Permanent Blood, Temporary Smoke

Three

Three hours earlier

Deep in another part of the woods sat a mansion that was invisible to human eyes. Standing on the back porch watching two males fight each other was a tall, thin man in a suit. He was the owner of the massive house and had made the backyard into a combat area with a garden and workshop that hadn't been used as no one needed it. The man was about to go inside for a minute just as a little girl holding a teddy bear came running up to him.

"Daddy, Jeff is being mean again." The girl said almost in tears.

"What did he do now, Sally?" The man asked her.

That's when the girl held up her bear and its severed arm. The face of the man contorted into anger and told the child, Sally as she was called, to see if she could find Trenderman, the man's brother. He went inside the house and saw Jeff sitting on the couch, smiling as he knew what he did. However, the tall man wasn't too pleased with it. He snatched up the boy with one of his tendrils and angrily scolded him.

Once he was done, he dropped Jeff with a thud and headed back to the yard. He paused at the door and told the boy to never do it again or he would be in deeper trouble.

"Yes, Slender. Sorry sir." Jeff said, defeated and bruised.

Slender sighed and went up to the two boys that were fighting. He said to not do anything stupid as he was going out for a while. He also wanted one of them to look after Sally, Lulu and Lazari while he was gone.

"Yes sir!" The two said in unison.

"Good. Behave Toby and Eyeless Jack."

With that, Slender had vanished from the backyard and into the woods. While he was out searching for victims, he noticed a silhouette moving through the thickness of the trees that were still wet with rain. He teleports closer to the figure and notices it was a girl.

She seemed to be heading somewhere because she had what looked like plastic grocery bags hanging from her arms and that of a black, scaly tail that was slightly curled at her side. Slender watched her closely and wondered what she was doing on this side of the forest or why she was in the woods in the first place.

While he was busy thinking, he didn't notice that she had disappeared through the darkness of the trees, out of his sight. He began looking around to see if he could find her again, but it was fruitless. He sighed again and continued on with his hunt, upset and sad. After slaughtering a group of teens, he returned home, the girl still on his mind. He must have zoned out while the tailed being was on his mind because as he paced, he bumped into a black and white clown that seemed to be making their way to the kitchen through the empty living room.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Laughing Jack. I must not have seen you coming." He said, holding up his hand.

"It's alright, sir. Is everything ok?" LJ asked him.

"I'm fine, just deep in thought is all."

The monochrome clown nodded and left for the kitchen. Slender thought a little longer before heading to his office/bedroom for the night. Soon, it would be nightfall and a long search. He was not happy with the dark night ahead.