Hunting Slenderman

[dont_turn_around]

In the mist and fog and silence, there is a cave. There is darkness within darkness there and nothing more and the faint whiff of something ... not right.

But there's a drawing stuck to the rocks that frame the opening, a childish grouping of trees and a tall, thin man, with the words TAMAN SHUD.

Here is the end.

"I think we should go here," says Jack.

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[dont_turn_around]

He hisses at her.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Please let it be that part," Steve mutters, still draped over Bucky.

[jack_inthegreen]

Jack(Herne) says, in a voice like the wind through pines, "You have tarried here too long, tree man."

In the distance, there's a sound.

Like a hunter's horn, summoning the riders to their mounts.

[dont_turn_around]

 


Funny how his stare and silence are no longer so menacing.

[jack_inthegreen]

"Do you hear them?" Jack says softly. "They're coming. They're coming for you."

Now is the baying of hounds.

Now is the thunder of hoofbeats.

Now is the hue and cry of hunters in the moonlight, on the night when the veil between worlds is most thin.

Now comes the Wild Hunt.

[zodiac_rabbit]

Momiji edges back into the light of the cavern, and out from behind his two rescuers.

His eyes flick between the super-powerful-individuals-not-near-him-and-doing-way-too-scary-stuff, and the people in the middle of the room. Feeling useless, he decides to move towards the seemingly-less-powerful-people-near-the-chocolate-person in the middle of the room. Maybe he can help them.

He sneaks there and kneels next to Steve. "Can I help?"

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve just shakes his head, eyes on the Green Man. "When this is over."

[zodiac_rabbit]

Momiji nods, and watches.

[a1enzo]

There are... a lot of noises he did not expect to hear in a cave.

"Dani?" he whispers. Is this anything in her realm of experience?

[ami_imperfect]

"I have no idea what's going on," she replies under her breath.

[ambriel]

Ambriel stays frozen, watching with wide eyes.

Waiting.

[jack_inthegreen]

Anyone in the tunnel to the cave will feel the heat of horses and stags, hear the call of voices and rich, hearty laughter. They will see lights like torches, maybe even glimpse something of the Hunt--creatures made of magic, the kind that laughs as it rides into battle and fights for glory and honor.

They sweep into the cave, more sound than vision, and surround the Slenderman.

He can do nothing against their combined strength, their combined ferocity, their combined joy.

As quickly, as noisily, as raucously as they came, hunters, mounts and hounds leave the cave, the Slenderman in their midst.


He will not be seen in these parts again.



Jack slowly lowers his hand.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve scrabbles at the chocolate covering Bucky's face.

[nerves_of_ice]

It's thinner there than anywhere else; a mere candy-coated shell compared to the thick block that surrounds the rest of him.

Bucky's eyes are closed, but he rasps something urgent-sounding under his breath.

... it's probably a good sign that he's able to draw air enough to breathe, at that.

[ambriel]

"Is he conscious?" Ambriel asks, approaching quickly. The angel kneels opposite Steve and starts to peel away thick blocks of the chocolate surrounding Bucky's torso.

[zodiac_rabbit]

Momiji stares at where Slenderman no longer is. "He... he's just... gone." The young boy is completely shaken. Enzo had mentioned 'deleting' him, but in some corner of Momiji's mind he had thought that maybe he could be redeemed.

But, he was just... gone.

He shakes himself, and looks over to Steve. He seems to be doing alright, so Momiji looks around. Maybe there was someone else he can help?

His eyes fall on the huddled bleeding person. Slowly, Momiji moves slowly towards him and kneels down. "Are you okay?"

[v_knidh8er]

Hat's breathing is shallow and rasping. He winces at the sound and proximity of Momiji's voice.

[a1enzo]

Enzo is quite as stunned as Momiji. That is certainly not what he was expecting. Effective, though.

After a moment he shakes himself and, like Momiji, gravitates toward the person most in needs of assistance.

"I know first aid..."

Looks like a bit more than that will be needed, though.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani follows after Momiji and her boyfriend, hanging back a little because she feels there's not much she can do right now.

[zodiac_rabbit]

"Does the bar have a place to help people who are hurt?"

Momiji is looking closely at the wound, and his eyes get bigger.

"I don't think Mr. Creepy did this... this looks like a gun wound."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"He's breathing," Steve says, sagging with relief. "Oh, God, buddy, keep breathing." He clears the chocolate away from Bucky's nose and mouth.

[ambriel]

"They wouldn't have wanted him dead. That's one blessing at least."

Ambriel wrenches at the chocolate, breaking it in two over Bucky's chest with a snap. Next is freeing his right arm.

[nerves_of_ice]

He gasps in a deeper breath as the chocolate's torn from him, giving his ribcage room to expand.

His eyes are still closed when his right hand lashes out, reaching blindly for a target.

[mix_it_up]

"Oh -"

Asami keeps a small distance so as to avoid being struck, and shines her flashlight on his chest, away from his eyes.

Her voice calm again (after that finale, even she needed a moment of recovery), "Hey, it's okay."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Bucky," Steve says, holding Bucky's shoulders to calm him. "It's me. It's your friends."