Chatterbox: Inkwell

Part 2 of Golden Hope. (Yeesh, I have cheesy names) If you want to read the first one, that post has the words "You wake up..." Ok? Ok.

*the first person experience is only for the intro for each character, you'll see how that works soon. But now, it's 2nd/3rd person for Akiyo."

Akiyo remains still, she'd just fallen from quite a high height, so all she wanted to do now is lie motionless and wait for her fuzzy body to stop aching

Wait-

FUZZY???

She bolted to her feet, ignoring the stabs of pain throughout her body, and looked down.

She was still wearing her clothes, a light blue ombre shirt with a medium length black skirt, but her legs were pure white with fur. Her body was different too, her legs and feet were shaped like an animals' and she could almost "feel" her long hair falling behind her shoulders.

"What am I???" She whispered out loud, mostly to herself. She decided to find something so she could see her face, which would probably be difficult considering the circumstances.

Her surroundings were in almost complete darkness, except for what little light was shining from no source, so she could only barely see the body of water around five yards away from her.

She slowly approached it, nervous to see her face as if it would make her explode on sight.

She could've never expected what she saw next.

Her entire body was rabbitized, she was literally a bunny on two feet. Her legs, arms, torso, everything. Bunny. She even had a fluffy tail. And the "hair" she could "feel", were two long, floppy ears. Sure, she had normal hair, but it was very short and barely made it past her eyes.

"What in the world is happening..."

After about ten minutes of way too much staring, she decided to step away and breathe.

"Ok, ok, it's fine, I'm fine, everything's fine. I'll wake up and- OH MY GOSH I HAVE FOUR FINGERS!!!" Akiyo screamed, noticing that her hand/paw had a thumb, a pointer finger, a middle finger, and a pinkie. And JUST those.

Just as she was wondering whether or not she should start pinching herself to wake up, she heard whining.

"Who's there?" She whipped around to see a little snout poking into the light.

"Aw, hi there little fella. Are you lost too?" She cooed, stepping closer. But the moment she was a yard away, the creature started growling, stood up and came into the light.

It was a red eyed, wolf like creature, but it had six legs, three on either side of it's enormous body, and it's skinny tail was adorned with sharp spikes and whipping back and forth.

"Oh come on!" Akiyo yelled, falling backwards, "I just wanted to help!"

What was strange though, was that everything the mean girls at her school had ever said to her was replaying in her head, growing louder as the beast crawled closer. Akiyo tensed as it prepared to lunge at her, but then a blue blur ran past her and swiped at the creature.

At closer examination, the blur was a cat. But like her, he was wearing clothes and was walking on two legs.

"Is everyone here an animal thing!!??" She shouted, flinching as a hand rested on her shoulder.

"Ha, nope." The voice belonging to the hand laughed. The hand was attached to someone with a round, sun and moon face. The sun side had sun-spikes and light blue freckles, and the moon side had a sleep cap with stars on it and permanent yellow blush lines. 

"Who are you?!"

"My names Bhaasu!" The sun/moon guy smiled, leading her away.

"Who was that back there? The blue cat in the yellow hoodie." She asked, just now noticing that Bhaasu didn't have any legs, just sparkling strings with silver stars on the end, making him float.

Bhaasu sighed as if annoyed by the mention of the cat. "That's Zahar. Don't worry, he'll be fine... Maybe. I don't really know. Hopefully not." Bhaasu explained, continuing forward.

"...What was that thing?"

"You really like questions, don't you. Not to worry, I know almost everything, though I must admit most of it is pasta info... Anyway, that was a Hate Hound. It tears you down with words before it attacks, thankfully, it can easily be defeated if you choose to stand up for yourself."

"Okay... Where-"

"Where are you? You are in a secret underground dimension with no way to escape, leaving you here with possible friends and/or enemies to pass the time while you're stuck here. :)"

"... You're joking right?"

"Ehh, he got one thing wrong." The blue cat, Zahar, says, coming up behind Akiyo and making Bhaasu flinch. "You're not stuck here with friends and enemies, just people that you can annoy WAY too easily."

"Oh, you made it. yayyyy...." Bhaasu says unenthusiastically, floating on ahead.

"See ya at camp!!!"" Zahar shouted to Bhaasu, receiving a droopy thumbs-up in response. "He's being overdramatic, what a goofball."

"Where are we going?" Akiyo asked after a little while in silence.

Zahar stopped by a wall of vines and smiled. "Here." He parted the vines and revealed an open are filled with strange looking tents and people.