Hello everyone! I have already written two Slender fics, but one was a parody (a childish one) and the other a crossover (which I'm not really satisfied with, but it was ok, I guess). So yeah, instead of that, I decided to go for something more dramatic and horrifying.

Before I start, I'd like to inform you that the Slender Man in this fic is actually a mix of the original mythos (along with several real world legends) and the new mythos (mostly seen in games like Slender: The Eight Pages and various web series like Marble Hornets). If you still don't get it, check the Slender Wiki.

Anyways, this is the intro in medias res, I guess.

Enjoy!

Note 0

The Last of Us

She was running.

The fallen branches cracked beneath her feet, the slippery leaves only making it harder for her to run. She barely kept her balance, but at least the path became somewhat clearer. However, she was finding no relief. She didn't dare to look back during her escape, but the cracking and squeaking noises made her glance.

Her hazel brown eyes widened as she saw tree roots lifting and branches lowering. It was moving.

THE TREES WERE MOVING!

''What the hell?!'' She yelled in surprise, dodging a branch which almost hit her head.

The greenery was moving behind her, forming lumps on the ground. She jumped over a tree root as it rose up and heard a 'thud' sound as it fell.

''This is crazy…'' She bit her lip.

Another pair of roots slithered like snakes below her, forming a knot. She managed to jump over them though. It felt more like those tree roots weren't really part of trees, but more like tentacles. They even had a strange black-brown color.

Too familiar for her taste.

She put her arms in front of her, feeling the smaller and sharper branches cutting her skin. At least they didn't gouge her eyes out. While one hand was empty, the other was clutching a note. She wasn't sure who wrote it, but it the one who was chasing her may be the one who wrote it.

She didn't know. She wasn't even sure if she wanted to know. All she wanted is to get away from the monster that was chasing her.

''Ack…'' She yelped as she almost tripped, grabbing one of the lowered branches to get her balance back. She gritted her teeth as she felt it cutting the skin on her palm, but it was still worth it.

Her palm was now bleeding, droplets falling onto the grass and tainting it red. The color was dark though… just as dark as the forest inside which she was.

Looking up, she did see a light. A clearing! Her heart jumped as she realized that she could escape now. She ran faster.

Her expression went from joy to pure despair as she realized she was in front of a small valley. There was a high cliff in front of her, too steep to climb. She was trapped in that clearing. She knew she could try to climb it, but she would probably fall and break her neck. Or she could turn around and run back into the forest.

That also meant facing the monster which was chasing her.

Neither of the ideas sounded good, but she had no choice. She had to survive.

She turned around, her eyes widening in fear.

It was here. Watching her with a blank expression. A white, mask-like expression, showing no face features. It's clothes were covered in blood.

She knew it was the blood of this monster's previous victims and she was going to become the next one.

She didn't dare to breathe.

The monster in front of her moved towards her. She could see that, on the edge of the forest, vines and branches were moving away, clearing the path.

She looked back at the person in front of her. Could she really call it a person? To her, a person wasn't some monstrous killer.

She gasped as it ran towards her.

She screamed as the note fell out of her hand. On it stood one word.

REVENGE

Below the word was a scribbling of tall slender faceless man-like figure with tentacles spreading from it's back.