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"You were advised not to leave the spot for now so no one would get hurt, luckily all listened to the man's words."

[Chapter 17]

"this going to be so much fun.." then a button was clicked, uncovering more chaos to come…

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Your eyes flutter open, awakening from your slumber to hearing light metallic scraping from the distance, the sound of a garage door opening as you looked around, noticing that many are awake now, but the old electrician was no where to be seen.

Just when you were wondering where he'd gone, you turned your head towards the entrance of your camping spot, as he walked through the gate.

"We've made a plan..." He spoke sternly, staring at all of us with a serious look.

"I'm going to get you all out of here..." You noticed he look down at a small device in his hand, observing it as he spoke.

"We'll have call in someone to save us-

"We mostly lost our phones." A short boy deadpanned, cutting him off only for the old man to glare at him a little.

"-I was saying, every amusement park has a light signal, maybe we can catch someone's attention by activating it." He paused for a moment before continuing.

"Let's go check it out kids..." He gestured for you to follow him past the entrance, and so you all did, getting up and following in messy lines.

The place looked wrecked but it was still wonderful, bright colors and hidden lights across the place brought it together.

You looked at the small bush maze growing curious but trying to focus on getting used to the new place for the next hours.

"But it's almost dawn.. how is anyone going to notice the signal in day light?" Another questioned, everyone seemed to pay attention to every word.

You, from the back, barely witness him pull out a small chained clock from his pocket, starting to wonder how long he's actually been in this place.

"We can make it, sun rises in five hours, we can probably make it out of here in less than two hours..." You kept on listening as you all followed. "If we hurry up we'll make it in an hour or so."

Exiting the first room, you are met with a smaller one with bright cyan walls, decorated with a pattern of small, dark blue stars.

But something, specifically caught your attention, and many others, the wall on your left had stand infront of it, and you can see there were about nine rifles hung up, ordered.

You definitely wanted to come back later to check if they still have ammunition, maybe even curious enough to take one for yourself?

Then you all stopped in front of a fairly large machine in grey and yellow, the mentioned sos signal, a flashlight but ten times larger in size and probably also in intensity, you thought.

With a few holes in the front, it rested on four small wheels ontop of a wooden, two layered platform.

"Ah, there it is, now all we have to do is find a few light bulbs!... twenty- five of them." He paused mid- sentence to count the hole, which were supposed to be each occupied with a light bulb to your knowledge.

Ten people were enough to help quicken this up as you were told to distribute into duos and search for them, you had to team up with someone new since Millia knew well who she'd team up with.

You sighed, looking at the short brunet who stood infront of you. "So... Are we gonna go look for those light bulbs?" He looked at you back, suggesting you began now as some had already left.

"Alright, let's go.." you secretly wanted to go off by yourself, explore the place a little more.

You both walked off into the wrecked park, side to side in awkward silence.

You pick up two light bulbs in the first few minutes, a yellow and a blue and decided on noticing how funny they looked.

"I have never seen a silly looking light bulb before" he laughed and you chuckled in response. "They just keep getting worse, don't they?"

You picked up a third, starting to get uncomfortable when you found a fourth so you opened your bag and you both placed the light bulbs you found in, and you reminded yourself to carry your bag with more care in hopes none of them wouldn't break.

"Sorry, haven't introduced myself, have I?" He smiled slightly, bringing a hand to his chest in an apologetic manner.

"Call me Aiden, I'm 14 and I have no idea how I thought coming here was a good idea" he chuckled half heartedly, obviously willing to get out of here right now and here if he had a chance to.

"Got it, Aiden.." you muttered.

"I'm (Y/N), a pleasure to meet you, buddy." You grinned in hopes for a distraction out of this misery as he picked up another of the ground.

[Thirty minutes~ timeskip]

"I think this is all we can find, (Y/N)..." He whined from behind you, trying to catch up as you both were tired already.

If you hadn't lost count, you had definitely got lost on the same way, spinning in circles around the place only to go back to square one, at least ten times.

"No one knows... there could be more, let's keep looking around..."  You kept going before he had spoken up again.

"You know what... I'll go try and find a bathroom... I'll die like this, be right... back!" He ran off, leaving you alone.

Your face lit up as you realized your chance had come, booking it out of the staff's room, heading to where you saw the weaponry, excited to try some of it out.

A few minutes later, you came across the cyan painted room, staring at the wall in wonder, so you reach your hand and touch one.

You then grip it, gently taking it away from it's spot and observing it, beginning to pull the barrel open.

Checking on how much it still has, a few cartridges were still there, about seven of them.

You quickly closed it up and shoved it into your bad, still avoiding the damage of those light bulbs, and running back to where you were last at with Aiden.

On your way back, you heard familiar low growls from the near distance, stopping in your tracks in a colourful room with racing carts.

'is it here?...' you looked around in confusion, but finding nothing.

You moved on, ignoring it as you thought you were being delusional again, only to be pounced on by it itself, causing you to yelp in surprise.

It pushed you to the ground with a heavy thud, managing to stay well conscious despite the painful hit to your head.

It looked down at you, seeming happy to see you again.

"Hey buddy.." you groan, petting it's head a little, licking your face back, so much for a little petting.

You chuckle, struggling to push it away but giving up when it doesn't look like it would let go any time soon.

It hugged you warmly, wrap it's large, fluffy arms around you and pulling you to it's body.

Practically buried in thick fur, you heard a loud gasp from the back, getting you to panic a lot.

You turn your head to look at them, finding Aiden standing at the door, jaw dropped in confusion.

He opened his mouth to speak "I--" You cut him off immediately, "--Ah, look. Don't tell anyone about this, I'll explain everything..." he closed his mouth, silent.

He approaches you and it seemes okay with it, but growling the slightest bit when he's gone to close, clinging to you now with a tight grip.

"Oh. So... Are you going to explain?..." He stammered, still confused with what he's looking at as he steps back a little, walking to look at you from the front.

"So what happened was, back at the facility, it tried to attack me but some 'saved' me by shooting it in the arm..." you paused for a moment, before continue.

"then I got into a fight with the guy because I would have probably got shot instead, then it came back and for some reason it comforted me.." you went quiet, gently stroking it's arms out of boredom.

"So you're like the chosen one or something like that?" He furrowed a brow in amusement, "wait what if it likes you- like mating?" He turns his head to look at you, shook.

"Ew- Aiden. Seriously?..." You scoffed, only to feel your face flush in some sort of embarrassment, but you shook it off in denial.

He laughs, noticing your embarrassment only to tease you playfully.

"But you two would seem so adorable together as a pair, you know" he giggles.

You felt miserable, so you lightly tap over it's arm so it could let go. It seemed to hesitate but let you go anyways.

You got up, rubbing your head in discomfort and walking up to him, and giving him an annoyed bonk over his head. "Don't you dare..." You warned with a slight smile.

He chuckled quietly, stopping once you asked him to.

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