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Characters: Romeo
Setting: Everywhere, starting in the cafeteria, going to every floor in turn, making a brief trip into room 1-03 and finishing in 1-02. Just let me know where you are finding him.
Format: Starting in prose, but will change if you want
Summary: After not being able to find Molly all day Romeo asked on the network. He is now searching the whole tower looking for her.
Warnings: Lots of sadness

No. Molly was not gone. Romeo was not going to believe it, because it just couldn't be so. She must just be hiding somewhere. Maybe she was sad and wanted to be alone. Though that wasn't really like Molly, maybe she had decided to go into the maze and got lost.

Or maybe the bad people had got her once and for all...

No... He had to keep his spirits up, she had to be somewhere. He began in the cafeteria, checking everywhere including the oven and the freezers. "MOLLY?" He called. He stopped people when he saw them asking if they'd seen her.

"She's bigger than me and wears cool hats and is a superhero!" He told them if they didn't know her by name. He checked all the floors, even the really scary ones. He swam about in the aquarium to see if she was in the water, and ran around the forest, remembering to look upwards in case she was hiding from the animals.

"MOLLY!"

He didn't find her. He ran through the dormitory halls poking his head into rooms and asking if people had seen her.

But he was starting to expect the answer no. It was impossible to keep his spirits up, tears kept welling in his eyes as he tore desperately through the last coridoors before pushing open the door to room 1-03 slowly with shaking hands. He ran over to Molly's bed, it was neater than it should be. He opened her trunk and stared for a few moments at the emptiness inside before a sob escaped his lips and he fled.

He had suspected it from the moment Ienzo had told him that her name wasn't on the list anymore. But now the truth came crashing down on him. Molly, his best friend in the tower, as best a friend as Alfredo had been was gone, gone and the bad people had taken her and were probably doing horrible horrible things to her.

He stumbled into his own room and crashed onto his bed sobbing, not even bothering to keep it quiet. Molly was gone and it was like all the light had been sucked out of the world.

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Romeo spotted Ienzo and ran up to him. "She's got to be somewhere, this is just the first floor, there's lots of floors."

She wasn't gone, she couldn't be. He was glad Ienzo was here to help though, "Let's go to the next floor!"

He nodded and fell into step behind the older boy, even while thinking that it would be much easier to just check the three dormitory levels instead of walking through every single one. Though he suspected that right now, Romeo would not leave any stone unturned in his quest to find Molly; he would think that somehow they missed something, and she could be in any given floor.

"This is the first one you checked, then?"

Romeo nodded, "I looked before I went to the computers, but this time I'm going to look everywhere and ask everyone!" He entered the infirmary, he didn't like this level because he knew the doctors here were bad and worked for the bad people.

He walked up and down the beds, even bending to look under them.

He had to wonder for a moment whether Molly would really hide under one of the infirmary beds -- but only a moment. That wouldn't be at all out-of-line with how she acts the rest of the time, and besides, Romeo knows her better than he does. So he follows suit.

Romeo didn't think she would hide either, but he never knew and someone might have captured her and put her there. He didn't want to leave any possibility out. She could be anywhere.

"I'm not sure if she would go to the library, because she doesn't like reading but we should probably look anyways!"

"Right. We should look on every floor."

And immediately after they get there... "...Follow me." ...Ienzo abruptly takes the lead; he knows this place like the back of his hand by now, and it would be faster than if Romeo kept bumbling around. It was a large floor, after all, and his compulsive need for proficiency was taking over again.

"Okay," Romeo was content to let Ienzo take the lead since Ienzo knew his way around the library really well, he was always in here. Romeo looked down every aisle. "Molly?" His voice was quieter since it was a library but still loud enough to carry.

They were moving briskly (or at least he was, considering Romeo kept stopping to look in seemingly random places), but even so, it took them a while to cover the entire floor. And when they were finally standing at the bottom of the staircase, having moved in a pattern that covered the entire extent of the floor structure, there was still no sign of Molly anywhere. He didn't say anything, only waited for what Romeo wanted to do; it was still chiefly his expedition, after all.

Romeo just nodded and continued up the stairs, "There's lots more floors," he told Ienzo, trying to keep both their spirits up.

The next two floors were easy to search, she wasn't there. They climbed up to floor six; the forest. "Molly!" Romeo shouted.

"Be careful Ienzo." He didn't want his friend hurt by an animal but he wasn't going to leave the forest un-searched.

Ugh, the forest...

Ienzo narrowed his eyes slightly. The extent of his fighting prowess amounted roughly to "paralyze the enemy so we can run for it", so he was a little wary of looking through here without someone who had actual power. "...We can't go too far in to this floor, Romeo," he said. "At least, not without anyone more capable..."

"If we get attacked just run, I'll make sure they don't hurt you." Romeo's face was set. He had absolutely no way to fight off the creatures but he could make himself their target to give Ienzo enough time to run away and that's what he would do.

"You don't have to come, you can wait here if you like." He started walking off stubbornly into the forest.

"I can trap them in a temporal loop for a couple of seconds... you don't need to sacrifice yourself." Despite this, he follows Romeo deeper in, hoping he's not planning to do something stupid like run all over the place. They're almost certainly going to get themselves killed...

Romeo didn't really understand that but he knew that it was magic so he nodded. He zig zagged across the forest, not sticking to the tracks. Romeo was starting to get worried and desperate and when he did that he got stupid, or more stupid that usual. "Molly!"

"Romeo!" Ienzo was trying to keep at a pace that would let him remember the surroundings, but with the other boy constantly running off, it was soon evident that he would need nothing less than a leash if the strategy was going to work. "Romeo, stop before you go any farther." He could figure out a way to try and get them back later, but for now, he just needed to remove a certain headless chicken from the equation.

Romeo stopped for a moment, "She might be here Ienzo, she might be hurt. The animals might have got her. We have to search everywhere!" He was working himself up to a panic, but he could not think of anything past finding Molly. His friend was in danger and he had to save her.

He set off again calling Molly's name.

Now growing rather irritated, Ienzo stubbornly followed behind. "If they could take down Molly, what do you think they would do to-- us?" He paused abruptly near the end of the sentence, but it wasn't a stutter of fear; he knew that Romeo probably cared more about Ienzo's well-being than his own, so therefore including both of them in the equation would likely make a more convincing argument.

"They wont hurt you Ienzo, I'll fight them." But he did pause for thought; even if he didn't stop walking. They where much stronger than him, if they had managed to get Molly, who was a superhero, they had chased him before, he sighed.

"I don't want you to get hurt Ienzo, I can take you back to the stairs if you want. But I have to check the whole forest, she might be here."

"How are you going to fight them, Romeo? You have no weapons, no magic, and will be at a severe disadvantage based on size alone. There is no way you can realistically hope to approach one without being torn limb from limb!"

...It was at this point that Ienzo realized he was shouting. Whoops.

"I don't care," Romeo was shouting as well, tears in his eyes. "They have Molly and she's probably hurt and scared and I have to find her, I don't care if they tear me limb from limb, I'll just wake up and come back until I find her!"

"We've gone through six out of twenty-five floors, Romeo," he said. "If Molly came in here, she died and will probably revive by morning. And if she didn't, she's on another floor -- the majority of which we haven't checked -- or has vanished from the Tower completely." Pause.

"Now. Find a path back the way we came." He's not asking this entirely because he wants to get back to the stairs, per se.

Romeo paused, Ienzo was right, if she was here she would die and wake up again. He turned round and walked back to the younger boy. "She is here somewhere, let's go to the next floor."

He began walking in the vague direction of the stairs, hoping that he had not got them too lost.

Ienzo breathed deeply, once, letting Romeo walk ahead for now. At least he had resolved that issue, so they could both focus on remembering the way they had come. He thought he had an idea of where to go, but... it was hard to record it while not losing Romeo. Hopefully, between the two of them, they could return to the staircase in time.

Romeo looked around, slowly realising he didn't know where he was. "We came this way right?" He looked around them but everywhere looked the same.

"I think so..." He stopped a few paces behind Romeo and looked around. "I... tried to keep track of the path, but..."

Romeo felt a bit bad, "Sorry I ran off..." He had to keep their spirits up though! They'd find the way back!

"I think it is this way!" He set off walking again.

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