A/N: Yo! What's up? Feelin super epic right now cause it's Tuesday and this chapter doesn't come out until next Thursday :D I am so on top of things right now! Yeah! Also cappuccinos… they're my best friend and the only reason I won't crash between now and my class and 4.5 mile run… yup. Anywho I don't think I'll hang around in the A/N too long (I feel like my A/Ns get shorter when I'm typing chapters back to back… hmm… probably cause I just typed one forty five minutes ago and not much has happened since then…) I've got lots to get to in this chappie :3 Oh it's going to be so fun and creepy :3

Disclaimer: Despite living next to a dark forest I have yet to see any Slendermen… so there've been none for me to own. And despite cosplaying Trish I haven't managed to be able to claim a certain Dante as mine yet ;p

John: Yes actually he does, in the last level of Slender: The Arrival, he talks to Kate, it's just words put up on the screen so you don't actually hear his voice, but he does talk. As for the whole transcends reality, I'm not sure I quite know what you mean. Either way I'm going off of the games, Slender: The Eight Pages and Slender: The Arrival, in those there isn't a lot of established cannon so I'm taking quite a bit of creative liscense, plus Dante's taken on the king of the underworld, it might be pushing it to say he's out of his league. Thanks for the review.

Guest: hahaha, yeah, don't worry he will, thanks for the review!

Karl. A: yeah, it'll be up on Wednesday anyway though :p it'll be awesome! Thanks for the review!

FOLLOWS

The mist immediately made things eerie, it didn't matter that it was only early evening, the trees and the mist caused it to be completely black within the forest. Nero was glad that he had his Devil Bringer and that Dante had brought flashlights for the both of them.

"Dante," the teen started, looking for the older man only to find that he'd disappeared, Nero's eyes widened and he began casting around with his mind to locate the half devil by his demonic aura but all he could feel was the stifling thick presence of the demon of the forest swirling around him. It made him dizzy enough that he started to actively ignore his sense of demonic auras, despite it causing his Devil Bringer to dim quite a bit.

"Dante…?" he called out tentatively, instead he just heard a small giggle, and the partial devil whirled around, looking for the source of the laugh. The only thing that he could see that was out of the ordinary in the fog was a paper on the ground. He bent over and picked it up seeing a crudely and rapidly drawn stick figure with a strange looking arm, after a moment's inspection the teen realized that it was a drawing of him and that it was supposed to be his Devil Bringer on the page. Who could've drawn him? He'd only been in the woods for a few minutes, the drawing was obviously done very quickly but still… who and why? The partial devil's sharp eyes scanned the area around him, but still he found nothing… Wait… There! There'd been the tiniest amount of motion just up and ahead of him, black against more black and covered with fog but motion all the same.

He tried searching out an aura but could it was still the all surrounding oppressive presence. As he moved forward he heard the giggle again, it sounded like a young boy, but this time he heard footsteps over the dry grass as well, the teen's head snapped to the direction he'd heard them and he rushed over only to stop when his foot hit another paper. He stopped and picked it up, it was a picture of him again but this time surrounded by an obvious aura, one that looked vaguely like… Nero's eyes widened as he recognized his own Devil Trigger in the simplistic drawing, how was that possible? Outside of his Trigger in the drawing were waves of shadows and they seemed to be reaching for him. The partial devil shivered, suddenly cold, he looked around again, hoping for another flash of motion. He wasn't wrong in looking it was there again, that laugh, now that he listened closer he could sense something just… off about it, it was slightly manic, like the one who'd made it wasn't really there anymore… Nero scooped up the paper as he went this time, following the footsteps and quickly closing in on the dark motion ahead of him, his Devil Bringer was shining brightly now as adrenalin pumped through his veins.

"Stop!" he called when he could make out a human like figure in the fog. The figure froze and when the teen caught up enough to make out more details he froze as well, fear grabbing at his heart. Despite all his years as a demon slayer he'd never seen anything like this before, he'd seen people possessed but… he wasn't sure if this thing before him classified as human anymore, it was virtually a skeleton, you could count every rib and its skin was practically grey. The two remained motionless for another moment before the figure turned around and Nero's eyes widened as he met the blank sockets of the creature's gaze. Its mouth hung open, the jaw seeming stuck open and its teeth were rotting and falling out. As the teen remained trapped in its eyeless gaze tendrils of darkness… or maybe it was fog, snaked out and around the creature, some of them pausing to caress it as they ghosted past as if to praise the creature.

The pressure suddenly intensified tenfold on the partial devil and he dropped to his knees, hacking and coughing as the air became difficult to breathe. As he fell, Nero finally noticed the drawing in his hands, it was of him again but this time he was twisted up in the dark tendrils and beneath the drawing was written.

CAN'T ESCAPE

-Predator and Prey-

Meanwhile Dante had lost track of the teen almost immediately, the kid disappearing into the fog a few steps in and the half devil hadn't stopped looking for him since. He'd been trying without success to sort out the younger's aura from the massive intensity of the forest demon's. Though in amongst this he had found that it seemed to be concentrated in one area and he began heading that direction, finding things stuck to the trees along the way. Note's much like the ones that Natalie had drawn before wandering into the woods but some were much more eerie as they seemed to be of a monster getting killed by darkness. Dante's eyes widened as he realized what they were just before he heard a scream in the distance… that sounded like…

"NERO!" the elder dashed off in the partial devil's direction dropping the drawing of himself in demon form being overcome by the darkness of the forest…

A/N: Ohhhhhh…. I have such shivers down my spine right now… maybe that's just cause I have to pee but… oh man this is fantastic… I'm enjoying it so much right now… So creepy! I love it!

Till next time,

-Winged Element