In the darkness…

Bue is still tending to mal and D, their fevers haven't gone down and she's been re-cooling their head ice packs all day because it seems their own temp is melting the ice rather quickly. She was about to give up on the ice packs. She had to sit them up right to give them their food and water, it was a rarity for them to speak any words. D's were always trying to be flirtatious whereas mal's were always a puzzle. All of a sudden, at random, mal shot up from the bed, making bue nearly jump back.

"Mal?!" Bue asked in almost disbelief. Just as she said this, mal held his head tightly in pain then turned to her and pressed his finger to his lips to say "sh!"

"Bue...listen...th-there's s-something...i-impor-important I need to t-tell y-y-you…". Bue walked closer to him in order to hear his faint whispering voice better, he gestured for her to get closer and he whispered in her ear…-

"Run...run and hide...somewhere s-safe!" And with that, he fell back down onto the pillow, bue went to feel his pulse, it was fine and she sighed. But then started thinking about mal's words and looked around the room for somewhere to hide. She didn't entirely understand though why she had to hide. From who? For what reason?...HOW?! The room was large but that didn't mean there were very many hiding spots, there's a reason why Moonlight Tag is played in a thick forest. Bue just saw some bean bags and a large thick mountain of headless teddy bears. She chose to dive into the pile and stay there though also having no clue what she was waiting for until all of a sudden, the sound of a door opening came. Though still had no idea who it could be, the only other person in the darkness is that stupid looking puppet…. There were tiny footsteps as the person looked around the room. Dominic was looking for her.

"Oh Buuuuuuuueeeeeee...are you hiding?" Bue's eyes shot wide open upon hearing that voice. By the tone of it...he sounded like he was looking for her. Thinking about this, she realized that she had to stay hidden. The minute the dummy entered the room, the atmosphere changed to cold and desolate as it became hard to breathe and the mood turned to forebodingly gloomy and dramatic. Bue couldn't help but start shaking, the sound of a camera flash came. It sounded like he was taking pictures of every corner of the room, after some flashes stopped, the sound of small feet came towards her. Bue just wanted a small peek as to what's really going on, she moved a teddy bear about half an inch away so there was a very small gap for just her eye to peek through slightly. When she got herself close enough to the crevice to see through, the bright flash got her and she tumbled out of the pile, both hands over her tightly shut eye in pain as she rolled around on the floor.

"Thought you could hide from me?" Bue removed her hands from her eye and tried to open it slowly, she couldn't and just closed it again, it was her right eye so she'd have to move her hair flap to behind her ear but didn't love the idea. When she opened her left eye to look at the dummy...wherever it was, all the puppet saw was a light gray orb. He laughed and Bue looked around frantically to try and find the source of the voice.

"AHAHAHAHA! You're left eye has been covered for so long...you're half blind! Tell me...Bue...with your left eye...what can you see in front of you?" Bue smirked.

"Thanks for tellin' ma' where 'ya are!" She threw a punch right in front of her just to find he was lying.

"I see...so you can't see jack!" He flashes her with the camera again as now she's trying to crawl under the bed for it's dark haven. Mal starts to slowly wake up as well as D, seemingly sensing Bue's in trouble. The two open their eyes, mal looks over the edge on his side of the bed to see Bue's leg trying to wiggle it's way in to hide. The two get out of the bed, a bit wobbly and immediately get flashed by the dummy's camera and they fall to the floor.

"Buuuueeeeee….be a good girl and come out from under the bed…". While D and mal rolled around in pain, dominic lifted the covers to get sprayed with pink spray paint, it also got everywhere else as well since she was spraying it around frantically in hopes of catching him. Bue crawled out from the bed as her eyesight started to return from being in such a dark place for so long. She saw dominic frantically rubbing his eyes as she seized the opportunity and grabbed the camera then smashed it. Mal and D started to regain their strength and they slowly staggered to their feet same as Bue. The three held each other up as they continued rubbing their eyes in pain. But dominic still laughed, the three started shaking in fear...that and they were still struggling to stand up.

"Ahahaha...ah...you know...while you've all been sleeping, I managed to implant bright lines that turn on instantly with the flick of a switch…". They all gasped with terrified faces.

"How humiliating…, the dark personas...taken down by a dummy." Bue regretfully stated.

"That's right, you better believe it, sweetheart." The puppet smirked at her, bue's face turned disgusted.

"Try anything on her and this time, my next tantrum, you won't be able to escape. I'll make sure of it!" D yelled with a scowl.

"I don't think you're in any position to make threats, D." Mal's face became terrified at those words as dominic pulled out a switch and pressed the button, several bright lights turned on all around the room and on them like a huge spotlight. The three screamed at the top of their lungs in agony and collapsed.

~meanwhile, in Manitoba's room on mike's side!~

"Huh? Did you guys hear that?" Mike asked in a slightly panicked voice. Manitoba, svetlana, chester, vito, and mike had all gathered in manitoba's room to try and come up with both a plan and an explanation.

"No, mate. I don't think I heard anything." Manitoba told him to answer for everybody else.

"I need to try something, I'll be right back." With that, mike dashed out of the room and started running toward mal's. The door had disappeared but mike still remembered exactly where it was in the hallway. He stopped in front of the wall that used to contain mal's bedroom and he put his hands to the hard stone blocks and focused. It took a while before a tiny glow appeared and the outline of a small mirror started to form slowly. To the best of his abilities he couldn't make it larger or faster to show up so he concentrated and just waited patiently until finally the mirror appeared. The sounds he heard from before got louder and clearer until he recognized them to be screams and the voices were very familiar. The image showed up and mike was horrified by what he saw. Mal, D, and bue, all holding each other tightly and shaking and the sound of a shrill voice from an anonymous source came from behind as a bright light hit them, then more and more. With each light that turned on, their screams would become louder and louder.

"Having fun, you three?" The shrill voice spoke to them. They were all just shaking and quivering as they clearly couldn't move a single muscle as their terrible screams progressively lowered until it was just a whimper. Mike didn't know what to do, didn't know how to help them, didn't know where to go, all he could do was just stand there and watch in horror at what's happening to the people who were once his enemies.

"ANSWER ME!" The voice boomed. They all jumped, mike lept back a few feet it shocked him so much. Bue was the one who managed to utter words at this point.

"N-n-no...n-n-...not...r-re-"

"Look at me when you talk!" Bue lifted her head up carefully and slowly, obviously struggling greatly and every inch she moved, there was a twitch, it looked painful to say the least. About halfway up, it was easy to spot the tears streaming down her face and the sniffling. When her face came to full light, she was obviously holding back a scream by biting her lip, she bit so hard that her shark like teeth made her lips bleed as it dripped down her chin and mixed the color of her puddle of tears.

"Please...p-pl-please! Let u-us...g-g-go!" Bue begged.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, it'd ruin everything…. I've got a plan, and it involves all three of you, cooperate and I'll turn those lights off...deal?"

"W-we…-we'll...d-do...wha-whatever you….s-s-sa-say…" All three told him. Mike gasped, he had to help them. He ran out of the hallway and through the long and vast plain of his seemingly endless subconscious. But he had forgotten to lower the mirror before he started running. The minute Mike left, the puppet turned off the lights and Bue, mal, and D collapsed. Dominic snapped his fingers and the three immediately opened their eyes which were red and glowing. Not crimson, but blood red.

"Now get up!" The puppet commanded. "I've got a job for you three, keep michael out of here, kill him if you have to, just keep him out. Got that, dummies?"

"Yes." All three spoke.

"Yes, what?" Dominic asked with a sly grin.

"Yes, master." All three answered. He then snapped his fingers and the exit door out of the room reappeared and opened.

"Now go."

"Yes, master." And the three ran off through the door as dominic smirked then turned around to find a mirror behind him. He walked up closer to it, picked it up and held it in front of him like a camera.

"Did 'ya enjoy the show?"