(Author's Note: I'm BACK, guys!!!!!! Two to Three chapters all today! So get excited!)

Some man with a multifaceted mask emerges from a cat's mouth, which serves as the entry to the funhouse for the group. Surprisingly, it turns out to be Willie from the drawings. He currently wears an angry expression on his mask.

"A few rules before you... suffer," Willie says with a deep, threatening voice before groaning for some uncertain reason. Suddenly, he changes the expression of his mask to an excited one, leaving the group wide-eyed in shock and confusion.

"At the end of the hall is an elevator. You can enter one at a time or—" Willie continued to speak with a calm and excited expression, but the group tuned out when they realized that Willie was different from the other monsters. He was one of the four monsters of his own kind, leaving everyone in shock.

"Y'all see what I'm seeing, right?" Quinn trails off as everybody nods beside her, humming in agreement.

"I feel bipolar just watching this," Mindy mumbles as the group continues to watch Willie talking, but it feels like they're in a trance, not really listening to him.

"I'll rip your guts out with a fishhook," Willie says as he turns his expression to his angry mask, but then he groans and roars as he changes his expression again.

Willie says excitedly, 'The elevator will spew you into a room that you must solve quickly," but he changes his expression once more.

"Oh my god, this feels like a one-man show. It probably is one, I just can't fucking tell if it is because he switches his fucking mask for the 10th fucking time," Ethan mumbles to Chad, getting tired but amused by the mask swapping.

"I agree, but it's so intriguing. Also, you know you had other words to use besides the one-curse word limit," Chad mumbles back to Ethan, but Ethan just thinks about it for a second and then shrugs it off.

"Every few minutes, I'll spin the dial of minutes, and whatever room it lands on... I WILL ENTER AND TAKE ONE OF YOU OUT BACK FOR PUNISHMENT," Willie says with an excited expression but changes it once again to an angry expression and starts almost yelling.

"Now a red light may flash from time to time, and when you're in a room, you must get into the elevator within five seconds. Let's have some horrible fun. Tickets, please. Please hurry," Willie says in a hurry with a shy but excited expression as they hand him the tickets before entering the funhouse one at a time.

Ethan goes first and lands in a colorful/candy-like room with a bunch of balloons, tape, and stuff before Chad and Mindy enter the same room with him. As he goes over to read the note, it says, "That wretched woman hid all five of my treats. Put them back where they belong."

Before he starts popping some balloons to find pieces of candy to put in the candy collection, which should be nicely ordered, he explains it to Chad and Quinn, who understand what to do and start popping balloons with needles and their bodies each finding some candy in the balloons.

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While Tara goes into a side room when she exits the elevator, Quinn runs in after her, almost tripping over something because she didn't know it was sideways for a second. Sam comes in right after them, and as she enters, they spot a note on the wall.

"Now that the house has gone sideways, everything is out of sorts. Hurry and set things right." This meant they had to rearrange everything in the room as they struggled to get it back in order.

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The three were now arranging the candies, which were separated into five different rows while looking for the rest of the candy, which they luckily find. As they do, a chest opens in the room, revealing a clue, "Carnival Master corrupted one of you." This makes the three look at each other in concern, wondering if the note was true and who among them was corrupted, and when it might have happened.

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"My wife loved to pursue the encyclopedias, but she leaves them around. Was it that hard to put them back together where they belong?" The other group reads another note on a different wall in the room before looking around the room for the encyclopedias.

But Quinn, with her high-top boots, finds one that pops up from a shelf. Tara discovers another hidden one, and Sam finds a third. Each encyclopedia has a letter on it.

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In the chest, they find a key, a world encyclopedia, and a bunch of rings. However, the encyclopedia didn't seem to make sense for the current room, so it must have been meant for a different room, perhaps for their friend's room.

As they were about to leave, Willie suddenly appeared in the room, and despite the three's attempts to hide, he easily found them. Willie grabbed Ethan, and although Chad tried to help, he couldn't reach him in time. Ethan was then dragged out of the room and thrown into a chain-link prison outside of the funhouse.

"You suck! And leave my friends, you two-faced or four-faced freak!" Ethan yells at Willie.

Feeling trapped and alone, Ethan desperately searches for a clue or an exit, but to no avail. There seems to be nothing to help him at the moment, leaving him in a state of uncertainty and fear.

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In the candy room, they notice a locked door and use the key they found to unlock it. Inside, they find another puzzle and a note. As they hear Ethan's desperate yell for help, Chad responds, yelling back to reassure him that they will get him some help.

"This was one of my favorite pieces until my wife smashed it. Reassemble it just right, or else," Mindy reads the note quickly, noticing the worry on Chad's face. She and Chad try to figure out the colors and their matching positions, but they can't seem to solve the puzzle.

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"My favorite artist. I'd take one. Your friends in the other room will surely need it," they read a note as they found a map with the color wheels in the right order for the candy room.

As Willie enters the room, the three try to hide from him, but their efforts are futile. Quinn gets caught and is dragged out of the room, thrown into a cage with Ethan, who manages to catch her as she's thrown in. Now, both Quinn and Ethan find themselves trapped together, uncertain of what awaits them next.

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"You'd never find my wife without a drink. I don't ever want to see that goblet again. Just put it in the rafters," they read the note after Quinn leaves the room. They find the cup and locate the specific spot to place it, which Sam does correctly, causing a red light to flash. Meanwhile, Chad runs into their room with the encyclopedia and hands it over to them. They place it in order, and behind a painting, they discover a lock and a note.

"So that one day I could escape. The combination is in the constellations of the sky. Maybe a friend can give you a hand?" they read the note as the red light flashes red. Tara quickly grabs the map and runs into the elevator, heading to the candy room.

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Tara enters the room and rushes to help Mindy rearrange the colors with the map. As they work on it, the red light flashes once again, adding tension to their task. Mindy wishes Tara luck and then hurriedly runs into the elevator, ending up in the lava room.

"Keep off the lava or start over," Mindy reads the warning under a button as she enters the lava room. She begins to play it like a Simon Says game, pushing buttons in random order while skillfully dodging the floor, making sure not to step on the lava.

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While Ethan and Quinn are trying to find a way out of the cell, they are still not successful.

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Sam and Chad look around the room for stars but don't find any, luck not being on their side.

"We're going to be stuck in here the whole time, aren't we?" Ethan says, realizing that luck is not on their side when it comes to escaping. He side-hugs Quinn for comfort.

"No, hopefully, they can save us in time. I said hope for a reason," Quinn says, trying to reassure her brother. However, her attempts at comfort seem to fall short as both siblings sigh and groan, feeling frustrated, and return to yelling for help.

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Tara finally finishes matching the colors together. With the task completed, she exits the room and heads towards the elevator, which will take her to the next room where Mindy is waiting. The next challenge awaits them in the lava room.

Then Chad comes from the elevator into the lava room and sees some constellations, but he also decides to join the girls in the challenge. Meanwhile, Sam spots a peephole and attempts to communicate through it, but the others couldn't hear her properly.

"Tara! Tara! Tara! Guys!" Sam calls out, catching the attention of her sister and now the others.

"Sam, oh hi!" Mindy says, waving through the peephole, trying to lighten the mood and help herself relieve some stress from her mind.

"Oh, hi! Mindy, I've been trying to call you neon asses for a long time!" Sam playfully mocks Mindy back, as she rushes to finish her challenges in the room.

"Well, what do you need?" Mindy asks.

"Sure, I'll go to the left and the right, and give you the numbers," Mindy agrees, following Sam's instructions. Meanwhile, Chad starts counting the constellations on the wall.

"Well, the first one is five. Wait, I meant six. It's six, five, four, eight," Chad corrects himself as Sam tries to input the code which surprisingly works.

"Guys, it worked!" Sam yells excitedly to the others as she successfully opens what was inside. Everyone cheers as they see the cash inside. Sam then switches the switch, signaling that she has completed the room.

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Willie then enters the lava room and makes a grab for Tara, but she quickly dodges out of the way. Instead, he manages to grab Chad and forcefully drags him out of the room and into the cell where Ethan and Quinn were. The two siblings were still trying to find a way out while amusing themselves by singing "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus.

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Sam bravely enters the elevator and joins Tara and Mindy in the lava room to assist them with the remaining challenges. However, just as she starts to help, Willie barges into the room and forcefully drags Sam out, taking her back to the cell where the others were still singing "Party in the USA."

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Tara and Mindy work together to complete the Simon Says game by pressing the required buttons in the correct order. As they successfully finish the challenge, they excitedly rush into the elevator together, eagerly waiting for it to take them to the outside/main entrance.

When the elevator doors open, they run out and find a note and a box hanging with two lightbulbs inside. Curious, they pick up the note to read it.

"Lucky you, take your prize. Now, get back to the lounge and decide who among your friends will undertake my final challenge. Choose wisely. You never know what can happen inside my house." They read the note, not liking how their friends were just going to be put in the challenge, not by their choice but by others.

They run over to the group in the cell and see the others looking sad and depressed before noticing the two individuals basically jumping in joy.

"Guys, I'm glad we found you, but we don't know how to get you out. We have to pick two of you for the challenge," Tara explains.

"The two of us? I just died, that's so unfair," Ethan says with a groan.

"It really is. Anyway, you're not going to die again, and I trust these two to pick two good options," Chad tries to reassure Ethan while rubbing his back.

"Yeah, but it's Tara and Mindy. No offense, but they don't like me that much compared to the rest of you," Ethan says, and Mindy and Tara nod in agreement.

"Guys, whoever we pick, don't get mad, just trust the process. We couldn't vote for anyone if we could," Tara says before dragging herself and Mindy back into the lounge.

(Author's Note: I hope you all like that chapter! Also, here is the new cover of the HSMTMTS I'm making, featuring Devyn as the cover and star. It was originally Liana but I decide to change it a lot of stuff.)