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Gabby's now in high school and forgot all about her dollhouse. She has been so burnt out and sad, she's turned to self-harm to cope. She stays up all night on her phone and cry's all the time. She was cleaning her room since her mom forced her to clean it because of all the clothes and junk everywhere, when she found....it. Her old headband and dollhouse. The paint was peeling and some of the windows were cracked. The headband slightly yellow from staining. She was tempted to use it right then and there but her mom came in and told her to finish cleaning. That night after dinner she coped and decided to go to the dollhouse this weekend. It was only Wednesday.
She was 16 now and has changed so much. She cut her hair short and stopped wearing colorful clothing. She ditched the cute colorful cat look in middle school because I caused her to get bullied and called a furry. As of now she's trying to get back into her colorful clothing and cute cat look but it's taking a while. Finally it was Friday and she had completely forgotten about the dollhouse. She had test in almost all her classes and was tired. She ended up falling asleep and when she woke up it was 12am. Scrolling on her phone she saw a video talking about old toys and remembered the dollhouse. She grabbed them and put them and but....she was missing something.
Pandy! But he was nowhere to be seen. She rummaged through her entire closet and still couldn't find him. Until she looked in her bottom drawer that she never uses. He was dusty and slightly faded but she brushed him off and sat him on her bed while she tried to remember the song she sang while transforming.
"Oh!"
"Time to get tiny! A pinch on my left and a pinch on my right! Grab Pandy's hand and hold on tight!"
As she spun she felt herself becoming tiny. With a splash of old glitter she was in the dollhouse, pandy gone again. She called out for him and he didn't respond, she called out again and he jump-hugged her like always. But he looked older and sadder and maybe a bit scared?
"Hey pan-"
"SHHHHH!" He hushed her quickly.
"What the heck!?" She said loudly.
"Gabby....You need to leave. It's not safe anymore." He said in a hushed tone.
"What do you mean? Not safe? Lol it's a kids dollhouse, how could it not be safe?" She said annoyed.
"The other kitty's........they've gone crazy and melted and morphed. We need to leave."
"Morphed? Then how come you're ok?"
"I don't live in the dollhouse. And yes morphed or melted. I don't know but we need to go!"
"No! I just got here."
"G-Gabby. D-don't m-move." Pandy said quietly. As he pointed behind her.
As she slowly turned she saw him. Her favorite, Cakey. Melted. His frosting cracked and gross and his eyes lopsided. His limbs have grown long and thin.
She turned back around to face Pandy and trying not to scream.
"He can't see anymore. But he can still hear walk to Dj Catnips room slowly." He said so quietly Gabby almost couldn't hear him.
As they walked slowly the elevator door closed. As soon as they turned around they got stuck in a trap. A simple rope net came up from the floor, trapping them to the ceiling. They both looked at each other trying not to panic. Then they heard a sound, and then some lights. Dj Catnip was there, as they were ready to have whatever horrible thing happen to them they hear it.
"Gabby?"
"Dj Catnip?" Gabby said back.
He stretched to view Gabby and Pandy.
"It really is you. Here let me get you down." He slowly got them down from the rope trap and replaced it on the ground.
"Sorry about the trap. Cakey has been trying to get in."
"It's ok" she said
"How are you alive?" Pandy asked while inspecting Dj Catnip.
"Uhhh..."
"W-what happened here?" Gabby asked.
".......well, once you left you just never came back. We all continue daily routines waiting for you. After a month, Cakey was the first to go, he would cry every day. As time moved on he went more and more crazy so we locked him in his kitchen. But...he ended up breaking the lock. Then was Mercat, she stayed for 2 months before losing it. She drank all of her potions at once causing her to melt and become deformed. After that it was Pillowcat, I know surprising. But she was daydreaming so much she start to hallucinate you and it caused her to get violent and hurt people. Last I saw she ripped off her ears and one of her eyes.......The only people left are me, Catrat, Carlita, and baby box."
Gabby looked down. And started to sob.
"I'm such a bad person oh my god." She sobbed out. And she grab her wrist and scratched as deep as she could. Blood spilled from her wrist. Quickly Pandy and Dj Catnip grabbed bandages and cover Gabbys wrist.
"Gabby why are you doing!?" Yelled both of them.
"....." Stayed quiet.
"Gabby are you ok?" Pandy asked.
"Yea" Gabby stood up."So where is everyone else?"
"So we have to save them?" Gabby asked.
"Oh..uh Catrat is looking for supplies, Garden fairy and baby box are in the garden because it's the only place where they can't get too and carlita is in her room with the door blocked."
"Yea we can't stay here."
"So who do we save first?"
"......Pandy what do you think?"
"Well let's get baby box and garden fairy because they are small, then Carlita to have her ready to drive us out of here and then we will get Catrat." Pandy says like he's been studying it.
"Wow, that's....that's a really good plan."
"Ok so we have too get up to garden but how? Cakey is outside the door, Mercat is in her room and all the other infected have unlocked doors."
"Well we have Catrats tunnels?" Pandy suggests.
"I can't fit down there!" Gabby says.
"We have to take the elevator" Dj Catnip said in a strange eerie voice
"But what about Cakey!?" Shouts Pandy and Gabby.
"We will have to get past him." He says plainly.
"I think we need a trap?" Gabby says.
"A paw shaped rope with sensors. So when the rope falls it will catch all his limbs as the sensor will pull him back." Dj Catnip said while grabbing rope and sensors.
As they set up the rope and sensors they heard Cakey and rushed back to the music room. They heard the rope go up and it being pulled back. They knew they had to be fast because there was only a few seconds before Cakey's long arm stretched and grabbed one of them.
They were able to get the elevator moving but as they did Cakey's arm stretched and grabbed Pandy. But the elevator kept moving and ended up cutting Cakey's arm off. Pink syrup-like blood spilled everywhere, but they need to rescue everyone. They washed off the blood and kept going to the garden.
"I-is everyone ok?" Dj Catnip asked concerned for everyone.
No one spoke. They just kept moving to the garden.
After a few minutes more they had finally made it to garden. The trees were overgrown and the grass was tall. They couldn't even see over the grass, so they decided they weren't going to spill up and keep walking together. Another trap!
"Damnit what's with all the traps!" Gabby yelled.
"To keep everyone else out? Duh." Baby box said back rudely.
"Baby box!" Gabby looked down and shouted.