Cora's POV
I woke and yawned. Remembering the visit from the dreamy Shade, I exited the tent. Suddenly I realized how hungry I was. I looked around, my friends were nowhere to be discovered. "Guys," I called, slowly becoming worried. "It's NOT FUNNY! Come on out!" I heard a twig snap behind me. I swirled around. Nothing, just the stupid tree. I noticed I was standing on something. I moved and gently picked it up. "A knife?" I pondered. "Hey! That's mine give it back, stupid girl-" A person, well, I think he was human... He slowly moved from behind the tree. He wore a white hoodie, black pants. His black hair was shaggy and choppy. Oh MY-His face! He looked like he carved a smile in his face. "This-this is yours?" "Yeah, I want it back now!" He violently snatched to kitchen knife out of my hand. "Who are you?" he questioned, examining the sharp knife. "I'll tell you after you tell me-" "Uhhhhh, you really wanna know. It's Jeff." "I'm Cora." I replied as Jeff exited the area. "Wait!" I called. He turned around, annoyed. "I should kill you right now." "Please don't." I hurried beside him. Why am I? "Look, me and my friends were kidnapped by the SlenderMan and-"
Jeff paused. Turning creepily, he gave a grin and said, "Go to sleep." He lunged toward me with knife in hand. I dodged. "What the heck, man?" Jeff glared at me. "Leave me alone, I'm tired." "Look, Jeff, help me find my friends and I'll leave you alone. Deal?" Jeff groaned loudly and gazed at the knife. He nodded half-heartedly.
After awhile of searching, Jeff led me to a clearing. "This is where Slender usually hangs around, see that old building? That's his. C'mon!" Jeff entered the building first and looked around. We heard an object fall from the ceiling. It was a nice place, it had crimson curtains, Victorian furniture. Everything was Slenderman like. As I was saying... We slowly lifted our heads to look up. A person with a mask was watching us from a beam. He wasn't Shade though. He wore an old tan military button-up shirt, jeans and fingerless gloves. His mask had gently painted eyebrows, black lips and black around the eyes. "Jeff, how many times do we have to tell you-don't come here, HE'LL FIND YOU-" Too late. We turned and heard static. Slender sounded angry. "Jeff, why are you here? I told you if you come here again there will be consequences." "Look!" Jeff groaned. "one of your victims got lost and" I couldn't take this as well as that masked dude. He grabbed my arm and brought me outside. "Cora!" MY FRIENDS! They jumped up from sitting on the grassy ground and greeted me and hugged me. I turned and saw the masked one sit down and pull out a piece of yellowed paper and wrote something on it. 'I believe we aren't so bad. Too bad the world is populated by hollow and fragile people. '