I had gotten done playing Slender: The Eight Pages and got this idea while trying to calm myself down before I finally went to bed. After growing on it and finally getting it to where I like I wrote it down. Enjoy

Alice followed her younger sister, Amy, through the forest at around ten o'clock. She couldn't shake off all the stories she had heard about this place, all the children missing and never seen again. The only reason she was here was because Amy had taken a bet for twenty dollars that she could go into the slender forest and come back out again and Alice wasn't about to let her sister go in alone.

There were many legends and tales about the Slender Man. People said that he had razor sharp teeth longer than kitchen knives, his hands were swords, he was always wet with saliva, and he smelled more rotten then meat when you forgot to put it in the fridge. Alice wasn't always sure these stories were true, no one had seen the Slender Man and lived to tell the tale, but the still sent chills up her spine now and again.

But in every different version that Alice had heard in the life she had lived in Carlon one thing stayed true to each one: he only ate children. People thirteen and over had always come out without even so much as a glance at the monster inside the woods, but every child twelve and under was never heard from again. It gave her the chills worse than anything she had ever heard before. There was something about children going missing that gave her the creeps.

Perhaps that's why she had followed her sister into the forest, she had just turned fourteen and her sister was only ten. So maybe she hoped that because she had come along they wouldn't see the Slender Man, but as they crept deeper into the forest she started to feel that she was wrong, so very very wrong. Amy held the flashlight and shown it around the forest, her hands steadily pointing it to-and-fro. Amy was much braver then Alice and much more adventurous, even when she was just a toddler. Alice could remember seeing her sister climbing tall trees just to show off to some of the boys. Her sister was brave indeed.

"Come on, Amy, we've been in here for five minutes now, isn't that long enough? We should head back," Alice whispered, stepping a bit closer to her sister as they walked. Amy shook her head with a soft sigh.

"Five minutes, really? I want to be here longer than that, otherwise they wont give us anything," Amy argued in a very matter-of-fact fashion as they continued on through the forest, getting farther and farther away from the town and deeper into the forest. Alice found herself getting closer to her sister, shaking like crazy as they came to a gate. The fence it attached to went so far off that it was unseeable by the flashlight.

"Come on, we have to go," Alice said, tugging on her little sister's arm. Amy yanked it away and gave a mischievous smile before gently pushing the gate open and walking through. "Amy!" Alice was careful to keep her voice down as she walked slowly after her. "I don't like it here, we need to head back." Amy stopped walking and turned to look at Alice, shining the light on her so that they could clearly seen one another. Amy's black hair hung over her shoulders like a shadow and her blue eyes had the light bouncing off them so that they seemed to glow, she looked so much like their father, unlike Alice who had red hair and green eyes like their mother. Sometimes people didn't believe they were sisters.

"You're kidding, right? I'm not passing this up. Come on, don't you want to see him?" Amy said, talking about the creature like it was a little lost puppy she found lost on the street. She turned back around and kept walking. Alice trotted after her.

"No, I don't want to see him! I don't even want to be here," Alice said, trying her best not to yell at her sister.

"Then why did you come do-do?" Amy said as she headed towards an abandoned truck. Alice groaned and jogged after her sister. She knew that she wasn't going to convince her to leave unless she forced her too and knowing her sister she was probably going to get a few bruises along the way. Alice started to mumbling complaints to herself as they continued on, she only stopped when she bumped into Amy.

"Hey, what did you stop for?" Alice looked up and froze, her entire body going dead cold. There before her stood the tallest thing she had ever seen, it must have been well over seven feet, maybe even eight. And against what everyone else said he didn't have razor sharp teeth, sword hands, he was perfectly dry, and she was pretty sure he didn't smell like rotten flesh. In fact, she didn't really smell anything at the moment. There was a low hiss and Alice yanked on Amy's arm. "Run!" Amy turned around and ran right behind her sister, both straining their legs faster.

The reached the gate and both yanked on it, but no matter how much they pushed or pulled the gate that had been their way in wouldn't even budge. They looked at each other, both scared to death and neither one spoke, both knowing how sorry each other were. There was another hiss and they're heads bolted to look at the noise, only to see the tall, lanky figure standing a good many feet away, but still in sight. They both bolted again as fast as they could, the flashlight bouncing around in Amy's hand.

"Turn it off," Alice ordered. Amy looked up at her older sister with a look of horror covering her face. "Shut it off! He's probably following the light!" Alice yanked the light out of Amy's hands and shut it off. She grabbed her sister's hand and they kept on running through the forest, jumping away from trees that they couldn't see until they had nearly run into them. Alice tripped onto the ground with a loud grunt and stood up, searching for her sister's hand. "Amy? Amy where are you?"

"Here," Amy said and Alice reached out in that direction. Alice tensed at the feeling, confused. Amy's hands were ice cold and held her hand more firmly than she usually did. Without really thinking about it Alice had turned on the flashlight and aimed it in front of her. Across from her Amy was holding another hand and they stared at each other a short moment before slowly looking up to see a faceless figure looking down at them. Both girls shrieked and bolted away, Alice turning off the light once she had found Amy's hand, which was warm and surprisingly had a stronger grip than the Slender Man.

"There has to be a away out of here," Alice said, more to herself than to Amy, who seemed to be struggling to keep up with her sister. There was a loud noise and a wind make Alice's hair go in her face, once she had used her one hand to brush it out she realized that she was no longer holding Amy's hand. "Amy? Amy! Amy, where are you?!" Alice turned the flash light on and aimed it everywhere, trying to find her beloved younger sister. Then she heard a scream.

"Alice!" Without thought Alice bolted towards the noise, flashlight on as she ran faster than she ever had before, so fast that her legs felt like they might fall apart and she'd collapse. "Alice! Help me!" Alice found it in her to will her legs even faster. She wanted to tell Amy that she was on her way but she feared that the Slender Man would hear her and would flee with her sister. The light shown on the Slender Man and she saw him holding Amy high above the ground with tentacles that grew from his back.

"Amy!" Alice screamed as he neared them. The Slender Man looked over as Alice ran over and grabbed onto her sisters hand. With a powerful yank of both arms Alice pulled Amy down to the ground and held her behind her, holding both of her hands as she glared at the monster before her. He stepped closer and she flinched, but did not flee. She stared up at his blank, white face with fear in her eyes but also determination. The Slender Man took another step towards them and Alice panicked. "No, wait!" He stopped and his head tilted, as though he was listening. "If you let my sister go..." Alice thought a moment, her shoulder's sagged and her head hung. "I'll stay here, forever, until the day I die. Just please, let her go."

Amy moved as if she was about to question this but said not a word as Slender Man's head tilted back upright and it looked into the distance, as if mulling the thought over. Alice didn't know what this creature would do with her during her stay, make her a slave perhaps? But the thought of her sister dying at such a young age was more terrifying than whatever it could throw at her. With this concluded in her mind, Alice stood a little taller. The Slender Man's head twisted back towards her and he nodded slowly. He pointed in a direction then disappeared.

"Alice, what are you doing? You can't stay here forever!" Amy complained in a worried tone as Alice led her in the direction the Slender Man had pointed. "What will I tell the others? I'm never going to see you again! Please, don't do it! No! Let go, I'm not going and you can't make me!" Amy pulled on Alice's grip as she was dragged through the trees, but Alice's grip was too strong. Finally after what seemed like decades Amy stood in front of the gate they had entered through, with a snap of Slender Man's fingers it opened. "No, no! I'm not leaving without you! No!" Alice knelt down in front of her sister.

"Hey, Amy, look at me. Come on, look at me," Alice said in a calm tone. Slowly Amy looked up at her big sister. "I'll be fine, ok? He only eats children, remember? And I'm a teenager now, I'll be all right, ok? And besides, you're fine all on your own." Amy's eyes were filled with liquid and she hugged her sister tight.

"But I don't want to be on my own, I want to be with you," Amy said, obviously holding back tears. Alice hugged her sister tightly and glanced up at the Slender Man, happy to see that he did not seem to mind their drawn-out farewell. He simply looked around him as if trying to give them a bit of privacy. Alice looked back at her sister and settled her hands on both her shoulders.

"Take care of Sam for me, ok?" Amy nodded and Alice kissed her forehead. "Now go, and don't worry about me." Amy nodded and Alice handed her the flashlight. "You need to find your way home, I'll be fine without it." Amy walked through the gate and it shut. Alice knelt down and their fingers entangled through the gate, the eldest sister smiled in encouragement. "Try not to trip and fall, ok? And pay attention in school, you're smart and you know it. And never come back here." Amy nodded once more.

"Goodbye," she murmured and Alice nodded, holding the smile on her face. Amy glanced up at the Slender Man and shakingly gave a glare. "Don't you dare hurt my sister, if I hear her scream I'm coming after you." Amy looked back at Alice, forcefully removed her hand from the gate and fled towards their hometown. Alice stood kneeling in front of the gate, tears welling up in her eyes as the flashlight faded in the distance until it was only a small dot amongst the trees. And when finally the flashlight faded out of sight Alice fell onto the palms of both her hands and cried.

She expected the Slender Man to attack her, drag her away to a hidden place, or maybe even slit her throat because she wasn't all that worth it. But instead there was a small whoosh of wind and he was gone, leaving her to cry over her predicament. In one evening she had nearly lost her one and only sister, given up her life to a monster in the woods, and now she could never see her sister ever again. But even as she cried Alice couldn't help but wonder why he agreed and why he had allowed them to say goodbye. He was a monster wasn't he? That meant he was the bad guy, right?

Right...?

And that's the first chapter. I've been working on this inside my head for a while now (ok, ok, about two weeks) and I love it. I hope you do too.

Thanks for reading, please review, have a bow chicka bow wow day, and may it be the best day ever, of all time.