The Mansion

On their walk to wherever the man was taking them, LuLu was hanging and swinging on Stryker's legs when he had turned back into his monstrous, faceless form. "Can I please have a piggyback ride?" She asked once again as she tried to climb on his back, but he pushed her down once more. Once they arrived at their destination, they were greeted by an old, abandoned mansion and they all looked up at it. Stryker was able to get LuLu off of him. "𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍.. 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆.." He said as he seemed to teleport inside the house. The teens were still standing outside, wondering what was waiting inside the abandoned, yet brand new looking, mansion. Finally, Queenie spoke up. "Let's go then. I wanna see who or what is inside waiting for us." She then began to walk up to the door and proceeded to open it with Charisma, LuLu, ReeRee and Ezra following behind. Once the five of them were inside, the door quickly slammed shut and they immediately pulled their weapons out. Except for Ezra who had put his headphones on when they were following Stryker.

"Who the hell did that?" Charisma hissed. Something fell on the floor with a loud thud, making them all jump at the sound. The whole place was so dark they were unable to see two feet in front of them. "Queenie, quit poking me in my kidney!" ReeRee growled at her. "I'm not poking you. And LuLu, stop shoving me!" "That's not me, Charisma keeps pulling on my hair." "Whoever keeps poking me, stop it, it's beginning to hurt!" ReeRee cried out in a distressed voice. "Fuck this, I'm going to find the light switch!" Charisma exclaimed five feet to LuLu's right. "Guys.. why do you all sound.. so.. far?" ReeRee gasped in a raspy voice. Once the lights were on, ReeRee was on the ground in a pool of her own blood, unconscious. "What the fuck?" Queenie and LuLu dropped to the ground, talking over each other all at once. "Who the hell did this?" "Goddammit, I knew we couldn't trust that Slenderman!"

Charisma was still standing by the light switch, thinking of ways to try and kill the Slenderman when she suddenly heard a clicking sound that the others were unable to hear. The sound was closer to her and sounded like a door. "Guys, I think I heard a door somewhere." They all looked up at her when she spoke. "It's closer to me though.." She said as she listened closely for anything else. She looked around the living room and saw the rug that was slightly moved. She walked over and moved it out of the way to reveal a trapdoor. "I can only assume it's the basement." Charisma voiced. A heavy smell of blood wafted up from it and Charisma lifted the door, a ladder falling down with a crash. They all looked down the dark hole and it was pitch black like the room before the lights turned on. Charisma looked around for a light source they could use and she spotted a flashlight on the ground near a coffee table.

"Come on." LuLu grunted as she lifted up ReeRee with Queenie and Ezra following. Charisma helped LuLu when she came down with ReeRee and they slowly walked around the basement with Charisma in front. As they were walking, the smell of blood was stronger than before and there were shelves on shelves lined up with many ice chests. They didn't want to know who or what was inside any of them. Charisma growled quietly as they kept going. "I wonder whose these belong to.." Queenie said, covering her nose from the stench. "I smell chemicals.. like someone is cleaning up.." Ezra commented. "Let's hurry before ReeRee loses too much blood." LuLu voiced. They quickly looked around the lined shelves hoping to find ReeRee's kidney. Queenie walked over to a desk and found an ice chest labeled with today's date. "Maybe this one is hers?" She asked and LuLu walked over, opening the chest and peering inside. "It has to be, it's small enough."

She grabbed the chest and they all headed back up to the living room. Once they got up the ladder, Charisma immediately looked around for something to fix ReeRee with. Luckily, she found a Medical Kit that had everything she needed to sew ReeRee up. Queenie stepped aside when she came back over with them. "Thanks for stopping the blood. Now, let's just hope my sewing skills are good enough to help her." She said as she rolled up her sleeves. Charisma put ReeRee's kidney back in place and sewed up the arteries and sinews as best she could before mending her stomach. ReeRee's cheeks regained some of their color and she groaned but didn't wake up. Charisma covered the stitches up and LuLu laid her on the couch to rest. Everyone decided to rest as well, but with their eyes open. Charisma decided to stay awake and keep watch just in case anything happened.

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Two hours later, ReeRee began to regain consciousness. "Good morning sleepyhead. That was a close one." Queenie joked lightheartedly, but her eyes showed that she was scared. "I'm fine now, I really am." She said woozily but they all knew that it would be a while until she fully recovered. Before anyone else could say anything, murmurs ensued upstairs. Charisma heard the voices and scowled. Queenie heard them as well but the others didn't seem to hear a thing. The two girls looked at the ceiling above them while the others tilted their heads in question. "What is i-" "Shut up and listen." Charisma hissed, interrupting Ezra. She pointed up at the ceiling and he pursed his lips as he looked to where she was pointing at. Charisma instantly headed for the stairs, the others following. As they inched up the stairs, they heard muffled voices. "𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦?" One of the voices questioned.

"𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑚 𝐼 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤? 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒." Another voice responded. "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘺? 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳." A third said in a timid, shaky voice. They kept listening in a hunched ball as they ventured up. "𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑡?" The first voice spoke again. "𝐼 𝑑𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑜, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦." The second responded back. "𝐷𝑢𝑑𝑒! 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙." The third exclaimed. "𝑆𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡? 𝑊𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝑆'𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 I 𝑔𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑦, 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?" The second said one last time. "𝑁𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑦!" The first voice said, followed by some scuffling and some grunts. "Are they fighting?" ReeRee asked out loud, a little too loud than expected and the scuffling stopped immediately. Some hushed voices ensued from a room to their immediate right.

The door quickly swung open and darkness concealed the features of two dark figures inside as they crept up to the doorway. Queenie looked down and squealed as she broke away from the tight-knit group. Charisma tried to grab her but she ducked under her arm. "Who are you?" She asked a being that was about an inch or two taller than her. He wore a green tunic and had long blonde hair that swept over one eye. The visible eye had a blood-like substance dripping from it. "What's it to you?" He sneered. Queenie flinched a little bit but collected herself enough to shrug. He just rolled his dark eyes and walked back to the other figures. They came into view as they stepped out of the darkness. One had a blue mask with black dripping fluid while the other had a smile-like scarf and orange goggles on. The little blonde one seemed like a dwarf when he stood next to him even though, he technically was. The blue masked one looked over at ReeRee and then at the bandage before letting out a gasp.

"Hey, you took my kidney!" He pointed at ReeRee and she gasped, holding up her hands. "These are my kidneys. Mine!" She yelled at him and he stepped back a bit. He then seemed to remember that he was bigger than her and stepped forward three more steps. "I stole that kidney fair and square, now give it back." He pointed at her again, but poked the spot where he cut her, making her wince in pain. "What are you going to do with a kidney anyways?" Charisma queried as she smacked his hand away. "Eat it, duh." He responded as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. LuLu grabbed her baseball bat and pointed it at him, shielding ReeRee. "Why the hell would you eat kidneys?" She asked him and he started to laugh then pointed at ReeRee. "Get that one for me." He said to the guys next to him. They both just looked at him and the little one snorted. "Why? I think it's gross when you slurp the goop out of them kidneys you eat. I'm not going to help you with that."

The one in the goggles said timidly as he crossed his arms and twitched a little. The boy in the mask sagged his shoulders. "Can't I be dramatic once in my life? Just help me kill her." He said disappointedly and the little one sneered again. "Tough luck bro. I ain't touching that." He said as he looked ReeRee up and down, which caused her to inhale sharply. "Is that any way to treat a woman?" She shot back but the little boy just laughed. "I don't see a woman, do you? Well, maybe those two." He laughed while pointing at Charisma and LuLu. ReeRee then puffed up her cheeks. "Well at least I'm taller than you, you.. you.. Potato!" She yelled back at him. He frowned and tilted his head. "Potato? What is that supposed to mean?" He asked with an edge in his voice, eyes narrowing in warning as he started to walk forward. "What I mean is that you're small like a potato. An ugly, brown, tiny potato." She dared and his eyes snapped.

"What was that? Say it again, I didn't hear you since potatoes don't have any ears!" He yelled at her and grabbed the guy in goggles' hatchet off of his belt but he grabbed his arm before he could hurt ReeRee. "Careful. She's only, like, nine." The goggled boy twitched again as he warned the boy, earning a scoff of protest from ReeRee. "Since when did we care about who we killed? Two out of three votes, it's settled. We kill her." He growled and whipped his head around to face her and she flinched. "Finally. Took you long enough, I'm hungry!" Blue Mask exclaimed while Shorty sneered. Mr. Goggles sighed and twitched a third time. "No ones killing me. Especially not Shorty over there." ReeRee said coldly, earning every swear word known to man from the little one and Queenie blushed at this. "Yes the fuck I am! I'm going to rip your fucking arms out of their sockets. Feel your eyes gush between my fucking fingers you fucking piece of shit!"

"I'll fucking feed you to a goddamn dog! And you, let the fuck go of me!" Shorty yelled, increasingly getting angrier as ReeRee kept making shortness gestures with her index finger and thumb while mouthing 'too short, too short'. Mr. Goggles wrapped his arms around Shorty's chest to get a better grip around his squirming body. "We are not killing anyone you psycho. Stryker brought them here which means that they are our guests. So, try to be nice to them." Mr. Goggles said calmly. He then looked towards the guests all while holding Shorty back who was kicking and screaming profanities at ReeRee. "I'm sorry about this. He doesn't really like people pointing out his.. Uhm.. vertical challenges." Mr. Goggles said in his shaky, timid voice. Shorty spit at him, but he ducked under the flying lugey. "Vertical challenges.." Ezra chuckled and everyone snapped their heads to face him. "What the fuck are you laughing at you manwhore sucking leech?!" Shorty screamed and his spit flew everywhere.

He broke free from Mr. Goggles' grip and punched Ezra in the face so hard that a tooth fell out. Ezra yelped and fell to the floor and everyone just stared as Shorty started wailing on him. "That's it, get your anger out. Hit him until your fists hurt.." Mr. Goggles encouraged quietly while Blue Mask patted Shorty's back. Shorty yelled every syllable separately as every punch landed on Ezra's bloody face. The last three words were the hardest punches that had somehow turned into kicks to the face. "Wow, so much rage in such a smal- nevermind." LuLu laughed and tears were falling down her face from how hard she was laughing. "Is anyone going to help him?" Charisma asked herself out loud as she just watched with uninterest. "Nope." Blue Mask answered and Queenie shrugged while Mr. Goggles kept cheering on the angry short boy while twitching at the same time. "So.. you gonna tell us your names or do I have to make some up?" Queenie asked the two as grunts and screams echoed near the distance.

"Well, I am Ticci Toby and this is Eyeless Jack. And the one kicking your friend is BEN Drowned. We are so sorry for being rude." The orange goggled one, Ticci Toby, said as he narrowed his eyes at the blue masked one, Eyeless Jack, who just shrugged. "Hey, I was hungry. And a creature so cute like her has to hold some delicious organs, right?" Eyeless Jack said defensively, making ReeRee blush. "Wow, can you talk about something else already?" Toby asked and Eyeless Jack shook his head in response. Ben slowed down on his punches and he had stopped kicking some time during their conversation. Ezra's face looked like a squashed tomato at this point. Ben threw one final punch and sighed before he threw Ezra to the side like a sack of turnips. "I'm going to take a nap. Tell me what happens or whatever." He said to Toby with a passive wave. Queenie watched Ben walk all the way to the second flight of stairs where he disappeared, but she still watched the place he was last at, enamoured.

Charisma looked at Queenie and waved her hand in front of her face. "Hello? Queenie? Are you alive?" She called to the unresponsive girl. "Huh? Oh, yeah.. yeah. What?" Queenie jumped and came back to focus. ReeRee, Eyeless Jack and LuLu looked at each other and back to Queenie with knowing smiles. "Is Ezra okay?" Queenie quickly changed the subject and Toby just shrugged, oblivious to what happened two seconds ago. "I need to sew up some parts of his face. That kid, Ben, he may seem weak due to his stature, but I wouldn't fight the guy even if you paid me." Toby said while he cleaned Ezra's face as ReeRee and LuLu helped him. ReeRee disappeared into a room before coming back with bandages and a sewing kit while LuLu cleaned the blood off of the floor. Charisma, Eyeless Jack and Queenie sat against the wall next to them and watched. "I'm sorry for trying to eat your friend, she just looked really good.." Eyeless Jack apologized and ReeRee shrugged when she overheard.

"I would have done the same to you." She replied dismissively and he tilted his head. "You eat people too?" He asked and ReeRee giggled. "Careful what you ask for or I just might have to show you when you go to sleep tonight." She laughed. "I guess I'd call this meeting a success, wouldn't you?" LuLu said to Charisma as she walked over to her and she looked at her incredulously. "A success? Ezra got beat up, some kid probably fucking hates us now and ReeRee lost a kidney for five minutes! How the hell is that a success? We could have died." She said with a worried tone and LuLu just smiled. "But we didn't."