Chapter 1: Just a Few Nightmares...
1 day before the reunion...
"Kyle…"
Kyle looked in all his directions, but there was no one in sight.
"Kyle…"
The existential plane emerged with him. He was totally alone, yet still, someone was calling him out.
"Kyle…"
"Who's it? Respond!" Kyle demanded
But there was no response.
"Kyle…Kyle…"
The voice began to repeat his name, more faster, yet more menacing.
"Kyle… it's me…"
"Who's it? Show yourself!" He demanded again
Followed by his demands a spark of light illuminated a spot from the existential plane, revealing an unrecognizable figure even for me, even for Kyle. He saw the mysterious figure, predominating the background, staying still but speaking nonetheless.
"Kyle… it's me Kyle… did you miss me?"
"Miss you? Who am I talking to?"
The light went off. Then it appeared again, now with the figure a little bit closer to Kyle. He still was unrecognizable.
"It's me Kyle… I have missed you a lot…"
Every time the light went off, the figure approached more closely to him, making him shiver a little.
"Kyle…"
"What about if you stop saying my name and you tell me what's going on!" Kyle demanded now angrier than before
It was because of his sudden raise of voice that the shadowy figure appeared face to face with him, with his white pupils being the only thing visible from him.
"Respond this: Do you remember me?"
"What?" He asked confused
"What I expected…"
The figure suddenly multiplied himself by three, leaving four shadowy figures surrounding Kyle through the plain.
"What the-...?"
"You should have remembered me Kyle…"
After saying that the three shadows grabbed Kyle from both his arms and head. They didn't want him to escape.
"Now I'll have to kill you so you can remember me forever..."
"HEY DUDE! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"Poor little soul…" Said the shadowy figure
The shadow grabbed a knife out of his pocket and pointed it directly at him. Kyle is really confused by this, but ultimately he began to feel terrified.
"You can escape from me…"
"Dude, put that f*cking thing down!"
"You can forget about me…"
The shadowy figure removed the plastic protection from the knife. His intentions were now clear for Kyle.
"You can't acknowledge me all the time you want…"
"DUDE! NO!"
"But remember…"
"Please!"
The shadowy figure prepared himself for the strike.
"I'm not… a memory"
He pointed it at Kyle's throat and…
SLASH!
"AAAAAAHHHH!"
Kyle screamed as he woke up from his bed. Is 8.00 am in the morning. He started to breath heavily, sweating because of the fear. Then he remained silent, calming himself up. It seemed that all the tension built in that moment was just the fabric of a dumb dream, or a nightmare in that way.
"Uff…Uff… What a nightmare…" He exclaimed
He found himself in his bedroom, with the sunlight illuminating his face. Today is Friday, the last school day of the week.
"What time is it?" He asked, but he was quickly cut by a familiar voice
"Kyle sweetie! Breakfast is ready!" His mother said loudly.
"Yeah mum! I'm coming…"
Kyle got up from his bed, and went straight to the living room. In there his little brother Ike was also eating his breakfast, as well as his mother.
"Good morning Kyle!"
"Good morning mum…"
"Dabadaba..." His little brother said
"Hello Ike…"
"You don't look very enthusiastic Kyle. Is something in the manner" His mother asked worried
"No mum, I'm fine…" He reassured her
Ike could notice the tiring face that his brother had. The nightmares that Kyle had couldn't let him sleep well the night before.
"Oh well, you better finish up your breakfast if you don't wanna lose the school bus today."
"I know mum. I don't wanna be late today, especially for the exam…"
"Where is my suitcase supposed to be? I left it here yesterday!" Gerald asked frenetically
"Speaking of which, I think dad needs your help…"
"Oh dear... Gerald wait! I know where it is!"
Sheila got up from the table as he tried to help her husband.
"I put it on the chair of the living room…"
"And why do you put my things in random places! You know more than anyone that I can't go to work without it!"
"Well it's not my fault that you left all your things all over the house! I have to clean you know!"
Kyle just concentrated on finishing his cereal, despite his obvious tiring face. It seemed that his nightmares have affected him this time. He was confused about what the shadow figure told him.
""Do you remember me?" What the hell does that mean..."
"Watmater Kyle?" His brother tried to ask him
"Oh no Ike, it's nothing. I just had a bad dream, that 's all…"
"Dabadada?"
"No Ike, you don't have to worry, I'll be fine. In fact, I should stop worrying about that now, I have the Spanish exam today. That should be my real concern today! And speaking of that…"
Kyle finished up his cereal and got up quickly to prepare himself in his room.
"I gotta prepare myself for the day. See you at the school Ike!"
"Saim brotha!"
Kyle took a shower, put on his regular clothes and prepared his backpack, ready to start a new day of school! But before leaving, he decided to take a final look at his bedroom, especially his bed. He stood there for a moment, just for 10 seconds, and then he just left, closing the door while going. He could be stunned by the horrific nightmare, but that wasn't going to eat his mind all day. For that there was already a certain fatass who did it constantly. But that wasn't his problem today. Now the most important thing for him was just not to lose the school bus today!
On the bus stop…
Kyle ran as fast as he could since he didn't want to be late at school. What would his mother say? And besides, his fatass schoolmate would probably be mocking at him for the rest of the month, so damn he needed to be fast! Thankfully for him, the bus had 15 minutes left before arriving at his destination, so it was really far for the time that he arrived.
At the bus stop Kenny, one of his friends, was waiting for him while reading something from his backpack. He always wore the hood down since he didn't have anything else to wear.
"Hey Kenny!"
"Mmhmm(Hey Kyle!)"
"That's surprising, you're the first! Where are Stan and the fatass?"
"Mmmhmmmh…(No idea, but they won't be long in coming…)"
"Oh, ok…"
Pause of silence.
"So… were you cramming for the Spanish exam while I wasn't here?"
"Mmmmhmm?(No, why do you ask?)"
"No, because of the book you got there. I saw you were reading something…"
"Mhm,Mhhhmphmphm, Mhphp…(Hehe, this is not a book Kyle, it's a magazine…)"
"A magazine of what? Videogames?"
"Mhm, Mhphmphmmphm… (Hehe, what about if you take a peek at it…)"
Kyle looked at the content of the magazine, but immediately takes his eyes off it. It's a +18 magazine, one of the dirty ones. Kenny laughs at Kyle's sudden reaction.
"Oh my God Kenny!"
"Pffff HAHAHAHAHA! Mmmphmmph! Mphmmmphmp! (You should have seen your face! C'mon it wasn't that bad!)"
(Author's note: From here I'm going to stop putting "Mmmmph" in every Kenny sentence. Everyone who has seen the show already knows that Kenny is almost intelligible because of his hood, so for the next lines just imagine him with his characteristic voice. Are we cool? We're cool. Sorry again and proceed with the lecture...)
"You're gonna have too much gray matter the moment you do the exam, otherwise I can't imagine what words are you gonna put on it that aren't "sexo", or "bolas"..."
"Nah Kyle, I got it under control. Still, if I put in more words than that they could give me extra points right? HAHAHAHA!"
"Yeah, I wonder where those "extra" points will come out…"
Kyle and Kenny laughed at he said. It's clear that they are really good friends. However, it's not all of them, as there were two still to come. Kyle waited for them with Kenny, with him returning to his primary action. However, while they were waiting for the bus, Kyle noticed something far from the distance. It was too blurry to even see it properly, but for some reason, Kyle could still see it. In front of him, behind the trees, something or someone was secretly hiding. Someone who was spying on them. Someone like… a shadow figure?
Kyle thought that his mind was just tricking him, but still, he wanted to make sure if it was real what he was watching from afar.
"Emm... Kenny, Kenny!"
"Huh what?"
"You see that?"
"See what?"
"Do you see like… someone... from far away?"
Kyle wasn't pointing from any direction, but his view facing to the other side of the street was sufficient to indicate him where he was pointing.
"Oh yeah… I see someone…"
Kyle shuddered hearing that.
"R-Really?"
"Yeah… Isn't that Stan... with his farm shirt wore one?"
"Yea-... Wait, what?"
But as you will suppose, Kenny wasn't sharing the same view that Kyle was having at the moment. Kenny was actually looking from his right, where he could see Stan from the distance. Stan was everything like them, only with the addition of wearing a T-shirt which said:
"100% HEMP Tegridy Farms"
"Oh! Yeah… it 's Stan." He said disappointed
Both kids waved at him. He seemed to be thoughtful at first, but when he saw his friends waving at him, changed his face to a happy one. Stan was also really good friends with Kyle and Kenny, especially with Kyle, his Super Best Friend as the two happily say and demonstrate. Stan didn't waste any more time and incorporated himself into the gang.
"Hey dude!"
"Hey Kenny…" Stan said
Stan also noticed Kyle. He seemed to still be intrigued by the thing he saw behind the woods.
"Ehh… Kyle… dude!
"Wha-OH! Hello Stan! How are you?"
"Emm… I'm fine dude… But what about you, are you ok?"
"Dude, I'm fine. why do you ask?"
"Well… you seem really gone…"
"What? I'm not gone. There was something weird behind the trees in the front…"
"What thing?"
"That thing! There!" Kyle exclaimed frenetically,
but much by his demise, whatever there was behind those trees was now really gone to see.
"What? The trees?"
"So now you're scared of trees…" Kenny said mockingly
"What? No guys! I swear there was someone watching us behind those trees…"
"Well, I don't see anything dude…"
"Yeah, me neither… I think I will return to my study…" Kenny reassured him as he retook his reading with the magazine again.
Kyle just got even more confused by this.
"But… but I saw it…"
"Well… I'm sure whatever it was behind those trees could be just a cow, or some sort of deer…"
"No, it's just… You know what? Maybe it was just an animal of some sort, forget what I said Stan, let's just wait for the school bus…"
"Uuh… ok?" Stan said confused
Stan awkwardly looked at his super best friend. He, in some sort of way, felt that something was wrong with him, but at the same time he didn't wanna bother him so he just changed the subject of the conversation.
"Sooo… How are you handling the Spanish exam dude?"
"Pretty good. I guess…"
"And you Kenny?"
"Yeah yeah, pretty cool. You wanna check my notes Stan?"
"Yeah, sur-..."
"Stan no! If I were you I wouldn't do it…" Kyle warned him
"Why not?"
"Get refreshed by this!" Kenny exclaimed as he showed the magazine right in the face of Stan.
He blushed with embarrassment because of what he sees in there.
"HOLY SH*T DUDE!"
"HAHAHAHHAHA!"
"I warned you dude..."
"Gross Kenny!"
"HA! Admit it Stan, you actually like what you saw in here. I'm sure if Wendy was on the cover you would be hooked by it for a whole week…" Kenny said mockingly
"I don't think I would want to spend a whole week in detention by bringing one of those magazines into class, Kenny. If I were you I would better hide that if you don't want to end up in detention again…"
"Hey! That wasn't my fault. Cartman just took one of mine when I wasn't looking…"
"Well, you know damn well how he always finds his ways…"
"Do you think he will pass this exam?" Stan asked to his friends.
The three boys stood thinking for a moment.
"Nah…" They discarded it quickly
"I bet he will just try to cheat on Tolkien's exam again…"
"Or in yours like the other time…"
"He tried to look at mine once…" Kenny added
"Wow, I wonder what he'll do this time. Being Cartman, it could be anything…"
"Hey you guys!" A familiar piggy voice resounded throughout the street.
The trio heard it and immediately sighed. It was obviously the biggest fatass of all South Park, and a possible candidate for the whole world. Eric Theodore Cartman, or just called by his last name, Cartman. Loved by everyone, hated by everyone, basically every single soul from the whole town knew about his existence, his actions and his temperament. Still, with all this said, he's one of the key members of the main 4, as the good and bad things that happen to them always seem to be by his own actions. Cartman quickly joined the group.
"Speaking of him…" Stan said
"I guess I talked too fast dude…" Kyle confirmed
"You talked about what stupid jew?
"For the last time Cartman, STOP RIPPING ME OFF FOR BEING JEW!"
"And what the hell should I suppose to tell you Kyle? Huh? What should I say?
"I don't know… WHAT ABOUT A "HELLO KYLE!", or something else?"
"Alright, what about a "Hello Kyle! Have you stopped milking your mother last night?"
Kenny is the only one who laughs at this.
"Well, for your information fatass, I don't need that anymore. You fat idiot…"
"I wasn't referring to that type of milk…"
"…Wait"
Kenny laughs hard this time. He's really good at understanding this type of "special" jokes…
"CARTMAN!"
"Pffff HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Dude, don't listen to him. He's just trying to upset you…" Stan said, trying to calm the two
"I'm not upsetting him Stan, I'm just revealing his favorite flavor. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Alert! Alert! Kyle's anger meter is rising up real fast!
"SHUT UP CARTMAN!"
"Oh poor little thing. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna be milked your mother again? HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Oh don't you worry. I can still do this!"
Kyle punched Cartman directly in the face. He immediately responded by hitting him as well. The duo starts a mini-fight.
"Oh jeez, dudes…"
" Oh no no no Stan, let them be. I wanna see if Cartman actually wins this time..."
"Cartman? Really?"
"What? It could be interesting. Is this or they make out, whatever they feel like…"
The two stare awkwardly at each other. Then they start laughing.
"Dude, the day that I see that I would just throw my retinas away…"
"I think I would probably burn them" Kenny said in a laughing manner
Stan looked at the distance from the street. A wild school bus can be seen from afar.
"Well, time is out..."
Stan intervened in the fight. He tried to stay in the middle of them so they could stop fighting.
"Guys, guys! Stop. The bus has finally arrived…"
"Get out of my way Stan! I have to finish up this heartless jew!"
"What if you stop hitting me! You would not want to do the exam with a bruise on the eye…" Kyle said to his classmate. The two start to cool down
"F*ck..." Cartman said tiringly.
They finally stopped fighting with Cartman still mocking Kyle from the distance.
"If the bus would not have arrived, I could have won this time, jackass…"
"Sure, whatever you say Cartman…"
The bus stops at the bus stop, and immediately opens its doors.
"Please, take a seat…" The bus driver says bitterly.
"I better not pick a seat with you asshole…"
Kyle ignored him and proceeds to enter the bus. But then, something weird happens…
A static noise enters his ears. He proceeds that noise in a short time.
He couldn't stand it and decided to look around to see where it could come from.
That's when he briefly saw it. In the woods.
It's… the shadow fig-...
"Hey kid! Are you gonna pick a seat or not?" The bus driver said more bitterly
Kyle snapped back to reality. The bus driver is still waiting for him.
"Oh yeah sir! I'm coming…"
"Haha! You've been scolded by the bus driver! Idiot!"
"Shut up Cartman! Let me pass!"
Kyle made his way through the bus. He eventually sat far from the left corner, now facing the window. His friend Stan sat next to him. Cartman and Kenny sat each other in the seat from Kyle's front.
"Well Kenny, I saw you were reading something when I came. What was it?"
"Cartman, I don't th-..."
"WOW! It's one of those bizarre magazines!"
"Cartman, I swear that if you take one of this again I will massacre you…"
"You talk too much. Let me see that!"
"Hey!"
"I still can't believe how you can get one of this so easily if you're so poor than Oscar the Grouch!"
"(*Sigh…)" Kyle sighed
While Kyle was tired of confronting Cartman, His friend Stan just put his headphones in and disconnected from reality. Kyle did the same, he just stood there watching the window. He was confused with what just happened in the bust stop. What he saw, what he heard, it was… way too real.
Did that nightmare really impact him that much? He stood there thinking for himself for a moment.
"But… I really saw it…" He said quietly to himself.
In South Park Elementary School…
We are now established in the 4th grade class, one hour left before recess. It seemed to be the ideal hour for a class of mathematics, and of course, a boring ambience predominated through the whole class. Their teacher, Margaret Nelson, was revisiting some homework, just to make sure that everyone in the whole room had done it the week before. Everybody seemed to have done it (except Cartman, since his obvious prayers to Jesus indicated that he didn't wanna be called out as he didn't make it in time). Kyle was trying to stay concentrated despite Cartman's annoying prayers. He was the most intelligent of his class, he needed to keep that reputation up if he wanted to have a great future (and also make his parents proud of him).
"Alright, let's see… Bebe, what's the answer to exercise number 7, page 49…" The teacher asked to one of his classmates.
Kyle had his homework prepared for revision, however he noticed something weird coming after him.
A weird sensation, an uncomfortable one.
"Good! And what about you Scott? Exercise number 9…."
Kyle tried to remain attentive, but the unknown sense persisted.
He felt as if someone was spying on him...
He felt as if someone was watching him…
"That's great! What about you Eric?"
"F*ck dammit!" Eric protested
Kyle was getting irritated by that feeling. He couldn't attend the class like that.
That's when his brain reacted and gave him a strange answer.
"What if I now look at the window?"
Kyle thought that answer for a moment, but what her teacher needed to say was more important than this.
"Eric, how many times have been this month..."
Oh wait, she was just getting mad at Cartman for not doing his homework. You know, the usual.
"Maybe this is my chance…" Kyle said to himself.
So he, while being unnoticed, decided to turn his head to where the nearest window was. At first the only thing that he could see was the playground and Butters sitting on his desk. Butters was more pending on Cartman's punishment than anything else, still he could see how Kyle was looking at him, so he waved him as a response.
But Kyle wasn't looking at him, he was looking at the window.
"Well teacher, you see... My cat pisses on them!"
"That's just cheap excuses Eric, you're going to fail again!"
Kyle at first didn't really see anything. Just the swings, the slide, the toy elephants with docks, and a dark figure turning in the spinning wheel.
"Yeah..." He thought
"..."
"Hold on..."
"A DARK FIGURE TURNING IN THE SPI-..."
"Kyle!" The teacher raised her voice.
"Uh, what?" He said surprised
"Were you paying attention?"
"Oh! I…"
"HAHAHAHA! This is a new one! The smart-ass wasn't paying attention! HAHA!"
"Don't make like if you're better than him Cartman! I wanna remind you that you have a zero in your homework, starting today…"
"What!"
Everybody started laughing at Cartman. All of them, except for Kyle, who he immediately looked at the window again, but whatever it was in the spinning wheel was far from gone now.
RING!
The school bell rang strongly for like 7 seconds. Finally, it's recess time!
"Alright everyone! So math class is over. Before you go, I would like everyone to put the homework on my desk so I can revise it for next week. In the meantime, good luck with today's Spanish exam!"
Everyone started to leave their desks and put their homework on her desk.
"Well dude, I'll see you in the cafeteria…" Stan said to his friend
"Yeah, me too…" Kenny said
"Ok dudes, I'll see you in a minute..."
They left for the cafeteria. Meanwhile, Kyle gave his homework to the teacher.
"Here it is teacher, my homework…"
"Thanks Kyle. I think I caught you distracted, right?"
"Yes… Sorry teacher. I will never do it again."
"It's okay Kyle, at least you did your homework. That's good! Try not to get distracted next time ok?"
"Ok Ms. Nelson…"
"Well then, good luck with the exam Kyle…"
"Thanks Ms. Nelson…"
Kyle left the classroom, not without looking at the window again. The spinning wheel still moved by itself, but without no one sitting on it this time.
"That was weird…" He supposed.
On the cafeteria…
The cafeteria was always occupied and almost all of the tables were always full of students. In there, we have the table composed by Craig's group, the 6th graders table who no one dared to pass by, the 4th grader girls table, the tertiary group of 4th graders, the ugly group table, and of course what we were looking for, the Kyle's group table, composed at the moment by Stan, Kenny and Kyle, who is already late to come.
"Uhh… Where is he?" Stan asked to Kenny
"I don't know dude. He was still in class when we left…"
"Hey guys!" Kyle exclaimed as he sat on the table with them
He brought his food from the cooks: Vegetables with a little bit of beef. Nothing particularly fascinating but that wasn't something that he couldn't digest. He took notice of the absence of Cartman.
"Where's the fatass supposed to be?"
"You mean Cartman? He decided to sit with Craig and the rest while mocking us how cool he's."
"Oh well, judging by what they've served us it will not pass 2 seconds until he decides to make another revolution…" Kyle said sincerely
"Shh, look! He's coming!"
"F*cking Craig! Goddammit…"
Cartman slams his launch plate to the table while cursing Craig's name. He's clearly mad.
"Jeez dude, what's the rush?
"Craig and his group of weirdos don't let me sit at their table because they think I'm too explosive for Tweek. Can't you believe it Kenny? Explosive!"
"Oh no Cartman, what a drama, I wonder why they think that of you?" Kyle said in a sarcastic manner.
"What are you insinuating with that Kyel?"
"Why is your tray so empty dude, did you like... ate the whole cafeteria?"
Kenny said in an annoying manner, making Stan and Kyle laugh at him.
"Ha, ha, really funny dickhead. I still haven't take my food. I hope they are serving cheeseburgers today…"
"Ehh... Cartman, look at my plate…"
"What? What problem do you have with your p-... Wait, vegetables?"
"Yes, and I'm not the only one…" Kyle said as he pointed out Kenny and Stan's trays.
"MOTHERF*CKERS!" Cartman said angrily, as he jumped out of the table and ran straight to the kitchen.
"Well, and there he goes again..." Stan said unsurprisingly.
"I have a theory, maybe he was too poor to even afford the wooden fork..." Kenny said, mocking him again, making the three boys laugh at him again.
However, Kyle didn't have the same energy of laughing as Kenny or Stan. Inside him he was still thinking about what happened before in the bus stop and then in the classroom.
"Hehe, that's a good theory! Right Kyle?"
"Uh… yeah, a good one…"
Despite his best efforts Stan noticed Kyle's absence throughout the conversation. Somehow he knew that something was bothering him.
"Uh… Kyle?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you really okay?" Stan asked him.
"Uuh… Yes Stan, I'm okay. I told you that before…"
"Are you sure dude? I mean, you've been really absent since you came…" Kenny joined the conversation as well
"Yeah, it's like if something is actually bothering you…"
Kyle knew that despite trying to persuade them from his weird fears they weren't gonna shut up until he actually give a proper response, so he decided to tell his own dilemma.
"You guys haven't noticed, right?"
"Notice what?" Stan asked curious
"There was like someone in black spying on our class in the spinning wheel from the playground…"
"Ooh! So that's why the teacher caught you distracted. You wanted to ride the spinning wheel or what?" Kenny said to his friend
"No Kenny! I swear, there was someone spying on us in the spinning wheel!
"Uuh… I never looked at the window dude, but since you say it was wearing something black maybe it could have been one of the goth kids. You know that they always sneak behind the school to smoke and tell all their misfortunes…" Stan said to his friend
"Yeah, and I was paying more attention to Cartman's lies so…"
"Hey fellas!"
While Kenny was giving his testimony a wild Butters appeared on screen. He was always like the fifth wheel from the group, and since no one wanted to sit him in the cafeteria Kenny and the rest let them sit with them, as long as Cartman would lead him.
With a happy look on his face, he sat with them on the table.
"Hey Butters…" Stan and Kenny greeted him
"How long have you been here? Where's Cartman?"
"He still hasn't come out yet…" Stan responded to his friend
"I don't think he will…" Kenny said as he pointed out to where Cartman was, throwing all his tantrums to the girls for changing the menus again.
"Can some of you explain me WHY MY FOOD LOOKS LIKE OLD SH*T!"
"You've got to be kidding me..." Wendy said in a tiring manner, especially when she had to deal with someone like Eric.
"Cartman! We discussed this before!" Nichole protested, annoyed as well.
"Yep, he's not gonna come back…" Kenny confirmed it
"Oh no! should I hold him back again?" Butters asked unsure if he had to do the right thing this time.
"Nah Butters, it's no use. Besides, I don't think Cartman will go that far again…" Stan reassured him, knowing damn well how his girlfriend could dominate someone as annoying as Eric.
"Oh well... If you guys insist…"
"Can we move on with the conversation please?"
"What conversation?" Butters asked innocently
"Kyle thinks that someone was spying on him when we were at math class…" Kenny explained to him
"Oh really! Is that true Kyle?"
"Of course it is Butters! You didn't see it either? It was literally at your side of the window!"
"I'm sorry Kyle. The only thing that I saw that wasn't the blackboard was you waving at me, so I waved you back. Didn't you see my wave?"
"Hey, doesn't all this sound too similar to what you saw at the bus stop before? Maybe you have just misinterpreted two things…" Stan said to his friend
"Maybe you just saw a cow…" Kenny instantly reassured him.
"Kenny, why in the f*ck there'll be a cow sitting on a spinning wheel. It doesn't make any sort of sense..."
"Maybe it was a special cow..." Butters said innocently
"Butters, it isn't a cow..." Kyle said
"Oh... Maybe a ginger one!" Butters said again
"BUTTERS, IT ISN'-... (*Sigh), you know what, forget about it. Maybe I was so bored that I started imagining things…"
Kyle said as rested his face on his crossed arms, knowing more than ever that his friends wouldn't believe him. Heck, who's gonna believe him? He was the only one who saw all those things.
Stan saw this gesture from his best friend and immediately the answer was evident. Something was really bothering him.
"Alright Kyle. What's the problem?" Stan asked, now more serious than before.
"Well, you already know…"
"I'm not referring to what you saw before, you've been acting weird all day…"
"Yeah, even when you arrived at the bus stop I noticed you were really nervous. What's up with you dude?" Kenny asked concernelly
"It's… hard to explain…"
"Is it hard like peeing backwards?" Butters asked innocently again
"Eeh… Butters?" Stan looked at him stranged
"What? It doesn't happen to you Stan?"
"It happens to me when I' m-..."
"I had the same stupid dream again!" Kyle exclaimed angrily as he cut Kenny in the middle of the conversation.
Now the silence invaded the table for a couple of seconds before Kenny could return to his previous statement.
"Eehm… Kyle? What the heck?"
"Sorry Kenny, it's just..."
"Wait, you got that same dream again?"
"A dream? But like a happy one!"
"No Butters! A nightmare. The same stupid ass nightmare, all over again…"
"Jeez, how many times have it been now?" Stan asked worried
"Wait wait wait, hold up. Am I missing something important with this?"
"Well, not much Ken… The previous night I had a nightmare and I couldn't sleep well…"
"So that's your problem Kyle? Just a stupid dumb nightmare?" Kenny asked unsurprised, not knowing how much it meant to Kyle.
"Well Kenny, it is literally the 10th in a row night that I have the same stupid nightmare. It drives me crazy every night I have it…"
"Oh no! Ten nightmares each night! Oh jeez, I couldn't stand it!" Butters exclaimed
"Alright Kyle, and what happens in that nightmare anyways?" Kenny asked curiously to his friend.
"Well, it's something bizarre, that's for sure. The nightmare starts in the darkness, like an empty room, where I found in the middle of nowhere. Then, a shadow man appears in front of me, asking me if I remember him of some sort. When I say to him "no" three other shadow men appear grabbing me. Then the shadow man takes a knife out of his pocket and then, without any warning, he stabs me with it. That's the part where I woke up. sweating… and with fear." Kyle explained to his friends
"Oh, a shadow man…" Kenny asked, not really impressed by the description.
"Yeah, Kyle told me the same thing yesterday, and the day before, and the week before…" Stan reassured to Kenny
"It's true Kenny, it has been happening to me for far too long, and I'm starting to get sick of it…"
"Oh no! Shadow men! Don't worry Kyle. My dad always tells me that if I get scared by a shadow again he will ground me so hard that I could start writing new types of numbers, so with that I don't get scared anymore. Use that logic and you'll not get scared again!" Butters said innocently, with his fear of being grounded still following him every day.
"Uuh… Your parents punish you for being scared?" Stan asked confusingly
"What? Your parents don't do the same to you?"
"Well… I'm not a dream expert, but I'm sure that could explain all the supposed things that you have seen all day. They could be just hallucinations…"
"You really think that Kenny?"
"Dude, the shadow people don't even exist in real life…"
"Unless you go to Imagination Land!" Butters reassured him innocently
"But guys, what I saw in there was too real. I feel like… the nightmare… it's trying to tell me something, I don't know..."
"Tell you what? A message?" Stan asked him.
"Like a premonition?" Butters suggested.
"What kind of message?" Kenny asked with curiosity.
"I don't know Kenny, but whatever that message is, sure it has to be-..."
"I HOPE A LOAD OF B*LLSH*T FALLS ON YOUR HEADS HIPPIES!" As Kyle was trying to suggest he was immediately cut off by more annoyance.
Coming back to Cartman's tantrums he was starting to get really mad this time around.
"WHO DARE YOU QUITTING MY CHEESEBURGER DAY! I'M GONNA LOSE MY SH*T WITH THIS!"
"Oh my God! Eric calm down!" Butters said as he ran quickly to where Cartman was, trying to calm him down a little.
"Well, there goes my moment…" Kyle said disappointed
"GET OUT OF ME BUTTERS! I'M NOT GONNA LED THAT A STUPID HIPPIE CLUB BANS MY IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY! I THINK…I'M GONNA… LOSE… MY SH-...GRRRRRRRRARGARAAGHARRRHHHHH!"
BUM! Heart attack.
Because of all the rage accumulated by him, Cartman fainted on the ground, collapsing alongside Butters.
"Oh hamburgers, Eric!"
"Wait, did he really give himself a heart attack again?" Wendy asked surprised this time around.
"Well Kyle… There goes your premonition…" Kenny said while witnessing the scene from afar.
Outside, 5 minutes later…
An ambulance with two nurses picked up Cartman and laid him on a table from the truck. One of them charged a defibrillator and put it on Cartman's chest.
"Clear!" The nurse shouted
A charge of volts jolted Cartman. His heart finally beat again.
"We recovered him!" The nurse said
"Ugh… F*ck you Wendy…" Those were Cartman's first words after the paralysis.
"Fiu… He's fine you guys! He made it alive!" Butters happily exclaimed
"Who does he do that and never gets seriously injured?" Stan asked impressed
"Dude. It's Cartman. He's literally a living box of surprises…" Kyle told him
"Yeah, a large box of surprises…" Kenny reassured them.
Last school hour…
Everyone from 4th grade was doing the Spanish exam (except for Cartman who was resting in the hospital). Kyle was too concentrated on doing it. However, on some occasions, he looked at the window with the corner of his eye, in case the shadow figure appeared again.
After some time the test ended and the school day was finally over. Everyone left the school, probably heading back to their houses. Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Butters were also out of the exam as well.
"So… How was the exam today fellas?" Butters asked to his former friends
"Pretty good! I guess…" Stan responded to him.
"I think I can pass this one. If the teacher doesn't notice what I put..." Kenny said as he winked at Butters
"Hehe, damn Kenny…" Stan said to his friend
"I hope I pass! I don't wanna get grounded…"
"And you Kyle?" Stan asked to him
"I don't think you should ask him now, Stan. He's pretty occupied fantasizing with that shadow guy, right? HAHAHA!" Kenny said in a mocking manner.
"What? Of course not Kenny! I wasn't thinking of him, besides I definitely passed that test. It wasn't a problem at all…"
"If you say so…" Stan said before the sound of a notification interrupted their march.
"Huh?"
Kyle took his phone out and checked it. A message has been sent to him.
"Oh great…"
"Who 's it?"
"Guess dude…"
"Woodsy Owl?" Butters asked
"Butters, who the f*cks is Woodsy Owl?"
"Is someone that three days ago sent me a message telling me to share some photos with him on Facebook. He hasn't talked to me ever since…"
Everyone was astonished at Butters' statement. The fact that Butters couldn't even see the wrong thing about this, neither his parents did anything about it, only made Kyle feel really sorry for him.
"What?"
"Eeh… It's Cartman, Butters."
"Oh! Is he ok?"
"Well, judging by the fact that he was able to send me something, I think he's totally fine…"
"Isn't it wrong for him to be playing with your phone after a heart attack? He should be resting in the hospital..."
"Jeez, it's Cartman everybody! (*Sigh), What does he want anyways?" Kyle said as the four boys checked the message that Cartman sent to them.
"Here! It says... Wait, let me mimic his voice..." Kyle says this as he clears his throat to talk like Eric.
"Kail, come to my place.
F*ck, I mean hospital. Dammit, stupid revision
*reminder
**reviser
Bring everyone.
Don't be late. " Cartman.
"Hehe, it fits well Kyle..." Butters said giggling
"It seems he wants us to visit him at the hospital. He says it is something urgent, like really urgent..."
"Like everything he usually says..." Stan says unsurprisingly
"That's a great idea! We should visit him right this instant!" Butters said really excited
"Butters, please... It's Cartman, for God's sake…"
"But he just got a heart attack. Maybe what he's going to tell us could be something special!"
"I don't know Butters…" Kyle said undecided
"Well, despite who he always tends to be, Butters is right, we should visit him at the hospital. Besides, probably if we don't do it he'll surely be ripping us about it the whole week…"
"Kenny is right in there, Kyle. You know what? Let's just go, hear what he has to say and after that, we leave. Besides, today is Friday, we have all the time in the world…"
"(*Sigh), Alright dude, let's do that. Let 's just visit him and wish him a good recovery. But if he starts ripping on me just for being jew I'm seriously gonna lose it!" Kyle warned the three.
"Fair enough for us, Butters?"
"Yeah! Pretty cool! Then let's not waste more time fellas! Hell Pass Hospital, here we go!"
"Butters hold up! It's not in that direction!" Stan told him as the two went in direction to Hell Pass Hospital.
"Great, the fatass is going to tell us some "exciting" news. Hooray! It better be important…" Kyle said sarcastically
"What's the rush dude? You're gonna hold your date with the shadow man?" Kenny mocked him again
"Heh, shut up dude…" Kyle responded back as Kenny laughed with him
Surely whatever was following Kyle left him a stressful day of school. He wondered if he would see it again, as his group of friends went straight forward to Hell's Pass Hospital.
Now, in Hell's Pass Hospital…
Cartman was resting on a hospital bed. Is incredible that, even after the heart attack, he still was sufficiently conscious to wait impatiently for his friends.
"Ugh… Where the f*ck are those slowbags? I'm gonna get really sick if Kyle doesn't show up at that door now..."
Surprise! Kyle and the rest appeared entering in his hospital room.
"Finally! You guys are really slow butts! Why did it take you so long huh?"
"Jeez fatass we came as fast as we could!" Kyle said indignant
"Cartman! You're fine! And awake. Are you ok Eric?"
"Butters? What the hell are you up doing here! I said everyone! Not him!" Cartman said angrily
"Specify next time, jackass…"
"Yeah, and besides, Butters was really worried about you. Show a little bit of affection to him at least, Cartman..." Kenny said to the hurted racoon
"Ugh, whatever..."
"Eric! Are you ok or not?" Butters asked frenetically
"Damn! Stop screaming at me Butters! I'm badly wounded! Not dead. Well, at least not yet, those damn girls really know how to put everyone in danger! Especially while poisoning the food that I'm trying to digest!"
"For God's sake CArtman! Did you seriously have yourself a heart attack just because of a f*cking change on the cafeteria's menu? Oh wait, again!" Kyle asked angrily
"What! I have to deliver a perfect message to those hippie sparkling f*ckers!"
"Yeah! Follow the message Kyle!" Butters supported him
"Butters! Don't encourage him! It was a retard movement made by him! A really, really stupid one…"
"What would you know about movements, Kyle? Before we know it you're wasting money again..."
"Who the f*ck goes around and gives himself a heart attack just because they changed the menu from cheeseburgers to vegetables? What dumb kind of movement justifies that?"
"Well... And who the f*ck goes around and changes the menu anyways? The rules were pre-established before I set foot in that school and if each Friday we had cheeseburger for lunch, then we had cheeseburger for LUNCH!"
"Oh my Lord Cartman, you're unbelievably stupid!" Kyle said while slapping himself in the face
"You know we had the Spanish test today, right?" Stan told him
"Yes, why do you ask?" Cartman asked
"I ask because I've a theory that maybe explains your sudden faint: You just auto inflicted your heart attack just to not make the test... right?"
"What? No Stan! C'mon, I'm not that really extreme! I just did it for the menu, not doing the exam was just a fair bonus…"
"Whatever Cartman, you said that you have something urgent to tell us, so what is it?" Kyle returned back to the main reason of their visit
"Well, you see guys, tomorrow will be Saturday, and you know what happens on Saturdays?"
"You lose weight…" Kenny said
Unsurprisingly everyone started to make a big laugh.
"Haha, that isn't funny, asshole! Everybody knows that I'm as buff as Mike Tyson…"
"Whatever Cartman, just tell us what happens…"
"Well Kyle, the Saturdays are movie days for me, and I have thought to myself, 'Hey, what if I invite my friends to my house to watch some pretty dumb horror movies'. Huh? Is that a good plan for you guys?"
"Spend time at your house, tomorrow…" Kyle said, thinking he was tricking him.
"Yeah! Tomorrow at night, like a slumber party…"
"Wow! I love slumber parties, I was at one once. They are shiny, pretty and with loads of entertainment!"
"No Butters, that was the girls' slumber party, and now that you've made me remember them you're not invited to mine!"
"What!? But why?" Butters asked surprised
"Because you asked for it! I only want them, you can leave if you want...""
"Oh hamburgers…" Butters said disappointed
"Wait, I thought you'll still be here at the hospital…" Stan said.
"The doctor said I could leave by tomorrow morning, so f*ck it. Slumber party tomorrow!"
"But wait, you invite us to pass the time and watch some movies or you want us to come for something else?" Kenny asked suspicious
"What? Who could you say that dickhead! It's obviously to pass the time with my people! My friends! It's even hard for me to even invite Kyle! And yet here I am, inviting him..."
"But it's gonna be us and that's it? Can we invite people like Tolkien or Jimmy of somesorts..."
"No! After the shame they let me pass I prefer they stay where they are!" Cartman responded angrily
"I don't know Cartman, it sounds like you're trying to scam us or something…" Kyle responded suspiciously too.
"Eeh… I think I will go…" Stan directly confirmed it, making Kyle feel surprised by his decision.
"What? But why dude?"
"Well, to be honest, I don't really have anything planned this weekend, and besides, I don't really wanna pass another night watching my dad getting high because of his addiction to marihuana or getting another beat up by Shelly, so…"
"So you wanna come?" Cartman asked to the black-haired boy
"Yes, I think so…"
"Great! That's just perfect! You see that Kyle? Learn from Stan…"
"Dude, I thought you were not going to be involved with his sh*t…"
"I'm going too…" Kenny also confirmed it, making Kyle put another poker face.
"What?"
"Oh yeah! There we go! Now the only one left it's you Kyle. Come on! Join us!"
"Kenny!"
"What? I'm also off this weekend!"
"Eric, if Kyle doesn't wanna come to the slumber party can I go instead?"
"Shut up Butters!"
"Dang it." Butters protested silence
"(*Sigh), I don't know if I should come guys, it still smells like a big scam…"
"Well dude, you can do this: Even if you don't like Cartman at all, you can come only to watch the movie. We'll be there two, you don't have to worry about anything…"
"I don't know Stan…"
"No Stan, you know what? It's okay. If the Little Red Riding Kyle doesn't wanna come to my slumber party, good for him. He can have his own ass party with the fatass of his mother and that shadow guy, hehehe…"
"What the f-How do you know that!?"
"Butters told me before he went to take the exam, on Coonstagram..."
"Butters!"
"Uuh I'm sorry Kyle! I didn't have anything else to tell him!"
Kyle looked at Cartman with suspicion. He now knew about his inner nightmares, and now he was straight up rubbing it on his face.
"Cartman! Don't say those things! They don't concern you dude..." Stan said, trying to defend his best friend
"What? It's true man! Am I right dickhead?"
"You know what? I'm in. Yes, I will go tomorrow to your stupid slumber party! Are you happy now you fat f*ck?"
"Yes! Yes! That's exactly what I wanted to hear..."
"Oh dang it! I'm gonna get grounded for this…" Butters expressed disappointed
"Oh man, I can't wait to see your scared faces when you watch the film!"
"We'll see about that fatass…"
"Excuse me? Children..." A nurse entered to the room, interrupting their discussion
"...Visiting hours are over. I suggest you leave your friend to rest and visit him another day, ok?"
"Ok!" The group of boys said
"Then it's settled! See you fags tomorrow…"
"(*Sigh), Whatever fatass…"
"But Eric please! I really wanna go!"
"Get out of my blanket Butters!"
"Ehh... I think we should just leave them by…" Stan suggested as they left the room, leaving Butters pleading to Cartman for like 10 minutes before the nurse kicked him out of the hospital.
Outside...
"I still can't believe we're going to spend a night at Cartman's house this Saturday. Ugh, it's gonna be rough…"
"Yeah, neither do I, and yet, here we are. See you guys tomorrow night!"
"Goodbye Kenny!" Stan and Kyle waved him back as Kenny headed back to his house
"Don't worry Kyle, it'll be just for one night. And hey! Maybe with that party you could forget about those stupid nightmares for a while. What do you think?"
"Well, that would be perfect for me. Thanks dude…"
"No problem dude! Now if you excuse me, I should go fast to the farm. My father is probably waiting for me to help him with something of some sort. See you tomorrow night Kyle!"
"Same thing dude! See you tomorrow!" Kyle waved him too and Stan left the scene quickly.
"(*Sigh), A party with my mother and the shadow guy... Cartman, you're an asshole!"
Later that night…
Kyle positioned on his bed that night. He drank a vase of linden just to sleep well and be calmed. Strangely the shadow figure didn't appear the rest of the day. He rested his head on his pillow, ready to go to sleep.
"Have the balls to appear now, shadow freak…" He thought to himself as he slowly closed his eyes.
He slept calmly that night. Fortunately nothing really weird happened in his sleep. It seemed like the vase of linden made a great work for him, and he could finally rest peacefully, while being alone with his thoughts.
With the wind of the night covering his room…
With the stars of the night guarding the town…
With the small crickets singing in unison…
And with the shadow figure watching him from afar…
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