Snowcon Forest

Cold

"Ugh, stupid snow!" The hooded girl muttered as she stomped her way through the snowy forest.

It had taken her ages to get past the mounds of snow that blocked the entrance to her destination, but she had finally made her way inside the strange, spooky forest. She had never been near this part of her world and had no idea where she was going, but she had a mission to complete.

Get the Time Pieces!

Her goal had started out simple, find the Time Pieces and use them to defeat the Mafia, but it was turning out to be a bit tougher then she expected. Honestly, Hat Kid made it look sooooo easy!

At first she had tried to look for Time Pieces at that bird studio thing, but they kept wanting her to star in a bunch of dumb movies! Of course she had said no. Granted, this ended up in her being kicked out of the studio and banned for life, but still, who would want to star in their stupid movies!?

Hat Kid probably would, no she definitely would!

Mustache Girl had left her foe a message in the basement just in case...

Anyways! She had then tried to look around Mafia Town some more, but it turned out that those dummies had collected the last of the Time Pieces and were keeping them for themselves! Of course she had no problem beating them up, the problem was how greatly outnumbered she was.

Ugh, if only that Hat Kid had been around, then they could have crushed the Mafia, both metaphorically and literally, and gotten the Time Pieces for themselves! Or herself, since she would have just stolen them from her hatted partner.

Sometimes friendships had to be sacrificed in the name of pursuing justice and defeating all of the bad guys!

So what if she would have probably hurt her best, only, friend in the process!

Mustache Girl sighed, messing with her hood in an attempt to block the icy wind that tore through her clothing. At least she had managed to get revenge for those... idiots messing with her plans!

Revenge in the form of turning on the lava faucets that is.

After realizing nothing more could be gained from Mafia Town the girl had managed to find a library, tiny stone building that looked more like a big shed than what it was supposed to be. From here she had tried to figure out if there were other places she could go to in order to find the Time Pieces and had stumbled upon two options.

Subcon Forest and the Alpine Skyline.

Choosing which location to go to had been rather simple. There was no way she would try to climb a mountain just to see if there might be some Time Pieces there, when all she had to do for the other location was walk through a forest!

Even if the name was kind of weird and slightly foreboding.

So she made her choice, she would search Subcon Forest for Time Pieces! Now instead of spending time to learn about the supposedly spooky forest, Mustache Girl figured out the fastest route to get there and set out, determined to make it there before Hat Kid!

Of course she was unaware that said child had already collected all of the Time Pieces from this region, how often the hatted girl hung out in this area, and her collection of allies and mock family and how protective they were of the child.

In her haste she had also forgone learning about the forest, which meant she was completely unprepared for the massive amounts of snow she encountered during her journey.

With yet another grumbled Mustache Girl continued trudging through the heavy blanket of snow that covered the ground. Her hot headed temperament often caused her to forget to prepare herself whenever she left her home, but this was just ridiculous!

It never snowed in Mafia Town, nor was it snowing at that studio, so why was it snowing here?!

And why now?!

She was so cold even her mustache felt frozen!

"Stupid snow!" The aggravated child shouted, kicking at a nearby pile of the fluffy particles, hitting a rock in the process.

"OUCH! STUPID ROCK!"

After hopping around in pain for a minute or so, verbally insulting everything around her the entire time, she walked back over to the rock that had caused her such pain, intent on damaging it as some sort of payback.

However as she got closer she noticed that her attack had knocked some of the snow off of it, revealing what the stone looked like. She bent down at got a closer look, now able to make out its strange shape, and the writing that was on it...

Wait a minute...

It dawned on her, she was not looking at a rock, she was looking at a tombstone.

Mustache Girl paled.

Tombstones meant.... this was.....

"It's a grave." She whispered, heart pounding in her chest as terror began to race through her. Someone was buried here, there was a bodyunderneath her.

How many graves must she have passed on her journey through the forest, Mustache Girl wondered to herself. There had been plenty of other snow covered "rocks" off in the distance near the natural cliffs that surrounded the forest.

How many people had died here, and what had they died from?!

The snow picked up and began to get heavier, the wind howled around her. She could feel the cold further sinking into her clothing. She wrapped her arms around herself in an attempt to stay warm.

There was a pricking sensation that ran up her neck, it almost felt as though she was being watched...

She whirled around, searching for who or what might be causing such a sensation. Okay, maybe it was a very dumb decision to come here without being prepared, and it was extremely stupid to not have told anyone where she had been going!

Not that there was anyone she could have talked to...

She had always been alone.

The oppressive sensation began to get stronger, but the girl could not tell where it was coming from. The trees and snow seemed to hide everything from her. It was as if the unnaturally silent forest was conspiring against her, aiding the monster so another grave could be added to the massive cemetery.

A tree branch snapped.

Mustache Girl ran like her life depended on it because it most likely did!

She pumped her arms up and down, kicking snow as she sprinted through the still silent forest. She could still feel the eyes burning into her shaking form as she fled from whatever was chasing her.

The terrified girl honestly had no idea what kind of creature would make its home in this forest. Was it a monster? A ghost? A demon of some sorts?

Mustache Girl did not want to find out.

She came to a swift stop as she noticed something in the distance in front of her, the sight of it making the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.

There was a figure.

When had it gotten in front of her?!

Thanks to the snow that was whirling around her she could barely make out what it looked like, but there was one thing she could see, even with the snow obstructing her vision.

The creature did not have any legs.

Horror rose up in her heart as she stared at what was undoubtedly a monster, probably a people killing monster! The thing looked so unnatural, so strange that the sight immediately made all of her instincts scream at her to run, to flee!

It floated there, staring at her with its hidden eyes. She could easily imagine the malice that must have been burning within them.

Mustache Girl swallowed, body trembling both from fear and the cold.

Without warning the mysterious being started slowly approaching her, hovering over the frozen wasteland that separated them.

She was going to die here, all alone in some stupid forest!

The figure floated closer...