It took a long time for a majority of the students to fall asleep that night. Thoughts of what was happening to Karol that night haunted their thoughts. However, Peter could have slept just fine if he had just let himself doze off. After staying up all night previously, sleep would have surely come easy to him. But Peter stayed up for a reason different to everyone else. He had to talk to Iisan, he was too frightened of what the boy knew to just let him slip through his fingers.

It was about 1am, and MJ was sound asleep. A lot of students were still awake. In fact, some of them had been moving their mattresses to form a fort of some sort. Perhaps they wanted to sleep with the safety of other's close to them. Peter didn't blame them. Eventually, he knew he couldn't stay up and wait for everyone to fall asleep. It was now or never.

Peter cautiously climbed off his mat. Iisan was sitting across the room from him, last he checked. Peter didn't want to make it suspicious, but his lack of sleep gave him no will to try and sneakily cross the room unnoticed. So yes, he just walked in plain sight for anyone who was awake to notice.

He got to the cluster of mats where Iisan's friend group slept. He suddenly felt embarrassed, and questioned if he should just wait till morning or not. It is morning, you idiot. It's 1am. Moron.

Iisan's mat was empty. Peter's first reaction was to look to Terrance's bed where he found two people sleeping together. Peter's heart did a flip.

Oh crap, they're sleeping together- Peter thought, his face flushing to a shade of red. He wanted to die in his shame. But then he realized that one of the bodies looked significantly more petit than the other, and as he remembered, neither Iisan nor Terrance were petit. Iisan was so tall, he might have actually just been a tree. And Terrance, though he was nearly a half a foot shorter than Iisan, was definitely not small. He was very muscular and strong looking, while Iisan was probably the love child of a string bean and a stick.

Point is, neither of them were small. So whoever was sleeping with Terrance, they definitely were not Iisan.

Something small flew at Peter's temple. Before it hit him, he caught it, using his senses to pinpoint exactly where it was. It was small, probably a pebble though Peter had no idea where someone would have found a pebble in this room. He looked in the direction it was thrown, and saw a figure sitting against the wall opposite of him. He knew it was Iisan, but how'd he throw a pebble so far with such insane accuracy?

Peter walked over to him, of course. I have no other words to describe this action so I'll just make Peter sound like he's a sim. It was dark in the room, obviously. It's night. There's no windows. Why would he expect there to be light? Idk man ask the author. Oh wait- that's me- never mind don't ask idek.

In the low light, Peter was able to make out the futures of the gothic boy. He couldn't see the scars on his face that well, but he was still well aware that they were frighteningly there. He still, as always, wore all black. In fact, like all the other students, Peter was pretty sure that no one had changed out of the clothes they'd arrived to this twisted place in. His shirt was black, and ripped intentionally. On his wrists were several black bracelets, (though some where silver or grey), and around his neck was a black choker. His jeans, (also black or really dark grey), were ripped and tattered as well. He looked like a homeless emo goth boy.

"Um- hey-" Peter stammered.

"Took you fucking long enough." Iisan grumbled.

"Oh- sorry." Peter said, feeling embarrassed yet again. "I thought you were... over there..." he pointed back to the mattresses.

"You had literally all day, but you waited till one in the fucking morning anyways." Iisan complained.

"So y-you were waiting for me?"

"No shit, dumbass."

"S-sorry." They were both whispering, not wanting the other's to hear their conversation. "Um- I-I'm Peter by the way."

"Yeah, I know."

"Ok then." Peter glanced down at his feet awkwardly. "Hey um- what you said on the paper, how do you know?"

"We're all gonna die here if we don't do something, you just seemed to figure that out before we even got off the damn bus so I figured I'd catch your attention somehow. Besides, your little girlfriend is probably next on that sick bastard's death list." Iisan explained.

"Why say that?"

"Sit the fuck down, I'm trying to whisper but you're standing a mile away." Iisan commanded. Peter quickly sat down in front of the older boy.

"Sorry."

"Quit apologizing." Iisan groaned.

"Anyways, you were saying..?"

"Right. You're a mutant, aren't you?"

"A what?"

"Mutant."

"What?"

"Shit." Iisan groaned. "You don't know what the fuck I'm talking about."

"No, I don't..?"

"Then what's making you sense all this shit. You caught that damn pebble threw without even looking at me." Iisan said. "How?"

"...I'm just lucky?" It is totally not because I got bit by a radioactive spider.

"Well, Peter, I'm pretty sure you're a damn mutant so you can drop the act already." Iisan glowered.

"I really have no idea what you're talking about."

"Ok, maybe I'll give you a reason to know." Iisan glared at Peter. Iisan moved his hand over the ground and flicked his wrist. Immediately, a hole formed, the cement breaking up and forming small pebbles which hovered in the air beneath his fingers. Peter's eyes went wide in shock. "Now, Peter, are you a mutant?"

"Are you a mutant?"

"Yes."

"I still have no idea what a mutant is."

"... Shit." Iisan dropped the pebbles and put his faced in his hands. "You're just a normal kid then, huh."

"Oh, definitely not." Peter chuckled.

"Well you better tell me what the fuck you are before I close this conversation and let your girlfriend be chosen by Dr. Braunt next." Iisan threatened.

"What the hell man?" Peter said.

"Listen, a lot of the kids here are mutants. I know who most of them are, and what they can do." Iisan said. "I don't know what you are if you're really not a mutant. But I know for sure that Michelle surely isn't, which is why she's a likely next target. This morning, while everyone was on the way to breakfast, I snuck off. I was suspicious about Braunt, so I wanted to know where he was to possibly find further evidence that your friend was dead. He was talking to his servants."

"And?"

"And-" Iisan leaned forward- "I overheard him say he needed to exterminate the 'weak ones' first, before moving onto the mutants."

"What's that mean?"

"You're dumb as a rock, aren't you?" Iisan scoffed. "It means that all the kids here who aren't mutants are going to be wiped out first. He wants to toy with the rest of us, probably because he wants to make sport of us trying to save ourselves with our own powers and mutant abilities."

"Does anyone else know?"

"Terrance does." Iisan answered. "He's a mutant too. At first, I thought he'd be the next target, cause I didn't think Braunt was aware of our secrets. But he is. He'll leave Terrance alone for now, but I'm sure if Braunt cleans out all the normal kids, Terrance will be the first mutant who dies."

"He's a mutant too?"

"Yes, that's what I just fucking said." Iisan rolled his eyes. "He was going to stay up with me and wait for you to finally talk to me so that we could both explain this to you, but his brother needed him more than me."

"Is that who was-"

"Yes, they're sharing a mattress. What, did you think it was me and him together when you went over there?"

"Um- maybe?"

"Terrance has a girlfriend."

Not for long you gay mother trucker. I said nothing. Shh.

"We're getting off track." Peter veered away. "How many kids here do you know for sure are mutants?"

"I'm trusting that you're probably a mutant too here, and normally I wouldn't expose the identity of them anyways but quite frankly, we might all die here." Iisan rubbed his temples. "Me, Terrance and his little brother, Beckendorf (Bradley), Winters (Emma), Grace (Lauren), Danvers (Cat), Olowe (Mara), Tate (Levy), and Bourgeois (Thora). If there's any other's I wouldn't know. "

(Clarifying that the names in parenthesis are not being said by Iisan, they're the character's first names and he only calls people by their last names, with the exception of Terrance and his brother)

"Hold so... nearly half of us?"

"And maybe you. You sure you're not a mutant?"

"Maybe Braunt thinks I am. I..." Peter bit his lip. "Never mind, I can't tell you, but you're on the right track. I'll give you that."

"So what do you want to do?"

"Find a way out of here."

"No shit." Iisan rolled his eyes. "We all do. It's just, how do we do that?"

"If the mutants all have powers, can't they just help? Like- if you can do that to the floor-" Peter pointed at the hole- "What else can you do?"

"I'm not exposing myself to the others. Using the mutants should be a last option. It's to dangerous to expose us, we're constantly being hunted by the police for simply existing."

"Then what do you want to do?! Let all the kids who aren't like you just die?!"

"Keep it down!" Iisan whispered, "Look, there's a real reason we can't let the other kids know about the mutants. Look at me Parker," he gestured his face, "I don't even have human teeth. People hate me as it is, and they don't even know I'm a mutant. It's simply because I don't look like everyone else. Imagine what would happen if all the normals found out I really wasn't like them at all?!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I don't know, I'm not a mutant. I don't even know what mutants even are!" Peter said with frustration.

"Well obviously you have a big secret that you're too afraid to tell me, even after I just exposed myself to you. Imagine if the whole world knew that secret, whatever it was?" Iisan smirked. "By the look on your face, your life would probably go to shit."

"So what about tomorrow?" Peter asked.

"We find Karol's body, figure out if it's just Nook we have to worry about, and make a plan."

"And what if that plan takes more than a day to figure out? We just let everyone die?"

"We can't control it, but there's a chance to resist it." Iisan stated. Join the ReSiStAnCe- Furry apocalypse is underway, the human race is doomed.

"I'm not letting anyone else be taken by that monster." Peter stated.

"Good luck with that."

A/N There have not been many writing bloopers lately and idk why but I do apologize for the appalling lack of them.

But anyways, I'm going to dump some art here that has nothing to do with the story other than hey, it's Iisan.

This is a comic strip I made between Iisan and Terrance's little brother (Corvan)

Iisan badassery

TeRrAnCe

Christmas art? In January? I made it a while ago, shut up. In order from left to right, Iisan, Corvan, Emma, Bradley, Lauren, Jason, and Terrance. Because you probably need to know, the dogs are named Washington and Theodore.

Iisan judging you.

I've realized that all the side characters I chose seriously don't have a lot of art I've made. Like all the characters I consistently draw, are not in this fic lmao. I'll share more art later, cause it exists. Iisan is just the character with the most attention in this book so that's why I put mostly his art here.

-Peter