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

Chapter 6

The next few days passed awkwardly, everyone going out of their way to avoid being in anyform of contact with her. It wasn't much different then what Gage, Bree, and Breeze had been doing, but it got to the point that as soon as [redacted] walked into the same room they were in, they ran outside or something.

"Calm the fuck down, assholes. I don't think he's just going to casually attack someone at the moment," Karkat snapped, glaring at the three humans. He knew what it was like for people to avoid you like they'd been doing. He also knew it hurt a lot more then [redacted] showed. 

On the fith or so day of Karkat telling them he could smell Tricksters, they were all (Yes, [redacted] too.) sitting in the living room, reading, talking, or dozing when a hand-held radio went off. [redacted] picked it up, and he smiled before his face paled slightly. "I'm on my way. Don't worry, Haley."

"Haley's alive. I'm going to go get her. Stay here and protect the place." Gage and Bree ignored [redacted]. They wanted to help their friend, but if [redacted] was going... just no. Breeze, on the other hand, was excited about the fact that they weren't the only people left in town. "Let's go!"

After a few minutes of debating, [redacted] and Breeze would go, get Haley, and come back. "Dirk and Gage, your in charge. Stay on this floor or go on the roof. There's a ladder outside you can use to get there," [redacted] said, and, because of what they all feared now, no one spoke out aginst it.

They all sat on the roof, and now able to see over the fence, they watched as [redacted] and Breeze walked down the road, weapons in hand. While the walk to Haley's house might have taken a bit before the apocolyps, now it could litterially determin your life.

"How do we know he won't kill Breeze and Haley?" Gage muttered to Bree, who nodded. "You both need to shut the fuck up. Now," Karkat snapped. Dave nodded, glaring at the two from behind his shades. "You should be helping him. he had to kill one of your- one of HIS- best friends in order to protect us all."

"You heard what that troll said!" Bree protested. "he could be one of them!" "If he was one of them he would've already attacked." Roxy interrupted, and Rose nodded. "What happened to him before all this started?"

"Well, at the very start of all this, his family left for a bit, and when they came back, he was a bit... off, I guess." Gage said, scratching the back of his head. "Anytime someone mentioned the word 'needle', he would jump and back away a bit."

"Hmm..." Jake said, thinking. The roof was silent for a few minutes before Kanaya spoke up. "What if he was experimented on? If it went far enough, needles would greatly disturb him."

Dirk nodded slowly. "It would make sense. If what Karkat said was right, then maybe he has some of a 'cure' or some shit in his bloodstream." Jane nodded, and John opened his mouth to speak, but the sound of laughter interrupted them. Looking down the road, they saw two people running up the hill with a bubblegum-pink hair trickster chasing after them.

'Go, go go!" They heard [redacted]'s voice drift up, and the girl running behind him nodded, speeding up. Jane was on the ground first, moving the slat and gesturing for the two to hurry. A girl with long, dirty blond hair dove through the hole, crawling out of the way, while [redacted] came in behind her, closing the hole up just before the pounding started. "Awwww, come ON, [redacted]! Open up! Don't you wanna be happy!" [redacted] glanced around at the group. "Get into trees and shit."

As soon as everyone was in a tree, [redacted] moved the slat and the trickster staggered in, grinning. "Heeeeyyyyy!" She spun around in a slow circle. "You could just let go, you know!" [redacted] simply glared and raised a gun. "I'm so sorry, Breeze. You said you didn't want to be one of those things..."

Breeze's eyes widened, and she took a small step forwards. "But now I do! I can make everyone else happy, like me! No more stumbling around like you actually know what your doing!" She advanced another step. "Besides," The pink-haired trickster hissed. "You probably don't have much more time anyway." [redacted] didn't reply, only looking away before pulling the trigger.

Bright orange blood spilled on the ground as the trickster fell limp, a huge smile one her face and a sad (yet thankful) look in her eyes. It was clear she hadn't wanted to become a candy freak, and was glad to have been killed again.

Everyone climbed down, Jane blocking the hole with the metal slate again before making sure everyone was, for the most part, ok. Gage, Bree, and Haley were holding each other and crying, but compared to [redacted], they were dancing on fucking sunshine.

he was staring blankly at his friends pastel body on the ground. "Ummm, [redacted]?" Rose said hesitantly. [redacted] suddenly gripped his head and crumpled to his knees, screaming at the top of his lungs. "NO MORE! NO MORE! NO MORE!" he repeated the words over and over again, no one able to calm him down.

It lasted for an hour, and by that time his voice had gone horse. [redacted] shook, getting to his feet, before glancing around. his eyes became wide with surprise. "Shit, sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry..." he muttered, walking away quickly. No one followed, worried about what might happen if they did.

Eventually, they moved Breeze's limp body, burning her like they did with Taye and Kaylee. This was a sign of respect and caution. They wrapped their friends' bodies in newspaper and such, while other they just lit on fire in the middle of the road or some shit.

"Do you think we should, I dunno, fucking check on him or something?" Haley asked, looking at the flames as Roxy nodded. They all went inside, and after realizing that [redacted] wasn't on the first floor, the decided to try the second.

Dirk and Jake led the way silently up the stairs, Dave and Karkat right behind them with everyone else. At first, everything looked normal. The hallway was shaped like a hexagon, six doors closed doors leading off to rooms and such. A rustling sound from upstairs alerted them of where [redacted] was, and they cautiously walked through the first door to their right. It led up two flights of stairs before opening to a large room. The walls and carpet were gold colored, with the general messy feeling around.

There were three windows, letting in enough light to see the torn up matrass. The springs were bent out of shape, the stuffing and fabric torn apart. "Umm, guys?" John whispered softly, pointing to a doorway off to the side of the room. There was a curtain covering the door way, but faint scuffling sounds could be heard from the room.

Dirk, holding his katana, and Jake, with his guns, nodded at each other. At the count of three, they yanked down the curtain, only to be met with nothing but a small room with a few boxes.

They sighed, taking a step back. "Nothing."

"Aww, it's not very nice to call someone nothing." A voice giggled, and everyone jumped as something fell from the ceiling. More like someone. A strange, seemingly bat-human hybrid was sitting cross-legged on the floor, smiling. Their teeth were much like the trolls, and it had ram horns on it head in red and black, but the most noticeable thing was  it's bright blue eyes. They were glowing, occasionally changing color, but mainly staying the same bright, ice blue.

"Who the fuck-" Roxy started to say, but was interrupted when the demon shivered before smirking again. "Oops, looks like I'm outta time to play~. See you next time!" it waved before vanishing, and the room filled with smoke.

Everyone cleared out of the attic on a hurry, and the door with the monkey head on it opened. "What the fuck are you doing up here?" [redacted] snapped, glaring at the group.

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Gah, super late, I'm sorry! Anyway, little bit of a cliffhanger(?). I wonder who the fucker in the attic was? *( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)bc fight me*

Anyway, I hope you all had a happy thanksgiving, or a good day, or whatever the fuck today is.

I hope you enjoyed this piece-of-shit chapter.

Thanks to all the people who support my rants. Why you do, I may never know, but thank you anyway. :-)

And, as always thank you for reading my bullshit.