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It was a normal night at the spaceship. Clear dark sky and what not.
After making sure that everything was fine, Hat Kid marched to her bedroom. Today was pretty exhausting for her. It was the weekly maintenance day, where she had to make sure that everything was running fine. It was a lot of work for her. So much machinery for her to look at. Not to mention that she had to check the time pieces. And, as a kid with no assistance, this just made things not looking up.
Right now, there was nothing inside her head other than getting some good night sleep. She slowly walked towards her lovely bed. After doing her daily prayers, she grabbed one of the dolls laying freely on her bed. Her favorite hat was placed firmly on the floor. Hugging the doll, she went silently to sleep, ready to have some nice dreams along the way...
... or at least that was what she wanted to happen. Not 5 minutes into her sleep, her alarm buzzed off. From the alarm sound, it looked like an intruder had came into the spaceship.
"In this late night? Really? Just when I want to sleep? PERFECT!" Hat Kid was surely not liking this. Furthermore, who in the name of peck would visit her spaceship really late?
She started to think about the possibilities. Snatcher? He probably preferred his tree rather than her surroundings. Cooking Cat? Nah, she never visit this place at this exact time. Nomads? They tend to play in the Alpine, although some of them had come to see her. Both movie directors? Heck, they barely had any time to spare. They had to keep the production going, right?
Sighing mildly, she walked towards the main room. She had turned down the power to the max, so everyplace was locked, except her bedroom. Not to mention the light was turned down as well, the stars were the light. Dim and calming.
Arriving at the main room. Hat Kid had one thing and exactly one thing stuck in her head.
A massive confusion.
Hat Kid would never thought that a young man was going to visit her ship. At least, she thought that the creature was a young man. He was near the broken glass, the one where a mafia tried to punch his way into her ship. There are several bags around him, too. His sight is set at the sky, not knowing that a child is staring at him.
Now, the decision was at the child. Would she ignore him? Would she approach him? If she did approach the creature, what would she do that? Surprising him with an attack? Try talking with him? Everything was confusing for her!
After debating with herself, she chose to talk with him. After all, it would be stupid if someone wanted to hurt her for no reason, right? Right?
Riiiiiiiiight?
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"Hellooooooo....?"
No answer received.
Slowly but surely, Hat Kid was walking towards the supposedly young man.
"Hello, sir?"
Still no answer.
"What are you doing in my spaceship?"
There was silence, for seconds. Then, a voice broke the silence.
"What do you mean by your spaceship?"
This didn't help the child's problem. The confusion kept on building and building. To add it up, the voice looked like it was coming from an old man.
So, who exactly was this creature?
"What do you mean? It is my spaceship! Just look at you! You have bags all around you! How do you manage to get into my spaceship?"
The creature didn't answer. Instead, it turned its way to face the kid. Unfortunately for her, she still couldn't see its face. At least, she knew that now they were talking face to face, even though that was not important whatsoever for her.
"Do I need to make myself clear again, child? This is my spaceship. No ifs and buts!"
This had made Hat Kid quite angry.
"THIS. IS. MY. SPACESHIP!"
Another silence came in. Then, the unthinkable happened. The creature pulled out something from its pocket. From the looks of it...
It looked like a knife.
"Okay, child. Playtime is over. Time to meet your own demise!"
"No! This can't be true!" Hat Kid thought herself. Surely, this was not how things would end up.
Unfortunately, she left her umbrella behind. No weapon in her hands. This left Hat Kid with two choices.
Would she attack him with a dive? Or would she run? She need to think fast. She was facing something that was bigger than her! Each choice had its weakness. If she goes with the attack, there is a chance that it won't affect the young man. If she runs away, he can easily catch her!
It was decided that she would go with the dive. She was ready to get the worst possible case.
If she will die tonight and have to hand her spaceship to this young man, that will be it! It is what it is! At least, she would go down with a fight!
Readying her whole body, Hat Kid ran into the young man. Set to make her move.
"Here goes nothing..." she really hoped that this might be enough.
She made the dive. Her head hit right into the young man's chest. Unfortunately, he stood still. Even worse, he managed to catch her firmly. He then proceed to strangle her, very tightly!
"Hnghhhhh... let... me... free!"
"I told you earlier. I won't be playing games with you. But you didn't listen. Sorry, this is how you will end up."
It looked like he wouldn't let her free. The strangle might be going for seconds. But for her, it was going for hours! But anyway, she was ready to embrace her painful death. Being strangled in her own spaceship. Her own house!
Fortunately, that was not the case. Few seconds later, he released his hand, letting the kid free, laying on the floor.
"I'm not interested in killing you with that method, little child. I do prefer my knife to do the talking. It has been so long since I draw some blood from something. Now, say goodbye to yo..."
"WAIT!" Hat Kid let the scream out of her throat.
After some coughing, she continued her begging.
"Please..." tears started to form from her beautiful blue eyes.
"Please... don't kill me. I have nothing but this ship. You can take it... But please, just don't kill me. I'm alone. Nothing is with me... Just make me your maid, or anything!" she started to cry.
"JUST DON'T KILL ME!"
After that scream, she started to cry... uncontrollably. Along with some "please... don't..." in between. In this condition, she felt like there was no hope in living. She knew that anytime, he would make her draw her last breath.
The last breath that would end everything she had. The time pieces, the friends she had along the way, everything.
"First things first... I want to ask you something..."
Hat Kid became more confused, again.
"What does he want from me?!" her thought was going everywhere. This man was crazy!
"W... what do you want?" she was still crying.
"Can you light up this room?" the young man offered his hand towards the kid.
"This guy is just unpredictable!" Hat Kid had so many questions in her head.
First of all, what did he want from her? Second, would it be faster to just kill her? Or he had something in mind? And to top it all...
She might be hallucinating at this point, but she might hear that voice somewhere. He just changed his voice tone... into a young man!
Without any question raised, she grabbed his hand, leading him to the place where Hat Kid operated the power. She had no idea what would he do after this. Still, she was afraid of him. The chance was still wide open of him killing her after the light was on.
From the looks of it, they were not face to face. The man was just faintly watching the kid operating the machine. She still had doubts about her future. At this point, she started her prayers.
*bzzzzt...*
The light was on, making the main room bright as usual. Anytime now, she was ready to see a stab wound somewhere on her. Still, she was ready for the worst scenario possible.
At least, that was her thought.
The man in question dropped his knife not short after the light was on. Just from the dropped knife's sound, she knew something for sure, that the knife was fake. It sounded more like a plastic knife, instead.
After dropping his knife, the man spoke calmly.
"...Hey. I'm sorry."
Hat Kid turned herself around to face what she thought would be her murderer.
"Do you still remember me?" the man continued with his calm voice.
At first, Hat Kid didn't believe her eyes.
"You..."
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