The Monster & Leader

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Edd's POV

I heard loud roars come from Tom's room. All of us froze in place including Tord. "Did you guys hear that...." Matt whimpered. Tord stared at the stairs, slowly pulling out a pistol in case he has to use self defense. He & Matt crept up the stairs while I trailed behind. I put Ringo in my arms, trying to help me calm down. Ringo was a great help on calming people. When Tord's stopped at Tom's room, we all heard a loud snarl. Ringo jumped up to run away before I yelped in pain. Ringo had scratched my arm, almost ripping open my hoodie sleeve. Matt jumped in alarm & checked out my arm, "You have got to trim Ringo's nails!" he uttered. I winced in pain, "Agreed." I mumbled. Tord clocked his pistol & slowly opened Tom's door. 

I heard a horrified shriek come from Matt while everything went dark. I woke up to loud barks & growls. I was breathing heavily, feeling like I couldn't breathe. I looked to my side seeing some large cyclops like creature. Tord pulled out a gun pointing it to the creature, "SHUT UP!" he roared. The creature whimpered backing up.  Tord calmed down & glared at me & the unconscious ginger.  "Oh hello there Edd." he smirked. "W-What is that thing?!" I yelped as it roared again. The norski shot the creature in the leg as a loud cry came from it, "Thomas." he muttered. "Why did you shoot Tom?!" I screeched, slightly angry. "HE WOULDN'T SHUT UP! Plus he isn't himself, Specifically the monster side is slowly taking over." Tord casually replied.

Matt was slowly gaining his conscious & noticed Tom. A horrified girly scream came from the ginger & tried to run out of the room. No surprise it was locked. Matt started to jiggle the door, screaming in terror from the big creature. Tord shot a fake gun that made a loud bang. Matt stopped & fell to the floor shaking. "Oh calm down Matt he's in a cage!" Tord snapped. The ginger started to ease himself slowly, but steadily. He fluffed his hair back to what it was & looked at Tom, his eyes slowly widened & tried to reach for the door. Tom didn't have any sort of reaction to it. He was just staring at us, his bleeding wound starting to stain Tord's floor with it, since a small river was being made.

I started to go up to the big creature that was Tom & pulled out some bandages. "E-Edd what are you doing?" Matt asked, shaking. "Going to take out the bullet in Tom's leg then bandage it." I replied. I put my hand out for Tom to sniff it, which he did so. He looked at me & started to nuzzle my palm. "Do you know where the keys are to the cage Tord?" I asked. "Sure." Tord replied, pulling out a circle of keys, putting one in & opening the large door. Tom slightly backed up in response. "Matt can you go get stuff to put pressure on the wound so it'll stop bleeding, & Tord you clean up the blood." I explained, going to Tom with the bandages & tweezers. (mmmm perfect tool 👌)

Matt ran out of the room so he could get some towels & other things while Tord went to go get some things to clean up the bloody mess. I looked at Tom, who was slightly growling. "Hey buddy you're going to be alright." I calmly said, gently patting his snout. Tom calmed down a little, but was making a low sound, so I worked on getting the bullet pieces out of him. The moment I put the tweezers on the first piece Tom threw me back roaring in pain. I stood back up & looked at him, "We aren't going to get it out if you attack me!" I calmly said. Tom just laid down & tried to keep his cool. When I got over again, I started to take out the pieces of the bullet. Every piece I took out Tom's growls were louder, he was even trying to hit me with his tail when i was on the 6th piece. I pulled out the last piece & looked at him, "See? No attacking means no harm on the wound." I said.

Tom rolled his black eye & laid his head down. Matt came back holding towels, some dirty clothes & I think a blanket. "Okay Matt, just keep them on the wound until no blood comes out." I explained. The ginger nodded & put them down on Tom's wound. The cyclops groaned a slight bit out of misery while Tord came back with cleaning stuff. The norski started to clean the blood about to drip on his floor, covered with anime girls doing "bad things". Matt kept applying pressure & Tom growled at him, & nipped at him. Of course Matt panicked & I started to pet Tom, "Calm down." I replied.