8 - The Trickster
You walk into the living room of the mansion from your downstairs bedroom and are met with the sight of Sally running around the area laughing and behind chasing her was your new recruit, the clown Laughing Jack.
"Come here, ye silly little girl! I'll catch ya, hehehe!" Laughing Jack snickered, nearly grabbing the girl by the hem of her pink dress. Sally managed to skitter aside just in time before she could be caught and she screeched loudly as she threw her body over the couch to escape, giggling happily.
You smile slightly at the sight of them feeling comfortable in their new home, and the urge to continue the expansion of your killer alliance grew within you. It had been two days since you had ventured into the 1800s and found Laughing Jack. It took you and Sally some time to expose him to the things of the modern age, as almost everything in the clowns sight had not existed within his era.
You then realized even more work would be cut out for you, considering Sally was also a good number of years before certain modern advances she couldn't possibly imagine. So, you ended up spending the last two days trying to familiarize them with certain features so they could grow used to their new home.
There was still a lot of work to be done however, and the two weren't going to learn overnight. The mere excitement of starting your own "family" was starting to get to you though, and today seemed like a great day to go hunting for a new recruit.
"(Y/N)Man! Can me and Mr. Jack use the ice cream machine maker thing again?" Sally asked, catching sight of you and tumbling off of the couch to approach you. The clown too noticed your onlooking and quickly waltzed towards you with Sally, a large grin on his face.
"Ice cream again? You both had three bowls of it for breakfast," You scoff while crossing your arms. "It also probably explains why you two are running around like maniacs in the living room..."
"I do find the creamed ice gives mes an uncanny amount of liveliness," Laughing Jack chuckled, tapping his clawed fingers together. "Yeah me too! I want moreeee!" Sally begged, jumping up and down.
"Fine, you can have the ice cream. But, today we're searching for a new housemate," You say, starting to glide for the kitchen. "A new person's coming? How old are they gonna be, are they gonna be a kid like me? I hope they weren't hurt like I was..." Sally murmured, following you close behind. "Someone new shall live here as well? I'm curious as to what they are like!" Laughing Jack exclaimed, also walking at your side.
"Whoever they are, they'll have to be like us, and get used to our ways if they aren't already a baddie," You explain, beginning to collect the materials needed for making the ice cream by using your aura-tendrils to pull things from the fridge and cabinets without having to actually use your hands.
"And if they don't conform...?" Sally glanced up at you. "We kill them of course~! Hehehehe~!" Laughing Jack maliciously chuckled, grabbing ahold of your shoulders and shaking you. "Yes yes right right we kill them," You grin, glancing from Sally to Laughing Jack and feeling a warm sense of camaraderie. You loved this more than anything.
"One day, we're going to be huge mansion of oddities all living together and causing chaos. We'll torture people outside these woods and forever make our names known throughout history," You say, placing a hand on each of your companions shoulders.
"Ooo ooo! We should come up with a family name and everything! This place will be our home obviously. Let's call it the (Y/N)Man Mansion!" Sally suggested, clapping her hands together. "Now, all we need is a name for our group. What should we call us?"
"...Nutcases? Lunatics? Wackos?" Laughing Jack put in, sounding unsure. "Those are all lame. And old, no one uses those terms for psychopaths anymore," You respond. "(Y/N)Man did you know those tentacle thingies on your back move around like pasta? It's creepy," Sally randomly blurted out, reaching and poking at your aura tendrils which were still maneuvering around the kitchen.
"Yeah. Creepy pasta huh?" You chuckled.
"Yeah, creepy pasta," Sally giggled at the name.
"Creepy...pasta?" Laughing Jack uttered.
For some reason, a moment of silence settled between the three of you before your eyes widen in inspiration. "Creepypasta!" You exclaim, clapping your hands together, "that's what we'll be known as-the Creepypastas. Much better than just referring to ourselves as 'group of psychopaths.'"
"I like it!" Sally cheered. "We shall be known as a plate of unsettling spaghetti...?" Laughing Jack mumbled, tapping his chin. "Sure Jack, sure. We are the unsettling spaghettis."
^^^
You, Sally, and Laughing Jack all scarfed down another good pound of ice cream score before you all were finally satisfied.
You were more than ready to start searching for a new recruit to the mansion, so you fashioned some simple disguises for your two companions so that they could appear more normal in case you came in sight of any normal folks. (Sally wanted a disguise too so she didn't feel left out, even though she had the ability to make herself unseen.)
The year was the present time, (for you at least), 2016, so people knew of your existence in this era which meant you needed a disguise too.
This is the getup you wore for this adventure:
Along with a mask, of course.
"How come you never take off your mask, (Y/N)Man?" Sally asked as she pulled at your neck scarf. "Yeah, me wants to know what yer actual face looks like?" Laughing Jack questioned you.
"I don't have a face under here," You lied, gliding to the front doors of the mansion. You very much did have a face, but neither Sally nor Laughing Jack knew you were just a human sporting all the supernatural abilities you had, so you didn't have it in mind to reveal to them what you truly were. A simple, powerless human that was extraordinarily deranged in the head and only had powers because they were granted to you by a demonic entity.
"Come on you two, let's hurry up and sniff out a new recruit already," You say opening up the door and letting the two wander out first.
You, Sally, and Laughing Jack trek through the woods for a while until you finally reach the outside. You quit gliding around and resort to walking as the three of you walk into a busy cityscape with loud traffic, rushing people, and headache inducing noise everywhere.
"Where are we now, (Y/N)Man?" Sally asked, holding onto your arm tightly. "United States, year 2016," You responded, holding her hand. "2016!?" Laughing Jack explained in an exasperated tone. The clown's colorless eyes were widened with true disbelief. "Yes...you're in the future now, Jack. Don't hurt yourself," You mumble, grabbing the clown's arm and dragging the two of them behind you like lost children.
It was late at this time you were traversing the city, yet the volume of traffic and people still appeared pretty large. "These humans look so....strange..." Laughing Jack commented as he stared at a lady in business attire that had walked by. "Yeah everyone looks like they're dressed differently from my time...even the cars look different-oh my gosh that bright green car looks so cool!" Sally squealed, pointing as a neon green convertible sped by.
You chuckled, growing amused by how excitable the two were at all the new sights.
The three of you eventually reach a street crossing and you 're forced to wait with other people at the corner for the light to switch to a padestrian walk. You grow tense, being surrounded by regular, disgusting people and you basically fight to keep your aura tendrils hidden so you don't accidentally decapitate everyone for fun and reveal your identity. It's not like it mattered much to you, considering you, Jack, and Sally were ten times more powerful than regular people, but if you let up your identities the people would decend into hysteria and most likely the national gaurd would get called and that would kind of soil your plans to find someone new to bring to the mansion with security on your back.
The street light finally allowed pedestrians to cross so you and your disguised misfit children quickly advanced across the road to the other side. You notice approaching from the other side of the road one really strange individual in particular. It was a person of about 5'5" in height walking with their hands stuffed in their pockets. This individual wore all black clothing and around their neck was wrapped a black and white striped scarf. Over their head they wore the hood that was attached to their black hoodie, and their face was concealed behind a strange, two sided expression mask. Basically, their whole body was covered up in some way, and they looked plenty out of place compared to all the other people walking around but clearly was unphased by it. The people around this person seemed to be ignoring their presence.
You couldn't keep yourself from staring at the 'grinning' expression of this unsettling looking mask as the person simply crossed the road and walked right past you and your companions. Just faintly, they had brushed past your shoulder and your heard them make a slight noise.
You were amused by the person's attire but didn't think too much of it and carried on with the others to the other side. However, after a few steps you realized that for some reason you couldn't proceed any further and you were being held back by something. You look behind yourself in alarm and see your long scarf being held down in the middle of the road by the most random ass thing-a fucking anvil. What the fuck?
"Um (Y/N)Ma-I mean (Y/N), hurry! The light's about to change!" Sally squeaked from the other side, pointing frantically at the sign. "How the hell does an anvil just appear in the middle of the road? Hello??" You snap, desperately trying to free your scarf from beneath it, but of course it wouldn't budge. You don't even have to look to know that the light had changed, because suddenly every vehicle on the block was honking at you and people were poking their head out of their windows yelling at you to move.
You knew the obvious, simple thing to do would be to just take off the scarf and leave it for the sake of moving out the way and avoiding holding up traffic, but the fact that multiple people were honking at you as if they couldn't see the damn anvil in the middle of the road with their own eyes and the old bald guy screaming slurs at you from his truck was starting to violently piss you off, and once again your hatred for other people took over.
You launched yourself from the spot you were stuck in, tearing the ends of your scarf in the process and raising your hand, sending a shock wave straight in the direction of the yelling man's truck. His truck instantly overturned, as well as the one behind it, and they both collided into the several other cars waiting behind them.
Of course, onlookers started panicking and screaming at this, and now pedestrians were scrambling away and some people were afraid enough to get out of their cars and make a run for it. Sally and Laughing Jack just watched you in silence as you glided over to them with your shoulders slumped and your arms crossed, still pissed.
Throughout the commotion, you heard a distinct, loud hysterical laughter coming from behind you, and you instantly turn around with your aura tendrils now spreading from your back.
You look across the road and see none other than that strange masked fellow standing on the opposite street, clutching their stomach while laughing uncontrollably as people darted left and right around them. Strangely the mask, as you had remembered, was a strange looking grin, but now the mask's expression had changed to one that made it appear to be in a s state of laughter.
"Kekekekekekeke!"
"Um (Y/N)Man? Your tentacle thingies are showing...and everyone saw you use your powers..." Sally murmured. "Does this mean I can take off this ridiculous outfit now?" Laughing Jack questioned, removing his disguise anyways. Of course Laughing Jack's reveal warranted more hysteria from the people in the area. However, you didn't care. Your focus was solely on the laughing masked freak.
"I have no doubt that thing was the one who did it," You scowl, pointing in direction of the laughing person. "Well then...permission to kill it for you, (Y/N)Man~?" Laughing Jack crowed with a devilish smirk. "Don't kill it, but seize it and bring it to me," You ordered the clown.
Both Sally and Laughing Jack nod and the two start across the street, approaching the masked individual.
The masked one stops laughing and it's mask forms an evil smirk before suddenly turning and starting to dash away from your killers at an incredible speed.
"Oh no you don't!" Laughing Jack cackled; suddenly the clown extended his arms out like a rubber hose and reached out for the runaway. Sally started running after them and occasionally fluctuated in appearance, appearing to teleport in small intervals to get closer and closer.
You now join the chase, gliding at full speed after the masked runaway and ignoring the people who were panicking and screaming at you.
The mask leads chase down the street and eventually makes an abrupt turn around a corner, right into a dark, narrow passageway; an alleyway. You descend to the ground upon reaching the entrance and scrunch up your nose as the smell of rotten garbage and grease infiltrates your senses. "LJ, Sally, find it," You order, pointing into the extended route of the alley. "We'll find him for you (Y/N)!" Sally sounded determined to gain your praise, and her small legs took off as she ran into the narrow space, searching out for the person. "A silly human should know better than to cross someone like (Y/N)Man! I'll capture the bloody fool!" Laughing Jack sneered, stating to stalk forwards after Sally.
You cringed as the clown walked off and began to drag his claws along the concrete walls of the buildings surrounding you. Once he disappeared into the dark, you sighed heavily, feeling a different presence looming about you.
"I know you're here," You take small steps down the pathway, carefully stepping over dirty puddles of water. "There's no use hiding, as one of us will catch you eventually. May as well come out and reveal yourself. You're not even a human, are you?"
You stop walking when you look forwards into the darkness and see what looks like a hand slowly reaching out of the dark, gripping the concrete with claw-like nails. You raise an eyebrow when whoever was there didn't seem to advance any further out the dark until, a loud hiss arose and unexpectedly a whole figure was darting straight at you.
Your reaction time wasn't quick enough thanks to the fact you didn't expect to be jumped and next thing you knew you were staring up at the mask of same mysterious person from before; their mask had the expression of a creepy, elongated grin. Well, you weren't scared of them or anything so you pretend you couldn't move and let them think they had the upperhand over you.
"Oh. There you are," You mumbled in a dry tone, "Hello."
"Kon'nichiha~"
You purse your lips at the response, then sigh, "Oh fun, you don't even English. How am I supposed to hound you for pulling that stunt in the middle of the road?"
The person tilted their head, then responded after a long pause "Oh no, I do English. Whether you hear me speak it depends on whether you bore me or not..."
They then ran their finger down the center of your mask, "Lucky for you, you haven't bored me yet~! Kekekeke!"
You glared at the strange person's hand, noticing that their skin was very pale and their nails were black and unusually long. "You aren't human, are you?" You guessed, grabbing their hand and glancing at their mask again. The grin managed to appear more wicked as they snickered, "I don't feel very human...do you? I mean, you're a strange one with all those weird powers you have. But something tells me that there just might be a silly little human hiding under this mask, hm~"
Suddenly, the strange person grabbed your mask and before you could stop them, they ripped it off your face, causing your eyes to widen in alarm. You clench your teeth and quickly cover your hands over your face as the masked one bursts into obnoxious laughter at the exposure. "I knew it~! No wonder you were so intriguing to watch! A human with powers? Shinjirare nai!"
You refused to remove your hands from your face; the last thing you wanted was for someone to figure out you were human, especially Sally and Laughing Jack. Anyone finding out you were human could possibly use said information against you, or plot on ways to restrain you, despite you having Zalgo's powers.
You feel the masked person's hands grab yours and remove them from your face, forcing you to stare into it's grotesque looking disguise. They seemed to be studying your face while you decide between just teleporting away to save face or allowing this strange being to cure their curiosity. Maybe they could become a new Creepypasta...? You calm yourself and allow yourself to be seen for a bit.
"You know," The being finally spoke, "for a simple human, you don't look that bad...kekekeke~...."
They suddenly reached and slightly raised their mask, revealing a mischievous smirk beneath and sharp teeth, then they dared to lean into your face. You instantly teleport from the spot, causing them to fall forwards out of shock and you reappear behind them, slamming your foot into their back. "Damn, you're annoying," You yawn, bending over and swiping back your mask. "I'm guessing you don't know anything about me, considering how bold you are. What're you anyway?"
The being whined, "You're no fair you used your powers to get away! Could you ...at least get off of me...?"
"No. Tell me who you are first."
".... Boku wa anata ni nanimo iu hitsuyou wa arimasen..."
"...What...?"
They started chuckling, knowing very well you couldn't understand them, and you slump your shoulders.
Just then, you hear steps coming from behind you and you quickly slide on your mask before turning to see LJ and Sally approaching from the darkness of the alley way.
"I'm sorry (Y/N)Man but I don't think we can find the person...he got away..." Sally murmured, stopping just before you and lowering her head. LJ came up holding something in his hand; looked like a crate. "Look what I found! Think we could take this back to the mansion? I found these things littered all over the place, hehe!"
"Is that...wine...?" You asked, not moving your foot off of the masked person. At the mention of 'wine', the masked person started growing frantic. "No!! That's mine, you thiefs! Get your hands off my wine!!"
He struggled beneath you and both Sally and LJ glanced to who was under your foot in confusion. "Is that...the guy?" Sally murmured, pointing. "Yea, he's pretty weak," You muse with a smirk. "Why you..."The masked growled, barely straining his neck to look around. You tilt your head as you look down at him for a few seconds, then you casually lift your foot off his back.
He immediately sprung up off the ground and stood before you and your companions in a stance as if to attack. "Is it challenging us? Permission to rip it's head off, (Y/N)Man?" LJ cackled. The being suddenly sprung at LJ, intending to reach for the crate but the clown laughed out and quickly held it over his head. "You're too slow! Hehehehe!"
"Boku ni sore o!"
"...Heh?"
"It speaks Japanese so we can't understand it, don't mind LJ," You mutter. "Stop calling me an "it", you fucking bastard," The masked being stopped trying to reach and turned to you; his mask had formed a deeply angered expression on itself. "How about we make a deal," You step up to him, "You tell us who and what you are, we give you your precious crate of wine back. How does that sound?"
He looked like he wanted to protest, but glancing back at the crate he sighed loudly before slumping his shoulders. He then faced you again and crossed his arms and his mask formed a prideful face, "Boku ha Kagekao desu. Mi-ina sh-!"
"English, please," You roll your eyes.
He paused for a moment before mumbling less enthusiastically, "Name's Kagekao. Keeper of the city's finiest wine andddddd....your local troublemaker~" He bowed in a very dramatic style before continuing, "I run this place. Every mortal that knows of me knows to keep me entertained, otherwise their fate will be worse than death itself. Kekekeke...."
"So you determine people's fate huh? What are you, a killer?" You inquire.
"Killer? ME? How mean...why would I intentionally murder people for my own amusement...~?"
Kagekao started crackling, then burst out into full blown laughter. LJ glared at the strange man before chuckling, "I like this lad..."
Sally frowned a bit, "Well um...it's not right to kill people, Mr. Kagekao, but sometimes people are untreated fairly and their tormentors deserve it... (Y/N)Man is going to save those people so we can all live together as a family and get the tormentors and people we don't like back. We're called Creepypasta."
Kagekao stopped laughing and his head tilted to the side, "Creepypasta...? You've named yourselves unsettling... pasta? ...scary spaghetti? frightening noodles!???? Nani???? Doshite??? Kekekekeke!"
He'd begun laughing again, and by this point you were annoyed.
"Give him the dumb crate and let's just get outta here," You order Laughing Jack, levitating yourself off of the ground and starting to glide off. Sally immediately skipped behind you and grabbed your hand and LJ smirked before releasing his grip on the crate and allowing everything to smash to the ground.
You slightly flinch at the sound of the glass breaking and turn around to glare at the clown. Kagekao glared at the broken mess on the ground before looking up at the clown that was much taller than him, "...Kusokurae. Ama."
Laughing Jack shrugged off whatever Kagekao had uttered and stalked over to you, then the three of you began to exit the alleyway.
"Hey wait! You can't just leave and think you'll get away with wasting my precious wine!" Kagekao yelled after you. "You'd best pay up ...otherwise I'll annoy you and prank you all to death! Kekekeke!"
"Suit yourself!" You yell back, not once turning to look back a him.
"Hey (Y/N)Man, can we go home now? I'm tired," Sally yawned, rubbing her eyes. "Of course Sally. Maybe we can look for a new Creepypasta tomorrow," You respond with a small smile.
You knew that maybe you didn't really have to go searching tomorrow because you could hear the distant sounds of someone following you and your companions from behind, trying their best not to be noticeable. You noticed anyways, but decided to ignore it.
Once you reach the woods and finally back to your mansion, you open the doors for Sally and Laughing Jack to step inside. You then enter yourself and turn to close the doors when you see something dart behind a bush a few feet away from the porch.
You stare at the bush for a bit, then scoff, "Well? You wanna come in or not?"
It was a while before the head of Kagekao appeared from the bush and he snarled, "I don't want anything to do with you ...weirdos! I just want you to pay me back for what you destroyed!"
"Cant. Don't have money. Suit yourself," You say, beginning to shut the doors.
As soon as you were about to completely close up, the black and white creep dashed at the door and grabbed the edges, keeping you from fully closing it.
"Wait!" He shouted. "Yes?" You smirk beneath your mask. "I-can.....? ...Look! If I ...come in, you'll promise to pay me back right? Eventually, right?" He questioned, sounding less bold than before.
You pretended to think for a moment before blatantly lying, "Sure, why not."
Kagekao's mask grinned and he now eagerly pushed the door open, "Very well! I'll join you and your ...freaky pastas...! Kekekeke!"
"It's Creepypastas, but okay."
You step aside and allow the trickster to march into the mansion, examining the place in awe. Laughing Jack and Sally see him walking in and immediately run over to him out of curiosity that he had shown up.
You smile over at them, feeling a rush of exhilaration at the fact that once again, another killer had joined your rank, and the vision of housing a whole mansion of killers was finally coming into play!
However, little did you know that a certain someone was closely watching, and they weren't at all pleased that you were seemingly turning soft, inviting these random misfits into the house that he helped you build......
...
Scratch that, of course you knew he was watching. You just didn't give a fuck
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