Kerosene

Boris walked around his old house, looking for Maruchi, as he looked he had old memories flash through his mind, they came and went, some made him smile, others made him chuckle.

Boris noticed some of Maruchi's unkept hair sticking out from behind a box. "Maruchi, please... I'm sorry, I regret what I've done. I haven't a clue what came over me that day, forgive me, would you?" Boris said, hoping she'd forgive him.

Maruchi stood up. "You think... that I would fall for that? Do you really think that?" Maruchi said, slowly, as her eyes got wider. "You must be more insane than me to think that!" Maruchi shouted.

The floor began to shake, the entire house stsrted to crack a little more than it was, mice and bugs ran out from under old boxes. Suddenly the shaking stopped, and then banging on an iron door could be heard very loudly.

"That sound... is that from my old lab?" Boris asked, curiously.

"Yes, it is, your Mistakes have really led up to their name, since they all want to torture you and finally kill you. You left them alone for so long, the missed their Father. Why'd you leave them, Boris?" Maruchi said, looking up into his eyes. "Why did you leave me with them? They want to hurt me! Do you understand how hard it was to lock them all in there?!" Maruchi shouted, walking closer to Boris.

"I'm impressed, I thought they would have starved to death but their wish to kill me wouldn't let them die, is that right? They want so badly to kill me that they simply cannot die until they've succeeded their goal." Boris said, smiling.

"It's... amazing... Truely AMAZING!!! Hahahahaaa!" Boris shouted, putting his left hand in the air and his right hand over his right eye, all with a smile of insanity.

Maruchi sat there in pain as she looked at him, she's usually in pain but this pain is different to her, more annoying.

"Maruchi, don't you see the inspiration in this?!" Boris shouted, with excitement.

Maruchi ignored him and walked away, Boris continued to enjoy himself, not even noticing that she had left.

"Boris will pay for what he did Hannah, I'll do it, I'll end him." Maruchi thought to herself.

"No, let me. If you let me I promise not to destroy everything, but if I have to force my way out then I'll destroy everthing and everyone, and you'll have to watch it all, just like when you watched me... You wouldn't like that would you." Hannah thought, back to Maruchi. Maruchi stood still in fear, her legs didn't even shake. "No, please... I don't want to watch anything like that again... it was awful..." Maruchi said, out loud, beginning to shake.

"Then let me OUT! We could kill him together, we both want revenge, yes?" Hannah thought, to Maruchi, trying to convince Maruchi to let her out.

"I won't! I know your true intentions. You're in my head, idiot! I hear your every thought, and it drives me insane!" Maruchi shouted, starting to cry. "I've cried enough, it's time to end this." Maruchi continued, as she wiped her face with her arm.

Maruchi walked back to where Boris was laughing, as she grew closer she could still hear him.

"Boris, it's time you pay for the sins you've done." Maruchi said, as she walked to the keypad that opens the laboratory door.

"Are you going to release them? You realize how dumb that idea is, right?" Boris said, with a chuckle.

"Of course I'm not releasing them, not yet." Maruchi said as she hit enter. Not a second after, a loud bang could be heard through the banging of the monsters, and it grew pitch black.

"What'd you do?!" Boris shouted, not exactly sure where Maruchi is.

"Don't worry, you'll be able to see in a second." Maruchi said, rustling with something in a bag.

"What do you have?" Boris asked.

"Just shut up and wait." Maruchi said, getting annoyed. "Here we go." Maruchi said, as she lit a lighter.

"Why is it dark?" Boris asked, with a serious face.

"Why don't you give me your best hypothesis, you're good at those, are you not, Doctor?" Maruchi said as she walked past him and bent down.

"Maruchi, I-" Boris said, getting cut off my Maruchi.

"I said, shut up." Maruchi said, feeling the ground. "Okay, right there." She continued, to herself, as she looked away.

Maruchi dropped the lighter as she jumped away, Boris instantly tensed himself. And with a roar, a massive flame appeared and spread quickly.

"What?!" Boris, yelled.

"Now, we'll all die." Maruchi said, putting in the pin to open the laboratory door.

"Maruchi, don't do it!" Boris yelled, as she hit enter and the monsters rushed out and into the flames, looking for Boris. Within seconds of the monsters release, Boris had fled from where he was and the laboratory had been set on fire as well. Maruchi just sat there, waiting to die.

"I must get out of here! I still have plenty of experiments to do." Boris said to himself, running through the house. "This window, it's pitch black outside of it, maybe I can crawl through." Boris continued as he tried to crawl through the window. "What? There's something infront of it. Metal?" Boris questioned. "That bitch! She locked down the house so no one can escape. Fuck!" Boris thought, trying to find a solution.

"The house burns quick but we look quicker! Kehehayaha!!!" A Mistake shouted as it ran through the halls.

"I guess this is it... I wonder if I did anything differently... would I be happy? I've defeated Boris... but I don't feel satisfied, what's wrong with me?" Maruchi questioned her choices, to herself, not getting an answer.

"That's strange... it doesn't feel hot in here, it actually feels a bit cold." Maruchi thought, as she opened her eyes. She was greeted to see very little fire, there was water and ice on the walls and floor, though the laboratory still burned.

"Maruchi... we aren't going to die... we want to kill... and kill and kill and kill and kill AND KILL!!!" A Mistake shouted, as it ran to Maruchi from down the hallway.

"Stop." Maruchi said, looking furious.

The Mistake stopped instantly.

"How dare you destroy my plan, I should have killed you a long time ago, I thought you'd be useful, but I guess I was wrong." Maruchi said, as she snapped her fingers summoming vampire moths and butterflies to swarm the Mistakes.

Maruchi walked around for a while, it was quiet aside from the crackling of small flames, she passed many corpses of the Mistskes, some burned, some frozen, and some being eaten by the vampire moths. She was going to check the upstairs until she noticed under the stairs something burned bright.

"What's that?" Maruchi asked herself, as she peeked under the stairs. Maruchi saw Boris' body burning, her face lit up with a smile, but her eyes flooded with tears. She laughed and cried, she whispered and screamed, it felt amazing but it was the worst pain she's felt.

Maruchi decided to carry all the corpses into the still burning laboratory, she threw in one after another. After a few hours the metal blocking the house had retracted and light began to pour inside the destroyed house. Maruchi was somehow glad that she didn't die, but she was sad to be truly alone.

"Maybe I should have went with pepper... Maybe I wouldn't be so alone." Maruchi thought, as she layed in her untouched bed.

Morning rose, and Maruchi woke up, she didn't really feel anything specific, she just sat in her bed, wondering what to do.

"Maybe... I could help others like me?" Maruchi thought as she went back to sleep.

"Good morning, Daddy." pepper heard, as he woke up to see Kumo's face.

"Oh, good morning, Kumo." pepper said, falling back asleep.

Kumo got out of bed and started to stretch, she realized she was hungry as her stomach growled, pepper heard it and shot himself up.

"You're hungry? what do you want?" pepper asked, looking wide awake.

"Jeez, you don't gotta serve my every need. I guess that's just how you peppers operate though." Kumo said, with a shrug.

"Wait, Kumo, can you tell me more about our kind, I though I was human like everyone else on Earth until yesterday." pepper said, confused about himself.

"reppep said that I am a Kumo and you are a pepper, that's actually wrong, you and I are both peppers just you're male and I'm female." Kumo said, pausing to make sure pepper understands. "The thing is, if our species tries to procreate with each other the sperm and egg will not work together, they will both die, but if we do it with a human then a child can be made." Kumo continued.

"Wait, why? That doesn't make sense, I can't have a child with my own species?" pepper questioned, not sure he understands.

"I don't know the details, I'm not a biology teacher. But that's just how it is." Kumo said, putting her hands on her hips.

"I see... Then continue, please." pepper said, accepting it as it is.

"Alright. Most male peppers don't have more than one or two female peppers, when a female pepper feels safe around a male pepper they'll be mentally linked to each other, and I've heard that sometimes they can even feel when each other are in distress or pain, but I've never seen that. Any questions, yet?" Kumo said, asking him bdfore she continues.

"No, I think I understand." pepper said, trying his best to learn everything.

"Okay, good. I've seen some cases where the male pepper would be put off by the female if they have a lot of red on them, the same goes for vice-versa, though you don't seem to mind..." Kumo said, with a long pause at the end.

"You okay?" pepper asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just can't think of anything else, I guess if I think of anything else I'll tell you." Kumo said, hoping that's okay.

"Alright, sounds good, and thank you for helping me understand, I don't know why I don't know this stuff." pepper said, getting out of bed.

"Well, it doesn't really matter, I guess." Kumo said, walking to the door.

"W-Where... am I-I?" Utsu asked, opening her eyes.

"Utsu! You're awake! Oh, I'm so happy!" pepper said, hugging Utsu, tightly.

"We're in the castle, the King said we have to beat him or something and he'll let us go home, but let's all get some food." Kumo said, opening the door to leave.

"Oh... O-Okay." Utsu stuttered, as she got up and walked out of the room with Kumo and pepper.