Family

{ Chapter 12: Monsters }

{Grotesquerie- (noun) A strange or horrible creature }

May 3rd 2020

Ranboo POV

A few months have passed now. The winter was gone in a flash, winter time is kind of nostalgic for me, for me in winter all me and bill would do is sit in my room and drink hot coco and draw. I missed Bill a lot. I wonder if he got adopted for not?. Tommy turned 15 in April, Tubbo turned 16 in December, I cant fully believe that i've lived in a house for 4 months now. Its unbelievable to me almost. I haven't warmed up to them all to much still as the thought of being taken back still lingers in my head. I don't call Phil, 'dad' yet im sure I will someday I just need more time to see Phil as a dad, he more of is just a friend to me at the moment but thats a start. Tubbo is at the house this week and me and him have started to hang out more, he honestly spends more time with me then he does Tommy, Tommy spends time with Wilbur and Techno and Phil are glued together. I think its because Techno is kinda a loner he lives in the attic and why i do believe he loves us all I think he just gets along with Phil more, Tommy is always in wilburs room playing songs, Wilbur has basically made a whole album now. Its one of the first nice spring days, where its not too hot but its also not too cold to go out and do something, I closed my memory book and placed it on my nightstand, then I headed down stairs for some lunch, no one was down here, Phil and Tecno had gone out to a shop and Wilbur, Tommy and Tubbo were all upstairs playing games from what I had heard. I was in the middle of making a sandwich when Tubbo followed by Tommy came running down the steps, they didn't say anything to me the just bolted out of the door I put my sandwich up and followed the 2 quietly as they ran to the barn out back.

"What are you two doing?" I raised a brow looking at the nails, hammer in their hands.

"Dad called and said if we could fix up the barn we could get some new animals!" I hadn't ever thought of getting a pet ever, it was something that never came to mind i guess but if it was something the two wanted to do I was down. We nailed up some loose boards and got a good start on it until we had realized it was sunset, in the winter monsters don't come out from their hiddy holes because of the temperature however on a warm spring night they will, me and Tubbo stopped working, Tommy had gone in way earlier in the day because it was 'too cold' out but me and Tubbo could manage. Me and Tubbo began to walk towards the front porch when I noticed he wasn't behind me I turned and looked to him.

"Aye Ranboo look! The fireflies are out! I haven't seen them in a while" I smiled and walked up to him and looked at the fireflies.

"Thats cool Tubbo but we need to head in as soon as possible, Phil would kill me if you or me gor hurt out here at night so come on" he dropped his head and sighed. We turned around and started walking but then I had realized we were too late. Zombies and other creatures were in the woods around us, I began to panic and took Tubbo's wrist and we began running to the house when we were stopped by a creeper, one blow and we would both be dead. I turned around and began to run back to the barn, we couldn't get around 3 creepers in front of the house without getting hurt, I was more worried about Tubbo he looked more human then me, making him a target. We were running when Tubbo had fallen and yelled I stopped running and turned around to see him on the grass, a arrow stuck through the back of his knee and he was holding it in pain, everything was closing in on us. We don't have Time. I have to make a choice, I could run to the barn and save myself or carry Tubbo there isn't anyway he can run. I dropped to my knees and picked him up I tuned out his crying and him repeating 'ow' over and over again and ran towards the barn as quick as I could. Monsters were following us closely I put Tubbo down by the door and removed the large bored that kept the door shut it was very heavy I yanked the old barn door open barely big enough for us to get in. I picked Tubbo back up carrying him bridal style once again he was sobbing his eyes out, I yanked the door shut just as a Zombie and took it and began to beat the door in. I looked around and took a larger board of wood and placed it on the door handles, I looked around for a safe place to stay this barn wasnt near as safe to stay in its has holes in the bottom that anything can crawl through it has window holes but no glass that anything can jump through a Enderman can teleport in here, the only way we can stay a bit safer would to get in the loft, but that would be risky as it hasn't held something in years and the ladder is half broken. I picked up Tubbo his sobbing was louder now and I had his legs around my waist and his arms under mine I stepped onto the ladder and climbed it quickly, I sat down in the conner of the barn loft. While it is spring its cold when the wind blows, thats when i realized how badly his injury was the more he tightened his leg the further the arrow went in causing him more pain blood was flowing from his knee down his leg and onto the floor and onto me. He was shaking. His breath was shaky and he was panicking, it was silent. All you could hear was the beating on the door getting quieter, the wind blowing and walking outside.