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Fantasy Hand of the All powerful

"And if I come back then what?" Bell asked weighing her options, she didn't beleve that the visions would take over her life, she was a fighter and believed she cound work around them ans keep going.
 
'If You Come Back...' Tabitha started to say, rolling her neck a bit so that her hair was out of her face, '... Then You'll Have To Come Find Me~!' She giggled childishly as more dead people puppets fell from the darkness and danced around Annabelle. 'You Have To Make It Through My Manor Without Dying And Get To My Room. If You Can Do That, Then I'll Return You To Your Normal Life.' The puppet people continued dancing as the sound of children singing faintly rang throughout the darkness. Then suddenly, they all dropped down, dead as they were. 'I Won't Be Making It Easy For You To Live, You Know... If You Don't Make It, Your Soul Will Belong To Me!' Tabitha stated, laughing as her mouth grew large and wide, sucking in the dead bodies and consuming them whole. 'But, If You Don't Come...' she warned, '... I'll Make Your Life Hell For The Rest Of Your Natural Born Life, Toying With All That You Do And Breaking Your Mind And Body And Spirit Until Your Soul Is Relinquished To Me! You'll Live In A World Of Death And Destruction And I Will Be In Control Of It All At All Times!'
 
Sighing bell said "Alright, seams as if I don't have a choice...but tell me first. What are the rules of your game?" She wanted to plan first.
 
Tabitha rolled her neck again, hair draping over her face as she closed her eyes, thinking. 'Hmmm... Rules...?' The only thing she thought was that Annabelle had to live through the experience. But, she quickly gathered her thoughts and said, 'Get Here On Your Own. To Manor Malfortuna, I Mean.' A wicked smile curled upon Tabitha's face. 'You Have To Endure Everything To Get To My Manor And Also Within My Manor.' Those were the only rules of Tabitha's twisted game. 'And I'm Not Telling You How To Get Here, Either. You'll Have To Figure It Out For Yourself! Teeheeheehee~!' She flipped her hair slightly out of her face and gazed at Annabelle with a hungry stare. 'When You Next Wake Up, You'll Be Back In That Nightmare World I've Prepared For You, And Everything Will Be A Living Hell!'
 
When bell woke up she get dressed in a pair of leggings then in Jeans then put on two long sleeve shirts befer she put on leather cloves and ties her head into a bun. Then she Grabs cash and a knap sack then leaves to go to a store where she buys a walking stick then several flashlights checking them all befoer she returned to the super amd states from there trying to let her instinct guide her.
 
It seemed that Bell was able to maneuver the nightmare world with a bit of ease initially because Tabitha hadn't yet decided to make it hell for her. But once Bell was set with what she needed to do to get herself prepared, it all began again. The sky darkened to the point of blackness and the streets became cracked and jagged, leaving no room for cars to drive. However, this did not stop the people who looked as though they were dead from driving around. They took to the sidewalks, mowing other people down and also aiming for Annabelle as well.

Simultaneously, the regular people that walked the streets were now hungry undead that searched for the only living one among them that had no mortal wounds -- Annabelle. Some of them were run over by the cars, but others were obstructions in Annabelle's way as she started on her journey. She would have to dodge the cars and the people and find the entrance to where the manor was whilst Tabitha remained eerily silent.
 
Annabelle simply ignored the nightmare knowing it wasn't real and when anything got to close she swing at it woth the cane and kept going, eventually she got back to the sewer and began to walk into it falling the fear in her gut like compas.
 
Bell's resilience was noted, as she had seen through the nightmarish illusions that were plaguing her mind. But, even though she couldn't tell, she was swinging at normal people on the street that looked like they were dead. She would be seen as a lunatic, even if she came back from Manor Malfortuna... That is, if she could get there.

The sewer served as an entrance to the realm of the unknown, darkness distorting vision and reality the same way as the light did when Bell exited the first time. She'd indeed found the entrance to the underground passageway again, but everything that was once there was still where it was when she escaped. Frank was still standing with the vessels all wrapped up in his webbing, and he looked like some sort of terrible amalgamation of deformed bodies. The entire entrance was blocked by all of them and there was no getting around them this time... And they weren't illusions, just like Annabelle's wounds weren't illusions.

Near the entrance to the cave, there was a light that came through the rocky crevice -- one that seemed to denote that there was another way out besides the passageway before her. The wall didn't seem like it was like the other rocky walls for some reason, and the light that peeked out seemed to lead somewhere outside.
 
Lupa had no choice but to fallow the light befoer she did tho she have frank a wack on the head with all her strength splitting and splintering his skull. Then she flowered the light.
 
Frank was already dead and mummified, so the blow to the head wasn't anything that was dire. He didn't seem to have a brain inside -- he was literally mummified, and so his internal organs were taken out before Tabitha laced him in spiderwebs.

However...

'WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DEAR FRANQUERE?!' Tabitha shrieked into Bell's mind, which should have given her a severe headache of her own. 'You're Going To Pay For That..." Tabitha promised assuredly, ready to take Annabelle's life right then and there... With the traps that were set up in the secret passage that was used by Frank when he appeared the first time. Though none of them went off when he was passing through, a number of them would be triggered by Annabelle's entry into the secret passageway.

She stepped on something and things started to happen.

The sound of blades whirring could be heard close by, the floor and walls suddenly sprouting hidden buzzsaws that were slipping in and out of the ground and walls in a timed fashion. There seemed to be only a few of them, but they were fast and could take someone's head or limb off without any problem just by popping out for a second or two before retracting back into the walls and floor. There wasn't a way around this and there did not seem to be any other passageways that were within the secret passageway, but the light coming from the end of it was relatively bright, and there was a wind that blew which confirmed that the end of this secret passage leaded outside somewhere.

It was now up to Annabelle to fend for her life by getting around these buzzsaws coming from the walls and floor.
 
Though she'd successfully made her way past the first of the traps, the next was a bit more deadly. It seemed the buzzsaws were just a feint for the real death trap, which was a breakaway floor that led to a spike pit underneath. Yes, it was rather archaic and common, but it was effective for someone not closely watching their feet. As soon as she finished dancing around the buzzsaws, the ground below her caved in. She had a split second to keep herself from falling, and it seemed like the gap that was made was rather wide. She wouldn't be able to run all the way to the other side without falling.
 
Bell turned then and put her hands on the wall then walked up the wall behind her and then she walked hand over hand and foot over foot across the wall and over the pit until she got to the other side.
 
Bell's ingenuity saved her again from a deathtrap that was within this secret passageway to the outside, but there was still one more that she had to pass through, and it was devastating -- a heated hall. She'd find that her hands and feet would get hot rather quickly the longer she was on the wall, and the passageway would light up because of the high amounts of heat that were radiating from the walls. This trap was intended to cook her before she could reach the end of the long corridor, which only got hotter and more intense the longer she remained and the farther in she went. It seemed like for everything that she had a solution for, there was another trap waiting for her to prevent her from continuing on in the same fashion as she had been.

What was worse, the ground hadn't stopped crumbling behind her, so she had to either make a run for it or fall into the pit of spikes. Outrunning the collapsing floor and not being cooked would serve as a challenging final trap for her to make her way through, but there was the light at the end of the secret passageway that, though dim, was surely the exit to freedom. It was all a matter of if she could survive.

What she wouldn't know because they wouldn't reveal themselves until she got close was that there were more buzz saws in the ground up ahead... But only in the ground and not the walls. It seemed like that was a cutoff point for the collapsing floor, but there were more buzzsaws than before that shot up rhythmically through the ground right in front of the exit... And the heated walls only got hotter and hotter.
 
Ball was wearing lether gloves and combat boots she held the heat and it was uncomfortable bit she was protected from prodigal burns and damage so she kept going sweating a lit and panning, even becoming sluggish but she forced herslef to keep going despite the pain.
 
Once Bell became sluggish due to the intense heat, the buzzsaws at the end had a chance to nip at her and slice her skin a bit as she went through. She was lucky enough not to suffer major damage, but she would have many cuts and wounds from the buzzsaws barely missing her. Her clothes should have been torn a bit and she should have been bleeding from various places.

Even so, with all of that, she'd make it to the end of the tunnel yet again and the secret passageway finally came to an end. The light on the other side of the exit was dark and grim, unlike the light when she exited the realm the first time. It was clear that she was somewhere different from her own plane of existence, especially with what was seen about the landscape. It was in what looked like a perpetual nighttime with a blue moon hovering overhead, shining its light down upon what looked to be an expanse of endless barren land. More careful inspection would find that there were tall dark blue mountains behind the exit from underground.

What was the most interesting subject was, however, the thick mist that was spread all around the area, hindering vision. It was not like normal mist and in fact covered the visibility of everything on the seemingly barren land except for the tall mountains. Anything could have been in the mist.

There was also another thing that was notable about the landscape: A flying house. It was hovering in midair high, high above the ground and nearby to the mountains. It was large like a mansion and gothic in its appearance, but covered in a layer of purple energy that gave it some color.

Beyond all of that, there were noises in the distance of the mist, deep in the unseen. The noises sounded like growls and squeals of pain or discontent, as well as the tearing of flesh. Nothing could be seen, but everything could be heard.
 
She took one look at the house and knew that was exactly where she was going so se set off, then stiped after about a mile and ate some food she had packed befoer continuing again she was tired but not desperately enough to sleep. She just kept walkng twords the floating house
 
Though the house was visible, it was still flying, and flying away from Bell, as if it was taunting her. It didn't hover very fast, keeping itself within eyesight, but it did make it seem like she could get no closer to it the longer she walked. It lured her close to the mountains, which were high and a deep navy blue; the Midnight Mountains. The house was close to them, but still out of reach from the mountain range.

What's more, the strange sounds of flesh ripping and other noises continued even as Bell walked away. Something was following her... Something that sounded like it was ravenous. Hungry. Bones popped and cracked, the sound growing louder as Bell stopped to rest...
 
Bell did the only thing she could watch was to ignore the noise and keep going, eventually however it became to much and she layed down needing to sleep. She let it overcome her like a wild stampede
 
The moment Bell sought to rest her head to sleep, the source of the noise finally dawned upon her -- a hideous monster that was devouring the remains of another, different looking monster out in the field. The mist had covered it and her all the way up to that point, keeping her from being seen, but they'd been walking in the same direction all that time. The monster was atrocious, its face like a parasite and its body like a hairless mammal of some sorts. Some sort of caustic fluid that seemed like saliva dripped from its mouth as it gulped down the last of what it was chewing on before -- the other monster, which did not look as hideous as this one. It was fairly large, about the size of a car, and had beady, feral eyes on the sides of its head. The enormous gaping parasitic mouth would contract violently as a disturbing noise was made when it did so.

If only Bell had a gun.

There was nowhere to hide but within the mist, or perhaps near the mountains, which she'd been walking in the direction of the entire time, following the flying house. But there was also the prospect of there being more monsters out in the mist that were even worse than the disgusting one that stood before her, ready to swallow her whole whilst she fell into slumber.
 
Bell was to excused and pulled two deep into sleep to respond to the monster. She was incapacitated by here own human needs, somthing that was about to get her killed. She wasn't even aware she was actively in danger
 
The monster crept up on Bell as she slept, she being unaware of the danger she was in. The saliva that came from it seemed to burn the ground a bit, and the creature was nearing Bell's legs, which would be burnt by the caustic saliva should she not attempt to escape from the danger. But she was sound asleep from having no sleep for such a long time, and probably tired from the treacherous traps that she had to maneuver through, which gave her minor cuts and such. It was only natural that she'd be tired.

The beast shrieked once before leaping at the sleeping Annabelle when suddenly, a different creature hopped out of the mist to attack it, this one bigger than the already car-sized monster that was ready to consume Annabelle. It seemed like that one was scoping out the monster as prey whilst the monster was scoping out Annabelle as prey.

This creature was like a humanoid, but had a body that was charred like it had been through fire, and it had a face on its stomach rather than on its head. The head portion of the creature seemed to be just a display. It was a small giant, and the creature easily snapped the first monster in two, snapping its spine and breaking its flesh open, pouring the entrails into its mouth. The sound of the creature dying in pain might have woken Bell up, but it seemed like because she was asleep and low to the ground and not making any noise, the giant monster that was eating the innards of the parasite monster did not notice her at all.
 
Annabell was groggy started awake and quickly grabed her thing's starting to crawl away not having the energy to stand or run. She just hoped to not be noticed. She crawd parallel to the monsters away from them trying to disappear
 
The monster continued to consume its meal as Annabelle slipped away silently; unnoticed. She would be able to escape the clutches of either monster because of the larger one eating the smaller one, but it was mostly the mist that was protecting her. The mist would continue to mask her presence so that she would not be able to be seen, but there were clearly other creatures that were out in this mist... Deformed, deranged, and destructive creatures. It wasn't safe to be out in the Twilight Wilderlands without any sort of special powers or weapon of some sort.

Still, if Annabelle needed to sleep, now was the time, for there was nothing nearby and no one coming after her. The house remained floating in the air dauntingly, so that hadn't changed at all, either.
 

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