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I was finally here, my entire life has been leading up to this moment; I am finally at comicon! I was wearing my best Slenderman costume and was walking out of a changing booth when I noticed my red tie was missing.

“Damn, umm… let’s see if...”

I looked to my left to see a merchandise stall. I figured I could at least look there for a tie and walked on over. There was a wide assortment of memorabilia I could not place, and some that stood out like a sore thumb, like Cloud's Buster Blade, Ganondorf's head piece, a Keyblade; I even saw an Omnitrix, for Pete’s sake!

“Like anything you see?”

I jumped a little and looked behind me to find a man dressed like the Happy Mask Salesman holding a blood red tie with the Slenderman's symbol on its knot.

I nodded slowly and pointed to the tie. “That looks good, how much for the tie?”

I prided myself on the sound of my voice, thanks to the voice modulator I had put in my mask. I sounded like Slenderman as voiced by David Near.

The merchant laughed and smiled. “Only too happy to give it to you, how does five dollars sound? It comes with a free scythe!”
I nodded eagerly and handed him five bucks before taking the tie and weird four sided weapon.

The second I touched it,however, I fell promptly through the floor like it was thin ice on a lake, I looked up to see the floor reforming right before my eyes, as if I had never even been there.

I fell downward for what felt like hours, but could of been days, months, even years, kinda hard to tell when there’s no point of reference… until I finally stopped falling, I was thankful at first, oh how foolish I was.

Everything was… static… cold… I stood up in the endless abyss of TV static and looked around, “H-hello?” I looked around, my hands trembling in fear “Wh-where am I?”

I then felt as if a giant hand was gripping me and lifting me up, but only saw static around me, I then realized, the static was what was holding me! I looked all around to see lines of pure darkness in the distance, in front of what looked like burning red pits of evil. “New… Child…Join...JOIN!”

There was then a massive inky, tar-like blackness oozing over me, seeming to be drool from the beast's maw, the ooze touched my clothes and disintegrated them, becoming almost like a cocoon around me. “No! d-don’t eat me! I don’t want to die!” I desperately hit and slapped and bit the creature, my teeth breaking and my bones shattering in the process as I Looked into the creature's eyes and continued my assault. “YOU WANT TO EAT ME? WELL I”LL GO DOWN FIGHTING AND SCREAMING ALL THE WAY, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!”

The creature holding me laughed “Struggle...Pointless... Deathless…” I was then swallowed by the static monster, the tar like ooze enveloping me and overtaking my vision, silencing even my screams.

I woke up to find myself face down in the dirt “Oow… my back…” I groaned as I noticed I suddenly sounded like a british man now, weird... I then pushed myself up, only to notice something...I was dressed in a long, black, tight-fitting, high-collared coat with tails that reach to the floor, concealing my feet, buttoned up practically all the way. A large piece of blood-stained white fabric covered my front and ended at approximately my pectorals. My hands were covered with blood-soaked bandages, whose blood it was, I could only guess. “Dear GOD! What the bloody hell is going on here!?”

I then looked to myself again, realizing I was dressed as Cabadath, the prince, the ORIGINAL tall man…

I then heard a rustling in the bushes near me as a large creature leapt through them, growling menacingly “Okay… this is probably a dream… so…” I walked at the monster lion thing slowly with my scythe raised before smashing it down on its head, right as it jabbed me in the shoulder with its stinger. And dear god did it… wait… it didn’t hurt at all! And the beast was damn lucky! The damn scythe turned in my grip and bashed it on the head instead of piercing its skull.

“Yeah, ok, not a dream!” Funny story, I am one of those weird people that feel pain in their dreams, agonizing, heart stopping pain. I literally need a nurse to watch me sleep at night, but this, this not hurting me, that is a definite sign I’m awake!

I then paused mentally as I dodged and parried the monster ‘Wait, if I can block a giant stinger with my shoulder… then… maybe…’ I smiled and grabbed the monster’s head, giving it a harsh headbut, dazing the beast. “Ha! Still doesn’t hurt!” I then tried to run off while the beast was dazed, not wanting to kill a creature just for defending it’s territory, I just wanted to reach some sort of civilization! As I began to move at faster than a brisk walk, I suddenly found myself at the border of the forest, seemingly having teleported there, yet… I could feel myself moving through it… “Wait… the slenderwalking theory I had… maybe it was right…”

My theory was that when slenderman and Cabadath ‘Slenderwalked’ they were opening a hole in space-time from one point to another, and taking a single step through the newly made portal before dismissing it. Seems that was what happened. I then saw a village that I knew all too well “Aaw yeah! Ponyville!”

“Hey! Did you hear that?” I heard someone, or I guess somepony. Half of me wanted to go meet them but there was the other half that wanted to hide. The latter won as I ducked into a bush. “I think I heard it over here.”

“Really, Nyx you say that about everything,” I heard another voice. Both of them were female and by the sound of it they were young. I heard them get closer to where I was, the sound of footsteps sounded odd.

“Oh come on, you heard it too! I think it came from somewhere around here,” I heard rustling coming from my left. I tensed up as it was close. After a minute it stopped and I waited for a minute until…

“I found… you?” my bush was parted and a face of a little girl came right up to mine. Her eyes were covered by some glasses but I saw they were teal coloured. We stared at one another for a minute that felt like an hour. Her irises went small and she screamed her head off, I also screamed due to the fact that she screamed.

I stood straight up and towered over her, which was odd. She was on the ground and looked at me in total fear. There was some other things I notice, one that she was human, had tan skin and purple hair. She wore a blue shirt and some shorts.

“Nyx! Are you- oh,” I looked up and saw another girl, she had dark orange hair and wore a black tank top with jeans. She looked at me for a moment. “Sup,”

“Really! That’s what you said to it?!” the other girl, I guess is Nyx, said to her. The orange haired girl shrugged.

“He’s not that scary, but he’s really~ tall,” she looked up at me.” Like, taller than Jace.”

I looked to the two girls and sighed before doing Equestrias first faceless facepalm "Look, can I PLEASE go to ponyville? I have fantasized going here for over 6 years."

“What’s Ponyville?” the orange haired one said. She put her hands on her hips and frowned. “Also you didn’t tell us your name.”

“WHY ARE YOU ASKING IT FOR IT’S NAME?!?!” Nyx yelled, now standing beside the other one.

“One, it’s a he and two calling him Tall monster man sounds rude,” she explains. Nyx stared at her and facepalmed. The orange haired girl looked up to me and put her hand out. “I’m Stella! And this here is Nyx Sparkle.”

I look Nyx in offence "First of all, listen to your friend, two, I am named...Garry, Gannon? Something with a G, I think, memory is a bit hazy since I was eaten by a tv static monster...Let’s go with Greg." I looked at Stella's hand and gave her a hand shake. That was a bad idea for as soon as I touched her hand my body froze and my vision blurred. I let go of her hand and my vision came back, what the hell?

“Umm you okay?” Stella asked, her voice sounded worried.

"Depends, do most people who shake hands with you start tripping balls?" I told her. She stared at me then at her hand.

“Language!” Nyx said. Gone was the scared tone, now she looked angry at me. Stella looked over at her and grew a evil grin as she went and poked her. “AHH! Don’t do that!”

“Aww, I hoped it would work,” Stella pouted. She looked back at me. “Anyway, I don’t know a place called Ponyville but the town near here is Fairgate.”

“Maybe mom knows something!” Nyx said. Stella rolls her eyes.

“Sure, I guess Twilight would know something.” I perked up at that.

"Wait, THE Twilight Sparkle? As in, element of harmony? Cutest most adorkable personality ever? ALLONS-Y! TO FAIRGATE!” I yelled.

“Yeah… he’s kinda weird,” I heard Nyx said.

“ALLONS-Y!” Stella said. I turned to her as she has a big grin. “That’s fun!”

“I stand corrected, you’re both weird,”

I laughed evilly and pointed at her like Phoenix Wright “OBJECTION! You are just very rude! CONTINUE AT PERIL OF TICKLES!”

I turned to Stella and laughed as I let my slendrils out, getting into a doctor octopus stance "Want a piggy back ride?"

“Yes,” Stella said with a big grin.

“I’ll walk,” Nyx said, crossing her arms. I pulled Stella up to my shoulders, there was no vision black out this time. I looked at Nyx and hold out my hand.

“Better hold on, this is going to be quick,” I told her. She stared at me then slowly reached out. I looked over at the town. “So, where to go?”

Stella looked over at the town and pointed. “See that big building over there?”

“Yeah,” I said as I did see a big building, not Twilight’s castle big but still.

“Let’s go over there,” she said. I nodded and tried to slenderwalked over there. It seemed that it worked, until I felt like I hit a wall. I reached up and rubbed my face...er… the lack thereof.

“You ok?” Stella asked.

I nodded and looked to Nyx " Does your mom's house have wards against intruders teleporting in?"

“No, but the Workshop sure as hell does,” I heard someone said. I looked up to see a man standing there. He wore a gray t-shirt and black jeans. He had dark blue hair and was close to my height. What stood out was his right arm and eyes, his arm was covered in a clawed gauntlet and his eyes, dark blue as well, were somewhat shadowed. He crossed his arms and looked at me. “You’re tall.”

“That what I said!” Stella said. He looked up at her and smiled.

“How’s the weather up there?”

“Pretty good.” she answered. I looked over and saw that she gave me a ‘I don’t know’ shrugged.

“So, got a name?” The man asked.

I nodded and looked him in the eyes, kinda jealous that he had a face. “Greg, I think, I don't know, memory is kinda fuzzy, how about you? Mr. Emo kid?”

He stared at me and started to laugh. “Mr. Emo kid! HA! That’s funny since I’m older than you by a mile,” he stopped laughing and put out his hand. “Names Jace Belaguard.”

I shook his hand, again no black out. He let go of me and started to circle around me. “Let’s see here, Taller than normal, weird tentacles, nice suit, no face… you either came from a rift or a displacement,”

My head was pulled upwards to Stella, “Woah! You’re a displaced?! COOL!”

I smiled and tickled her belly with my slendril, earning a giggle from her. "I'm so cool I freeze the air. But I don't know if I am a displaced or not, I just bought a tie, blacked out, and got eaten."

“Yup, that sounds like the way of the Displace.” Jace said. He motions me to follow. “Come on, let’s finds someplace to sit, I also have tea.”

He looked over at Nyx and pointed at her. “Go tell Twilight, if she finds out that Jerry here was here in town I’ll never hear the end of it.”

“Alright,” She said as she ran off. Jace looked at me for a moment and smiled.

“Come on, I don’t bite, much.”

I shuddered "I need an adult."

Jace

Well today started off interesting, I thought I would be practising some magic for the whole day until the Gala.

“Sooo… where are we going? OOH! Are we going to meet Twilight?” Greg said as I opened the door to my Workshop.

“First, tea. Don’t worry about Twilight once she hears about you she’ll come running,” I looked around at the room and snapped my fingers. The fireplace lit up as I grabbed the pot of water to set it in the fire. I sat down in the chair and motion Jerry to sit in the other. “So, what’s your story.”

Greg shrugged “I don’t really know... everything is kind of hazy, and I feel some strange sort of Deja Vu; like I’ve met you before…Done ALL of this before… I dunno… the more I try to remember, the more...” He cringed and clutched his head “The more my head hurts…”

I stared at him as he talked, I put my hand up to my mouth and thought on it. “You know, there’s one thing that I hate about Sci-fi, you know what it is?”

Greg Shrugged “If you mean the channel, I bet it’s the crappy movies, if you mean the genre, I have no clue.”

I smiled and opened my hand, a black tooth necklace fell from it and let it hang there.

“I really hate time travel, too many paradoxes for my taste,”

Greg reached slowly for the necklace, before jerking his hand back and shouting in pain as his face tore open, making a mouth filled with three rows of pitch black, razor sharp teeth that were identical to the one on the necklace. “WHAT THE BLOODY HELL!”

“Oi, watch your mouth,” I looked over and saw Stella reading a book, luck would have it that she had some headphones on. Greg breathed deeply as he calmed down. “Better?”

Greg nodded “Y-yeah… I guess I can at least enjoy tea now.” he then looked to me and frowned “How come you have my tooth as a piece of jewelry?”

“Hey, you made it, freaked the living… heck out of me when you did it,”

Greg grabbed his head again, grunting in pain “Guh…. wow, that was… that was a rush of memories, is that what a flashback is like? Wait, but those haven’t happened yet… so what the... ”he looked at Stella “What were those? It was like I was remembering things I haven’t done yet...”

“See, this is why I don’t like time travel, confusing as all heck. All I can say is that you been all over at different times, I think one of the things you said was ‘I’m from the future and already met you, don’t ask how,’.” I told him. I got up and pulled the pot out, I walked over to the table and poured the water into some tea cups. I picked them up and headed back over to Greg. I passed him a cup.

“Hey! Where’s mine?!” Stella called out. I chuckled and pointed behind her.

“Right there, your eyes aren’t working right,” I joked. She looked and saw the cup. She said her thanks as I sat back down, I looked at the fire for a moment. “Any second now.”

Greg looked at me funny as I put my hand up spread out as I counted down, when I hit three fingers there was a bright flash. I looked over my shoulder and saw Tia there.

“Huh, didn’t expect you to come,” I said. She just shrugged.

“You’d be surprised, now who’s this?” she asked as she looked at Greg.

Greg twitched and smiled a toothy grin before standing up, having finished his tea already, and took a small bow “My name is Greg, your majesty. Now, may I ask what brings you here? I thought for sure that an interdimensional being of extreme power would bring a more… scholarly type.” He then looked to me and then to Celestia “Why did I say that? It was as if someone was talking through me…”

I looked over at Tia and we both looked back at him.

“Magic, don’t asked questions about it,” we both said. I smiled at Greg for a moment as I heard Tia grunted in pain.

“What’s wro- oh for makers sakes take them out, your eyes won’t hurt that much with them out,” I said to her.

“I would argue dear brother but…” she reached up to her eyes and pulled something out of them. She blinked a few times before flicking her wrist as a pair of glasses appeared in front of her eyes. She breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s so much better,”

Greg twitched again as he looked to Tia “Huh, Still cute with glasses. Oh, and this is the Greg you know from later, I’ve fixed up the machine Prax built and now present me can’t hear what I say, so yeah, I can hear what he hears, so just let me know if you need me to take over the controls at some time.”

I sighed and rubbed my eyes. “Still don’t like time travel, anyway,” I looked over at Tia. “You need something?”

“Just to remind you about tonight, the Gala that the other leaders are coming to,” she explained. I groaned as I slid a bit.

“Right, I remember that, it still baffles me that dad made the Gala just for his horse,” I looked over at Greg and pointed at him. “Don’t ask,”

Greg looked confused, seemingly back to his present self “Okay? Ummm… Should I head outside? I don’t want to listen in on your private matters.” I waved at him.

“No no, it’s fine…” I thought about it and smiled. “You know, you should come to the Gala to give the nobles a good scare.” Greg looked at me funny.

“You sure that’s a good idea?” he asked.

“Ohh~ please do,” Tia asked. She had a mad smile on her face. “I’m so tired of them kissing up to me and the Gala is so~ boring so this would lighten the mood up.”

Greg nodded “Okay… just promise Twilight won’t see, or Fluttershy, I don’t want either of them to avoid me cause I’m scary.”

“I’ll make sure that Flutters won’t see ya, Twilight on the other hand…” as I said this some runes flared by the door and a loud thud came from outside, followed by a groan. “I can’t make promises.”

“And that’s my cue to leave, see you at the Gala Jace,” Tia said before she turned into a bright flash. As it ended the front door opened and Twilight walked in rubbing her nose.

“Why~” she groaned at me.

“Because I don’t like random pop ups from people at times, oh and Twilight come meet an… old friend of mine.”

She looked over at me then at Greg, her eyes went wide and jaw dropped. Greg fidgeted at her staring.

“Ummm…. Hi?” Greg looked nervous as she stared “I’m sorry if I frighten you…”

As soon as he finished, Twilight went right up to his face with a mad grin. “YOUR A DISPLACED! OOHHHH I ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE ONE!!! Oh but sure you look somewhat freaky but I seen the stuff in the Everfree but no matter!” A book and pen appeared in her hands and had the look of a kid getting a present for Christmas. “Can I asked you one, two hundred questions about you, oh please oh please oh please!”

Greg fidgeted a little before timidly squeaking out “M-maybe over dinner some time? Y-you are pretty…” I stared at him and then look at Stella who looked at this display. We both facepalmed, Twilight on the other hand…

“YES! Ohh this will be so great! Oh wait it has to be after the Gala so uhhh… Tomorrow! Yes that’s good! Oh wait I got to get ready and stuff, so tomorrow it’s a date, bye!” and with that she was gone, almost Pinkie like… I looked over at Greg as he had… wait I don’t know, his face is blank other than his mouth.

“Well that just happened,” Stella said. She looked over at me. “She’s weird,”

“I met a lot of Twilight’s and they get paired up with some odd ones,” I looked over at Greg. “You okay?”

Greg nodded dumbly before running in circles “WOOHOO! TALL PEOPLE DO GET THE GIRLS!”

I stared at him for a minute before sighing. “You’re an all powerful being that can do almost anything, and taught me how to use magic yet you go and act like this.”

Greg shrugged “Hey, I just asked my dream girl out on a date and she said yes! I’m on top of the world!”

“Boy this is going to be good.” I muttered.

A couple hours later, at the Gala

I stood in the main room of the Gala as I looked around. I placed a spell on Fluttershy that all she would see is a really tall man with a face, Greg didn’t seemed to mind it since he could talk to her, Discord on the other hand wasn’t as happy with that but I told him what’s going on and the fact that he saw him he understand.

“She would have a heart attack if she saw him like that,” he said before heading back into the party. I looked around and saw Greg talking to Luna, I chuckled as I saw a few nobles stare at him in fear, it was hilarious when he first came into the room. Some of the nobles fainted at the sight of him.

As I looked around I saw Twilight standing in the corner of the room. I walked over to her and saw that she wore a dark purple dress with a shooting star pattern on it. She had a shocked look on her which worried me.

“Twilight? You ok?” I asked her. She looked at me and shifted a bit.

“Yes, no, I don't know…” she sighed. “I swore to myself that I would never go back into dating after the last time I did and yet due to me overly excited I agreed to go out with some guy that's not human and from another version of Equestria which I can guess there's another me.”

“Twilight… He’s a nice guy who, I can guess by his reaction, has the biggest crush on ya then you should think, it would mean the flipping world to him that this would happen.” I told her. She eyed me for a moment before sighing.

“I got myself into this so I'll go through with it, but I don't think that it would go anywhere from just being friends.” she said as she looked at Greg. “Like I'm 5’9’’ and he's over 8 feet tall, there's nothing wrong with tall people but there has to be a limit on that.”

I watched her walk off to mingle, I sighed as I looked over at Greg. He twitched a bit then slumped over, I guess he saw what's going to happen. Poor guy, I took a sip of my drink as I felt a shiver up my spine. I closed my eyes and tilted my head.

“Hello Annalise, so nice to see you,” I turned around and was greeted by a pale woman with pale blond hair and blood red eyes. She smiled at me with one that could kill, which I believe it could.

“Why hello Jace, it's so nice to see you again in the flesh,” she said. Her voice was soft like velvet which made me more off about her.

“Yeah sure, do you need anything?” I saw her looked hurt at that.

“Why Jace! That's so rude, here I thought we could be old friends again,” she added a bit of a sad tone to her voice.

“Last time you wanted to be friends you sent your blood guard after me,” I said. She rolled her eyes at me.

“You're still hung up on that, I told you that was a… small mistake.” I stared at her for a moment until her gaze found something. “Who's that?”

I followed her gaze to Greg, who's hanging out by the punch bowl. “An old friend, why?”

“He’s kind of an interesting fellow, tall, handsome, and…” she licked her lips and they curled into a smile. “Delectable.”

“I thought we agreed that you wouldn't eat anyone,” I hear someone behind her. I looked over her shoulder and saw a younger woman in a powered blue dress with a music note on the side. She had electric blue hair, pale skin and the same eye colour as Annalise. I blinked at her for I have seen her in Fairgate.

“Vinyl?” I said. She looked over at me in surprise.

“Oh, hey J-man what’s up?” she asked with a smile. I looked over at Annalise as she looked over at Vinyl.

“Vinyl, do you mind getting me something to drink please,” she said sweetly. Vinyl rolled her eyes and headed off to the table. Annalise looked at me and her mood shifted to a sinister one. “You can’t have her.”

“...What?” I asked as she pointed at me.

“I already lost one of my daughters to the Hunters and I’m not going to lose another,” She said with much venom in that. With that she walked off into the crowd.

Greg

“So, you can teleport anywhere in an instant?” a green haired woman said to me. She came up to my knees so I had to lean forward to look at her.

“Yes, and I can bring out tentacles too, I call them slendrils, because they are tendrils made by a slender sapien. Hey, where did my Scythe thing go? I had it until I stopped fighting...” I held out my hand instinctively and my four sided scythe formed in my hand, forming from flames made of TV static “Ah, there we go. Now I am really gonna scare those stuck up nobles.” I then looked around as I felt… something… that familiar feeling when someone is talking about you… but more sinister.

“You okay?” the woman asked me.

I nodded slowly as I dismissed my scythe “Just felt like something was up… anyway, my name is Greg, what is yours?”

“Isas, Head hunter of Yharnam and sort of ruler but we now don’t have that sort of thing,” she said as she looked around. “Ugg, this is boring, I hate coming to these things.”

I shrugged “hey, I have a date with my dream girl tomorrow, so there is that, though I doubt it will go anywhere, she seems to have little interest in me, but hey, won’t stop me from trying to give her a good time.” I then ripped open my mouth again, it having sealed itself a little as I waited around, seems my mouth doesn’t want to stick around. “Ah, that’s better, easier to drink my punch now.”

I looked over at Isas as she jumped back and had her hand on her sword. She closed her eyes and took some deep breaths. “Please don’t do that, or better warn me if something like that is going to happen.”

I rubbed the back of my head guiltily “Sorry, kind of trying to numb myself to all this, used to be human this morning, then got eaten and crapped out like this.” I stood up and looked around before smiling “Wanna see me give a noble a panic attack while acting ridiculous?”

“Sure but as a word of warning, don’t do something that make you look like a monster or beast like, there’s a good handful of Hunters in this room and they won’t hesitate to cut you down in a moments notice.” she warned me.

I looked to her blankly “I see, would growing slendrils out of my back and disco dancing be a bad idea then?”

She stared at me for a moment before the whole building shook. I looked around then at Isas as she stared at me. “Please tell me that this isn’t you.”

“Nope, get your weapons ready.” I slenderwalked to Twilight and drew my scythe, growling angrily “Whatever this is, it had best move on…”

Then the doors blew open. And what walked in was…

I looked to Twilight, then back to the monster “TIME TO MAKE ME A FUR COAT!”

Everyone started to scream in panic as the monster roared. I turned to see Celestia and Luna using their magic to get the nobles out of here. All that was left was me, Jace, and a group of fifteen people in dark leather with weapons. Jace, holding an axe in one hand charged at the beast.

It swung at him but he turned into mist and appeared beside his claw and hacked away at it. The others were doing the same but the beast roared.

Meanwhile I was feeling a pressure build in my head as I began to release my slendrils and slowly walk towards the beast, not noticing the black tar fill my mouth and begin to drip from it like thick drool “Stultus bestiae sentiunt, ira mea!” I slenderwalked right to it’s throat and bit it right on the jugular, latching on as I pumped my blood into it, not knowing what I did or said, but I felt the beasts free will, it’s thoughts, and I could see them like a flame in it’s center, the tar entering it’s body assaulting this flame, turning it from a burning red flame to a flame of TV static, it’s eyes lost focus and it fell onto the ground, but I was not yet finished, I kept pumping into it as the flame grew larger, until it was a seething inferno of TV static. I felt someone grab me by the neck and pulled me off it. I looked over at Jace.

“I was trying to tell you to get off it!” he yelled at me. I was going to ask what he means but I heard some sort of screaming. I looked and saw some sort of tar/ slime thing coming off it and grabbed three of the hunters, and began to eat them. The slime thing turned it’s head and I saw one eye glowed red as the other static.

“What is that?” I asked Jace. He dropped me and pulled out what looked like a grenade launcher.

“That is something I called the Corruption, normally it would show up in the abyss but it has been popping up over the last few months, hope you know some fire attacks.” he said as he fired the launcher. Orbs the size of my fist sailed through the air and hit the monster, setting it ablaze.

I looked to my scythe and had another flashback of future events:

A monster was chasing a pair of fillies, it’s claws having slashed at their backs several times already as it drew closer and closer, then, a flash of static. “You should not have done that…” I said as I appeared behind it and began to morph, the scythe from before reappearing and forming a sword with four equidistant blades, similar to a razor, as my slendrils reached out, becoming a second pair of arms ending in powerful, thin hands as his body became ensconced in armor. I lifted his sword, the TV aura migrating to his sword and becoming a burning black and white flame.

I gasped as I came back into the fight and saw I was now in my armor, sword blazing and at the ready in my hand “Will this work?”

Jace looked at me for a moment. “If it’s fire it will work.” I looked at the beast slime and swung my sword. A wave of static flame launched out towards it and set it further ablaze. All of the other hunters stopped to look at me for what has happened.

“Hey! Don’t let the new guy show us up! Light it up!” I heard Isas yell out as they continued their onslaught of fire, either using magic or launchers like Jace was using we burned it to a crisp. When we are done there was nothing left other then three dead bodies. Jace walked over to them with the others. No one talked for a moment until they looked over at Isas.

“They are yours, you have the burden,” Jace said. She sighed and pointed a launcher at the bodies, she fired and set them ablaze. I looked over at Jace.

“Sooo…. Is the Proxy Cleric beast mine now? I could order it to serve you. Maybe we should think up a name for it?” Jace looked at me and walked over to what is now the skeleton and picked up what looked like the skull.

“Not unless you know necromancy, because it’s dead,” he told me as he tossed the skull at me. It was as big as a normal person, my slendrils caught it as I looked at it. “When a Corrupted is sighted they have to be killed on sight, if not it will spread even if you tame it.”

I nodded “Are all Cleric Beasts corrupted?”

“No, Cleric Beasts don’t normally come out that often,” I heard Isas say behind me, “How it got corrupted, that I don’t know but hey at least we got a cool trophy out of it.”

I nodded as I looked to the skull, I couldn’t see the strange flame burning inside it anymore, but I also saw some flames burning inside my companions “Holy hell… I can see life energy… That is awesome!” i then thought a moment “That also explains how in the stories Slenderman can see in the dark, he must use people's life force as a sort of light.”

I looked over at Jace and saw something strange, one that wasn’t strange is that he was talking to Discord, what was strange was the flame inside them, or should I say flames. Discord had one normal one and the other was more… chaotic, lashing out and was a purplish colour.

Jace on the other hand was more odd, the first flame looked normal but it just felt old, like really old, and the other flame as an ashen colour and circling around the other one. As stared I felt something coming into my mind.

‘What are you looking at, prey,’ I felt a chill run up my body as I looked around. There wasn’t anything there.

I decided to think my response ‘I am looking at you, I guess? And who the hell are you calling prey? I am most definitely not to be eaten.’ I heard him chuckle darkly.

‘Ohh~ but everyone is prey, that what you are and you with your shadow walk will make such a good hunt, but sadly you are friends with Jace, so you will live…’ it said. The tone of it’s voice was that of disappointment.

‘If you want, I could be your friend too, everybody could use a pal.’ I thought as I collected some bone from the cleric beast without thinking, it becoming the same tar like substance I had injected into it that burrowed into my wrist, filling me with a rush of power ‘Wow, feels like I drank a mix of 5 hour energy, monster, and redbull.’

I heard the voice chuckled again. ‘Friends, oh what a foolish young boy you are, we will see each other soon, the question is are you going to be a hunter?’

I saw some sort of shadow around Jace, the shadows head, I think, turned over at me and I saw sharp teeth in it’s mouth.
‘Or Prey…’

“Oi! Greg, earth to Greg, you there?” I heard Jace ask me.

I looked to Jace uncomfortably before walking over to him and slenderwalked us to a corner of the room that no one was in. “Ummm…. Are you aware there is a passenger in your body” I whispered to him.

He stared at me, looking more serious than ever before. He looked around to make sure there’s no one around. “Yeah I know, why do you ask?”

“He was having a chat with me, guy seems lonely, maybe… maybe I should delve into your dreams and talk to him?” when I finished he grabbed me and pulled me away from the group.

“Look, let’s get one thing straight, no one and I mean no one goes into my dreams, I have enough shit in there that I don’t even go in. Next the guy you talked to is a Great One, as much as I know there’s… five of them, well six but I killed that one and took it’s place, and it’s not lonely, it cares for three things and it’s happy with those.” he said.

I nodded and thought a moment “So it’s like one of those old people who enjoy being alone? What was the name of the one in the show… Cranky Doodle?” I laughed “I am now imagining a shadow creature pulling a cartful of random crap. Funny stuff.”

“Old, yes, very old, older than me and I’m old, but nothing like that, it cares for the Hunt and survival. That why I made a deal with it.” he told me.

I nodded “Sounds like a good idea, letting an ancient seemingly god like and demonic being into your mind, no objections here, buuuut…. One question, Have you been dropped on your head as a child?”

“What do you mean?” he asked.

I slenderwalked behind him and smacked him upside the back of the head “I don’t care how much older than me you are, letting another being live inside you NEVER ends well. LOOK AT NARUTO! You are a freaking git if you think this won’t end poorly!”

I rubbed my face and sighed, about to start ranting until Jace grabbed me and pulled me into his level.

“It doesn’t matter of the age, it’s about what I saw, you weren’t there, you haven’t killed so many to survive, I have and even though I don’t sleep I can still hear the screams of them.” he closed his eyes and I felt him shake. “I never asked for him in my head, but he not like the others, something in my past made him unable to take over unless I let him or get knocked out, even then it’s motives aren’t that of killing or taking over.”

He let go of me and turned around. “Again, you didn’t see what happen, I killed the thing that started it and if I was burdened with the blood then I’ll carry it till I die.”

I looked to Jace and sighed “I’m sorry, just know… you can talk to me if things get bad, okay?”

Jace looked at me and chuckled. “That’s my line, now come on let's see if everyone is alright,” he turned for a moment then frowned, “The nobles are going to be blaming others for this, some on you due to how you look, just ignore them, the hunters here would stand up for you.”

I nodded “Do the nobles ever change from whiny little bitch mode?”

“Here? No, You should see the Valley, it’s a bit better.” Jace said. We began to walk out of the building and saw Celestia, who is still wearing glasses, the mane six, and a lot of angry nobles. I heard Jace sigh. “This is going to be a pain.”

Jace, the next day

“Really! You fought against a slime monster!” Stella said. It’s been a day since the Gala, thank the maker, and I was back in my Workshop. I told the events of what happened, other than the deaths she didn’t seem fazed about the whole thing.

“Yes, we did and I had to deal with nobles that wanted to kill Greg, luckily that didn’t happen with Yorshka, Tia, Lu, and Twilight's help but they aren’t happy with me,” I leaned back in my chair and chuckled. “Man it was funny to see Greg jump when Yorshka appeared behind him.”

I looked down at Stella and saw that she was still wearing the necklace with the two stones. I felt a bit sad but curious about the blue one. “I remember your dad giving you the one with the markings on it but what’s with the blue stone?”

“Oh, well I got it from a merchant at a flea market, she said that it was a special stone that connected to another one in a far off land, it doesn't do much other than glow a bit,” she looked up at me. “You want it?”

“What?! No no, that’s yours I couldn’t just-” I saw her taking the stone off and hand it to me.

“Naa, I don’t need it, also it sometimes keeps me up at night with all the glowing,” she smiled at me. I looked at the stone and turned it in my hand. As I looked at it the door opened and I saw Spike walk in. He wore a red shirt with cargo shorts. There was a bird perched on his shoulder and he was carrying a bag of some kind.

“Hey Spike, you feeling better?” I asked him. During everything that was happening Spike came down with something and had to stay in bed. I gave him some herbal tea that would help.

“Yeah, sad that I had to miss the Gala,” he paused and thought about it. “Well, not really. I did get to spend time with Peewee here, though since I gave him back to his parents he comes and goes.”

The bird looked at Spike and pecked at his head. “Yes, yes I got your food, jeez you're worst than me,”

As Spike and Peewee stared at one another figure stepped through the door, it was Greg. Spike and Peewee looked up at him and waved. “Hello! You’re the very tall guy right?”

Greg shrugged “Used to be short, but I guess that those days are gone, so… yeah, I guess. What’s up?”

“Well, technically you but other then that nothing,” the bird looked at Spike and stared at him. “Well I have to go, got some feeding to do.”

Spike left and Stella went back to her usual spot to read, I have to ask what it is she’s reading, I looked over at Greg. “So, how did it go?”

Greg began to poke at a corner of his suit absently “She was pity dating me, I think, she started the date saying she wasn’t interested in a second one...but I still showed her a good time, at least, I got her to smile a bit, so that was nice.”

“Don’t know, I know a lot of stuff but love life isn’t my forte,” I told him.

Greg nodded and sighed “So… how did you get to have your own world? Could you show me how to find my way to a vacant one? One without a… what was it? Displaced?”

I thought about it for sometime before standing up and looking at my books. I began pulling journals out and looking through them. “It’s a bit risky but I might know a way,”

I went to the wall and put my hand on it. I heard some beeping and part of the wall opened. I pulled a claw looking thing and put it on.

Greg looked to Stella and smiled, giving her a gentle hug “See ya, shortstack.”

“See ya, Mr. Tall, Dark, and handsome.” she said with a smile. I chuckled at this and walked over and slash the air, making a rift. Greg looked at it and walked through it. The rift closed and I checked the readings, “Nothing wrong has happened so that’s goo-”

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” I heard someone yell and a loud thud was heard from outside. I went outside and saw Greg face planted on the ground.

“Whoops, must of miscalculated that. Sorry.” I said again.

Greg weakly gestured for me to get closer, I did so and he grabbed my collar and pulled me in “You suck.” he then laid his head down as I looked up, damn, he was waaaay high up.

I fiddle with the rift claw, yes that’s what I’m calling it, and helped Greg up. “Okay, this time I know that it’s going to work, if not you’ll appear in the same place again.” I slash the air again and made a new rift, this some looked odd since it was purple yet staticy. Greg walked through it and again the rift closed. I looked up to see if he’s falling. I didn’t see a tall man falling so that’s good. I looked over at Stella and smiled.

“Want some icecream?”

Author's Notes:

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