Chronicles Of Deep Space

Hugh Ranking Doll

Zed eyed the creepy girl by his side with confusion his facial expression warped into a strange questioning look while the small woman kept smiling “why in the worlds have you been just following me around then?”

 The doll like girl giggled and tapped his nose, her matching crimson eyes staring into his own, “I thought it would be interesting” he eyed her suspiciously after her response, he was more inclined to believe she had never done this before and thus just ended up being awkward. ‘I feel sorry for her’.

 He sighed and shook his head, he didn’t even know what to say While Demiurge Just reminded silent, which he found rather strange, he had never known the fiend to be silent this long turning his head back to his friend he raised an eyebrow and asked. “What are you so quiet for?”

 The chimera like man tugged at his collar, recalling his first interaction with the pretty little doll that had awarded him quite a few broken bones, he looked back and forth between the two with suspicion before giving up and crossing his arms over his chest.

“Okay, so, what am I supposed to be doing right now?”

 “well, you’re supposed to go through orientation and be assigned a supervisor”

 Zed raised an eyebrow “Supervisor?” The little doll girl nodded

 “there’s this whole thing where you’re told about our great cause and all that”.

 The more she spoke the harder it was for him to keep a straight face, so it wasn’t that he was just given excessive resting time, she just didn’t do her jib at all, biting his lower lip and sucking in air from his nostrils he exhaled and asked mildly irritated.

 “Who is my supervisor then? I assume its not you” Mercury shook her head slowly and started to rummage about in her dress pockets, not that he expected them to have any pockets to begin with “You see I don’t think you will like him very much”

She pulled out a small silver playing card with the image of a jester and held it up to his face, Zed flinched at the sight of the card, taking some steps back, a chill running up his spine and his hands trembled slightly.

   “That’s an improvement I suppose” she closed her eyes and just sighed “I don’t know why he’s like this” The card flashed, an arm stretched out of the card and grasped the boys arm, his body shook as the boys eyes practically rolled into the back of his skull and his hair stood on end.

  Space around them seemed to warp, pressure building up and threatening to crush them, or at least it threated Demiurge, who quickly lay down on the ground and curled himself up, resisting gravity whilst being the larger target wasn’t wise.

 The pretty doll like girl didn’t seem bothered by the change in gravitational pressure that was coming off the boys body, The hand let him go and back handed the boy in the face, the aura and pressure vanishing in an instant.

  The hand wriggled and lashed our grasping the entirety of the boys face in its palms and rapidly retreated into the card.

“L... Let me go!!” The boy attempted to resist pulling himself back against the arms strength, Zed didn’t even have time to marvel at his newfound powers much less understand why he could use them.

 He flew back pulling himself away with all the strength he could muster but the arm was like an iron tether. The arm twitched and strained the cards entrance stretched until it was like a door leading into a lightless abyss.

“Help!!” He struggled, the crimson in his eyes having returned as he struggled “Help me!”

  Demiurge had a rather uncomfortable expression on his face as he watched the boy get pulled into the card, which crumbled into dust the moment all of the boys body had gone through the portal with demiurge slowly rising to his feet.

 “It’s quite unfortunate that such a good-looking fellow has the habit of scaring others” She patted down her dress and looked up at Demiurge,The draconic chimera looking man suddenly felt his joints grow stiff and his muscles strain as his body suddenly lowered itself.

 “This is much better” She said now as Demiurge had lowered his entire body to her height and was now looking her in the eye. “My neck hurts”.

   The little doll like human stepped past him and flicked her wrist, Demiurge’s body tensed, a throbbing vein could be seen on his forehead. “Alright little beasty, come with me” The man groaned but obediently rose to his feet and followed behind her.

The little doll was quite famous for her habit of taking control of people and moving them around, there were quite a few people who enjoyed this and there were those who felt genuine fear from not being in control of their actions.

  The man she had just apprehended was a mix between the two, on one hand he found this quite entertaining and on another side of the spectrum she could make him snap his neck, though that seemed to excite him as well “I must have been in that lab for too long”, he said with a sigh.

“Oh? You can still speak?” She asked to which Demiurge just moved his eyes in her direction, his mouth twitching in an attempt to smirk, but the lady just frowned.

“You’re either a big pervert or very stubborn man”.

“Let’s think positively”. His arms twitched, attempting to move so he could gesticulate as he spoke but found his efforts futile there weren’t many who would resist this strange ability of hers, being able to speak when completely caught was quite the feat.

 Demiurges smile eventually reached his face thinking on how being harassed like this was better than being sliced open on a table by researchers, pulled from his revere by the girl giving him a disgusted look “You’re definitely a pervert”.

She released her hold on him and he immediately started to stretch and massage his joints “Thought you said you don’t like to walk alone?”

“I changed my mind, walking with you seems worse” Demiurge gave a slight bow with his palm to his chest as he exhaled.

“I’m glad you think so” He quickly started to walk off before she changed her mind about letting him go, he wasn’t willing to test how durable he was today.

    Inside the card the boy looked around and could only see white space around him, he was expecting something like what happened in the dream to appear but this was something he didn’t expect

“I do wonder what you saw that’s got you like this” An echoing voice seemed to be coming from all directions as the white-haired boy frantically tried to guess its source.

 He tried to stand up only to feel dizzy almost like the sky and ground had inverted, he could feel the nausea building in his throat as he gagged.

  He looked up to see a man in a trench coat who seemed to be squatting on one of the walls, he felt both right next to him but far away, the perspective was starting to hurt more than just his eyes.

 “Tell me kid, what’s got you so scared?”