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There was the sound of ripping, all of it too fast for me to recognise. I took a step back from instinct, not realising that it had just saved my life. There was a black cutlass throw Climber, the sharp tip almost cutting throw me if I hadn't move back. I gasped at my near death experience, tumbling over my own feet.

Karl looked round from Climber and smiled at me creepily. "Deary me! I underestimated you" he said, taking the sword out from Climber's torso. "I'd thought you'd be a more easy thing to catch" Karl lunged again and I clenched my eyes shut, too scared to move. That's when I heard the sound of metal upon metal.

I opened my eyes slowly to see Climber blocking Karl's attack with his pickaxe metres away from my face.

"Go!" he yelled to me. "I'll hold him off" I still couldn't move. I was staring at Karl's blade, slowly crawling back.

"GO!" Climber yelled. I got up and ran into the shadows.

I lent on a fence far away from Karl and Climber fighting. If I listened hard enough I could hear them. The fence was a great comfort for me to get my breath back. Adrenaline was pumping through my blood but I was slowly getting tired. My legs ached and shaked under my weight, making me wonder if I would collapse. But I kept breathing. I'm sure Tara was doing alright, not letting herself lose.

I leant my weight on the fence, my breathing slowly slowing down. I closed my eyes and that was the worst mistake I did that day despite breaking ways with Tara. A hand clasped around my mouth and chest, pulling me into someone. The hold was so strong that my chin started to hurt and it felt like it was putting pressure onto my skull. Then I was dragged back. I never realised how close to the house I was until then.

I tried to pull the hands off me but their grip was like vise. The right hand was scraping against my cheek from where the paint had worn away, making me realise that Karl was the one who was dragging me. I looked up, briefly seeing his sticking out fringe and that grin. Arma was circling in the sky, probably guiding Karl back to my house. I couldn't believe I've let them win. What use was I now? I can't fight Karl off with his strength and even if I did escape, he'd only drag me back or kill me faster.

I fought Karl has hard as I could but to no avail. I recognised the gravel under our feet to be my driveway and began to panic. The door to the house was still open and I was dragged through. My vision was blurred from the tears that threatened to fall and before I realised it, I was thrown against a chair in my living room. My hands went to protect my head but someone grabbed them and pinned them against the arms of the chair. The same person was breathing on me. Their breath was cold and smelt rotten. Curiosity got the better of me and I slowly opened my eyes. At who I saw made me unable to close them again. My eyes locked into the cold black eyes of Jeff the Killer. His mouth pressed into a open smile and the Glasgow grin helped to add fear into me. The worst part was he was leaning into my face.

I began to tremble from fear and I'm sure Jeff could feel it because he let out a eerie chuckle. Thought, he still didn't say anything. I was slightly glad. I would probably scream once he did. But there was one question I still had. Why was I still alive? Shouldn't at least one of them have stabbed me by now?

"Now,-"

When I realise who just 'spoke', I let out a scream that Jeff covered with his hand, having to move my arms above the sofa chair and pin them there together instead. But I was still

staring at the tall monster who had to hunch his back from his head touching the ceiling. How could he even speak? Was he even speaking?

Jeff dug his fingernail into my cheek, probably forcing me to concentrate on something other than staring. My eyes darted back at him, diluting at the sight. He took the hint that I was near enough concentrating and Slenderman continued.

"Don't be afraid, child"

Somehow, that made me panic even more. How could you be calm in this situation? A monster with no face was somehow talking to me. I felt myself begin to shake again.

"You're going to help us" Jeff said, hearing his voice for the first time. It suited him so well.

I frowned instead of even trying to speak. Even if I did, Jeff would have probably cut me off.

"As you can guess, we're not meant to be here" Karl said, taking a seat the other end of the room where another sofa was placed.

"If we stay here too long, something catastrophic will happen" Slenderman continued. Jeff must have felt me relax a bit because he moved both my arms back to pin them either side of me, leaving my mouth free to speak.

"B-but don't you want the Earth to suffer? I mean, you stalk and eat little kids. Aren't you happy here will all the children you can get? Karl, Jeff and Black ace have a endless number of humans to kill. Why do I need to help you?" I asked Slenderman shakily. He leant down into my face, making me jerk my head back instantly. "Listen closely, child" he said, as if I had annoyed him.

"The more time we waste, the more characters that will zip into your world and become noticed by others. We are not meant to mix with humanity"

I relaxed my head slightly. "Y-you mean t-there's more?" I asked. Slenderman nodded. "Every fictional character ever created are breaking through into your world" he said.

"Why are you telling me this? How am I suppose to help?" I asked.

"You were the closest in the area"

"But I can't help you. I don't what you want me to-"

"You don't have a choice, child. You either help us or we exterminate you and move on" Slender growled. I inched back slightly from fear. "...Okay... but-"

"We shall talk about this later. Right now we need to find out who else are-" before he could finish, the front door burst opened and a figure shot past the front room doorway. Jeff released his hold on me and I jumped up to see who just shot through.

There was the sound of machinery moving as I peek through. Someone rustled around in the kitchen. Suddenly a long black flesh hook shot by me and grabbed that someone in the kitchen, dragging them back outside.

"Weeeeeeee!" yelled a generally excited voice as they flung their arms around erratically. But I knew that voice.

"Tara?!" I yelled, running into the hall and outside. Surprising everybody followed. Tara turned to the sound of her name. "Sophie?! You're alive?!" She yelled. She was hanging upside down with one of Black Ace's flesh hooks clamped onto her ankle. "And there's bad people behind you by the way" I looked behind me at Slenderman, Jeff and Karl. Shaking my head I turned back to her. "They're with us. Are you ok?" I asked her.

"I'm hanging upside down with a hook thing in my ankle by a psychotic robot! I'm having the time of my life" she said. I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or if she ment it.

I held a fist on my chest. "Someone help her, please?" I asked. Karl let go of Arma who flow to Tara, vanishing in the dark. I heard Slenderman sigh and then suddenly appearing just below Tara, his black tendrils reaching out to her as Arma forced the fleshhook to drop Tara. He appeared in front of me again,with Tara wrapped in his tendrils , almost choking her.

"She is a spare" he told me, tightening his grip. "You are the only one we need"

"Then kill me as well if you kill Tara, the deals off" I didn't feel that all confident as I threatened him. I was never really that good. But he must of got what I was implying because he set Tara down.

Tara walked towards me. "Sophie...why are there characters trying to kill us?..." she asked. I gave her a weak smile. "They need our help" I answered. "Joy" Tara said.

"Know what I've noticed?" she asked.

"Tara, I think you have concussion"

"Probably, but all of them look life like. Have you realised that?"

"You sound high. What were you doing before you got caught?" I asked her jokily, guiding her into the house. "Running for my life, that's what. But seriously, look at them. Karl looks human despite that scar and his off grey colour, he look like a life like statue. Slendy looks like a really tall faceless monster-" by then I had stopped listening to her. I looked around at the characters, realising what she meant. They all looked real. Not cartoony. Real.

I looked at Black ace, then at Jeff. They both looked slightly different. Black ace seemed shiner with his metal parts and that grin on his face seemed to shine itself. Jeff's eyes seemed black around the edges where he had cut off his eyelids but it didn't seem worse than applying a large amount of eyeliner. His black hair was longer and his white skin was a light grey if someone were to look close enough. I shook my thoughts out just as Black ace leant down into my face. "It's impolite to stare, little girl" he said.

I inched away from him, turning my head to Slenderman. "He's with you guys as well?..." I asked. Jeff nodded. "Yeah, the tin heads with us as well" he said, one of his hand in his hoodie pocket. The air shifted suddenly, causing my hair to drift with the current. When I cleared the hair from my eyes I heard a squeal and Jeff crouching down. Close to his head was Black ace's sword, stuck in the wall of my house.

"Are you sure?" I asked Jeff.

Jeff lunged off and hid behind me. I watched as Black ace turned to me, wincing as he brought the sword up to his face. His face was always unreadable, always making it hard to guess his next move. Before he tried anything, I spoke first.

"I'm sorry for anything me or Jeff might have done to upset you" I glanced at Tara, leaning on the wall. "And Tara" I added. "But if I'm going to help all of you, all of you have to get on... and no killing each other..." My words were shaking and I'm sure my threat wasn't going to sound threatening. I didn't even give them a chance to respond. I just turned my back and walked to Tara, wrapping my arm round her shoulder and supporting her bad leg, helping her into the house.

"Smooth, Sophie"

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A/N I'm sorry about making everyone wait so long ^_^' but thank you for all the support about this fan fiction :D you guys are awesome.

The character during this chapter are going to be a little OOC and probably during future chapters. Where there is more than one, I find it harder for some reason ^-^' but I hope to improve

Tara asked herself to be dragged along my house by Black ace XD

All characters belong to their original owners. Sorry about the spelling mistakes