Chapter 9

Adam's POV:

I honestly really didn't want to wake up anymore. Death had to be more peaceful than this. My arm hurt and was probably damaged past the point of no return. My head felt it was constantly taking a hammer due to the white noise I kept hearing from the Slender Sickness, that was mentioned, so that there also concluded that I was royally fucked. So, why was I alive. That creature I had seem in the darkness of that room. Was that the infamous internet legend Slenderman, or was I just beginning to hallucinate now. I opened my eyes, trying to escape my own depressing thoughts and stared at the night sky? Was that a see through ceiling? I let my eyes roam around, moving my head from side to side look at my surrounding; not willing to move my body anymore. Where was I now? I was surrounded by bushes and trees that looked normal. I sat up slowly unbelieving. Was this that Bio-Dome place? Why was I here? I looked at my arm right to find it still in its sling. My one way of confirming that everything that I have experienced was not just a nightmare.

"So you're up."

I flinch at the sudden sound of someone speaking, my head whipping around to find said person who spoke. My eyes landed on a guy who didn't look that much older than me, with disheveled chestnut color hair and hazel eyes. He wore a black t-shirt and jeans. He looked normal, but after the hell I have been through I was not about to trust his presence just yet. "And just who in the hell are you?" I asked, breathing out heavily as I tried to compose myself. 'Don't trust anything.' My eyes bounced off of everything around us. Everything look normal. But it could be a trick.

He stared at me with his hazel colored eyes, but said, nothing. Honestly if I wasn't on guard right now, this guy totally looked liked my type. He looked like he was two years older than me too, which was good, I liked guys that were a bit older than me. I wasn't about to be the one to break the silence. I had asked a question and for once I wanted an answer. Although I kind of felt bad projecting my anger and distrust onto someone I don't even know, or even know his name yet.

"You've been out for a while. I awoke a little before you. We are in the Bio-Domes. We are locked in." He finally said, but he did not answer my question. "There was a note on the door." He tossed a wadded up, piece of paper at me, which hit me in the chest and fell into my lap.

I un-wadded the paper to see what it said.

Child, you are to be kept here until I am satisfied with the results. Choose carefully, for you could never leave here alive should you choose wrong. No memory in required. Time is of the essence here, so I advice you not to doddle.

~S

I rubbed at my temple, my head was really starting to hurt and the white noise was starting to become more in time with my pulse, but that could well be my imagination. I looked at my companion who stood before me at the moment. He could be in the same situation as me, so I shouldn't jump to conclusions just yet. I mean he looked like he didn't want to be here anymore than I did. He looked in good shape; I couldn't say the same for myself, I was down an arm. But still maybe we could work together to get out of here. However I had to be sure that he wasn't a Creepypasta.

"How did I get here?" I asked, not taking my eyes off of him.

"I don't know. I awoke here too." He said, with a shrug of his shoulder. He looked and sounded a whole lot calmer than what I felt. So, that could mean that he's a freshly caught victim then. Was I put with him to try and scare him then?

"So you don't know what's going on?" I asked.

He answered me with a shrug of his shoulder. "Are you going to stay sitting on the ground all day or are you planning on standing sometime soon?" He asked.

"I don't know. I might feel incline to move if I knew who I was talking to." I said, a little snippy. "I mean come on dude, that was the first thing I asked you."

He stared again, before speaking. "Brian." He said.

"Well, Brian, my name is Adam." I said, finally starting to get to my feet. "And if you're not one of the bastard that brought me here then how about we work together. Did you see anything else in here that could give us a clue, while you were waiting for me to wake up?" I asked dusting off the seat of my pants.

He tilted his head, humming slightly as if in thought. "There is a clock counting down from twenty-four hours."

"Twenty-four hours? What's suppose to happen after twenty-four hours?" I asked, looking around; now that I was standing maybe I would be able to see something else.

He shrugged again and crossed his arms.

I couldn't tell if he just refused to answer me or if he actually didn't know. I knew I couldn't trust that note that he had found it while I was out and the reason it was wadded up was because of him. But still...Why would I be brought back to my town and left in the Bio-Domes with this guy? I eyed him up and down again. He looked normal. Shaking my head, groaning, and rubbed my temples, due to the Slender Sickness acting up; even though what I really wanted to do was to crumple back down onto the ground and wallow in the pain until it passed again, but I did not want to appear weak in front of someone I didn't know. I still wasn't sure if I could trust this situation yet. Plus, it was kind of freaking me out with all the staring he was doing.

"Okay, so did you at least attempt to find a way out? 'Cause dude, any other person would ave done that first and left the stranger if they had found said exit." I said, looking at my hands at the feeling of wetness on them. I let my hands drop and began rubbing them against the fabric of my cloth. I knew that was a bad sign, but I didn't want to draw attention the severity of my condition.

"The door seems to have been boarded up. It looked like they had been broken into at one point. I cannot remove the boards by myself." Brian said, turning and walking away, to what I supposed was the doors that he was talking about. I followed keeping close to him, doing my best to keep an eye on him and my surrounding. It wouldn't surprise me if there was Proxy somewhere watching and waiting to attack us at the right moment. In case that happened it would be more beneficial to me to stay near this guy who seem to be in perfect condition to win in a fight. Now that I was thinking about it…

"How did they get you?" I blurted out.

"How did who get me?" He asked, not looking back at me.

I wiped at my ears again, at feeling the blood leaking out. "You know the ones who put you here?" I said, being more specific.

"I was tricked my a friend of mine to be here." He said, after a few beats of silence.

"You're here as a prank?!" I said, unbelieving. Had I assumed wrong?

"Yes." He confirmed.

"Wait, so you weren't kidnapped by internet legends known as Creepypastas pr Proxy's?" I pushed still not believing the words that were leaving his mouth. I grimaced with a grunt as the white noise sounded and echoed in my head.

He stopped and turned to look at me, with a tilt of his head. I almost ran into him, I was so distracted by the pain in my head.

Oh great, now he probably thought I was insane. "I-I mean… Of course that would be impossible. Ha! Just ignore me and my rambling." I said, quickly.

"I will ignore you then." He said, turning away from me and resuming to walk.

I decided to keep my mouth shut for the rest of the way. When we reach the door that he had mentioned, I found myself staring at a broken digital clock that was hanging above the doors., with dull yellow looking numbers on it that were stuck at; 19:35:04. I suddenly got the feeling of deja vu. "Do you really think it was counting down, when it was working?" I asked absentmindedly.

"Probably." Brian mumbled, not waiting for me, as he began pulling at the boards that were closing off the door and preventing us from leaving. It didn't take Brian long to get the board he was pulling on to start moving a little. "You going to stare or help?" He grunted, not stopping in his work.

"Yeah. Yeah, um..." I said, stepping up to the door and gripping the edge of the board as best I could, like Brian was doing. Needless to say it was hard to do with one arm. Especially when said arm was not my dominant arm. I grunted as I pulled, hoping that the board would budge, like it was for Brian. Sadly, I had to stop every couple of minutes to rest, or to let the Slender Sickness pass. It didn't escape my notice either that Brian would pause to look my way when he noticed that I had stopped., but he never said anything.

"Go sit down." Brian finally said, after seeing me stop and bending over my knees for the sixth time.

I look up at him about to object his obvious order. I could help!

"You are useless to me, further damaged." He said, before I could say anything.

My mouth gaped open at hearing his statement. I have never been one to give up, that easy even if I was sick, or hurt, but then I have never been this kind of hurt before. And I could not ignore the fact, that my condition was no help to either of us. Brian would be making better time with me out of the way. Not wanting to anger the one who I was going to have to lean on to get out of here, I sat down and watched him work on pulling the boards apart.

"Adam."

I looked around at the sound of my name. That was a girls voice that I heard. No, not just anyone, that was Amy's voice. I looked toward the trees and bushes where the shade was darker. The darkness within the shade started reaching out toward me. "Amy?" I mumbled under my breath, my eyes jumping from the moving darkness to Brian, who didn't seem to hear her like I had. He was still working and making good progress with the boards.

"Come Adam..." Amy's voice beckoned. I shook my head, trying clear it as the Slender Sickness started acting up again, feeling my head with white noise and pain. The darkness crept toward me and soon engulfed me. I could not make my body move as everything around me disappeared in the inky darkness. I wanted to move, I wanted to warn Brian about the Slender Sickness now, encase he was experiencing the same. To call out to him to make sure the darkness didn't actually swallow him. "I want you..."

At those words I jumped to my feet when I felt something touch me. Turning in a full circle and seeing nothing. "Who touched me?" I demanded.

"I did…." The darkness answered, closed to my ears.

"Brian….?" I asked, hoping to prove to myself that it was just the Slender Sickness messing with my head, and Brian was the one speaking to me.

"No….Come with me…" Darkness wrapped around my left wrist and pulled me forward into itself.

"No! This isn't real! Let me go!" I yanked trying to free myself from it.

"Don't struggle….." The darkness echoed. "You are not strong enough..."

"The hell I am!" I spat, not wanting to admit defeat. Something was telling me that if I admitted defeat then I wasn't going to be able to escape this darkness. I wouldn't make it out of this alive, but then what did I have to look forward to after all this. If I got out of this I had no doubt that I would be handicapped. As the thought crossed my mind, I barely noticed that I had stopped resisting the darkness as it lead me deeper into it. My future had been drastically altered as soon as I was kidnapped, by a Proxy, and now that I was really thinking about it. I don't remember hearing any stories of people surviving an encounter with a Creepypasta.

"Adam..." It was calling my name again. "Adam….Adam..." No. I stopped moving analyzing what I was hearing. The voice calling was starting to sound different. "Adam, are you still here."

I blinked my eyes slowly the white noise turning up in volume in my head bring a massive headache with it. "You are already dead…" it echoed.

Hoodie's POV:

I should have seen this coming. Of course Masky would still be pissed about by that trick me and Slendy pulled on him. They even went as far as to take my hoodie, gloves, and mask. So, they have obviously decided that I should hide my identity from Adam any longer, even though I highly doubt that he would remember our first encounter. That night had shown mercy and given him one of Slendy's pills, that would remove any and all memory pertaining to me; A pill given mostly to non-prey. My only question was; why they had chosen to bring us back to the Bio-Domes? Adam followed close enough behind me, to signify to me that he was nervous and scared and was seeking protection. But that he also didn't trust me; didn't trust Brian. I found that smart of Adam, as useless as it was. During the time in which I had awoken before him I had been able to examine him closely. He looked paler than when we had first met. That could be due to the Slender Sickness and the pain that he was constantly in. I don't remember Masky's deteriorating as fast as Adam was. I tilted my head slightly in thought, I guess that meant that I was going to have to speed up my time with Adam. The thought was kind of disappointing. Adam still confused me., but his fear and anxiety was so delicious.

We were almost at the door when Adam finally decided to break the silence around us. "How did they get you?"

I didn't plan on answering his question, so I gave him ask him a question in return. "How did who, get me?" I asked.

You know the ones who put you here?" He said being specific without revealing that he was talking about legends that should not exist. He was trying to see if I knew what he knew.

"I was tricked by a friend of mine. He put me here." I answered after deciding to give him a small bit of truth, just to see his reaction.

"Your here because of a prank?!" He asked disbelievingly.

"Yes." I confirmed.

"Wait, so you weren't kidnapped by internet legends known as Creepypastas pr Proxy's?" He asked grunting as his Slender Sickness flared again. I stopped and looked back at him not liking that he was already bleeding from his ears. He almost ran into me, he was so distracted. "I-I mean… Of course that would be impossible. Ha! Just ignore me and my rambling." He said, trying to cover up his slip of the tongue.

"I will ignore you then" I said, having enough of his rambling for now. The both of us staying quiet until we spotted the door.

Adam looked up at the broken clock and once again broke the silence between us. "Do you think it was really counting down, when it was working?" He asked.

I didn't wait for Adam as I went straight to work on the boards. "Probably." I mumbled on my way, not wanting him to remember our first meeting. I had to hold back as I pulled on the boards, and soon requested Adam to at least attempt to help. "You going to stare or help?"

"Yeah. Yeah, um..." He began pulling with his one good arm. The board of which he was pulling not budging an inch. I let him try a coupled of time personally letting the Slender Sickness spike, to try and give him a reason to sit back down. When it was clear he wasn't going to give up, I sent him away myself.

"Go sit down." He was going to object, but I didn't give him time to. "You are useless to me, further damaged." I said in a growl.

His mouth gaped open at my statement, obviously not use to someone calling him useless, and possible hurt at the allegation. But he did not argue, he went and sat on the grass and watched as I did all the work. At some point however he looked away and off into the tree.

"Amy?" He mumbled, causing me to look his way, when I had only one more board to pull off. He was still thinking about the hag after I killed her to get her out of my way. He should really be more focused on me and what I could do to him, while he was defenseless. After all, I was playing with him now. I stopped my work and watch him. He was looking around, but his eyes were distant; He was under the influence of the Slender Sickness. I felt a little satisfied that he was suffering as he mentioned her. I watched as his eyes finally settle on me, and began to widen in horror at what he was seeing. I hoped that he would was seeing my as I was; As Hoodie.

I tilted my head when he jumped to his feet, his startled eyes following something I could not see, to stare in the opposite direction. Ever hallucination was different for each victim, the way Adam was acting had me curious to what he was seeing. I was very intrigue, what would a person who was never to meet us see. He jerk away from something only his eye could see and spun in a circle. "Who touched me?" He demand, his voice a delightfully frighten tremble in it. "Brian?" He asked, not even looking in my direction hoping that it was I who touched him. I said nothing to ease his fear.

I debated on his condition at this point. Blood was already running from his nose and ears; although he barely noticed it. He probably wouldn't notice his deteriorating condition until this episode passes. It seemed like it was going to be a long one. I hummed mostly to myself; He looked to be in the same condition as Masky's, was Adam breaking faster. Getting rid of the final board on blacking our exit I grabbed his wrist and dragged him with me out the door. It was time for us to go.

"No! This isn't real! Let me go!" He yanked in my grip, my silence and continuance to pull him along enhancing the Slender Sickness hallucination that he was experiencing, by ignoring his struggles.

"Don't struggle, you are not strong enough to fight me and the Slender Sickness." I mumbled, not really expecting him to hear me.

"The hell I am!" He spat, redoubling his efforts and clawing at my grip. Seeing his fight and struggle brought an odd twitch to my lips as I watched. He was not going to break without a fight; L. J. was right Adam was feisty. But even someone with a lot of fight had a breaking point, the blood leaking from his ears were proof enough that Adam was close to his. Such a shame really. I was starting to enjoy is constant struggle. I was starting to realize the draw to someone weaker than me.

This was why I was a Proxy.

This was why Masky had held on to his humanity; his emotions.

Adam was fun.

I felt my lips pull into a smile for the first time in forever, as the realization hit me. Well, why not enjoy his last hour with him. I'd say he earned it. Wouldn't you say?

Slenderman's POV:

"The hell! Is he smiling?!" Jeff asked, unbelieving.

"I do believe he is." BEN answered.

"Don't worry Jeffery, his smile cannot compare to yours." L. J. said.

Masky and I did not commentate on Hoodies smile. The five of us were safely out of sight using this interesting museums; or Bio-Domes security camera to watch the two. They were the only ones that had decided to not go to Mount Massive with the other Proxy's. Hoodie was pulling the struggling boy down the corridors, paying no heed to the child's struggles to get freed. Seeing the child's condition I gave him only a couple of hours before he fully succumbed.

"So, you think he is starting to understand now?" Masky asked.

I nodded my head and flipped the screen off when the two exited the building. I was pleased with how everything was turning out. It was very fun to watch. I was almost sad the Hoodie was going to have to put an end to this show soon. But like every good story, an ending had to follow after a climax.

TBC

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