"And keep the hood up," Sans whispered to them.

They were standing in the park, Sally holding his hand as she eagerly looked around. This time, he had managed to bring all of them out, somehow, so he would have to make sure none of them were caught.

Ben easily bonded with Sans due to his lazy nature and liking of puns too, he was like a teenage, bloody, more link version of Sans. Ben sat on his couch a lot, eating chips while watching whatever was on. He didn't want Sans to buy him a bed or anything, he just wanted a place to hang out regularly. Sans soon discovered how he had entered Sans' house, because he had left through the T.V. Sometimes Ben even popped his head out of Sans' computer to give him a quick little hello at work.

And true to his word, Jennifer was reported missing a week later. It was only a little bit over a week after meeting Ben that Sans had decided to go to the park with everyone, so he wasn't great friends with him yet, but he knew Ben enough.

Jane had on sunglasses and a grey top with black shorts, able to blend in easily. Jeff had his hood drawn up to cover his face, just as Ben did, him in a green hoodie and jeans he borrowed from Jeff, since Sans hadn't asked him if he wanted to go shopping for clothes yet. Sally was wearing her bandages again, and she was wearing a pink shirt with her hair pulled into pigtails that Sans had done himself, blue shorts and shoes on her as well. Jack, however, had to blend in differently due to his mask, and had to resort to wearing a mask of a normal face over his blue mask, along with his hoodie drawn over his head as well. It wasn't best that a bunch of hooded people played in a park near kids, so they had decided to go to the park where you could go on a hike through the woods to see a lake. This one was closer to his house anyway, so it was easy to get everyone there quicker. Sally had to sit on Sans' lap while Jane drove to fit everyone into the car.

"I hate cars," Ben groaned, bending over next to a bush, "I think I'm going to vomit."

"It was like five minutes man," Jeff said, "Get yourself together."

"I. Hate. Cars." He repeated more firmly, gripping his stomach.

"Well, we're at the woods now," Sans said, "So you can walk instead of drive."

"Ugh, now I have to walk," Ben groaned, "I need to die again."

"I can happily help," Jeff said.

"Don't pull out your knifes out here," Sans said, "We're still near the road."

"When we get into the woods, I can take off my human mask, right?" Jack asked the skeleton.

"Yeah, when we're in deep enough you guys can take off your hoods and stuff," Sans said, "Not you, though, Sally. Those need to stay on."

"Okay!" Sally said, twirling Charlie in her arms as they all started heading on the path into the forest.

"Maybe we can find a single guy in the woods, have a little bit of fun with him," Jeff told Jack, "You get his organs, I make him pretty."

"Not in front of Sally," Sans told them, hugging her against him.

"Or Sans," Jane added.

"Well, I technically murdered someone in front of him by killing his co-worker in his computer," Ben said, "He just couldn't see or hear it."

"I get Jane and Jeff's ways of killing, along with Jack and Sally," Sans said, "But I don't get how you do it."

"I drag them into the internet and brutally murder them," Ben said, "I cause disappearences. No one finds the bodies."

"But we still shouldn't kill in front of Sans, period," Jane said.

"I agree," Jack said, "He's already broken.'

"Thanks," Sans said.

"He's so emotionally fragile that I don't think he can break more," Ben said, "He'd probably just faint if we killed someone."

"Thanks again," Sans said.

"I like Sans the way he is!" Sally said, "I don't want to turn him into us! He doesn't have to hide like we do."

"That is a good point, I can't be involved in anything you guys do, I might get arrested and have to serve," Sans said, "And I don't want to be trapped behind bars."

Sans didn't like feeling trapped. It reminded him of old memories that made him want to go cry in a corner until he passed out, as he has done before.

"I guess I'll agree with you, no killing in fronta the skeleton," Jeff grunted, "But behind him-"

"No, Jeff," Jane snapped, glaring over at him.

They made it up towards the lake, abandoning the hoods and mask as they went up. This lake was rarely used, people being afraid of serial killers and such, so visits have went downhill. The forest near Sans' house was the same one as this one, and it was known for housing a lot of killers, which was why no one came here anymore. Except for the serial killers, and their skeleton friend.

There were three picnic tables next to the lake, Jack, who had been carrying a bag of their stuff, plopping it down onto the table. It was just full of towels, snacks, and water bottles, and some extra knifes, mostly from Jeff stuffing them in at the last minute. Sans had offered to buy them bathing suits, but they wanted to go swimming in regular clothing, so he just bought them towels instead. Except Ben, who refused to touch any kind of water. He said he's like to just mock them from the shore.

"Since Charlie can't get wet, he can watch from over here," Sans said, setting down the bear next to their stuff.

"Charlie can guard our food! Scare away bears!" Sally said.

"Protect our stuff, Charlie," Sans told the bear.

"Cannonball!" Jeff screamed, sprinting towards the lake.

"Wait, Jeff, it's too shallow to do a cannonball at the edge!" Jane yelled.

He didn't listen, and they simply watched as he threw himself into the water, emerging to the surface a second later with his wide grin.

"I think his cut might get an infection," Sans told Jane.

"You might have to take him to the vet or something," Jane replied, snorting at her own insult.

"It's been awhile since I have went swimming, so we're trying something new today," Jack muttered as he waddled into the water.

"Um, Sans," Sally said, pulling at his hand, "I don't know how to swim."

"I thought so," Sans said, leading her into ankle deep water, "But don't worry, I have blue soul magic so I can teach you without floats."

"At least I don't need to breath," Sally said.

"Neither do I!" Sans said, looking over at Ben, "You sure you don't want to hop in?"

"I'm good," Ben croaked, his face flushing white at the thought of even touching water again.

Sans nodded at him, seeing his fear. It was obvious the boy had some sort of trama with water, so he didn't press it further.

"Oh, hey, Ben, are you going to get a super cool tan while we're practicing?" Sans tried to get his mind on something different.

"No, I have to be so pale that I blind people I try to kill, throw them off," Ben joked.

"I thought that was my job," Jane complained as she stepped into the water.

"You're job is to be annoying, and you're already doing that, so you win!" Jeff said, kicking water at her.

"That's cold!" Jane squealed out from surprise, trying to throw a punch at his direction but only hitting the water as he ducked underneath the layer and kicked her legs.

"I found a fish," Jack informed everyone, holding up a green fish in his hands, it squirming in his grasp.

"Okay, so what you want to do is kick your legs to keep afloat," Sans informed the girl as he led her out into more deeper water, his magic glowing as he held her soul, "Try not to dip your head under water, because of your bandages, and we're just practicing swimming above water for now."

"Like this?" Sally asked, frantically throwing her legs around in the water as Sans held under her arms to help keep her feel safer.

"No, lightly, to help push up your body," Sans said, "You can't kick them wildly, or you'll just do weird tricks. You just have to kick the water to help leverage up your body."

"But I can't kick the water, it doesn't move when I do," Sally said, "It's like the air."

"It moves around you as you kick," Sans told her, "So you can stay afloat. And you want to move your arms to help push your body in a direction, too."

He lowered her more into the water so that her shoulders were above it, letting go of her with his arms but still holding onto her soul.

Sallys soul was different than normal humans, because she was her soul. While humans had bodies with their souls inside of it, her body was her soul, since she was a ghost. She had no physical body anymore, it now consisted of her essence, her true soul itself. Her body had died, and now she was just a soul, lingering behind.

A soul that he was helping learn to swim.

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"F*ck!" Jeff screamed as he was smacked by a waterbottle, it landing in the water next to him and floating on the surface next to him.

"Drink some water," Sans yelled to him from the shore, "Jane, you too."

He threw it to her, and she actually caught it. Jeff had been swimming and screwing with Jane, while she had been swimming and screwing with him too, while Jack just kep catching fish with his bare hands and showing them off. He had held up a catfish at this point, watching it wiggle in his grasp before he let go of it. Sans had been teaching Sally how to swim this time, and she was at the point where she could swim from one place to another without holding Sans' hands, and where she could float on her own, but he had still used his blue soul magic on her the entire time.

"I already drank plenty of lake water, though," Jeff yelled to Sans.

"Drink that water then," Sans yelled out to him, "Get the taste of it out of you mouth."

"CHARLIE!"

"Who's that!"

Sans turned towards where Ben and Sally were looking to see a man holding Charlie, stepping back from the picnic table towards the dark and eerie forest. He had on a yellow hood, pulled up over a black material with red eyes and mouth switched onto it, black gloves waving the bear back and forth in front of Sans. He was also wearing black pants and shoes, that blending in with the woods behind him as he took another step towards it.

"Hey, that's Sally's bear," Sans told him.

He was the closest to the man, Ben more on the shore while Sally was a few feet behind Sans, the rest of them in the water.

"Who's that?" Jeff's faint voice yelled.

"Sans, stay away from him!" Jane's voice followed.

He simply stayed silent and took three more steps, being behind the tree line with the bear outstretched, taunting Sans.

"Give me back the bear," Sans told him, starting to walk towards him.

And when the man turned suddenly and ran into the forest, Sans followed in a sprint, knowing full well that the man wanted him to follow.

Why else would he grab it when he was near the table?

"Sans, wait!" Ben yelled from behind him, trying to run after him.

But, as Sally watched, it was no use. Sans and the man disappeared into the forest, Ben trying to keep up with their pace and disappearing in as well. Distant splashing grew closer as Jane made it to shore first, running up to the forest line as Jack reached the shore with Jeff.

"Ben followed him in," Sally told them.

They watched for a moment before Ben appeared back into sight inside of the forest, walking up to them with a shrug.

"They were too fast," He panted out softly, "I lost them."

"This isn't good," Jane muttered, "I thought we had more time before he noticed."

"I did too," Jeff groaned, "This is f*cking bad. We gatta find him before he does."

"Who?" Sally asked, "Why was that guy so bad?"

"His name is Hoodie, and he himself isn't bad," Jeff said, "It's who he works for."

Sally had to strain her ears to hear what Jack said, his whisper muffled by the mask. But when he did, her eyes widened as she turned towards the dark forest, hugging her arms to her chest as she grew fearful of where Sans had been taken.

"Slenderman."

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Okay, I know Hoodie and Masky technically aren't CreepyPasta, and that they're instead characters from SlenderVerse, but I'm still adding them in anyway since they're still pretty popular in the CreepyPasta fandom.

And things are about to get more intense.