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It’s a long way down… Do you want to jump?
YES*
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He was falling, it felt like forever.
As he looked into the sky while falling, it was the safe light blue colored one, but then it looked like the headspace sky, the beautiful purple sky with white pictures, the same one that looked like it was day and night at the same time… Then next it was red, which looked like hands, it reminded him of OMORI, how they fought for a while until SUNNY gave up. And how OMORI controlled SUNNY to jump off the hospital roof and now left SUNNY to deal with the falling and landing to death. Then it went back to headspace sky, and normal.
He turned his face to look at the hospital building, he could see the windows. Some had closed curtains. But most didn’t, there were people, nurses. He couldn’t see did anyone notice him fall. Because he only saw every window for less than a second. But he is certain that BASIL was in one of the rooms he saw while falling, he was sure that basil saw him too (edited)
He looked down, seeing how close he was to the ground, and prepared for the impact of the fall.
…
It hurt. He thinks he snapped his neck, he is in incredible pain. But he feels at peace. His mind gets blurry and starts playing his favourite moments, they all were from 4 years ago, most had MARI in them… He knows he is dead, the impact killed him instantly. But mentally he's going to be alive for a while until the memories stop flooding him.
Finally after all the good memories stopped flowing in his mind. He blacked out. He died mentally, even if he was dead long ago.
…
Only to open his eye to a bright white ceiling… He should be dead, and he knows it. He stared at this white ceiling, then he noticed that there was a black light bulb. He sat up and saw… White space. There it was the same computer, drawing book, tissues. The exact same one from his dreams. His other eye was blind or covered with something, or maybe even both. Because he couldn’t see any of this clearly. He wasn’t used to seeing with one eye.
He was too caught up in confusion to notice his body being in immense pain. So when he recognized the pain, he felt as if he had just- … Ah, right he did just die. OMORI jumped off the roof for him, and made him deal with the landing. Oh how his body was hurting, he couldn’t even try to comfort himself because moving anything hurt.
…(idk how to describe pain)
After a while, the pain lessened up and he decided to stand up. It hurt like hell. Like really badly. He felt like his legs were broken. He looked down at his clothes, it hurt his neck a lot. But he saw he was wearing the hospital dress and many bandages on his hands and legs. The bandages weren’t there in real life. Did they come because he was dead? He lifted his hand to look at the bandages more, and just then noticed the colors of the hospital dress, bandages, his skin, everything. It looked like it belonged in the headspace. He was in white space, was this actually real and not just a hallucination caused from dying.
He walked to the white door slowly and painfully, feeling like every step he was taking broke his bones. He knows the door led to headspace, because he created this place. He looked out of the keyhole. It was the familiar room from his dreams. It was light pink, purple and colorful. There also was a white table- What did he expect there to be? He created this whole place by his imagination… But… headspace HERO, AUBREY or KEL weren’t there. It felt kind of empty…
He stopped looking from the keyhole and raised his hand to the doorknob. It hurt really much. But he twisted the doorknob, despide the pain it caused to move his wrist. The door opened easily. It didn't ask him if he wanted to open the door or stare at it. Maybe it only happened when OMORI opened the door.
He hoped this was all just memories from headspace. Because he was supposed to be at peace now, he died. Why was he in headspace?
He pushed the door open, the big cat was looking over at him, it looked surprised, maybe because he wasn't OMORI? He tried to walk to the stairs, but it probably was more like limping because his legs were hurting so much.
He got to the stairs and clutched into the railing. He started to walk the stairs up, but the white SNAKE stopped him.
“Sssssssssssssss…?” (Going out, OMORI?)
“Sssssssssssss…” (Here is your allowance for today.)
The snake said and gave SUNNY 300 CLAMS. Then the SNAKE stopped and looked at SUNNY.
“Ssssssssssss…” (Aren’t you the dreamer?)
SUNNY just ignored it and walked the stairs up as fast as he could. He then came out of the tree stump. He just then regretted moving so fastly and recklessly, his whole body was hurting now. But he forced himself up. ‘This was VAST FOREST, right?’ SUNNY thought while starting to walk forward slowly…
He then stumbled into an object on the ground, or did he stumble on his own legs? He looked at what he stumbled into, it was a mirror. This isn’t supposed to be here. He didn’t imagine it here when making this world. Has someone brought it here or dropped it? But why would someone carry a mirror like this?
He slowly sat up to not hurt his body even further. He took the mirror in his left hand, which was a bad idea because it was slightly broken and it cut his hand. He dropped the mirror on the ground, now holding his left hand in his right hand. He looked at his bandage covered hand. Then he decided to take the mirror now more carefully than he had earlier with his right hand instead. Even if it was slightly shattered he could see his reflection in it. He looked like he was 12 again, but he had purple and messy hair, like people in headspace have. His eye looked exactly the same as headspace MARI’s… His other eye, the one that BASIL had stabbed him in, had a white eye patch, he also had bandages on his head.
He quickly got up and dropped the mirror, a bad choice. The quick movement hurt his body badly.
He turned to where he remembered making the playground be in, and started walking. He closed his eyes and tried to block out the pain.
BANG
Someone stumbled straight into him. He fell down, and damn he felt that hurt. The person was saying sorry-... It sounded like KEL. Was it headspace KEL? He then heard another voice- AUBREY? Starting to ‘scold’ or more like nag KEL about running into someone. SUNNY opened his eye to stare at the two. He saw HERO come barely running behind them, he looked exhausted, HERO was never good at athletic things. HERO looked at the two kids fighting and then at SUNNY.
“KEL? Did you run into this person?” HERO asked KEL, stopping AUBREY’s and KEL’s fighting.
“Oh, yeah I did. I almost forgot!” KEL turned to SUNNY and said in half genuine and half happy “Sorry, that I ran into you!”
“KEL, help them up! You ran into them!” AUBREY said loudly at KEL, frowning. KEL and AUBREY started fighting about how to apologize. HERO walked past them and offered his hands to SUNNY. SUNNY reluctantly took them and got up. It hurt his hands to be pulled up.
“I’m really sorry about them” HERO looked at him up and down before saying in a concerned voice, “Are you alright? You’re covered in bandages. And your hands have a cut in them” SUNNY wanted to answer him, but his throat hurt too much to do so. Must be because he had snapped his neck at the impact of the fall from the hospital rooftop. HERO just stared at him worried.
SUNNY decided to just force his voice to talk. “A-alright, ye-s.” His voice cracked and he stumbled on these few words, but he wished he could say it more clearly, but his throat won't let him.
“I’m glad.” HERO said in a less concerned voice. In the background KEL and AUBREY were still fighting. HERO looked at them for a moment then turned back to SUNNY. “Say, what’s your name? I haven’t seen you around here.”
“...S-SUN-NY” SUNNY hated that he wasn't able to talk clearly. But HERO seemed happy that SUNNY answered.
“Nice to meet you, SUNNY! I’m HERO, that's KEL-” HERO pointed at KEL “-and that's AUBREY” HERO pointed at AUBREY.
HERO then let go of SUNNY’s hands, SUNNY let his hands fall back into next to him. HERO turned around and broke KEL’s and AUBREY’s fight, introducing SUNNY to them, which went like a blur for SUNNY.
HERO saying “Should we take him back to the playground?”
“Uh, I’m not sure? OMORI usually chooses these for us” AUBREY said quietly. SUNNY slightly tensed at the mention of OMORI.
“Yes! Let's take them to the playground!” KEL practically screamed, it hurt SUNNY’s ears.
HERO then turned back to SUNNY. “SUNNY, would you like to come with us to the playground?” HERO asked him, SUNNY nodded.
The three started to walk to the playground. SUNNY tried to follow and keep up, but his body hurt too much to walk fastly. SUNNY was too focused on walking to notice HERO had stopped walking. SUNNY stopped when HERO put his hand on SUNNY’s shoulder gently.
“Would you like for me to carry you? You said you are alright, but it seems you find it hard to walk.” HERO said gently, looking at SUNNY with caring eyes. SUNNY just hesitantly nodded. HERO pulled SUNNY into a piggy bag. The sudden move hurt him a bit, but he didn’t complain.
He thinks he fell asleep at some point because he blanked out and then was laying somewhere when he opened his eyes. He was looking at the headspace sky, he heard talking around him. It was HERO, KEL, AUBREY, BASIL and… MARI’s voice… SUNNY slowly got up and looked around him. He was at the picnic blanket.
BASIL was the first one to notice SUNNY was awake, since he said. “Guys, he is awake.” With a warm smile. MARI was the next one to speak.
“Hello! I’m MARI, they told me your name is SUNNY. Right?” She said with a gentle and a warm voice.