Partners in Crime

A family

"Huh? Where am I?" I ask myself, my voice hardly a whisper. I look to my right, and saw my sister, still unconscious. I was in a sort of dungeon, or a torture chamber. I hoped for it to be neither. 'Ah, so you are awake, child.' a voice said from within my head. That's when I heard it. The static. It wasn't loud or annoying in any way, but rather relaxing to me, but it seemed to be loud enough to bother Soul Snatcher, as she jolted awake. "Wha-Oh..Lords, what is that?!" She said with a shaky voice, and then I saw what she talking about. There, in one of the darker corners of the large room, was what had the silhouette of a very tall man, close to probably 6'8, maybe even taller. What slightly disturbed me though, were the shadows of...tentacles? on it's back. Well, that scratches sadistic normal human off the list of things that could have been the one to kidnap me and my sister. "What are you?" I ask it. 'What I am? Why aren't you asking me Who I am, child?' "Hmm, no." I said, concluding that the voice sounded indeed male. "So, sir, are you a Shadow? Or perhaps you're a demon of some sort?" A sigh from where he stood. 'I am indeed a demon. They call me the Slenderman. Who might you children be? I don't believe I've seen you in the Slender Forest.' "Probably because we've never been. We've lived in a different forest for the past few years. I'm Stitches the Cannibal. My sister there, she's Soul Snatcher. I'd shake your hand, but, uh, as you can see, I'm kinda unable to. Sorry." I reply, looking back at Soul Snatcher, who looked slightly less terrified, and who was trying to get herself unchained. 'Ah, yes. Apologies, but I did not know why you had crossed into Slender forest unexpectedly, and I had to take precautions. I presume you are not fully human?' "If a regenerating cannibal and a grim reaper are considered normal humans, then yes. Otherwise, no. But untying us would be nice, sir." I noticed, as he approached, that he had no face, but was dressed in a fancy suit. He chuckled, I don't know how, but he did. 'Well, while you both would not fit it with modern society, I could provide you a home. You could become my proxies, kill for me, as well as for yourselves. Does that sound like a good deal for you children?' "Yes, sir." Soul and I say in union, as he unchains us. Then I see Toby, accompanied by the guy with the sliced smile. Slenderman followed my gaze, and gestured for me to go ahead. 'I'll let you children get acquainted with everyone else. I'll let you know if I need to speak with you.' Nodding, I ran over to Toby. "So, are you going to show me around or what?" I asked, and he beamed, still twitching. He poked the other guy, who glared at me. "This i-is Jeff. Jeff, this is Stitches." I smiled, but he just nodded and left. Shrugging, I went upstairs, and there was a living room, which was slightly crowded. I remembered to go grab my mask to conceal my face. When I returned, I had brought Soul Snatcher with me. But she stayed in the doorway of the dungeon, her scythe in hand, looking bored. Rolling my eyes, I followed Toby, who was annoying a guy with a white mask that had feminine features. On one of the couches, there was a guy with a blue mask with a tar-like substance dripping from the eye spaces. He was eating a kidney. 'Must be the cannibal Toby was talking about, huh?' I thought to Alliby. 'Possibly. I feel like you can trust these people.' I then see a guy sitting on the floor, sketching. I go over to him, I see he's also wearing a mask, with a smile on it. I sit down next to him, and he barely even looked over to me, before he resumed sketching. "Hi," I said. "I'm Stitches. I'm new here." "I'm Helen. The Bloody Painter, as I sometimes call myself."