(They see each other as a more human form, humans see them as sticks, they know they look like sticks to humans).
(Green has befriended Purple, Yellow knows about the friendship between Red and Dark, the others don't know yet).

What happens when Red befriended someone dangerous? And kept it a secret from all the others?
Yellow already knows, and is calm about it. But what happens, when another one finds out?

This story is specifically set in what I'll call my own main AU, where other one-shots may be set in this one, or a possible different one.

"Red... There's nothing there." Blue said.
"No! There is! And his name is Vic!" Red yelled back.
"If there is someone there, then why can't I see them? Why can't any of us besides you see them?!" Blue yelled getting frustrated with Red.
"Because none of you have to see ghosts-!" Red exclaimed, but got interrupted by a sudden noise.

They all whipped their head around towards the source of the noise.
There was a can that suddenly fell down from where it was standing.
"O, haha, very funny Yellow. Good teamwork you two."
"Hm?" Yellow hummed as a question as he looked up from his book.
"Oh..." Blue muttered as he realised it couldn't have been Yellow, as he had been emerged in his current book.

"Believe me now?" Red asked.
"No."
"But that was clearly Vic interacting with this world."
"It could've, most likely was, the wind."
"It is wind still Blue."
"Alright then, Yellow? What say you?"

"I believe Red." Yellow said without looking up from his page in the book.
"Do you even know what we're arguing about?"
"Yes." Yellow said as he placed a bookmark and closed his book. "You two were arguing about the existence of a ghost, by the name of Vic."
"I can't really explain why I believe, but I think that a ghost isn't too farfetched."
Blue just grumbled at Yellow siding with Red.

"Well, if he can interact with our world, why doesn't he possess any of us? Heck, possess me! Then I know you're real!" Blue yelled out in anger.
Red took a step backwards from the outburst. But his lip started to tremble when Blues words were realised.
"He doesn't want to possess unless necessary." Red said as he rubbed his right eye.
"And getting possessed is not fun, not fun at all!" He yelled out. Quickly running away from Blue.

"O no..." Blue said to himself as he realised why Red became so upset at his words.
"Shit, shit, shit-" He muttered, ready to sprint after Red.
But he got stopped by a hand on his shoulder.
"Let him, I think he needs a moment." Yellow, the owner of the hand, spoke to Blue.
Blue put his own hand of top of Yellow's.

"Alright then... I hope he can forgive me for what I said"

~ Meanwhile, with Red ~

Meanwhile, Red had arrived at his room, and had locked himself inside.
He dove face first onto his bed.
His pet pig Ruben jumped on the bed to come comfort his owner.
Red sniffed deeply as he put his arms around his beloved pet, and hugged him close.
No words, or any explanation was needed between the two.
Red didn't need much to understand when there was something wrong with one of his pets, but with his pig he always seemed to immediately know what was wrong too. Much like Ruben had seen this type of sadness from Red before.

He knew that hugs always helped his owner, but maybe sleep could be beneficial too this time.
So he laid down fully this time, snuggling close to Red, inviting him to take a nap alongside him.
And that's just what they did, and a good nap it was. They fell into a dreamless sleep, and stayed like that for quite some time.

Until they got woken up by knocking on his bedroom door.
"Hm?!" Red hummed, but loud enough for the person at the door to hear.
"Hey Red." Purple softly said, stepping into his room and closing the door behind himself.
"I was waiting on you at your animal sanctuary, but you didn't show up, so I came to look for you." He explained himself.

That was when Red realised his appointment with Purple.
He would teach the other some more about all the other animals he took care of.
"I am so sorry Purple, I completely forgot. And kinda fell asleep..." He said, blushing as he looked around at himself and Ruben on the bed.

"It's alright, as long as you got some sleep, I understand."
Purple cleared his throat.
"It's not like I slept through the meeting time or anything-" He said with a small grin.
Both let out some giggles.
"We could do it now if you want" Red proposed.
"I would like that very much, I was kinda getting bored."

"Alright, I'm coming." Red said as he got up and jumped off of his bed.
Ruben followed him, and bunted his head against Purple's leg as a sign of affection.
"You want to join us?" Purple asked the pig, but only got an oink in response.
He looked over at Red to see if he knew what that meant, or if it even had a meaning at all.
'Let him roam around, he may do as he pleases.' Red mouthed to Purple, who smiled and nodded in response.

And so the two went on their way. It had started as three, but Ruben soon divided from them to go do whatever pigs like to do.
And soon a curiosity of Purple sparked a conversation between the two.

"If you don't mind me asking, what were you and Blue arguing about earlier?" Purple asked.
"Eh, it's not important."
Purple lifted an eyebrow at the other.
"If it was really nothing, he surely wouldn't get that mad." Purple said as thy walked through the entrance of the animal sanctuary.
"But it's okay if you don't want to share." Purple said, holding his hands up.

"Alright, it was something. But you probably won't believe me either." Red said as he picked up one of the buckets with food.
"I promise that I will believe you. Or well, if I don't, that I won't get mad."
"Alright then." Red said as he put the bucket down in the chicken pen.

"I may or may not have befriended a ghost."
"A ghost?" Purple asked, tilting his head ever so slightly as he asked.
"Yes, his name is Vic. But apparently I'm the only one who can see him." Red said as he quickly looked around.
"And of course he's not here at this moment" Red said disappointed as he looked around for his friend.
"How convenient." Purple said with a chuckle.

But then the name dawned in for Purple.
"Wait. Vic?"
"Yes. Well, it officially is Victim, but he doesn't like being called that"
"That's more than fair, but you said you can see him, right?"
"Yes?"
"Does he have white hair, that falls over the left side of his face? For him left side." Purple asked.
"Yes." Red answered, surprised that Purple seemed to know who he was talking about.

"You can see him too?!" Red asked enthusiastically.
"No, or at least not in the same way you can. But I have met him before."
"But how? If you can't see him."
"I kinda met him in my dreams?" Purple said with a small grin.

Now it was Reds turn to look confused.
"Do you know what lucid dreaming is?" Purple asked.
"You can kinda control what happens in your dreams, right?"
"Yes. Apparently Vic can visit lucid dreams, and he does with mine sometime."
"So you do believe me?" Red asked with a hopeful smile.
"Nah. I know you're speaking the truth."

Red seemed to give no response to that, until he shrugged and said, "Eh, works for me."
Reds reaction made Purple grin, which had a chain reaction to Red, causing both to grin at each other.
"Good to see you're feeling better already."
"Yeah, thank you. Talking helped quite a bit in this case."

"But, you know, it does make me question if we have more friends in common..." Red said as he was thinking.
"Well, yeah, duh!" Purple said, motioning towards where their house is, and Second, Yellow, Blue and Green should still be.
"Yeah, okay, got me there. But I wasn't talking about them. This time."
"Then probably not."
"Would you like to meet him?"
"Sure"

~ Meanwhile, with Green ~

"Hmm! That smells delicious, Blue!" Green said sniffing the air.
"What are you making?" The green one asked as he stayed at a distance, knowing his friend doesn't like it too much if someone walks in when he has the kitchen.
"Noodles, chicken and green beans." Blue answered.

"Okay, what did you do to make up for towards Red?" Green asked.
He had connected the dots of hearing the yelling between Red and Blue from this morning, and Red's favourite food being made by Blue right now.
"I... I may have yelled at him about this new friend of his."
"That is not the full story. Red would not be 'apologize to me by making my favourite food' mad about something like that." Green stated, now having his arms crossed and was leaning against the counter.

There came a deep sigh from Blue.
"How much do you know about his new friend?" Blue asked, turning his full attention to the other person.
"They're the Mob Students, right?" Green asked.
"No. Red has befriended a ghost."
"O, I had not heard about that yet. Why is that such a problem though?"

"He's the only one that can see or hear him. None of us can see him, so I accused him of lying about this"
"And?..." Green asked, knowing that that was not the problem point. They had disagreed and accused each other multiple times before, so this wasn't that much different.
"I asked for proof. So I might have demanded a possession..." Blue said as he trailed off at the end, knowing full well how much that sentence must have hurt Red.
"Ah, yes. That is favourite food apology type of damage."

"It's almost done though, could you please go get the others as I finish this?"
"O, sure." Green responded and was off to gather the others.
Second and Yellow were easy to find.
Second was sleeping in the hammock they had hung outside, and Yellow was seated near him, reading something in the shade of one of the trees.

Red, and Purple, were much harder to find.
Green had looked in their rooms, Red's animal sanctuary, and even over at Chosen's, for whatever reason they might've been there.
What he did not expect, was to find them in the middle of the forest.
Well, the forest wasn't too farfetched, but he had not expected their third companion. The Dark Lord.

Green had decided to not interfere at the moment of his arrival, rather staying out of view, so he could land a surprise attack if he deemed it too unsafe.
But what he saw unfold in front of him was something he had not expected, ever.

Dark was happily chatting with the other two in front of him. Green could not understand what they were saying, as he was too far away from them.
But it seemed to all be in good fun. Even when Red had suddenly launched at Dark, and gave the taller man a hug.
But instead of flinching, like Green had expected, he had hugged Red back!

Green wasn't sure what to do. Should he stay hidden? Should he step towards them? Should he leave them be and return home?
He didn't get to decide, as his friends at home had decided to call him, probably to ask where he, Red and Purple were.

The three he had been spying on whipped their heads towards the noise, and Dark had sprung into a defensive pose against the intruder.
But Red and Purple were fast to calm Dark down as they noticed who the noise originated from.

"Green! What are you doing here?" Red asked as he walked over towards said teen.
"I came to get you and Purple for dinner"
"Why would you look here though?" Purple asked.
"I had the unexplainable idea of looking if you were visiting Chosen, but apparently I wasn't too far off with that idea"

"Please don't tell any of the others? Especially not Blue, or Second..."
"I promise I won't."
"We should probably head back home though. They already called me to ask where we were"
"Yeah, it's probably for the best" Red said with a slight blush, ashamed he made his friends worried about where he was.

"Goodbye, see you next time!" He said as he gave Dark a quick hug before returning to Green.
"Bye Dark, until next time" Purple said as he waved and walked over to Green too.
"Bye!" Dark had responded to both.

"Don't make me regret keeping this a secret, okay?" Green said to Dark.
"I won't" Dark said with a slight smile as he waved all three off.