Chapter 5: How The Gloink Queen Stole Christmas (Part 2)

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3rd Person POV:

"Looks like it's back down the old gloink hole huh?" said Kinger.

"Yup," Jax said smiling as he jumped down into the hole with Ragatha, Kaufmo, and Kinger following close behind.

Once they reached the bottom the gloink queen, who was eating Christmas decorations, narrowed her eyes at them. "Why have YOU come down here in the nest of the GLOINK QUEEN?"

She asked with authority in her voice. "We came here to stop you and get this stupid adventure over with," Jax responded.

"You've been stealing Christmas decorations, decreasing everyone's morale. So we came to ask, why are you doing this-" Kaufmo attempted in a kind voice.

"We don't care about your whole backstory or all that schmuck, we're here because we wanna get this over with as fast as possible," Jax interrupted pushing Kaufmo aside. "And how do you plan to do that?" Ragatha sarcastically asked Jax, who thought for a moment or two, "...We'll fight her!" Jax explained gesturing to Kaufmo. However, the gloinks misinterpreted this as Jax wanting to fight her and began to carry him toward their queen. "Hey wait what are you doing-" Jax was suddenly met with the gloink queen face to face who grinned evilly at him, causing him to smile and laugh nervously.

"Oh boy, this isn't going to end well," Kaufmo said.

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Zooble rebuilt herself in a matter of seconds, "So it's Christmas in your world huh?"

Pomni asked attempting to start up a conversation, "Yeah, it is, do you celebrate it?"

Pomni looked down briefly, kicking her leg lightly, "Yeah...I used to before I came here..."

"...We should probably go and help the others~" Gangle suggested.

"Oh, yeah, right, you're right we should probably go." 

The small group made their way to the gloink hole. "This is a little ominous...I swear to god if I end up in a maze and get jump scared by the girl from the exorcist I'm gonna-"

Y/N was interrupted by the sound of Jax screaming. "...Maybe we should check on him?" Said Pomni in a nervous voice. I nodded in agreement and jumped down the hole. Once the small group arrived down there they were met by the sight of Jax being tossed around like a ragdoll. "...I mean I can't say he doesn't deserve it." 

Jax looked up at us. "Just help me already!" Zooble looked at him with an invisible smirk.

"Kinda rude Jax, now I don't want to help you~," they said in a teasing tone of voice before crossing their arms. I stepped forward cautiously. "Hey, uh Mister? Missus?"

"What is it that you want from the gloink queen?" The gloink queen asked in an authoritative voice. "I was wondering if we could have our rabbit friend back, and if you could stop stealing the Christmas decorations." The gloink queen narrowed her eyes at me as I stood there.

"No. I must stop Christmas from coming."

"Why?" I asked.

"I- You- Well- Because I MUST!"

"...You don't have a reason do you?"

"I-...MAYBE, SO WHAT!"

"OK look, Christmas is going to come whether you steal decorations and presents or not, what you're doing is pointless and you're going about it in an unrealistic way. Besides you're only trying to stop it from happening in one location, If you're going to stop Christmas from coming you're going to need to make the entire world forget what Christmas even is. You're inside a computer game that very few people know about, and I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person who even opened the game in computer format in, like what, twenty? thirty years? And on top of that there are over 8,000,000,000 people on the earth, do you honestly think you can just make that many people forget about a holiday that's been around since the birth of Jesus Christ? Let alone from inside of a video game? And that's not even including the holidays that take place around the same time like Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Bhodi Day, and Las Posadas, but then again you said you were stopping Christmas not other holidays, so-"

The gloink queen yelled as she lunged at us, throwing Jax into a pile of gloinks.

"Uh oh! Run!" Kaufmo Yelped grabbing Ragatha's hand and starting to run. Gangle ran away while screaming and Kinger took a few minutes to process what was going on before realizing what was happening and running away while screaming as well.

I began to run away as well until I saw Jax being crushed beneath the pile of gloinks, hesitating before ultimately deciding to return to help. Pomni ran to the spot I went from and looked at my avatar frantically, "Wh-What are you doing Y/N!?"

I pull off dodges I hadn't used since my Minecraft Bedwars days, eventually reaching the mountain of gloinks and ultimately deciding to just throw them off manually, I was skilled with a computer, but not enough to simultaneously dodge attacks and code at the same time. I eventually found Jax's head. Suddenly a quick time event popped up and I began to type faster than I had ever typed in my entire life, slowly but surely, I began to pull him out by his ears. "OW! At this point just leave me to die!" Jax shouted in pain. "Just shut up and suck it up!" I shout in return, continuing to type the keys that matched the ones that showed up on the screen. After that small game of tug of war, I ended up successfully pulling him out. He grumbled as I quickly hoisted him up and pushed him toward the escalator. "GO, GO, GO!!!" "Don't have to tell me twice!"

Our group ran the entire way up the stairs without looking back already knowing the gloink queen was practically at our heels. After what felt like an eternity we made it to the top and jumped through just as the gloink queen lunged at us. We continued to run until we heard a loud THUMP and stopped to turn around to see what had happened. By the the gloink queen had stared blankly at us and we stared back.

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The gloink queen began to show signs of struggle, and as it would turn out; She got stuck, for a moment or two before growling at us and giving up the chase. Caine suddenly appeared eating a Christmas cookie and sipping some eggnog. "Ahh, that hit the spot! Now how are my little superstars doing so far-" Caine was interrupted by the sight of the stuck gloink queen. "Oh...Yeah, I don't think she's going anywhere for a while, so I guess the adventure's over! Your reward is a meet-up with SANTA!" Caine snapped his fingers but nothing happened, he snapped again this time bringing a standard Santa NPC. "Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas everybody!" I couldn't help but smile at this, feeling a sense of childhood wonder, I pressed the interact button again. "Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas everybody!"...I interacted again. "Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas everybody!"

"...is that all he says?" I asked Caine as he looked around nervously. "I only had enough time to make the model and that one line of dialogue and ended up not quite finishing the other pieces of dialogue, normally I wouldn't let people see my unfinished work, but this was the prize and I wanted to shake things up a little and not do a feast for once."

"...I mean that was a pretty quick adventure."

"...Well this silence is awkward, how about a joke? Why did Rudolph get pulled over?...Because he ran a red light."

I could swear I heard a 'budum tsh' sound effect as I snickered. Kaufmo seemed delighted to see me snicker. "At least someone finds my jokes funny..." He mumbled.  

"OOOOOOH! INSECT! INSECT!" Kinger shouted pointing at the screen as I switched to fishbowl view once more. I suddenly saw a fly land on my screen and crawl across it. The others took the opportunity to look around my room through the screen. "Your room is pretty nice isn't it?" Pomni asked.

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"I'm still stuck here guys!-"

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