Dovelie was now left as faceless porcelain Greyscalian, her regular form, her dress, and bows were now drained of the color that was in them. Dovelie now started to walk along the road again with the rest of china dolls. As she walked further down, her feet didn't ache anymore, she didn't mind the colorless world of black and white, and she didn't care about her has-been friend. But soon, something sparked in Dovelie when she passed by a nameless store, she didn't know but something was in there and that something was... something, Dovelie just impulsively walked toward the shop.
Dovelie then opened the door, there was no ring on the door and there was a fellow Monochrome Metropolis Greyscalian behind the counter who was definitely the shopkeeper and owner since no one else was there, he looked just like any other Greyscalian's attire, a black dress shirt, a white tie, a white white raincoat that stopped at his ankles where there was a pair of black boots with some white trousers that were completely clean, his hair was just like every Greyscalian man too, he had a long straight haircut with no stray hairs and was parted the same way as Dovelie's and every Greyscalian women's straight upturned hair, even with no sideburns. Dovelie looked around with her... sockets where her eye sockets should be and browsed the clothes and other miscellaneous things you wouldn't find out in Monochrome Metropolis. She then saw the man behind the counter "speak" to her with some hand gestures which said, Hey, need any help? in a separate panel and dimension which only the talker and listener could see, Dovelie responded back with an I'm just looking, I'll tell you if I do need anything. Dovelie then got to looking around, she then saw something glint in a rack full of shirts, something inside her gave off a spark of curiosity and she stuck her hand in and grabbed out a giant grey ax! The man noticed what the girl was carrying and he then ran over and helped her hold the ax before she was able to accidentally decapitate herself which was impossible as a Greyscalian changing their figure. The man then gave off a series of eyebrow movements that signaled to Dovelie, I don't think I had this in here, you can have it for free if you want to.
Dovelie simply replied back with her eyebrows to what it reads on the man's nametag, Coal, I think I'll look at it first and I'll think about it.
Coal then helped Dovelie set down the sharp part of the ax on the carpeted floor and he simply went back to the behind of the counter. As he simply watched the girl simply look at the carvings on the handle, he noticed something that stuck out from the numerous watches and spectacles all in their monochrome colors. A pair of blue sunglasses, of course, he himself didn't know they were blue, just that they weren't black and/or white, he got them out from inside the counter and looked at them with intrigue, he was never this engaged in something like this before. But this interest was more than just intrigue, he seemed to be curious about why it was blue, Coal always checked his products and he always saw this same pair of shades be black and never this bright color. He got out several things that would help fix other problems except for removing color, he rubbed on it with a cloth, breathed on them with a breath machine, and he even replaced the lenses, but the color persisted. Maybe it was just the light playing tricks on him, Coal thought, he then decided to try them on to see if it would make a difference, but suddenly a deathly shock went through his body causing his hair to mess up and go in wild directions and his body to move erratically. Coal then fainted on the ground with a large thump.
Dovelie heard it and she hurried over to Coal's body on the floor. She looked closer at the shades he wore and suddenly, a pair of eyes appeared, not on Coal's face, but on the shades itself. The virtual eyes twitched around and then looked at Dovelie, the eyes then disappeared and an electrical charge made a blueprint folded into a tiny square. Dovelie picked it up and looked at it, she was now currently having her attention to the blueprint and ignoring the unconscious storekeeper. She unfolded it and saw a draft of some kind of human robot with wrench-like claws for hands, a box-like torso, and compacted hoses for legs and arms.
As she looked at it more in interest, Coal got up already and was with Dovelie looking at the blueprint together. He then tapped her shoulder which got her attention and she looked up at him, That's a nice blueprint, I have a place to keep that, Coal said with his hands. Coal then went into the back of the store and he got out a black suitcase, he then beckoned Dovelie to put it in and she complied and gave it to him, he quickly slid the draft in there without letting her peek in what was inside the suitcase. Dovelie was a little confused about Coal's sentiment, she signaled over to him, Wait, why are you offering to hold my stuff?
Coal replied with a, I'm offering to travel with you, I know that you're not from here and I know something that you know too, such on how we're having this full conversation and why I even have a store in the first place.
Dovelie thought about that last part, Wait, have you ever seen a person that had a face and then suddenly they weren't there anymore?
Yes! There was this man in this nice suit, he tailored this suit just for me and had me open this store, but as I turned my back, he was gone. When I saw him, there was this girl with a horrible haircut and she shot me with something that made look like this again.
Well, that's one thing we had, if we're going to travel we have to find out why we'll be traveling. I'll bring this thing with us. Dovelie replied back as she lifted up the colossal ax guitar
Dovelie and Coal then thought what their main goal for traveling would be and that would help their non-existent goals and activities. They went outside of the store and saw that Monochrome Metropolis was now splattered with color and with the Greyscalians panicking in fear with their new and horrifying faces and natural skin tone of a human unfitting for a porcelain Greyscalian, each time they saw each other they panicked more. Dovelie looked around the chaos and saw some of them were missing their heads near them and the bodies were lifeless. She then ran over leaving the guitar over to Coal and went to pick up the crying head overwhelmed on trying to convey on what feeling she was going through. Here let me get that for you, Dovelie said, the moment she touched the head, the color started to desaturate until it became monochrome again with just only a tiny tinge of color, the head became faceless again and it was calmed down. Dovelie placed the head back on the body, the woman settled down and checked her mobility, she was delighted and she signaled a thank you to Dovelie and she went on her day. Dovelie was surprised on what happened when she touched that woman's head, she looked at her hands again and she looked over at a wall on a building that was having a retina-burning blue on it, she went over to it and touched it with the palm of her hand and the greyness of the original building spread out from her hand and it went back to its normal monochromatic color. Dovelie then started helping all the other townspeople with their chromatic calamity and soon, Monochrome Metropolis was back to its monochromatic ways. Coal saw the whole thing unfolded and he asked her with his hands, Dovelie, How did you do it?
I don't know, I guess it had something to do with me being shot by that girl with the horrible haircut.
Wait, I got shot by that girl too. Maybe I can try doing that! Coal said, he looked around and saw a patch of color on the street and placed his hand on it, it did nothing. Coal got a little disappointed, he then tried to stomp on the grass and surely, the grass went back to grey. Hey! Kid, did you see that?, Coal waved his hands over to Dovelie, she wasn't really noticing as she was looking at a vague humanoid statue that looked unchanged, he went over to her to see why her attention was over to it. Uh, kid, what's with the undivided attention to the statue? Coal shifted his eyebrows by tapping her shoulder,
Oh, it's just that it seems to just be stone, there's no other color to it and its hands look like it was holding something. Dovelie gestured, she pointed over to the statue's hands and then she gestured more to Coal for the ax and he got it out. Dovelie carried it and got up to the statue and slid in the ax into the statue's hands.
The statue did nothing, Welp, I guess that was just it, a statue. Dovelie gestured, she and Coal then walked off, not hearing the rattling coming from inside. A light shone through the cracks of the statue and soon the pieces broke off and the heavy fragments of stone knocked Dovelie and Coal square in their jaws and knocked them out.
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