After stopping the eternal rain, they don't know that something is stalking them in the shadows..like the darkness itself is coming for revenge. 13+
PG-13
Parental Guidance STRONGLY cautioned.
They all slept like logs after their night of sight-seeing, all except Ericka, who couldn't sleep with the thought of Atom being tortured and killed by the Darkness. She put on fresh clothes and quietly went upstairs. It was about six something at night, and Ryder was out working. He left the door to his room wide open, she discreetly peeked inside. It was nothing much, just a bed and a dresser. But sitting on top of the dresser is what caught her attention, it was a small diamond ring. She looked around and went over to the dresser. The ring looked almost untouched, she got a little closer and the she felt a hand rest on her shoulder. Her reaction system spiked, she spun around and sucker punched Ryder in the face. "Oh--" He stopped himself and held his hands up to his face.
"Oh my god i'm so sorry," She said, "reflexes."
"No no, it's fine," He said, taking his hands away from his face and blinking a few times, "you didn't break anything."
"Sorry about..punching you and stuff." She said.
"I know," He said, realizing that she was looking at the diamond ring, "you want the story?"She nodded half-heartedly and he started to talk, "When you went missing, i was sad and wondering why you left. But a few weeks after you disappeared, other girls started to come up to me and try to make me 'date' them and things like that. A shy girl in the back of the classroom named Clarissa came up to me and started to talk to me. We became friends up until i turned eleven. A war broke out and everyone was forced to flee. Turns out Clarissa was a foster child, and she had nobody to return to. I took her in and she sorta became my sister. we grew up together down here, exploring and being kids. Once we turned 18, my parents disappeared and we never found them. And Clarissa really liked me and we ended up getting married." He twiddled with the ring, "We were happy, and she had this weird hobby of making different types of scarecrows. She was very creative, she made dragons, elves, rabbits, she even made one of me and her. But...when she turned 22........she was s-shot." He started to lose it, placing the ring back on the dresser.
"That sounds horrible." She said, hugging him.
"It was and it still is," He said, "do you want to see the scarecrow?"
"Sure." She said, and he went into his closet. He pulled out a life-sized female looking scarecrow with long wavy black hair. "She liked detail." She said.
"Oh definitely." He said, putting it back. They walked out and they waited in the living room for everyone to wake up.
"What are we doing today?" Drac asked after everyone was in the living room.
"We need to train," Ericka said, "and Ryder is going to help us."
"Do you want the kids fighting?" Mavis asked.
"What? No," Ericka said, "that's why you and Johnny are on babysitting duty."
"WHAAAAAT!?" Johnny said.
"No complaining." Mavis said, handing him Dennis.
Ryder, Drac and Ericka went outside to round up Comet and Posiontail. Ryder led them to the armor vault and they all picked out a suite of armor to wear. Comet saw that there were no armor suites for deer, but there was one for a horse. "Can you chop off my antlers?" Comet asked Ryder.
"Why?" Ryder asked.
"In order to put this on my antlers must be shed." Comet said. Ryder shrugged and used a bone saw to cut off this antlers.
"I feel so light," Comet said, prancing over to the armor, "now a little help." Ryder helped put the armor on Comet.
What Comet looks like with the armor:
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