Setting
Anna grabbed her brother's hand when she finally reached him. "Where are you going?" She asked, noticing he was heading towards the forest. "Home, this is the quickest way and you know that." He said, shaking his head like she was being stupid. "Just go through the streets." She asked feebly but Jason was determined to go through the forest. He continued on anyway, stamping on branches and hopping over undergrowth, Anna watched him, she hesitated before running after him, when she reached him she linked an arm with him and rested on his shoulder. "Do you ever think about mum?" She asked him and she felt him tense. "All the time," He admitted as he pushed a branch out of the way. "I mean, she did disappear on my birthday." He pushed more branches away and found a clearing, dead animals. Anna gagged and hid behind Jason, Jason had frozen. "What do you think did this?" Jason asked her, stepping forward and crouching down to inspect it. Anna knew exactly what did it. "Slender." She whispered and grabbed Jason back, "We're leaving." She told him and made her way back to the Village, she spotted Ray and the others, but Drake wasn't with them. "Guys!" She yelled and ran over, she wrapped her arms around Ray and then stepped back, realising that it was a bit random. "Sorry." She smiled and then Jason came up behind her. "This is my brother, Jason." Jason waved to the group with a smile.
Ray Silverwood
Ray swung the blonde girl from his shoulders and placed her gently on the ground, not daring to look at the silent little creepy child. "How sick..." He spat furiously to the group as he eyed at the strung creatures. Suddenly Drake stopped, like he was seemingly frozen in time. "Hey..." Ray hissed, shaking him lightly by the shoulders. No reaction. Then, he darted away, back from the direction they came. The dark haired youth sighed, there was no way he was following him again. The guy was crazy! He was sure of it!
Arthur pounced up to him just as Drake dashed elsewhere. He smiled lightly at the brunette, being honest he was very glad he was alright. "I don't really know, we just ran from....from..." Ray paused, he didn’t like saying his name. He didn’t want to accept that this monster was real. But he had to now. No matter how much he wanted to lie to himself he had to be truthful. "From Slenderman, and then suddenly Drake ran here...and now he’s gone again!"
"Guys!"
Ray turned sharply to face the familiar voice, eyes widening with shock and clear happiness. "Anna!" He laughed, when suddenly she collided into him, arms snaking around his body. Her warmth was pleasant...almost blissful. He didn’t know why but it seemed like even with all this Slenderman stuff going on, he felt like if Anna stayed with him it would be worth it. His heart sank with slight disappointment as she pulled away, though he tried his best not to show this, but maybe failed a little.
Ray met eyes with another male, who had just travelled along with her. Who...Who is this?... "Is this your boyfriend?" Ray said in a quiet cold tone, but Anna stated that he was her Brother soon after. "Oh...Well. I’m Ray..." He said with a half hearted nod towards the youth.
Swirling, churning colors. White, black, ...crimson. Transitioning scenes bow to one another. Transient warmth, fleeting faces, or lack of. Rae can't tell if she's awake or asleep, She can't tell if she's alive or not, she can't tell if she ever really was.
Trees dance among the horizon of her vision, wait no... Is it herself thats shaking? Rae sat up, nausea barraged her at once.
"Ngh..."
She hadn't been aware of the shrill static in her ear until it began to wane.
Rae felt the earth underneath her palms, rolling pebbles beneath her finger tips' guidance. She lifted her chin, looking up at the others that converged before her. Her attention drifted past them and the nausea was retained the more her eyes absorbed. Brutally mangled animals dangled from their threads- struggling to support the sagging corpses.
What the hell was going on? Who were they?
How'd she get here?
The hair on her nape stood erect, her muscles tense like a coiled spring with trepidation, for good reason.
The blade colliding with the core of the tree made a dull "thump". The force of the impact sent splinters flying.
Alarmed Rae sprang to her feet.
Chaos
He walked closer and grabbed the knife, pulling it out of the tree with ease. He walked around all the animals, walking around the trees until finally he could see Ray, Anna, and Jason. He swung the blade threw the air twice, making a swishing sound, then advanced on the three. Before they could run he got close enough to swing the knife and cut Jason's arm.
Jason let out a loud shriek as the blade cut his arm, he grabbed it, putting pressure on it to slow the bleeding. As he watched Chaos close in on him, he tried running but tripped over a root and landed smack on his face, a branch had caught in the slice. He called for help. "Anna! Help me!"
Anna Deans
Anna heard her brother's shriek but she knew she could do little about it until they were safe, so she looked forward and kept running from Chaos, until she heard her brother cry for help. "Jason!" She spun back and ran to help him up, but that was when she noticed Chaos closing the gap and Slenderman not far behind. "The rest of you run!" She called over to the ones still hiding. She ran over to her brother and helped him up and wrapped his arm over her shoulder and tried to run with him, badly injured, being carried by her.
Ray Silverwood.
THUNK
Ray stop breathing. For a second he questioned the sound, but then quickly his question turned to “Had the object hit him?" He let out a long breath, before frantically flickering his pupils to the right of him to find a knife stabbed deep into the tree. My god... Anna suddenly dragged him out of sight of his attacker, clasping his hand tightly. Any other time he would have savoured the warmth from the veins in her palm, but now was not exactly a good time for day dreaming, but he appreciated her comfort. He was not exactly feeling the bravest either...
I could be dead right now...I could be bloody dead right now...
The raven haired boy could now see that the creepy blonde girl had awaken from her "Trance". He wondered if this was Slendersickness, or just from the shock of all the horrific happenings. He stepped forwards to drag her from harm’s way, but Arthur got there before him. Good. He did not want to particularly interact with such a creepy kid. Even now faced with Slenderman and the odd masked man, she was still awfully scary to him, but he was glad she was not the Masked beings next target. Ray could see him and the brunette boy (Arthur) becoming good allies, though they were nothing alike; he didn’t mind the youth at all.
Suddenly, the stranger pulled the blade from the trees trunk before swinging it at the trio again. Ray froze in fear, but the blade sliced into Jason’s arm instead. Anna went to grab him as he fell onto the ground which left her unguarded, and ordered everyone to run. Of course the youth disobeyed, scooping up the bloody knife and holding it offensively towards the masked man a few steps in front of the siblings. "BACK OFF!" Ray snarled, trying to give the pair time to get back to their feet.
Anna spun around to see Ray fending Chaos off, Slenderman was approaching them both. "Ray!" She shouted, pointing to Slenderman. She set her brother down and grabbed a few stones, throwing them at Slenderman. "Leave him alone!" She screamed at him, Slenderman's head twisted to look at her and then down to Jason, before he disappeared. Anna spun around to see if he was anywhere near them, hoping he wasn't getting Jason. He was nowhere. Anna ran back to her brother and hugged him tightly, tears forming in her eyes.
Jason Deans
Jason's leg was badly injured from the fall and the slash in his arm, which now had dirt and bark in it, made him highly incapable of doing much."Anna..." He whispered as she set him down and confronted Slenderman. He looked at Slenderman as he looked down at him. "He's real..." Jason managed to breathe. "He's really real, mum didn't run away, he... he took her." He managed to whisper into his sister's ear as a few tears rolled down his cheek, he could feel tears dripping onto his head and the staggered breathing that Anna always did when she cried.
With her guard on high end, Rae did not hesitate forming a defensive stance in reflex as the boy pulled her aside. Panic had already permeated her veins, working the beat of her heart.
With words awkwardly spaced between puffs of breath, he first requested her name
"Rae.." She said, in a volume just above a whisper, unconcerned of weather he could hear her or not.
Just as Rae's tense posture began to abate, a very human like shriek caused her to jump back in place. The panic oozed into her lungs, in result she panted.
Now spun around, Rae's eyes flickered between the masked persona and the boy extending the knife, blade wavering slightly.
With her perceived knowledge, Rae didn't know the greater evil of the two, but the heavy aura of malice that clouded around the masked man gave her a charitable indication.
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