January 9, 2023

Kade, Melody, Cole, Roxy, and Luna are in the livingroom as there’s a rapid knocking on the door. Melody gets up and gets the door. "Hello?"

Jack takes an exaggerated wide step into the room, "AYO"

Melody Pushes jack, "HEY NO GET OUT."

Jack tumbles over and falls on the porch

Melody slams the door and locks it, "That'll show him."

Kade steadily springs awake, "What the fuck?"

There's more rapid knocking.

"Bruh," Luna sighs.

Melody goes to the front window and flips off Jack. Kade holds his head, looking around the room, "whg."

Jack goes up to the window, he sticks out his tongue, crosses his eyes, and pulls the corners of his mouth to smile. Roxy sneers and giggles.

"That man needs a god damned dentist," Luna comments.

Kade looks at the window, "Is that the fucker?"

"Yeah." Luna nods.

"LEAVE HERE MISTER OR I'LL HAVE TO FIGHT YA!" Melody huffs, sticking her own tongue out at him.

"...leave here mister..." Luna mumbles as she facepalms. Kade covers his face, trying to holding back his cackling. Jack giggles with a hand to his mouth and ducks out of view.

Melody huffs and rolls up her sleeves, "Why I outta..."

Kade's wheezing. Melody looks around, waiting for something to happen. Kade heads over to peek out the door. The next moment they suddenly have a full brick chimney and Jack falls out of the chimney with a tumble. There's soot all over him. Melody looks over and grabs Jack by the scruff of his neck.

Kade looks at the brand new chimney "Huh."

Roxy stares as she mumbles, "Heart that's... full up like a laaaandfill... job that slowly kiiillls you..."

"Oh god. That might be our Conduit Warning. Literal Jack Claus," Luna comments.

"Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Cole adds.

Luna speaks up, "Can we help you Jack?"

"I have a superbulous derbudoobius idea to insta fix the nonferal world!" Jack smiles as he hangs by the scruff.

"Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden…” Roxy continues mumbling.

"What the fuck is happening?" Kade asks.

"To insta fix the nonferal world? It's broken?" Luna tilts her head some. There's another knock at the door.

"Yes- very broken- and speaking of plans, here comes Mis.Cherrybomb," Jack smiles mischievously.

“The nonferal world…it's broken!" Cole quotes.

Kade looks at the direction of the knock, "Well, uh."

Melody huffs and drops Jack as she opens the door. The door opens and Nyx steps in. She's wearing a short dark red dress and matching eyeshadow. Her golden eyelashes are dulled making her eyes brighter. She still wears the robe of wings.

Luna peers at the dress and instantly looks down, "Holy.."

Cole looks over at Nyx, "Whore located."

"Oh hello…" Melody takes a step back, blushing lightly. "Pleasure to meet you miss-" She does a small curtsy. Roxy is staring at Jack, paying no attention to the average looking woman in the room.

Kade blinks several times, "Reminds me of my time in lu-"

Nyx takes a few steps in, she knows how to walk in a dress. Jack snickers and gets up, "NyxTwit, ready to woo a zinger?"

"A ZINGER!?!" Roxy springs up.

"Oh shit which Zinger are we fighting?" Luna sounds excited.

"ALRIGHT LET'S GO!" Jack marches out the door. Nyx rolls her eyes and follows.

Jack and Nyx walk through the woods with the other following close behind. They head to nonferal earth and find themselves at an abandoned carnival. The sky is a foggy white and the pine trees look like that of wicket woods. They walk through to the field with the carousel from the last zinger fight. The moose is nowhere in sight. Jack squints and scans the area. Nyx sighs "God these shoes hurt..."

"Then take them off, whore," Roxy remarks.

"I don't wanna see rabbit grippers at 2:20pm," Cole grumbles.

"Can't you wear them when we arrive, Nyx."

"Just say paws, please,” Kade sighs.

Nyx groans in annoyance. Jack makes his hands into a telescope and keeps looking around with a tongue sticking out, "If anyone spots a three headed moose..."

Roxy smiles. Kade takes a slight glance towards Roxy. Melody glances around.

"Three headed moose? Is that our target?" Luna searches as well.

"I would hate to hit that with my car, I can't imagine the insurance claim on that," Cole shakes his head.

"More like two-headed, if you know what I mean," Roxy winks.

Jack's ears go up and he turns to look at Roxy, "Did you take its antlers already???"

Kade looks away with that, "Hm..."

"A little more than that, Jackie," Roxy adds.

Luna looks to Roxy in confusion.

"GOOD NEWS! Nyx you didn't have to woo anyone," Jack starts marching towards the carousel.

"You were going to have me woo a moose?" Nyx grumbles.

"What the fuck is happening?" Melody asks in confusion.

"Fucking furries shaking my head," Cole shakes his head as he follows.

"Fr," Roxy nods.

Luna follows Jack and doesn't question what he just said. Melody huffs as she follows.

"We're all furries..." Kade continues to follow.

Nyx turns around and leaves, "Yeah good luck with that Jack."

"She's just mad she didn't get to woo anyone," Jack whispers to the group. Cole starts to feel a hint of an aching as they reach the carousel. It's rather old with a control booth a few feet from it.

"Shit looks rad," Roxy looks around.

Cole groans in pain slightly as he adjusts his overcoat, "damn that thing looks old."

Kade squints as he looks at it all.

"Cool!" Luna exclaims.

"Can you tell us whats fucking going on!?!" Melody yells at Jack and Nyx.

"Someone just learned how to swear," Roxy snickers. Melody looks pissed off and shoves Roxy some.

Nyx flips them off as she walks out of sight. Jack nods "You see I have a plan to fix the nonferal world from resetting over and over. Like a speed run plan."

"What's the nonferal world?" Melody asks as she crosses her arms. Kade watches as they talk, still taking a good look at things. 

"Nonferal world is full of nonferals unlike you humans," Jack kicks the control box, "Welp I tried."

"Yeah that's kind of a given considering it's called the nonferal world," Roxy comments.

Cole grabs his cane from his overcoat and leans on it slightly.

"So wait, was your entire plan to start the carousel?" Luna asks.

"My plan is we are all ganna walk right up to Mr.wobbles himself and demand he fix things or else," Jack explains.

"What if I just started spinning it?" Kade asks.

"...uhhhh I don't think that would work. Gods don't generally accept demands from Mortals," Luna thinks.

"Nothing I haven't done before. Let's go." Roxy looks at Jack while fiddling with her necklace.

Cole hobbles over to the control panel like an old man and hums in thought. The wiring looks simple but old. Melody sits down as she watches. Cole checks for any broken components. He taps his finger on his chin. The wires to the switches look loose.

"Hmm," Cole tries to reconnect the wires. Jack taps his foot as he's getting impatient. Cole flips all of the switches to on, "bingo bongo bippity."

The lights of the ride flicker on as it slowly starts to spin and music plays. Jack's ears perk up some as he walks over to Cole and hops to pat his head. He tosses him a dog treat. Jack then walk to the ride, "Good job, ok now let's get our world fixed."

Cole's eyes flicker to pink then back to hazel, "I am holding my tongue-I am holding my tongue-"

"Is this the door to hell that Dren talked about? Is the carousel the door to this hell?" Roxy asks.

Kade perks up as he watches it flare to life. Jack hops up onto a horse on the ride, "The one and only!" Jack disappears behind the center of the ride. He's no longer on the horse he was riding.

"Hoo boy. The carousel of chaos," Luna sighs.

Cole puts his cane in his overcoat "yipppeee!"

Each of them get onto a horse on the ride. As they ride it feels as if the ride is going slightly uphill. The sky shifts to night and there's a feeling of bad luck. Everything outside of the ride fades to pitch black with no stars as they see Jack standing off the side of the ride waiting for them. Luna is taking deep breaths to keep calm.

Roxy gets off the ride, "Hello Jaquerel."

Everyone gets off the ride and walks to Jack. "This way! Can we have some quiet coyotes?" Jack puts his hand up with his pointer and pinky up like a coyote. His other hand makes a shushing motion over his mouth. He walks backwards as he leads the group into the dark.

"What if I screamed right now. For fun," Melody says in a sweet voice.

"Then the divulgars in the area might try to tear you limb from limb for potentially disturbing the zinger in this area!" Jack smiles as he keeps doing the hand gesture waiting for them to get quiet.

Luna follows quietly.

"What the fuck is a quiet coyote," Kade whispers.

Roxy is a very quiet coyote, mimicking Jack's movements as she follows him.

Cole whispers to Kade, "Shhh quiet coyote” Cole follows with his cane.

Melody crosses her arms. Kade keeps quiet and shrugs. Roxy is also doing the coyote hand gesture. Luna shrugs and stays silent aswell. Cole's coolant pump is audible and there’s a distant quiet breathing. Cole's soul aches a bit more as they walk. the breathing is getting closer.

Cole groans in pain a little louder as he grips his cane tighter and keeps walking. Jack makes another gesture asking them to stop as he stops walking. He seems to be diligently scanning the area. They all stop walking. Cole and Luna look around carefully. Roxy stays a quiet coyote. Kade puts his hands on his hips as he looks around. Jack looks up. He points up as he makes another quiet coyote hand. Looming above them looks like a long Stalactite partly hidden in the dark. It moves up out of sight after a few seconds. Everyone watches quietly.

Jack waits a moment before continuing. Eventually they can no longer see the carousel as Jack stops again. He faintly whispers to them, "Ok. Now let’s hope he isn't sleeping or he will probably try to kill us instantly, he's not a morning person-" Jack instantly cups his hands over his mouth and screams, "AYO WE HAVE A QUESTION!"

Melody puts her head in her hands.

"I swear to the Gods Jack.." Luna quietly facepalms.

Roxy smiles.

"Nah, I'm out," Kade sighs.

Cole looks over at Kade, "You are staying here or I'm removing all of the mayo from the house."

Kade looks like Cole just killed his firstborn. Lights in the dark flicker on like stars. Closer lights are a bright white while the thousands in the distance are green, blue, and red. Cole's soul starts to severely ache. There's a sickening feeling of bad luck.

"Oh goody he was already up" Jack smiles.

"He made me drown!" Roxy grumbles.

"What the fuck. What did you bring us to?" Luna takes a deep breath. Melody is terrified and backs up. She summons her bow to her hand. Cole groans in pain as he falls to one knee and grips his cane harder as he struggles to stand back up.

Kade looks amongst everyone, but tries to keep Cole on his feet, "You good?"

Cole nods as he winces and groans, "I'm fine, don't worry about me."

Jack looks over at Cole, "Waitwaitwait- what do you feel?" Jack sounds a hint concerned for once.

"Fuckin aching in my soul or something, not important," Cole's breathing is slow and deep as he looks over at Jack.

Jack's ears perk up again "OK- NOT, no not not important- very important- has a fublumblingeeber of a doober ever cried on your soul?" Jack looks a hint panicked. The aching gets worse as something large moves in the dark the size of a whale.

"What the fuck does that even mean?" Kade tilts his head some.

"Cried on a soul, what?" Luna shakes her head.

Cole groans in pain louder as he leans on his cane more, "Yeah it fuckin...god...yeah it cried on my soul."

Jack looks over towards the movement in the dark. He has a look of fear, "Hey uhhhh wobbles buddy! We uh- just wanted to check on you! Please don't try to take his soul, thanks-"

The aching is getting unbearable. Cole grips his chest as he falls to one knee as he drops his cane and mutters, "I'mnotgoodanymore"

Luna goes to Cole’s side.

"What the fuck?" Kade raises an eyebrow, but tries to help him up and carry the majority of his weight. "Please don't have a heart attack, I don't know CPR."

They all see a large face faintly in the dark. It has stretched flash and dark eyes. Its golden teeth look messed up. The teeth on the lower jaw point down to the ground and its jaw stretches along long ears. Its face alone is the size of a large house as it looks down at them. Everyone's knees become slightly weaker.

"Oh dear, mister wobby, you're really makin' me weak in the knees!" Roxy exclaims.

Melody is freaking out but goes to Cole, trying to drag him back the way they came, "Someone help me! We need to run-"

"DON'T RUN- Don't run just stay calm!" Jack continues to panic.

Cole stares at the face, "Itlookslikeanonspecificbrandedmonster."

"WHAT THE FUCK," Kade stares at the face, then looks at Jack, "STAY CALM? YEAH?"

"We just need to talk to it! And everything will be fine and dandy!" Jack sounds scared.

"Guys just stay calm he's just a little guy. Hasn't hurt anyone yet," Roxy adds.

Black smoke starts to rise from Cole's chest, "ohthat'sweird-" Cole coughs out some black smoke.

Melody draws her bow and fires an arrow at frobwobber’s eye.

"So, Frobwobber, that's your name, right? Let's see here... Ah!" Roxy walks closer, "Alright, yeah, you're on our list tonight. Okay... so, what are you looking for in a job here?"

Kade watches the smoke and is confused out of his mind. The arrow phases halfway into Frobwobber’s face. It flickers like a video game glitch. Frobwobber doesn't react at all. Jack tilts his head some, "What the..."

The black smoke continues to rise as Cole coughs out more black smoke, "Goodnessgracious."

"W-what is that? What's wrong with Cole?"

"Uhmmmmm-" Jack is trying to think as he's looking around at everything happening. Kade turns away and huffs a small burst of flame away from anyone, just to get some more light. In the burst they see a checkered floor and distant arches. Frobwobber is only a head and an arm clipping in and out of reality.

"What the fuck," Kade looks around some.

Cole breathes in heavily and mutters at the sight, "Gat damn."

"What's happening? That monster looks fake?" Melody is confused.

"Oh....uhhh...actually that explains alot," Jack no longer looks scared as he walks up to Frobwobber.

Kade looks confused. He looks to Cole, "How do you wanna be held? Like a bride, over my shoulder, or."

Melody looks around, shooting an arrow of light up to the ceiling to try and see how far up the ceiling is. It goes up and doesn't hit anything before gravity forces it back down.

"Ok...NEW PLAN!" Jack resumes his confident demeanor, "Since wobbly here isn't all that there we need to fix his soul so we can talk to him."

"i mean like-" Cole freezes up and turns his head to the side and spits out some green and black tissue. He stares at it.

"Fix who's soul? Huh?" Melody is confused still.

"Probably the one who's fucking hacking up his lungs." Kade watches Cole.

"I have no idea what's happening ever honestly," Roxy shrugs.

"We need zinger tears to fix Frobwobber’s soul. All of the zingers to be exact," Jack explains

"Ohhhh ok we have some of those don't we? One," Roxy nods.

"I think that tissue is supposed to be on my soul..." Cole stares at the green and black tissue.

"Uh. Your soul looks pretty gross…" Kade comments.

Jack stares as the tissue from Cole’s soul for a brief moment, "...ew...anyway, seems I can't speed run this one like I thought."

"Sucks... Cole are you okay?" Melody asks.

Cole nods, "yeah I uh....feel strangely good," Cole clambers out of Kade's arms.

Jack nods, "alright well I'm going to pawn off that task to you all. Now did you guys know what a zinger is?"

Roxy starts making noises, "Yes I already took moosey' skull!"

"I'm pretty sure of myself, Roxy, Ari, Harmonia and Clair- yeah," Kade nods.

"Man I must be really good at explaining. Now when you guys get all the tears in one bottle, hand it to me and we can have a talk with the wibblywobbly," Jack smiles.

"Shouldn't we have them in. separate bottles? Cross contamination is a bitch," Roxy suggests.

"We're going to mix them anyways" Jack shrugs as he starts walking back.

"I don't know what a zinger is-" Melody speaks up.

Cole stands up as he dusts his overcoat off, his stature seems off but not in a bad way, "So uh what are we doing? I just finished processing the last 10 or so minutes."

Jack is out of sight.

"Home time!" Kade presumably leads the way back home for everyone.

"Leaving is certainly an idea," Cole follows the others home with confidence in his stride

Roxy sticks around for a bit until she’s the only one left. She starts walking, trying to find a different exit from the building. It's oddly quiet and she finds herself walking for hours before finding a wall with a black door. She opens the door and slogs through. She's outside in nature. There's a cool breeze and large pine trees around fields of golden grass. The tree's needles are purples and blues. The sickening feeling of bad luck is gone. Roxy starts walking forwards as she looks around curiously. Occasionally she sees something shifting in the tall grass and moose like creatures in the distance grazing in the grass. She almost steps on a colorful sock puppet lizard with googly eyes that skittles by. It's been hours of walking again. The forest is full of life everywhere she goes. Sometimes blind fish swim by through the air in groups. Eventually she reaches a tree line and a larger field of gold grass that stretches off into the distance with no creatures around.

She narrows her eyes at this before continuing on, while checking to see if her phone works. Her signal is getting weaker the further she goes but is strong enough to send messages for now. She sends a message before continuing on her trek. Eventually the area is darker, covered in a large shadow. Her phone signal is gone and there's a distant faint gnawing. The breeze here is stronger. Roxy looks up and around as she continues to walk. The gnawing is getting louder. It sounds like its from something large and there's next to no light. Roxy continues to walk. She tries to put on her phone flashlight.

She turns on the light and is face to face with something grotesque. Large sets of jaws and teeth make up a large wall, all biting and gnawing at itself to stay together even on wounds and infections. There's spit drooling from all over the wall. Each tooth is triple the size of a human and there's occasional pale reflective eyes mixed in with the jaws that reflect her light from her phone.

"What the fuck," Roxy's eyes widen, "What The Fuck."

She cautiously walks towards it. The breeze is from the breath of all of the creatures. The eyes watch her. Stepping any closer could result in being mauled into nothing but dust. Roxy takes a bottle of Cotton Candy Heyyo from her bag and tosses it in. Its instantly grinded into nothing as the jaws speed up chewing. She tries to take a picture with her phone. As the camera flashes it continues flashing, taking continuous pictures. There's a crackling sound from inside the phone as it feels warm.

"Wuh oh." She drops her phone and steps back a bit. The phone crackles more as it starts changing shape. It bends itself into the shape of a snubified disphenoid as the screen turns green and the crackling stops.

"God dammit. I had so much on that phone." She grumbles, "Bahhh humbug," She picks up the phone and walks away as she makes a face at the creature.

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> https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8 Wheel of Fortune 10

Viol - I wonder… /call Frobwobber

Wick - [Error]

Viol - /call Pie

Wick - №Hm?

Viol - Hello! It's me Violet, One of Luna's friends. I was wondering if you knew of a place called the MDZ?

Wick - №No I don't. What is it?

Viol - I’m unsure. I’m trying to see if anyone knows. Do you know anyone who is plentiful with knowledge of locations or other stuff?

Wick - №Used to but the fire might have gotten them. I wouldn't know how or where to look for them even if they did survive

Viol - Who was it?

Wick - №They didnt even have a name

Viol - What did they look like?

Wick - №Just like all of the other members of the family. Im telling you, finding them is a lost cause

Viol - Fair fair. Thank you. You know any other people I may contact about this?

Wick - №Not anyone inparticular

Viol - Alright! Anyway how are you doing? Anything been happening?

Wick - №I've been ok. Harlow didn't want me to hang out with her after work. I'm not sure hiw I'd follow her without her knowing either or if I should just tell Flummox.

Viol - Flummox is not to be trusted

Wick - №What do you mean?
Viol - Flummox is apparently a traitor and shot Luna in the shoulder.
Wick - №What??? Why???

Viol - Turns out that their a guy named Jack or known as King and what we know from them they VERY bad.

Wick - №Oh, I've heard of him. He was a mighty. I thought he died in the fire

Viol - What do you mean by mighty. What did he do there?

Wick - №Mighty were the people in charge. They tell the researchers how to treat the experiments and make sure the manor meets all of the current crown's wishes

Viol - I see... well turns out Flummox is him

Wick - №W-wh. Well what do I do??? Do I quit the job???

Viol - I would not. Stay but keep an eye out on them and the people around. Stay safe

Wick - №Uhm ok. I'll try

Viol - Alright. I’ll see you later /hangup

Wick - [End]

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