The skeleton head sat lifelessly on the chair.

“Is he dead?” the man asks, the bunny shrugs in reply.

The skeleton notices the two, and moved his gaze upon them.

The man and the bunny where disturb to see the skeleton head actually move, more so when it spoke.

“Name’s Benial… Hi…” the Skelton head somberly says as he returns back to his original state.

The bunny composes herself and looked at the man. She gave him a thumbs up and points towards Benial, “You deal with him” she says with a sweet smile.

The man sighs, “Righty’ho…”

The man approaches Benial, “Hi Benial! What’s seems to be picking your bone their buddy?” the man smirks at his pun, in reply the bunny kicked his head.

“What? I couldn’t resist” the man shrugs, as the bunny glares.

Benial begins to mutter a few words, “I… that… …. this… can’t be…”

“Can’t be what?” the man asks.

“Dog… buddy… gone… … I forgot… … to play…” Benial say as he increasingly becomes more lifeless as he already looks to be.

The man scratches his head, “So you want us to look for your dog?”

“Nah… He’ll… be back… he… always… does…”

“How long since was your dog gone?” the bunny asks.

“Not… long… 5… …” Benial pauses for a bit longer.

“Hours?” the bunny guesses, “Minutes?” the man guessed.

“Days…” Benial states.

“oh…” the man distress.

The man looked at the bunny, “Can’t you help?”

The bunny blankly stared, “I’m a rabbit not a dog, idiot”

“Bunnies got a good nose, right?” the man says, to which the bunny shook her head to deny.

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The man sighs, “Alright then…”

The man then comes near Benial, to which he slams his hands onto his shoulder.

Benial jolted in surprise as the man looked at him straight in the eye socket.

“Listen here Benial,” the man says with a deep tone, “You fucked up, your dog’s probably gone, deal with it.”

In reply Benial further delve into listlessness, to the point his actual soul can almost be seen leaving his body.

The bunny looked confused as to what was the man doing. But he simply stops her from saying anything as he continues.

“But this doesn’t mean this is the end, you’ll just have to accept the truth and move on. Yeah sure, you made a mistake, a big one, but nothing will change if you just keep on thinking all will be fine.”

The man smiles, “Listen, everyone has a moment in their lives where they mess up something, that’s nothing new. It’s up to them on what they want to do,” the man let’s go of Benial and smirks and shrugs, “You’re one of the types that have regrets, that’s better than what most had to choose to be. I mean some just chose to forget and go on with their lives, I mean that’s not bad and all but they tend to forget their mistakes and end up doing the same thing again.” The man sighs.

“These regrets you have right now, the reason why you can’t accept the truth. Is because your kind,” The man smiles at Benial.

Benial listened, “I… don’t… think so….” He meekly replied.

“Well that’s probably true” the man bluntly says.

The bunny then in turn kicked him.

The man rubs his head, “What I mean is, I’m not you, I won’t know what you really think. I can only guess from what I know on hand. The only person who knows you best is…” the man points at Benial with a smile, “you right?”

Benial places his hand on his chest as he ponders.

“Now I’ll ask you, would you just sit there and do nothing let all that regret eat you up to a husk… or…” the man held out his hand, “would you wake up and live to remember your mistakes and to avoid doing them next time?”

Belial scowls, lowering his head, “Heh…” he begins to chuckle and slowly as though given new life, Benial laughed and with much energy took the man’s hand.

“Sure, I think I’ll choose to live with my regrets and hopefully not mess up again!” the Skeleton head clackers.

The man and the bunny smiled to the lifted up Skeleton head.

Just then, Benial began to glow and release small balls of light. Making the two freeze up in amazement.

A moment later a huge white flash occurred making the man let go of Benial, as a piece of memory returned back to the man and the bunny.

The two remembered their childhood, they where playmates. The bunny was a girl that often bullies the boy who was the man. They would often meet each other, they would argue with almost anything as the girl would state smart remarks while the boy counters with solid reason and logic. But no matter how many times they argue, they were good friends.

As the two remember, the man comments first, “I… remember…”

“Me too… I’m not a Rabbit” the bunny replied.

“Yeah you weren’t, you were a snotty cheeky lonely rich girl that followed me around” the man nods.

The bunny blushes, as she kicks the man again in the head, “I WAS NOT!” she lands on her feet and pouts, “I remember a lonely boy who had no one to play with, so as a nice person, I went ahead and gave him company!”

“yeah, I wonder why,” the man retorts rubbing his head.

The bunny in turn jumps at him annoyed, to which he catches her and laughs. She tries kicking her way out, the sound of a bell jingles as she does.

“Excuse me, it’s best you two get going” Benial states as he is seen standing up and putting a sports band over his head.

The two compose themselves and as the man coughs, “Yeah, sorry about that. So, mind giving us directions?”

“We aren’t exactly from around here” the bunny continues.

Benial chuckles, “Sure, the exit is that way” he points to another door at the far corner of the room.

The man looked at the door, “Thanks!” he says with a smile.

“Thanks as well, bye-bye!” Benial waves with glee.

The two move towards the door, seeing up close they notice its gothic design.

“Well this looks fancy” the man states.

“shall we?” the bunny asks.

The man opens the door, “Yes we shall” he replies.

The two enter, to see a very messy and dim lit room, filled with red velvet cloth placed all around the ceiling, and stuff scattered to what looks like women’s accessories among other things.

The two continued onwards, only to stop when they heard a woman’s cry, “That sent a chill down my spine…” the man comments.

The bunny shrieked and jump on the man’s head.

“You scared?” the man smirks.

“No!” the bunny replied, while hiding with every cry of the mystery woman.

As the two move closer to the sound, there they see a winged creature. Its wings lay flat on the ground as it cries.

The man nervously moves closer and accidentally kicks a round object towards the crying creature.

“Oh… boy…” the man nervously says with a broken smile, while the bunny pulls on his hair.

The crying creature hears and turns her gaze towards the two. They saw a face with two red glowing eyes with what they seem to see with hairs made of snakes. They couldn’t tell whether it was true or not, because the next thing they did was scream in fear as the creature lunges at them.