Humanity - a sequel to Perfect
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Harry wasnt in a good mood yesterday and wont be today.
Yesterday when the working time was over and the studio was about to close down, his nephew wasnt in sight. He thought he was just late, but the delay was too long. Harry asked almost all the employees about him, including blondie, all of them saying that he was no longer seen after the afternoon. Even after everyone went home, harry didnt waste any second and searched around the big studio for david, refusing to take a step out of this place without his relative being next to him. There is no way he could have went outside right? He should be there in some room. His uncle spent long hours scanning every spot and every area, not giving a care to the clock, searching to the point he got very tired and slumped to a chair, weary with fatigue and the burden of finding the lost one, all the possibilities of his sudden missing in the work swimming unhelpfully in his head. What if david slept somehwere at work? Maybe he is awake and is trying to work on something but not aware of time? Maybe he is in a trouble that impeded him? Whatever the reason harry was very worried, but he didnt feel himself starting to sleep on the desk in front of him. Blondie watched him from the doorway, he was the only one left in the studio at this late hour, he knows exactly what harry is trying to find, but he knows he wont reach it anytime soon, he switched off the remaining lights and went to his home, leaving the flutist in pity to sleep on the desk alone. At some moment of the next day, harry woke up and looked around, remembering how he unintentionally slept in the studio, he had no idea what time is it, but he could suspect it is early morning, work going to start any second now. It didnt laste long till the studio lights were turned on again, worker after worker coming in, greeting with mornings, that reminded him of how this is the first morning that go by without being greeted by his nephew, the burden that weighed on him yesterday didnt leave, he stood up and looked for the boss, with no sign of him being in view, he toke the chance to continue his searching without being forced to be back to his job.
Eventually, it seems that he ended up in a not familiar area he havent seen before, perhaphs its newly built? It was looking like as if it was abondened for years, its like aging lampposts are used for illumination. It was silent, only echos of his footsteps are audible, maybe he had wandered too far, but what if david found this area too and got lose in it? He will find out now, this must be the last spot in the whole place he didnt surveg, what was strange that there were no rooms there, just a big hall he is walking in, head right and left to catch sight of any door. While he was walking. He stopped dead in place….he felt…something…..a hand…….a very cold and stained one…..grabbing his leg….He jumped in the air as if a firecracker had gone off, turning around in scare looking down, the hand that grabbed him was laying on the floor, it was the only thing seen as the rest of the body was behind a corner, a rose beige liquid covering it dripping on the floor, was that a person who just painted a wall? What harry wanted to know is why is this person is laying on the ground without a move. Slowly approaching beyond the wall carefully, what he saw was unbelievable…..that thing didnt look like a human. No, it looked like a creature…lying on the ground in frailty with his face on it, as if every muscle in his body seized up, what is unbelievable is that. This creature looks exactly like the studio cartoon character “kicks”.
The same worm skin, the same type of body, the same brown hair, the same usual clothes, the same colorful liquid covering his hand was still soaking some parts of his body. Only the color of his paperboy hat was brown instead of green. Harry didnt grasp a thing, he cant just develop from an animation to a real life figure, that was elevating his heart rate a bit and killing his logical thinking capacity. He thought that he still needs more sleep,
but he is NOT doing anything until he finds his nephew today. The creature finally with struggle lifted up his face sleepily, even his face and shadowed eyes were just like “kicks”. He was cold and paler than a spectre. Could this thing really be a cartoon that was brought to reality? harry stared, waiting for the next move. “…Where is my book?…” Those were the first words that came from that creature mouth, harry didnt expect this. However, harry could tell that even with his weak voice it sounded similiar to one of the workers in the studio, but who? "What..?…“ "dude, you should check out this awful tragedy, i dont know what is this anymore, ah! i cant feel any part of my whole body anymore…” “Are you really our studio cartoon character ‘kicks’? ” “Dude! I am a human! I was….” “What? What do you mean?! What happened!?” “Go up the stairs…” Harry looked forward and saw the rest of the dark hallway in the back, trails of that colored substance remaining until the “kicks” person, means that he should have crawled until here from a certain place, harry left him and went after those tracks, leading up to a dark half open basement staircase, he had all the courage he needed to motivate his feet, when he arrived to the end of the stairs, the door of a rolm was open, he saw something that wouldnt have been proposed in his mind, more living cartoon creatures. It was a room with low orange lighting and a creepy aura. Three other creatures lying on the ground unmoving, unconscious on puddles of the same unnatural vericolored fluid that he saw earlier and tinting the room floor, he started to suspect that it have something to do with those incarneted cartoon figurs. Their faces portray them as if they had been beaten down until they passed out, there must be something up with this weird crazy company, he may want to retire after this. The three creatures resembled “punchy”, “slappy” and the studio main mascot “jokey bug”. He entered the room toward one of those creatures, attentively examining it with piercing scrutiny. Besides all those questions in his mind one of them had a weird suggestion, but it totaly seems stupid and incorrect, those creatures really reminded him of some of his colleagues, but why? It cant be them right? But that “kicks"creature did remind him of someone he recognized before, was he called paul? "Kicks"had his same voice and way of speaking, the same face expressions, the same hat…But harry almost jumped when he heard a low soft whimper somwhere in the room, if it wasnt wasnt deadly queit this very weak sound wouldnt have been noticed. Harry whirled around his head, appearently one of those creatures had woke up, it was the "jokey” one, he was the only with almost opened eyes. Harry drew near him. The bug looked so…helpless…unable to move any part of himself, just staying on the ground with palsy, he couldnt move his tongue to say any letter or sound, just low fainted whimpers that can show all pain in them, His face was a perfect picture of misery, harry never saw an expression that shows more suffering. He kneeled next to that powerless 'soul’ If thats what he can call it, taking in every detail of his strange body no matter how small, oddly his body was, perfect. Just like the “jokey” character all the kids see in his own cartoon, expect that he is real now. placing a hand behind his head and back. Harry pulled him cautiously on his lap, because his eyes met with those bleak ones for the individual. Eyelids weighed down looking so heavy, as if the creature used all his remaining little strength to open a part of them. Harry gazed into them, those eyes…he sensed something familiar there…he didnt see those kind of eyes before. But, they unknowingly look familiar, not to the character “jokey” eyes itselves, but for someone he feels he saw before. There is a thing that make harry tend to analyze their form.
There is a twinkle that he recall watching numerous time, a distinct one that belong to someone he knew, but who is it?
He stopped thinking when he saw the creature lifting up an arm so weakly and sluggishly, he couldnt move his hand or a finger, but his arm looked like he is trying to barely point to something. Harry turned around to the direction where that 'jokey’ aiming for, and what he saw was the same substance covering something underneath, it wasnt clear what it was, but when he checked it with more scutinize, his eyes catched a glimpse of something, a green ribbon coming out from that mysterious object, identically belonging to a boater hat under those fluids.
Realization crushed harry faster than any train could.
His heart and breathing stopped, words left him, mind pausing functioning, not formulating a thought. In this shattered moment, The time was slowing down, The world was slowing down, being erased around him. No……NO…..This cant be….it isnt possible…He tunred around in shock for the stagnant body on his lap, reaching a new level of trauma he didnt expect his will reach. His face, his face fell, blood drained from it. In that instant he was stuck in an incredulous expression, an unblinking stare, shaking head in disbelief, its all a lie, just hallucinations, just a dream…..But….this is reality….yes?… No? His Brain desperately scrambling to make sense of it all, rendered speechless, temporarily incapacitated, still unable to comprehend what had just occurred, his stomach rocked back and forth on the harsh waves of fear, lightning crackle through his veins, his jaw quivering, thoughts looped around in his head until there was no room for anything else, his heart wrenching, pain tearing it apart, wounding it so deep, cut to the very core, he thought there was no space for another hole after the many times the world broke him, he was wrong, this time there was a void for his whole heart to dissapear into, never to be filled. He was a drowning victim, went completely off the deep end. His last spark of hope became extinguished, nothing can bring more desolation to his soul. He was late…..he couldnt save him….couldnt save the only hope left for him……he broke his promise, his promise to protect him, he always do, he never kept his words, he always wished that he would be forgived whenever he do that, from now on, there is no forgiveness at any chance, guilt is swallowing him, his damage cannot be repaired. He forgot for a moment who is still lying in his lap, this time, those bleak eyes getting wetter, going to cry at any second now…Harry wrapped his arm around the boy head, Gently Pulling it close to his chest, embracing him in some pure silent minutes of sorrow and depress, as a wintry night, It was as if fate conspired to keep them in the dark, the grief storm had ebbed to nothingness. He was there..he may not be a human anymore…but he was still there…His uncle hand wandering through the recent black silky hair of the rueful victim, a bit stiff and sticky from the previous incident, how much did harry pat those ginger soft hair yarns whenever he was proud of the young voice actor new achievments?
And from that moment, the night he got a peice from his face burned, wasnt compared to how he felt holding David who no longer the same in his shaking arms.
Annie doesnt really like invitations for stupid gatherings, but that was blondie who invited her for his studio, she couldnt bring herself to refuse, even though she regrets coming anyway. She walked around the place freely, some stares from here and there from the workers to the sudden visitor here, she was trying to recall where did the blonde wanted to meet her, what room was the right room? She saw a one with a door that is comperable to the one the animator described for her to find, that must be the room he meant then, she wants to finish this quickly and go back home after. She entered without any knock, a wide white room lighted by the bright sunshine was the distination.
It had natural softness and warmth in the air. She Casted her eyes around two random people and blondie were on the sides talking about something, and….was that johann right there? This day isnt going to pass easily…
“Oh! Welcome mom! Im glad you came here! You going to love this one!!” “I have more important things than making some children content joseph. Just show me whatever you wanted me to see so I can leave. ” the two employees turned their heads when they heard their boss being called a different name other than blondie, whom began to sweat and smile awkwardly. “Ahahahah…mom? Can we Please use the term 'son’ when reffering to me?” “Uh..whatever” That was a weird request, but she didnt wanna push it, she didnt care. All she have to do now is trying to ignore johann as possible. Blondie clapped his hands as a sign for attention. “Alright alright everybody! So! How about we all play a little game?” Everyone was going to fall down in their place at the announcement, expect the organist who looked so happy. “A game?! YAAAY! Im ready Mr. Blondie!!” “WHAT?! You startled us from work and brought us here to just play a dumb game?!” “Hey! My son have the right to choose and do anything he wants with us! Including playing a game!” “Thank you dad! Now to start! can everybody stand on the spot I order you to stand on and not move a step? This is going to be fun!” Anne wanted to eaither slap johann or facepalm herself, this is going to be a long day…Johann was still proud of his son though he have no kind of idea what is exactly he is doing, but is delighted to have some more fun time with him. Blondie did place the four in some certain spots, leaving them awaiting for the game to start, it was boring. “ so, when are we going to start and finish this silly thing. ” “oh samuel why cant you be so excited to play like johhny is, right johnny?” “Sure thing sir!” “See? You should really bond with johnny about yourself, you both have SOMETHING in common together, you going to discover what is it very soon~” Samuel was going to say something before he squeeze his eyes shut, grit his teeth and mumble unclear sounds before giving up and sighing. “Dont worry samuel! You got this!” Since the distamce between them wasnt far, johnny wrapped an arm around samuel neck, keeping his promise of his legs standing still on his spot. “Yeah samuel! We Both got this! We going to win this game together!” “Yeah! BOTH of you two will be the showman~ And Now! Everybody! Here we-”
The room went queit when the door bursted and crashed to the wall by someone.
“EVERYONE, RUN! THIS MAN TRYING TO TURN YOU ALL FOR SOME CARTOONY CREATURES!!!!”
Everyone just stared at harry in complete confusion, not understanding a single thing from what he said, that was fully random. anne and johann gave each other the “He is weird” look. While blondie threw back his head and let out a humorless laugh, Crossing his arms over his stomach in an attempt to catch his breath. after a few moments he wiped away some tears from his eyes, still smiling. “Ahahaha! OOh my god!” “DO I LOOK LIKE I AM JOKING?!??! GUYS ITS ALL A TRAP!!! YOU ARE ALL IN AN ENORMOUS DANGER!! YOU ARE GOING TO LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIVES AS SOME PECULIAR CREATURES! YOU MUST BELIEVE ME!!!” “Calm down harry! Relax! You must be pretty exhusted today! Like How in the world can anyone be turned to a cartoony creature?! You just need some rest! Everything is ok harry its not real, it must be in your imagination or something.” “OH REALLY?! THAN WHAT IS THIS?!?!?!” Harry walked a little to the side dissapearing from view, it could be predictable from the sounds that he kneeled down to grap something from behind the wall and walk again to the doorway. Everyone gasped when they saw him carrying something that looked exactly like a jokey figure on his hands. What is very surprising is that it doesnt look like any kind of object or costume, its as if it was really a humanoid real life jokey that is matching to his cartoon self appearance, he looked asleep, and alive.
“Wow..This looks exactly like that cartoon bug in….everything, its just like he evoluted to reality! that must be a very expensive detailed costume, my son is rich! ” “NO!! THIS IS YOUR TERRIBLE SAD FATE TOO IF YOU DONT ESCAPE RIGHT NOW!!!” Harry placed down jokey david next to the door frame, shotting a wrathful glare at his boss. “Why?! WHY?! What Did He Ever Do To You To Deserves All This Harrowing Sufferance??!?!” Everyone around rooted to their places watching the scene in shock, every part of harry skin went red, even his burns, the memories weighed down on him but instead of breaking even more, his heart turned ice cold and slunk into the shadows as his brain took complete control. The flames in his stomach rose up to his chest and crawling through his veins, took over the rest of his body. His fingers coiled into fists, Waves of fury rolled off of him as the blood rose to his cheeks. The term anger, barely even touched the tip of the volcano that he so clearly was in that moment. How didnt he notice any evidence of what that Man was planning?! Or how he was so intrested in david while his bad intentions already seeped inside his eyes, david was just a young boy who had talent and wanted to make everyone around happy using it, he never dared to hurt a soul. But all what that cruel blonde saw was a male who plunder the lights from him. But How did that make him less human? How did that mean he is not just a child? How did that mean he didnt need to breathe anymore? How did that make his human rights null and void? harry should have reevaluted his opinion on blondie long time ago. how much blind he was, how much late he was. Harry paced angirly forward, specifically to someone path, raged up and down in long strides. “You Demon..” If it wasnt for everyone rushing in front of harry to stop him from attacking and leaving him with just a failed try to snatch up some hair of blondie who slumped back before he could get caught, his head would have already been on the nearest wall. “When I first met you I was glad to see someone accepting to hire me and look up to my nephew aspirations…BUT THIS…THIS…I HATE YOU!! YOU FUCKIN DESTROYED MY LIFE MORE THAN THIS BURN ON MY FACE DID! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO BROTHER SON! TO MY FAMILY!! TO MY ONLY HOPE!!” His desire to hear the animator neck snapping was very strong. If only those people didnt block his way, why are they still on blondie side after they knew the whole truth?! “Your Humanity Is Entirely Gone, Look At How Many deluded people Had Believed Your Lies And Fake Promises! What Are You Going To Do With The Rest Of Us?!? Dip Them too into that Unearthly Substance Too?!?”
Blondie didnt speak a word, he just looked at harry with a faceless motion. “Well if you insist.” Blondie pulled down a switch next to him, resulting sound of a fluid flowing into pipes was heard, growing louder every second, making everyone look up to the ceiling, before it breaks down revealing a part of the pipes newtwork, being pressured along with leaking some colorful liquids, before bursting out and whacking a huge mass of that liquid on everyone heads.
Then flooding the whole studio.