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August, 2002
"yako s'eh eoph I .erehwon fo tuo dessrped yllaer tog tsuj ylneddus eh ,yeooL tuoba deirrow, m'I dna dekcinap si enoyreve ,od ot tahw wonk t'nod llits ew dna nwodtuhs weiv nedrag ecnis shtnom 2 neeb stI " - Blot
("Its been 2 months since garden view shutdown and we still don't know what to do, everyone is panicked and I'm worried about Looey, he suddenly just got really depressed out of nowhere. I hope he's okay." -Blot)
Blot closed their journal and put it back into the drawer in their room, they walked around the dark building, anxious about what would happen to everyone. They don't have anything to do and Dyle is too tired to do anything, like get supplies from outside. As Blot was walking around they noticed Vee. "!eeV olleH" They said waving at her. "Oh, Hey, Blot." She replied dryly. She looked up at Blot, sighed and walked away. What's wrong with her?
Everyone's been acting so off lately.
January 2003,
Looey was hiding in one of the bathrooms, hyperventilating, "this cant be happening. right?" He heard metallic footsteps and suddenly a loud "CRASH". "Vee? Oh God I hope that wasn't her oh God oh God.. someone please make it stop why is he doing this someone.." He trailed off tears in their eyes huddled on the ground of a bathroom stall. "I know someones still around here!~" Someones voice said approaching the bathroom "Razzle- please can you stop?!" It was Dazzle. He sounded scared. Razzle and Dazzle started to fight with each other after Dazzles protest of hurting more toons. "Shut up. I don't wanna hear it from you, you say one more word and you're dead." Razzle said coldly to his brother. They've never quarreled like this before. "But Razzle-" He was quickly cut off as Razzle took the object he was holding and slit the back of Dazzle's neck open. Dazzle's head hung there, limp, lifeless. His side of the body also slumped over but since Dazzle was dead his brother would have to get used to being half paralyzed. Looey heard limbs dragging across the floor as Razzle and his dead husk of a brother walked away.
"Vee..?" Looey called out, hoping she was okay. He walked out of the bathroom and saw Vee laying on the floor, her screen cracked on the left side of her face, blinding her. Looey quickly tried to drag her to a safe place, because she was bleeding out of the wound on her face. He saw Blot coming near them. "Blot! Come here and help me, please.." Looey called to his friend. "?deneppah tahW" Blot asked, "Razzle came over here and- and attacked Vee and he-.." Looey suddenly stopped, still proccesing what he had heard go down. "?tahw eH" Blot asked. "He.. Killed his brother." There was a long pause as they both sat there, in shock. Looey finally broke the silence and said "We should probably go.." "haeY" Blot responded, agreeing with them. They both dragged Vee to the elevator and went down to her room. Once they arrived they brought her to a safe place and set her down, she was still unconscious, her screen glitching. They sat with her and waited for her to come back.
After about 30 minutes of waiting, she finally woke up. "Ow. ugh, I have a really bad headache.." She said, wincing."Welcome back." Looey said. He looked at her broken screen for a moment and shivered at the thought of having your face half ripped off. "My screen feels cold." She reached up and touched her face. All she could feel were exposed wires and intense pain. She shuddered when she realized what happened to her face. "Hey! dont- dont touch there, its trying to heal." Looey observed. Vee looked down at her hand, shiny, wet ichor was all over it. She wiped it off on her clothes and tried to get up. "Vee- wait please sit back down. I don't want you getting hurt." Looey called to her. "Ill be fine." she reassured him. Blot and Looey watched her as she stumbled off to the small office area in her room. "?od ew dluohs tahw" Blot asked. "We should just let her be, I don't want to annoy her." Looey responded. They started walking towards the elevator and Looey saw Vee across the room in her little office crying.
Chapter 1 end