What One Man Can Do

by GimmyJibbsJr

Ao Oni part 2

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Henry and Hiroshi busted through the library's door and charged towards the kitchen as the giant violet monster gave chase. They both dove over the couch that was on the right side of the room, whereas the actual kitchen was on the left. As both of them stood behind the couch, Hiroshi held the plate shard in his hand, ready to fight back if necessary. Suddenly, the creature threw itself into the room and was making a full sprint for the couch they were hiding behind. Despite how funny it seemed, seeing a large headed creature running with a human body, both of them avoided the monster by once again jumping over the couch. As they ran out of the kitchen area and to the stairs, they both stopped and looked back at the door they had just come from.

"Is it gone?" Hiroshi whispered, to scared to be any louder. Henry didn't answer right away, he just stared at the door. Much to their horror, the beast continued to follow. With both of them having but a split second to think before charging up the stairs, they both found it very frightening that the beast managed to so silently and yet move so fast. The two were now on the second floor and immediately went into the room where Takeshi was. When they entered, Takeshi was nowhere to be found, but the closet he was in was wide open.

"Get in!" Henry shouted as he jumped into the large closet. Hiroshi didn't waste any time either, and followed Henry into what seemed to be the only option they had. While it was cramped and somewhat awkward, both of them stayed quiet as they heard the door to the room they were in slowly open. Suddenly, there was very heavy breathing. It didn't seem to stop, as it lasted quite a long time. The breathing continued to grow louder and louder, and finally reached it's loudest point when it could be heard right outside the closet. It seem to stay like that for a while, but finally subsided once the source of the breathing had moved away from the hiding spot. Suddenly, Henry and Hiroshi heard the door to the room open, and slowly close.

There was silence. The two of them glanced at each other, before slowly revealing themselves. Much to their relief, the creature was no longer there. The two of them then basically jumped out of the hiding spot while releasing an audible sigh of relief. Henry immediately stood up and ran for the door before stopping at the handle. As he slowly turned it, he looked back at Hiroshi. All Hiroshi did was nod, while Henry did the same as his reply. Henry quickly opened the door and began to look around the halls.

"Is it clear, Henry?" Hiroshi asked while still trying to keep as quiet as possible. When no response came, he asked again. "Henry, is it still there?"

"No, it's actually gone. Believe it or not..." Henry whispered back slowly closing the door and placing his back against it before slowly sliding down the door into a sitting position. "So, the rumors are true..." Henry mumbled to himself while standing back up.

"It would seem so. I just can't believe that a monster like that could be real!" Hiroshi shouted as he placed his head on the ground. Much to Hiroshi's surprise, he didn't feel a wooden floor. He felt something soft. He picked up his head and looked where his head was, and saw that he had rested his head on a handkerchief. "This is Takeshi's. It says his name on it..."

"We can take it with us just it case we meet up with your friend, for now we have to find out which room can be unlocked with this key." Henry stated as he opened the door. Hiroshi quickly got to his feet and followed Henry out of the room. When Hiroshi had exited the room, he saw that Henry was already trying out the key on the door next to the room they were just hiding in. After Henry tried the lock, all he did was look back at his companion and shake his head. Afterwards, the two walked down the hallway next to the stairs and found another door. Like the one before, the key failed to unlock the door.

"Perhaps we should try the third floor?" Hiroshi suggested as he turned for the stairs. Henry followed him and soon they were once again met with a thing hall with only two doors. Henry tried to unlock the door closest to them, and it had worked. When the door had opened, there were two beds sitting next to each other, a large carpet taking up most of the empty space, and two small cabinets sitting in the corner. Hiroshi quickly walked into the room and inspected the beds, while Henry walked off to look at cabinets.

"There's nothing in the cabinets." Henry said as he walked over to Hiroshi, who was still looking over the beds.

"Well, Can you help me push this bed? I think that there may be something underneath it." Hiroshi said as he went back to trying to push the bed.

"Fine, just stand back." Henry commanded as he managed to push the bed with little effort. It was indeed satisfying to see that Hiroshi was right. Something was under the bed, and it was a large hole. Upon further inspection, there was an entirely different room that could be seen through the hole. The floor was white and the only other thing visible was a large black piano with a bit of red coloration on a few of the keys.

"So, should we go in?" Hiroshi asked as he peered into the hole, inspecting everything he could before wanting to make a decision.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Henry answered before jumping down the hole. After a short moment of looking around, Henry motioned for Hiroshi to follow. When Hiroshi jumped down the hole and looked around, he saw two small dressers in one corner, and two book shelves in another. What also caught his attention was that there was a door to the piano's right. Out of curiosity, he went to inspect the door. Upon opening it, he discovered where they were.

"We're on the second floor again." He stated as he closed the door.

"Really?"

"Yeah, we're right by the stairs that lead to the third floor."

"That is kind of interesting, but I think I found something." Henry said as he walked back to the bookshelves. Suddenly, Henry managed to pull on of the cases aside to reveal a safe built into the wall. It had a four number code along with four odd symbols above them. "There is probably something useful in here. We just need to find the code." Henry said as he walked over to the piano. "There is also this blood stain on three of the piano keys. Maybe something is there?"

"I doubt that anything would be hidden underneath that... blood stain." Hiroshi replied pushing his glasses back into place and giving a worried glance at the blood, hoping that the blood didn't belong to one of his friends.

"We were just chased by a giant purple monster with a head being the biggest part of it's body. I think that something being hidden under the blood stain isn't entirely out of the question." Henry retorted as he tried to pick the blood away with his nail, unfortunately he could not do this.

"Fine, we'll look for something to get rid of the blood stain and see if you are right. Happy?"

"Yes, now let's get going before that thing finds us again." Henry said as he left the room, immediately running to the first floor with Hiroshi close behind.

"Why are we going back down stairs?" Hiroshi asked while looking behind himself to see if there were any followers.

"There was a hallway near the entrance that we never looked at, I wanted to go see if there was anything useful." Henry said as he quickened his pace, almost immediately arriving at the hallway. For what both Hiroshi and Henry could see, there were only two doors that were slightly open. "I'll take that door to the right if you go to that door at the end of the hall, deal?"

"Sure, why not?" Hiroshi answered as he instantly walked to the far door. Henry then proceeded to enter the other door. What he found was a small bathroom with a toilet and sink near the door along with a large bathtub on the other side of the room. What caught his attention though was that there was an odd, black, chunky liquid. As Henry slowly moved closer, he could see something glistening at the bottom. However, there was another thought that raced through his mind.

He needed to get a sample of this.

He began to rummage through the only cabinet in the bathroom. Thankfully, there were two empty bottles of hydrogen peroxide, along with some other small plastic cups. Immediately, he began to scoop dozens of small portions of the mysterious black liquid into the bottle before putting the cover back on. He then put the now filled bottle and empty bottle into his jacket, while disposing of the cups. Then he proceeded to pull the plug from the bottom of the tub and drained the water. Instantly, the liquid was drained and there was a screwdriver. As Henry tried to pick it up, he felt a burning sensation on his hand and jumped away from the object.

'What was that?!' He thought, gripping his wrist. He glanced at his hand to see that the liquid had gotten onto his hand. Once more, he felt the burning come back and reached for a towel. As he quickly wiped the liquid away, the burning stopped. As Henry stared at the now partially black towel, he had just realized how much of a weapon that liquid seemed to be. He approached the screwdriver once more, but this time he had used the towel he was holding to protect him against this burning substance. As soon as he wiped all of it away, he folded up some toilet paper and covered the cups with it. He also hid the towel in the cabinet behind several objects. With that done, he left the room. Hoping that Hiroshi wouldn't be suspicious if he ever entered the room.

"Hey Henry, are you finished looking in that room?" Hiroshi asked, having already finished inspecting the room he had taken.

"Yes, I found this screwdriver in a bathtub. Did you find anything?"

"All I found was soap and I thought that it would be useful in getting rid of the blood stain on the piano." Hiroshi replied while holding up a small bottle of soap. "Are you ready to head back to the piano?"

"Yeah, let's get going. The sooner we do we may be able to find a way out of this house." Henry said as he and Hiroshi moved to go back to the second floor. 'Thank goodness he doesn't know about that weird black liquid, otherwise he might make me use it all before I get the chance to study it.' Henry thought as they continued walking. 'I really just hope that Equestria is worth all of this.'


Author's Note

Yeah, I remember seeing somewhere that the liquid is actually just water. But In the game, or at least in Markiplier's play-through, the liquid is actually black. Not to mention that there was fan art of Hiroshi sitting dead in this "water", the only thing was that it was this purple slime.. I would honestly like to imagine that it is not just water, so to make it a little more interesting, I'll just have it be an odd liquid that Henry will be able to make useful.

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