Chapter 1: Ben's p.o.v

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One world. Two realms. Doesn't sound normal to you mortals does it? In fact, I bet it sounds abnormal,but it's true. The earth is a place where obviously people live on and let's just say, many of you piss your life away on electronics,video games and tv. I,myself love all of those things but I also limit myself,but that's not the point. Where you humans roam,with the sunny days,smiling faces, soft grass, and so much more, that to us,is known as the over-realm. where I live happens to lie beneath the surface, a good few 100 miles below. many of you are probably thinking that can't be possible,but it is. For me to return to the under-realm, my realm, I have to travel through a well,known to immortals as the "earth well" connecting both realms together.
The under-realm is much like the over-realm, only everything is dark. Houses are painted black, grass is burnt, trees without leaves, but what really makes this place so dark are the people that live here, and those people....are killers.
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I sit on my bed,playing legend of Zelda:Majora's mask for what feels like the thousandth time today. I beat the game so long ago that it almost seems too easy now. I groan,there's nothing else to do,and I had just gone on a killing spree a day ago and I didn't feel like going again today.
I get a knock on my door and walk over. Before I could open it,Jeff barged in without a hello and collapsed on my black bean bag chair,
"Nice to see you too." I say as I shut the door. I swear this wide eyed and big smiler had no manners,especially when he's pissed. I stare at him. He's glaring out the window at all the houses below fiddling with his knife. Something wasn't right.
"Jeff?" I ask slowly moving closer to him. He shoots me a 'leave me the hell alone' glare and I back off.
"It's bad ben,they're after me."
"Who's after you?" I guestion, "If it's Zalgo we need to warn slender." Jeff stood up and slid his knife in the pocket attached to his hoodie that needed to be washed....badly. Blood covered the once clean white hoodie that Jeff wore every single day. I watched as he walked over to my bookshelf and ran his fingers along the spines. Something,more importantly someone was after him and it was affecting him.
"I can help,who are we up against?" Before Jeff could answer, the room began to shake. Books fell from their spots on the shelf, the cobble stone walls felt like they were closing in. I ran to the window and noticed people on the streets running in the direction of the castle, where Jeff and I were. I then looked toward the thick woods, trees,one by one were falling and being set on fire. My eyes widened and I refocused my attention onto Jeff,
"Please don't tell me you were the cause of this." Jeff pulled his knife back out and came to the window....and began chuckling. How in hell did he find this funny?
"Jeff!" I raise my voice. He responded with a hard slug in the shoulder,
"So this is the beginning, of a new era,a new war. He brings along terror that roams the streets below and yet he,the ruler if his foul creations sits on his throne watching from an orb. How pathetic is he? How pathetic is this?" And with that Jeff began making his way to the door. I followed in utter confusion and in a state of full blown denial. What the hell was he talking about? There was no war,none that I was aware of that is. but what did he mean by new era? Beginning of war? Terror? None of this made sence.
Jeff and I walked down three flights of stairs to the main hall where eyeless jack and masky were holding the grand doors.
"What's happening? Jeff do you have anything to do with this?" Masky snapped. Jeff just smiled. I rolled my eyes and approached the door,
"Well whatever's happening Jeff finds it a joke. He was laughing about it upstairs and was talking about a war,an era. Does any of this make any sense to either of you?" I questioned. Masky an eyeless Jack shrugged their shoulders. As for Jeff, he walked over to another window and his smile faded,
"Open the doors." He mumbled.
"Are you fucking crazy? Whatever's out there could..." I started,Jeff cut me off,
" I said open the damn doors!" All three of us quickly obeyed and opened the doors where I witnessed death first hand. There were bodies everywhere, heaped over one another on piles,fire grazing over them. Screams could be heard from others as they ran to find cover. Then that's when I saw something different. Deep in the distance wasn't a person nor an animal. If anything it looked like a science experiment gone wrong. The head had no face,like slender but it did have a small rounded hole, like a mouth near the bottom of his face. The body was like a humans only incredibly skinny and spikes were poking out from the back,along where the spinal cord should be. It's hands and feet were a fairly good size and claws were attached where toe nails would be on a person and lastly there was a tail. I looked at it in Disqust. What the hell was this thing? Ok refraze, what the hell were those things? More and more began appearing left and right. Some began wrecking and tearing down small homes while others began attaching and eating other civilians. I felt like I was going to throw up.
"We can't stop them. We're out numbered." Eyeless jack said.
"No we're not." Jeff said. "Get slender."

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