Hey y'alls! Sorry this chapter is a bit shorter. I got busy. I'm glad nobody is outrageously angry or confused about the whole Sally thing. Anyway... ONWARDS!
Bipper's POV
The game had begun. Bipper threw the stolen hatchet into the tree closest to the fallen log so as to be able to find it later. He had decided that if it was a spar Slender wanted than it wouldn't be such a waste to take some time showing the over attached creator that Bill was no longer going to be a part in his little machine. He was not Slender's so called "child" and even if he was he wouldn't abandoned everything he had built up by himself just to run away into the woods with him and his so called "family" to live out the rest of eternity with the other bratty murders and murderesses Slender was sure to have cooped up in that stuffy mansion. His finger's started to dance in blue flames and his arms were eventually engulfed in the snaking vines of fire as it raged with the intensity of Bill's emotions. He threw without looking, only sensing the movements of the completely black and white monster which he was attacking. Slender on the other hand was using more calculated maneuvers to catch Bill off guard. Bill had taken to the trees which helped give him a height advantage and to him what seemed to be a tactical advantage. Slender grew his arms to a good enough length to be able to meet the demon-boy in combat but in so doing lost a bit of accuracy with his attacks. Bill's blue flames were the only source of light in the dark night's forest which made it easier for Slender to see Bipper than it was for Bill to recognize the dark moving form in the night. Bipper and Slenderman were taking turns barraging and defending against one another's rapid attacks. It was an even match with no one gaining or losing much ground or inflicting any serious wounds beyond small gashes and cuts in Bill's case and minor burns in Slender's. The one disadvantage Bill had that Slender did not possess was the lack of restorative energy in his current body. No longer in his demonic body, his human vessel was deteriorating at an alarming rate. Bipper's previous injuries had healed, yes, but Slender was not slowing down and with every nick and scratch came the inevitable lose of momentum in Bipper's actions. He was losing, slowly but surely Slender would overpower him and there was no escape.
Mabel's POV
The second she started running the countdown started. "10" rang out in the forest seemingly without an origin. It was the little girl's cheery voice calling through the trees. Mabel figured out that if she ran fast enough and far enough that she could at least put enough distance between herself and her own personal huntress. "9" Mabel ran faster but stumbled and fell. The wind was knocked from her lungs and it took her a second to breath normally again. "8" She had scraped up her knee pretty bad and took a second to hiss in pain and try to assess the injuries but knew she could not dwell on it for long. She got up and started right back into a sprint. "7" She couldn't tell which direction she was running in now but the forest looked somewhat familiar around her. She kept ducking under low branches and getting wacked in the knees by bushes. "6" Oh God! She did know this part of the forest but it wasn't the way back to the Mystery Shack. She had been going farther and farther into the forest. "5" She came to a similar fallen log, it was where she had found her twin not twenty four hours earlier. How funny to come to full circle? She would have thought if her body hadn't already taken up the default fight or flight instinct as the dominant thought process going through her mind. "4" She almost ran right by the familiar scene if a certain memory hadn't lightly touched to her conscious thoughts. When she had found Dipper he was holding something heavy in his one hand. He was holding a weapon of some sort, a sharp ax? Something like that. "3" She searched frantically but with no light in sight there was no progress to be gained. "2" Did it seem like the numbers in the countdown were becoming closer together to anybody else? She was still searching. She pulled up leaves, dug into the ground and ran her hands over every nook and cranny. "1" Oh no! She wasn't going to find her saving grace. The ax wasn't anywhere around the area anymore. She had to find somewhere to hide and fast. She climbed the first few branches of the nearest trees which wasn't that high off the ground when "Ready or not, here I come," rang through the forest around her. She went up one more branch before she stopped and curled herself into a ball. Her breathing slowed and she stayed as still and quiet as possible while she listened for dear life to the stillness of the forest. It seemed an eternity to wait for the little girl to come and find her in her hiding place. In every second a little more of her hope died and she came closer and closer to crying. She eventually closed her eyes and covered her head with her arms to stop herself when she heard it. The girl was there under her in the small clearing with the fallen log. Mabel could hear the slight crunching of leaves and sticks under the girl's light feet. She counted them as the girl under her seemed to be searching the site underneath her tree. She didn't move, didn't let go of the breath she was holding just in case it would make her situation any worse. The girl's footsteps suddenly stopped. Mabel froze thinking there to be no other action she could take. She waited what seemed to be a whole minute, which in actuality was closer to fifteen seconds, before slowly deciding to poke her head out for the shield her arms had previously been making for her. She peeled her eyes open to find herself face to face with the homicidal little girl from earlier with a creepily large grin plastered onto her face.
"You're not very good at this game are you?~"
HOLY SHIT! Did I actually end on a bit of a cliff hanger? Sometimes I surprise even myself. Whats gonna happen to poor Mabel? Who is the unknown POV? What has Bipper gotten into and what is happening with Stan? All these questions will be answered in the superdy duperdy chapter that I guarantee will be awesome! I don't expect it to be up until late next week though, sorry about that.
