Chapter 11

by Undecisivepsycho

Zhi's POV

The room had gotten bigger. The bunk bed was still in the same place, but it was clean of all my various things and both beds were made up. In fact, even the floor was clean. Our dressers were almost next to each other on the right wall, except for the bookshelves between them. Masky's desk was facing the same wall, but further in the room, mine was still facing the back wall to the left of the window and there was now a closet on the right wall in the very corner. Slender seemed to have placed it there so that the door, when open, would cover the window and block any prying eyes that may lurk in the darkness outside. In the left corner at the end of the beds sat an easel I assumed to be Masky's. At the head of the beds were my set of plastic drawers and a few, differently colored, extras for Masky. Finally, Above the dressers was a set of five, wall to closet door frame shelves filled with various books and nick-knacks.

"Slender really knows how to get shit done, huh?" I remarked, walking over to see how the closet was set up.

"Yeah, it seems to be one of his many talents." Masky answered, walking in behind me and looking around. I opened the closet to find all of my spring, summer appropriate clothing hung up, and probably recently cleaned all on the left, on the right were Masky's clothes and in the middle were racks of movies. I could see the lit up outline of the back panel that separated this room and what was Jeff's room as expected. What I didn't expect however, was the second panel that was hiding behind my clothing.

"Hey Masky? what's this panel to the left? I though Slender couldn't add rooms." I asked, poking my head out of the closet.

"I don't know, try opening it up" He said with a shrug.

I pushed on the panel and slid it over, finding myself facing a room filled with darkness. Walking in and slowly straightening up I began feeling along one side of the wall for the light switch until I found it. Once I adjusted to the sudden light I found myself standing in a theater.

"You might wanna see this... It looks like someone added a theater to go along with all your movies and games." I called out. Masky appeared in the short doorway soon after.

"Whaddya- holy shit, Zhi. This wasn't Slender this was probably-" I couldn't really hear him after that, My world had suddenly gone black and soft.

"Heheh, guess whooo~...She's pretty small isn't she? Barely bigger than the stoner guy here." It was pretty hard to hear the low, smooth voice of what could only be Arkaius. I was encased it what seemed to be something stiff and covered in feathers, but I could feel his body twist to face Masky, letting me hear a bit better as well.

"That stoner's name is BEN, and of course you think shes small, you're fucking huge compared to her. You might wanna let her go though, I don't know how she feels about this sort of thing and she can get pretty violent."

"Awww, but she's so cuddly~" Arkaius cooed, wrapping his arms around me under what was probably his wings and twisting side to side. Masky must have given him a stern look, judging by the way Arkaius sighed and folded his wings back, releasing me at last. Once free I turned to face him and immediately gasped. Within seconds I had ducked around him to climb up has back to inspect and fondle his wings and horns.

"Masky, my dearest friend, I believe you left out the very important detail of how you lied about her fear of demons." Arkaius purred, a poisonous smile stretched across his face.

"I just wanted it to be a surprise for both of you" Masky answered, giving me a much less poisonous grin

Arkaius was larger than almost everyone in the house, except Slender. He stood at nearly 7 foot and had a broad, thick body, though none of it was fat. His face was a bit softer, but not enough to seem out of place. He had rounded, almond shaped eyes and dark, shoulder length, thick hair.

"Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I've finally paid of my debt~" Arkaius announce, lifting me over his head and setting me on the floor to wrap his wings around me once again.

"Hurrah for you. You still owe me for helping you with that though. Are you sure you should be holding her again?"

"She's too adorable to resist, I just can't help myself~ Surely you know what I mean?"

Arkaius' POV

Zhi really was fun to cuddle, almost therapeutic honestly. Masky couldn't see it, but she was mushing her face into my wings, so I'm sure she didn't mind.

"BTW, has her story been published yet?" I asked.

"No, it's still in review for now." Masky replied warily.

"Excellent. Tell Slender he may need to make some changes to her description." It took him a few moments to understand what I meant and to react, unfortunately, unfavorably.

"No, absolutely not Arkaius. You can't go around turning people into demons without asking!"

"Oh, but I think she'll make such an adorable demon, don't you? Besides, I don't have any contracts yet. I wouldn't want to disappoint my father~" I began ruffling the feathers of my wings, spreading a narcotic mist in a 5 foot radius around me. I hated to do this, but I didn't want Zhi to feel the pain of the changes she would go through, and I couldn't have our masked friend trying to interfere.

The process didn't take long. It never does for beings as young as Zhi, though she did whimper in pain despite being unconscious. She was certainly different. Satisfied, I gently carried her into her room and laid her on the bottom of their stacked beds. I wasn't as gentle with Masky, but he wouldn't know at all. It's hard getting someone into the top bed apparently, why do they make these things even? All that was left was to wait and listen, something I could do from the secure comfort of my own room...

Masky's POV

I had the misfortune of waking up to the screaming, of who could only be Zhi. Groaning from the headache splitting my skull in two I swung my legs over the edge of my bunk and sat up, rubbing my face and panicking about my missing mask for a moment before remembering why it wasn't on my face. I looked around our room to find her standing in front of the mirror, freaking out about a very alarming amount of additions to her body that definitely weren't there before Arkaius did...something...to us. Now isn't the time to think about exorcising demons, we have to help her cope with being a demon right now. Zhi had apparently awoken to a new set of jet black, feathered wings attached to her back that weren't quite big enough to reach the sides of her arms, 1 ½ horns poking up from under her hair, wickedly sharp teeth, a long, black forked tongue, and now glowing blue eyes. Well at least the horns wouldn't be to hard to hide and she would no longer require a flashlight. Bad joke? Yeah, bad joke, bad Masky. Zhi was pretty messed about about waking up as a demon, but I managed to calm her down and maybe get her to see the bright side of things a little more clearly, not that I found it much less fuzzy than she did. It wasn't long after she stopped screaming and rocking in her chair, that Slender came in to take over and inform us on what was going on.

"I see you two have finally come out of it. Arkaius was a little heavy on the narcotics, you've been out for about a week. I punished him appropriately."

"Good. Thanks Sle- did you say a week? WE'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK?!" it was my turn to scream something.

"Yes, Masky. A week. I hope it'll comfort you to know that I took care of both of you the entire time. And Zhi, Hoodie managed to learn to make macaroni and cheese and seems to be working on learning to make other 'simple' dishes so that meals won't fall entirely on your shoulders."

Slender's words provided a bit of comfort I guess. At least we weren't messed with in our sleep...well except for Zhi. We all stood or sat silently for a moment, Zhi and I processing the information and Slender just letting us do so, that is before he spoke once more.

"I hope you'll be able to cook again soon though, Zhi. We've had nothing but macaroni this past week. I had to put my foot down today and force Hoodie to let me bring pizza home. There's a lot of mac n cheese, as you call it in the fridge, but I got Hawaiian and bread-sticks with garlic butter sauce if you'd like."

"I think I'll go for the pizza, thank you. I don't know why, but I feel sort of disgusted by the thought of mac n cheese right now." Zhi spoke calmly despite what was probably going through her head. I couldn't explain why, but I felt the same towards the cheesed noodle dish for the time being.

"Well you've had to smell it all this time so I can't blame you. You're both fine to go down and get pizza." Slender nodded and turned away, going towards the stairs and most likely the kitchen to either feed himself or The Rake.
Zhi and I went down to get our own food, the rest of the house had already gotten their share and separated. We had spent a week in our own room, so we had decided to sit at the table and eat, using paper towels as plates. We ate in silence, there was nothing to say and both of us hadn't properly eaten for a while, there was no room for words.

Zhi's POV

I was still sorta processing what had happened before we slept for so long. I know I had already sorta gone through this, but I wasn't sure how I felt about it. I was mad at Arkaius, sure, but was my new situation that bad? The wings served a purpose and the horns could eventually as well. Actually I had no idea if the wings were suitable for flying yet, they were so small and I couldn't really control them yet.

It wasn't long after we had finished eating that Slender came down and told me to get my 'gun' and that he was taking me out to kill someone. I obeyed with the protests of the other members of the house's complaints at my back. Cries of "but she hasn't trained at all" and "we couldn't teach her anything, she wouldn't wake up!" Aside from not knowing anything about murder as a hobby I had a feeling my first outing would be fun.

Author's Notes

This chapter didn't really end how I had planned it too, but I forgot what I wanted

to originally have it be. I know I'm editing this from the originals, but lately I've been able to completely re-imagine a lot of parts and a fair portion of this was written without the original draft even nearby. I got it close enough to what I wanted though, I just couldn't remember the exact way I wanted to do it since my dumb-ass didn't bother to write it down or type it up the same night I thought it. I'll be better about that the next time it happens. See ya next chapter!