Welcome all to my mediocre writing. at least with this time I have had my friend Terrence Johnny Stanford edit this in his style witha couple stuff to add
before you read. i cannot guarentee that future chapters will be this long. because they will be 5k tops after this. so withiut further ado. onto my AU
*Riing*
Mono grabs the alarm clock and throws it out the window
"UUUUH. Why me today?" said Mono as his older brother appears out nowhere and looks down
"Because your late" said the older brother in a very monotone voice
"But Thin Man" said Mono as he turns over
"Why do you keep calling me that?" said the older brother not even changing his tone as he picks up Mono and puts him on his feet "Breakfast is downstairs" he then left Mono's room to head down to the kitchen
Looking a bunch of waffles on the table. He noticed some were missing
"…" said older brother before opening a cabinet a couple nomes with some waffles in their arms jump out and run "*sighs* why do we keep those things?" as he puts his hat on and notices his phone ringing "Hello"
"Hey man I'm outside. I see those nomes have stolen some food again"
"Tch. I don't really care Hunter" said older brother "Me and Mono will be out once he's ready"
"Alright TJ, sounds good"
TJ puts his phone away as he looks at mono finishing up his waffles and running over
"mmhemph"
"Mono. Don't talk with your mouth full" said TJ as Mono puts his bag over his head as they both walked outside the little home to see Hunter sitting down on the chair holding a shotgun "Why do you insist on bring that everywhere?"
"Hey man. My gun is my best friend besides you two" said Hunter as TJ tolled his eyes and grabbed his car keys unlocking it. Mono quickly gets in while TJ and Hunter walk into the front
"I hope you have a plan for it in school" said TJ sarcastically as he starts the car
"Of course I do. Watch" said Hunter as he puts the shotgun in his backpack that was clearly too small for it. Yet it fit in like it was nothing at all surprising both brothers
"H-How did you do that?" Said Mono
"magic" said Hunter as TJ frowned before backing the car and began their journey. They drive through the town. A short moment goes by as then a nome crawled out from under the seat and say next to Mono
"Hey.. aren't you the nome from Hunter's house?" said Mono as the nome nodded as TJ and Hunter see it on the mirror
"Hitchhiking again?" said TJ as the nome nodded again while Hunter chuckled in amusement
"Hmm. We should give you a name… are you a boy?" Said Mono as the nome nodded again "OK then… Jack?" the nome shook his head "Gary?" nome shook his head again "Bucky like from the movie? The one with the metal arm?" the nome contemplated it before nodding excitedly
The boys reach the school as TJ picks a good place to park. Bucky the nome unzipped Mono's bag as he then got inside. Making Mono smile
"TJ can I bring Bucky?"
"..If you lose him. That's on you" said TJ as he and Hunter both got out of the car. Mono excitedly zips his bag while making sure to leave an open spot so Bucky can poke out as he followed suit "See you later Mono. Don't make friends that'll abandon you."
"Got it" said Mono as he could hear Bucky try to speak. But since he is a nome he can only make nome noises "Bucky I don't understand what your saying" Bucky poked out and pointed over to another boy playing with a bunch of nome "Huh. Well I guess he likes nomes too"
Mono at the same time felt extremely nervous. After what had happened with his big brother. He was afraid of new people besides nomes and Hunter. And frankly. Mono was also not very interested in new people
Mono walks among other school mates as he looks for his first class. Eventually. He finds it. Reading the top. He entered the class and gives over to sit in a back corner. He began to see more classmates coming in
Mono checks his phone before deciding to give it to Bucky to entertain himself after turning off the volume. Eventually a boy sits next to Mono. He noticed it was the same boy playing with the nomes from earlier
They both look at each other for a moment. The boy was wearing blue as Mono that his bag also seemingly had some…. Nomes
"…hey.." said the boy
"OH NO IM BEING TALKED TOO!" thought Mono as behind his bag he tried thinking of something to say. Before getting an idea. He then waved hello at the boy
"Alright class. We are skipping introductions and straight to learning about manatees."
"Brace yourself man this will be a while" said the boy "And btw. I'm Rin. Like Runaway" as he noticed one of his nomes unzipping and peeking out of his backpack
"(Get down buddy)" whispered Rin as the nome quickly ducked back into his backpack
"I wonder how TJ is doing" thought Mono
Meanwhile
"Hunter. Whats with your mask though? Don't you care about your depth perception?"
"Hey man. This is tactics to survival TJ. If I can manage this this with heighten my other sens-ow" said Hunter as TJ tosses a pen at him "Hey!" as TJ chuckles as they both sit down. But while they watch other students come in
But at the corner of TJ's eye. He sees a beautiful girl. Walking with a couple twins that were shorter than her. This did not go unnoticed by Hunter
Back to Mono
"Say… whats your name?" whispered Rin to a nervous Mono
"….Mono" said Mono quietly
"..Mono? Cool. Where you from?"
".."
"Oh.. gotcha. You know. You remind me of Six" said Rin as Mono curiously tilted his head "Oh right forgot. But no worries you'll fit right in"
*Bell rings*
"So then Mono. What class you got next?" said Rin as Mono unzips his bag and Bucky hands him his phone. He then showed Rin a picture "Oh cool I'm in that class too. C'mon"
While they were walking through the somewhat busy hallway. They hear
"Hey! Shoo! shoo!"
A bunch of nomes run through the hallways into new hiding places as a man with incredibly long arms and short legs was chasing them
"Whats going on?" said Rin trying to hold in an amused smile
"The naughty nomes have took some paper again" said the man as he then looks around for the nomes "Now where did they go this time?" as he then sees a group of nomes carrying a box "Hey. The science room is that way" the nomes carrying the box then changed direction and ern to where the man pointed
Mono and Rin looked at each other in amusement as they see the trouble maker nomes come out of their hiding places and skidded away with the paper they took
"Don't ask why. Those 5 nomes a just funny" said Rin as they head into their next class that being science
"Mono looks around to see many dissected and taxidermied animals stuff around the classroom. Making Mono feel a but uneasy. Though he's sure Hunter won't mind it. He and Rin take their seats as more students come in
Among them was TJ and Hunter who noticed them and made their way over
"Have fun in your first class?" said TJ while Hunter admires all the taxidermy as they both sat with the two. Mono shrugged his shoulders for a moment
"This your friend Mono"
"Actually I'm his older brother" said TJ taking off his hat and searching g his head for a moment "Though Hunter is his friend if your curious" as he dusts off his hat before putting it back on
"Sup" said Hunter
"Do you… see well through that sack?" Said Rin
"Mhm. Pretty good at survival skills if I do say so myself" said Hunter as Rin then noticed Mono's backpack
"Has Mono spoken to you a full sentence yet?" said TJ as Rin shook his head "That's alright. He's shy like that. Isn't that right bro" as TJ ruffled the bag making Mono jerk away slightly making TJ chuckle
"Hey… where's the teacher" said a rando kid as everyone looked at the door to see no one there. After a moment everyone began to talk, go on their phones, or fall asleep
"Hey Mono are you hiding a nome in your backpack?" said Rin making Mono freeze for a moment
"Ooh. Busted" said Hunter as he chuckled
"Nah man its cool" said Rin unzipping his backpack and three nomes jump out "These are three of my friends that live in the school"
".." said Mono as he unzips his bag and gestures Bucky to climb out. When he did the three nomes waved hello to him as they skidded over to him to start talking
*Nome noises*
"Do you ever understand what they're saying?" said TJ as RIn shook his head
"Alright everyone im sorry I'm late. Put your phones away. And if anyone brought any nomes Rin. Please put them away as well" Mono, TJ, and some other kids were trying to find where the voice was coming from as Rin points to the sky
To see a very large man hanging on the ceiling as all the kids watched him go over to his upside-down desk
"Any questions?" said the teacher
"How are you doing that?" said one girl
"Doing what?"
"the thing with the ceiling. How?"
"That my child. Comes with being a doctor" said the teacher as he puts his desk on the normal ground and notices a bunch of nomes bring a box in "Ah perfect. Its here. Kids. Grab a worksheet and start working"
And once everyone did so the teacher did a creepy giggle rubbing his hands together as the nomes brings the box closer. He excitedly opens it and pulls out a dead racoon. Slightly unnerving a few people while the rest didn't care
"….you think he'll let me have it?" said Hunter hoping he could do taxidermy
"Nope. But maybe he'll let you do your taxidermy thing to it" said TJ as Rin looked at Hunter curiously
"You.. taxidermy?" said Rin as Hunter nods "this guy for real?" as Mono nods in response while everyone else began working
Mono looked at the worksheet as he zoned out of Rin's conversation with TJ and Hunter. He looks at some "basic" science questions. Yet to his mind they are complicated as hell. Freshman year and work is already hard
"This will be a pain" Thought Mono
Later at lunch time
They walk to the lunchroom to get their food. And Mono noticed that its hamburgers on first day. He looks at TJ and then at the lunch line
"That'll be out of your pocket" said TJ as Mono gets in line
Mono stands behind a girl. She had short black hair. As she seemed to be picking A LOT of food for her tray. This slightly surprised his as grabbed two burgers and an apple juice for his tray before returning to his table
Mono sits down and puts his own lunch box on the tray before unzipping his backpack for Bucky to hop out. Mono hands him a burger which Bucky happily accepts and starts eating (behind that cone hat he wears) Mono then slightly raises his bag up and eats his burger while TJ and Run sit at both his sides.
Rin then notices A bunch of identical girls and boys in the corner
"Oh no" gaining curious looks from Mono and TJ
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"Those Piercelyn kids. They are always up to something" said Rin as one Piercelyn kid gets up and throws a jelly donut at another Piercelyn kids. Only for the kid to duck and the doughnuts goes flying into the yellow girls face
Before that. The yellow girl was enjoying her plentiful amount of food. But now she has a growing tick mark in her head as she growls. All the Piercelyn kids pointed to the particular one that did it
"Six don't think about it remember last time" said another yellow girl. But this one has long brown hair in a braid. Six reluctantly backs down. Until another jelly doughnut flies into her face. And then another flies into the face of the other yellow girl making them both get tick marks
The Piercelyn kids pointed at the same kid again. The smoke fight moves around a little involving a few more kids while others move away
"Nevermind. Go get them" said the other girl as Six growls and runs over an tackles the Piercelyn resulting in a smoke fights a few more jump in as the other yellow girl joins in. Rin facepalms while Bucky and TJ look in immense interest
"Damn" though Mono as he then noticed something yellow flying at him "Oh f-"
It was Six as she knocked him off his seat and onto the floor. Six looks at Mono nut could see he has fuzzy eyes. Before returning to the smoke fight
"Mono are you alright!?" said TJ quickly getting down too his aid
The smoke fight then went on until
"EVERYONE STOP!". Then everyone stopped fighting and looked at a random kid who then said "She's coming!"
All the kids that were fighting began to panic and frantically cleaned up their mess as quickly as possible as then a very intimidating woman comes in and there was an eerie silence. She held out her ruler as she looked around the place
"I hope you weren't making trouble" said the woman as everyone began shaking their heads "…" then a chair nearly falls on her "?" prompting her to look up too see the doctor teacher on the ceiling
"Oh uh.. sorry?" said the doctor teacher with a sheepish smile
"How the hell does he even do that?" thought the scary woman before inspecting more of the cafeteria before deciding to leave
"Uh.. my head.." said Mono as he gets up and notices Bucky and TJ worried looking at him
"Does this happen often?" said TJ
"Believe it or not. It occasionally happens" said Rin as Hunter appears behind them
"Hey guys. What I miss?"
"…where were you?" said TJ
"I decided to eat outside and then I heard this commotion. So I watched for a bit cuz it was awesome. Until I needed to piss. And then I came back to see this" said Hunter
"Apparently everyone is scared of one of the teachers" said TJ
"Raini. How the hell are they allowed to continue coming here?" Six said the other yellow girl
"I have no idea" said Raini as she takes off her yellow jacket and wipes off food. Mono watched them from afar for a moment. He strangely had a feeling that he will deal with them more often
Later
Mono was kind of liking school at this point. And this teacher was a man with an incredibly long arms. Similar to the janitor. But he was in a wheelchair. He also had very long legs.
"Hello there. Are you Mono?" said the man as Mono nodded "OK good. I am the craftsman. Please take a seat next to Six over there" Mono nodded as he went over to where Six was sitting. At the sane time he realized she was the girl that was thrown at him
Six then looked at him curiously as soon as he sat down next to her. She wondered what he looks like under that bag. They both look at exactly other for a solid moment
"…" said Six
"…" said Mono as they break away from the look
The craftsman then found his papers
"I want you all to grab the wood under the desks. We will be using these dolls for chopping" said the craftsman as he reaches over to grab a doll only to grab a squeaking nome "Huh?" as he puts the nome down he reaches again
To grab another nome. And he did it one last time before looking up to see all the dolls were missing
"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EXAMPLE DOLL!?" said the craftsman to the nome who shrugged its shoulders. He sighs in annoyance before putting it down "Alright tome for plan B" as he then opened a shelf and a few more nomes jumped out and scattered he inspected it until he finds a hideous looking doll "There we go"
"looks identical to him" said a random kid making a few others giggle. Making craftsman angry
"You! Out the room now!" as the funny kid leaves the room "I hope no one else has jokes. Otherwise it's a whole section working in the salt room with him"
"Salt room?"
"You just help Roger move bags of salt" said Craftsman
"Oh"
Mono and Six look at each other again as they grabbed their dolls and craftsman began talking to the class about basic parts of the body. Later during the lecture. Six felt curious about this new boy. While Mono felt awkward since Six was the person that crashed into him
Now he imagined what TJ must be doing right now
To TJ
TJ and Hunter were in a very boring session involving math. Hunter couldn't care less while TJ had his eyes in the beautiful girl he saw earlier. He couldn't keep them off her. She turns to see her twin friends seemingly elbowing each other and gives them both an annoyed look
TJ wondered who she so he tapped Hunter
"You by chance know who she is?" whispered TJ
"…not really?" whispered Hunter "I only know her family owns a restaurant. And those two dudes with her are her cousins or something"
"hm… you know what restaurant it is?" Whispered TJ as Hunter shook his head
To Mono
Mono and Six were writing on a worksheet as they listen to the craftsman's lecture. Six absolutely hated it and wished she was hurried up and finished her paper as fast as she could so she could zone out. Unaware that Mono was doing the sane thing. Only a bit slower
*rriing*
"Aright that's the bell everyone now go to your next class" said Craftsman as many kids started getting up and leaving the classroom. He then notices both Mono and Six. He rolls his chair over and tapped on their desk
"!" They said
"Period over. To your next class you two" said Craftsman as the rolled out of the room. Mono got up and grabbed his bag as Bucky was seemingly still playing with his phone as he and Six left. As soon as they left the classroom
"Six over here!" said Raini as Six quickly made her way over as Mono then went on his way "So Six. Who was that?" Six shrugged in response "Alright then. Let's catch up with Samantha" p
Mono eventually see the doctor doing his ceiling crawl into the an office. Mono felt the urge in his gut to follow. When he did. He slowly opened the door and noticed a statue. But he could also hear the doctor humming
Mono looked where the humming was
*Lights turn off*
Mono felt a little panic as he could hear something move from behind
"Oopsie" said the divorce as he restore power to the room. Mono turns around and sees the statue has moved closer to him
"!" said Mono gaining the doctor's attention
"Huh? What are doing here?" Said Doctor
"Uh…"
"Forget it. Just go to your class. Because this room's program isn't ready yet" said Doctor as he urges Mono to leave as he continued his work "Why do kids always like coming here?"
Mono leaves the room creeper out by the statue. But he realized he is late for his last class as he quickly runs
He eventually makes it to his last class of the day that being English with the scary teacher from the lunch room. Mono noticed as he took his seat that some kids seemed to be very alert of the teacher as she was writing on her chalkboard
She then turned around and smiled at everyone there
"Good morning class. Since its your final period of the day. Please pay attention. There may be a quiz in two weeks" said the teacher as began writing down her class schedule
Mono sits next Rin who seemed happy to happy to see him
"Get ready man. This be the most boring" whispered Rin as the teacher hands out books to everyone and tells everyone to start reading.
*Thud*
Everyone guards something. To which the teacher. Literally extends her neck up to see hats going on. This unnerved some kids including Mono
"I don't think she ever said that was normal" whispered Rin as she retracts her head and walks around the room seemingly looking for something. She grabs a ruler and hits her desk. Then out came a none who quickly scurried out of the room
"pesky nomes" she muttered before she then sat down "Start reading everyone" as she then started reading a book
Later
*riing*
Everyone began packing as the teacher continued reader her boom while she waved goodbye. Mono and Rin made their way of the room as TJ and Hunter were seemingly outside waiting for Mono
"Alright bud. You ready?" said TJ as Mono nodded and the four of them began to leave the school
"….Rin?" said Mono gaining his attention "It was nice meeting you". Rin smiled at that
"It was nice meeting you too man" said Rin as "So then. Where are you guys from?"
"We were originally from up north till we decided to settle here. Hunter I would say is from nearby the woods" said TJ
"It builds character TJ you guys should try it" said Hunter as TJ rolls his eyes as and grabs his car keys
"That's pretty cool" said Rin as TJ and Hunter waved and walked over to their cars
"See you tomorrow Rin" said Mono as they waved each other goodbye. Once he saw Mono get in the back seat. He then unzips his backpack and his three nome friends all jumped out "You ready to go home guys?" One nome went back in his backpack while the other two nodded as they walked away from the school
TJ drive through the town looking at the new sights before getting an idea
"Hey guys. Want to take a detour?" said TJ
"Yes please!" said Mono as Bucky made more nome noises
"Hunter?" said TJ as Gunter shrugged his shoulders "So its decided" as he took a different turn and drove further towards the town
Eventually drove to a cigarette store gaining TJ's interest
"Don't even think about it" said Hunter as TJ frowned as he drive more further to a mini-mart. TJ parks and they all get out. Mono holds onto Bucky as he follows TJ inside to see lots if food. Hunter goes over to get a bunch of bags of meat "OoOh. This'll make great burgers for weeks"
Mono walked to see some cooked hot dogs he tried to reach only to see he is too small to reach. But he then gets an idea
"Get four hot dogs please" said Mono as he lifted Bucky to get on the shelf as he then gets the tongs to grab 4 of the hotdogs, put gem in buns, and then into a container with condiments. Before handing it to Mono. Bucky sees something that got his interest
A small six pack of donuts. He gets one and points to it to Mono
"Sure" said Mono as Bucky excitedly handed it along with the hot dogs to him before jumping down as they went further to look at all the chips. But so far nothing else got Mono's interest. Except for some lemonade bottles to which he grabbed some and gave a few to Bucky to hold
TJ just grabbed some fruit and some frozen dinner meals before getting in line joined by Hunter. Mono quickly catches up "*sigh* that's a lot. Got everything?" the three of them nodded "Alright" as they waited to the two people in front to finish paying and leave they were up next
"I see you guys are stacking up" said the cashier as he scans the items one by one before putting them into bags
"Well gotta start somewhere" said TJ handing the cashier his card
The cashier then hands TJ back his card and one by one gave the gang the bags. Mono and Bucky excitedly run out and get in their seats outside
TJ and Hunter began putting their groceries in the trunk before taking their seats as TJ then starts the car. Mono hands Bucky his donut pack who excitedly opens it and began to eat each small donut one by one
"You think we should have got milk?" said Hunter
"I don't think we that" said TJ as he drove through the town and all the way over to the house they are staying at. TJ then parks it.
"Its super convenient we are neighbors" said Hunter as he and TJ open the trunk and grab all their groceries and went into their houses.
Mono and Bucky noticed them go ad they quickly grabbed their stuff and went to catch up to TJ. Mono guess over to put some of the lemonade bottles in the fridge while Bucky then starts eating one of the hot dogs. He then took off his bag
"Don't eat too fast" said Mono as he went over grab to hotdogs, poured ketchup on them, and started eating
The day started to get dark
Mono slumps down on the couch, TJ is already asleep but Bucky a as with him. Mono started flipping through the channels . Until at one point. The TV went static. Mono tried changing the channel while Bucky could tell something was wrong before hiding behind Mono
"Mono….."
"!" said Mono dropping his remote as he heard a scary voice ca out to him. However. Bucky didn't seem to hear it as Mono looked at the TV even further. The more he looked the more he felt entrenched to approach it
Mono wasn't sure why… but he felt compelled to get closer. Bucky watched him with worry as he jumped off the chair to catch up to Mono. He pulled his shirt to no avail but kept trying
Mono eventually touched the TV screen and his finger sunk in as if it were water. He could see what appeared to a book. That's locked up.
Bucky began to panic as he jumped up to yank his arm out. It worked. Once Mono's hand got out he was panting heavily for a moment looking at his band broken from his trance. And then at Bucky "….Bucky?" as Bucky ran into Mono for a hug
"Little sounds…"
Mono looked at the TV as it eerily turned off
"…Thanks Bucky… I think that's enough TV for a day…" said Mono returning the hug before getting up and going upstairs to his room. When he did he puts Bucky on his bed as Mono got under the covers. He then watched Bucky make grab a smaller pillow and blanket and laid down
Mono looked up I to the ceiling wondering about that book he saw. What does it contain? How is it in the TV? And who was that voice he has been hearing through? All of these bothered him as he began to fall asleep in hopes it will distract him
Dreamscaoe
Mono found himself in the middle of the forest. He looked around and wondered where exactly. But he strangely could feel something watching him. He trekked further into the forest as he saw what appeared to be a shining light from afar
He walks through to see a TV with static over. Feeling entranced by it. But before he could get closer. He sees a figure watching him in the trees. He could see only its pure white eyes. It looked humanoid. As the ground started to grow human hands that became linger and longer
Mono quickly ran to the TV as the hands all started going after him trying to grab him. They grab both his legs and knock him over
"No!. No no-" said Mono as his vision gets more and more covered as more creepy hands got into him
Dreamscape end
"!" said Mono heavily breathing as he looked around his room. To see nothing is there. He notices Bucky is still asleep
It was the next day… Mono couldn't get much sleep that night as the day began to shine. He looks over at a sleeping Bucky as he gets up and stretched and slightly shakes him awake
"Wake up buddy" said Mono as he then looked to see two other nomes waking around in his room "?... oh yeah" as he quickly stopped his clock before it could go off
He passes the two nomes and goes downstairs to see TJ holding a plate of pancakes
"?" Said TJ "Oh your awake. I was about to see ya" as he walked over to hand him the plate "Another day" as he pats Mono on his shoulder and goes upstairs. Bucky and the other nomes then catch up to Mono prompting him to look down
"*yawn* here guys" said Mono taking a pancake and giving it to two of the nomes as they took it "Hold down the fort while we're gone" both nomes nodded as they both scurried away with the pancake "C'mon Bucky"
Little later
Mono and TJ were ready for the day as they leave the house with Bucky quickly jumps up to ring the doorbell of Hunter
Mono catches up to Bucky as he rings the doorbell again
"I'm comi-WHOAH!" *CRASH* "Ah.. damn it not again. Ugh.." said Hunter as he opens the door to see Mono and Bucky
"You ok?" said Mono as Hunter shuts the door and they both walk over to the car (while Bucky holds onto Mono's hand)
"All good. Only dropped 1 glass this time and broke a step" said Hunter
"I think you may need to start renovating your house" said Mono
"Pfft. Naw. I think it can go fir another week before I start investing" said Hunter as he sits shotgun next to TJ while Mono and Bucky get in the back. TJ gets the car working as they drove off unto where the school is
During the ride. Mono also couldn't stop thinking about the book he saw on the TV. Its like it was calling him yet he couldn't get. He holds Bucky close to him as he looks out the car window until they finally arrived
TJ parks the car as the gangs sees multiple nomes bring chased by the janitor again
"Still causing trouble I guess" thought Mono as he slightly chuckled at the sight before getting out. Bucky quickly catches up to him as they begin their walk "Alright. Let's see what new classes are today" as he looks at his phone
"Yo Mono!" said Rin running over to him with a nome in his hand
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"Where you going for class today?" said Rin as Mono showed him his phone "Ohh… there… we maybe we'll see each other next class" said Rin
"Yeah" said Mono as they waved each other. Bucky tugs on Mono's pants as they then go onto the class where they see a foreboding large man on the ceiling again as he was dissecting a dead rat to pieces
Bucky goes into Mono's backpack as Mono takes a seat as more kids start pouring in. Eventually all seats were taken except for the one next to him. Which was eventually taken by a girl. It was Six. She looked at him curiously again before the bell ring
*ring*
"Huh!? Oh right. Class. Just uh.. finish that worksheet if you haven't already. I'll uh… see what else is there today" said Doctor before crawling over to the vent to which two nomes jump out and run away "Huh. I can't find it anywhere" as he digs through more boxes
While Doctor does that. Six grabs a donut from her bag and was about to eat it until she heard s quick unzip. She turns her head to see Bucky poking out of Mono's backpack. Bucky makes a quiet nome noise as Six smiles and takes a piece of it and hands it to Bucky who reluctantly takes it and begins eating it
Six made a slight giggle gaining Mono's attention as they then stare at each other in the eyes
"…..your nome is pretty cute" said Six catching Mono off guard that she spoke to him
"Oh!... uh thanks.." said Mono nervously as Bucky then retracts back into Mono's backpack after he finished the piece making Six do a slight giggle. The doctor then pulls out a limb
"Everyone. This is a bear arm. I want you all to look at it.. that you means you Lester" said the doctor pointing a random kid who quickly gives his attention as everyone who paid attention watched as the Doctor dissected the bear arm
*ring*
The Doctor just finished dissecting it
"Been that long already? Huh. Turn in your assignment if you haven't already everyone. And don't leave your stuff here" said the Doctor as everyone got up and started to leave. When Mono grabbed his bag and left. Six wanted to say something
Only to see that was too late and he's already gone. She walks out of the classroom to see Raini seemingly waited for her
"So… I saw you trying to talk to him" said Raini smugly
"well…" said Six unsure what to say "I saw his nome.."
"Nome?.."
"He had one in his backpack.." said Six as Raini frowns that she didn't get the response she wanted as they walked over to their next class. While they did that a nome frantically ran and hid behidnthe two of them
They noticed it was being chased by the janitor
"Where are you this time?" said the janitor
"You looking for something Roger?" said Raini
"A nome took my stamp and donut" said Roger the janitor Six turned around that the nome behind her is holding a stamp. She bends over and gestures that she wants the stamp. The nome shook its head.
"Give us a moment"
"…you got candy?" said Six to which Rani looked in her lunchbox and pulled out a jolly rancher and handed to Six
Sox then held out the candy as the nome looked at it in her hand and pointed to it. Six then pointed to the stamp it was holding. It then looked at the candy and then at her before tossing the stamp to her. Before holding out its hands for the candy
Six puts the jolly rancher in its hands as it made a nome noise in response and ran away. Six went up to Roger
"…I don't understand how you kids get along better with those things.." said Roger taking his stamp and walking away
"So then.. you by chance saw that bag boy without.. the bag?" said Raini as Six shook her head
To TJ
TJ was walking through the school low key hoping he would see his little brother Mono. But of course. He eventually sees Hunter hiding something in his back
"Hunter. What the hell are you hiding?" said TJ
"Nothing" said Hunter as even though TJ could clearly see he see something behind his back as TJ leaned over and sees that Hunter has the taxidermied racoon from yesterday
"You've got to be joking. Of all things. You do *sigh* why?" said TJ facepalming
"Its art TJ. I have to have it" said Hunter
"But couldn't you at least try to put more effort in hiding… your backpack. What the hell happened to your backpack?"
"Yeah… that only works for my gun"
"Your… your kidding" said TJ
"GAH! WHERE IS MY RACCOON!?" yelled the doctor making TJ and Hunter freeze for a moment to look at each other before running out of the hallway passing through some clueless people
To Mono
When Mono was walking through the hallway passing through other students and nomes looking for his next class. He then feels an arm wrap around him
"Mono!"
Mono looked to see that its Rin
"How you been?" said Rin
"Oh….. its been alright" said Mono
"I came because I wanted to ask you… you on Insta?"
"….Insta?" said Mono
"Yeah. Instanight" said Rin
"I… Don't normally use social media" said Mono ad they head to their next class
"Really? Why not?" said Rin
"..I just don't normally use it" said Mono as they both take their seats amongst other students and waited until a man in a suit, a very droopy face, top hat, and monocle
"Good evening everyone. I hope u didn't keep you waiting too long" said the man "I am Maestro" as he then checks his watch "Alright. Get your books we will now learn the basics of building" as everyone stated grabbing their books
And the one kid raised her hand
"If you don't have a book. There are spares in the shelf to the back corner of the classroom" said Maestro as a few kids then get up to grab soare books "And make sure to return them when class is over"
"Well. If you do make the decision to join Instanight let me know" whispered Rin to Mono as they them see a nome pull in a wagon full of junk in front of Maestro's desk before skidding away
"Turn to page 43 and start reading the chapter. I don't expect you to finish. But I do expect you to look through all this junk and pick the materials you want to build… what you want" one kid raised his hand "Yes?"
"Does it have to be complicated?"
"No. It can be functional or it could be aesthetic. That's your choice. Hell. You can just make something powered by potatoes for all I care" said Maestro as he pulled out a broken calculator before tossing it back
Mono raised his hand to which Maestro points at him
"Are we limited to those stuff right there?"
"No you are not. You can use your own materials if you wish" said Maestro as he then stated down on his desk and began scribbling down
Mono and Rin read their books fir but until Mono felt like he wanted to look. He then gets up to be the first person to look through. To which he ends up finding a small hand crank. And something fir it gets go through
He digs through the box a little hit more but did not find anything worth his interest. After he walked back to his seat. Other kids began to look through the boxes and grabbed what they wanted
"…you getting anything?"
"Nah, got plenty of stuff at home I could use" said Rin as he just scrolls on his phone. Bucky then unzipped Mono's backpack so he can poke his head out. He looked at Mono to gain his attention. He then pointed to under his cone
"…hungry?" whispered Mono as Bucky nodded "Well. I think lunch soon so just hold on alright?" Bucky then gave a slight look of disappointment and retreated back into his bag "Rin. Where are your nomes?"
"Um.. probably running around the school. I just see them here and they like to hit his a ride in my bag" said Rin as he scrolled
To TJ
Hunter puts the taxidermied racoon in the trunk of TJ's car before asking back in the school with TJ with a none hiding under his hat poking out
"You making friends with that little guy?" said Hunter
"Nope. He just leaped onto me and I stopped caring at that point" said TJ as the nome retreats in his hat before walking back into the school. When they did. They hear the lunch bell ring
"Sweet! I hope they got sloppy joes!" said Hunter as he excitedly ran ahead into the cafeteria to be disappointed that its pancakes for the day "Aw" TJ then pats his shoulder
"I think that's tomorrow" said TJ as he went to look for Mono. To have no luck. So he sits down
"Aw man" said Hunter as he walks over to grab a soba and a pancake and sits next to TJ as more people start coming in and getting in line. And then person who happened to be first. Is Six
Six proceeded to grab a plate and grab a lot of pancakes
"Getting hungry as always?" said the lunch lady chuckling to herself before flipping a couple pancakes. Once she left. The person behind her was about to grab a pancake only for a nome to jump in front of him to grab it and run
"You snooze you lose" said a girl chuckling while the boy sighed before grabbing another pancake and going to a table
Then Mono and Rin enter the lunchroom and go in line
"You know. That was already my favorite class" said Rin as they both eventually got heir pancakes and both went over to the table where TJ is
When they both sat down Hunter let's out a belch to which TJ punches his shoulder
"Ouch! Hey f*** you thin man! I burp when I want"
"You can do it at your house but not here" said TJ with a tick mark on his head
Mono rolls his eyes while Rin tries to hold in a chuckle at the antics as he began eating his food. Mono unzips his bag and Bucky jumps out onto the table and Mono hands him a pancake to which he happily starts eating
Then the nome under TJ's hat pokes out and onto his lunch box landing on his sandwich making him frown as it got up and took one of his apple slices. Thankfully that sandwich was wrapped as TJ then unwrapped it and started to eat it
"…Hey Bucky how is the pancake?" said Mono as Bucky gives him a thumbs up as thankfully. No food fight interrupted the feast
"Ugh. I feel the impending homework pile next week" said Raini with a happily eating Six at another table
"*Mmph* what makes you say that? *nom*" said Six
"That bastard gave us 12 assignments in one week when we in middle school. Remember?" said Raini looking at a math homework
"Oh…" said Six remembering "Well… is Samantha still good with it?"
"Maybe?" said Raini eating her food as a girl with two braids cane over to sit with them "Hey Samantha"
"Hello" said Samantha happily as she grabbed a spoon and began eating one of her applesauces
The girl would then enjoy more small talk and heir food
*Ring*
Everyone began to get up and go to their last class of the day. Six sees Mono get up and leaving with Rin
"Thinking of talking to him?" said Raini from behind him
"…" said Six as Raini gets a smug smile
"Well you got to do it sooner or later" said Raini
Later
The school day was pretty much over for Mono as he walks with Rin and TJ the latter whom is holding a nome in his hands. As they walk through the somewhat busy hallway. What caught the three if them offguard was seeing the doctor guy crawling across the ceiling
"Huh. I wish I could do that" said Rin
"Wall crawl like Spiderman?" said Mono as Rin nodded
"Yeah man. Maybe he'll teach us how do it" said Rin jokingly
"Well I think Hunter will use that as an excuse to shoot" said TJ as the nome in his hand jumps off and waves goodbye before joining up with others
They then noticed Hunter waiting for them at the car
"Hey uh.. where do you guys live?" said Rin
"…I'd say more downtown by the woods. There will be two houses. Id say us a short walk from where all other houses are" said TJ as Hunter rides shotgun
"Cool I sometimes go by there. Before you guys moved in" said Rin as he then gets an idea and grabs his phone "Hey Mono. Want to keep in contact?" holding out his phone
"Oh.. sure" said Mono taking his phone and typing in his number and handing it back as Rin smiled and waved goodbye as Mono and TJ got in the car and began to drive off. Mononyhen unzipped his backpack fir Bicky to crawl out and sit down. Befire giving him his phone to play on
"Yo Rin where you been?" said a boy with a broken arm with slightly longish hair wearing a short with a ghost on it
"Been making a new friend" said Rin as they began walking back "What about you Ghost?"
"Classes are boring. But thankfully I got no gym thanks to this" said Ghost to his cast
"Heh. Nice" said Rin as they began to leave the school
To Mono
TJ was driving back to the houses passing through a few places within the town
However Mono saw something strange. He saw what appeared to be a "glitching" child. Just sitting at the sidewalk. Seemingly unnoticed by anyone nearby. In fact. A man walked through the child as if he was just air
The glitching child seemed to have taken notice of him which gave Mono the creeps as he then rubbed his eyes to look again
To see that the glitching person is gone…
Mono felt an uneasy as he then felt a small hand on his arm. He looks to see Bucky giving him a worried look again. He then smiled behind his back and pat him
"I'm ok Bucky" said Mono as Bucky made a slight nome noise as he gave Mono a hug
The car eventually stopped and Bucky hands Mono back his phone back before crawling into his backpack
"You guys want to join me on a hunt?" said Hunter
"But don't you normally take all night for that?" said TJ
"Yeah but with you guys it could be shorter" said Hunter "And then we can make burgers!"
"like.. with the kill?" said TJ
"Nah. From the meat I grabbed from the mini mart we went to yesterday" said Hunter
"Oh yeah" said TJ "But as for the hunting party. If you are going to do it. I won't stop you. But I won't join you"
"Aw man.. well what about you Mono?" said Hunter as Mono shook his head "*sigh* fine it will be me alone. Again.." as the three if them exit the car and TJ opens the trunk for Hunter to grab the taxidermied raccoon he stole
"Well the day is still young. So if you guys want to join me later feel free" said Hunter as he goes into his house
TJ, Mono, and Bucky then enter their house for the rest of the day. But unbeknownst to them. Something was watching them from the outside….
That night
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Mono, TJ, and Bucky spent the rest of the night watching TV but after a long while of doing so. TJ and Bucky eventually passed out
But Mono was still awake. Albiet very tired but then. The ominous voice from yesterday happened again
"Mono…. Go on…. Do it…"
The voice Mono heard again… It sounded scary. But he wasn't sure where the voice is coming from as he looked around. He looked at the tv as an impulse began to take over
The TV started showing a different signal showing flashes of multiple images of a book. He the book mesmerized him. With a lock and no key. He felt so entranced in it he took a step forward and touched the screen
His finger went right in before he frantically pulled it out breaking from his trance
"…" said Mono as he looked to see Bucky and TJ were both still asleep before the tv resumes the movie. He then pokes TJ to be awake
"zz-huh!? *yawn* Hey bro. Ugh.. I can't be sleeping here. Ill see you tomorrow. Don't be up too long" said TJ as he gets up and leaves upstairs
Mono on the other hand picks up Bucky and goes upstairs into his room. He then puts Bucky on the side of his bed he then laid down
"goodnight Bucky" said Mono
Bucky then made a noise in a "good night" fashion in response as Mono turns off the lamp
Mono then tried to fall asleep. Keyword being "tried" but he just couldn't. Two things occupied his kind. The glitch person he thought he saw. And that eerie thing with the TV. He wasn't sure. But he felt something was compelling him to see it again
He then puts on earbuds and tried listening to lofi in hopes of taking his mind off it which remained futile
He felt compelled to go back even further as he continued laying down
Later that night…
Mono couldn't take the image of the book off his mind anymore as he gave up and quietly got up to make sure not to wake up Bucky. He then snuck downstairs gabbed the remote and turned the TV back on
Mono looks at a TV. He looked around to make sure TJ isn't around. He then goes inside the TV to walk through a scary corridor. He saw man figures in the darkness moving around. He then shine a light to see some strange looking statues
Feeling creeped out he wanders further into the corridor reach what he was looking for. What appeared to be a book. But then. A hand broke through the doors to try to grab him. He frantically jumped back as he grabbed the book as ran as fast as he could
Many of the statures started to move and chased after him. The linger he ran the more hands burst through the corridor and began chasing him. He runs through a door and slams up shut a barricades it with two chairs
But he knew it won't hold them.. so he saw a window.. he then climbed it and pulled it open as he mannequins began smashing through the door which he jumped out
He found himself in a much more distorted version of the woods. As he then looked around to see a pair of ominous glowing eyes watching him
But.. he then saw it. The book. Je looked at it and then back at the eyes as he then aorknts towards the book.
He reaches the TV and jumps straight through it before they could touch him
He quickly turns off the TV and looked around and hoped TJ was still asleep. He wondered why he grabbed the book. But in his dream he felt it w as right. He then sneaked back into his room to see Bucky still sleeping on a couple pillows on his bed
He now carefully creeps into bed and began to fall asleep holding the book tight. Though the thoughts of what could be inside filled his mind. At least he was able to keep it close for now as he hugged the book tightly
To be continued
Smol trivia
1: the name of the story is a reference to Joji's album "BALLADS 1"
2: even though this maybe a school fic. This will also take inspiration from stuff like Gravity Falls and over the Garden Wall in terms of extra supernatural stuff (which may in turn have crossover monsters)
Alyx or was it 2.1? Maybe 2.2?: i actually had this for a while. so. why not release it here?
now then. Leave a review or flame. i really dont give a shit
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