Tricksters, Demons, and Trolls, oh-fucking-my.

Chapter 1

They found the safe house  6 months into the apocalypse. Sure, they'd seen other safe houses, but this one was different.

Dave, Dirk, Rose, Roxy, John, and Jake had made it to a small town in the middle of nowhere. All they knew was that they were somewhere in Iowa. It seemed empty, no one was around; dead or alive. The group wandered through the town, looking for anything that might help them.

They never expected to find what they did.

Someone was dragging a bag, looking around to make sure he wasn't going to get attacked or some shit. John, being the little friend leader he was, jumped up and ran over to the boy.

He went into an automatic defense mode, jumping around John and whacking him in the knee with a bat. John fell over, cursing. "What the fuck!?" The boy only glared at him."You don't just start running up to people like that, asshat." He snapped.

John frowned. "I was only gonna help-" Jake stepped out, hands up. "Alright, everyone calm the bloody hell down." The boy frowned, tense. He was clearly ready to run or fight; whichever happened first. Dirk followed Jake out, along with everyone else.

"I'm Dirk. This is Jake, John, Rose, Roxy, and Dave. We-" Dirk was cut off. "We need to go, now," [redacted] snapped, grabbing their bag. "Come on."

He started walking away, leaving everyone to run after.

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[Redacted] led them to a middle school, knocking on a door in patterns. The door opened, and he led them inside. "Stay put. Don't go anywhere, don't talk to anyone," [redacted] said, opening a door and walking into a room. "Think we can trust him?" John asked.

[Redacted] came back out, two people following him. One was a boy with curly hair (looks like a fucking lion mane) and the other was a girl with blond hair that went to her shoulders. "...need to leave," [redacted] was saying to them. "Too many people in an area is asking for a hoard. Bree, go with Gage to his house and grab everything you can carry that you need. I'm going to take these idiots to my house and then ill come to help."

Gage and Bree nodded, grabbing their backpacks and weapons (both carried several pocket knives) before running outside. [Redacted] led Dave, Dirk, John, and the rest of their group out of the school, weaving through yards. On the way, he stopped and got into several houses, grabbing anything of use and adding it to his bag.

They reached a big, white house with the first story windows all boarded up. Around the property was a tall fence, made of anything that you could find at a scrap yard. [Redacted] led them in through a small opening, which he then covered up with a metal slat again before getting them into the house. It looked a lot nicer then almost everywhere else on the planet, and (much to everyone's excitement), had electricity. How, they may never know, but it was there, and that's all that mattered.

"Alright. I am going to go help my friends get stuff. Stay on the first floor, don't eat all the food, don't break anything, don't let any zombies in, you know. don't fuck this up," [redacted] said, taking everything out of his bag and setting the stuff on a table. "Just sit here and rest." He grabbed a water bottle, and walked outside, bag on his back and his weapon, a metal bat with spikes on the end, in hand.

Dave looked in the fridge, and with a happy sigh, flopped down on the carpeted floor with a bottle of apple juice. Everyone else layed down; flopping on the floor or sprawling on couches. "What do you think of him?" Roxy asked, laying upside down on a chair. Rose shrugged. "He seems tense." They continued talking about random things for a little longer before the door opened. [Redacted] had arrived with Gage and Bree, arms and bags loaded with stuff.

"Who are they??" Gage asked, dropping the stuff he was carrying on a table before running over and looking at the group. "Who is she?" Gage asked, looking at [redacted] as he pointed at Jake, who looked confused and slightly offended.

"That's Jake. Anime shades next to him is Dirk, that's Roxy, Rose, John, and the cool kid over there is Dave." [redacted] said, and Gage looked at Rose for a moment before breaking out in a grin. "She's gonna be so happy!" Bree nodded in agreement. "Yea, yea happiness. I want some fucking fooooooddddd."

"Who's going to be happy?" Rose asked, looking hopeful. They'd gotten split up from the trolls early on, and had been looking all over the place for them. Rose missed Kanaya so much, and would often wake up screaming from dreams where her lover died.

[Redacted], who'd gone out into a big garage on the property a few minutes earlier, came back in, dragging some people behind him. Jade ran up to Jake and John, hugging them. Kanaya came running, picking up Rose and kissing her as they cried happy tears and babbled nonsense to eachother.

Though no one could see it, Dave was a wreck. Behind his shades, his red eyes pricked with the feeling of tears and shined with hurt. He missed Karkles...

[Redacted], being the sneaky asshole he was, startled Dave slightly. "Don't worry, Dave. I'm sure you'll find 'em." Dave shrugged. "I have no idea what your talking about." [redacted] simply looked at him. "It's ok to hurt sometimes, man." With that, he stood up. "Alright. Let's go get people that we actually give a shit about from the ex hell hole." Rose gave [redacted] a confused look, and Bree laughed. "He means the middle school."

[redacted] laughed. "You are right, kind lady." he fake bowed to his friends before flipping them off. "Btw, your fucking government is shit." he ran as Gage mock gasped and started throwing paper at him. "How DARE you, villain!"

John, being the prankster he was, joined in on the fun by chasing Gage. "You highness! WAAAIIIITTTT!" Rose tripped him, making the brunett fall face first and laughing. Roxy was smiling widely, talking to Bree about cats.

[redacted] smiled, dodging more paper as she hid behind Dave before his smile fell. "Hold on a mother fucking minute."

Everyone froze, looking at him as their smiles fell. [redacted] looked around at everyone before frowning again. "Are you fucking kidding me." "What?" Bree asked, worried that they were going to be attacked.

[redacted] looked ready to kill something before he broke down laughing. "I'm still the shortest one here."

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Hey, peoples. First chapter XD I know it's shit, and things are kinda boring, but please bare with me here.

Thanks to erwinsmith0845 for letting me bother him about Homestuck. I'm sorry, bro. Your in the fandom now. Be ready to have your soul taken away by our overlord; Andrew Hussie.

And finally, thanks to anyone who showed up to read any of my bullshit. Please comment what you think. It really helps me get through the days and continue writing when I see someone has read the story, and/or commented something that they liked or think should happen.

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