Chapter 30: Doll, Hershey

Rueben looked at the doll, then grabbed a cut off arm and threw it towards the doll.

The doll looked at him as it saw the arm land on the arm of its throne.

"…"

"…"

The doll's eyes narrowed as Rueben looked at it.

"What was that supposed to be?

"You're real."

"..?"

He said in a tone of voice that seemed to seep out of agitation and calmness at the same time.

The doll looked at him, then opened its mouth to speak. "Are you surprised that I am more expressive than the others?"

The doll chuckled and smiled, "Or are you still afraid of the illusion that I made you go through? Like this one?"

As the doll said so, countless figures of all kinds of bodies and clothes appeared all around them. Their backs facing him as Rueben narrowed his eyes.

With just a simple demonstration, he knew that it was the doing of the doll.

So, he walked towards it and looked at it in the eyes.

"Are you threatening me?"

The doll looked at him and said, "Are you perceiving my warning as a threat?"

The figures then slowly turned their eyes to look at Rueben, their backs still facing him as their heads turned slightly to the sides to look at him with their black bleeding eyes.

Rueben stepped into the stairs of the throne and stood there, looking down at the doll that sat on the throne.

The doll had features a lot like Frotus, except for its luxurious clothes.

If Frotus wore clothes like those of a scholar, then the doll wore clothes that resembles a lot like a noblewoman.

The doll was also the same size as Frotus. The doll also looked quite a lot like Frotus and also his sister, Hershey.

"Are you Hershey? Frotus' sister?"

The doll looked at him with a smile and nodded her head, "I am. You are?"

Rueben looked at the doll, he had been looking at the doll for a lot of times already but he still looked. The two were just looking at each other, staring blankly to each other as if they were on a staring contest or something.

Rueben moved his mouth and said, "I am Rueben Mortimer. A Hunter."

The doll smiled and said, "I am Hershey, the Doll eternally locked up here."

Then, the eyes of the doll turned red, "And also the one who will end your life."

The entire place then turned black.

Rueben was infront of the darkness itself, the ground he was stepping felt like the surface of the lake, with each movement of his feet creating ripples through the ground.

He harnessed his blade close to his chest before looking down, finding out that his weapon was not there.

He looked around calmly, trying to find his weapon when a being suddenly popped up infront of his view, smiling at him to which he responded with a fist on its nose.

'It feels real. This cannot be a simple illusion.'

His eyes narrowed as he calmly thought about his situation.

'Need to find that doll, fast.'

He told himself as he looked at the countless people standing behind him, with their backs facing him, one of them was larger and looked like the leader of the pack.

It stayed still for a few moments before it suddenly twisted its head to look at him and pointed at him with its bone like hand. "Kill Him."

After that, the people with their backs towards him suddenly grabbed their clothes and tore it off, as they were tearing their clothes off, their bodies slowly started changing into beasts. Their skins fell apart like glass being hit, it fell into tiny pieces as the flesh of a beast emerged from these cracks.

These beasts flinched as they tried to get used to their bodies, they looked at each other for a second, then simultaneously looked at Rueben at the same time and grinned with hunger and thirst for blood.

These beasts then started charging towards him lunging their claws, fins, hands and teeth at him, intent of thoroughly killing and eating him whole.

Rueben rolled forward to get out of their area of attack and ran, to escape, he knew that he couldn't escape but he could atleast run. With so many beasts around, he could not possibly beat them without his weapon.

The larger one looked at him, them opened its mouth, "Become larger."

The beasts stopped chasing after him and flinched, they then looked at each other and began tearing each other apart.

Rueben heard the commotion behind him and looked back without stopping, he saw that they were suddenly biting and eating each other and looked at the thing that was commanding them with confusion.

It had a smile on its face, a grin without teeth, as blood seeped from the gums and flesh of its insides, its eyes already as dark as the darkness around them.

Rueben had a chill running down his spine and started running even faster as loud thuds and screams filled the entire area.

From screams and screeches of monsters into a distorted laugh of a human, the chaos subsides and a large behemoth like monster roared, shaking the very earth, or atleast the surface of the lake that he was stepping on.

The thing looked at the monster as it opened its mouth, then looked back at Rueben and uttered a small cry, "Well done, my children."

Then it was swallowed by the monster whole.

The monster laughed and grinned without teeth as its hundreds of mouth simultaneously laughed together and stepped one limb, then another, then another, until it stood up with 6 feet like limbs and two large hands like limbs to balance it.

"Kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you…."

Rueben heard it mutter, then stopped running as he found it already infront of him in a blink of an eye.

If you had seen its size, you might wonder how it was able to move so fast. It was enormous and its speed was insane.

Rueben looked at it, and prepared himself for battle.