(Have a really crappy drawing, I just wanted a visual ref for Carmilla)
The two groups just stared at each other for a minute. The sane part of Mari's mind noticed how his Mistress stood in front of him, while the Faceless Man stood behind his proxies. He would have seen it as sweet if he didn't know better. She was protecting her property.
"I believe you have something of mine."
She held out a hand, as if expecting the vial to just be handed back to her. Her smile was cold and calculating.
There was a sound all around, as if the faceless thing was laughing.
"And you expect me to just hand it over?"
Its voice seemed to come from everywhere at once.
She folded her hands in front of her, that cold smile never leaving her face.
"I have other ways of persuading you Slender. Don't make me use them."
The faceless man, Slender, turned its head to look are Mari, who stood his ground as well as he could, though the static was returning to his ears.
"You don't mean that poor little thing do you? Is that really the best you could find since I last saw you?"
"Oh, and those three idiots are any better, they look ready to fall over already, you really don't take good care of your toys. At least I have total control over my pets, though I assume that's why you had yours steal from me?"
At this point, all the humans were getting bored and had pulled out their weapons. Masky and Hoody each began to prepare their guns, Toby and pulled out his hatchets, and Mari had made the unique decision to hold his gun in his right hand and his machete in his left, though it wasn't clear what good the machete would do him since he wasn't left handed.
"Not yet Dear."
She held a hand out to bar Mari from making any move.
"Now, if you wanted to borrow my things, you only had to ask, but since you took it from me, I'm going to take something from you."
She looked at the three assembled proxies.
"Mari, dear, get the little one for me," she said, pointing to Toby.
"Alive preferably but dead if you have to."
And then a fight broke out.
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The Marionette of Madness
FanfictionTim had hoped after all these years that he had finally beaten this thing and could live normal life, but he's having gaps in his memory again, and waking up with random injuries in unfamiliar places. Toby can't remember how he ended up in the woods...
