[ooc]...I've really got to try and find more time to be doing this... *hugs everyone* Thanks for your patience. I'll be requiring a little bit more, now.[/ooc]
The Doll-House
The area Mizuki was in was very peculiar. It was very dark, but light enough to see in. Looking around, Mizuki was just able to make out the scenery. The floors, walls, and ceiling were made of wood, and there were plentiful amounts of shelves, drawers, and cabinets. Each cabinet, shelf, and drawer held at least one doll, made of a very delicate material that Mizuki could not identify. Mizuki walked up to a glass-doored cabinet and tried to look in it. She couldn't see through it, because it had a very large amount of dust covering the surface, making it impossible to see anything. Wiping the glass clean, Mizuki looked deeper into the glass door. There was another doll in there, but this one was quite scary. It had very large eyes with small pupils, the clothes were torn, there were deep scratches all over its body, and bite marks on its leg. It made Mizuki lurch backwards in disgust, but Mizuki moved back to examine it once more. There was something around its neck that was highly noticable for it's different coloring (the doll's clothing was white). It looked like a jewel to Mizuki, but she couldn't tell for sure. It was too hard to see through the glass, because there was still dust covering the other side of it. Mizuki tried to open the door, but the knob would not turn. Mizuki then tried to break the glass by throwing an oddly-shaped rock (which she found on the floor)at it, but it didn't even make a scratch on the glass. Mizuki finally gave up trying to open it, deciding she should go look for the key to unlock the door.
Mizuki turned around and saw some very tiresome stairs (she had had almost enough of stairs for that particular moment). Sadly though, there was no other place to go. Everything else that even looked like it was accessable was not accessable anymore. Mizuki went up to the ladder and took a closer look at it. It was very old, and by pressing one foot on the first stair, it felt very unreliable. However, there was no where else to go, so Mizuki went gracefully and swiftly, so as to not break through the stairs and fall to a very painful landing. As Mizuki climbed the stairs, she noticed a very large leg near her head, and stopped to look at it, and it's owner. The leg was fake, and made of the same material as the other dolls, as was the rest of the body. The entire body hung from the ceiling in a very ghastly matter, with its head lolling to the side looking at the wall with very large, wide eyes that expressed fear and panic. The doll's hair was synthetic looking, and was a very light blonde that was covered in what seemed like blood. In fact, the entire body, which was naked, was covered in blood. The sight of the doll drenched in blood hanging while she climbed the stairs was very painstaking, so Mizuki chose to try to ignore it and hurry on.
She finally made it to the top of the stairs, where it led to only one door, and one box. Mizuki first went to the box, and noticed that it wouldn't open. There was something missing to the box, because there was a small, oval-shaped hole in it that was missing some filling. The box, on the other hand, was very beautiful. It was a china box, and it had designs of trees, flowers, and many animals all over itself. The prettiest thing of all about it, was that it seemed to glisten, even in the darkness.... However interesting it was, Mizuki placed it down again. She had no time for this; She was on a mission, one that required that she find the mages so she could beat them away from the village. This was not the best time to admire a very rare, china box. Mizuki went to the door, and went through to find herself in a corridor. The corridor held the same atmosphere as the room from before, and it housed many dolls, each one showing off a different pose of death. Mizuki went down the corridor and stopped next to a doll in the position of getting decapitated by a guillotine. She looked at the opposite side of from the doll to find a door. She tried to open it, but it was locked too. Mizuki wasn't going to try to knock it down, though, because the floor beneath her groaned with fatigue and tenderness. Mizuki went down the corridor, but she went in vain effort, because she came to another dead end. However, on the way back, the doll that was to be decapitated with a guillotine sparkled a little. Mizuki looked at it.
It appeared that there was a little turnable object on the side, mechanized with a spring. Mizuki twisted it continuously, until it could not twist any more. She let it go, and watched the guillotine and doll. The doll in the guillotine began to shake violently, as if alive and very afraid; the guillotine was glowing now, and it sparkled a brilliant and large light. Everything was silent now, even the doll's movements were quiet. This finally led up to the final moment: the doll was decapitated, and the head flew down the hall from the force of the guillotines rushing fall. However, along with the doll's head, the turnable object fell out and appeared to be a key. Mizuki picked it up, and tried it on the door behind her. It did not unlock, and Mizuki could think of only one other place to go. She took the key from the door and ran down the corridor....