What's this?! What's this?! A new chapter so soon!
What's this?! What's this?! Omega starting the chapter in song, what a loon!
What's this?! I can't believe my eyes!
A halloween special on the rise!
Wake up, reader, this isn't fair! What's this?!

I in no way regret that. Anyway, so yeah, I've made a little halloween special for you all. I'm pretty sure you'll understand what it'll contain. I mean what else do you get when you combine video games with a holiday based on scaring people. Mwahahahahaha.


Knock Knock Knock

"Alice, get the door!" I yell, not very happy at being woken up.

"I would if you weren't choking the life out of me, again!"

"Oops, sorry," I let go of Alice and look out the window from my bed. It was pitch black outside.

Who the hell is waking me up in the middle of the night?

Knock Knock Knock

"I'm coming, I'm coming," I get up from my bed, and make my way towards the door. When I open it Ozpin is standing there with his mug in hand. "Oh Ozpin, little late for a visit isn't it?"

"It's actually noon."

"Wait, seriously?!" I check the clock on my HUD, and it was really noon, 12:27 to be exact. "Then why is it..."

"That's why I'm here," Ozpin tells me, taking a sip from his mug. "May I come in?"

"Of course," I wave the headmaster into my dorm. "Alice get up, Ozpin is here."

"Yaaawwwwnnn, okay," Alice rises from the bed in a set of black diamond-themed pajamas.

"And who would this be?" Ozpin asked with an eyebrow raised.

"Oh right, you haven't met yet."Although, I thought that Ozpin saw all in this school. "This is Alice, my familiar and a dragon."

"I see, well it's a pleasure to meet you ," Ozpin offers his hand.

"Likewise," Alice accepts the headmasters gesture and shakes his hand.

"And did you say dragon?" Alice just shifts from her human form to her dragon form and then back again. "Interesting."

"You had something to tell me, headmaster?"

"Ah yes," Ozpin takes another sip from his mug. "The first problem is the odd occurence of it still being dark out, despite the hour. We've also noticed that there is fog around a certain part of the Emerald forest with a chilling presense around that area, that has detered anyone who has tried to enter."

This doesn't sound good.

"Even the creatures of grimm seem hesitant to enter this particular area."

Alice, check my Ipod to see what day it is on Earth.

"We sent one of the staff to investigate the area, and whereas they weren't able to enter the area, they did find this rather odd note." Ozpin starts to reach into his coat for what I could only guess was the mentioned note.

Cy. . . It's the 31st of October.

Oh fuck me up the ass with Nevermore feather.

Ozpin takes out the note, but I already had about 8 ideas of what it looked like.

It was a small note on tattered paper, what was on it was a picture of a featureless figure standing in the middle of a bunch of trees.

[An event quest has been triggered!]

"FUCK!" I shout, putting my head between my hands.

"I assume by your reaction that you have heard of this situation before?" Ozpin asks, although I could see the tiniest hints of grin on his face.

"Yes, I do sadly," I take the note from Ozpin and look at the quest details.

Event quest: The eight pages
Collect the eight pages 1/8 [ ]
? [ ]
Reward: ?, +10,000 Lien, +50,000 EXP

"Do you mind if I borrow Team RWBY for this?"

"Just make sure they come back alive," with that Ozpin leaves me to my moanings of 'Why me?'


"Can I ask why you wanted us to help you with this?" Weiss asked in her usual princessy(read bitchy) tone.

"Well Weiss," I start to explain as I stand with Alice and Team RWBY in front of the Emerald forest. "You and Yang have a special set of abilities that can help a lot with this mission, and you guys are a package deal, so... And I also may or definetly do not want to do this alone." The last part was whispered, and that moment I had forgotten about Blake's faunus hearing.

"What was that last bit?" Blakes asks with the beginnings of a smirk.

"Nothing!" I answer quickly.

And although we can't say it aloud, it's also because of Blakes night vision

"So, what exactly are we going up against?" Yang asked.

I take an audible gulp as I answer. "Fear, we are going up against pure fear."

"That's not very reassuring," Weiss mentions.

"Not supposed to be," before they could change their minds, I quickly push the four of them into the forest with me. "Anyway, let's get going!"

The fog enevelops our small group as we enter and I could hear the sound of feet stomping in the back ground.

I have never been so grateful for Gamer's mind.

I have a feeling we'll be thinking that a lot during this quest.

"Alice, could you give us a light?" Alice automatically complies and forms a small fireball in her hand, the light getting rid of some of the darkness.

We eventually come across an oddly-shaped tree with branches jutting in every direction. On this tree is another one of the notes.

'HELP ME!'

The members of Team RWBY are noticebly, and undertsandibly, disturbed by the note.

"What's going on?" Blake asks, her voice saying that she wasn't taking no for an answer.

"Long story short, 'The Gamer' kinda screwed me over and now we have to collect the other six notes that will be scattered throughout this area," I explain.

"That doesn't seem too hard," Ruby says, the naivety clear in her voice, even if she doesn't notice it.

"It won't be," I get a cold chill and turn around, I point behind Team RWBY and they follow my line of sight. "And that is why."

A figure stood there in a nice suit, his face completly white and featureless, six tentacles of pure shadow flicker behind him. This was the king of horror, the Slender man.

His presense has petrified Team RWBY, all of them shaking and barely able to get any words out.

"W-what i-is -" Blake starts to stutter out a question, but static starts to fill our sights.

"EVERYONE RUN!" My shout shakes them out of their fear and they all start to run, thankfully in the same direction.

We continue running for a couple mintues, but stop to catch our breath.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Weiss screeches, hurting mine, Blake's, and Alice's ears.

"That was the Slender man," I state simply, Gamer's mind working overtime to kill my fear. "And if we don't find those other six pages, it will either kill us or drive us completly insane."

"Then let's get going!" Yang shouts, holding the still-shaking Ruby to her chest.

"Couldn't have said it better myself."


It took some time and more than a few close calls, only surviving because of Weiss's glyphs or Yang's explosive shots, but we managed to collect five more notes. Unfortunately, our search for the notes led us to an abandoned building resembling a communal shower.

"Where'd this come from?" Ruby asked.

"Same place those trucks, rocks, and walls came from, 'The Gamer'," I tell her, for once regretting having this ability.

We enter the building and quickly search for the note. We find it on the floor in they very back of the building.

'Can't Run'

[Event quest has been updated!]

Event quest: The eight pages
Find the eight pages 8/8 [X]
Escape the forest alive [ ]
Reward: ?, +10,000 Lien, +50,000 EXP

At that moment the fog gets incredibly thick, even in the building, aand static starts filling my vision. Realizing what was about to happen, I rush over to my emergency plan.

"YANG!"

"What?!"

"I'm sorry," and then I yank on her hair, hard.

The room seems to freeze for a couple seconds, before Yang's eyes turn blood red and then. . .

"RAAAAAARRRRGH!"

Yang explodes.

This thankfully gets rid of the building, giving everyone plenty of room to run. I quickly yell out. . .

"Run for it!"

Before I start to run for my life, although for a different reason than the others. Having an angry Yang running after me is perhaps the most terrifying thing to ever happen to me, even with Gamer's mind. I'm pretty sure I saw Slender man appear and then disappear when he saw Yang. That at least made me smile, when I was running.

Eventually we all make it out of the forest and as soon as we do, the fog clears and it goes from night to day in a second.

Event quest completed! The eight pages
Reward: Slender man Contract, +10,000 Lien, +50,000 EXP

The resulting EXP gain caused me to level up ten times, which gave me the following message.

[Reaching level 10 has increased the power of your familiar!]

POW

Before I could observe the changes to Alice, I was sent flying through the air with a pain on my cheeck, only stopping when I hit a tree.

Oh right, forgot about Yang.

Not really someone to forget about in this situation.

Screw you, Alice

Didn't know you were into incest, Cy. Or would it be selfcest in this situation?

I was going to retort, but Yang pulls me up by my shirt, vengeance burning in her eyes. "Why the fuck did you do that?!"

"I had to, otherwise Slender man would have killed us," I respond as fast as I could, feeling an odd sense of Deja-Vu.

"Explain, NOW!" Yang demands, her eyes still blazing red, but her grip on my shirt slightly loosening.

"Slender and the eight pages was orginally a video game, and whenever someone would finish finding the eight pages in the game, Slender man would show up and kill them, presumably."

"Presumably?" Blake adds, having calmed down enough to join the conversation.

"Well, he either kills you or drives you so completly insane that you are never the way you used to be, again."

"Still doesn't explain, why you thought it was a good idea to YANK ON MY HAIR!" Yang growls.

"Well, I needed some form of explosion to get the Slender man away from us for a couple seconds, so that we could get away. My Lightning Dragon Roar is too centered to do it, so I just chose the living grenade with the very noticeable pin." I explain with a metaphor that probably didn't help the sitaution.

Yang growls again, but Ruby puts her hand on Yang's shoulder, visibly calming the blonde berserker. Yang eventually drops me onto the ground and releases a sigh. "I guess, since you did it to save our lives, you get a pass. Just this once!" I get up from the ground, but Yang punches me down once I do. "Just wanted to get one last punch in."

"We good now?" I ask, I really don't think I could take anymore of an angry Yang.

"Yeah, we're good," Yang gives me her hand and I graciously take it. Once, I'm off the ground, Yang looks at her teammates. "Can we go back to Beacon, now?"

"Definietly," they all say at once.


Later, when it was actually night outside, I go back to the forest with Alice right behind me, which made me remember something.

"Didn't you get an upgrade?"

"Yeah," Alice answers simply.

"Then why. . ."

"My transformation spell lets me chose the size of my form, my ability to choose an older form increased, but that doesn't mean I can't still be all small and adorable. My dragon form on the other hand. . ." Instead of saying anything, Alice just shifts to her dragon form. What used to be the size of a small puppy was now the size of a adult German Sheperd, her wing span also increased from 3ft to 6ft. I also noticed her back had some small spines on it, and her tail looked more like a weapon now.

"Well that's awesome and terrifying at the same time." I state with a bit of pride.

I know right? Then Alice shifts back to the seven year old body. "FYI, if you want me to pick an older body, were going to need some bigger clothes.

"I can handle that," and then we pay attention to what we actually came out there for.

I take out of my inventory one of the rewards from the event quest, the 'Slender man Contract', which was actually the eight pages in a neat little pile. I use observe on the pages to see the instructions.

Slender man Contract-Draw a pentagram surrounded by a circle in the ground in a forest when it's dark. Light five candles and put them at each point of the pentagram. Then, put the papers in the middle of the pentagram and then wait.

I follow the instructions to the letter. I wait a total of five seconds, before the candles go out and the pages are swallowed by darkness, and from that darkness emerges the Slender man.

You wish for power, mortal? A gravelly voice speaks into my mind, sounding vaguely british.

"I do," I speak confidently, Gamer's mind calming my emotions.

Be warned, if you accept this power, then you will eventually be swallowed by madness. Do you still want this power?

"I do," and I swear I heard a smirk in response.

Very well, mortal. Slender man raises his hand and darkness fills my vision and my knees buckle.

I feel Alice supporting me as the darkness starts to clear from my vision. When it disappears, I notice that Slender man is gone and I have some skill notifications.

[A new skill has been learned! Shadow step(active)]

[Shadow step(active) Level: 1 EXP: 000/500 Being able to move from shadow to shadow like a ghost. Range increases when it gets darker.]

[A new skill has been learned! Shadow tendrils(active)]

[Shadow tendrils(active) Level: 1 EXP: 000/500 The ability orginally used by the king of horror, Slender man. When used, tendrils of pure shadow will appear from any part of your body, following your commans mentally.
Max number of tendrils: 4]

[A new skill has been learned! Fear(active)]

[Fear(active) Level: 1 EXP: 000/500 The basic human instinct that causes people to do various things from running to trying to ride themselves of it. Using this skill, you can inact this most basic instinct in anything you set your eyes on.]

That whole 'madness' thing will be nullified by Gamer's Mind, right?

I sincerly hope so, cause other wise, I am most definently screwed. But for now. . . An incredibly feral grin appears on my face, and I start to shake from excitement. I have some new tricks to practice.


Before anyone says or thinks anything, I have never played Slender man, I just took some notes off wikipedia and google to make this, so I'm sorry if this doesn't represent the game very well. Oh, and this is the upload for this week, so the next one will be on the eleventh of November.

Hope you guys enjoyed, and I will see you next time, OK is out.