I finally got off my butt and started writing the next chapter. I am SO SORRY that it took so long, i've been firmly stuck in the Danganronpa fandom, but i wanted to continue this story anyway.

Enjoy the story :)

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Garry had used the blue key, and successfully passed through the door.

But this new room looked nothing like the hallway he just came from. Instead of blue, now everything in this new room was varying shades of green. There were two ways he cold go in this new room. Either go down the hallway straight infant of him, that eventually turned a right corner, or to his right, where bug paintings lined the walls. He decided to go right first.

To his right, there were four painting of various insects all in a row. A ladybug, a bee, a butterfly, and a spider. As he walked that way, he noticed a black bug crawling around in a pattern on the floor. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an ant.

"I'm an ant." It said, "I love paintings. My painting is especially cool. I'd like to see it again, but it's kinda far away…"

Garry wanted to help, but he wasn't quite sure what to do. So he continued past the bug paintings, only to find more paintings. There were four in a row, depicting the growing up of a butterfly. The child remembered his mother once telling him about it, but he couldn't remember what the process was called.

Just past those four paintings was a green door. Inside that door was a small room, with another door on the other side. The only problem was, there was a giant hole going all the way across the middle of the room.

Not knowing how to get across safely, he went back through the door he came in from. When he got to the spot where he first came in the room, he decided to go straight this time. Before he did, he read the sign in front of him.

'Beware of edges'

Beware of edges? What did that mean? Garry didn't know, and he didn't want to find out. He cautiously started up the hallway, and got positively startled when a black hand suddenly crashed thought the wall towards him.

He shrieked in surprise, and jerked away from the hand. Unfortunately, he didn't quite get away fast enough. The black hand had only just snagged the rose Garry was holding.

"Ouch!"

He felt a flash of pain. The blue rose, which previously had five petals, now only had four.

Then, he remembered the writing back when he first found the rose, and now it made a lot more sense. Now he fully understood what it meant when he or his rose was hurt, and he didn't like it al all. He shuddered to think what would happen if he lost all five petals.

He took a shaky gulp, and forced himself to keep walking. He flinched again when only a few steps later, another hand came at him from the right. Then two came from both sides at once. Just when he thought he was safe, at the end of the corridor a hand came out of the wall directly in front of him.

He shrieked and jerked away again, but thankfully this time the hand didn't get either him or his rose.

As he rounded the corner, he noticed the ant painting on the wall, and a green door just beyond that. He tried the door, and to no surprise it was locked. He went to inspect the ant painting instead, and noticed it looked like it could be taken off the wall. After thinking for a moment he decided to remove the painting, it was slightly heavy, but he could still carry it just fine.

Thankfully, the black hands hadn't retreated back into the walls, which made it easier to dodge them on his way back to where the bug paintings were. He figure, if nothing else, then at least he could do something nice for the ant and show it the painting. After only scanning the ground for a couple of seconds, he spotted the ant and presented the painting.

"Oh. That's my painting." The ant said. "It's just as cool as i remember it."

The ant fell silent, and stared at the painting. After a few moment of the ant staring intently, Garry tried to get the ant's attention, but it only repeated the same words. Deciding he couldn't waste much time on this, he made his way back to the small room with the pit on the floor.

He noticed that the ant painting he carried was about the same size as the hole in the ground. He laid the ant painting over the gap, and prayed that it would hold him.

Thankfully, it worked. He briefly wondered where the red came from when he stepped on it, but he decided to ignore that thought (or else he might panic), and successfully crossed to the other side of the gap.

He went through the other door. There was nothing much of note in this new room. A painting titled 'Epilogue' sat on the far left wall (Garry guessed that it was part of the set of bug painting from before), a headless statue stood motionlessly against the far wall facing him. But coming into the room wasn't a total waste, because in front of the headless statue, sat a green key.

As soon as he picked up the green key, the headless statue took a big step towards him. Garry backed up hurriedly, eyes open wide and mouth open in a silent scream. When the headless statue continued to advance towards him, he closed his mouth and ran.

When he crossed the ant painting, his feet had barely cleared it before the canvas tore in the middle. As soon as he closed the other door, he heard a crash coming from the small room behind him. Had the headless statue fallen? Just to make sure, he slowly opened the door and peeked in, and sure enough, no statue in sight.

Garry knew he only had one other option now. He made his way back through the black hands on the walls, and approached the locked green door. He inserted the green key, and thankfully it worked. Now could he get out of this bizarre place? He didn't want to stay here at all.

… But of course, it wasn't that easy. Was it?

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Nothing to say for now, have a nice day :)

Cya next chapter :)

Tairulz