door on the side. On the wall where they were was a picture of a clown(Ebony)

 

 

"Hmm, She doesn't have any face paint, so why is she named the clown?" Francine thought out loud. Kumi just huffed and continued walking, then a writing appeared on the wall next to her.

 

 

"I want you to have fun, Kumi"

 

 

Kumi ignored it and continued walking. Another writing appeared

 

 

"Come to the fun world without any adults"

 

 

She then continued walking and two more writings appeared

 

 

"We'll be together"

 

 

"You, Me, & Our friends!"

 

 

Kumi shivered from the writings.

 

 

"What's wrong, Kumi?" Francine asked worriedly

 

 

"N-Nothing. C'mon, Let's keep going."

 

 

They came to a room with a huge hole in the middle.

 

 

"Oh nice!" Francine placed her hands on her hips. "Now what!"

 

 

"Hmmm." Kumi thought

 

 

"Hm, I wonder what Vaultor doing, we kinda left him behind." Francine said

 

 

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"....They're taking their time, I wonder if something happened..." Vaultor huffed. "Kumi, Francine, Can you hear me?!"

 

 

No response

 

 

"Argh, No good. I knew I shouldn't let them go alone...What to do..." Vaultor looked around and looked at the room with the dolls.

 

 

"I guess I'll investigate that room again then. As much as I hate going in there..." He said annoyed and walked to the door into the room

 

 

Inside were many disturbing blue dolls with red eyes. Vaultor just looked around really peeved off about the setting of the room.

 

 

"No matter how much I look at it, This is NOT cute." He said crossed. He looked around

 

 

"No notes here, Hm?" He noticed the small shelf on the right of the room could be moved so he shoved it out of the way.

 

 

"Ah, It moved, How did I not see this sooner. Oh well, at least I can get out this way." Vaultor crawled through the hole to the next room

 

 

He noticed a writing on the wall when he came into the room and decided to read it

 

 

"There is no exit. There is no reason."

 

 

Vaultor looked at it confused. "I wonder that means." Shrugging it off, he looked around the room. Finding a triangular hole on the floor and five cords hanging on the ceiling.

 

 

Walking up to the five cords, he started on the left and pulled it

 

 

A hand came out and scratched him which made one petal fall off of his rose.

 

 

"Damn" He moved to the next one and pulled it.

 

 

A toxic gas came out instead.

 

 

"Hack, Cough! What is this." Vaultor coughed. He moved to the next one and pulled it

 

 

The lights went out

 

 

"You've gotta be KIDDING! It switches off the power?" He shouted in frustration. But thankfully, the lights came back on

 

 

"Whew, Thank goodness, I thought it would never come back." He sighed and moved to the fourth one and pulled it

 

 

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Where Kumi & Francine were, a painting on the wall began moving down the wall and on to the floor

 

 

"Kumi look!" Francine pointed at the painting and saw it moving down the floor

 

 

"I wonder who did that?"

 

 

"Could it have been a ghost who did it?"

 

 

Kumi just sighed

 

 

"We can cross it now!"

 

 

"Is it safe to cross?" Kumi looked at it

 

 

"Guess so!" Francine beamed

 

 

Both walked over the painting which made it spring. Francine giggled and continued walking back to hear it spring back again

 

 

"Haha, It's so cute!"

 

 

"Come on, Let's go!" Kumi noticed a triangular shape idol and a box that was moving slightly. She then walked up to the box to inspect it

 

 

"Um, Kumi. Let's not look in the box." Francine warned

 

 

"Okay."

 

 

"What is this?" Francine looked at the strange triangle idol

 

 

"I don't know, but I think we should push it down the hole."

 

 

"Why?"

 

 

Kumi just shrugged and pushed it. Francine decided to help too and soon, the idol fell.

 

 

"BYE!!!!" Francine waved as it fell

 

 

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Vaultor held something fell behind and turned around. It looked like some idol thing that might fit in the triangle shape hole on the floor

 

 

He then decided to push and then heard a little squeak of a blue doll. Looking to find the noise that was made. It then disappeared and Vaultor decided to keep pushing the idol til it fell into the hole on the floor.

 

 

When it did, a door behind him opened and he went to go inside.

 

 

Inside was a long hall way which ended by turning left. But he also noticed a strange blue doll on the floor. Just sitting there, staring back at Vaultor

 

 

There was a writing on the wall above it.

 

 

"Hello there, Vaultor. I don't like being alone. Take me with you."

 

 

Ignoring it, Vaultor turned left continued walking down the hall.

 

 

The doll then returned sitting there again. Another writing on the wall

 

 

"Hey, Why aren't you taking me?"

 

 

He ignored it again and continued walking. The hallway ended by turning right. He was walking along the halls until he ran into the same doll and again, there was a writing on the wall

 

 

"Why are you ignoring me? Do you hate me?"

 

 

Getting annoyed, he turned right and continued walking. The same doll appeared

 

 

"Hey, play with me! I know lots of fun things we can do!"

 

 

He kept walking until he turned left at the end of the halls, only to be run into with the same doll AGAIN!

 

 

"I've got lots of friends too! I'll introduce you!"

 

 

Vaultor then knew there was just one doll, not tons of the same looking doll, following him. He kept walking and the doll was there in front of him.

 

 

"Be here forever....."

 

 

Vaultor reached the end of the halls and turned right to see a doll, and the same disturbing blue doll blocking the door.

 

 

"How long are you to follow me?" He asked it. "Enough of this! I have no time to be your buddy!"

 

 

Vaultor moved the doll to the side of the wall

 

 

"It would be best to not get involved here."

 

 

He then proceeded to turn the door knob, only for it to be locked. A writing appeared on the wall.

 

 

T A K E M E

 

 

Just then, the door unlocked. He went into the door into a purple room. He walked up one corridor until he saw the same doll he saw previously. Again there was writing on the wall.

 

 

"I'll always be with you. My home is nearby..."

 

 

Ignoring it, He turned the knob that was beside the doll. It opened and inside was a room with seven pedestals. Three on each side, and one that was in the center of the room.

 

 

On the wall was a painting palette and a note below. Vaultor read it

 

 

Collect the seven balls of paint, Then the room will be colored and you will be made.

 

 

"Balls of paint? I wonder where those are..." Vaultor exited the room and walked to where he just came into the room. He then noticed something yellow. He came up close and saw it was some sort of a yellow paint ball

 

 

"What's this now. It's soft, but I can feel that I can break it. Perhaps this is a ball of paint?"

 

 

It then vanished.

 

 

"Hm? It vanished." Shrugging it off, he looked around. He tried opening the door next to him. it was locked.

 

 

He then moved on to walking down the halls to find a door on the right side of him when he kept walking, It too was locked. He then noticed the door with a plant symbol on top of it, but it too was locked

 

 

"How many doors are locked in here?" He sighed

 

 

He started where he was and saw one door he haven't checked yet, he decided to do so but was ambushed with poisonous gas. It sort of looked like a gas chamber.

 

 

"Oof! What's with this room!" He covered his mouth.

 

 

He saw a purple ball of paint and walked to it. But as he did so, one petal fell from his rose. When he arrived to the paint, he only had seven petals left. He picked up the ball of purple paint and it disappeared. He then left the room.

 

 

When he left the chamber, he only had three petals left. He decided to go see the vase he saw earlier and replenish his rose. Once it grew ten petals again, he smiled in satisfaction

 

 

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Kumi & Francine walked off to a narrow hallway. They decided to walk until Francine asked Kumi a question.

 

 

"Hey Kumi, Can I ask you something?"

 

 

"What is it, Francine?" Kumi turned around to face Francine

 

 

"Is Vaultor your dad?"

 

 

"No..."

 

 

"Oh, So is your dad somebody else...I see..Is your mom nice, Kumi?"

 

 

"Yes, she is."

 

 

"Ah, That's good." Francine smiled. "You want to see your parents again soon, right? I want to get out soon too."

 

 

Kumi was silent

 

 

"Hey, Kumi....If only two people could get out of here, then what?"

 

 

"I'll surrender myself." Kumi declared

 

 

Francine was shocked at her answer.

 

 

"Wha! Really Kumi?! But then you'll never meet your parents again! It would be really lonely, you know? Don't say things like that, We'll get out together. I promise!" Francine smiled again which made Kumi smile a little.

 

 

Both girls continued walking out of the narrow hallways and into a new room.

 

 

TO BE CONTINUED!

 

 

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I didn't want this story to be a lot longer than the others so I decided to stop at a certain spot in this chapter :P

 

 

SPOILER FOR NEXT CHAPTER - With the trio still split up, they continue to find more clues. But when one starts showing her true side, things don't work out for the best...

 

Done