Jesse shut her eyes onscreen, taking a deep breath. For a moment, nothing happened.
And then, she started to lean forward. She quivered in a slumped-over position for a moment, before suddenly whipping down to the ground, all six of her arms slamming into the ground. The screen switched to show her mouth, where her canines slowly sharpened into tiny fangs. Both eyes started glowing blood red, and her lowest set of arms and her legs began to rotate in an extraordinarily creepy way until the joints locked. It looked as though her lower limbs were doing a crabwalk, while she was crawling on the top four.
"Whoa," Nell vocalized what most people in the room were thinking.
Jesse opened her eyes, blinking slightly, before looking around her at her friends. Lukas was next to her on all fours, teeth gritted and eyes clenched shut. His hands were actually starting to look a little fluffy, and his claws were in full effect. His canines had also sharpened, but unlike Jesse's teeth they were more like tiny needles in his mouth. His hair seemed to have started developing dark, oblong spots, and his ears and tail were twitching in agitation. He opened his eyes to reveal that they were definitely green now. His legs also seemed to have switched the joints so that they were more cat-like, because his knees were bending at an awkward angle.
"Huh," Harper hummed. "I guess switching to a more 'mob-like' form means you take on more of the characteristics of the mob. Including the way their joints move."
Nobody commented on this; their eyes were glued to the screen.
Jesse's gaze switched to a set of feet, and slowly she lifted her head to see Olivia, who was nearly as tall as an Enderman at this point. Her eyes had turned magenta with slits for irises, and more of her body seemed to be jet black, especially her arms and legs. Her clothing also seemed to be darker than it usually was, and Olivia was standing ramrod straight. Her hair also seemed to be straighter, too, if you looked closely.
Axel was nearby, more of his skin starting to turn to a mottled green color. His irises had grown to the size where the whites were lost. He was also on all fours, Reuben perched on his back almost as if he were riding horseback. The only part of Axel that wasn't still mottled green were patches of his face and the very tips of his fingers.
Petra's eyes had turned faintly gold, but the rest of her was still that dull gray color. The Blaze Rods that had formed were gray, and mottled purple, and they were slowly disentegrating as Petra shakily hovered into the air. Even that slight motion seemed to be exhausting to Petra, who looked as if she might pass out any minute now. The spider hybrid stared at her friend for a minute before lowering her gaze to see Soren fastening the cloak on, pulling the hood over his head anxiously.
"With any luck, Petra'll make it to the trapdoor with no problem," Dan said, trying to sound cheerful.
Jesse slowly turned to look at him. "Have we had any luck so far?" she asked him.
"... good point."
Jace hugged Petra anxiously. Petra patted him on the arm, before shooting Lukas a worried look, her usually calm expression fading to one of acute anxiety. He spotted it and gave her a wavery smile, before returning to the screen.
"Ready?" Jesse asked, her voice sounding rather strangled from her new spider-vocal cords. It came out as more of a hiss.
Everyone nodded and hissed, meowed, or at least made an affirming sound that confirmed their agreement. Jesse took a deep breath and started creeping forward, keeping her gaze on the ground. The Endermen were all watching them intently and in almost literally perfect silence.
"This is easily the most terrifying part so far," Lukas said faintly. Everyone had given into the instinct of either covering their faces or looking at the screen out of the very corners of their eyes. Maya had the pillow she'd been using to whack Gill with up to her face.
Everything seemed to be going well, even if only for a moment, and even if the situation they were in was absolutely terrifying.
At least, it was until an Enderman's screech rang out onscreen.
Jesse's head jerked up and around, and her eyes widened in horror as Petra collapsed to the ground like a puppet with the strings cut, Blaze Rods vanishing on the spot. Her eyes were half-lidded and no longer that faint gold; they'd reverted back to black.
"PETRA!" several members of the audience shouted. Jace had a death grip on the redhead.
The Endermen immediately around Petra were starting to screech angrily, more and more of them taking up the call as Petra thudded onto the woolly ground, not even making much of a sound.
"PETRA!" Jesse shouted onscreen, her strangled voice rising into more of a human tone. Suddenly, her limbs rotated back to their normal position, the fangs retracted, and her right eye went back to green.
"Ah, crap," Jesse muttered, thumbing the corner of her lip anxiously. "I must've lost focus when I panicked."
Olivia bleeped into sight next to Petra, having also reverted back to normal- she must've also panicked upon seeing Petra- and scooped the redhead up, before giving off a shiver as ice started forming on the Enderman hybrid's arms.
"Into the water!" Soren yelled, and everyone leapt in without any hesitation, even Olivia, who flinched upon landing in the water. The water around her was starting to freeze over, a thin layer of ice forming on the water.
"Oh Notch oh Notch oh Notch," Olivia chanted, having buried her face into Axel's shoulder again. Axel had also covered his eyes, Jace had his face buried in Petra's back, and Lukas had a hand over his eyes.
"I can't watch!" Maya yelped, putting the pillow back up to her face. Aiden aimed a kick at her shin.
"We have to-" Olivia winced, barely able to keep Petra's head above the water. "We have to get out of here!"
Jesse swam over and took ahold of Petra, although her eyes widened a moment later as she flinched in the cold. She was starting to shiver rather harshly as well.
"Wait, don't spiders die if the weather is too cold?" Cassie asked suddenly.
Jesse groaned and covered her face.
"Oh!" Soren exclaimed onscreen. "When I built this place, I was worrying about how flammable the building material is. So I built a fire suppression system to keep the whole place from going up in flames."
The cold was definitely affecting Jesse in a bad way, because she looked as though she were about to pass out, and she took a good five seconds to respond. "So... there's more water?" she asked, beginning to sink below the water. Axel quickly reached out and pulled Petra away out of her unresponding hands, shivering a bit himself. He opened his mouth, as if he were about to fire a barrage of questions at Jesse, before shutting his mouth again. He seemed to have gotten that now was not the time to do so, thank Notch.
"Much more!" Soren exclaimed, pointing at a tower with waterfalls pouring off of it. "If we activate it, we could disperse all these Endermen while getting to safety. The lever's right up there."
Jesse shook her head furiously, clearing it, before raising a hand and firing a string at the tower. It caught, and Jesse gave her wrist a good, harsh flick. She went flying out of the water, before slamming into a waterfall, sending water splashing all over the wood and nearly getting washed off. She quickly scrambled to get a good grip, before racing up the side of the tower and flipping the lever with a single, hard hit. "Okay, I have no clue how much water this thing's gonna kick out, so-!"
She got cut off rather abruptly as a huge wave of water slammed her off of the structure, the wool world filling up as the water level rose rapidly but steadily.
Jesse took a deep breath just as her head went under. Petra shook her head out of the stupor she'd fallen into, blinking slowly and dazedly. She looked as if she had no idea where she was.
Both Jesse and Lukas swam over to the redhead as ten bubbles and ten hearts appeared in the top left of the screen. Jesse grabbed her left arm, Lukas took the right, and the group quickly swam towards the trapdoor along with the others. No Endermen were in sight, having all started teleporting away the minute the water level had begun to rise.
Soren went through, then Olivia, who was moving rather sluggishly with her expression pinched up in pain. Then Reuben swam through. Then Axel.
Jesse's bubbles dropped at an alarming rate, until there were only three bubbles left.
Two.
One.
"Oh Notch," Lizzie gasped, hand up to her mouth. She wasn't the only one; the rest of the audience looked as if they were all holding their breaths in concern.
Jesse's hand grazed the trapdoor just as the bubbles ran out, and she gave her head a hard shake, jolting herself back to reality, and kicking it open, she shoved Petra through first. Lukas swam in a bit behind her, and Jesse dove through the trapdoor, slamming it shut behind her.
The screen blacked out.
Petra let out a relieved sigh and sat back. "Thanks, Lukas, Jesse. Sorry about..." She directed the last part at Jesse, but the black-haired girl shook her head.
"No, don't worry about it. If I was the one sick with Wither Sickness, you would've done the same for me."
Maya sagged into the couch cushions with a loud "whew". "That was way too close for comfort."
Lukas absentmindedly placed a hand over his heart, arm still wrapped around Jesse. "Tell me about it."
A/N: Whew! This was fun to write.
But oh noes! What's gonna happen next?
OMG 9000 READS (well, over...) AAAAAAHHHHHH
RQTC: Has anyone actually ever said you're not Soren's friend when playing? If so, what does he say?
Slayer88: Fair enough x3
LunarStarsMoon: (laughs) / (falls off the chair due to shouting) Ouch...
S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: (grins)
rebekahtpe: True xD
Rabbits rule: Okay xD It's just that a lot of or most fanfiction's descriptions go 'What if' so.. yeah xD / ... um... no xD I did not know that.
Darkbeast Dend: Cool :3 / Lol I love FNaF xD I've watched people play it so many times that I've memorized the behavioral patterns xD so it's not scary at all anymore.
sailor. mikuchan: (grins evilly)
KaosRuin: I know, right?
LittleAngelbun: (looks at the ceiling)
SofiaTheWriter88: Aww, thanks!
EhtanDaCabbage: Never mind :3
IShipMagnegaard: Oh, lol, totally forgot about that xD Yes I'm still doing that; but we're still two episodes off.
mEEplePeoPLe: That is why I only have it online. My parents don't bother going online to read it haha xD
DynamiteHunter6: 1) Jesse (she's easiest to write for), 2) Lukas (he's also easy to write for), 3) Aiden (I'm actually not sure why haha xD), 4) Ivor (he's awesome), 5) Umm... I dunno, Reuben? (He's so smol lol xD)
Emily The Avenger: Lol, yep xD that just popped into my head randomly and since he enjoys teasing Jesse and Lukas... xD
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