Chapter 54 New Attire

As she and Miya ran out of the room, Rose took the time to close the door and lock the people inside. Rose diverted her eyes away from Amber as she did this.

She then followed Miya towards the right. Rose matched Miya's pace and asked. "What do we do now?"

Looking very shook, Miya replied. "I-I don't know. Do you think we can stop Lilly?"

Rose shook her head and replied. "We can't. And, I'm pretty sure she knew that when she unlocked that door."

"So, do we just run and hope she doesn't catch us?" Miya asked.

Rose formed a resolute face and said. "No. We just have to find someone who could. This place is filled with people who the Superpowers couldn't stop. If we can get their help, we can stop Lilly."

Miya looked at her, and asked. "Isn't Lilly one of those people? The ones the Superpowers can't stop."

Rose gave her a helpless smile, and said. "Please don't make me doubt myself. I'm already regretting leaving Amber behind.

Miya smiled the same way Rose did and continued to run. They then arrived at the T-junction.

Without slowing down, Rose said. "Alright, we're in the middle. Lilly's towards the left. So, we should find help towards the right, yeah?"

Miya gave her a nod as they ran to the right side in hopes to find someone that could help them.

"What am I doing?" Rose asked. She then activated her jetpack and began to float in the air.

"I'll go ahead and find someone. Don't get caught in the meantime." Rose said as she raised herself higher and upped her speed.

Miya reached out to her and pleaded. "Don't leave me behind! Take me with you! I don't want to get caught!"

Rose looked at her with a pained expression, and said to her. "I'm sorry, Miya. I will be faster if I don't carry you."

Miya let out a gasp, not out of shock, but out of hopelessness as she already knew her fate.

"I'm truly sorry, Miya. I swear I'll get help immediately!" Rose said as she began to accelerate.

Before she could speed up fully, a rattling of chains echoed through out the halls.

And before Miya could react, something fast went past her and approached Rose.

It was a snake head and it bit Rose in the foot.

"Eh?" Rose looked at the snake head on her foot with shock and confusion.

And before she could process what was happening, the chain pulled her back.

"Eeeeh?!!!!" Rose screamed as she went past Miya while being dragged by the chains.

Rose lowered herself to the ground and grabbed onto a tile.

Seeing as Rose has grabbed onto the floor, three more snake heads attacked and bit her other limbs.

The bites didn't hurt Rose as the teeth aren't sharp as the teeth were more designed for grabbing.

Rose looked back as she increased the power on her jetpack.

She saw Lilly hiding behind Amber, who is wrapped around the same chains she is in.

As Rose increased the power on her jetpack, the more Amber was squeezed by the chains.

Seeing this, Rose shouted. "You're not seriously going to hurt Amber, are you, Lilly?!"

Lilly, who was hiding behind Amber while bracing herself to the ground in an attempt to counteract Rose's jetpack, then shouted back. "I'm not going to hurt Amber! YOU are!'

"The more you struggle, the more she gets hurt!" Lilly continued.

"I call your bluff!" Rose shouted.

"Haha! You think I'm bluffing?! I can let go of her when she start to get seriously hurt and I can fix her right up if I misjudge!" Lilly shouted as she lowered her stance closer to the ground, using all of her body weight to pull on Rose.

Amber, who was wrapped in chains, let out muffled yells, as the chains blocked her mouth.

Even though she couldn't understand what she was saying, Rose knew it was complaints of how it hurts.

"I can fix Amber right up if she gets hurt, but do you know what I can't fix?! It's a broken relationship! I mean, you already left her behind and now you're hurting her?! Talk about harsh!" Lilly shouted, weakening Rose's resolve.

Rose seemed to debate for a moment before she looked at Miya, who stopped her plan of running away and is currently rushing to Rose's aide.

"Go, Miya! Proceed with the plan! I'll hold her back!" Rose screamed as she let go of the floor and charged Lilly head on.

Miya quickly turned around and ran the other way.

While she ran, she heard the rattling of chains, the occasional taunts from Lilly, Rose's yells, and Amber's muffled cries.

Miya slapped herself in the face as she said to herself. "Bad Miya! Think of their sacrifice. You must focus on getting help."

As she continued to run, she thought to herself. "Who exactly am I looking for? I need to find somebody who could one hundred-percent stop Lilly. But, who is it?"

Miya then thought of the options in front of her.

"Hela...? No, I think Lilly is superior in that relationship.

"Loki...? I don't think it'll help me. Just out of instinct."

"V? He doesn't seem like the person to help, but he can match Lilly... I think."

"Umm, Sister Morgan? I don't feel like we are close enough to ask for help. Plus, I think she'll help Lilly instead if I told her what's going on."

"Then, that leaves only one person, and I'm fully confident he can stop Lilly and he seems quite helpful... But the question is, where do I find him?"

Almost too lucky to be true, Miya ran past the door she knew the man she is thinking about was inside earlier.

She quickly changed her direction and ran towards the door. "Is he inside? Don't make yourself doubt, Miya!" Miya screamed inwardly.

Upon reaching the door, she immediately knocked while shouting. "Goldi- Chrys! Chrys! Let me in! Please!"

She heard a low groan as a voice replied from inside. "What is it? That voice belongs to... Miya, right?"

Miya smiled in relief as she heard his voice, she then replied. "Yes! It's me! Miya! Could you let me in?! I need your help!"

Chrys replied from the inside. "My help? Hmm, sure. I'll hear you out. Hold on. Let me open the door."

Miya felt her heart racing as she waited for Chrys to open the door.

The moment the door opened a little bit, Miya immediately stuck her hand through and grabbed the door, trying to open it.

"Woah, there! Quite impatient, are we? That's not how you ask for help." Chrys replied as he used his strength to close the door, only living a small opening.

Miya grabbed onto the door frame in an attempt to ensure that the door wouldn't close fully. Miya then saw Chrys' golden eyes through the small opening that was left.

"Please, Chrys! Let me in! I need your help! Lilly is-"

Before Miya could finish, Chrys asked. "Lilly?"

"Yes, Lilly. We need your help to stop her!" Miya said.

"I see..." Chrys replied as his golden eyes exchanged glances from Miya's face and the place behind Miya.

After seeing the movements of Chrys' eyes, Miya froze up as she realized why his eyes are looking behind her.

Chrys then reached for Miya's hand that was preventing the door from closing.

As Chrys slowly removed her frozen, unmoving fingers from the door frame, he counted. "One, two, three, four, five! There we go..."

As soon Miya's fingers were removed, Chrys immediately closed the door as a low giggle echoed through the door.

Miya just stared at the locked door and listened to Chrys' muffled giggles as her ears picked up another muffled noise coming from behind her.

It sounded like the muffled yells of people Miya knew.

A drop of sweat dripped down Miya's face as a voice said from behind her. "It was a good plan, Miya. But, I should have taught you... that a plan based on hope and assumptions, almost always never work."

Miya closed her eyes and slowly turned around while saying inwardly. "Please, don't be her! Please, don't be her!"

After turning around, she slowly opened her eyes and saw someone who she was hoping that was not behind her.

It was a white-haired girl named Lilly, and alongside her are two bundle of chains with Rose's and Amber's head poking out.

"Boo!" Lilly said, after seeing that Miya opened her eyes.

Miya hung her head low as she offered her hands and said. "I give up. You can take me."

Lilly's snake head slowly wrapped itself around Miya as she said. "It was a genuinely good plan, Miya. It's just that you didn't know, that whenever two people in the group fight, Goldie always takes a neutral stance. That's why he didn't help you... and also because he's a jerk who wants to see you suffer."

Miya gave her a nod while wearing a helpless smile. As she was being tied up, Miya heard a voice from the other side of the door she was knocking on, saying. "Revenge."

After that, Lilly carried the girls to a room, that resembled a salon.

Lilly then set the girls free from her chains and urged them to make themselves comfortable. "Amber, you're first up." Lilly called out.

Amber, who was still rubbing her sore arms, replied. "First on what?"

Lilly tapped a chair infront of a mirror and said with a smile on her face. "On a haircut, of course."

Amber looked at the door, to the other two beside her, and finally Lilly. She reluctantly sat on the chair Lilly was pointing at.

Grabbing a comb and a pair of scissors, Lilly said. "I'll get you girls new clothes later. For now, what hair style do you want?"

Seeing Lilly happy expression via reflection on the mirror, Amber let out a forced smile and said. "Uh, I think you have better judgement in style than I do. You can do what you want as long as it's okay?"

Lilly let out a smile,and said. "No backsies. You already gave me the go signal, so no turning back now."

After saying that, Lilly went to town on Amber's hair as Amber just watched helplessly while wearing a forced smile.

"Ah, maybe this style will suit you better! No, this one's the best match for you! No, actually that was a lie, it's THIS style that suits you the most." Lilly mumbled as she tried on multiple hair styles on Amber's hair, looking like she was playing with a doll's hair.

In the end, Lilly just trimmed Amber's hair in order to make it look fresher and nicer.

But, because of the way she combed Amber's hair, her cat ears looks very prominent.

"Uh, maybe just..." Amber mumbled in a low voice as she messed with her hair in an attempt to hide her cat ears.

"Stop it, Amber!" Lilly shouted.

Amber immediately froze up, like a deer in headlights.

Lilly placed down the scissors and grabbed Amber by the shoulders as she said. "I'm sorry, did I scare you?" She gave a bright smile that Amber saw in the reflection.

"You don't have to hide yourself here, I think you look great the way you are." Lilly said to her with a heartfelt smile.

Feeling a bit flustered, Amber shook her head, and said. "No, it's not because of that. I'm just... used to hiding them."

Lilly removed her hands from her shoulders, she then said while still smiling. "Okay, do it the way you want, but you should know that I placed a special concoction on your hair that will remember it's style and will always turn back to that style. So no matter what you do, it will turn back to the style I made."

"Huh?" Amber had her mouth open upon hearing Lilly's explanation. She looked at Miya and Rose in the reflection, who just shrugged their shoulders. Amber let out a sigh and gave up on trying to hide her feline ears.

Lilly clapped her hands together and said. "Alright, that's Amber done. Rose your turn!"

Amber moved out of the way and Rose took her place. Lilly grabbed her comb and scissors and began to clean up Rose's long, red hair.

When Lilly used the comb to raise Rose's hair to see the back side of her neck. Rose immediately covered her nape and said in a low voice, only loud enough for her and Lilly to hear. "Please, no."

Lilly slowly lowered her hair back and whispered to her. "I understand. I know some else who is quite sensitive to this sort of stuff as well."

Rose whispered back and said. "Thank you."

After that, Lilly tidied up Rose's hair, but she kept the back of her hair long, long enough to cover her nape and upper back.

After doing a bit of clean up, Lilly called out. "Okay, Rose, your done. Miya, get over here!

Rose performed a little bow towards Lilly before switching places with Miya.

Lilly did Miya's hair without any trouble, she occasionally hums when combing Miya's hair.

Like the two before her, Lilly didn't do much, and just cleaned up their hair.

Lilly let out a satisfied smile and said. "Alright, that's the three of you done. I'll clean up later. Follow me, so I can get you girls your new clothes."

All four of them then left the room and walked down the hallways with a new and refreshing feel.

After arriving in what looks to be a nice looking storage room, Miya asked. "Umm, since we are getting new clothes. Can you please make this coat a little smaller since it's a bit too big for me?"

Lilly pulled out a box full of clothes as she replied. "There's no need, you're still growing. You'll grow into it in no time."

"Come on over. Pick what you want. If you want something else, I can probably make it for you." Lilly said as she urged the girls to come over.

As Rose bent down towards the box, she said. "What do you mean 'make it for you', are you able to make clothes as well?"

"Well, I have been taught how to sew, how hard can it be to sew cloths together?" Lilly said, looking a bit red.

Amber then walked over to the two of them and bent down to pick some clothes for herself.

Leaving Miya just standing behind, flapping her coat, thinking about something.

She then saw a white flash inside her coat, she then grabbed it and took a look.

"This is... Chrys' photo? I should give it to Lilly." Miya thought as she looked at Chrys' smiling face in the photo.

"Miya, get over here! Or you'll get the leftovers!" Rose said.

"Uh, wait, Chry-"

"Get over here, Miya! Don't make me come over there!" Lilly shouted.

"Ye-yes!" Miya replied as she placed the photo back to her coat as she ran over to them.

They then began trying on different clothes. The girls all choose to wear completely different outfits from the ones they wore earlier.

They all cast aside all of their old clothes, besides from Miya, who kept her grey, furry coat, and threw the rest aside.