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Chapter 4 - New world?! What a headache..

Chapter 4 - New world?! What a headache..

In a dark cave, there were two humans laying down on the floor sleeping. One’s a male wearing a dark coat and has silver hair, the other person is a female, she’s wearing a white t-shirt and a purple skirt, she has crimson red hair. Yes, those two are Pluto and Aria! They both seem to be sleeping.

After a while, it seemed like Pluto was going to open his eyes. He was having a hard time opening them, he thought it would have been bright, but no matter how much he tried to open his eyes, it was simple just dark. Pluto couldn’t see anything “Where am I now? Why is it so dark here?” Pluto was having a hard time understanding where he was, he started thinking about where this place might be. He didn’t make a single noise until he heard someone close to him talking in panic [Where is this?!] that person also started to cry for help. Pluto’s mind went black but quickly said [Aria, I’m here, don’t worry] that person was Aria! He finally found her again!

[Pluto? Is that you Pluto? Where are you?] Aria suddenly realised that Pluto was close to her. She tried calling out and stretch her arms around to try feel Pluto as her eyes couldn’t see anything in this dark environment. [Aria, calm down. Listen to my voice] Aria calmed down after hearing that and Pluto continued [Follow my voice, don’t rush over as it’s dark and you might trip while coming here. Just follow my voice slowly] Aria which started doing what Pluto told her to and started moving slowly towards the place she heard Pluto’s voice coming from.

After a few seconds of walking, Aria heard Pluto’s voice clearer and clearer, she was close! Aria stretched out her arm and bumped into something, she hurriedly pulled her arm back. [Am I a special animal which you’re afraid of Aria? Haha] Pluto laughed when Aria touched him and pulled her arm back. When Pluto said that, Aria understood that it was Pluto, she opened her arms and jumped into his embrace. She has been afraid for a long time now, when she was with David, when she saw Pluto in that manner and when she woke up right now too in a dark place without anyone. Aria has been through a lot, but, finally she could let it all out. She let her tears out while hugging Pluto, she was crying because she finally found the person she most feels safe with.

[Now now Aria, you’re safe now. Don’t worry.] Pluto tried comforting Aria. Sadly, he couldn’t move his arms to hug her back. But, it was strange, he didn’t feel pain when Aria embraced him at all. It was a little heavy, but he didn’t feel any sort of pain.

After a while, Aria finally stopped crying and left Pluto’s chest. [Pluto, what do we do now?] Aria tried looking around and thought again that they were in a dark place with no lights. Pluto also understood that and started thinking about their situation. [Well, let’s find a wall and move along it. This place seems to be made out of rocks, so this might be underground, if it’s like this we have to walk uphill. So, our goal is to find a wall and walk the path it’s going uphill] Pluto spoke after he thought based on the bumpy rock made floor and the echo this space was giving out. [Alright. Pluto, hold on to me, I will bring you out] Aria nodded and thought what she could do for Pluto, Pluto was always the one who thought of how to accomplish things, but he never could do them alone. “This time, I will support you using my body Pluto! Don’t worry, I will use every ounce of my energy to bring you out of here” Aria made a resolve and slowly tried lifting Pluto up on his legs.

Pluto was holding onto Aria and slowly picked up his feet and moved one step at a time, they were slowly walking around randomly. First, they had to find a wall, so they were just trying to walk around to find that wall first. [Pluto, I feel a wall I think!] Aria exclaimed as she was using her right hand to feel what’s in front of them. [Alright Aria, that’s good. Let’s use that wall and slowly walk uphill, we will be out in no time!] Pluto nodded and told Aria what they were going to do next. After Aria finally affirmed that it was a wall, they started to walk in a direction following it, not long after Pluto noticed that it was not uphill but downhill they were walking. Pluto told Aria that and they then walked in the other direction. They were both tired of walking, there weren’t any clocks around them, so they didn’t know for how long they were walking. Was it 10 minutes? Half an hour? 2 hours? They were just walking slowly uphill. “I can’t stop now! We should be close getting out now, I won’t allow Pluto die here” Aria was only thinking of getting Pluto out of here while she was gritting her teeth and slowly walked uphill while supporting Pluto’s body.

“Why does she have to push herself that hard?” Meanwhile Pluto was thinking these thoughts. He knew that Aria was trying her best. She was supporting his body and was moving slowly for a rather long period of time. [Aria, you can take a break if you feel like it] Pluto smiled and said in a voice which was filled with emotions showcasing love. [I’m not tired Pluto, we should be out of here soon. I’ll take a break when we’re outside] Aria declined after hearing Pluto suggesting that. She didn’t want to stay here anymore, she wanted to go outside with Pluto. Pluto sighed in a low voice but tried his best to move with his own power, but it was rather hard. He bit his lips and continued walking without making a noise.

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After they walked a few more minutes, they both saw a light coming out from the end of the tunnel! [Pluto, look! We’re almost outside now!] [Yeah, let’s try our best and get outside so we can both take a rest] Both Aria and Pluto were happy about being outside soon, they were breathing heavily, but continued walking. One step at a time, they moved closer and closer to the end of that tunnel they were in. Pluto and Aria were sweating and breathing heavily while walking these steps. They were so close! It became brighter and brighter the closer they came!

[We’re outside] Aria exclaimed when they came out, she didn’t care where they were, but she suddenly just laid down on her back, of course also taking Pluto down with her. [Haha, yeah Aria. Thanks for doing your best, we finally managed to get outside now] Pluto who fell on his back didn’t care about that and was looking at the sky. The sky was blue, it had no clouds over them and it was bright. Both Aria and Pluto loved this scene, they were finally out from a dark place and they were welcomed to a bright heaven. Not long after, both fell asleep while holding each other.

Pluto was the first who awakened, he saw that the sun was still in the sky and tried looking around. He couldn’t move his body yet, but he could turn his head a little. When he turned over to his left, he saw the sleeping Aria, he smiled when seeing Aria again. Pluto disliked being away from Aria, Pluto hated that person called David for doing these things to them, but all those emotions disappeared when he saw Aria. After a few seconds, he turned his head to the right. He became stunned, he didn’t know what to say.

On his right side was a wheelchair made out of wood, but that wasn’t the surprising part. The surprising part was behind it, it was a large forest! It was green and there were trees covering the whole place! He calmed down a little and tried waking Aria up [Aria, it’s time to wake up] Pluto tried waking Aria up, he didn’t know how he should do it, as he has never done it before. He has been woken up by Aria a lot before, but he has never tried waking her up. Aria mumbled [Yes yes, just wait a moment] while Pluto was trying to carefully wake Aria up.

[I’m awake now, sorry for taking so long Pluto] Aria spoke after she rubbed her eyes. Pluto didn’t speak, but waited for Aria to open her eyes and look around. When Aria finished rubbing her eyes, she looked at Pluto and smiled, Pluto rolled his eyes and said [Aria, would you mind looking around a little?] After he said so, Aria finally looked around and she looked in a daze, where were they? A wooden wheelchair and behind that, a large forest! [Where is this?] Aria spoke in a daze as she had no clue where they were at. [To be honest, I don’t know where we are] Pluto spoke honestly as he sighed. [But don’t worry, I’ll quickly think of a few ideas] a smile appeared on Pluto’s face as he started thinking again.

Pluto started thinking aloud after a while [Mountain, cave, wooden wheelchair and a forest] Pluto had his eyes closed and thought of the things that has appeared while they were here. [Sigh] Pluto sighed and looked at the sky again, there was something he didn’t see earlier! His mind started working again! [Aria, this might be a stupid question, but there weren’t three moons before, right?] Pluto asked while he was still thinking about where they might be. [Huh? Three moons?] Aria didn’t know what to answer and she followed Pluto’s gaze and looking in the sky, opposite direction of the sun, were three moons. [Whaaaat?] Aria didn’t know what to think anymore.

“David? White room? A new place or is this even a new planet?! Three moons.. These are all supernatural things happening” Pluto calmly tried to think about what could have happened. [Aria, I’m just going to guess in a wild direction which might surely be true too. Don’t you remember when we were somewhere, but lost conscious and woke up in a different place? But, that place was white. I’m trying to say that this might be David’s doing, first it was a white place, now it’s a new place?] After hearing that, Aria finally remembered something important! [Ahhh!!] [What is it Aria?] [David said something, giving me three choices!] [Three choices?] [Yes yes! The first one, do you remember you were chained?] Pluto nodded, then Aria continued [The first choice was to leave you there and I could have returned home] Pluto’s eyes went big after hearing that, but it came back to normal and he smiled. Because she surely didn’t pick that choice as they were both together.

[The second choice was that we were both sent home, but you would have died in a month’s time] After Aria spoke, tears came out from her eyes. Pluto slowly nodded, then thought “She must have picked the third option then! As, I’m not dead, and we’re not at home” [What was the third option?] Aria carefully thought before answering [He said earlier, he could save you and send us two to a beautiful place, it’s a dangerous place, but a place where we both could be together and you’ll be healthy] Pluto was shocked in the end “This, this choice was so weird! Heal me and bring us to another place.. something isn’t right here. Think, think logical! Everything leads to that David is not a human, is he a God? Is he the Devil? Are we in heaven? No, that can’t be true, it’s a beautiful but dangerous place. Hell? No, that can’t be either. Can it be that, we’re in another world?” Pluto finally thought it was weird but also sounded logical!

[Hey Aria, if I said something crazy. Would you believe me?] Pluto slowly said and waited for Aria. Aria was confused but nodded and said [Yeah, I trust and believe you more than anyone!] Pluto breathed in and out a couple of times before resolving himself to say the next sentence which is the most logical thing that happened and also, it’s not logical at all! [Aria, I think we’re in another world] Pluto said those words rather slowly before staring at Aria. Aria’s face changed from wondering, daze and confusion [What?]

Pluto stared at Aria’s confused look and sighed deeply “A new world huh? Seems like a headache..”