5ive here again to annoy you with WORDS!
First, I'd like to give a big thank you to shadowassassin75for the review on the previous chapter! I'm glad someone is enjoying this because it's actually my favorite fanfic on my entire page. Sure the FNAF one is good... I guess... and I love the chapter where all the kids died (I'M TERRIBLE I KNOW! XD) but A Past to Haunt has a lot of meaning to me and memories of the old days of watching PewDiePie when I was in school.
This chapter right here was written completely different halfway through, but I didn't like how it was coming out so I changed it up. That's why this took SO FEKING LONG and I'm sorry! But it's here! New chapter! All of that suggestive yaoi between Stephano and Pewds that's NEVER GONNA HAPPEN MUWAHAHAHA!
Either way, hope you enjoy! Don't forget to review, follow, and share this! (and to you FNAF ppl, I'm going to be working on the next chapter for that now~)
Already wet from before, the sudden chill he felt wasn't from the water. Felix had expected to be grabbed and ripped apart yet there he stood staring at the broken box he had been standing on moments before. He couldn't move. The water rippled away down the hall toward Mr. Chair and Piggeh. It was ignoring him.
Just to the right of him, Stephano was motioning for the blonde to get out. He was strangely calm for the situation at hand.
Felix stared for a moment. A shiver ran up his body disturbing the water.
Another roar broke out. The water came to life ripping its way back to him.
With a scream, he scrambled reaching out to Stephano as the fastest he could move wasn't going to be enough. Relief flourished when the man's hand closed around his and yanked the Swed up onto the crate and safely away from the thrashing water. Pewds clung to his friend as the crate shifted from the force of the monster crashing into it.
"PewDie," Stephano muttered calmly. "We need to keep moving. This crate won't hold forever."
After some moments of letting his thoughts catch up, Felix nodded following the golden man down the crate to the next box. By this time Mr. Chair and Piggeh had gone on ahead only just visible at the edge of the lit water. They waved back before heading around a corner.
All the while the water monster stayed at their feet. Each box they stepped on, splatters of water escaped the surface biting onto Felix's pants. It was a strange sensation of the water attacking him. As if any liquid that came off the monster was still a part of it.
Stephano stopped before a large gap. He gave the man a soft shove. "You jump first. I'm right behind you."
"What-?! But what if I fall?"
"I'm right behind you. If you fall in, I'm here to distract it." He gave Felix's shoulders another soft push. "Go on. You'll be fine." Then something dark crossed the gold man's face. "I won't let anything happen to you. I promise."
Felix felt safer, but watching the water churn below with an invisible entity made him unsure of his actions. There was no telling exactly what this thing could do to him. It had no teeth, but from the game he knew it could eat meat – more specifically humans. What it could do to any of him waist down… Felix felt his heart skip a beat from fear. Then Stephano's grip reminded him he wasn't alone. The blonde took a deep breath, and jumped.
The water seemingly leapt out, teeth extending from the depths toward him. They closed down on nothing having not gotten very far in their jump toward food. The creature splashed around in anger before ramming itself into the box that Felix had safely landed on. The blow to it had the blonde stumble forward, forcing him to jump to the next crate.
"PewDie!" A loud splash followed Stephano's call.
Felix hit the crate hard, hips first. His legs scrambled at the wood for a hold, thrashing through the liquid uselessly. In his panic he began clawing at the surface of the crate to pull him up. His nails dug in the best they could, hooking into a crack and giving him leverage. He got himself up into the box and away from the monster who'd left to splash at Stephano.
"Stephano, come on!" He stepped away from the edge of the crate making room for the man jumping across the gap. The two ran for it, leaping across the remaining boxes in site and around the corner. At the end of the hall, Mr. Chair waited in a doorway waving wildly at them.
Felix jumped on ahead of the other man. "Hurry up! We're almost there!" He ran along a row of chests and boxes, excitement for reaching the others having his legs carry him faster. The sooner he could get away from that invisible water the better.
A solid thud and splash behind him had Felix flinch. He spun around. Stephano was gone. "Stephano?!" He ran back across the boxes.
Mr. Chair was at his heels. "What happened?"
"I don't know! He's gone! I think he's under the water!" Felix then noticed that the water monster wasn't around. Water sloshed against wood from the previous chase. There was no sign of either statue or creature. No bubbles… the water was completely undisturbed. He was at a loss for what to do. Jumping in the water was just begging the monster to come back, but if that thing had Stephano somewhere under the murky depths…
Another splash had Felix jump. He looked over almost feeling like crying as he saw his friend climb onto a crate on the other side of the corridor. Almost. No way he was going to cry now.
"Stephano!" he called out.
The statue glanced his way and casually waved. "I'm fine," he said back, removing his hat to wring it out. As dry as he could manage, the man replaced it on his head and leapt the short distance to their side. "Don't worry about me, PewDie." Stephano smiled.
Felix took a few deep breaths to compose his feelings in order to give the man a hard punch in the arm. "Don't you ever scare me like that again!"
He was laughing, rubbing his arm. "Okay okay! Next time I'll let the monster eat me."
"Not what I meant!"
Mr. Chair laughed with him. "Come on, we're getting close to the basement."
Felix shivered. "We… aren't even in the basement yet? But this is the sewer!"
"Not really," Stephano chimed in. "This is just a flooded hallway. The notes left around say it's a testing area for the water monster. The basement is up ahead. We've still got to go through the sewer." Then he smiled again. "There's no water monster down there. It doesn't like going down there."
That made him relax. "At least no more water fucker." Felix had to admit it to himself through all of the conversation that Stephano's attitude had brightened a lot. He liked the sudden change in attitude because it seemed to be having a positive effect on Mr. Chair. "Then let's get going. Gotta catch up with Piggeh."
Mr. Chair nodded excitedly and skipped on ahead and out the door.
Felix followed behind pleased that he hadn't needed to say goodbye to his old pal. "Glad you're okay," he mentioned when they jumped the last gap leading to the dry halls.
"I wouldn't leave you that easily, Felix." Then he snickered. "You wouldn't last long without me."
"Oh stuff it. Piggeh's pretty strong. I think we would have been okay."
Stephano didn't say anything after that. He just grinned, holding the door open for the blonde.
Felix felt his paranoia returning as they found their way back into the all too familiar halls of Amnesia. With the gold statue at his side he was more at ease. "We should find somewhere to dry off. You're completely soaked."
It was true. The statue had turned several shades darker from having fallen in the water. He looked like a drown rat.
"What about you? You're wet too." Stephano motioned to the other. It appeared as if his clothes were about to sag right off of him.
He hadn't even been thinking of himself. He'd already gotten use to the water weighing him down. "Yeah… I forgot I fell in. I'll dry out as we go," Felix said as a shiver ran up his spine.
Stephano stopped, crossing his arms and raising his brow. "Felix."
The smaller male sighed. "Fine. Let's just catch up to Piggeh and Mr. Chair and we'll find somewhere to dry off." With any luck they could find a fireplace and warm up.
They quickly found the two in an open room already trying to get a fire started with some of the old and broken chairs. For fuel they had pulled curtains off the walls and paper from the single desk in the room.
Piggeh noticed them and held his hand out.
Felix stared at the hand. "What?"
Red eyes rolled before he reached out and snatched the lantern from Felix's waist, lighting it and using it to start up their own fire.
"Oh… of course." Felix sighed, sitting down on the floor hating the loud SPLOSH sound his clothes made.
Mr. Chair, scratching his head, said, "You should take off some of your clothes. It'll help… you… ya know." Then he blushed when Felix glanced his way. "I-I won't look! I promise!" and he covered his face with his hat.
Beside the blonde, Piggeh snorted in amusement. As Felix's eyes found him, Piggeh shrugged, nodding to Mr. Chair as if saying the brunette was right. "Seriously? I'm not taking my clothes off."
"You should." Across the room Stephano had already removed the majority of his clothing leaving only bronze-colored boxers. "It'll dry them out faster and you won't get sick." He was busy hanging up the soaked cloth on the railing of the bed. "Throw them this way, I'll hang them up."
Felix huffed, yanking his shirt off and chucking it at the man. "The pants stay!" he snapped.
"Nah nah, take them off." Stephano smirked. "You can keep your underwear on, but the pants need to come off." Then he pointed at the floor. "You aren't going to dry out sitting in a puddle."
Sighing loudly, the Swed stood, unbuttoned his pants and let them drop to the floor with a loud SPLASH. He kicked the jeans at Stephano who gratefully took them and hung them up. "Now I'm just naked… happy now?"
The man gave a loud laugh. "Damn you're out of shape!"
Felix yanked a bed sheet from the mattress. "SHUT UP! I sit in front of a computer playing games for a living! What'd you expect?!" He curled up under the sheets in front of the growing fire, Piggeh to his left trying to get the flames to build and Mr. Chair to his right trying oh so hard not to look at him. It strangely felt very normal and homey.
The Swed felt very tired again. He wanted to sleep but at the same time he knew his body wasn't worn out enough to allow it. His mind couldn't handle much more of this. The sooner they could get out the better. If he had to spend too long here he was scared he wouldn't be able to handle normal life anymore.
Stephano sat next to him. "You okay?"
"Yeah. Yeah I think I'll be fine." Felix truly believed what he said, but deep down he knew this experience was going to haunt him for the rest of his life. "…With time," he added.
The other pat his back. "You've been through worse." Then his expression changed after he looked at Felix again. "If you're tired you should try sleeping."
"I can't sleep."
"Try. It'll make you feel better." Stephano slipped away, returning with a pillow. "Here. Just lay down."
Mr. Chair had scooted himself to the wall giving Felix some room while Piggeh had moved away to break some more chairs for the fire. Apparently they were old and the wood burned rather fast. He threw in anything else flammable, leaving a small stack of junk beside the fireplace just in case.
Felix let himself lie down, burying his face in the pillow under him. His body relaxed almost painfully into the softness of the sheets around him. Every muscle let go, loosening in places he hadn't known he'd been straining. Each part of his form slowly fell deeper into the sheets pushing him deeper and deeper into unexpected sleep. A sleep much more comforting than the one prior. No looming darkness awaited him and no noises wound up his nerves. It was an emptiness that welcomed him with open arms into a soothing embrace
He had to smile in spite of the situation they were all in. The smile didn't last, however, as something cold and sharp pressed to his neck.
