So I'm going back and forth in ideas within this collection of stories. I try to keep it chronological, but this is an exception. I'm holding off until after Halloween for Rio Kart. I wanted this one-shot story up due to it being close to Halloween. So, this takes place a month or two after "The New Kid"

Night had approached the city of Rio. The city residents were either sleeping or active. In one particular house, owned by a famous bird doctor in Rio, it was somewhat active. Though the owners and their adopted child had gone to sleep, a glow radiated from the living room window. It was coming from the television. Watching the television were two birds sitting on a couch. The two birds were siblings named Jalin and Elena. They were watching "Family Guy".

"This doesn't make sense," said Elena. "How can someone that works at a brewer's shipping department afford a tank?"

Jalin faced Elena.

"It's a cartoon. I mean, not all Americans are dumb like him...I think."

"Oh, well, it's still fun to watch."

Elena sighed in happiness.

"I wish we had a T.V. in the jungle. That will be so cool."

"Yeah, it would," agreed Jalin. "So that's why we must make the most of tonight. Dad and Mom went out and won't be back until morning, so we must enjoy T.V. as much as possible."

"I guess," said Elena, looking over at his brother Leoncio. "Well, it looks like Leoncio is taking the most out of the internet."

Jalin looked back to see Leoncio facing them. Their youngest brother was on the computer desk that had a high-end laptop on it. Leoncio was playing a game it seemed. Leoncio was grinning.

"Hey guys," said Leoncio. "I found this game. You want to watch me play it?"

"A game?" wondered Jalin in interest.

"Yeah. I heard it's pretty good."

"Pretty good? Okay. I'll watch."

Leoncio nodded and faced Elena.

"How about you, Sis?"

Elena yawned.

"No. I'll go to sleep."

Elena got up and stretched out her wings. She took off and headed to Linda's room to sleep in. Jalin shrugged and flew over to the computer desk. He landed next to Leoncio and crossed his wings across his chest.

"Okay, Leoncio. What's this game about?"

"Well, it's easier if I show you."

Leoncio moved the cursor on the screen and double-clicked on a shortcut icon. A full-screen window popped up with a simple menu screen with three selections. Leoncio clicked the first one. The application loaded, and the word "SLENDER" in sketch writing. The word faded away, and the setting of the video game appeared. It was a first-person game where the character held a flashlight. The character was in a dense forest.

"Why is your character in a forest? What's the point?"

"Jalin, it's just a game."

"But-but...uh..."

Jalin sighed.

"Whatever."

Leoncio started to move the character through the deep woods. The creepy walking sent Goosebumps down Jalin's spine. Leoncio looked at his brother as he moved the character forward. He smirked.

"Are you scared?"

"Scared?" laughed Jalin. "What are you talking about?"

"Supposedly, this is a horror game."

"Horror game? Like "Lifeline"? Because that game was lame and not that scary."

"No. Not like "Lifeline". It's way better. Do you want to try?"

Jalin looked at the screen and then back at his brother's grinning face.

"Alright. I'll play a round."

Leoncio moved from the laptop and extended his wings towards the laptop, welcoming Jalin to stand in front of the laptop screen. Jalin walked in front of the screen and started to control the character. He started to move the character forward.

"O-kay. So what am I supposed to do?"

"Well. there're eight notes that you need to collect. You then win the game."

"So...that's it?"

Leoncio nodded.

"Alright," shrugged Jalin.

Jalin moved the character through the forest. Soon, he stumbled onto a large, red mound. He approached the mound and circled around it. Jalin noticed a yellow piece of paper sticking on the mound. He moved his character to it and pressed the space bar to collect the paper. Soon, the music became louder and more suspenseful. Jalin got a little startled by it.

"I thought you weren't scared."

"I-I'm not. I was just, um, surprised. It won't happen again."

"Are you sure?"

"Guaranteed. Now let me win this stupid game."

Jalin faced the computer screen and continued to navigate his character through the spooky forest with the keyboard. He moved the character and found another unusual structure in a forest. It was a white brick building with no unique roof. He saw a way in and walked in. The walls were tiled like a bathroom room. The building turned out to be a small maze. He walked though it and discovered the next page in a dead-end room within the building. The music got louder and spookier as Jalin collected the page. He moved his character out of the building through the second entrance into the building. He noticed a small collection of big, industrial tanks not far from where his character stood. He walked to the tanks and found that one of them had a yellow page on it. He collected and moved on. Jalin yawned.

"Where's the-"

As he turned his character, Jalin noticed a tall, faceless man wearing a black suit standing in the distance. Jalin let out a small yelp and quickly turned back around. Leoncio busted out laughing. Irritated, Jalin faced his brother.

"Shut up Leoncio."

Leoncio calmed down, smirking at Jalin.

"Better not pee. Linda might get mad."

Jalin half-closed his eyes.

"I'll beat this game and wipe that smirk off your face."

Jalin turned his attention towards the screen and continued with the game. He moved his character through the forest, noticing the light from his flashlight had gotten dimmer. Jalin's anxiety rose. He needed to find the next note. He moved his character through the trees and noticed a cemented tunnel that was like a long pipe with half of it buried in the ground. Jalin figured the next note would be there. He moved his character towards the inside of the tunnel and found the next page. He collected and turned towards from where he entered into the tunnel. Standing there was the mysterious faceless man. A static noise was heard and the screen slowly became fuzzy. Jalin quickly turned his character around and exited through the other end of the tunnel. The heavy breathing of his character raised Jalin's anxiety. Jalin started to run through the computerized forest and quickly found a truck. He approached the old truck and saw the next page on it. He looked back. The mysterious man was not behind him. Jalin breathed in relief. He turned his character around and jumped when the faceless man was standing in front of his character. An eerie, static sound blasted through the speakers and an image of the faceless man with televising static appeared an screen for two or three seconds. The game ended. Jalin's breathed out heavily, calming down. He heard Leoncio's bellowing laughter and faced his brother. Jalin narrowed his eyes.

"Oh," Leoncio managed to say through his chuckles. "That...that was funny."

Jalin groaned.

"Whatever Leoncio. Besides, I just acted that way. I wasn't scared."

"Yeah, sure. That explains your wet feet."

"My wet feet?" wondered Jalin, looking down at his feet.

He, in fact, did wet his feet. He looked up at Leoncio and blushed in embarrassment. This brought more and louder laughter from Leoncio.

"HA HA HA AH HA HA Ha ha!"

"Leoncio, be-be quiet."

Leoncio's laughter settled down.

"Oh boy. That was a good laugh. Now I can sleep with great dreams. Well, goodnight scaredy-cat."

Leoncio took to the air and went to Linda's room. Jalin stood alone in the living room. He stood there kind of nervous and looked around. He tapped his wingtips together nervously.

"It-It's just a game. Th-There's nothing to-be sc-scared of. The-there's no such thing as a tall, faceless man."

Unaware to Jalin, the wind picked up. The window slightly rattled. Jalin jumped up in fear, but he then started to fall from the desk, meaning he accidentally jumped of the computer desk. His butt hit the floor. Fear had made him forget how to fly. He quickly crawled under the desk and moved as close as he could to the wall, allowing the shadows to cover him. He scrunched himself in the fetal position and tried his best to fall asleep.

Jalin was walking through a darken jungle. He had gotten separated from his family somehow. Jalin had the moon for the only source of light. Jalin was walking back to his house. He couldn't walk because it was too windy for him. He slowly walked through the jungle, looking at the trees, trying to remember which tree was his home.

As he walked through the forest, a faint, eerie sound reached his ear holes. He grew nervous and looked around. He quickened his pace back home. Soon, the noise got louder. Frightened, he started to run.

As he ran, he didn't dare to look back. He didn't know who or what was behind him, but he wasn't going to stop. The noise got louder and louder. He finally was brave enough to see what it could be and quickly glanced back as he continued to run. He didn't see anything. He looked forward and saw a tree only millimeters away. He smacked his face against the tree and fell back on the ground. He slowly opened his eyes and noticed a figure staring directly down his face. His eyes sprung open, and it was revealed to be the faceless man.

Jalin woke up in fright from his nightmare. He raised his head quickly, smacking his head on a small, hanging cupboard that was a part of a computer desk. He rubbed his agonizing head and noticed the morning rays of the sun. He sighed in relief as a voice made him jump and hit his head on the cupboard again.

"Jalin, there you are."

Jalin looked out into the living room and saw his mother and father. Jewel smiled at him as Blu seemed puzzled.

"What are you doing under the desk?" asked Jewel.

"Just... I guess I just fell asleep here. That's all."

"Are you sure, Jalin?" came the mischievous voice of Leoncio.

Jalin crawled out from under the computer desk and saw Leoncio and Elena sitting on the couch.

"Jalin," continued Leoncio, "it was the strangest thing. Linda had to clean the top of the desk just now. It seemed that something was spilled. It could've probably been a leak or something like that."

Jalin narrowed his eyes.

"Well," started Blu, "I guess we can eat breakfast now. Linda made some berry and seed muffins."

The Blu family walked to the kitchen. Jalin looked over at Leoncio, who had a pleased face. Leoncio followed Elena who had taken flight to the kitchen. Jalin narrowed his eyes. Leoncio would pay tonight.

Night had approached the jungle. The starry night lightened the area through the thick leaves. All was peaceful in the jungle, and all had fallen asleep, including Leoncio. The blue-eyed male's breaths were slow and calm. The kid was sleeping with an expression of bliss. Well, until Elena stirred him from his sleep. He groaned in irritancy and opened his right eye.

"Leoncio," came Elena's shaky voice.

"What?" asked an annoyed Leoncio. "Why did you wake me up?"

Elena looked at where Jalin usually slept. She then looked back at her brother.

"Jalin's gone."

Leoncio half-closed his eyes and rested his head back down.

"Leoncio," Elena called him.

Leoncio snuggled with himself tighter.

"Leoncio."

Leoncio still kept his eyes close.

"Leoncio, please. You have to help me."

Leoncio opened his eyes and got to his feet slowly.

"Fine."

The two siblings walked to the entrance of the den and peeked outside, carefully checking if it was safe. The night breeze was smoothing. They heard the echoing noises of nocturnal beings; none of which could get them in the tree. Still, the nighttime being so mysterious sent chills down the children spines. Usually, if they were up this late, which was rare, Blu and Jewel would be escorting them. Now, the couple was asleep and the kids were at the mercy of the dark sky. It was Elena who took the first couple of steps outward.

"C'mon," she said nervously. "We need to find him."

Leoncio gulped and took his first steps outside when suddenly a figure swooped down at him. It caught Leoncio off guard, and he couldn't really tell what it was. Instincts of fear kicked in and he screamed as the figure touched him. Leoncio fell back in fright and screamed some more. Jewel heard the screams and jumped up in surprise. A groan was heard from Blu, and the male macaw lazily lifted his head up and faced Leoncio with slightly opened eyes.

"Leoncio, stop messing with your sister and go to sleep."

Blu then dropped his head. Jewel looked back at her mate.

"Blu, that was Leoncio."

Blu's eyes shot wide open, and his head shot straight up.

"Leoncio. Are you sure? That sounded like a girl's scream."

Leoncio half-closed his eyes as his breathing returned to normal. Jewel nodded and faced her youngest son.

"Leoncio, what happened?"

Just then, Jalin flew down and landed next to the thing that frightened Leoncio. It turned out it was a doll-like structure of Slender Man made of mud, paper, and leaves. The mud was very dark and made up the suit and pants. The paper gave the white appearance of the doll, including the faceless head. The stuffing for this doll was leaves. The doll was held together by some glue that Blu had brought from Linda's house to glue sticks on paper to make images, much like macaroni pictures. Leoncio narrowed his eyes as Jalin had a content face.

"That's for making me play that game and making me sleep under the desk...and that other thing that happened."

Elena walked back into the den and went to her sleeping spot. Jewel eyed.

"Elena, what were you doing outside?"

"Just going to the bathroom Mama," she lied. "Good night."

Elena curled up in her sleeping spot and entered dreamland. Jewel figured something was up, but she figured to scold her daughter in the morning. Right now, she had to deal with her two sons...again. She faced Jalin.

"Jalin, why did you do that?" she demanded in an angry tone.

"Mom, he started it with the game he showed me yesterday on the internet."

"Game?" wondered Jewel. "You scared your little brother because of a game?"

"But Mom, it was a scary game. He tricked me into playing it."

"Tricked you? But that doesn't make sense. You like games."

"Not his games," grunted Jalin. "I was so scared that I had to sleep under the computer desk for the night."

"Jalin, if it was a game, you said yes into playing it, making it your own fault."

That part was true. Jalin should've known what he was in for when Leoncio was smiling at them as he and Elena were watching television. He fell into Leoncio's trap.

"But Mom-"

"No more buts. Now, apologize to your brother."

Jalin faced his brother as he was standing to his feet. Jalin sighed.

"I'm sorry, Leoncio, for scaring you and all."

Leoncio nodded, but he held no apologizing face as he was still mad.

"I'm going to sleep."

Leoncio turned around and walked back to where he was resting. Jewel's voice stopped him.

"Leoncio, what do you say?"

"Say about what? He scared me half to death, Mama. I would sue him if only he wasn't my brother."

"Leoncio!" snapped Jewel. "Look at who you're talking to."

"I'm sorry, Mama. Just tired. Well, goodnight."

Leoncio went back to his resting place and went to sleep. Jewel narrowed her eyes, and she soon saw in the corner of her eyes Jalin walking off.

"And where do you think you're going?"

"Look Mom. I'm really sorry for what happened. I was just so mad. So now can I go to sleep?"

"Not so fast. You're not getting off easy. I'll talk to your brother and sister in the morning, but you're going to get punished right now."

"B-but that's not fair."

"You woke us up, so it is fair."

"No. Leoncio's girly cry woke you up."

"But you were the cause. And don't be snappy with me. I'm your mother. Blu, do something."

There was no response from her mate. Jewel looked to her side to find Blu sleeping as he was still standing up. Jewel huffed and patted his cheek heavily to wake him up. He opened his eyes to see his upset mate.

"W-what did I miss?"

"Your son. He's in trouble in scaring your other son."

Blu groaned.

"Alright, Leoncio," he started, turning to face his son. "You know your punish...uh... Wait, you're not Leoncio."

"I'm Jalin, Dad."

Blu faced Jewel.

"Are you sure you got the right son? I mean you could be tired and-"

"Blu! I know my chicks. Jalin is the one in trouble this time."

Blu tapped his wingtips nervously, thinking about it. He relaxed a little and heaved out heavily. He faced Jalin.

"Well, I guess there's a first for everything, though it's disappointing. Jalin, two weeks."

"Two weeks," said Jalin in disbelief. "But Dad, that's unfair. You must be tired."

Blu narrowed his eyes.

"Do you want to make it three?"

Jalin sighed in defeat.

"Fine. Well, goodnight."

He dragged his feet back to the spot he was resting in and curled up to go to sleep. Jewel and Blu sighed and also decided to return to their resting place. Only after a few minutes of everyone back in their sleeping spots, Jalin noticed some movement. Leoncio had risen from his sleep and stood on his feet. He hurriedly scuttled next to Blu and Jewel and snuggled next to them as a means of protection. He fell asleep afterwards. Jalin snickered at Leoncio's frightened actions. Though he was grounded for two weeks, it was well worth it.