Hello! This is just the prologue, I will update chapters on Fridays. I hope you guys enjoy. If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, or complaints, make sure to leave them so I can see. I would love to hear your feedback.
Prologue
"Now, you do know why you're here again Tweek, correct?" The older man's face shone with uninterested boredom, a heavy crease on his forehead where his greyed hair tried to recede as far back as it could, his eyes nearly falling closed after a long day at work. At one time Dr. Madden was encouraged and excited to help the young boy seated across from him, after all it wasn't everyday you got a crazy twelve year old in the small mountain town of South Park, but months of visits passed and Dr. Madden had made no progress, now each visit was a tiresome trial. The clock ticked by slowly while the young boy twitched and rattled on about creatures that only he could see.
"I k-know." The small boy's voice was louder and choppier than intended. Tweek knew all too well why he was here, all the kids whispered it behind his back at school. Crazy.
The blond blinked rapidly, his young face agitated at the thought of spending another afternoon in Dr. Maddens small office. He didn't enjoy being here anymore than Dr. Madden did, in fact he enjoyed it less because dark creatures gathered outside the window and peered in at him with pale, glowing eyes. Their pale eyes shone mockingly as well, like the creatures were aware how crazy they made Tweek seem. Their bodies looked like a leathery, dead tree had morphed with a human's skeleton, or maybe a deer's skeleton standing up right. Dirt crumbled off their joints as they swayed side to side and rattled out breaths. One touched a branch like finger to the window and slowly pulled it down, mud streaking along the glass. Tweek flinched at the gesture. Those were the same kinds of fingers that pulled at him whenever he walked in the dense forest, and the same ones that clawed at his window during the night.
Dr. Madden turned towards the window, his eyes lit up at the possibility of something he could actually work with, maybe he was half expecting to see a creature as well. His eyes fell flat, his chapped lips falling into a stern line once again.
"Why are you so scared of those branches, Tweek?" Dr. Madden crossed his legs, shifting to become more comfortable in his faux leather chair. Tweek's frightened eyes flickered back to the doctor. He ground his teeth together while a small, anxious scream rose in the back of his usually sore throat. His fingers fidgeted with the worn clothe of the sofa beneath him. His eyes moved back to the window as Dr. Madden started a long speech about Tweek's overactive imagination; the creatures were clawing at the base of the window now. Tweek frowned, his eyebrows drawn together as the sickly thin creatures managed to slip their appendages under the heavy seal of the window. It was locked, it had to be. Their long, brittle fingers of onyx somehow managed to not snap under the force of opening such an old, heavy window. They never attempted to get inside before, they just sat outside mocking. Why were they doing this, they couldn't get Tweek in here, he was safe. Even as he thought it he knew he was wrong. The window creaked, a small fraction of sunlight pressed it's way in.
"Oh, G-god! They're getting in!" Tweek barked out suddenly, startling Dr. Madden. He drew his legs up and scrambled to the back of the couch. "They're coming for me!" Tweek's eye twitched, the muscle spasming underneath his skin only added to his anxiety. He clawed at his chest, his heart felt like it would explode.
Dr. Madden stood up and quickly moved toward his patient with his hands held up, as if he were approaching a wild dog. His eyes looked more awake. Finally, something exciting.
"Tweek, breathe, remember what we talked about." His voice was steady, and the tone would've been reassuring had Tweek been listening.
One hand was pulling at his unevenly buttoned shirt, the other tearing at his wild hair. He tried to breathe, the breaths came out as short, forced gasps.
The window was forced even further open now, a long arm slithered into the room. It grew and grew, stretching across the room at inhuman lengths, normal physics did not apply to the creature as it's arm creeped under the doctor's legs and to the base of the couch like a shadow.
Tweek screamed. His parents rushed in. They had to wait outside in the lobby during each of his visits. Their warms arms wrapped around the flailing boy as Dr. Madden attempted to assure them that nothing had actually happened to their son. He was just having another terror fit. He would he fine. With medication.
Tweek didn't listen, tears bubbled in his eyes and landed on his pale cheeks as the arm retreated. The monsters smiled, needle thin teeth revealed themselves in the paling sunlight; small hissing noises reached Tweek's ears, a mixture of laughter and words. They always spoke short words of terror, whispering Tweek's name over and over on dark nights and from dark corners. Tweek didn't think they actually knew how to speak, their sentences sounded more like words that had been put into a blender and thrown into the wind than conscious dialogue.
"… Tweek…" one with branches growing out of its head like antlers hissed, it sounded like dry leaves crunching together under a muddied boot. "The dark prince will be released soon…."
