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Mo, ReGect and Z all layed on the couch bored beyond their minds
"Why is nothing happening today dude. "
"𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩? 𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤. "
"Yeah but isn't it nice that we just don't really have to do anything I guess its boring but at least 𝘐 finally have a break hah"
Z said leaning back more on the couch
Mo sat next to him honking her horn in agreement
"𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙨 𝙄'𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙜𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚'𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙩"
ReGect said getting up from his spot
"What? No dude just chill out for today at least. you never listen to me, just listen this once. "
Mo honked her horn in agreement once again
"I dont even think you could do anything 'scary' if youre not even scary. And you know what else? ReGect, You say all this dramatic 'scary' crap but you never actually follow through."
He said giggling and smiling looking over to ReGect
Mo honks twice—almost like she’s laughing.
ReGect wasn't moving.
After a minute, they responded, Z assumed they didn't respond immediately because they were collecting themselves.
"I'm not scary? You really wanna start that right now?"
"What? Am I right ha? Last time you showed me somthing 'scary', it wasn't even that scary all you did was bring me to the nether and make somthing scream really loud. I didn't even see it dude."
Z looked over to him after that realizing they weren't moving again
Z's smile began to fade looking over at Mo who also was just as confused as him
"Uh dude ReGect? I was just joking its fine. You're seriously not gonna make me go to that place again right?"
They still weren't moving, not even a little bit, not a single particle on them even moved
He looked over at Mo again and he realized his vision was getting blurry
"Fuck. dude I-"
Z rubbed his eyes maybe to see if something was in them
"ReGect?"
He opened his eyes to see him in the Nether fortress again
"Woah what? Dude ReGect its not that bad I was just joking get me out of this place you can't be serious."
He looked forward and saw ReGect standing at the end of it
"Not scary ReGect get me out of this place"
No matter how many times Z said he wasn't scared, it was all true because he was fucking terrified, he hated this place he never wished he would have to go back, but here he is, back in the nightmare.
"Dude. REGECT GET ME OUT OF HERE I'M DONE I'M NOT PLAYING THIS GAME"
Z tried to scream out to them at the end of the hallway, looking at them through the window but they just ended up running out of view
"fucking ReGect GET BACK HERE"
He started shaking a little, he really thinks he ticked ReGect off this time, he thought they were just joking but he didn't think they actually would take it so serious.
He looked behind him maybe for a chest or something but ended up seeing a long dark hallway torches on either side.
*your seriously not gonna make me go doesn't his right ReGect there's no way I'm doing this*
"ReGect I didn't sign up for this--GET ME OUT. "
A voice whispered in his left ear right next to him;
“𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤’𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙚.”
Z turned around trying to find where the voice came from, swearing he heard it behind him, turning around he froze-- there he saw ReGect again just standing at the end of the corridor, perfectly still, not a single particle.
The end of the corridor was darker than the rest, only backlit by a sickly yellow lamp that made his silhouette look wrong, stretched, like something wearing his shape.
"Dude, not scary, ReGect--just get me out of this place. "
No matter how many times Z told himself he wasn't scared, he was, he was absolutely terrified, and his chest said completely otherwise too, it felt like his heart was coming out of his chest.
Not to mention, his hands were shaking and sweating, he wish he never had to come back.
“ReGECT! Get me out of here—I’m DONE, I’m not playing this game, SERIOUSLY!”
Just then he watched as ReGect’s head tilt slightly… then turn.
then ReGect ran—vanishing from view once more
"Fucking—ReGect! GET BACK HERE!” running away won't do anything dude you dont scare me"
*it's whatever you making me have to deal with that scares me..."
He slowly took his first step into the corridor
*You’re not seriously gonna make me go down this, right? ReGect? There’s no way. I’m not doing this.*
He froze for a moment again, extremely hessitant for whatever could be waiting.
He heard another whisper in his ear, but it was more distorted
Z turned so fast he nearly fell.
Nothing.
Just the torches flickering.
Then he turned back—
And ReGect was there again, standing inches away.
Not blinking.
Not breathing.
"Dude. Your not fucking FUNNY"
He felt like they were toying with him at this point, him being scared is their ammusment.
He looked back down the corridor, getting up and walking down it, fast.
He was sweating everywhere, and thoughts scattered throughout his brain but he could barley hear them, in his ear there was loud ringing and it was getting louder each second to the point he was forced to keep his hands covering his ears.
"Re.. Gect... "
He could barley hear himself.
He began to feel dizzy and words he wanted to speak choked on his breath not being able to get it out.
He fell to the ground with how loud the ringing was, non stopping, so loud he felt his ears would start bleeding any second, but it was all in his head right?
“ReGect—dude—stop messing with me. This isn’t funny.”
Was all he was able to get out before he started hitting his head, trying to do anything to stop the ringing. It felt like it's been hours now.
He looked up and saw ReGect's yellow and black legs
Z tried to grab at him but ReGect just pushed his leg away in time but Z ended up successfully grabbing his other one, he pulled himself up by using ReGect, he was so weak he pretty much put all his weight onto ReGect.
But ReGect didn't do anything about it he just stood there letting him.
Then everything stopped. The ringing, the whispering, everything.
“𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙… 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙪𝙣.”
ReGect leaned forward just enough that where their forehead was ment to be nearly brushed Z’s, their eye(s) met, Z's eyes were rimmed red and heavy, like he hadn’t slept in days, darting from shadow to shadow trying to keep them open even out of exhaustion.
But ReGects eye looked hollow, not dead—just… uninterested, as if nothing in the world mattered enough to reflect through it. No spark, no tension, just a resting emptiness.
"Get. Me. Out. "
"𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙚𝙩? "
"Do I look scared?"
"𝙉𝙤"
"Dont do that we both know"
Z said breaking eye contact to rest his head on ReGects shoulder, ReGect started to help hold him up after that, he felt how hot he was and he felt Z's breath on his shoulder, he was just hoping he'll surrender and say he's actually scary.
"𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩? 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙? 𝙎𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩. "
"I'm not saying anything just get me out"
"𝙎𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩"
His voice was lighter now, he had a feeling he would win this argument, at least he hoped he would.
"You-"
ReGect smiled even without their mouth waiting for him to say it
"Im not saying it. You're not scary, none of this is 𝘺𝘰𝘶. It's just shadows and scary noises, you can't scare me with loud ringing all you're doing is harming me. "
ReGect immediately let go of him, leaving him there standing, he stumbled a little right before ReGect just disappeared.
"𝙊𝙠𝙖𝙮"
Is all he said before leaving
"Wait what?"
Just then Z looked around to see where he could have gone to but he got distracted when he heard screaming coming from far away, it wasn't low nor was it high pitched it was more disoriented and distorted, non human sounding.
looking down the corridor he saw ReGect, but they had a face now and their mouth was unhinged and yanked open and their eyes were pitch black. Their face looked sunken, looking directly at him.
Screaming.
Z's eyes widened seeing this, he immediately stumbled trying to turn around just to run into a wall.
He got closed in.
He turned around and saw that they were still there, still coming closer, the screaming getting louder his vision began to turn red, and began getting blurry and static began to flood where he was looking he saw figures and shadows all around his and felt things trying to grab onto him
Loud whispers were all around him screaming and whispering in different languages and saying curses toward him.
He began to hyperventilate,
His breaths came too fast—short, sharp pulls of air that never felt like enough. His chest kept rising and falling in quick, uneven jolts, fingers trembling as they tried to steady themselves.
He began to feel more dizzy than ever before he was gasping, almost choking on his own breath. Each inhale hitched, stuttering, like his lungs had forgotten how to work. His eyes darted everywhere, wide and glossy with fear.
Then slammed shut trying to block everything out he looked forward ReGect was running toward him now
Screaming louder than he's ever screamed before he opened his eyes and he was back on the couch, he immediately stopped screaming and scrambled to get up and re position himself.
Mo was honking her horn over and over again almost as if she was laughing and then ReGect was next to him, also laughing his ass off.
Z got up and immediately went over to hit and fight ReGect, getting on top of him, and trying to hit what he could.
"𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪- 𝘼𝙃-"
He screamed as Z began pulling him off the couch and started hitting his chest.
"𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙒 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙃𝙐𝙍𝙏𝙎 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋"
Mo just sat on the couch laughing to tears, holding her stomach
While Z was just punching the life out of ReGect
"𝙂𝙀𝙏 𝙊𝙁𝙁𝙁𝙁𝙁𝙁𝙁!!!!! "
"YOU'RE NOT SCARY I HATE YOU YOU'RE LITTERLY MY BIGGEST OPP."
Mo barley could breathe now she started kicking her legs everywhere.
-
Z and ReGect were 'hanging' out in the kitchen together Z smelting his ores and ReGect there just to bother him. mo was up in her room making more music.
"𝙎𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡, 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙄 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪"
ReGect said smiling and looking over to Z.
But Z didn't return the look.
He didn't respond immediately either.
"Yeah. You did, really bad, I dont think im gonna see you the same--like--ever again. "
"𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙙? "
Z didn't respond for a moment again, he was really effected by it, he just wouldn't say it.
Z sighed before saying his next line
"Yeah of course it was that bad dude, I keep replaying it. Every time I blink, I’m right back there. I don’t… I don’t think you get how close I was to losing it and how terrified I was. "
Z said resting himself on the counter
ReGect didn't think he actually scared him even that bad, he used to put people through worse for days at a time before he got rejected.
"𝙒𝙤𝙖𝙝 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩?"
"Yeah whatever dickhead. I'm trying to be cool about it but I still feel my heartbeating out of my chest just thinking about it"
"𝙒𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙙? 𝘿𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖"
ReGect smiled again, joking around.
"It's not fucking funny. "
His smile immediately dropped
"𝙒𝙤𝙖𝙝 𝙙𝙪𝙙𝙚, 𝙪𝙝-- 𝙄'𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮. 𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙥 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙗𝙖,i put people through worse, I thought you could take it. "
"You didn't think it would mess me up that bad? -- are you serious?--dude you dont get it because that's you're whole life scaring people shitless, have you ever experienced it yourself?"
"𝙐𝙝- 𝙣𝙤, 𝙄 𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙨...𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙧! "
"It's not funny, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 not funny. "
He started to choke on his words it almost felt like there was a lump in his throat.
"𝘿𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙕 𝙄'𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩? 𝙄 𝙙𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙤 𝙄 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡. 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙄 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙? 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙣'𝙩 '𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙮' 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝."
Both of them stopped talking for a second they just looked now understanding eachother and why it effected them so much
"Yeah, I'm sorry too, but you should know when I say it, it's a joke. You know I get scared easily anyways, you fucking terrify me. "
"𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙮𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙄 𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙨"
"We dont talk about that... I was uh-- I had a bad dream. "
"𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚."
ReGect said laughing