Oakside Forest (My 'Masky' and 'Hoodie' origin story)

Chapter 10: Markings

"So there. That's it." I say, taking a deep breath and closing my eyes. Tim stays silent, taking in the mass amount of information I just gave him. I hear him get up and start pacing around the room. "Why?" He asks, getting me to open my eyes and look at him. "'Why' what?" I ask, tilting my head slightly. "Why didn't you tell me any of this before?" He says, slightly aggravated. "I..I didn't know how you'd react!" I reply, sitting up. "Didn't know how i'd react. Didn't know how i'd react - I'll show you how i'd fucking react!" He yells, grabbing one of the tapes and hurling it at me, making it smash directly next to my head and showering me in film and plastic. "Tim, calm down!" I yell, diving off the bed to avoid a punch aimed straight at my chest. I look back at him, the wall having circular cracks and spots of blood on it. That would've definitely caused some damage. He stands there, blood dripping down the wall as he calms himself down. I stay on the floor as he lowers his hand, muttering something under his breath. "This is why I didn't tell you..." I say, still slightly scared of him. He looks at me, anger still present in his eyes. "Follow me." He says, walking over, grabbing the front of my shirt and pulling me up to a standing position while walking out the door. I run after him, following silently as we walk to an abandoned part of the town. He slows down, looking back at me while signalling for me to keep going. "Tim, what is thi-" "Just walk." He says, sounding frustrated. I slowly go past him, being shoved forwards as I do. I turn around, about to yell at him until I notice he's aiming a gun directly at my head. I instantly freeze, putting my hands up slowly. "Tim, li-" "Shut up!" He yells, cutting me off. "Just shut up. When were you going to tell me? Huh? Were you going to wait until he's about to kill us? 'Hey, Tim! I know we're about to die, but I just wanna mention that i've been seeing this different entity that looks exactly like Operator who has been speaking to me and threatening our lives!'" He continues, his voice cracking slightly. I stay silent, scared of saying anything to potentially anger him. "Answer me!" He screams, threatening to pull the trigger. "I-I...I-It's just that...S-So much was happening and.." I can't think straight, he's getting more and more frustrated and his grip on the gun is beginning to tighten. I can't believe he's threatening to kill me..."Fucking answer me, Brian!" He yells, firing a warning shot next to my head, close enough to where I could feel the air rush past. "I..I couldn't find a good time! Everything was happening so fast and I didn't have time to gather my thoughts and-" "Liar" He says, his eyes so full of hate with no other emotion showing. I see the gun move slightly, aimed directly at me now. "I knew I couldn't trust you..." He trails off, ready to shoot. I begin to cry. Someone who said they saw me as a brother, someone who I saw as a brother...was about to be the one to kill me. I see the gun quiver a bit, seeing him cough. His body begins to shake a before he goes down, coughing worse than ever. He drops the gun, but not before accidentally pulling the trigger, the bullet luckily only grazing my neck. I run to the gun, picking it up before turning it on him. I begin to get flashbacks to when Jessica did this to Alex. I begin to breathe heavily, the look in his eyes turning from anger to fear in less than a second. "Brian..." He says, as though he didn't just try to kill me. He looks around, confused. "Brian...What are you doing..?" He asks. I watch as we're teleported inside the forest, but it doesn't faze me and I keep the gun trained on Tim. I see him begin to panic, backing away from me. I notice his gaze had shifted off me and to just behind me. "I warned you." I feel a burning pain in my arm, which causes me to drop the gun and allow Tim time to escape. The tendril drags me to the floor, pinning me there. It lets go as I feel another goes around my back in circles at an agonizingly slow speed, as though experimenting with how much pain I could take. I begin to scream, feeling the flesh get burnt as it continues. I feel two sharp lines go over the carefully drawn circle, the creature leaving immediately after. 

I lay nearly completely still, the burning pain still ongoing 25 minutes after the incident. I've been thinking about the symbol it drew on my back, the same symbol that everyone attached to Operator. Why did it draw that symbol? Was the symbol connected to it as well? Probably.. I've tried to get up multiple times, but my body refuses to cooperate. Every time I'd get off the ground, my arms would give out and cause me to go back into the same position. I look at the arm it used to pin me down. There's a thick, blood red burn mark going around it from when the tendril grabbed me and held me down spanning nearly the whole length of my arm, stopping half way down my forearm. I think at how this wasn't even the worst it could do. I hear footsteps approach me slowly. "Brian..?" I hear Tim say, sounding extremely frightened. How is he even still here? He would've fled by now. "B-Brian.." He says, walking over to me. I move my arm, which seems to take him by surprise. "Y-you're alive?" He questions. Yeah, but in agonizing pain. He kneels down, about to reach for my arm to shake me until noticing the burns on it. He falters, shifting his gaze onto my back. He walks around me, moving some of my torn apart shirt. "N-no...I-It can't be..." He backs away, then begins to run. I hear his footsteps fade as I'm left alone again. I try to get up, my burnt arm being the only one I can use as i've lost all feeling in the other. I slip and fall again, returning to the position I was in ten minutes ago. I begin to cough, each one flaring up the pain in my back. It doesn't stop and the pain gets worse, but nowhere close to matching how it felt before. I keep coughing, starting to blackout. As I do, I see Slender appear.