Heyyyyy… It's been a year since I've done another story, sorry about that XP There's been a lot of stuff going on, I had a major case of Writer's Block when early November hit that caused me to stop writing for a while last year. I've also been doing more art, working over the summer and my school classes are little more difficult now. But now I've got time to post a new story!
To start off, I just love Night in the Woods! It's such a brilliant and wonderful game that I needed to make a story on (After a year not making any XD) because of it. I didn't know anything about this game until June and July when I started to watch some play troughs and look at some fan art, it was great! :)
I hope to post stories as soon as I can, I just need to find time when to do them but for now, here's the story! Hope you enjoy! ;)
Disclaimer: Night in the Woods belongs to Infinity Fall. And the story takes place a month after the game. This will also be a multi-chapter story.
A soft snore was coming from the bed where a young college dropout slept. She turned around in her sleep and slowly opened her eyes softly and looked out the window with her blurry vision. She was squinting a bit, hoping that this was not another bad nightmare or some weird creature she sees the last second of her dream. Thankfully it wasn't, instead it was something that she been wanting for so long now that is fogging out her window as if someone was breathing from the outside. She then unwrapped the blankets, moving herself over to where her alarm clock was at, it read 7:23 A.M, it wasn't the usual time she woke up, but this was different.
'Yes!' Mae Borowski excitedly thought as she got up from her bed and smiled happily as she looked out of the window of her room, she saw the entire part of her street in the neighborhood of Possum Springs covered in a thick layer of pearly white snow. She smiled happily once more before she then jump up from her bed, not bothering to grabbing her black boots like she usually does.
To see the entire street full of snow made her a fully charged energy battery, this is one of the only times that she would get up early for was when she saw the snowflakes dropping from the sky like little flakes of powdered sugar from the Slammercakes she gets at the Donut Wolf. The sky had a very cool shade of blue that soaked the sky for her favorite season. Winter was beginning to set in and it was the beginning of December. Even though it began to snow in November, December was where it was at with the snow.
She ran down stairs softly as she opened the front door of her house and walked alongside her porch and took in a deep and long breath and inhaled the wonderful fresh scent of the winter snow and beautiful waves of wind blowing on top of her 3 small spikes of red tinted fur on her head. She then exhaled softly and then walked over and relaxed by a nearby patch of snow by her porch and leaned by her house.
Mae began to remember about what happened to her and her friends about a month ago, she came back to Possum Springs after dropping out of college and felt herself at home once again and began to hang out with her friends; Gregg, Bea and Angus again, things were looking great for her when she did come back.
All of the sudden, problems began to appear again, however, she began to have dreams and nightmares and headaches and tiredness that she had received which leaded to a supposedly "ghost hunt" she was expecting to a horrific encounter with a Murder Cult. The Cult were these people who had been killing off so many of innocent lives by throwing them down a hole which feeds a certain monster that helps keep that town running. Mae didn't want to think about it what so ever at all but she could still remember when the Cult told them that they killed Casey, her best friend from her childhood and who everyone thought he ran away and left town by hoping onto a train forever but he didn't, instead he was dead in a hole of a collapsed mine by a murderous Cult who saw him as no usefulness to the town, saw him as nothing.
After learning the truth of what happened and who they were, her and her friends were free to leave afterwards, but one of the Cult members, named Eide, the so called 'ghost' Mae was after, also thinking that he was in her dreams; he tried to kill her while they were getting out of an elevator which soon was brought down by the avalanche of rocks that caused Eide to lose his arm in the process trying to get her, it then leaded Mae to preventing to lose herself as well. All Mae could think was thank god that they didn't get killed that night.
They soon escaped the mine and there friend Germ was there, supposedly that was his backyard. Mae asked him if he had anyway to block it and he told her that he had some dynamite to blow it up. That may have been strange to her and her friends but they didn't care, they did not want to see such murderous people like the Cult was ever again that night.
She felt herself sigh sadly trying to get the terrible and just painful memory from her head but it stayed stuck for a minute until she heard a soft thumping sound coming from behind her which broke her thoughts, it was her mom, Candy.
"Sweetie? What are you doing up so early?'" She said, her mom was wearing a light pink robe and pajama long shirt and pants and slippers, she was yawning softly as she saw her daughter turn around quickly.
"Oh, Hi mom, I'm just foreseeing the winter future that lies ahead!" She said jokingly like she always does when she's talking to anyone, quickly breaking away from being miserable to this attitude.
Candy laughed softly and shook her head before she said "Well, when you are done foreseeing, you need to get back inside, your standing outside in front of snow and your barefooted" she said as Mae looked down and saw her feet in a small sleet of snow that caused her to shiver a bit. Mae soon ran back in and closed the door as she sat down on her couch and began to softly relax as she felt her body temperature come back.
Mae felt herself more comfortable now, the horrific memory was gone from her head and the sight of winter starting to kick in now made her so excited to see how winter is like in Possum Springs. Along with how her friends are going to be doing this winter and how things will go. But she felt herself a little uneased and sadden from trying to remember that terrible memory, causing her mom to notice.
"Mae dear, are you alright? I know that you usually come down stairs to see the first sight of snow but you seem down in the dumps today." Candy said as she sat down beside her daughter to comfort her in case.
Mae then broke from her thoughts as she looked back her mom and said "Yeah, I'm okay mom, just thinking…" She said as she then heard steps from behind her. It was her dad, Stan, he was wearing a blue pajama long shirt and a pair of pajama pants but unlike his wife, he was wasn't wearing a robe or slippers and he had on his usual glasses over his morning eyes.
"What's going on down here this early ladies?" As he came around from behind the sofa and sat on the right of Mae and next to his wife and smiled softly. Mae and her mom turned around to see him right next to them and smiled lightly as Candy said "Nothing honey, just seeing Mae down here excited for winter snow!" She said as she then smiled warmly and gave her husband a quick kiss on the lips and both of them sat down in between where Mae was at.
Mae smirked and scoffed a bit as she saw them kiss and then jumped out from between the space where they were at and giggled as she said "Okay, Well… I'm going to go in the kitchen and get some breakfast" As she ran into the kitchen and grabbed a box of cereal from the cupboard and milk from the fridge and the bowl from the dishes in the cabinet.
She then sat down and began to pour down the contents of the cereal down into the bowl and grabbed the milk and began to pour it in. She grabbed a spoon from the cabinet and dipped it into her bowl as she grabbed a spoonful of the cereal and took a huge bite out of her cereal and crunched away as she went back to thinking about how winter is going to be like in Possum Springs while eating.
Later, she was finished with her cereal and stepped up and grabbed the bowl and drank up the remainder of the milk as walked over to the sink, turning on the water and washing out the bowl and spoon and putting them in the drying rack. She then put away the milk and cereal and walked out of the kitchen. She soon saw her dad walking into the kitchen to make some coffee since he has to go to work soon.
She walked upstairs and began to get herself ready, even though it was early and her friends and everyone else she knew were probably still asleep or at work, it still would be worth a try to check up on them.
She went into her room as she pulled up her Laptop and turned it on. She was right, none of her friends were online or up yet, moving the Pizza icon arrow over the empty inboxes. "Damn, no one up yet?" And she sighed a bit and walked up and grabbed her boots from the floor and slipped them onto her feet. After that, she walked out of her room and went into the bathroom and washed her face to get the remainder of sleep out from her eyes.
Mae then smiled once more as she let out another warm sigh as she looked out the window and said to herself "Well, here we go Mae, let's go show the world your winter self!" And then went by her Laptop and went to see if anyone was up, still nothing.
She grumbled a bit and then closed her Laptop down and walked down the stairs and she opened up the downstairs closet to grab her red scarf and orange snow coat and green beanie and went back to her room. She slipped on her winter gear in a flash and ran back up to her room once again and looked over to her bed and picked up her journal and pen and slipped it into the metal spring of the journal and ran downstairs to the front door.
"Mae Dear!" She was about to step out the door before she heard her mom called out from the kitchen where her dad was at making a batch of coffee in the coffee maker. Mae then walked into the kitchen where she stood by the side of the kitchen counter and waiting for what her mom has to say.
"Honey, are you alright? You're usually not this excited for snowy day" Candy said, noticing that her daughter was eagerly trying to see the snow like when she was younger.
"Mom, I'm fine, really, I just really miss the snow, that's all" Mae said once she zipped up her coat and ready to go. "Okay, just be careful, it's supposed to be really cold today and about a foot of snow on the ground"
"Thank you Mom, I promise I'll be okay, I'm just going to see how my friends and what they're doing" Mae finished before her mom said "Alright dear, I love you!" as she sat down and went back to reading her book she was currently reading.
"You too Mom! And you too Dad!" Mae replied back as Stan looked over and smiled back at his daughter "You too kitten" he replied. She then walked over the door and was ready to see the winter snow again.