TIME

Everything was ready now, the living room was set up with the TV on a static channel and Harry, Robin and Doi were all at their allocated seats like it was a normal day at home. It was a beautiful day outside, birds were singing, flowers were blooming, on days like these, people like them... Would have had an excellent time!

Yet… SOMEONE made that impossible, even recording the show couldn't be a delightful experience as they hoped, well, at least Doi was still in a cheerful good mood.

Robin sat back in a wooden rocking chair he had bought about a year and a half ago from some random person at a street fare, one thing was for sure, he aches to take the jacket off, it wasn't like he as naked under or anything, its feathers and fur for darn sake. It wasn't that he hated it either, he just preferred to wear things when he wanted to not forced to for hours of recording just like Harry.

But… At the same time… He preferred to have as much of his feathers and fur hidden in public…

Harry laid back his one person sofa which could turn into a bed, it's material was softer than any fairy floss, luckily not sticky. He just wished to be a sleep, with Roy around it was hard for him to act natural, it was hard to even be himself.

Doi sat fidgeting on his favourite chair from upstairs that actually came from when he used to live with his Dad, he had begged the man for hours at a store until Roy had finally given up and bought it for him.

Of course, this wasn't a normal day, it was far from it. In their living room stood the lanky Roy staring at his son with two camera men beside him ready to record. Both Robin and Harry were tense under the judgemental eyes of two camera men meanwhile Doi locked his jaw tightly feeling his teeth grind together as Roy's cold eyes never left him. It wasn't that hard for the boy to show very little of his inner turmoil, he was used to hiding emotions, it was normal for Doi.

Snap!

'C'mon guys, stop mucking around, we only have five minutes until our show is on'

Harry began the show having heard Roy's fingers snap, it was loud, annoying and seemed to do the trick when it came to starting the show. Robin looked over to Harry eyebrows raised almost gasping in shock

'That's not enough time!'

…

'There is always time for a song'

The random deep voice boomed into existence, all three friends turned to look at the wall to see a Clock with eyes, a mouth and even a red moustache made from the clock's arrows. The clock was a dark blue with ocean blue eyes mixed in with some black and was even wearing a small yellow bowtie with two red strips at the ends and two horizontal in the centre.

Harry furrowed his brows confused, pointing with his thumb he turned to face Roy whispering

'What? Who is that?'

The clock hopped off the wall suddenly sprouting both arms and legs, Robin chocked a gasp as Doi stared at the clock with curious eyes. With it's right arm it began to dance side to side, music began to play in the background. The clock inwardly laughed at the reaction from his new audience, oh this was going to be good. Pointing to left a pile of bricks began to form as he sang

'Time is a tool you can put on the wall'

Stretching his long legs, the clock strolled over to stand beside Doi, he took the boy's arm gently then pointed to his wrist

'Or wear it on your wrist'

The clock smiled to itself, he scanned the three friends watching them closely. From where he stood, he could see the shocked, surprised and confused faces of the three new guest, well, technically he was the guest. But to him when he would perform, the people watching were the guest and keeping them intrigued, entertained and exited was absolutely necessary. '

'Another day of singing and teaching. Remember Tony, try to keep things simple or they won't understand'

Tony moved back to the centre then pointed to a picture Harry, Robina and Doi created together in which they were standing in front of mountains covered in snow and a small red house. Doi followed the clock still not moving from his chair, Harry and Robin both kept sending looks over at Roy in hopes the man would at lest signal or say something but of course, the one fucking time they needed the shit, he wasn't there

It was rather peculiar, they had made that around the time they first met but usually on that wall was a photo of Harry, Doi and Robin standing together front of a forrest. It was actually right outside their house, a place that bought a mix of feelings for each of them yet they still enjoyed going out there.

—

Robin sprinted dodging every tree in sight pulling a matrix, his eyes were hooked on the flying circle turquoise ball above him. Birds were singing watching the strange green duck, they flapped along following for a few meters then vanishing away into the deeper part of the forrest. Robin grinned as the ball started to descend, he peeled his eyes away in search for a way to reach the ball. A tree not to far away from him seemed ideal, it's branches were low enough for him to jump into and climb, with the rush of adrenaline, duck leapt into the air grabbing the lowest hanging branch. He danged for a few seconds adjusting his grip then parkour styled his way up the branches with ease, the ball was in sight just about to reach the tree, Robin flung himself into the air feeling the breeze through his furry feathers as his hands latched onto the ball

'GOT IT!'

Thunderous footsteps sure to frighten even the bravest of warriors shook the ground below, Harry emerged from within the forrest covered in tree branches, twigs and leaves but not a scratch on him. The guy's hair was a mess making him look like a monster from some horror movie, heaving a sigh he came to a sudden halt looking up to see Robin hugging a ball with one arm while the other flapped around desperately. He was almost left speechless the only thing leaving his mouth

'THE FUCK!?'

Doi had his eyes shut still running then slammed into the large red guy, his camera jabbed into his chest

'Oof!'

He stumbled back shaking his head, a loud horrified squawk bought his attention to a falling green pile of feathers still desperately flapping one arm managing to slow his descend by only a fraction

'Robin!'

Harry snapped out of his confused trance shouting swears as he made a mad dashed for the green duck, his arms were stretched out ready to catch the flailing bird. Robin screamed finally coming into the realisation that he couldn't fly, yes he was a duck but that never meant they needed to fly anymore, now he was wishing he did have wings

'AHHHHH!'

Robin fell into Harry's waiting arms, the red guy barely managed to keep ahold of the duck forgetting the height and speed Robin had been falling at

'FUCK!'

Harry staggered back a few meters in seconds, his feet became caught in a tree root making him loose the rest of his balance. Both duck and red guy were slammed dunk into a broken old well that looked like nothing more than a hole in the ground. Doi rushed over panicking

'Guys! Guys! Are you okay!?'

Doi fell to his knees in front of the well looking down to see both Harry and Robin looking utterly exhausted and covered in green weird moss. Harry was laying on his back with his legs placed weirdly over his and Robin's body while his head was covered by Robin's body. Robin shifted feeling a warm breath against his feathers and the sound of a muffled voice

'Ytwh bjmlwvt nd'

'Huh?'

He moved again arching his spin and turning to see two red brown eyes glaring daggers at him

'I said, your killing me'

Robin's cheeks darkened a few shades becoming a more intense green, one of his few interesting and strange quirks. The small boy watching from above fell into a fit of laughter ignoring the burning harsh looks from the other two

'Oh! Hahahaha! You should see your faces! You-you-hahahaha! I-I-I can-n-an't breath! HAHAHAHA!'

Curled up Doi rolled around in the grass laughing louder than any hyena ever could, not even the kookaburras stood a chance against him. Managing to control his laughter well enough, shaking hands got ahold of the camera around his neck and aimed it down the well

'Smile shits!'

Fussing against each other to shift into a better position, both looked up at Doi with murderous grins, the one you got when the killer had chosen you as their next victim. After about 20 minutes of tugging, pulling, pushing, shouting, more laughing fits and killing muscles, both Robin and Harry were out of the well. Doi had pulled them along and begged for them to stand still so they could take a picture all together which in the end they did, after all, this was their home now

—

'The past is far behind us'

A picture appeared out of nowhere with large yellow words "NOTHING", Tony shrugged continuing to sing, it was odd, usually it said "FUTURE" and had small little drawings all around it of futuristic things

'The future doesn't exist I should check that later…'

He kept his voice firm even though internally he was questioning the confusing statement he just made, since when did the future not exist if the future is now and the future is there always just out of reach. Robin pressed his peak close to form a line, he tried not to sound too confused

'Oh…'

Doi jumped in tilting his head to one side suddenly realising that none of them actually had a functioning clock on them, odd… There was usually one on the wall… Oh well! Doi looked back at the walking and talking clock

'What's the time?'

Tony grinned

'It's quarter to nine, time to take a bath'

All three friends suddenly appeared to be in a bathtub and another room completely, the hell did that happen! Harry sat back in the tub starting to continplate his existence, one moment his in the living room and the next he is in a bathtub full of warm water and bubbles. Robin had a hair net and was holding a scrub, his head felt as if it was spinning faster than a top

'What do you mean? We're already clean'

He questioned the clock beginning to wonder if he ever woke up this morning. Strangely, Tony ignored the duck feeling a tug towards the small looking child in the bathtub. Grabbing a long scrub brush he grabbed Doi's arm and began to scrub away up and down the boy's body

'Scrub, scrub, scrub till the waters brown!'

—

Cautiously, the small boy inched closer to the bath tub feeling unnerved by the sight of the pristine warm water, he breathed out a ragged breath. Holding the edge of the bath, he sat down then swung his legs over, the water reflected his stiff sore legs.

Another deep breath followed by a low whine, the boy allowed his feet to touch the floor of the bathtub, the water reached above his knees to nearly his waist. Blood made it's way down his lip, his small frame shaking violently, it took all his strength for him to hold back the scream of utter agony scratching at his throat.

Tears flooded his eyes, his mouth filled with blood from having bitten his tongue, sucking in a breath through clenched teeth he allowed his body to decend further into the water until it reached his shoulders.

A soft gentle whine escaped his lips again, biting his tongue was no longer an option as he could feel a small piece of his flesh swimming away in his mouth. Swallowing down the grotesque irony blood along with becoming a carnivore, with one shaking hand he began to rub gently at his leg.

Every passing moment was pure agony itself, every little touch made him want to scream, shout, maybe even try and drown himself. He sighed staring down at the bathtub, the water had changed colour now…

Brown…

A rotten brown… Slightly reddish…

—

Suddenly, all nice, clean and dry Doi, Robin and Harry reappeared in the living room while Tony stood in the centre, he pointed above the TV where magically a scroll opened up revealing what looked like a time line with small drawings of different things

'Time is a ruler to measure the day. It doesn't go backwards, only one way'

Doi scunched up his face still utterly confused about what just happened, he stared at Tony expecting an explanation still none came, the boy tightened his grip on the chair feeling a sudden urge to be fully aware of all his surroundings. Robin could feel his heart pounding like a heard of rhinos under his skin and furry feathers, the beat persisted uncontrollably fast, nothing made sense anymore, no logic seemed to exist in this house anymore!

'Watch it go round like a merry-go-round, going so fast like a merry-go-round'

Everything went black, Robin, Harry and Doi could feel their bodies floating in nothingness, or at least what seemed to be nothingness. Tony appeared larger than ever before, the clock looked like some of giant beast you'd find in a fantasy book expected, he's a clock. The three friends looked up at the clock both in awe and absolute terror. Tony eyed them a tad proud of himself for impressing them like so, kids usually loved the feeling of floating around the air as if they were in outer space, it was a jarring yet delightful experience.

'Let's go on a journey! A journey through all time!'

Tony became his normal size, a long road formed beneath the feet of the three friends finally allowing them to touch solid ground. Robin fell to his hands a knees for a brief moment wanting only to cling to it like a cat wrapped in it's blanket. Harry stumbled trying to get a baring on his footing while Doi just sprang up and down cheerfully as usual. Robin slowly got to his feet offering Harry a hand, both stared at Doi sighing, neither had to say a word to know exactly what each other were thinking

'Too much sugar'

At least one of them was having fun considering what had happened yesterday. Harry came to a halt, his thought process suddenly stopping and sinking like the titanic

'Yesterday…'

Red guy turned around expecting to at least see the cameras, maybe the room they are in even! That was the moment he realised something was terribly wrong… Behind him was nothing more than darkness and the strange long path, not a camera, not a light, not even Roy was anywhere to be seen. Harry bit his lip, this had to be some sick joke, right? He side eyed Robin worriedly, the duck gave him the same look back seeming to have come to the same evaluation

'A time that's changing all the time, it's time to go to time!'

Harry imagined a calendar showing the schedule of some random show, surprisingly, seconds later in his hands was exactly that, a small calendar showing some random show that was on today. Shrugging and pushing the millions of questions filling his mind, he lifted the calendar for Tony to see

'But we don't really want to'

He placed a hand on it pointing up to the box marked with a cross, he estimated that was today and if it wasn't he didn't give a shit. They had to get out of whatever this was

'We're going to miss our show'

Tony looked over at Harry with an understanding nod. He's had people with busy schedules before, it's can make the class shorter but never any less fun! Putting on a smile, everything felt so... Vague... It was like he was there but wasn't... Strange... Didn't he have control here? The words seemed to roll off his tongue slowly, he could hear them but was he actually saying them? "Don't worry red! You'll make it to your show" Tony frowned becoming infuriated

'Don't be stupid, friends!'

Tony felt his body once more, he could move his fingers and feel his insides ticking away, that had been a bazar experience for the clock! Never once had that happened to him here, in this world he had the control, he was the one who held the clogs and cranks of this world. He ignored the odd experience deciding it was for the best to speed up the class

'C'mon! It's time to go'

With a click of his fingers they all appeared in the old Victorian times, Tony knew showing the full realistic version could be rather… Frightening to some so he had made one from drawings that children had made and put it together like a story book world.

'Time is old like the Victorian times'

Okay now Robin was beginning to believe the food he had this morning was made from marriwana and cocain, he knew he shouldn't have trusted that strange looking packet of icing sugar Roy had left for them! He just knew something was strange about it! Only a drug addict could have a fucking clock with arms and legs walking around teaching you about time of all shit! TIME! WHAT IS THIS!?

Harry sighed in defeat, one thing was for sure, when he got back home he was having one large glass of water and the whole box of aspirins, side affects didn't matter. From behind a food selling stand a women threw spuds into the air singing all of a sudden, her eyes were lifeless freaking out Doi

'With cobbles and plague and speaking in rhyme'

What? Doi cringed inching further away from the strange women and closer to his friends, this was for sure one messed up little world. His blue eyes were fixated on the women unable to look away, he wasn't letting her near Robin or Harry, not as long as he stood by.

Tony watched the small boy cringe, in truth, he inwardly cringed himself, either he was having some hearing issues or did that store vender just say "With cobbles and plague and speaking in rhyme" when usually she'd say "With shops and royalty and speaking in old tongue"

From high up above in a chimney a man popped out all dirty with ashes

'With shops and chimneys, a simpler time'

Tony frowned… That sounded correct… Why did the vender sound different today? Robin nearly jumped out his feathers surprised by the man from above, at least this area was somewhat more normal… Well that was short lived of course, from below just a few steps ahead a sewer opened up and a man covered in green slime popped out from under. He let out a squawk quickly grabbing Doi pushing him behind and standing guard in front of Harry

'With cobbles and sawdust and batteries and slime'

Robin stared puzzled and utterly too tired to even try and understand. Tony clicked his fingers right after feeling his insides clicking the wrong way, that's the fourth time something weird has happened or was it more? Ugh, he was loosing count and even loosing more time staying here! The words "With shops and sawdust and sewers and candles' were never said and won't be said, not this round.

In a zap, Harry Robin, Doi and Tony were all standing outside in a forest clearing, Harry recognised it as the one right outside their house although… He couldn't see their house from where he stood… Robin stumbled a bit looking around, he could feel breakfast climbing up fast, swallowing it down just like the rest of the issues, he put on a fake smile and the show continued on

Doi stood by a tree that was cut from it's stump, the real question here was why the remainder of the tree was still on the stump, it's like it was persisting, wanting to stay no matter what external forces intervened. Doi lifted up the tree with ease, it light as a feather! Why? Who the hell knew! He stared in awe as inside were circles and two eyes staring at him in hyponstic colourful circles

'This tree that is old has circles inside'

Doi cheered transfixed by the colourfulness, it wasn't everyday you saw a tree with eyes! Tony stood beside Doi and pointed to a tree opposite to the boy, it was and shrivelled with few leaves, it's trunk had been sucked of all life juices making it look disturbingly thin. There were two eyes staring lifelessly ahead as it drew it's final breathes

Tony felt like screaming, his clogs were all stuck, nothing ticking the right way. He just wanted to get away from this place now too. Unable to move and feeling nauseas, how would a clock even feel nauseas? He had no clue

'The tree that is older has shriveled and died'

The tree heaved out a last breath making disturbing gargled cry, Doi shivered involuntarily unable to look away from the now two dead lifeless eyes staring at him… Robin stood a little further away, he hadn't heard a thing but could see by the distraught look on the small boy's face something was wrong. Green intense eyes scanned around until finding an apple hanging low from a tree branch, smiling he put a hand out to point to the apple

'The apple that's fresh is ripe to the core'

That caught Doi attention snapping him out of whatever trace he had been trapped inside, Harry strolled over to stand next to Robin eyeing the strange apple with two eyes. WHY DID SO MANY THINGS SUDDENLY HAVE EYES!? IT WAS SO FREAKY!

The apple began to talk, its exterior becoming mushier by every word that passed, it bright red shiny skin became a dark brown muddy colour. Harry had to hold his stomach to stop himself from hurling now. Robin pushed Doi behind him and Harry just hoping with all his heart that Doi hadn't seen shit

'And I rot over time and I'm no anymore'

By the end it was nothing more than a shribled piece of fruit, it was soft like a mushy puree, a rotten brown with the smell to go along with it. Tony showed no change of expression, his moustache did twitch giving away his discomfort. That had been unexpected… To say the least… Taking a breath he turned away and leaned on a tree, he pointed towards the sky

'Time can be told by the moon or the sun but times flies fast when you're having fun…'

The background moved on it's own, the sun then the moon had spun right around like a globe. Robin sat at the tree stump that Doi had found stacking cards into a high triangular tower, he was about to put another card on when Tony came by, the clock was about to ask what he was making. An urge tugged at him, something whispered for him to get ride of that tower, but why, it was nothing more than having fun! Tony slammed his arm down knocking all the cards away

'Nnh! There's a time and a place for mucking around!'

Guilt. Tony got a sudden pang of guilt, something was wrong with him, something had gone bad, but what!? Robin held back growling or punching the clock's perfect face, this was a kid's friendly show, Harry would kill him. He turned to where he supposed one of the cameras could be smiling

'Like birthdays!'

Balloons floated behind him while Harry had bought a tent into existence, he was just honestly not even taking this seriously anymore, this high chance of drug induced state he could be in was most probably the cause of all of this. He stuck his head out of the tent

'And camping!'

—

Doi had strolled off by the point of the rotten fruit, he needed a breath or two plus, he could see his friends from here and knew everything was okay. Breathing heavily, Doi waited a few more seconds before deciding to head back, a large heavy cold hand touched his shoulder rather roughly

Doi nearly jumped instead tensing up, he turned to see Roy staring down at him with cold dark intimidating blue eyes like always

'Hi Dad!'

He kept his voice low but still, it was pretty darn obvious he was happy considering how his eyes became a disco blue light party shining brighter than any star could. Roy kept a straight face hiding away the anger bubbling away inside of him, his grip on Doi's shoulder tightened for an instant

'Why did you choose them over me!?'

Doi grinned up at the man

'Come with me! Then you can be on the show too!'

Roy didn't change his expression only grumbled an okay, Doi took ahold of the rough cold hand into his soft warm one happily tugging Roy along. What the boy didn't see was the small ghostly smile that had formed on the man's face, it wasn't like Doi would ever see it anyway, Roy made sure of it

—

Doi stood proudly clutching Roy's hand, Roy stayed there unmoving

'I'm friends with my Dad'

The man grunted nothing in particular, just the random usual grumble. Robin's green eyes widened with horror at seeing the lanky tall man standing beside Doi, since when did he get here!?

' '

Harry followed Robin's gaze falling into a sudden panic at the sight of Roy, it was baffling to say the least. Tony narrowed his gaze at the tall lanky man, the weird feelings from before intensifying a million times more, could this man be the cause for all these strange mistakes?…

Harry, wanting Doi away from Roy, butted in

'And then what happened after the olden days?'

Tony was sucked back into reality remembering he was actually teaching a class right now, well, some random strangers that is. Anyway, he needed to continue with the song, maybe get rid of that man too, it could just be a figure created by the child's imagination. Darkness returned once more the strange road formed on the floor, random items were floating through space, some old looking book, a wheel and other random objects.

'Time went new and got old like history, stuff from the past turned into a mystery'

Tony continued his eyes flickering through the world in search of that creepy man to no avail, it was a comforting yet disturbing feeling. Doi squinted staring at the random grave floating in the darkness, he pointed to it muttering

'An old man died'

Oh that wasn't good. Tony turned seeing the coffin for himself, desperately he tried to search for something to distract the small boy with. Dark blue eyes fell on a computer a small smile forming on his face

'But look! A computer! Everything is cool! It's the future!'

Tony jumped into a large computer screen now centred between his students, sunglasses came down. A room appeared around them, Doi, Robin and Harry were now sitting on large chairs staring at computer screens. A large metallic brain washing looking device made it's way down from he ceiling, Robin struggled to move against the chair trying anything to escape yet something held him tight without even touching

'Time is now, the future of anew!'

The object fell into pace on Robin's head, his body shook as the it sent electrical pulses through him. In a way it was the same as getting poked by small needles, not a pleasant feeling and defiantly was doing some shit to his head, Robin could hear the word "TIME" repeat over and over AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER

'Look at all the wonderful things you can do with gadgets and gizmos and email addresses'

Doi slipped out of his chair falling though the darkness, he could see another room beneath him with no roof and there on a chair sat his father staring at a computer. Falling down and stumbling to his feet, Doi stared at his father, words becoming stuck in his throat

'My Dad is a c-a computer'

On the screen was a porn video playing, or, at least what looked like a porn video. Roy shifted in his seat slightly tilting his head back to look at his son for a moment, he grunt then turned back to his computer only to be met with the face of a clock '

'Look at the time!'

Tony had stepped in quickly as he saw the man once more, whoever he was, he wasn't normal and most defiantly didn't belong here. Robin flopped down now sitting at a table with a blue and white checkered cloth, a cup of milk and a plate with three sardines, with a fork in hand he stabbed one right in the eye.

'It's quarter to eight'

Robin cringed picking up a sardine, vile made it's way up his throat as he chucked one into the glass of milk then began to beat the other not really caring shit about what he was doing. The sardine's guts burst out after a few smacks on the plate, blood squirted covering the other sardine in red

'There's fish on my plate'

Doi popped into existence in a random room with no doors or windows holding a tray with a dead fish stuck to it. The head remained and the tail too, the body had all it's flesh taken away including all it's guts and organs which did partly freak Doi out, it's bone were all still there and fresh blood covered it and leaked down the tray

'It's twenty past day, there's fish on my tray'

The weird cycle continued, the chair Robin sat on morphed into a bath tub while the milk spilt over turning into water, the table became the legs of the bath, the table cloth becoming the tap, the splattered sardine became the shower cap and the plastic plate a rubber duck. The sardine morphed into another fish, one that duck didn't recognise, he stared at it confused

'It's eleven to twelve, there's fish in the bath'

Harry stifled back a yelp as his bed formed beneath him and his sheets came to cover him, some things were different though… To his right was a radio and somehow… That notebook from yesterday, hadn't Roy taken it with him? One obvious difference was fish were all over his room, one stuck to the wall, a head by the radio and some fish on his bed side table, even the fucking back frame of his bed had fish on it!

'It's nine thirty, there's fish everywhere…'

He shrugged unable to think of any real proper explanation

'Fish everywhere…'

Things all flashed back to normal, Robin, Harry and Doi were all sitting down looking at Tony as if it was the beginning all over again. Tony kept singing cheerfully trying his best not to let any of his stress seep through, he could stress out when at home sitting down having some tea or something.

'Now you can see the importance of time, it helps us make pizza, it keeps things in line'

Robin fiddled his fingers aching to reach the end of the episode already, he cleared his throat and looking to the side questioned

'But when did it start?'

Doi followed suite

'And when will it stop?'

Tony felt suddenly unable to breath, his inner works clanked against each other coming to an abrupt stop, trying to force his mouth muscles to move didn't seem to work. Still somehow something was leaving his mouth, empty words with no expression, words that were not his

'Time is important, and I am a clock'

Harry frowned staring at Tony, he couldn't help but notice the sudden mechanistic movements, before the clock was fluent now it was more like watching a washing machine stutter through cleaning

'If we run out of time, then where does it go?'

Doi titled his head with curiosity, he nearly jumped out his seat nearly forgetting to speak

'Is time even real? Does anyone know?'

Robin slipped out his chair stumbling over to the window, hiding behind the television leaning against the wall was a black poster he had done earlier on. He stuck it to the wall and took out a long pointer with a round tip. The poster itself had a drawing of a head and then parts of the brain in different colours, two eyes stared at your soul and some random equations were drawn on. The only peculiar thing was the strange Nazi looking symbol that Robin could have sworn wasn't there before

'Maybe time's just a construct of human perception, an illusion created by-'

The clock interrupted Robin with a loud ear piercing scream only getting louder and louder

'Meh! Meh! Meh! Meh! Meh! Meh! Meh! Meh!'

Tony leaned in close to Doi, the boy tried to shuffle away feeling an anxiety spike, both Harry and Robins eyes were on him protectively watching ready to pounce ripping to shred their prey. The clock continued to scream, Doi inwardly cringed trying his best to show no emotional change, he could feel bleed gushing out his ears. The sounds of the clock were replaced by a high pitched shrill, it hurt, it hurt, it hurt, it hurt! IT HURT! IT HURT! IT HURT!

—

'Daddy! Please stop! I'll be good Dad! I promise! Please! I'll do anything Daddy!'

A cold voice pierced through the loud sobbing and begging, unemotional, uncaring…

'Then leave…'

—

'MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH!'

The clock strolled over to the window that changed from night to day spinning and spinning

'Sunrise, sunset, night and day, the changing seasons, the smell of hay, look at your hair grow isn't it strange how time makes your appearance change?'

Doi picked up a mirror that was placed conveniently leaning against his chair, it was cold in his hands making him shiver a tad. Soft blue eyes scanned the image in front of him, everything looked fine to him though... What did the clock mean?

Feeling deeply unsettled, Harry felt his hair but couldn't find anything different, it all seemed normal to him, a little drier than usual but okay.

Fixated by the mirror, Doi narrowed his eyes as his hair began to grow. Long blue strands made their way down his face and arm till reaching the ground. It was straw like, dry with a strange unpleasant texture, the colour had dulled down.

Harry's red brown eyes widened in utter horror, was he seeing things or was Doi's growing longer by the second?! Wait… His eyes trailed down to his arms where hair began to grow out of control, the colour was becoming lost and so was he

Robin still sat rocking back and forth ever so gently, his peak fell wide open his eyes frantically looking from Harry to Doi. There was a sudden urge for him to scratch himself, but he must resist! His fingers slid across his arm piercing through the fur like feathers and penetrate his skin, he mustn't touch his hand, he placed his hand back resting on the wood. Robin swallowed down the sudden urge intensifying further making his fingers ache. Internally growling he glared down at his hands only to choke down a scream... The fur feathers began to come off in small little pieces falling to the ground in a cluster, his flesh melting from his finger tips up the rest of his hand

With long hair touching the ground, his face began to contort, his cheeks went sagging down, his skin wrinkled and old. Doi put the mirror down his throat struggling to swallow with the sudden lack of saliva in his mouth. Tiredness over took his body making it hard to move, with hazed glassed blue eyes barely opening, he tried to shout as loud as he could

'GHHHAAAAA!'

A weird concerning feeling arose from Harry's skull, his hair felt rather... Loose... Reaching up, he began to scratch at his head, his fingers dabbed into a warm liquid. Harry tightened his jaw shut taking a handful of hair then in one swift yank it out. He looked at his hand to see he had pulled out a lump of hair, blood and flesh. It was warm in his hand, blood dripping down, the strange loose feeling began to spread going down to reach his neck

Robin internally screeched as more of his flesh began to melt away revealing his bone underneath. Doi seized up as blood trickled down his face, his eyes bulging out blood slipping through, his flesh on his hands and arm started to fall away leaving small clumps of decaying flesh dangling.

Blood began to leak from Robim's eyes distorting his vision. One eye started to come loose, the flesh inside decaying, withering like a worm in a packet of salt.

Doi inhaled, his lungs withering away barely managing to grasp the final breath

'MAKE IT STOP!'

Robin felt his eye rolling out of the socket, it fell out with a soft plop rolling down his body hitting the ground. It wouldn't have been so horrifying if it wasn't for how he could see his own dying decaying body in front of him, how the fuck did his eye still work?!

Hair clumps piled up on the floor as Harry continued to shred through his moulting hair ripping off chunks at a time. He leaned forward as his back began to give way breaking down internally. The individual soft disc between each section started to deteriorate forcing his bones together rubbing against one another. The searing pain climbed up from the tail bone right up to Harry's neck, it was no different to getting stabbed at the tail bone against a long nail on the wall then being dragged down.

Robin, Harry and Doi gasped desperately needing air more than anything, everything felt so surreal, there they were siting in their chairs as if nothing had happened. They were whole, no flesh dangling, no blood, no melting or decaying.

'It's out of my hands I'm only a clock'

Tony's face appeared on their TV but neither Robin or Doi payed it much attention, Harry kept his eye on it suddenly becoming overwhelmed with the thought that something was missing. Something was… Lost…

'Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine, but eventually everyone runs out of time'

The TV went into static. Harry blinked a few times trying to recalibrate his brain only to receive blankness… That's odd… He pressed the off button watching the screen go black… Dark… Nothing… Just… Just…

Just like his mind…

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Yay I managed to write it wow I'm actually surprised hah. Oh well. Anyway, Ima try finish the next chapter quicker since I should be able to if Im not lazy.

Harry - "Don't do drugs kids!"

Doi - *Opens door to room then closes it silently walking to stand next to Harry with an innocent look on his face* "Huh? So I can't eat sugar cubes?"

Harry - *Stares dumbfounded* "Uh… Doi… Sugar isn't a drug…"

Robin - *Smashes down door with a ninja kick fuming* "IT IS FOR DOI! GET DAT SHIT AWAY FROM OUR BOY!"