Other Fan Fiction ❯ Edna and Harvey: Harvey's New Crush ❯ The End of a Life ( Chapter 13 )

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Part 13: An End of a Life

Within the abandoned home of the Konrads, as the sun was setting, Cindy slept peacefully before she awoke, looking at the empty cloak she hugged tightly.

"Nousagi..." was all she said, sounding a bit saddened.

The female got up, looking around the bare place, sighing a bit. He disappeared for hours and already she missed her Nousagi.

She would probably need to clean herself first, she thought.

Arriving to the barrel of clean water she had gathered, Cindy slowly bathed herself, remembering her previous night with Nousagi.

She missed him dearly, despite it only 12 hours. And even though she could still go in the trance world, she felt like it was a lie to go there, because he was not real there when she was there.

Finally clean of the mess she was on, Cindy dressed herself, then looked at the cloak Nousagi left for her.

At least they won't fully recognize me, she thought as she put it on.

The human looked a bit worried, hoping nothing bad had happened as she made her way back into town.

***

Arriving to the town itself, all was quiet. The people had gone home for the night probably due to it being a weeknight or something.

Cindy became a bit concerned before looking at a passing boy, asking him, "Excuse me, young man?"

She glanced at the uniform, asking him, "Where are you going on this dangerous night?"

"Away from the convent." the boy replied, "I mean Freeman went missing and after Mother Superior told everyone about the troubles Lilli got all of us into, I decided to climb over the fence and leave that place."

"Who's Lilli?" she asked him.

"What's it to you, stranger?" the kid frowned, "You're more weird than those potato gnomes that pop up and paint pink paint."

"Pink paint?" she asked, "Like when someone sees pink elephants when drunk?"

"Somewhat." the boy said, "Plus with the disappearances going around lately, I rather not stay at that heck house any longer."

"Won't your parents be worried?" she asked the kid.

"Mom and dad ditched me, believing I was an accident." he frowned.

"So where are you from?" she asked him.

"I use to live in Hamburg, but because my parents kept fighting each other, they dropped me off in this one horse town with bad things happening."

He looked more concerned as he continued, "And besides Potato Gnomes, I haven't seen any other Imaginary Friend come to this place. It's like this town's forbidden Imaginary Friends or something."

"I guess you're trying to head back to where you were born, huh?" she asked him.

"Yeah, in a way. But I'm not going back to my parents until they stop fighting."

She seemed a bit worried to him. She didn't know what to do for the child, but the thought of these 'potato gnomes' were peeking her interest.

"At least I left before that professional the nun woman mumbled about got there." he continued.

"Wait, what professional?"

"I don't know. Some sort of renowned psychologist who plans to do some sort of psychological examination."

She looked more worried. It couldn't have been Dr. Marcel he was describing, could it?

"Gotta go now." he spoke, "And if you see that cutie Birgit, tell her Conrad's gone back home to Hamburg."

Finally, he left the female as she watched him leave. The boy was making her more curious than ever, but she had other things to worry about more.

One of them being Dr. Marcel using Harvey on the kids at the convent!

The human left the area, heading to the path that lead to the church. As she did, she passed by a blond hair girl in pigtails with pink bow.

She stopped for a moment, looking back at where she had gone before shrugging and continuing onward. It seemed like she had also escaped the church as well.

Or at least so she thought as she entered the church grounds, looking stunned at one of what seemed to be a potato gnome painting pink paint on a tree stump.

"Hey! Hey you!" she called to the gnome.

However, the creature made of potato only whistled while continuing to paint the pink paint on the stump.

She groaned, her eye twitching as she looked angrily at him.

"Hey stupid! I'm talking to you!" she snapped, struggling to release her vent and rage on him.

Cindy then began stomping to the gnome, whom dodged her hand grabbing, causing her to almost scream in agony.

However, she yelped, jolting from the restriction she forgot about until now: her anger.

"Ugh, forget this!" she glared, departing from the tree area.

As she walked through the closed convent, the female looked at the many gnomes that almost each room, minus one with a sleeping man hung by a coat hanger, were.

Cindy couldn't believe there were so many gnomes around and yet...

She looked at someone departing to her car, snapping, "Where the bloody hell is everybody!? Oooh, it's just like those nerves. I knew I shouldn't have taken this crappy job!"

When she entered, Cindy looked curiously, wondering if she were to head back to town or something.

As soon as the car departed, she gasped, quickly ducking down as she watched the familiar man in wheelchair leading what appeared to be a hypnotized nun into the car.

"There there, Mother Superior." Dr. Marcel assured her, "Once we take you back home, then we can put all of this behind us."

He paused before noticing, "Why are there Imaginary Friends within the premises? They are especially forbidden from existing here!"

"I do not have any idea, dear doctor." The nun said in a hypnotic like tone.

"It doesn't matter. I'll deal with the Imaginary Friends later." he spoke, pushing her in the limo of his. "And besides, even if Lilli DOES try to break her restraints, I can assure that she WILL be taken care of, especially when she would be the one to find the missing students. After all, children DO have such wild imaginations."

"Oh crud!" she spoke quietly with worry.

If this Lilli even DID break her restrictions, then there was no guarantee that she would be tricked by Dr. Marcel to be prepared for the worst anyway.

There was only one solution she would have to do, even if it meant...

Quickly clinging to the back of the car, Cindy held tight as the limo began departing. As the three headed back to the asylum, where Dr. Marcel's illegal happenings occurred, Cindy only sighed.

If Nousagi was with her, at least things would be a bit safer, she thought as she quietly got on top of the limo, being careful not to be spotted by either Mother Superior or Dr. Marcel.

***

"What do you mean you six started feeling intense pain?" Nousagi asked.

Earlier, Nousagi was snatched by his brothers, tickle torturing him for not only being a bit bossy, but also stubborn for continuing his denial in his reluctance on whether to reject Dr. Marcel or not.

They were fortunate that 'you must not tickle' wasn't part of the restrictions or they wouldn't have had fun tickling their oldest brother.

Nousagi himself looked at the six whom each slowly clinged their hearts in pain, as if parts of themselves had been destroyed and they were slowly being tortured before dying.

Oryctolagus had just recently stopped tickling just to feel that pain in his heart.

"I can't explain it, but it's like parts of ourselves, even if they were copies without our developed personalities, are slowly being tortured before dying." the dragon explained.

"And the more restrictions one or two of them break, the more we feel like..." Cherokee began before realizing, "Wait, you haven't felt any pain yet, have you?"

"I thought tickling WAS a type of pain." Arnab said to the shaggy creature.

"No it isn't, dumbass!" Nousagi glared.

"But it was pretty funny before each of us felt pain, one at a time."

"Listen, I think I may know what's going on." Nousagi spoke, "Someone else is under the restrictions. I can sense at least two other people under them. And if things continue like that, that means I'll feel it next."

"The tickles?" Arnab asked.

"No, the pain!!" he snapped at his brother.

"Well, who could be under the spell?" Lepus ask puzzled.

"From what I sense, a girl and a nun. Both are like Edna." Nousagi explains seriously.

"A girl?" Justitia asked.

"I can probably sense one of them close by to my copy. Her real name is Lilli, but she's currently role playing as Lilligrim the Barbarian Warrioress."

"Is she hot?" Arnab grinned as he held a notepad, hoping to at least ask if she had a phone number.

"No, she's a kid, dummy!" He snapped.

"Oh...does she have an older hotter sister?"

Nousagi groaned in annoyance.

"Idiot." he frowned.

"Well, what can you sense her doing?"

"Being upset and twitching, I think. It's cute. Reminds me of Cindy."

Justitia paused, pondering, "You know, for odd reason, I sensed that same child near my copy, but successfully caused that copy to committ suicide."

He looked down, continuing, "I guess I should thank Cindy. Had it not been for her, I would've killed myself."

Most looked down as Lepus spoke, "She saved us from the fire by jumping in herself to save us."

"Und she did make sure ve survived." Hase nodded.

"She risked all the dangers, just to keep us all alive." Cherokee said, holding his arm a bit.

"And she gave me wings, after realizing what I had told her...to force Justitia's sword away." Ory said, smiling a bit to his wings.

Arnab only smiled, "See? Cindy isn't so bad after all, isn't she?"

The rabbit in toga looked at Nousagi, who stood up and fixed his wardrobe malfunction, placing the fake beard that turned to the side back to his chin part. Just then, Nousagi gasped, starting to feel a bit pained.

"Bro, what's happened now?!" Justitia quickly asked.

"It's my other self...he's gotten so pissed off, that his head's going to blow up!" Nousagi grunted.

The rabbit in role playing garb looked stunned, gasping as he clenched his heart, then nearly fell before his siblings quickly caught him.

"Let me guess...he finally did, huh?" Arnab asked.

Nousagi panted in pain, struggling, "Yes...but unlike us, there IS one more restriction placed on, and if Cindy were to have this...it could spell trouble."

"Well, what is it?" Ory demanded.

"Following your own wishes." Nousagi answess.

"Oh, why is that a problem? The final restriction will be tougher especially if someone tries to get into another's trance." Lepus remarks with a scoff of dismissal.

"Because if Lilli were to break the final restriction if Cindy were to have it, then that would mean that she would kill us." The wizard said with a grim look.

"Aw man, NOW we can worry." was all Arnab could say.

"The only way she would make the final restriction ignore and allow her to do what she wants...is if the original Harvey gets his eyes back." Nousagi added.

The only question would be...how would she do so?

***

Things were quiet in the asylum when Cindy entered, being careful not to be spotted by Dr. Marcel when they had arrived. She had passed through the building carefully, looking at each room that seemed bare and empty.

She peeked into the unlocked doors, slowly looking through each room, taking her time to not be spotted.

After a while, Cindy went inside the TV room that was in the recreation room...which had been oddly unlocked.

She had noticed the TV had left a porno movie on, which showed a lesbian couple kissing and touching one another, both nude as the female on TV moaned.

The female kept watching, looking at both touching each other's naked pussy, moaning as the two erotic lesbians were moaning loudly, groaning as they felt the fingers inside while cumming.

Cindy looked a bit stunned a bit, starting to feel tingly in her pants, struggling not to touch her wet self. She needed to...

A thump sound interrupted her erotic thoughts, looking upward.

"What was that?" she asked.

The woman quickly went up the stairways, hoping to find some sign of life. She had to in order to...

As she was climbing upward, she heard voices of a sort, voices of some people talking and one trying to speak, though interrupted.

"What is going on? Are one of those people Dr. Marcel?" Cindy thought in concern.

As she was almost upstairs, she could hear the voice of a child, probably Lilli, shouting in anger, "STOOOOOOOOOP!! SHUT UP ALREADY!!"

"Very good, Lilli! Let him have it!" the voice of another person spoke.

However, the voice angrily interrupted, "That goes for everyone!"

"What the-?!" she asked herself, hearing a knife stabbing something.

"You've just been bossing me around this whole time! "Lilli do this! Lilli do that!" But get this: I'm NOT your lap dog!" the girl's voice angrily shouted.

Cindy came close to the stairs, looking at the opened door that contained the Harvey dolls, now more than ever as she heard the voice snapping, "And you, Doc, if you want to hypnotize me, you'll have to walk first, because that's what I'm going to do now! Your therapy is garbage! Why don't you worry about yourself, grandpa?!"

She looked a bit stunned, hearing that voice. She sounded like she had not spoken in a long time.

As the door to the room was being pushed opened more, Cindy began to turn, preparing to confront the mad doctor himself before she collided with the girl in bow from before.

At that moment, the girl snapped, shouting, "GET OUT OF THE WAY, YOU ASS!!"

She was shoved, pushed to the ground and almost falling down the stairs. She was injured, hurt and angered. She didn't like what the child did.

In anger, she cried, "You...you bitch!!"

Cindy knew she would get shocked for doing it, but she didn't care anymore at this point and she had enough.

In anger, Cindy slapped Lilli, knocking her to the ground while jolting from the restraint she had.

"Worth it!" she said to herself.

The girl in bow looked at Cindy, now noticing the newcomer. However, Cindy looked at her, realizing with horror at what the girl was becoming: A psychopath!

She backed away, shouting, "Keep away you psychopath!"

Lilli looked at her, looking at the woman who had acted like herself before, then turned to a mirror, gasping as she saw the reflection of herself briefly turning into one of a monster. A crooked version of herself.

The girl looked stunned, calming down from what she had briefly seen.

'Dear goodness, what was I turning into? I let my frustrations over what happened...from Mother Superior's harsh actions, the bullying, to being pushed around and...' was all she thought up.

She slumped down, speaking to herself, "Oh God, I'm turning into someone I am not!!"

Cindy panted a bit in fear while the voice that had encouraged Lilli called out, "Lilli!"

The two looked, noticing Edna, Gerret, and Mother Superior approaching the two, the nun holding a Harvey doll in her arms.

Cindy, shivering, noticed something different from that Harvey doll: Harvey's eyes were normal looking!

Cindy did not pay attention to Lilli's breakdown, only breaking down herself.

She didn't know what to think anymore. She thought she was innocent until now. She wasn't even sure what to believe in this world.

As the girls happily reunited after some explanation, Cindy's eye twitched from the anger and sadness with Gerret lifting her up.

She looked back at the scene, looking at them comforting the girl, the girl who was becoming a psychopath.

"You actually trust her?!" she spoke in somewhat upset anger.

"Cindy, listen. She's all right now." Gerret explained, helping her up, "And she may try to help you with your situation like she did with Mother Superior, if you allow her to do so."

Her head turned away, however, remembering the conversation and what it would do to her only friends.

"And besides," Edna went on, "after listening to what you're going through I have this to say: This type of love isn't right, even WITH a good reason."

Lilli looked stunned a bit, only asking curiously, "What was his name?"

"Heck if I could remember," Harvey spoke and shrugged, "She was the one who named those restrictions I placed on her before I got my eyes back. I think it was Nat-something or other."

"His name is Nousagi," Cindy spoke coldly to him.

"Whoa, Miss Touchy." Harvey remarks at Cindy's cold tone.

On the other hand, Harvey did wanted to talk to her about it before he would decide whether or not one of them would go into the trance world to confront her restrictions.

Just then, the gun cock sound was heard as a bang shot was also heard.

Cindy, hearing the noise, began realizing with horror. Lilli may have started to almost become a psychopath, but she didn't deserve to...

"WATCH IT!!" Cindy, despite being shocked by the restraining bolt, shouted as she jumped.

Cindy shoved Lilli aside, taking the bullet, which hit her. She fell to the ground, causing everyone to be shocked in horror.

Cindy had saved Lilli's life at the cost of her own!

The five finally turned, noticing Dr. Marcel with a revolver, the gun steaming from the bullet fired, looking anger and bitter at them.

"No, no, no!!" he snapped, "Lilli was SUPPOSE to be the one to be injured, not Cindy!"

At that moment, Edna and Gerret furiously jumped Dr. Marcel, causing him to fall from his wheelchair and land on the hall ground.

"MURDERER!!" Edna snapped.

The furious girl tackled the man in wheelchair. He had done wrong, and almost killing the child was crossing the line.

"Dr. Marcel!" Gerret glared, "You're under arrest for illegal methods on patients, kidnapping, attempted murder, malpractice, brainwashing, and other illegal methods."

Lilli only turned to where Cindy was, looking worried at her and unsure what to do.

The girl with Mother Superior rushed to her side, trying to hold the bleeding and hope to keep her alive.

Cindy struggled, looking at where Harvey, who only stood in horror, speaking, "Nou...sagi..."

She finally lost consciousness.

"Oh no..." was all Harvey could say.

***

Some time later, Cindy opened her eyes briefly, noticing herself on life support by an ambulance van about to take her.

She only spoke, "Wait...let me speak..."

"Okay," a nurse spoke, "But just a few minutes. You'll need your strength to recover."

She tried to look back at where she heard Miranya's voice speaking, ""The eighth spirit!"

She quickly glanced at where Miranya was looking at Harvey, speaking, "So that was where he was, but..."

Edna, looking more confused, asked her, "What are you on about?"

"It's this favor I got from Miss Gingers over there." Miranya explained, "She told me to see if I can find a reincarnated soul within an Imaginary Friend's body. And your rabbit friend was it."

"What?" Harvey spoke with confusion before he spoke, "You can actually see me move and talk?"

"Of course we can." an officer, leading one of the men away, was speaking to him, stunning us, "Besides, Imaginary Friends are illegal in this town don't you know. Not where I use to live."

"I don't understand, I-" Edna began to speak before the medium held my shoulder.

"Honestly, it was like this for 50 years now in this town." Miranya began explaining, "And at those times, no Imaginary Friend dared to step in this country. It got so bad, that people here, like Dr. Marcel, believed that imaginary friends don't even exist."

"That would explain a lot." Harvey frowned.

She turned to Harvey, continuing, "That reminds me...I heard that 15 years ago, there were eight children. All boys with wild imaginations. Each one had their own unique quirks: one like to use snow & fire, the second was interested in knives & dragons, the third had lots of music & collected spiders, the fourth was interested in Indian mythology while hunting, the fifth liked to tell lies while trying to have some justice in his heart, the sixth was interested in the Arabian Knights stories & medic uses for alcohol..."

She then looked at Cindy whom slowly looked at her with one eye as she continued, "The seventh one, who was the oldest, was a role player with a bit of a temper, and the final one, a child of a Konrad family, loved to do what he pleased while sometimes being careful on what he wished."

Cindy only nodded, remembering that conversation from yesterday.

"What happened to them?" Lilli asked.

"They died a tragic death," Miranya spoke sadly, "And that was the week before Mrs. Konrad died as well."

Edna then looked at Harvey as he did to her. The purple hair girl only looked more confused.

She freaked out as she spoke, "So wait, Harvey's reincarnated from my brother?! Harvey's actually my brother?!"

"Well when you put it that way, yeah." Miranya spoke.

"Wait, I was a real boy?!" Harvey exclaims in shock.

He pauses for a bit then adds, "Well, that does explain the voices."

So Harvey was Harvey Konrad was all Cindy thought with a smile slightly, trying to remember what her friends were briefly before her mind went.

It was hard to remember when dying after all.

The female struggled, barely lifting her eyes opened with one shown fully opened. She had to confirm it before she died.

"The demons...Lepus...Hase...Cherokee...Justitia...Arnab...Oryctolagus...and my Nousagi" Cindy weakly spoke, "Were they...they once human, too?"

Miranya nodded.

"I guess that does explain a lot." she slowly smiled, looking a bit relieved.

Gerret finally arrived, having listened to the entire conversation as he spoke, "Save your strength, Cindy. You'll be needed as a witness to this case if you're still alive."

However, she paid no attention to what any of them were saying. Probably putting Lilli and Edna on some witness protection program and sending Harvey to that foster home in America.

She looked up, looking as her life was flashing before her eyes: The day she was born, her family not paying much attention, their deaths, the friends that had abandoned her, her relationship with Mark before he dumped her, her time as a mayor's assistant before she was fired, being Dr. Marcel's assistant, the hypnosis she was endured with, meeting each Harvey demon she had befriended and even Nousagi, the bunny she fell in love with.

She knew that it was going to be her time soon before she heard Lilli ask, "But what about Miss Cindy?"

She only looked at everyone staring at her, now no longer having regrets in the real world.

"Hey, don't worry about me." Cindy smiled, as if knowing her fate, "I'll be fine, really. Just do me a favor, though."

"What's that?" the confused bunny plush asked.

"Don't destroy my restrictions," she said with a sad smile, tears streaming down.

"What?" he asked, "Why do you-?"

"You're in love with one, aren't you?" Lilli asked.

The adult groaning nodded softly, "Yes."

Lilli began realizing as she nodded, "Yeah, I guess so. What about you, Harvey?"

Harvey looked down, having some deep thought. On one hand, she would be free to do whatever she want. On the other hand, she was in love and she saw the demons as her only friends after all. Plus Nousagi did like to scratch his butt sometimes.

The reluctant rabbit finally sighed, "Fine...I promise."

"Thank...you..." she spoke quietly.

Cindy smiled before finally lying still, closing her eyes one last time before the heart monitor went flat.

Cindy Gingers was alive no longer.

***

"No, NOOOO!! CINDY!!!" Nousagi shouted with fear.

The demons, whom had gone to get some drinks, had started recovering from their intense pain, knowing that Lilli had beaten their copies. Nousagi, meanwhile, had to see how Cindy was doing when he saw what he did not want to see: Cindy shot by Dr. Marcel while saving the life of Lilli.

He should be grateful that Harvey had promised not to let himself and Lilli kill them off, but when he saw Cindy die like that...

"No, Cindy, no..." was all he could say, tears streaming down his eyes.

Cindy was dead because of him, because of his so-called creator that...

He looked at the ghostly vision starting to form close by him, slowly looking up as he saw the familiar figure forming, appearing in the trance world. This time, permanently.

The rabbit looked stunned with tears as he shouted, "Cindy?!"

End of Part 13