A Nightmarish Way Back Home: A Little Nightmares Fanfiction

Chapter Three And A Half: The Storyteller And The Nonexistent Wall

They say that every story or game nowadays oughta have this. XD So, here we are! Also, this part of the story is not official, but based on my own theory of Little Nightmares.

Enjoy Chapter Three And A Half, brought to you by FourDimensional and a certain character (or perhaps two) who isn't noticed as much as the rest of the Little Nightmares cast, in my opinion.

"Once upon a time," The Storyteller cleared his throat and started a new verse of his story. "In this world among all other worlds, there were two species on Earth: Humans and monsters. Most humans come in similar shapes and sizes, while the monsters usually have distinct appearances, body functions and even powers."

"The monsters were stronger than the humans, they lived longer than the humans, they healed themselves faster when wounded than the humans...well, perhaps, the only thing that the humans were better than the monsters was, perhaps, wisdom. Whilst some of the monsters can be cunning and smart, most of them tend to have simpler minds."

"The monsters and the humans lived peacefully without conflict for a long, long time, cooperating with each other, helping the other species out with lots of things. But at a certain period of time, a thought suddenly appeared in some of the smarter monsters' minds."

"What if the monsters take over the humans and rule the Earth by themselves?"

"Certainly, those monsters thought, if the humans were weaker than them, there shall be no reason to share half or more of the resources with them while they clearly worked harder! Also, since the monsters reproduce much slowly than the humans, there were always so many humans, and every one of them demanded food. Lots of food."

"Over time, the monsters grew even more interested about this idea. Some of them started comparing their amount of labor and the resources they got with the humans, and every single monster who did that got the conclusion that most of the delicious food they got from a whole season's hard work went into the humans' stomachs! This filled the monsters with rage."

"The more intelligent monsters started convincing the less intelligent monsters to start a fight with the humans. After they win the fight, they said, every monster shall be able to work less every day. The humans will work for them, and every monster shall live in joy and happiness with no need to tire themselves out every single day."

"Sure enough, the monsters came to a conclusion to fight. Armies were secretly formed, strategies were planned, and on a certain day, with the message being brought to every secret army of monsters all over the world, the monsters attacked."

"But believe it or not, the monsters actually lost the fight. Being way too arrogant, the monsters underestimated the humans' intelligence and their technology. One by one the army of monsters fell, destroyed by the humans' cannons, battleships, jets, and a lot of something like that I suppose."

"However, some of the monsters retreated. They fled to the darkest caves, the deepest oceans, the tallest mountains, small islands that were never in the maps, hiding in the places where no human could find them. Only one thing didn't change about the monsters: the hatred towards humans."

"And so, after a few generations, the humans, who occupied the majority of the Earth, slowly forgot almost everything about the monsters, and the few stories left about monsters were treated as myths, legends, tall tales that nobody believe in. Only in the darkest of places, the small villages at the edge of the humans' terrain, did the monsters truly exist in humans' lives."

"Yet, the monsters never gave up. Most of them these days have lived through the fight, and still held that desire of expansion, power, forgetting why they wanted to fight in the first place. They planned for expansion, slowly and steadily, creeping in the shadows, whispering their plans in ways the humans are not able to understand. And one day, they hoped, they would assault the humans and take over the world."

"They haven't succeeded...yet. But who knows what will happen next? After all, the world is just as unpredictable as the Maw is...only that the humans have not yet noticed this simple fact."

"Yes, and we shall keep that in mind...nobody knows what happens next, my dear readers-that is one certain thing you need to keep in mind."

And finishing this sentence, the Ferryman sighed a sigh of relief. He wasn't a great storyteller, or at least in his opinion; he didn't know if he had told the story accurately. But still, that was a great weight off his shoulders. Having thrown out this backstory to the readers, he could avoid trillions of questions caused by confusion.

"And exactly what on Earth are you doing? Telling this story, this whole thing...really, Sunny, you're confusing me."

Aaaaaaaaand then there's this guy. The Ferryman sighed. "Listen up, this is none of your business."

"You're saying this like there's someone else in here."

"Well, um..." The Ferryman thought about this. It was hard to explain it to someone else. "You don't know what's going on, and that's fine. That's completely normal. Just drop it, okay?"

"So you're telling me a story and you're asking me to ignore it?"

"Just-just this part of the story." The Ferryman said.

"And approximately an hour ago, you promised that there are no tricks involved."

"That's not trickery. That's...well, okay. Imagine a world where...oh, I give up. Just don't think about it, okay?" The Ferryman muttered. "Just some casual fourth-wall breaking, you know?"

"Fourth wall?" The silhouette in the wind struck a thinking pose, or at least that's what the Ferryman supposed it to be. "There are literally no walls around this place. How can you break a wall if it doesn't exist at all?"

"If it doesn't exist at all..." The Ferryman muttered. Somehow, the North Wind pointed out something that was, indeed, quite interesting without even noticing it. "You're right, there was no fourth wall all along! Yes indeed, how can you break the fourth wall when it is already nonexistent? Perfect! Thanks for pointing that out."

"Um...excuse me?"

The Ferryman decided that it was better to leave one single mysterious entity confused than to leave a bunch of people from another world confused. "Anyway, North, we're gonna move on quickly. Well, after the deal was struck..."

"So that's why I think you're a cheater, Sunny. You daze people with mysterious philosophical sentences, don't you? Was that the trick you have been using all along? Oh, or the fact that you can, somehow, appear at multiple places at once?"

The Ferryman decided to ignore all that and move on.

And so the Storyteller went on. "As I was saying..."

Literally, this chapter was harder to write than I expected it to be. XD