TOBY

Chapter 11: Meet The Proxies

Toby had walked through the woods as night had fallen, was death really gonna be worth seeking the answers?

No.
But Toby needed to find out for sure.
He was gonna get the answers rather death was gonna happen to him or not.

Was nosing around for something he shouldn't pay any mind to?
Yes, yes he was.
But at what point would it matter to him in any state of the mind for him not do this?

Toby marched through the woods flashlight in his hand looking for answers to something that would surely lead to his death or worse his disappearance off of the face of the Earth's planet.

Honestly to Toby disappearing wouldn't sound so bad in his head because who would miss him besides his mother, his brother Cody, and of course his sister which he assume was dead.

He spotted something out the corner of his eye.

Toby turned and shined the flashlight at who ever it was standing in the brush line near the trees.

A man in a yellow plaid shirt and a white mask on his face and standing beside him was a man wearing a black wool ski mask with only the eyes visible and mouth covered, red goggles, and a yellow parka jacket.

"Tim? Bryan?" Toby said.

The two masked men tilted their heads at Toby and ran away and Toby had chased after them.

Through the woods the three ran through the woods Toby chasing the masked men tree limbs and thorn bushes and other woodland plant growth scratching them and brushing past them.

Toby had ran through the woods chasing the two men in yellow jacket.

They were close in front of him and this chase had went on for hours and hours soon finally as Toby was about reach out grab one of them he then unfortunately tripped over a uprooted tree root sticking out of the ground and fell flat on his face.

The two men ran off into the woods farther and farther until Toby couldn't see them again.

Toby had gotten up and limped his way through the woods since he sprained his ankle, but of course Toby had limped through the woods and as he stood up he picked up his flashlight and limped off after them hoping to find them.

Toby had made it into a clearing and found it full of strange looking people.

He saw the two men in yellow jackets in masks that he chased after and a girl dressed in a light grey hoodie black hair, black leggings, and a dark short jean skirt.
She also wore a mask black and white pattern that resembled something from a Rorschach ink blot painting test in therapy session that Toby used to go to when he was in the pre-teen age of 13 years old.

Toby thought to himself.
"That is unsettling!"

Toby knew that fact because the Rorschach ink blot paintings that was used for therapy sessions was supposed to be a calm visual for the mental state.
Seeing it for the first time in years as design on a mask that laid upon the face of a person was a eerie sight to see especially with the bright pale glowing moonlight making it look nightmare-ish.

Also standing beside the three masked people was also a naked zombified creature of a human.

But there also stood was other people that Toby hadn't seen before.

A college bound teen with long jaw line length hair.
The man in the skull mask that Toby had seen two weeks prior.
A shadowy figure of an old man in his late 20's.
A man wearing a smiling comedy mask.
A man covered in deep and long healing scars.
A woman with stitching on her eyes in the form of the letter X.
And a man with no eyes on his face only patches of skin wear his eyes should be on his face but his eyes were in his hands.

All of them had names.

The Observer
Deadhead
Persolus
Swain
Mr. Scars
Cursor
Firebrand
Masky
Hoodie
The Chaser
Charlie

Toby had reminded to himself of the story that his mother used to tell to him when he was 5 years old about a creature in the woods that would take people into the woods and would never be seen again.

Toby had forgotten the name of the story but what did that matter other than what he was seeing now.

Toby had seen all of this and he had to get out of there as he heard branches and twigs snapping under something heavy.

Toby had gotten up and booked it out of the woods and ran all the way back to his house as he exited the tree line of the woods he turned and had seen a familiar face.

Standing there in the woods was his sister Lyra dressed in black victorian gown and held in her hands was a victorian porcelain baby doll mask.
But was it actually her?
Toby had questioned it.

Toby then assuming with the fact Lyra had to be dead he closed his eyes and counted to ten like a scared child.

Then he opened them up and Lyra was gone.

Toby didn't see his sister anywhere after that sight.

He didn't wanna go back into the woods after what he had seen and it was fucking best if it had just simply stayed that way, but Slenderman lurking from the shadows from beyond the trees had other plans for Toby instead.

What plans were they?
Well......who knows for sure yet.