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I was attacked by some kind of... sock monkey. This place just keeps getting weirder, I swear. On the off-chance that I'll ever be seen again, that someone will read this diary, don't worry: I'm just a bit scratched up.

I don't like the Jungle. Or maybe I do. I don't know. My head hurts. I'm having thoughts that aren't mine.

I'm scared.

Long live the Jungle,

BDoubleO100

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"Are you sure you're okay, Scar?" Cub asked, wringing his hand nervously. "You've been acting weird."

"I'm fine." Scar asserted. "I'm just recovering from yesterday." Scar's grey eyes pierced Cub's Vex-blue ones — wait. Scar didn't have grey eyes. His eyes were usually a vivid green. Cub let out a little gasp.

Before he could process that information fully, however, the quartet of Hermits found themselves led to a large clearing, with blood-red leaves on the ground. Tenuously, Doc picked one up, before comparing it to the trees above. He released the leaf in shock, allowing it to spin gently to the ground. The staining of the leaves wasn't natural. The four of them were in grave danger.

A soft growling came from the trees around them, and a thin, un-scar-like smirk appeared on Scar's face. Doc and Ren carefully backed away, grabbing the other's hand for security, an 'I'm here and you're too' message, if you will. Cub stepped forward, reaching out to Scar. Scar just stepped aside.

Before anything else could happen, a huge monster came crashing down out of the trees, pacing around the four, herding them in. Doc and Ren were forced back towards Cub and Scar, and the four were driven to the center of the clearing. Suddenly, Doc got out his trident, and threw it at the creature. Before his trident had even returned to his hand, he was hit in the back by a blast of Vex magic.

"Don't. Hurt. Fluffy." Scar insisted, sharply. "He doesn't want to hurt us!"

"Are you sure about that, Scar? It is pacing ominously around us in a bloodstained clearing. I get the strong feeling that I'm about to be hurt." Cub reasoned.

"Also, the ay out is closing." Ren helpfully added.

Cub and Doc looked around, and sure enough, the gaps in the trees around them were quickly being filled with vines. Ren and Doc bolted away from Fluffy, trying to get out of the clearing before they were trapped. Cub tried to follow, but Scar grabbed on to his arm. He yelled, and tried to pull free.

Doc and Ren reached the edge of the clearing with some time to spare. They turned around, and saw Cub struggling with Scar. He looked up at them, and waved for them to go on. Ren began to protest, but Doc nodded, and the two left the clearing, running to who-knows-where in the Jungle.

Cub then turned back to Scar, and asked, simply and plainly: "Let me go." Scar, of course, refused. Cub took a deep breath, thought above things for a second, and then began to speak.

"Of course you wouldn't let me go. You're not Scar, are you? You haven't been since this morning. I don't know exactly what happened to you, but I can guess. I hope you're still in there somewhere, Scar. And as for you," he turned to Fluffy, "You let my friend go right this instant, or there will be consequences."

In response, Scar just laughed. It started off as his characteristic chuckle, before devolving into somemore wild, more animalistic.

"Oh, thank you so much, Cubby. I'm glad I don't have to keep up the front anymore." He chuckled. "You've made my job so much easier."

"What-" Cub protested, before being abruptly cut off by an attack from Scar. Scar quickly grabbed Cub's hands and brought them behind Cub's back so Cub couldn't use his magic. He then turned Cub to face Fluffy, a sadistic grin tracing the faces of both man and monster.

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day," Scar hissed in Cub's ear. What little colour there was left in Cub's face quickly drained away. However, Cub didn't struggle. He closed his eyes, and stood up straight, facing death with dignity.

He then opened one eye, muttered a quick apology, and stomped on Scar's foot with all of his strength.

I just remembered that fluff exists. Lol. Sorry if the title of this chapter misled anyone.

I've been Entropy, peace out from the present!