Sollux listened as hard as he could. "Did you hear that?" He asked Karkat.
"Hear what?" Karkat replied.
"Just listen." Sollux said, concentrating harder. He heard voices, they were scared. Not like dying scared but, alone scared. He instantly recognized it as Aradia. He darted off into the direction of the voice.
"What the heck are you doing? Get back here!" Karkat screamed while barely being able to keep pace with Sollux. Sollux found Aradia; she was scared to death with a huge bruise on her forehead. She kept on mumbling to herself. "Don't tell me she's insane too!" Karkat screamed.
Sollux slowly walked up to Aradia, who looked up at him. Rusty tears were flowing down her face. Within a second she was up and hugging Sollux. He was surprised by the sudden embrace, but he decided to just hug her back.
"What happened to you?" Sollux asked, breaking the embrace.
Aradia looked straight at Sollux. "That's why I'm so scared, I don't know what happened. I was just walking along when I just blacked out." She was clearly traumatized.
Karkat looked at Aradia; he didn't know why she was so traumatized. Hadn't Sollux gone through the same thing when he wasn't answering his computer? Karkat had seen the hanging head of his friend and wasn't traumatized. "It's probably the answers." He thought to himself. He was right. He had answers, he knew it was all Gamzee, and so did Sollux.
"It was Gamzee, he's flipped." Karkat blurted out. Aradia looked over at Karkat.
"Really, so, he's gone insane?" Aradia asked Karkat. Karkat nodded yes. He looked around at his dark surrounding.
"And this is the perfect place for him to kill us all." Karkat said, freaking out Aradia even more.
"Stop it Karkat, we need Aradia to calm down." Sollux commanded. Karkat shut right up. Karkat continued to look all around while Sollux tried calming down Aradia. She was calming down a little, but was still pretty scared. Once she was stable again she started asking a ton of questions.
"So, who has died?" She asked.
"We found Vriska's head, but other than that no one we know of. Aradia looked down, she hated Vriska, but at the same time she never wanted her to die.
"Why-Why did he go insane?" She asked, trying to stop herself from crying.
"We're not sure really." Sollux replied, now wondering what actually did flip Gamzee's sanity switch. Karkat heard something in the bushes behind him.
"Oh, uh, time to cut it short something's coming." Karkat said, slowly walking to Sollux and Aradia while staring at the bush. Sollux stood up and readied himself. Karkat drew his sickle and both of them stood in front Aradia to protect her from greater trauma. Karkat looked at Sollux and nodded, who nodded back. They knew they were going to die. Gamzee was too powerful for any of them. The rustling started again. A rabbit came out.
"Oh come on!" Karkat screamed putting his sickle down. Sollux stared at the rabbit, he was sure that was Gamzee.
Gamzee swung his club and instantly knocked out Aradia. Sollux heard the crack and spun around. He had barely any time to think before Gamzee had already pounded his club against Sollux's skull. Karkat ran back and spun around. Gamzee was standing over Sollux, ready to swing his bat again and smash Sollux's face in. Karkat noticed that Sollux and Aradia were still breathing.
"Hey stupid clown," He yelled at Gamzee and started flailing around, "Come and get me!" He started jogging back, trying to get Gamzee away from Sollux and Aradia. He threw a rock. It collided with Gamzee in a large thud that flung Gamzee's head back. Slowly, Gamzee brought his head back and started smiling at Karkat.
"Hey, best friend." He said, sneering. Deep purple blood leaked out of where the rock had left a large gash in his forehead. He slowly started walking towards Karkat. "Want to play with me, best bro?"
"Let's Play!" Karkat challenged and instantly sprinted away as fast as he could. He could hear Gamzee behind him, he was faster than Karkat. Karkat knew he was probably dead but he was giving Sollux and Aradia a chance to get the heck off the rock. Karkat looked behind him. Gamzee was gone.
Karkat skidded to a stop. He started frantically looking around. He was in a dark forest. The whole rock was dark anyway. He could barely see 5 feet in front of him. Gamzee could be anywhere. He started walking very slowly. Shadows crept up on him as he would walk past trees. Darkness would laugh as he twitched to see what was behind him. The silence was deadly.
It kept on getting darker and darker. The silence was turning into noise. Noise was everywhere, but it was never actually there. Karkat's eyes shot from side to side, every once in a while he would quickly spin around to the snap of a twig. Gamzee was playing with him. Just like he had promised.
"Hey bro." Karkat spun around at the voice and sliced at what wasn't there. He started running; running from what wasn't there, but also what was there.
"Get away from me!" He pleaded as he sprinted within the trees.
"Ha-ha, why bro, were just playing." The voice seemed to come from everywhere. Karkat screamed. He screamed for someone to save him, and out of pure terror. Honks started coming from everywhere. Karkat had no idea where he was running. Really he didn't even care; as long as it was away from Gamzee. He ran into an area that was surrounded by rocks.
"Oh no." He said looking around. There was no exits but one, and Gamzee was no doubt coming from that direction.
Karkat nervously backed up to the large rock, holding his sickle out. Terror spread through him as he thought of everything that had happened today. It was pitch black. Karkat stared off into the darkness and waited. He was coming. He wasn't ready for this. He would have never been ready for this.
Something dripped in front of him. Purple.
"Oh no." Karkat said shivering. Sheer Horror spread through him and he couldn't look up.
"WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNVIAL BRO!"
Gamzee jumped down from above him and smacked him club on the top of Karkat's head. He yelped in pain. Karkat started backing up; he noticed that Gamzee wound was now starting to puff, looking infected. Gamzee didn't even seem to notice that he was at all hurt. He still walked towards Karkat with his blood slowly dripping off of his nose.
Karkat felt a sting on his scalp. He noticed something was on his face. He put his hand to it and then looked at his hand. Candy red blood was everywhere. Karkat started freaking out and the pain started growing. He quickly remembered the person who inflicted this wound was still walking towards him, and was getting faster.
Karkat turned and sprinted out of the entrance that Gamzee had left open. The chase was back on. His feet ached, but he had to keep moving. The woods were so scary, and it didn't help when an insane clown that could kill just about anything is chasing you. Vines were cutting at Karkat's feet, which already hurt enough. The ground was uneven and he had to dodge rocks every so often. It seemed like this rock had been pre planned by the game for them all to die. None of them would likely make it.
Karkat stumbled but got back up. The gap between him and death was closing in, and death was rubbing its hands on Karkat's shoulders. Gamzee trailed close behind, he was ready to play with his best bro. He liked to play.
Karkat was slowly losing sanity. Twigs and leaves turned into evil creatures of darkness, all wanting him to trip and die. Trees reached out to grab him as he darted past them. The forest was evil, and he was going to die in it. He saw a small shack. Without thinking he darted inside and locked the door. It wasn't till after he got inside that he noticed what a stupid idea that was. He readied his sickle.
Bang! Gamzee was smacking his club on the door. Karkat couldn't think. What could he possibly do in this situation? He started back up to the back wall. The banging stopped. Karkat stayed on the back wall. Gamzee was going to do something, he knew it. Karkat watched the door, waiting. Footsteps were coming up to the door. He watched in horror.
Gamzee's arm went through the back wall and grabbed Karkat by the throat. Karkat instantly went into panic and started kicking and screaming. He couldn't let out any noise because Gamzee was choking him. Karkat started punching Gamzee's arm, which was bleeding from little shards of wood that had come off of the hole now in the shack. Karkat remembered he had a sickle. He grabbed it and sliced Gamzee's arm. Karkat heard the slight whimper then a honk outside. Karkat stood in the middle of the shack. Ready to slice anything that came in the shack. The banging on the door continued.
Gamzee banged on the door for quite some time. A clink was heard. "What was that?" Karkat thought to himself. Then he noticed one of the hinges was coming loose. He stared in pure horror. If both the hinges broke he was dead. Another bang; the hinge broke. "Oh no, this is bad!" Karkat thought. He looked at the other hinge; it was still slightly intact. It was still rusted and could be easily broken.
Karkat dropped to his knees and prayed. He didn't want to die. He wished he could be back before he had ever played that stupid game. When Crab dad was still alive and when everyone was normal. Why did he have to play that stupid game?
Clink! He looked, terrified, at the second hinge it was coming loose. Candy red tear started pouring out of his eyes. He couldn't even see there were so many. The banging started to go faster. Karkat screamed as loud as he could. The banging stopped. Karkat looked at the door and prepared. This was happening. The door was ripped off its hinges.
