⎈𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍!⎈ // RanFren x Reader

𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝟻

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟻: 𝙼𝚊𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚕

I laid down on my bed, staring at the ceiling.
My eyes were wide open with nothing but a blank stare. Then I took a deep sigh, "Haaah...what am I doing anymore honestly, I wanna go out..." As if my prayers were answered, Nyon entered the room. "(name), we're going to the mall, wanna come? Maybe you could find something you like?"

"Hell yeah, finally! Of course I'll go!" I jumped out of bed immediately and marched out of Randal and my shared bedroom with Nyon.

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When Nyon meant 'we're' he meant him, Nyen, Luther, and Randal. Damnit I'm gonna have to deal with him again.

"So why are going to the mall?" He asks, to which Luther replied, "Because that's what people do, duh."

Randal leaned back on his chair, taking off his seatbelt. "Put your seatbelt back on."
"Oh I'll never listen to you..." Randal talks back to Luther with a menacing tone. "Maybe you should listen Randal." I back up Luther. "Okay!" He puts his seatbelt back on.

"Hmm...(name) it seems like he listens to you immediately if you tell him to do something..." Luther processes.
"He's just really hooked up to me, it's a common occurrence." I say without context.
"Wait a minute...(name)...there were others?" Randal asks, he sounded so confused.
"But that was all in the past now, I'm stuck here now...I think." I keep giving them trivial answers, but it's for the best.

"It's all right (name), you got us now!" He says, "But more importantly, you've got me!" He gestures to himself. "No, I've got Nyon."
"What?"

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We finally arrived at Maple Mall...it's just a copied version of Walmart honestly.

We all entered the mall, I took a good look around. And just as I expected, everything looked so surreal and liminal. I turned back to look at my companions and walked back to them, they were discussing something.

"We're going to find your presents first Randal, so you should go somewhere with (name). But you should be responsible and stay out of trouble, though I doubt that since (name)'s with you." Luther tells Randal as I was glowing with pride. "Don't worry Luther, I'll try to keep him on his...best behavior." I suddenly felt worried, what if I couldn't? I hope Luther doesn't do anything to me...

"And Randal, leave the mannequins alone, and make sure two don't have too much fun inside the arcade...I'm not ready for that stage yet..." Randal just rolls his eyes and leaves, me walking behind him. I faintly heard him say, "We'll see about that..."

Both of us were inside the arcade, trying to find something to play. Well, I was trying to find something to play, but I couldn't stray to far from Randal. So I'll just follow him if he has a game to play and just watch him.

So I did that. I followed Randal around, admiring some game machines that were glowing neon, almost making me dizzy.

Then I bumped into him, oh he stopped walking. "Hm? What's this?" Randal kept his eyes on a specific claw machine, oh no here we go again.

There was a tiny grown man sitting inside, looking confused. He says, "What...it's not over...?" the poor man speaks but his voice is muffled because of the glass. "Oh oh! (name), I'll get him, then split him in half, then give each piece to you and me! How does that sound?" Randal asks me, "NO, no... maybe you can just keep him as a pet?" I try to keep him away from the violent direction. "It's gonna be yours though..." he pleads, getting down to his knees. "Okay fine...now stand up, that's embarrassing."

He inserts the coin, having a bit of trouble as he did. "Do you need help?" I bent down to his level. "No, no, no I can do it I'm a big boy now!" He almost snaps. He finally inserted the coin and started at it.

The man seemed terrified as the claw moved to him, he tried digging inside the other toys to save him. But alas, it was too late.

Randal's claw reached for him, taking him away. "I GOT IT!" Randal emphasized, but I watched in amusement as the man managed to slip out of the claw, landing back into the ground of the machine. I snickered at his failure as he spends multiple coins just to get a tiny man.

Randal kept struggling as I watched him, this is gonna take awhile...then I finally heard Luther's voice. "So this is what you've found..."
"Nice teleportation brother!" Randal compliments, still keeping an eye on his game.
"These things are going to suck you dry...if you're an idiot, ha ha." He laughs bluntly, it was kind of scary to be honest.

Then Luther takes a good look at the 'toy' Randal's trying to get. "You want that one..? Why? I hate it."
"If you hate it, then I want it even more...and besides, it's for (name)..." Randal sasses Luther.

I was pretty sure Luther didn't even notice I was there until Randal mentioned me.

"(name)...did you want that thing?" Luther asks me. "Well, not in the first place...but since Randal wanted to get me the thing so bad, I guess I have to accept it." I reason with him.
"Awww, even if it's trash you still want to get it because it's from my dear brother hm? Ah young 'love'..." Luther sighs dreamily, happy that his brother was able to pull someone like me.

I just gave the floor a strained glare, not saying anything to get on their bad side. Nyon seemed to notice as he walked over me and patted my back, as if telling me to not fret. I look at him with a small smile, but it was still strained though.

Meanwhile, Randal still couldn't get his prize, so Luther stepped on the spotlight to get him instead. The little man's fucked, I thought. I watched intently as Luther carefully picked up the man's neck, succeeding. "Look, the neck worked, everything has its weakness."
"I see~ I see~" Randal starts speaking about wanting to find out about his brother's weakness as the little human started making its way outside of the machine.

The man doll finally fell from the machine, hitting the ground. Luther just stands, looking down at his brother, who was crawling to the doll. "There you go, what do you say?"
Randal just stared at the doll with dilated eyes, "...thank you." He then stands up, quickly rushing to me with a red face. "Here you go Sweetie, do you love me now???" I just stared at him, hoping he doesn't see my disheartened stare. "It's lovely, thank you Randal and Luther..."

I look at Luther, his eyes closing indicating that he appreciated my thanks. But I don't know what would've happened if I didn't say it...I'm pretty sure I saw his eyes turn black.

Luther turns to the dark space behind us, "It would be nice for the mall to appear again, because it sure its taking its sweet time...there's probably more shoppers now, that's why."

Randal hugged me from behind, saying "Christmas sucks haha..." But it doesn't...you're just not sane enough to understand it...