Stuck In The Woods

7

[I'm not supposed to be here but I don't want to post this a week late so... I'm also pretty stressed and my family's truck broke down yesterday which is ironic and the reason I wanted to write this again.]

[BLOOD/VIOLENCE WARNING]

Firey carefully heated the bucket, as Coiny talked with the other two.

"So I still have no clue what happened to it, but even if I do, i will not be able to drive it because of the hole. So we will probably have to get it towed," Coiny explained.

"What if the tow truck breaks down?" Leafy asked, but sounding sure it would.

Coiny rolled his eyes. "That's impossible, or really unlikely! If we can't I'll just have to buy a new car..."

"How about signal? We cannot call towing people without signal," Pin pointed out.

"New car it is!" Coiny yells, clearly upset about his wrecked car. "I don't know how they'd fix it anyways. It is literally broken for no reason."

"Guys the water is boiling! Could I leave now?!" Firey yelled, scared the water would get on him.

"Yeah yeah! That's good!" Coiny said, walking over to him.

Firey backed away from the bucket, as the water bubbled noisily.

Leafy felt herself twitch, then said, "Hey, didn't Clock say he found signal?"

Pin jumped up. "Yeah, he did! So there must be some somewhere!"

Everybody's eyes brightened with hope for a moment. "We should look for it!" Pin exclaimed with a smile.

Coiny laughed. "Maybe tomorrow, the sun is setting."

The group snuggled into the truck, and prepared for sleep.

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Leafy was tired, but couldn't sleep. She couldn't let the corruption steal her mind yet again. She didn't want it to take over somebody else's either.

She exited the truck quietly, and sprinted towards the area she remembered leaving Clock.

But when she arrived... a shriveled leg, blood, some dirt traced in a direction...

She followed the path. She had to find Clock. She had to find him before it was too late.

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Clock was pushing himself, with his leg almost grown back. It didn't feel the same though. His new leg felt like betrayal, and anger, and abandonment. Had anybody came looking for him?

His stomach growled. He had been extremely hungry recently, not eating nor drinking in over a day. He set down his phone, managed to turn it on with the only partial limb he could use, and checked for signal.

It was the same place but... no signal.

"C-come on, why?!" he yelled. "Why are you not working?!"

He began to sweat and screamed, "WHY WON'T YOU WORK!"

His vision began to blur and he fell onto the ground. "That's no fair! You worked before! I-I don't know what I'm doing wrong!"

Tears formed in his eyes. "I-I miss my friends..."

"C-Clock?"

Clock flinched. "Leafy get away from me!" He yelled.

Leafy walked over to him, staring at his unusable leg and corrupted leg. "I-I'm sorry Clock," she said shakily.

Clock pushed him self away. "N-no! G-get away from me! I need the signal!"

Leafy grabbed Clock by his bitten leg, and pulled him closer.

"Clock j-just listen, th-that wasn't me, I mean... I don't want you to end up like I did," she whispered, teary-eyed.

Clock stared at her. She looked sincere. She sounded sincere. But was she?

"What do you mean, like you?" he grumbled, holding in his tears.

Leafy noticed a nail still in the back of Clock's head, and pulled it out.

"GAH, STOP!" Clock yelled angrily, feeling dizzier by the second. He collapsed, hyperventilating.

"I-I'm sorry... But I have to do this..." Leafy held Clock down with her foot, and held the axe once again.

"N-NO! YOU CAN'T!" Clock yelled, beginning to cry.

Leafy cried aswell, and shakily lifted up the axe.

Leafy was then kicked. Hard. Onto a rock.

"Y-you think you could kill me?!" Clock said, standing up. "Well you were wrong! I always knew you guys didn't like me, but found it really hard to come to terms... but now I see. You guys don't care about me at all, do you?"

Leafy shook multiple times, and coughed a bit. "Oh no, Clock this isn't you!"
Clock stared at his legs. One which grew back within a day... was that possible? And one which unnumbed within seconds. He shook his head.

"I'm f-fed up with all of you! I, I hate you guys!" he yelled, anger slowly but surely building up inside him.

"Clock, please," Leafy grabbed him by the sides, and pulled him into a hug.

"W-what are you doing?" Clock sputtered.

"Clock, you are a wonderful person, and I can't let some stupid spider change that," she whispered.

Clock, feeling confused as ever, passed out.

Leafy put him down carefully.

"Its never too late to try," she whispered to herself, lifting the axe yet again, and swiftly... chopping off both legs.

Blood bled all over. Clock still slept.

She then brought him down to where the lake was. He had to die.

She watched the bubbles of air escape him as he sank, and she then felt herself twitch uncontrollably.

"Why... why would I do that?! I am OBVIOUSLY THE ONE WHO DID THIS. HE WILL BE REVIVED. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO RETURN HOME BY TOMORROW."

She took some time to think, and then smiled, rushing over to the area her victim was killed, picking up his phone.

"Needle, we have decided to stay over here a bit longer! Maybe another week? It's just so fun and none of us want to leave! I am still perfectly healthy too! Maybe even healthier than you are, and that's saying something! Anyways, bye Needle!" Leafy typed very quickly.

"Send."

She let out an anxious sigh. "I can't believe this. I was supposed to make him suffer... if this goes wrong... it won't go wrong! It's a fool-proof plan!"

She twitched again. "Shut up you idiot! Y-you are lying to everybody! You have to leave! I don't like you and..." Leafy stared at the phone angrily, and began typing a new message.

"Needle, come get Coiny, Firey, and Pin. Evil Leafy trapped us in the woods and Clock is dead because of that. If you do not hurry, the others will be killed too."

Leafy was about to send, but began shaking like crazy.

"NO!" She yelled, throwing the phone on the the rock, shattering the screen and denting the phone.

"You really think I won't get away with this!" She told herself.

"You really think you will?" She said smugly... to herself.

She cleaned herself in the clean portion of lake water, and went back to the truck.