Stray Chaser
Chapter 1
Oh boy, my first pasta monster centered fics, I can't promise anything. Also, I do not own any of the characters in this story. I do have my own Pasta Monster, but I have yet to get her Creepypasta up, and she won't be in any of my fics until then, however, there are a couple of pics of her on Deviantart if anyone's curious.
So...yeah, here we go.
It was 2:00 in the morning, the moon glowing in the clear dark sky, illuminating the cool haze in the late autumn air. Dead leaves tumbled weakly in the gentle, yet chilly, wind along the forest floor, which was coated with a light frost. Evidence that the end of fall was near and the start of winter was fast approaching.
In the shadows of the forest, a masked, bloodstained youth, known as Eyeless Jack was making his way home after a long night of feeding himself.
"Ah man," the boy with vacant eye sockets groaned, "it's getting late, I should've made my way back hours ago, but I just had to get greedy when I went by that house where those dumb college girls were having a sleepover. If you ask me, they all seemed a bit old to be having a slumber party."
As E.J. passed through the invisible wall that led into the Zalgo realm (the Creepypasta world in my stories), he picked up his pace, wanting to get home and out of the woods as soon as possible. The forest was Slender Man's domain, and anyone who was out in it between 7:00 pm and 6:00 am was fair game for the monstrous creature, human or not. Eyeless Jack and his Pasta Buddies were always at the mercy of Slender man, because they lived in his territory, they had to abide by his rules; he was basically their sadistic, burdensome landlord.
Eyeless Jack was not too worried about it though, if by chance he was caught by Slender, the most the monster could do was rough him up. The only thing Slender could not do was kill him, because Zalgo would not allow it, and nobody was above the law of Zalgo, not even Slender Man.
Of course, Slender was not the only thing that came out at night.
"Oh Zalgo, it getting cold," E.J. shuddered, had his mask not been on, his breath definitely would have been visible in the air, "good thing I'm almost home."
He kept walking, but could not go much faster because he was starting to get cold and tired.
Suddenly, he heard a noise, the sound of heavy footsteps among the dead leaves and frosty ground.
"Uh oh," the young organ eater thought, "is that Slender?" E.J. was worried that Slender Man was now coming up on him, until a new thought hit him, "Wait, no, Slender is a silent stalker, it can't be him."
His thoughts were confirmed when he heard an eerie growl come from the shadows, proof that it was not Slender Man who was following him. Against his better judgment, Eyeless Jack stopped and turned around to see what was really stalking him. In the darkness of the woods, E.J. made out a dark figure with glowing eyes and very long claws coming toward him. The young Pasta Person backed away slowly, and when the ominous figure finally made it into the moonlight, it became completely visible.
Eyeless Jack cringed as he recognized the creature, it was horrid beast known as the Rake, and its soulless eyes were locked firmly on the young organ harvester.
"Shit!" E.J. gasped, and started running.
As he ran, he could hear the Rake quickly coming up behind him, panting and snarling, logs smashing beneath its feet. Eyeless Jack knew it was nearly impossible to outrun the Rake, just as it was impossible to escape Slender once he's spotted you, but he could not help but try.
Unlike Slender Man, the Rake was so animalistic he was barely sapient at all, therefore he did have the mindset to obey or even understand the laws of Zalgo. Meaning that if he caught someone, human or not, he could kill and devour them without consequences.
EJ jumped down a small hill, only to land wrong and jar his leg.
"Gah, dammit!" he uttered, falling to the ground.
It was then that the Rake caught up with Eyeless jack, pouncing and pinning the eyeless Pasta Teen to the ground. EJ felt his blood run cold, remaining completely still and silent as the Rake eyed him ravenously, if he had eyes there would have been a much more distinct look of fear on his face. EJ squeezed his eyelids shut as the Rake geared up to chow down, thinking his end was imminent.
Suddenly, a loud, feminine shriek rang out, bringing EJ to open his eyelids out of curiosity; the Rake looked up in confusion and out of nowhere was broadsided so hard, he was knocked off of Eyeless Jack. Allowing the eyeless youth to sit up and see what was happening.
To E.J.'s surprise, the Rake was being brutally pummeled by a humanoid in white hoodie and dark-colored pants, and judging by the sound of its growls, it was definitely a girl. The girl swung her fists into the Rake's face so hard, E.J. could hear the monster's skull crack on impact.
The Rank shrunk away and the girl shooed it off, snarling, "Get! Get!"
With that, the monster fled to the shadows.
With the ordeal over, E.J. looked at the girl, who was watching after the Rake as it disappeared into the darkness. When it was gone, the girl finally acknowledged the organ-eating youth she had spontaneously saved. She looked at Eyeless Jack, revealing that she too was wearing a mask, white dirt-stained mask.
E.J. feebly waved a hand to her, the girl stepped away and tried to bolt off.
"Wait!" the eyeless one called.
He got to his feet, stumbling as he felt a very slight twinge in his leg.
The masked girl stopped and looked back.
"Who are you?" Eyeless Jack asked.
The girl timidly wrapped her arms around herself, an odd mannerism for one who had just cracked the Rake's skull.
"Uhh," the girl replied softly, her voice low and growly, "the...Chaser."
Eyeless Jack did not believe it, that could not have been her actual name. After all Jeff was not just "The Killer" and he himself was not merely "The Eyeless".
He got closer to her.
"Come on," he said, reaching out for her mask, "there's gotta be more than that..."
The Chaser backed away, not wanting her mask to be touched.
"I'm Jack," E.J. said, removing his own mask, "Eyeless Jack."
The girl seemed strangely mesmerized by the sight, and just like that, she reached up and grabbed her own mask.
"I-I'm...Kate..." she said, slowly pulling off her mask, "just Kate. Proxy Kate if you wanna get technical with it."
The word "Proxy" echoed in Eyeless Jack's head.
"Proxy?" he thought, "oh shit."
Normally anyone who had the word "Proxy" in their name was associated with the infamous Slender Man.
E.J. looked at Kate, her skin was very light colored, but not nearly as light as Jeff's, her black hair was medium length and wild, her bloodshot eyes were a grayish hazel colored (I don't think there's a confirmed eye color for Kate, but I could be wrong) and her face was covered in scratches, scars, and smears of dirt. However, by Pasta Monster standards, she looked pretty good.
"Where's...Slender?" Eyeless Jack wondered.
Kate lowered her head.
"Don't know," she grumbled, "don't care."
"Well then...what are you doing here?" E.J. replied.
"R-Ran away," Kate growled, "had to...quit."
Not really the answer E.J. had expected.
"Quit?" he inquired, "Quit what?"
"Quit...Slender," the Chaser huffed, "He beats, always, I hate! Hate!"
So, by what Eyeless Jack gathered by her broken speech, this proxy did not want to work for Slender Man anymore? If that was true, then Slender was another proxy down, because less than a year ago, the Pasta Gang took in Masky and Hoodie, two other proxies, after they chose to abandon Slender Man and work for themselves. Based on personal experiences of the Pasta Gang's and statements from the ex-Slender minions, Slender Man was known around the Pastaverse for being abusive to those in his power. Which, explained why the proxies wore long clothing and masks so often.
"So...Slender Man hurts you?" Eyeless Jack inquired, wanting to make sure he got it right.
Kate moaned sadly and nodded.
E.J. pitied the Chaser, as the state of a Slender proxy was a rather tragic one; once a human went full proxy, their former life left behind, there was no going back. However, while the proxies still retained the powers and appearance they took in their transformation, if they could find the will, they could withdraw from their horrid master. However, the desertion was not without consequences, which meant that if a proxy wanted to quit they had to keep their distance from Slender Man as much as possible. Lest the monster decides to take revenge.
The eyeless one thought about it for a moment.
"Why don't you come with me?" he offered.
Kate looked up from the ground.
"My friends and I live not too far from here," Eyeless Jack informed, "and there's other proxies that left Slender there as well."
The information seemed to intrigue the Chaser.
"So...you wanna?" E.J. asked.
Kate took a moment to think, then finally nodded.
"Great," Eyeless Jack said, "but, we better move fast, because you never know when or if you-know-who might show up."
Kate followed as E.J. quickly led her toward the edge of the forest, where the Pasta Gang lived.
Oh boy, I don't have high hopes for this, this Creepypasta biz seems to be a bit of a gray area for me, regardless of what's considered canon or not, it does not really matter to me. All though I don't always stick to canon in a lot of fics I write, regardless, there will be a lot of inaccuracies with certain characters, especially Masky and Hoodie since I've never seen that Marble Hornets stuff and I'm not sure if I want to, I looked it up, but it confused me.
Also, in a lot of Pasta fan fics I've read, all the Pasta Monsters seem to be allies or work together a lot, but in pasta fic arcs, that's not the case. In my pasta fan fics, Zalgo is like a king/god to the "Pastaverse" who sets all the rules and watches over all the pasta monsters, Slender Man is the enemy who antagonizes the Pasta Gang, the Rake is kind of a neutral, but can be used by anyone who can overpower him, Laughing Jack will a be a neutral who pesters bother the antagonists and protagonists.
In a nutshell, it'll just incredibly weird.
