Pinkamena story: Chapter 1

Chapter 1. The Nightmare Before a Brand New Day.

 

 

 

You wake up and you roll over as you struggle to hold onto sleep before you roll into something wet and open your eyes wide. You then realize with a cold stab of fear that you aren't in your bed. You sit up in a flash and then you realize that you aren't even in your own house. You look around and see that you are somehow in some sort of abandoned school in a small classroom. There are desks on their sides with papers everywhere, the lights in the room don't work and the only light is from the windows which are all boarded up, there are cabinets that seemed to have been smashed open and looted, and there is even plant life growing in the corners of the room you are in. Just proving that it seems like this place is abandoned by society. You try to get up but instantly fall down due to the ground being surprisingly slick. Possibly because of all the plants and strange liquids on the floor. You try again and manage to successfully get up and the first thing you see is a mirror in front of you.

 

A mirror showing you with what looks like a mask sewn onto your face.

 

You immediately give out a shout and bring your hands up to your face and feel at the edges of the mask but find no purchase for you to hold onto. The mask is on your face and not leaving any time soon.

 

After the initial panic goes away, you look at your mask and it reminds you of a Japanese wolf mask. Despite the fact you see no holes for air or sight you can breathe and see just fine.

 

You shake your head and look around and see a door to a hallway to your right. You can't see much because the lights in there are working, but they are flickering and you can only see flashes of things like yellowed pictures of what looks like some preschooler's drawings.

 

You decide that there isn't much else you can do so you take a few cautious steps forward and stop at the doorway before you look around the corners.

 

Down the right side of the hallway that was full of plant life, broken lockers, pieces of desks, and chairs you see a figure sitting down facing the other direction fiddling with something. You think it might be a female because of the long straight pink hair and feminine figure.

 

Being the paranoid guy you are, you slowly walk towards the figure as quietly as you can. Watching your step as you get closer so you don't step on anything that could make her(?) know you are there.

 

You manage to get close enough to hear her mumble ".... to see that "The Fallen" had managed to get another person. What a sad sight..." You frown as you try and figure out what she meant by the fallen before you take another cautious step forward and peer over her shoulder.

 

That is when you see she was looking at the dead body of what looks like the top-half of a man with his face, the only thing that you could use to really tell you it was a man in the first place, was a face frozen with a look absolute terror. As if he saw his death coming a second before it hit him.

 

You stumble back in surprise and manage to strike your leg on something and as you quickly look down you hear a clang as you realize it was part of a locker door that then hit other broken locker pieces.

 

You curse under your breath as you look forward and immediately see the figure is standing right in front of you. She doesn't have a mask but has an extremely surprised look on her face with what seems to be an extremely pleased smile.

 

"My my," she mutters as she leans forward to get a closer look at you. "Someone who is actually alive, but you are  masked. I wonder why "they" would want to hide who you are from me?" she continues in a sing-song voice.

 

Your arm shoots out out of reflex but she manages to catch it and then twists herself and you suddenly feel yourself soaring through the air behind her.

 

You slam into the ground hard and slide across the slick ground into the far wall. The throw had sent you a good 8 feet and the slide took you another 20.

 

"Oh shit! Sorry!" She exclaims as you slowly get up while holding your side in pain. You look at her and realize you have no chance against someone who could not only catch your arm but throw you clear across the hallway so you do the only thing you can. You try and get the fuck out by running down a different hallway.

 

"Wait! I didn't mean to! Come back! I think I need your help!" she pleads as she starts to give chase. She seems to be able to jump clear over most of the obstacles and is able to use the slick ground to her advantage instead of it hindering you. You on the other hand, have trouble getting over some of them and you have to severely control your speed lest you fall and completely fuck yourself over.

 

You see a boarded-up door in front of you that just so happens to have a small hole at the bottom of it that you think you could crawl through, but it is too far away and you know she will get you before you can run to it. That is when you see a locker door on the ground in front of you and see that maybe there is hope.

 

You put on a burst of speed and just before you hit the locker you jump and slam your feet at a diagonal at the opposite edge of the locker as you slam your ass down on the other edge as the locker sails toward freedom.

 

A quick glace behind you reveals her face surprisingly filled not with anger, not even with annoyance, but strangely with worry as she shouts "You idiot, get off of the locker!"

 

You think about it for a second but you are already sailing toward the hole and this may just lead you to salvation since you know that you can't escape from her in any other way. So you time it so just before the locker slams into the door you jump forward through the hole. It isn't a perfect jump so you manage to severely cut yourself down your back and down your arms but you smile as you manage to get through, your adrenaline drowning out the pain.

 

That is when you see that there is no ground to land on as there was nothing but an endless abyss outside of the building and the smile is replaced with a look of pure terror.

 

At the exact moment when you were certain you were going to die, You hear  you see what looks like a giant fishing hook fly down and stop right in front of you. Causing you to give out a yell of pain as you stab your right shoulder on it. The hook then slowly starts to bring you back up, causing you to scream more as the hook digs into your shoulder.

 

You finally reach the door and feebly crawl inside as all the pain you just went through hits you like a truck.

 

As soon as you get in you are greeted by the VERY pissed off Pink-haired girl who then gets in your face and then began to lecture you as she motioned to your body. "What are you, stupid?!!? You almost killed yourself because you didn't listen!!! It would have been all your fault because you can't listen to simple instructions!!! I told you to come back, I told you to get off the locker, but you didn't! Now look what happened."

 

You scowl as you watch her lecture you. You open your mouth to respond but somehow she knew what you were going to try something and she interjects with "No, you can talk to me after I patch you up. I am sure I will punch you if you try and say something now."

 

She then brings out a med-kit and growls "I am only patching you up because I think I will need you but you will owe me for this, it is hard to get things like this here and even harder to make it." She then looks at your injuries and upon seeing the hook she sharply inhaled as she apologized "Ooh, sorry about that, that was the only thing I could thing I could use to save you."

 

"Hold still for a second" she commanded as she braces one of her hands against your chest and the other on the hook which reminded you of a smaller version of a meathook now that you really looked at it.

 

She then viciously twisted the hook for a clear exit and had to somewhat rip out the rest when she couldn't twist it to the proper angle.

 

You scream out from the unbelievable pain and try and bring your arms up to try and stop her before she does much more but then you stop when she pushes you back down.

 

"I. SAID. TO. HOLD. STILL. LISTEN TO ME WHEN I TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING." she threatened as she glares right at the eyes of your mask.

 

You feel your eyes start to water from the pain but you think it would be very bad to show something like that with the crazy girl here.

 

She glares at you for a couple seconds more before she starts to address the rest of your wounds. The entire time she starts to explain what is really going on.

 

"Alright, so you are most likely curious as to what the hell is going on in here, probably wanting to ask the usual questions of 'Who are you, what is this place, when did I get here, where am I, how did I get here, why did i just fall straight out from the door to an abyss, and why do I have a mask on my face?'" she mockingly began as she finished looking at all your wounds before she continued with "That is the same way most of them start out. At least, minus the mask part. It is kinda rare to see a masked person in here. It usually means you are close by to me in the real world so they put the mask on you to prevent possible recognition Which is why..." she murmurs as she opens up the med-kit, but strangely all that is in there is a syringe and multiple vials of different colored liquids. She picks up a green colored vials and fills the syringe with a quarter of it before she continues with "...I will have to give you this."

 

She puts the syringe up to your neck and whispers to you in a commanding tone "Now, stay completely still until I remove the syringe or else it will hurt more than you can imagine." She then suddenly chuckles a bit as she mutters to herself "Who am I kidding? The thing hurts like a bitch anyways." and before you can react she jabs you in the neck with it and forces her hand down on the middle of your chest, making it so you can't make a move.

 

You struggle to try and get away from what you think is poison in her syringe but before you can do anything she stops you with a glare that holds you in place as she says "I said, don't move."

 

You hold yourself still out of fear as you feel the syringe empty inside of you and when it does, Pinkamena removes it, pats you on the head with a smile and says "Now, Was that so hard?"

 

You open your mouth to say yes but you are stopped when you feel the areas around your injuries explode in pain and you can do nothing but scream as you feel your flesh begin to move over the injuries. Making the slow process of healing that should happen over a series of months, happen in about 30 seconds. However, the pain made it feel like the process lasted for hours.

 

After it was done you find yourself curled up in a ball and you can feel tears come out from the mask, as if the mask really was your face.

 

"let's see here" She mutters to herself as she looks at your wounds while you are still in a state of mild shock.

 

"Hey, congratulations, you are good as new. I mean, you have a scar from the hook, but I am sure you will think it looks nice." She grins as she sees the damage is all gone. With a pat on the scar on your chest she stated "Now, the formula has a mild sedative effect so I want you to get up and do something so you don't fall asleep."

 

You start to try to get up but suddenly you feel like the soft ground of the plant life underneath you is one of the most comfortable things in the world and you feel your eyes start to close as you slowly curl up in a ball to try and fall asleep.

 

"No no no no nO NO NO NO!" the pink-haired girls orders as she starts to violently shake you to try and make you stay awake. "NO! STOP! COME BACK!" she screams

 

'Why is she so irritated?' You think as you feel yourself fall deeper towards unconsciousness. 'Can't she just wait till I get up later? It isn't like I'm going to disappear forever...' and with that thought you finally fall asleep.

 

 

Pinkamena's POV

 

"NO! NO! NO!" You say as you fall forward and catch yourself on the ground where the man once was.

 

"DAMN IT!" you shout as hit the floor one last. "I just needed him to stay awake for a bit longer then I could have had him tell me at least who he was or something." you grumble with a sigh "Now I have to wait till next time we are in the same area."

 

You think back on the situation and smile a little. "At least, he was actually mildly interesting and had potential, if the fact he knew he was outclassed and was able to use the area around him to his advantage is worth anything. Maybe if I am lucky I can find him outside of here."

 

You peer around the area, and seeing nothing. You set off down a hallway to check for anything.

 

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You wake up with a start to the sound of your alarm clock going off. It was 5:30 and you had to get ready for school. You get out of bed and stretch and start towards the bathroom but suddenly you get a nagging feeling in the back of your head.

 

Weren't you supposed to do something? Something... Important...

 

You think about it for a second before you just shrug and decide to start your morning ritual.

 

You enter your bathroom and get ready to take a shower. You take off your shirt and suddenly see a puncture scar on your chest.

 

You bring up your hand to it and you run your finger over the edges of it as you struggle to remember where you got it. Suddenly you get a funny feeling in the back of your head before you remember "Oh yeah, I got that the one time I was playing over at John's house and I managed to climb the tree in his front yard and I fell and a random tree limb stabbed me in the chest. God damn, that really hurt back then, but it managed to heal up faster than expected." you smile at those old silly days you had while you were a kid as you jump into your shower to prepare for a brand new day.