Little Nightmares: The Damned Child

Chapter I- Dangerous Serenities

The leaves slowly fluttered gracefully from the jagged arms of rough, bark titans that towered over everything beneath them. A calm wind guiding the leaves further into the depths of the dense forest. Pale blue light illuminated the mossy grass covered floor from the giant white orb suspended in the sky. A T.V flickered a few times letting out an ear piercing whine. A flash of bright light from the screen spat out a boy. Ejecting him to land in the damp mossen ground before the screen shut off to black.

He was a scrawny looking child with a paper bag over his head. Two eye holes were cut into it, allowing him to see. An olive trenchcoat that reached his knees helt to his body by a singular button. A brownish grey shirt is tucked beneath the coat along with similar coloured pants rolled up at the ends.

The boy stood up off of the ground taking in his surroundings curiously. After silently analysing where he was the boy ultimately decided to follow a path directly in front of the T.V. he was thrown from.

The mossen grass was soft and damp beneath his feet, cushioning them from the ground and also leaving them cold.

They boy trekked through the forest, his path presented before him in the light of the moon. His olive brown coat fluttered behind him as he went, kicking up the leaves that crunched beneath his bare feet. Passing some moss covered rocks to a small ledge. The gap was small enough to jump across to the other side.

The boy paused, looking down the ditch to a pile of bones surrounded by an icky black looking goo and covered in buzzing flies and squelching maggots.

Resisting his instinctive urges he jumped across the ditch and continued on the path through the woods. There was a sealed hunting cage set adjacent from the path, the boy stared at it as he passed.

There was another sealed cage buried under hardened mud and messy roots of the thick trees. Seeing no way around it he approached the cage. His small fingers slipping into a gap in the seams, pulling the door to the metal barred box open. It swung up, staying in place for the boy to freely crawl through. The boy slipped into the cramped box. Finding himself in a narrow tunnel crowded by rocks and roots that sprung out from the walls.

The paperbag boy went onwards to the end where he could see the moonlight peering in. Upon exiting the boy stopped in his tracks. A large sack bag hung from the twisted arms of the trees. Judging from the dangling feet and twisted limbs he did not want to know what was in the bag. Flies buzzed around the opening, making the hint rather obvious as to what it contained.

The boy hoisted himself up two small stone ledges leaving the mystery bag behind. He ran across a hollow log stuck in the ground, dropping to a lower ledge. His fall cushioned slightly by the moss.

The paperbag boy hiked some more ledges to find some icky piles of mangled animal corpses, decayed too long to recognise. The boy stared at a rope cast along the ground just above the leaves. He jumped over the rope, careful not to trigger it and get his head smashed by the crate above. He came across a ledge too high to climb, so he pushed over a fallen cage, dragging it to the ledge so he could continue. The forest was calmingly quiet once the cages and decaying bodies were ignored. The quiet rustling of moving branches and the small patting noise of drifted leaves settling to the ground. Once he'd reached the top of the ledge the boy ducked into another tunnel. This one was shorter than the last but the exit was covered thickly in roots. The boy squeezed between the thick claws of rough bark. Stumbling out of its grasp back into the open path.

A loud creak came from behind the boy, rocks shifted from behind him as a large log came loose. The boy stumbled down the steep hill. The collapsed trunk slammed into the ground like thunderous footsteps as it rolled down the slope.

The boy struggled to stay upright as he tripped and rolled the rest of the way down. He lifted his head to look back seeing the log barrelling towards him.

The boy quickly scrambled away, his hand thrusting in front of his face in fear. The log was stopped by two trees with a tremendous THUNK!! Blowing him back an inch. The boy got back on his feet. The threat no longer present he brushed some dirt off of his olive coat and straightened his paper bag so he could see better.

Leaving the child-killing tree behind the boy found himself at another ledge too far for him to jump or climb up to. There was a higher ledge and a hanging noose between the ledges. The boy used a hollowed out log to reach the higher platform. Getting a few splinters from the wood. Giving himself a running start he leapt from the ledge to the noose using it to swing across to the other side. A crank pulley system was set ahead. The boy wound the crank up clockwise lowering a crate held up by ropes. He jumped onto the crate as it lifted back up, leaping safely to the next ledge.

The paperbag boy continued onwards finding a collapsed bridge. It was too far for him to jump the gap. One of the ropes to the bridge was hung down the edge and he used it to get down into the deep ditch. It was likely formed by water when it rained. The boy used the collapsed planks of the bridge as a ladder up the other side. The boy kept following the moonlit path dropping off a short drop into a collection of leaves and abandoned shoes....

For this Fanfiction I'm using Jacksepticeye's Little Nightmares II playthrough as a reference. I would recommend watching his videos or Daz Games. I am also using other youtubers theories and videos to build a backstory for some of the characters present in the story. Mainly Six, Mono and my modern OC.