Chapter 3: Deep into the woods

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"ARGH" you scream falling onto your back, you look up to the floating green man, guy? boy? what was he?

"your way too far into these woods, I'm sparing your life, leave these woods before anything bad happens to you" he snatches the mask from your hands, the mask slowly glitching away.

"wh-who are you-" you ask him

"No one." he says before turning around and floating away

"Wait!" you call out for him

"What" he says annoyed, turning back around to you

'I- I know who you are" you say to him, quickly and shakingly grabbing your phone

He looks at you confused "You couldn't possibly know who I am, that's impossible"

"L-loo-ok" you show him your phone "You that one tech nerd kid, you had the world record for the faster speed run at..uhh, one of the Zelda games?.." you slowly get up "You were drowned.." he slowly drops to the ground

"Why are you saying this? why are you here? why won't you leave" he starts glitching more

"Look, I don't mean any harm, I'm just looking for someone, they went missing, years ago..." you take out a missing person flier

He looks at the paper "Looks like someone I know.." you look at him excited "Just kidding, I have no idea who this is" You frown

"What's- what's your name?" He looks at you "BEN Drowned, Ben for short" he says "Ben?, huh.. well mi y/n" Ben looks at you "You know too much" and before you know it, everything goes black.

~~time-skip~~

You slowly open your eyes

"Good morning," says a nurse dressed in black "You were out for the whole night, normally someone out for a few hours when Ben knocks them out" She puts a needle in your arm, drawing blood "Sorry for this, we needed a blood sample"

"Who.. are you.." you say weakly

"Names Nurse Ann" She takes out the needle and puts on a bandage

"Where..am I..?" You ask, looking around

"The Creepypasta mansion."

"Wha..?"

"Don't worry" she puts a cold towel on your forehead "You hot"

"I'm here" another person walks in, they have a blue mask on with a black hoodie

"You late," Nurse Ann says

"Mhm" the guy hums

"Who is he" you ask Nurse Ann

"This is Eyeless Jack, he's one of the medics out of the whole crew"

"Ej for short" Ej chimes in

Knock knock

"Who is it!" Nurse Ann yell

"It's me," Ben says as he walks in "Is she awake? Slenderman wants to see her"

"Well, Slenderman will have to wait, she just woke up and she just started talking properly" Nurse Ann exclaims

Ben rolls his eyes and walks out of the room.

"Sorry about that, now let get you to stand up so you can go talk to Slenderman," Nurse Ann says to you as she helps you stand up "There you go," she says as she slowly lets go of you "How about you try to walk, don't worry ill make sure to catch you if you fall," she says reassuring you, you slowly take a step, gaining your balance, you start walking normally,

"Perfect!, fast recovery for the new girl," Nurse Ann says patting your back.

"New girl?" you ask

"Ohh, well, normally when a person finds this house either they get killed or they join the crew and well, become a creepypasta, that's why these woods are closed off to the public, I thought the people out there knew that," Nurse Ann says fixing her glove "the government decided to keep our contract confidential," Ej says as he's naming the jars all over the desk

"Why doesn't Slenderman tell me anything!" Nurse Ann shouts out, she then looks at you "Ej, how about you let me do that and you take the new girl to slender man"

"fine.." EJ mumbles before standing up "Come on" he mumbles again, signaling you to follow him, in which you do as he says.

You follow quietly behind him, looking around the halls, taking multiple turns, going through multiple doorways, and passing a few people, some could easily get lost in the labyrinth.

"We're here," Ej says as he opens the door "Good luck," Ej whispers as you slowly enter the dark room, the door slamming behind you.

"I've been expecting you" you jump as you hear a deep voice speak "Don't be frightened child, I don't bite" The lights turn on, revealing a tall white man in a black tuxedo, you stare at him in disbelieve and your jaw-dropping "please, take a seat," Slenderman says as he gestures towards to chair.

"Thank you.." you say quietly as you sit down on the chair.

"What's your name?" Slenderman asks.

"Y-Y/n," you say

"Hmmn, alright," Slenderman says "How.. how old are you?"

"18.."

Slenderman stays looking at you "Mostly everyone here is around that age, not many creepypastas that live here are older than their late 20, apart from the ones who don't live in the mansion"

"they're pretty young.." you say, looking down

"the words a scary place, you have to learn how to get through your fears, if you don't face them they'll stay there until it's too late," he says as one of his tentacles lifts your chin up

"what do you mean "too late"?" you ask

"It means someday when you don't expect it, when you are not prepared, when you don't want it to happen, when that is the last thing you want to happen, whatever you fear...will happen...you don't realize it happened until it already happened, denial, anger, fear, guilt will just take over your life, you'll hate yourself, you'll go insane, you'd do anything to get whatever you had back."

You look up at Slenderman "Why..why are you telling me this?"

"I know why you came to this forest, you in denial, you can't accept that he's gone, you want him back, but he's gone, and you have to accept that"

You look at Slenderman with your eyes wide open in despair

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