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1x1x1x1

-Long black hair
--He has two strands of long hair that come down from the side of his head, and shorter hair closer to his eyes

-He has 3 left eyes, one main eye, then one smaller one above and under the main eye
--His right eye is more squinted, except for when he uses unstable eye, then it enlarges into what it is in Forsaken

-Slightly chubby
--tall; bout like 6'2

-Has some scratches and scars along his body from training in SFOTH --There are a few others from his abilities

-Large pair of black wings on his back with bright green claws
--Along with a small pair of head-wings that he tries to hide behind his hair

-Has a tail which is more fluffy towards the base that thins out near the tip
--The tail spike is the same colour as his wing claws

-He wears a pant/skirt thingy
--It has black panels going down the sides and front
---Has red star like patterns inbetween the panels, there is nothing between the panels or stars

-Chains along his neck, torso, and ankles

-Has clawed fingers, same colour as the other clawed thingies

Shedletsky

-Short curly brown hair

-His eyes are a faint blue

-Slightly chubby
--Short(er); bout 5'7

-He has a medium/large pair of brown/cream wings on his back
--Has a mini pair under those wings
---Also has a pair of on his head, same colour as the other

-Has a small bird like tail, quite unnoticable unless you go looking for it
--Almost same colour as his wings, it's slightly lighter

-Wears a white hoodie with the words 'BLAME JOHN' in red with a mini him below it (y'know his usual shirt pattern)
--Always has the sleeves rolled up and has his hands bandaged
---Shorts with a striped pattern of dark blue and light blue, along with white drawstrings

-Has scars on his arms from both his past and forsaken --Wears black semi-long fingerless gloves

-His arms are slightly feather, especially at his wrists
--Has feathers surrounding the wings on his back too

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Another round of their eternal hell was about to begin momentarily.

It was originally only agonizing for the survivors as they were the ones getting killed, over and over without a way to put it to a stop, but over time, it started to grow repetitive for the killers too.
They got bored of the same mess every time, the sentinels stunning them, the supports assisting the sentinels, and the survivalists roaming around doing generators to lower the timer.

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The survivors were in the main cabin scattered around the building waiting for the round to start, just like it has been.
Chance, Elliot, Builderman, and Shedletsky were seated on the couch, with Chance and Elliot seemingly bickering about something that happened the round prior.

"Well I'm sorry that your dumbass decided to run past my pizza when you were getting chased! Maybe try and go towards the thing that'll stop ya from dying?? Ever thought of that??" Elliot shunned Chance.

"I'm sorry okay!- I didn't see it because I was too focused on that red kid behind me!" Chance snapped back at Elliot.

"How do you not see a bright yellow pizza against the dark ground???" Elliot said absolutely dumbfounded.

"Well- I- I don't know man- I just kinda missed it..?" Chance mumbled looking away from Elliot.

Taph and Dusekkar just watched from the bottom of the stairs, exchanging glances.

"Did you see what happened?" The holy pumpkin asked.

"👀❌️👂😂" (I didn't see but It sounds funny) Taph answered.

Two Time was in one of the corners muttering nonsense to themselves while their eyes were locked onto their dagger.
Guest1337 was over at one of the dining tables with Noob.

Noob nervously said "I don't know why but.. I feel like this next round's gonna be different... I mean they never are, but I just have a bad feeling."

"Honestly, me too. It does feel different..." Guest pondered trying to think of why the upcoming round would be different.

Builderman turned to face Shedletsky, taking note of how he appeared to be lost in thought. As though he was trying to decipher an ancient script. He tried to nudge Shedletsky to tell him the round was about to start and to get ready, but Shed wouldn't budge.

"Shed?" Builderman nudged the yellow man once more, still not having any effect. This caused him to grow a bit concerned.

"Shedletsky? Ya there pal?" He asked again. Yet this time he actually got a response

"Hm..? What do you need Builder?" Shedletsky asked, sitting up after noticing that the countdown only had 10 seconds left.

"Oh nothin' really I just wanted to tell ya that the rounds aboutta' start."

"Thanks man.-" Was all Shedletsky managed to get out before they were teleported to another one of these torturous rounds.

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"Agh.." 1x1x1x1 said, stumbling slightly after the teleportation. He still hadn't gotten used to that even after all this time.
He didn't even need to open his eyes to be able to tell that the map was BrandonWorks. The stale air radiating off the old plastic ball pit balls along with the faint smell of mold were dead giveaways to where he was. He was at Horror Hotel.

1x quickly jabbed his sword into his eye, then yanking it out, causing a couple drops of red blood to go down his face. Giving him the ability to see the outlines of all the survivors at the cost of his own vision.

"I see you~..."

He set out on his task to massacre the survivors, luckily his blurred vision didnt affect him as he knew this map exceptionally well, due to all the times he'd played through it. Though it was to his annoyance.

When he got into a good enough range of Dusekkar, he shot out his swords in the direction of the holy pumpkin.

"FEEL MY ENTANGLEMENT!"

Which ended up stunning him, along with giving the pumpkin a glitched effect. Rewarding 1x with enough time to join both of his blades together to shoot out a green ray of light. After the charge up of the attack was done, Dusekkar only got a split second to react before 1x had hit him.

"This is.. MASS INFECTION!"

The attack hit Dusekkar straight in his torso, causing him to bleed out an immense amount. The divine pumpkin would now die from any kind of damage, so he tried to run(or fly?) away from the killer, yet it didn't work. He was instantly killed with a singular slash of 1x' venomshank.

"Well, wasn't that a quick death..." 1x said before heading off to his next victim.

Noob was next, they were unaware of 1x' presence while doing a generator, leading them to their death.

Then it was Chance. All it took was a singular slash for him to be taken down. His coin apparently hadn't landed on heads once since the round started.

Taph died from getting blinded by his own subspace tripmine. Causing him to slow down slightly while he was running from 1x. Making it easier for the killer to catch up to Taph, finishing him off.

Builderman saw Shedletsky heading out of the kitchen and decided to follow him, having to quicken his pace to keep up. He had just witnessed 7n7 be murdered because he couldn't dodge the ranged attacks being launched at him.

"Hey shed, how are ya holdin up? Builderman questioned finally catching up to the yellow male.

Shedletskys wings puffed up a bit in surprise, as he wasn't expecting Builderman to be right behind him, "I'm doing about as good as one can be in this situation." He said, continuing to wander around.

They both headed towards the stage as Builder started to set up a sentry on it, mechanical whirrs filling the empty halls of the horror hotel.

"Hey- uh... Have you noticed that 1x has been showing up a lot less? Like-as killer..?" Shed asked after a moment of silence.

Builder quickly finished the sentry, "Now that yer' mentionin' it, he has been showin' up a lot less.-"

He ended up being cut off by the sound of clanging metal chains and footsteps heading their way. They looked towards the hallway and saw Two Time weave around the zombie arms with 1x trailing closely behind.
Two Time ever so slightly led 1x to the sentry, causing him to start getting bullets pelted at him.

"GAH!!" 1x covered himself with his wings to protect his body from the bullets as he marched towards the sentry to slash it with his venomshank, destroying the machine in one go.

Two Time took that as an opportunity to backstab 1x, leaving him stunned for a couple seconds. In those slight seconds he glanced towards Shedletsky and scowled, before continuing the chase with Two Time. They looped him for a short while before They got a sword penetrated through their side.

They let out a bloody cough which slowed them down, letting 1x catch up and fully impale them. Their body fell to the floor as 1x pulled his swords back out and resumed the chase with Builderman, as he was the closer out of him and Shed.

Builder took quick notice of this and bolted behind a pillar before 1x could throw one of his swords at him. With 1x' attention diverted, Shed took that chance to slash 1x, stunning him.

"RUN!" He shouted towards Builderman
Yet it was almost like 1x had no interest in Shedletsky at all, as he charged after the other remaining survivor. Leaving the yellow male confused as to why he was being ignored.

The chase didn't last very long as 1x brought his swords together and linked them into the glowing attack, slashing them towards Builderman. Blood splattered out from his back as he fell to the ground. 1x walked over, picked up his swords, then jabbed one into Builders head, ensuring that he was dead.

Shed was left to watch as it had all happened quite quickly.

"Hello Shedletsky. Isn't it so nice to see me again?" 1x turned around to face him, flaring his wings

1x was met with the same gesture of flared wings, making him scoff slightly.

"You really think you can win against me?" He questioned

"Of course I can!" Shed said trying to sound as confident as possible, it wasn't working.

The timer started to tick down from 30 seconds.

"It appears our visit has been cut short. I am truly displeased at that!" 1x said, with the last half being said in a slight mocking way.

<25 seconds>

Shedletsky was preparing to bolt out of his sight the second he saw an opening. There wasn't one though, so he had to try and keep a goose chase going for the last 25 seconds. He stood still for a second, making it look like he was about to draw his sword, then he dashed back into the kitchen, turning every sharp corner he could.

<20 seconds>

"This is going to be interesting." 1x said as he stabbed his venomshank through his chest. Calling upon his minions.

"I cast necromancy! RISE!"

<15 seconds>

Shed heard the sound of chains clanking almost everywhere now. Meaning that 1x brought his minions into this. All Shed could do now is try and stay hidden for as long as he possibly can.

<10 seconds>

1x started running towards where he last saw Shedletsky head, the theatre.

<5 seconds>

Shed was hiding behind a corner, hoping to catch 1x off guard and be able to stun him. And just as he had hoped, 1x came bolting towards the doorway, not showing any slight hint of whether or not he knew Shedletsky was there.

<3 seconds>

1x reaches the doorway and gets slashed by Shed, leaving him stunned as he watches the winged male run farther than he would need to to win.

<2 seconds>

Shedletsky doesn't stop running until he knows he is safe, then, and only then does he stop.

<1 second>

"See you next time, Shedletsky." 1x said just before the timer ended. Just before Shed could have an actual reaction to it.

And just as it had every previous time, they were back in their corresponding cabins. Being forced to await the next round.

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1x had been sent back to the killer spawn, glancing past the torn couch towards the fireplace, seeing John Doe sitting in front of it just staring at the fire.

"Weirdo.." He mumbled under his breath, luckily John didn't seem to notice.

Turning towards the door he started to head out of the main area, at least this place didn't smell like mold. His clawed feet crunching on the leaves laid atop the grass as he kept a steady pace to his designated cabin.

He heard a voice behind him, "Hi Mr. 1x!! How'd the round go??!" C00lkidd asked cheerfully. The kid trotted towards 1x grasping at the tips of his wings, trying to pet them. 1x extended them slightly so c00l could reach them better.

"It went well, I got to play some games with your 'friends'." He answered, subtly hesitating on the word friends. Turning to face c00lkidd, 1x pat him on the head, resting his hand between the kids horns, "I'm gonna go to my cabin now, why don't you go play with Jason?"

C00lkidd thought about it, "Hmm... Alright! I'll go try to find him!" The red child then proceeded to run off back into the cabin, almost tripping up the stairs to try and search for the masked man.

1x turned around once more, restarting his pace towards his cabin. Although he kept staring out into the woods, him and the rest of the killers had never really gone into them. It's not a good idea to do that, especially when none of them know what lies in the woods. Yet that most definitely did not stop him from abandoning his path that originally led to his cabin, to begin a new one directly leading to the abyss-like foliage.

He made his way to the forests edge, admiring the beauty that the dark trees held. Before he went in, he looked around him to make sure no other killer was there to witness his entrance to the woods. It seemed c00lkidd was still inside with John Doe and Jason.

It started to rain slightly. 1x first felt it on his face, looking up at the sky. It was astounding how cloudy it got in such a short time. He felt the raindrops start to get bigger and fall faster with a greater amount. The rain was quite pleasant, it felt nice on his wings.

He turned back to the woods once more, slowly walking into them. There wasn't a worry of slipping with the wet ground, as his claws kept him stable as he traversed the wildlife.

The trees got more and more scattered as he neared a spot in the woods. Of course, he noticed this and started to head towards where they were scattering from. He eventually got to an open clearing. It was filled with flowers which he couldn't name. Oddly enough, he felt unrestricted here. As though he wasn't being held down by The Spectre. Which gave him an idea. He wanted to fly, he'd only done that before.. before he got betrayed by the one he trusted most...

1x started to spread his wings, once they were fully extended he tried to flap them. Gradually increasing the pace of which. And somehow, it actually worked. He was now above the ground mid-air.

"Holy Shit..."

He tried to move around, albeit not very fast but he still did it.

The feeling of being in the air was amazing. The rain made it even better. He made a mental note to make sure to return here.

His wings were still spread out as far as possible, he found himself right above the treeline, reaching for a pretty looking leaf. The leaf was a combination of yellow and green, the sides were tinted yellow and smudging into the middle where the green lied. He put it in his hair, it was a beautiful leaf he couldn't just leave it there. He had to have it as his own.

After flying around for awhile he tried to exit the place, flying through the trees steadily. The further he got the less he was able to flap his wings. Gliding is what he ended up doing before finally touching the ground again. Although he was a little disappointed and wanted to go back to do it again. Yet he couldn't bring himself to, he felt a calling towards an end of the woods. He didn't know what it was but he couldn't shake the feeling that something was calling him.

The trees quickly grew more dense as he wandered. The more dense the trees got the more he heard a hint of sound, intriguing him, as he hadn't heard sound outside of the killer spawn before. His eyes widened in surprise as the noises turned into words.

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"Hey Two Time, I’m sure you did good out there, sorry I wasn’t there in time to help you.” Guest said to them.

“Thank thou for such a divine compliment! The Spawn shall be utmost pleased with thine laudation.” Two Time said turning to face Guest with wide eyes and a manic smile.

Guest smiled back awkwardly “Well I’m glad that your Spawn thing will be happy about that..”

Two Time was led back into the survivor cabin by Guest. The sound of the rain covering the rest of the conversation, if there was more.

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1x couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He had found the survivor spawn. He had actually ended up finding the survivor spawn. He didn’t think they were connected, especially by the woods.

The calling grew stronger, and he was just now noticing it.

He saw the door open once more, a winged male leaving. He slowly descended down the stairs stepping onto the grass. 1x kept staring through a bush towards him.

Shed started to head towards the dock, tripping over a root and almost landing face first into the soaking mud.

“Ow! Shit! when did that get there?!-”

1x let out a little snicker at his tumble, yet apparently that ‘little’ snicker was too loud. As Shedletsky turned around to face where he thought the noise had came from. The worry on his face made 1x laugh again, causing shed to scan the wilderness, trying to figure out what could possibly be laughing at him.

Shedletsky met 1x’ gaze, immediately making the yellow male jump back with a quiet scream.

“Well, isn't it funny seeing you here?” 1x finally spoke up, then slyly added "Or should it be funny seeing me here?"

“1x- I- How are you here? I thought killers couldn’t come here? Are the others here, where are they? Stay back!” Shed said reaching for where his sword should be, not where it was. He had forgotten it in his cabin. “Fuck.”

The green and black figure walked out from the trees, slowly trudging towards Shedletsky.

“Worry not, the other killers aren’t here.”

“That doesn’t help! You’re a killer! I still don’t feel safe with the ‘low’ amount of 1 killer! And how do I know you’re not lying?!”

1x kept walking forward, making Shedletsky back away from him, he was nearing the wall of the lodge.

“Oh come on… I wanna show you something, can’t you spare me some of your sacred time. My lovely creator?” 1x challenged

Shedletsky was now against the cabin wall glancing back once his wings had touched the rough wood, it was still wet.

The call that led 1x here kept growing louder. It seemed to grow once he got closer to Shed.

The rain deepened again. Soaking the both of them, as if they weren’t already.

“Come with me, I wanna sho-” 1x tried to say before Shedletsky cut him off.

“Why would I follow ‘you’ into the woods! YOU! Out of everyone I trust you the least!” He shouted.

“Quiet vermin. It’s a place that I’m sure isn’t restricted by The Spectre.” 1x shot back. He idly reached for one of his venomshanks. Doing that made Shedletsky flinch a little.

The yellow man tried to push past the fact that 1x could kill him at any moment, if he died in the lobby would he still respawn? He gave up on that thought, “What. What do you mean it’s not restricted by The Spectre.”

“I mean what I said. I can hold my word, unlike a fucking traitor who couldn’t.” 1x started to glare slightly.

Shed looked down, wings drooping slightly, “I had to…” He paused “I had to, for the good of Robloxia…”

1x snarled, grabbing Shedletsky by the neck of his hoodie, his other hand tightening around his sword, “You had to leave me chained for 1000 years?! To save Robloxia you had to betray me?!” Wings flaring up.

“I-” Shed tried

“I’m leaving. I don’t wanna be around you anymore.” 1x ungripped his fist, along with tightening the grasp on his venomshank.

He started to walk back through the forest, the grass crumpling beneath his claws. His wings went back down to their resting position.

“Please! Just wait, let me explain!”

1x laughed at Sheds words pausing his way to the woods, “I don’t need to hear your shitty excuse.”

He then resumed his tread to the woodlands, not looking back, although he wanted to. He wanted his creator to notice him. He wanted his creator to love him.

He only dared to glance back once he reached the edge of the forest. Adoring how pathetic his creator looked.

“Farewell, Telamon.” 1x had said, bringing up Shedletskys past title.

He then disappeared into the woods. Abandoning the call telling him to go back, and leaving Shed to ponder what 1x could’ve possibly meant by the ‘unrestricted’ place.

He would have to wait until they met again.

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Shedletsky was frozen in place, especially after hearing his old alias. He didn’t want to remember the past, he didn’t want to remember what he did as Telamon. He didn’t want to remember what he had done to 1x as Telamon.

The rain and wind started to make him feel like he was freezing. He didn’t want this to happen. He didn’t want to betray 1x, but he had to.

He used his wings to shelter himself from the cold rain as well as he could. But he wasn’t going back inside, not yet. Shed had to think, if he went inside the other survivors would probably question why he was out in the rain for so long, as he originally told them that he was just going to take a short break outside.

“I’m sorry...” he whispered to himself, although it was intended to be for someone else.

His eyes started to water, as if he wasn’t wet enough already. Yet his mind wandered, Shed couldn’t help but wonder what 1x meant by ‘unrestricted’.
The forest appeared to be endless, apparently it wasn’t.

Before the tears could fall, he wiped his eyes. Preparing to head back into the lodge.

Turning around, he took a deep breath before trudging forward slowly, making his way up the stairs, hesitating with every step he took. He couldn’t take his mind off of what 1x had said, trying to decipher what he could’ve possibly meant. Once his hands met the doorknob he paused, wondering if he should actually go in or wait outside for longer.

That thought was short-lived as Builderman opened the door.

“Oh! Hey there Shed, I was just about t’ ask if ya were gonna come in now.” Builder sounded surprised. Understandably startled.

Shedletsky jumped slightly, "Yea, I'm comin in now. No need to worry about me!"

"Good, the rounds about t' start. If ya need anythin' ya gotta get it now."

"Right." Shed said before heading into the cabin to grab his sword.

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"I wonder who the killer's gonna be this round..." 007n7 said softly, it was more towards himself as no one really bothered to answer him.

"I bet my mothers life that Jason's gonna be the killer next." Chance basically announced to the whole cabin.

Elliot sighed, "Is your mom even alive?!"

Chance paused at that though. Completely unsure. He was genuinely questioning if his mother was alive. "Uuh... I dunno?" Chance said sheepishly.

"Seriously. I hope you die first." Elliot spat

He was met with one of the most innacurate emotionally hurt faces he'd ever seen, "*gasp* Woooww Elliot, woooow."

<--------->

Shedletsky found himself in the cemetery in Yoricks Resting Place.

He quickly noticed a generator beside him and started to do it, the wires getting tangled in his hands. It took him a short while before he got all the wires connected to their corresponding colours.

He then started his way out of the cemetery.

Even though he was a stunner it was still the start of the round, he should have time to do generators and wander.

He shouldn't have to worry about anything right? Right?

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007n7 could feel something off about the round, a sense of familiarity. An unrecognizable sense of familiarity, almost as if something was trying to show itself to him.

He knew this wasn't going to be an easy round.

Scanning his surroundings, he saw that his spawn was the closest to the killers. He was at the bottom of the hill which had the manor bestowed upon the top of it. He immediately turned to the bridge, quickening his pace, setting his goal on reaching the well. Solely for the purpose of trying to find at least one of his acquaintances, or figure out who the killer was at a safe distance.

Maybe he would actually run into someone who wouldn't be angered at the sight of him. Maybe they would know who the killer was.

Turns out Dusekkar was at the top, right beside the well actually, he was surveying the ground below. Seeming to be doing the very thing that 7n7 had gone up there for.

"Hey- uh, Dusekkar, do you know who the killer is this round?"

"I am afraid I do not know, yet I will notify you if I see them below." Dusekkar responded in a neutral manner, not bothering to even glance at 7n7.

That phrase was short lived as there was a scream over by the mansion, out of sight.

Dusekkar immediately looked worried, heading down the path towards the noise, still keeping distance in case the killer would go after him.
There was an explosion. There was only one survivor who had the ability to cause explosions, and that someone was Taph. But this wasn't a subspace tripmine explosion. It was an actual explosion, like a genuine bomb.

There was a new killer.

He decided to trail behind Dusekkar, he too wanted to know who the killer was.

"W-0W! Y0U-Y0U GUYS C@N S-SUR3 P@CK @ PUN-PUNCH!"

007n7 could recognize that voice so well. It was agonizing to hear after so long, especially after what had been done.

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“I must ask, might any of thou have the knowledge for whom thy murderer might be this fixture?” Two Time said intrigued yet they were shaking slightly. It made sense as it was an attack none of the survivors had seen prior to this match.

Builderman started to set up his dispenser, pausing momentarily to glance at Two Time before getting back to work, “M’ not sure, seems to be some new killer, none of the usual moves have been shot at us. No entanglement, no spikes, no raging pace, no nothin’ so far.”

The bomb went off, startling all of them. Builder quickly finished the dispenser and started to rush over to where the explosion came from.

“Taph was that you?” Builderman said, almost hopeful.

“🧍❌👉💥👀👂❌!!” (That was not me! My subspace tripmines don’t look or sound like that!!)

"Shit.."

Two Time faced the direction as to where the explosion came from, the smile that was constantly on their face grew wider, "Well, it would appear as though The Spawn has blessed us with indications aiding us in discovering thine killer this round!"

All three of them made their way towards the explosion, one more eager than the others. The explosion seemed to be coming from the manor. That wretched house was bound to collapse at any given moment, and the explosions were most certainly not helpful.

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007n7 was running up the hill, he needed to find out if it was really him, if it was really Noli. He hadn’t seen him since 7n7 adopted c00lkidd shortly after they got out of college.

It was his fault for the splitting of the two, it was his fault that Noli turned into what he is. If only he hadn’t gotten Noli to take the void star.
If only he had known what was going to happen to the both of them.

The closer he got to the manor, the more intoxicating the presence of his old ‘friend’ became. Then he finally saw him. Purple, the first colour he saw of Noli was the purple code, which was now covering over half of his body.

Noli turned to face him, “Wel-3ll! 1t’s s0-s0 n1-ic3 t0 se3 y-y0u s3v-ven! 1t sur3 h@-has be3n qu1t3 s0m-s0m3 t-t1me sinc3-sin I’ve s-$3en y0u!”

“No… no it can’t be! How are you here?! I thought you were dead! The void star exploded, on you! How… “ Tears started falling from 7n7s eyes “Noli…”

“Qu3-Queu3 the w@terworks-0rk$! @nd-And y0u w0uld b-b3 corr3ct with-w1th that, @s th-th3 v01d star-@r d1d 3xpl0de m3-me. Y3t wo-w0rry not, I’m her3-h3r3 n0w, @nd you-y0u’ll be g-gr@t3ful for-0r 1t.” The purple mess of code said the last part as though it was a threat, it most likely was.

Noli was originally going after Noob, but they got away while Noli was monologuing, they slowly limped away while he was saying something about waterparks. They had no idea what Noli said. They kinda hoped they wouldn’t find out.

"I'm sorry Noli..." 7n7 choked out before he lunged forward, into Nolis arms.

"Oh-0h my!" He caught Seven with ease, he did notice Noob leaving, yet decided that Seven was more important. Significantly.

They both just stood there for awhile, basking in the presence that was previously cut short. The timer kept ticking, and they just stayed in each others arms, neither wanting to leave the other. Not again, not ever.

<10 SECONDS>

"I'll miss you..."

<5 SECONDS>

"psh-ps5$h y0u'll b3 f-fin3, @nd you-y0u'll @ls0 pr0b-r0b@bly s3e m3 a-ag@1n.."

<3 SECONDS>

"I wouldn't doubt it... no one escapes these rounds"

<2 SECONDS>

"0f c0ur-c0urs3 1'm r1ght! I'm @lways r1ght!"

<1 SECOND>

"sure, whatever you say, Noli."

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The round was then over.

All of the survivors got sent to their corresponding cabins, again, as no one ended up dying. Noli had spared everyone for the sake of Seven.

Which was heartbreaking for him, more so the fact that Noli still cares about him, to the point that he'd keep all his friends, along with him, alive. Especially after what Seven had done to him.

“Oh my god… no- I- It’s… It’s really over..? I need to see him again… Please…” 7n7 whispered under his breath, dropping to the ground, which was freezing for him to touch, even if it was only briefly. He felt his eyes begin to water again, not bothering to hold them back. Even if he tried he probably wouldn't be successful anyways.

He felt a hand on his shoulder, turning to see who would’ve actually wanted anything to do with him. It was Guest, one of the few who didn’t despise 007n7, how could he not..?

“Hey, 7n7, you alright? That round sure took a toll on you didn’t it? If it’s ok, I’d like to ask who that was? You can talk with me if you’re up to it, I’ll always be here to listen.” It was the softest tone he'd heard in a long time.

7n7 looked up at Guest, attempting to wipe the tears from his eyes, failing miserably though. They were basically pouring down his face at this point.

"I'll be fine Guest, that was just an old friend of mine..."

The war veteran wasn't believing that answer, how could he be fine? He's literally crying himself a river.

Reaching out a hand, Guest looked at 7n7, "Come on man, why don't we go to the couch? You can tell me whatever ya want to, I promise I won't force anythin' outta you, but I'll be there to listen." He paused, seemingly thinking. A soft smile showed on Guests face, "If you'd like, I could even tell you some of my own experiences?"

"Sure..." 7n7 took Guests hand. He stood up, stumbling slightly before regaining his balance.

They both walked over to the couch, wooden floorboards creaking softly. Sitting down on the faded couch, Guest faced the fireplace, staring at the flames. 7n7 was sat in front of it too, yet he was staring at the carpet sprawled out beneath the couches.

Guest turned slightly to look at 7n7, "Y'know, I have a kid too, her name is Charlotte. She's the best daughter, her and her mom looked so alike. She was always so happy, even when I was leaving for the war, there was hope in her eyes. She trusts me to come back home." He reached towards his pant pocket, rummaging around for a short while.

7n7 shifted his gaze from the carpet to Guest, "She sounds lovely... I truly do hope that you can see her once more"

A small piece of laminated paper was pulled out of Guest pocket, "This is Charlotte," He pointed at a small brown haired girl, "And this is Daisy, my wife." Guest then pointed towards a taller female, with the same coloured hair. They were all smiling so warmly at each other.

"Wow, you weren't kidding- they really do look the same." 7n7 said slightly surprised.

"I know right?" Guest said, folding the paper and carefully putting it back into his pocket.

They both continued to talk about their families, with Seven becoming more calm, talking about this kind of stuff really did make him feel better.

He glanced out the window briefly, then looked at the fireplace. Yet something caught his eye outside.

7n7 looked back outside, was that Shedletsky? What the hell? Why was he outside? It's literally pouring, and that's saying something because there's always rain.

It wasn't any of his business, he didn't want to get into the admins way any more than he already had. He shifted ever so slightly on the couch. Seven just played it off, trying not to focus on the fact that Shedletsky was staring out into the woods. Almost as though he was thinking of going in?

Was he..?

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Shed was successfully sneaking out of the cabin so far, Builderman was distracted with breaking up another one of Elliot's and Chance's fights. It was genuinely agonizing how often they fought.

He crept past the three, Two Time saw him, deciding not to say anything though, not that it was any of their business anyways.

"Hello, where might you be going John? Is there somewhere that you are being drawn?" Dusekkar said from behind him.

He turned around quickly, now directly facing Dusekkar, he had to admit it was quite startling, "Hi Matt- I was just going to head out for a bit... Y'know! Just lookin' around and not going into the woods!" Shedletsky wasn't able to stop himself from saying the last bit.

Dusekkar just narrowed his eyes, turning around to stand beside Taph once more.

He kept walking towards the door, sneaking past the others, it was actually quite easy too.

"🌲👈🚶🐔❓" (is chicken man going into the woods?) Taph asked Dusekkar.

"I am not sure my friend, I truly hope this does not become a trend." Matt answered, glancing at Shedletsky once more, watching him get past the other survivors with ease. You'd think they'd be more attentive with all the stuff they'd been through, apparently not.

Shed continued his way out, carefully opening the door, then slipping out with the same amount of care. It was raining worse than usual, the size of the raindrops were probably as big as acorns. That didn't stop him though, he needed to see 1x again, he needed to know what the 'unrestricted' place was.

Trudging through the rain, with the grass squelching beneath him, he entered the forest. The smell of pine was surprisingly refreshing. Considering how long he'd been here, it should've been painful to smell. He kept travelling through the foliage, weaving around the trees. The more he walked the more his mind cleared. He felt... weird? How hadn't he noticed this before? Normally there was this constant agitated feeling, seeming to happen without a cause. Now he felt, different? It wasn't a negative emotion... and- wait- was this emotion even his?

He then ran face first into a tree. Causing him to completely snap out of his thoughts.

"Gah- Fuck!" He blurted out, before quickly silencing himself once he noticed that the trees started to irregularly thin themselves out. Why is there a clearing?

He continued his trudge throughout the woods, more focused on his surroundings this time, not wanting to run into another tree. Why is he always running into some kind of tree? Are they purposely trying to spread into areas that he isn't paying attention to where he's walking???

Quickly abandoning that train of thoughts, he noticed that the trees completely cleared out into a small patch of land. There was someone just sitting in the grass. They seemed to be flaring their wings. Wings..? There were only three people including him who had wings in this realm. The others being Two Time, and 1x.

Was... Was this 1x?

He hesitated with every step, the grass softly squishing beneath him. Though there wasn't an audible sound, since there was no trees the rain covered most noises.

The closer he got, the more the figures silhouette turned into an actual person. Holy- it really was 1x! And he was just sitting there cross legged, as peaceful as one can be. Shed snuck closer towards 1x, before crouching down, and lunging. Fully tackling 1x, causing them both to topple over onto the soaking grass.

"What the-" 1x turned to face the thing that knocked him over, "Shedletsky?! I- How-" He was gobsmacked at how Shed found him, and even more at the fact that he was tackled.

"Heyyyy there 1x~ Funny seein' me here ain't it?" Shed answered in the most teasing tone he possibly could.

1x quickly sat up, flaring his wings and pushing Shedletsky off in the process, "Get off me you vermin! And how did you find me- this place?!"

Shed paused, only slightly moving from where he got shoved. He actually didn't know how he found this place. He just kinda walked around, following his gut, and ending up here.

There was a longer pause as Shed just stared at 1x. The myth looked less hatred-filled than usual, almost calm? He was only snapped out of his thoughts as 1x stood up, preparing to walk away. He was stopped by his hand being grabbed, turning back, he glared at Shedletsky. That didn't stop him from pulling 1x down back to the ground. Yet 1x didn't stop him either, unsure as to why he didn't want to refuse the motion.

"Sooo... Whatcha doin' out here?" Shed inquired, genuinely interested.

1x's stopped his glare, softening his gaze on Shedletsky, then immediately stopped. Shed noticed. Even if it was only for a fleeting moment, it was still there, and it was there long enough for him to notice. Was 1x actually starting to feel emotions besides hate?

Shed smiled tenderly at the thought of that. Though the sudden heartfelt smile confused 1x.

"...What are you doing. Stop it"

"aww c'mon 1x! I'm smiliinnggg, you should smile moree! I think you look pretty when you smile!" Sheds eyes widened at those last few words, "I mean- When you smile you look nice! Er- You look cool when you smile..?"

1x turned to face away from Shedletsky, he wouldn't admit this, but he felt weird when Shed had said that. He felt... good? The killer didn't know how to describe this unknown feeling. It was new, and he didn't like that one bit.

"Just shut up. If you're going to be here at least be quiet. Let me have my peace, alright?" 1x finally said, still not facing Shedletsky.

"Will do" Shed said sheepishly.

"What part about shutting up do you not understand." 1x started to scowl again.

They both just stayed silent after that, sitting beneath the moonlight. Both looking at the stars, and occasionally, at each other. The rain was a lovely ambience between them.

Oddly enough, though neither would admit it, they were actually enjoying each others presence.

Then suddenly, there was a loud boom from the skies above. There was thunder. There wasn't normally thunder.

"G4H!" 1x yelped, jumping slightly at the sound. His wings shot up, spreading to their max length, then easing back down slowly after reaching their peak.

Shed looked over at 1x, snickering slightly, "No way... Seriously? You're a 4th dimensional being. Who's scared of thunder!"

1x turned towards Shedletsky, meeting his eyes. There was a deep tint of embarrassment on his face, "I- Wh4- no- No! I'm not scared of thunder!" There was then an even louder crack of thunder from the sky. 1x physically jumped up, and somehow ended up leaning on Shedletsky. He quickly tried to scramble off but was held down softly.

He started to flail around as a response.

"Kay- 1x calm down! Just calm down, I'm trying to help you with the thunder!" Shed said desperately trying to hold down 1x. If someone saw this without context they'd probably think he was seizing.

Although those words did slightly calm 1x down, he was still squirming, trying to get out of Shedletskys grasp. Shed then wrapped his wings around them both, that seemed to calm 1x down more, he look at Shedletsky, finally calming down entirely. Now he was just laying on the former admin.

It was somehow embarrassing and calming for 1x at the same time, he connected his own wings to Shedletskys to block off the rain more, muffling the sounds outside. There was, yet another, thunder crack. Yet 1x managed to only jolt slightly this time. He stared up, meeting Shedletskys eyes.

1x began to relax, slouching his posture, along with his wings easing into a more relaxed position. Shed, of course, noticed this. Unlike the trees he keeps running into. But still, it made him so genuinely happy that 1x was somewhat warming up to him. Instinctively his wings puffed out. And almost as though they reacted to each other, 1x's did the same.

1x vaguely tried to shake his wings to stop the feathers from puffing out, yet all his attempts were futile.

They were both just seated there again, but instead of staring at the stars, they were staring at each other. 1x didn't look mad, matter of fact- he didn't look like he was feeling anything negative at all, even with the current circumstances? Shedletsky looked closer, and, 1x was even smiling. It was extremely faint, to the point that if you didn't know every detail of 1x's face naturally, you wouldn't notice it at all. But, of course, Shedletsky knew.

He always seemed to know almost everything of and about 1x.

Which was kinda concerning if you think about it in a more broad spectrum.

"Sooo... What's so good about this place that the literal embodiment of hatred is sitting here, peaceful even?"

Moving into a position where he'd be able to sit up, "This place is special, as I said a while ago, it's unrestricted." Unwrapping his wings and fully standing up, 1x spread them to their max. Then moving them into a flapping motion, gradually speeding up, and finally, being lifted off the ground.

Shed just stared awestruck at 1x. The moonlight was reflecting off of 1x's wings, he was practically glowing. The lights were perfectly wrapped around his form, bringing out every single detail. And the fact that it was still raining made the view even more ethereal. It almost seemed asthough 1x's tail was wagging?

"Whoa- holy-" Was all Shed managed to get out, he was truly speechless. He then looked at his own wings, slightly expanding them. 1x stared down at him, quietly flapping to keep himself afloat.

1x just stared for a moment longer, slowly soaring down back to the ground. He held out his hand, offering it to Shedletsky.

He took a breath, "Well? Aren't you going to try?"

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He took a breath, "Well? Aren't you going to try?"

"I-" Shed hesitated, reaching out for 1x's hand, lightly taking it.

His hands had astonishingly sharp claws bestowed upon them, why does the have them? He doesn't even use them to fight, because he uses the venomshanks, why do you need claws when your swords are basically your claws? They were also cold, but it wasn't a bad feeling, not even close. It was actually quite pleasant, it felt like it belonged on his own skin..?

1x stared, then proceeded to spread his wings, and waited for Shedletsky to do the same with his own.

"Thank you," Shed gripped 1x's hand, expanding his wings, "Thank you for trusting me, even if it's only for this moment"

They both just stared at each other, Shedletsky's face was smug, as always, while 1x's was of slight shock, moreso at the fact he was trusted. They were still, waiting to see if the other was going to make the starting move.

"I- sure... I may as well thank you too..." 1x mumbled, then closed his eyes, feeling the warmth radiating off of Shedletsky. It was awfully pleasant, and the creation of 'hatred' loathed how it nice it felt.

Although it wasn't visible to 1x, Sheds nervous smirk grew more prominent at the response. The answer wasn't negative. Which was already pretty out of character for the literal embodiment of his hate.

There was another moment as silence as they were there, the rain pouring down on them, as their minds both raced. Neither truly knew what was happening or what they were feeling. All they knew, is that this was, new.

Then as quick as the touch had been given, it was taken away. The next round had begun. And neither noticed the timer for it, as they were both focused elsewhere. 1x brought down his wings, mood dampened by the disappearance of the admin.

He was more than soaked from the rain. It still hadn't settled even after all the time it had been pouring for. There wasn't a single thought to move as he just stood there, trying to piece together what had happened, and what he was feeling. It was different, new, unrecognizable, painful.

The virus sighed, tail whipping in an agitated manner behind him. Then proceeding to shake his wings to get the water weighing him down off, it didn't do much though as they started to get drenched again right after. Beginning his trek to the killer cabins.

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Shed found himself in planet voss. He honestly hated this map, which was a feeling he didn't feel often. It was too open and inconvenient. He wouldn't doubt it if it was annoying for the killers, too. He faintly noticed himself not being as focused, with his mind still dwelling on what happened between him and 1x.

There wasn't much to do in this map, not many places to set up camp. So instead of finding somewhere to focus on where the killer was and prepare a slash, he tried to find the other survivors.

First he thought to check the generator spawns, Shed made his way over to a generator by the big tree in the middle of the map. He wasn't close enough to see who exactly was on it. Yet he could tell that there were two people on it, Two Time and Noob. He sped up his pace towards to generator, being careful as to how much noise he was making, not wanting to give any signs that they were here if the killer was close.

The two seemed to have just gotten to work on it. As there was only one puzzle done. Shed slowed down once again and crouched to start working on the wires.

He was never good at these damn puzzles, but he may as well attempt to do them for the team.

Glancing up, he saw the nervous expression on Noobs face grow as nothing had yet happened in the round. It had already been a few minutes. Shifting his gaze to Two Time, he noticed that oddly enough, they looked less insane than they normally do. Though it was unbeknownst to him on why.

He was quickly snapped out of his thoughts as he was zapped by a wire, he hissed and flinched his hand. Noob looked up at Shed giving him a look of remorse. They all knew how the zaps of the wires felt, no matter how good you were at connecting them you'd still get shocked every once in awhile. Those stupid machines were insanely run down and faulty, making them prone to problems.

After the initial surprise of the shock wore off, he began his progress on connecting the wires once again. He was so focused on his wire connecting, along with some other distant thoughts, that he almost didn't hear the scream that came from one of the corners of the map.

Quickly snapping out of his thoughts, he picked up his pace to begin a run towards where the shriek came from. He was passing through the white structures and weaving through the trees. Luckily he didn't end up tripping on any this time.

Then he reached the cause, turns out the killer was Jason, and was going after Elliot. He had a bleeding wound on both his head and arm, and was also crouched over in a corner.

The killers seemed to target Elliot the most out of the supporters, due to his instant healing ability. Shed quickly ran behind a wall near Elliot. Making himself visible around Jason as he darted beyond another wall.

Elliot discreetly watched Shed dash behind walls, understanding what he was doing. So he ran towards the wall he knew the admin was covered by. As he reached the edge, with Jason quickly trailing. Shed quickly jumped out slashing Jason. The stun was way too close for comfort. Though they both managed to get away for the time being.

"Thanks Shed! I'm glad you came to help- We should probably try and find the other survivors." Elliot blurted as they kept their pace, distancing themself from the killer.

The two of them noticed Taph in the distance, he was seemingly waving them over. And upon closer inspection it looked like he wasn't the only one there. So without wasting even a second of time, they sped up, eventually reaching Taph.

"😨🧍🍕✅⁉️" ("Elliot are you okay?!") He paused glancing around the corner of the structure they were in, "🔨❤️👉🧱❗" ("Builderman built a dispenser over here!")

Taph quickly nudged Elliot to where the dispenser was, making the tripwires and subspace tripmines known to him and Shed. They both stepped carefully over the tripwires and avoided the bombs. Both of them went behind the wall to sit at the healing machine, leaving Shed by the traps.

Shed kept an eye out for any survivors or Jason. Prepared to alert the others under the circumstances that something did happen. After all, they still had 25 minutes left on the timer. Though luckily it seems that the killer had gotten lost in the chase.

The admins mind kept going back to what happened with 1x and him, was the virus actually starting to feel emotions other than hate? Was he starting to actually feel? Shedletsky was only now just putting more thought into everything that happened, and ended up landing on a specific train of thought, why did he start to feel different? What was happening?

For what felt like the 100th time that day, he got snapped out of his thoughts again.

"Hey Shed, how's Elliot doing?" Guest inquired.

They both glanced to the wall that the dispenser was hidden beyond. Guest hadn't known it was there prior, but he could assume.

"I'd think he's doing better." Shed paused, "Where's Jason? Have you seen him?"

Guest gave a guilty expression, "When you slashed him earlier to save Elliot, I distracted him for a bit, then he just ran off? I think he got tired of me..."

"Dude."

Apparently Jason had ended up sneaking around them to reach the dispenser- How the hell did he know it was there? Moving past that, there was the sound of metal being smashed and the clatter of the pieces hitting the ground, and each other. Smoke filled the air caused by the destroyed machinery.

Shed and Guest quickly turned and ran to where the dispenser had been. Jason turned slightly towards them, before focusing back on the previously injured Elliot. Easily landing an unexpected gashing wound on him, causing the blood to flow out from his torso and arms. He coughed up even more as he tried to run, albeit he wasn't very successful.

The two sentinels that were present tried to help and interfere, but Jason dodged their attempts and continued his pursuit of the employee.

As a last ditch effort, Elliot used his rush hour and tossed a pizza in the case that anybody who would happen to be injured would find it.

Yet, it didn't make too much of a difference, and he ended up getting beheaded. The crimson blood splattered on the surrounding area, coating the killers machete as he pivoted back to the others. Somehow Jason had avoided every trap Taph had placed without even noticing it.

Shedletsky was the next target, being charged at. He dodged a slash with it just narrowly missing him. Then tried to flee behind one of the many blank structures in planet voss, though it didn't work well, as Jason had easily caught up to him and slashed once more. That one had actually hit Shedletsky , causing him to get a deep wound on his arm. Blood started to dribble along his arm, droplets falling onto the grass, staining the green blades crimson.

He then tried to get a slash on Jason to stun him, giving him time to run away, and hopefully be able to regroup with some of the other survivors. That also didn't work, his prediction on where the killer would show up next was wrong, and Jason ended up being behind him. Not in front.

"Shit..!" The admin whimpered, only managing to glance behind him before getting stabbed in his other arm with the machete, then slashed as Jason tossed his weapon back to retrieve a separate one. The whirring sound of the chainsaw filled the area as that tore into his skin, causing even more blood to splatter everywhere on the ground and flow down his body. His skin was torn in several different areas. He was losing too much blood. He had to get away. Now.

He choked up more blood, making him gasp for air in return. There was still 20 minutes left on the timer. Guest charged at Jason, knocking the killer back.

"Go! Quick! I'll try to hold him off!" Guest commanded only glancing at Shed.

Following the soldiers commands, he started running away from the scene. Though it was hard, as his wounds were slowing him down and leaving a bloodied trail behind him. Jason didn't seem to be following him anymore, as Guest was now the one being sought after.

He covered himself with his wings in a failed attempt to get less blood everywhere, he had just noticed that his wings weren't injured, only slight scratches. But they were covered in blood now from the desperate try at stopping his wounds from bleeding.

Shed quickly pulled a chicken from who knows where, and took a bite out of it. It slowly regenerated his health. The wounds were closing themself, the blood was now shortened to a slight dribble, as the source had been closed off. Though he was still covered in his blood, staining his white sweater a crimson red. It was never a good feeling to have your skin mend itself within the short span of just a few seconds, but, all of them got used to it after awhile.

Feeling like he was healed enough, Shed went back towards where he saw Guest last. Though neither were there. Only splatters of what he assumed to be from Guest, were scattered on the ground. Which set off a blaring alarm in his head. He needed to find the soldier, and he needed to find him now.

Instead of finding who he wanted to, he found Taph. Which wasn't expected, but maybe he could show where Guest was.

"💨🏃‍➡️👉👮‍♂️🤕🙏" ("Quick! Guest's over here, he's injured and needs help!")

It took Shed a bit before he actually registered what the demolitionist said, taking the information and darting to where Taph had gestured. In his haste, he almost stumbled over a subspace tripmine, though he quickly sidestepped and took note of the placement. Maybe it would benefit them later.

He turned the corner to see a bloodied Guest get his block, but before he could punch, the soldier was swiftly beheaded. As if there wasn't enough bloodshed already, there was more now. The admin stared at Guest's corpse limply fall to the ground, blood spilling out from where his head should've been and pooled around the body.

Shed snapped himself out of the trance he found himself in, and slashed Jason. Or, atleast, tried. The killer had moved out of the way of the slash, and met him with a machete to the gut. The dried blood on his hoodie started to get covered with a new layer of the fluid.

He quickly launched himself back to create some distance between him and Jason. But it didn't seem to do much, because he was met with another stab, it was to his right wing this time. The feathers were clumping together slightly from the fresh ichor. Shed grunted and kept trying to make more distance, he was ever so slightly successful this time, managing to dodge a hit from Jason. He felt a flicker of hope as more space was created between the two. Though the light was snuffed out as the killer used raging pace, forcing the admin run back, while Jason only had to walk.

The admin tried to go to where Taph's subspace tripmine was, yet it was of no use. He couldn't make it in time.

Then there was one final tear in Shed's skin, before everything faded out. Yet right before everything went dark, he could feel the blood pour out of his body, but he could also feel a fistful of his feathers get torn off of his wings. Which puzzled him enough to ward most of the pain away. Why would Jason need his feathers? He never had before, so why now?

"Hey man, you did good out there! I feel you on the missed slash..." Chance said from behind him.

Shed startled, his wings ruffling up, "Yeaa... Wait- How'd you even die? I didn't see you the whole round?"

"So, funny story, my gun blew up, and I had an insane stack of weakness! Ya can't blame me!"

"Ah.."

They both talked for awhile longer as a plethora of other survivors started to spawn back into the cabin. Then, eventually it turned to last man standing. Shed hadn't bothered to spectate after he died. But, he would now, as he wondered who was left.

The timer had now gone from 5 minutes, to 1 minute and 15 seconds.

It had been Two Time who survived to be last. They had a couple wounds on them. Yet as the LMS started, their wings tore through the skin on their back, making them crouch down and start shaking slightly. They steadied their breathing and stood up straight, flexing their wings.

They flashed a grim smile at seeing the symbol of The Spawn, "O Spawn, I thank thou for bestowing this blessing upon me with mine secondary life." They muttered under their breath. Pressing their hands together slightly and closing their eyes for a moment. Then bringing their hand to the dagger that rested on their waist.

Jason started his pursuit on Two Time, they managed to evade that attack and landed a backstab on the killer. Giving them the time to run towards the center and crouch behind a structure, their wings folded slightly to conceal their position more. Apparently Jason had somehow figured out where they were and stabbed them from the back, a backstab as one would say. It was right between their wings, which was still a sore spot.

They stumbled onto their palms from the unexpected force. Jason took advantage of that to grab their head, and cut their head clean off, as they were still weak from the sprouting of their second life. Their blood flourished on the grass, and also partially on the killer.

Jason's slaughter was finally finished. The survivors had lost.

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With the round over, the killer was transported back to his cabin, alongside the other killers. He saw C00lkidd playfully bounding over to him, eyes lit up with happiness.

"Hi Jason! You were so good at playing tag that round! Two time didn't stand a chance against your skills!" C00lkidd said cheerfully.

1x walked up to Jason, petting the red kid between his horns, "Nice job, did you get what I asked of you?"

He reached into his pocket, pulling out a handful of brown and cream feathers, handing them to 1x.

"Thank you." The virus said before heading out of the main cabin, tail swaying contently behind him. He went out to his own designated area, the rain softly landing on him.

The door creaked as it opened, then once again as it was closed. 1x walked over to his desk and placed the feathers down softly. Organizing them from darkest to lightest, and longest to shortest. The colours were beautiful, just the sight of them satisfied 1x. He didn't know what he was trying to achieve or why, all he knew is that he had to. But, why was getting part of Shedletsky included in it? What did it have to do with him?