The quartet walked to the witches' lair and told each other good luck. Richard handed a note to Manny who read it to the group, "The last one through the four challenges will be sacrificed by the witches. The first is the witch's brew. The second is the witch's hat. The third is the bobbing for rotten apples. And the last is maneuvering through their tangled skein without ringing a bell."
Joey: There's four challenges ahead of us, and the last person to complete all four challenges will be sacrificed to the witches.
MatPat: As someone who's already died once, I am not ready to go back.
Manny: What could be in this witch's brew? It's not gonna be that bad.
"Begin!" Calliope announced and the four picked up a cup and chugged. Everyone finished their first cup and Manny yelled, "Holy shit!"
Manny: I'm not kidding you when I say it tasted like literally a rat's ass.
Richard and Mat chugged through their second cup as Joey finished his first and Manny burped and gagged.
Richard: It was highly carbonated, but I've drank many sodas, so I could truck through it. And the taste, it was... marginally worse than the snake's venom antidote.
"Oh boy, I got one! I got a pentagram!" Richard said in between burps. He ran off to the witch's hat as Mat lifted his second cup showing a pentagram and joining Richard.
Manny: So Mat and Richard go through it so quick. They down it. They see their little pentagram. And I'm like, "It's just me and Joey now."
Joey and Manny both start to spit out the brew as Richard and Mat continue to tackle the witch's hat. Joey lifts his cup and runs to the hats and almost immediately afterward Manny does as well, and Mat completes the hat.
MatPat: When it comes to the disk challenge, I am a pro. I've done that for years.
As Mat ran to the rotten apple bobbing, Richard mumbled to himself. "Okay, just copy what Mat did. You'll be fine. Everything will be okay." Mat put his hands behind his back, holding his glasses, and dove into the bucket and pulled an apple out, first try. "I'm not dying again!" he gruffly yelled out.
Joey: Somehow, by the grace of god, I finish my ring challenge.
Both Richard and Joey put the last ring on the last pole and ran to the buckets of water and apples. Mat crawls sideways on the ground when, "Aw, I heard the bell." he crawled back. Richard pulled an apple out, spat it out, and put his glasses back on as Mat finished going through the skein, "I'm not dying again!" he yelled out.
MatPat: I crawl through, and I'm first to reach the witch's altar. I am safe, thankfully.
As Joey pulled out an apple, Manny finished his hat, and Richard was at the end of the skein. "Like a snake. Like a slithery snake on a motherf*cking plane." he said as he climbed back off his stomach onto the altar. He could see Joey start to go through the skein and turned to Manny at the apples, "I have makeup on!" he whined.
Manny: So I'm thinking, like, "Is there any way I can, like, part the water and just..."
"Come on, Manny! You can reapply it later!" Richard cheered on and Manny dunked his head into the water. Joey hit a bell and went back to the start of the skein as Manny made it to the skein. Joey started making it farther and farther and Richard decided to comfort Manny before his death.
Manny's POV
I make it to the skein and start going through it, but Joey starts making it farther than me. "Come on, Manny. Baby steps." Richard encourages me as Joey makes it through. "It's okay." he says as I get up from the ground, not caring for the bells ringing, "Manny..." Joey begins as he stands next to Mat and Richard.
"Manny. You've been the most beautiful friend this entire time. I'll miss you." Richard mournfully states even though I, like, haven't even died yet. The box for the amulet opens and Mat immediately grabs it as the witches grab me by my arms and pull me to the altar. "There's nothing we can do. We have to go." Joey says, I look up to see he's grabbed Richard by his arms and began to pull him away.
"Be brave, Manny! Say sorry to Nikita for me!" Richard cries out as he gets farther and farther away. I'm so glad he gave me Nikita's headband. I literally kept it on my head since he gave it to me. The witches push and pin me onto this, like, sacrificial table and I knock a few candles over. The witches raise their knives, I close my eyes with a smile on my face, already, I can see Nikita in the afterlife, and they scream.
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Escape the Night: Season 3 (My Way + Self-Insert OC)
FanfictionMatPat and Nikita walk out of Everlock to return to their normal lives. Joey reaches to The Carnival Master and removes the crystal in his chest and finds his new mission... But what if it was different? This is my first story, please provide constr...
