Chapter 2: Finding Stephano
~Pewdie's POV~
A throbbing, ache radiated through my head as I tried to force my heavy eyelids open. My cheek felt like it was pressed against a smooth square of concrete but…rougher of sorts. I heard a loud growl and cracked my eyes open just a little to see a Bro approaching from across a dark hallway, flanked by maroon curtains from the ceiling.
There is no 'you must carry on',
Mine and Cry's voice echoed in my head as I remembered the threat from the opening story. I sat up quickly and tried to back away down the hall but my head was still throbbing and I was still fighting to keep my eyes open so I fell back onto my butt as it came into striking distance.
Than a man wearing a green sweater and black jeans flew into my line of sight and kicked the Bro in the face; while a female voice from behind shouted, "Chair-mode activated; bitch!"
I lifted my heavy head a little when I heard a loud ruckus from the monster before he fell quiet and two blurry people neared me as I slipped away again.
"What do we do? The trip really took it out of him?!" the female panicked.
"You go get my hat I'll try to help him, we really need to find some Laudanum to help him…or Sanity Potion. SOMETHING…!" the male shouted as the females footsteps left him.
I felt a soft, warm hand on my forehead then the other lift my head a little bit; my eyes were so heavy I couldn't keep them open anymore. My head was splitting…so much pain, it was killer. "Don't worry Pewdie, we're gonna help you."
I was lifted up and later set down on something soft and velvety. It was soft and warm wherever I'd been moved from; I finally drifted off again hearing the woman and man's voice in a comical manner.
"I think he's about to pass out again?" the woman started.
The man comically answered her. "Whoop, there he goes again."
~Cry's POV~
A loud crashing had me sitting up, right away. My eyes were wide and it seems I had normal vision but I could feel my mask was on. I didn't bother to remove it-out of habit-and looked to the expensive looking mahogany door. It lurched with a loud growl from behind it.
I hopped up off the bed and opened up the closet, threw out the boxes and hid inside just as the door burst open. I waited for the growling to go away when I heard breathing behind me. It was hot and snaked its way over my neck, I thought I was gonna scream when I calmly placed a hand over my mouth to calm myself and remain silent. The doors suddenly burst open and the Bro froze before, vanishing in a puff of smoke but not before I let out a loud scream which morphed from fear to being royally pissed off then right back to fear.
"AHHHHHHH; FUCKING POOFERS…! Aahhhh…!" I turned and raised my fist for a punch.
"WHOA chill bro!" the short man yelped raising his arms to protect himself.
My arm froze and I panted and stepped away from him; lowering my arm. He was rather short, wore a pink t-shirt and jeans with the shirt tucked in, brown shoes and…what the fuck is on his head? My eyes stayed on what appeared to be pink pig ears on his head sticking out of the pinkish blond hair.
"Jeez, hit first ask questions later much?" the man put his hands on his hips and gave me the stink eye.
I dropped my shoulders and grumbled a little. "Well it would help if you didn't breathe down my neck like the rapist you are. I assume you're Piggeh?" I pointed at him.
"Why does everyone pretend they don't enjoy that?" the man entered my space bubble and rubbed his back up against me. I stepped away as he straightened up again and smiled; completely unfazed. "And yes, I'm Piggeh. How'd you get that so fast?"
"Amnesia is more Pewdie's thing so thanks to him every time I see a pig, a statue or a chair I think Piggeh, Stephano and Mr. Chair." I put my hands on my hips and looked around.
"I must be dreaming, right?" I immediately felt a pinch on my arm. "OW…!" I turned to see Piggeh with a smug look on his face and his fingers ready for another one.
"Need anything else, just say so. You're really here though, but how are you here and who the hell are you because I don't think Pewdie's ever mentioned you?" He crossed his arms and stuck out his right hip with attitude.
"My name is Ryan but everyone calls me Cry. Pewdie and I were chatting on Skype and our computers had a glitch then put us into a custom story on Amnesia. When we read it we thought it was just a fan-made custom story. We didn't take it seriously but then everything went black and I woke up with a Bro trying to kill me." Piggeh nodded his head and thought about it.
"If you're here, Pewdie might be too! We should try to find him; really he's probably in trouble here already. I'm just guessing but the trip from your world to here probably took a lot out of him what with him being him and all that." Piggeh scoffed a little but then looked at me with a scrutinizing gaze. "Are you feeling ok, by the way?"
"I have a bit of a head ache but I don't really feel anything. Do you think Pewdie could be hurt?"
I really was worried about him, I've seen scared Pewdie, I've seen annoyed as hell Pewdie, I've seen silly Pewdie and I've seen sleepy Pewdie but I've never seen hurt Pewdie and I NEVER want to see DEAD PEWDIE!
"Probably but I think we should find Mr. Chair instead. Of all the things we can do while waiting for Pewdie to play Amnesia again, he chooses to read…so we could ask him…or Stephano, he does his share of reading too." Piggeh chuckled.
"Well then let's look." I was about to search for a lantern when curiosity won its battle. "Out of curiosity; do you read at all?"
"Sure, fan-fiction about you and Pewdie and whatnot." He smiled slyly then looked down at my crotch. "Is it really as big as they say it is?" I covered myself and shoved past him to find a lantern.
I heard him purr behind me. "Mhmm, he likes it rough."
I really needed to find Pewdie…or anyone else for that matter!
~Pewdie's POV~
When I opened my eyes next I saw a really lovely girl sitting beside me, rubbing my forehead and setting down a skinny bottle on a bedside table. I heard the clap of a Tinderbox and turned my head to see the man from before lighting candles in the room. I turned back to the woman and she smiled before leaning down to kiss my forehead then lifted her head and called to the man.
"I think it is working, he's waking up." She looked down at me with loving eyes.
The man walked into view and smiled at me. My vision was still a little blurry around the edges but I could see them both clearly now. "You really scared us before but good to see what one bottle of Laudanum can do for you."
The man was very handsome and thin, his green sweater was a cozy deep green and the black jeans were cut along his left thigh and dirty, with matching black converse (the real ones, not knock-offs). His hair was brown and shaggy but hung down over his forehead attractively. His eyes were a bronze color and his skin was a light tan. He also sported a nice green hat, almost like a buree'.
The woman was pretty with a round face and darker skin with silvery grey eyes. Her hair was long and black-grey in a braid over her bare shoulder. She had a light blush on her cheeks and she wore a strapless black dress with a short Lolita skirt plume, black fingerless gloves and black leggings and dirty black boots with puffballs hanging on them, but one was missing on her left foot.
"Who are you two?" I asked trying to sit up, not wanting to bring back that headache.
The woman brought a hand up to her mouth and looked like she was about to cry but the man put a hand on her shoulder and cast her a soothing glance. "Don't worry Jen; he doesn't recognize us because he knows us as a rock and a piece of living room furniture."
My eyes grew wide and a big smile grew on my face when I hopped out of bed, startling them both to back up. "I know you-! Ow, ouch…" I fell to my knees as that head ache throbbed in the back of my head.
The woman rushed over to me and knelt at my side. "Don't push yourself to hard Pewdie; we don't want you to hurt yourself. We already used the only bottle of Laudanum we found."
Her voice was soft and sweet; I looked up at her then noticed the pink bow and the end of her braid, I smiled at her. "Jennifer…?"
She smiled and hugged me warmly then I pointed at the man who stood close by. "Mr. Chair…?"
He nodded and froze when he looked up at the ceiling. "You didn't come here alone, there's another man here too…" he face palmed himself. "Good God, he's found Piggeh."
"Oh dear, I hope he doesn't get himself hurt. He can be so impulsive." Jennifer put a hand on her hip, still crouched beside me.
"Who; the man upstairs…?" I asked weakly.
"Piggeh," they both answered. Mr. Chair continued. "Whenever you're not here, he goes on some sort of horny rampage…"
"He doesn't hurt anyone but he can be very inappropriate. Like last year after you did your Christmas Special he found Mr. Chair and-"
"DON'T TELL HIM THAT!" Mr. Chair cut her off with a yelp and a bright blush on his face.
I smiled at them then realized that there was something off. "Why are you guy's people and not a rock and a chair?"
"Well…we don't really know but…" Jennifer looked to Mr. Chair to finish.
"If anyone knows about this sort of thing it would be Stephano. He goes everywhere with you, and he's at almost all of the work desks. Maybe he knows what happened; of course we'd need to find him first. But if he's like us than that won't be as easy as walking into a room and finding him on a desk."
"Why not…?" I asked.
Jennifer explained that time. "Now that we're people he's probably searching the castle to rid it of as many Bro's as possible. To make it easier for you when you come to play in the custom maps again."
I tried to stand but I couldn't do that with a throbbing in the back of my head, it was painful and I could hardly move, much less run around looking for Stephano.
Jennifer fawned over me and rubbed my hair. "We need to find more Laudanum to help him,"
"No it's Sanity Potion we need now. The Laudanum healed him physically but we need Sanity Potion to heal his mental state, we don't need a crazy Pewdie running around behind us, causing all sorts of noise."
"I take offense to that, since I'm already a little crazy." I said meekly.
"Jennifer you stay here and watch Pewdie, I'm gonna look for Sanity Potion." He stood up and headed for the door that was blocked up with more Mr. Chairs.
"I'll protect him with my life." She promised.
"Pardon me brothers," Mr. Chair joked as he removed the chairs and exited the room.
Jennifer shut the door behind him and returned to help me onto the bed again. She then chose to search the room for something that could help when I noticed a crappy painting on the wall.
"Jennifer, can you take that painting down?"
She walked over to it and removed the framing to reveal a secret compartment and found a lantern, oil and Laudanum. She gasped in joy and I smiled.
"I'm so smart, genius Pewdie!" I thought to myself.
Jennifer picked up the lantern and oil but put the Laudanum in a pocket of her puffy skirt. She prepared the lantern when a sound at the door made her gaze snap from that to the door which then banged with a loud growl behind it. She put down the lantern and oil and stood between me and the door.
"Jennifer, we need to hide…somewhere…" I trailed off as I looked around the room…there was nowhere to hide really. She took a determined stance and spoke sweetly over her shoulder.
"Don't worry about me Pewdie, while we're waiting for you to play with us we have to protect ourselves from the Bro's too. We're not helpless you know." She smiled at me and then turned her eyes back to the door. Her soft eyes turned into a glare as the door began to crack and bust.
Her hands balled into fists and she let out a long sigh then the door burst open and the Bro ran right at her.
"JENNIFER…!" I screamed when she jumped up and kicked the Bro back.
"HOLY CRAP…she's a fricken bad ass!" I thought.
The Bro ran back in and almost hit Jennifer but she dodged and kneed it hard in the abdomen then clutched its shoulders and pushed it into the wall, trying to force it out into the halls.
"I have to get this thing out of here. The more he stares at it the more his Sanity will go down." She thought.
"Don't look at it Pewdie, close your eyes!" she screamed over her shoulder, holding back the Bro.
I shut my eyes but the throbbing head ache had already worsened. My head was splitting worse than before like someone was kicking me in the head repeatedly; the pain coming in waves.
~Ryan's POV~
A loud growl from below made me jump and I heard a crashing sound then Pewdie's voice. "JENNIFER…!"
I was immediately alert and turned on Piggeh. "How do we get downstairs?"
"You gotta find the key to the door that leads to the stairwell. From there just follow the ruckus." Piggeh was serious at last and I wished he'd stay this way.
I frantically searched the rooms to find the key and eventually came upon a room with a suit of knight armor in it. I saw a compartment behind him and went to get it but Piggeh stopped me.
"What are you doing? There's an open spot behind it, I'll bet that's where the key is." I tried to reason but he wouldn't let go of me.
"No, you sort of need Pewdie or Stephano for this part." He cowered, not taking his eyes off that suit of armor.
"Why do I need them?" I was really annoyed now.
"You have to un-trust it before you can approach and it won't kill you." He pointed at its head.
"Un-trust…?" That made almost no sense but Pewdie had mentioned it before…I knew I should have watched more of his Amnesia videos.
"Throw the head off…the Knights fear Pewdie and Stephano because they don't fear the Knights or the Barrels." He hid behind me a little.
"But Pewdie's downstairs so what are we supposed to-"I stopped and screamed as the Knight started walking towards us.
Piggeh and I ran but once we hit the corridors, all the doors were shut and locked.
"Damn it! What happened to the doors?" I yelled as we ran to the far end of the hall.
"The doors lock themselves, there must be Barrels nearby. That usually happens when Pewdie tries to run from the Bro's."
We got to the door but it was locked, the text on the door said 'Down Stairs Walkway'. I turned to see the Knight approaching us and Piggeh held me tight against him as I contemplated what to do.
"It was a privilege to know you, friend of Pewdie. I'll re-spawn elsewhere but you're fucked Bro!" He shouted.
He's right though; once this Knight gets me, I'm as good as dead!
~Pewdie's POV~
Jennifer was thrown over me and hit the wall with a hard thud and she slid to the floor; gasping for air.
She was bruised and the Bro had even cut her in a few spots and on her left cheek too…then he came for me. I managed to avoid the first shot which stabbed into the bed, ripping apart the fabric and mattress. I threw myself off the bed and hit the floor then turned to look at the Bro struggle.
I crawled backwards till my back hit the wall and the throbbing head ache spread all over my body once more. It left me too weak to move again…I watched the Bro free his claw; ripping out fluff from the blanket. He turned and approached to finish me off.
Jennifer got her breath back at the last moment to see it raise its claw before me.
"PEWDIE NO…!" she shrieked, jumping up but she wouldn't make it.
I shut my eyes; I didn't want to see it kill me then Jennifer while I died slowly. This didn't seem so hard in the game…I owe Daniel in the other custom stories an apology for pushing him so hard.
A loud clang and a slashing, squishing sound followed by what sounded like a gushing of some kind and a thump made me open my eyes. A man stood before me holding a sword over the tarnished Bro that now laid in pieces on the floor; silently daring it to try and rise again.
I looked at Jennifer who had tears in her eyes as she looked at this man. She put a hand up to cover her smile then dropped to her knees beside the bed and cried. I looked up and the man looked over his shoulder at me.
Egyptian attire with a sword but his voice was thick with a sexy French accent when he spoke.
"Allos Pewdie,"