We were now inside of the woods, trekking through the forlorn mass of overgrowth and mystery. I admit, I was a little more curious than concerned about where The Slender Man was leading me to. At a few points I did think of ditching the demon; I'm actually really good at sneaking away from things without anyone noticing since I'm pretty much invisible and ignored by everyone, but my instincts just forced me to comply with it.

I quickened my speed, trying to match pace with the entity who was moving rather fast, but being the idiot I am, I constantly slipped and tripped over every single little thing that jutted out of the fucking earth.

"You can't possibly be this clumsy, (CP/N)" Slender Man scoffed in my head. "Get ahold of yourself, if you you wish to be a useful proxy to me."

"FIRST of all," I snap at it, "I can hardly see where I'm going, it's freaking PITCH BLACK out here, and I can't glide over everything like you can. I'm stuck having to use my sorry legs."

I heard a sigh come from it afterwards and The Slender Man stops gliding. I quickly stop behind it, and look at it with a worn expression.

"Over time as my proxy, you will train here and get used to walking these grounds. You will also to learn navigate through this forest, and soon you won't travel through these woods without remembering every location of each and every tree. Not to mention, you will probably also be much more careful..."

It's blank pale face turns around to me and I simply shrug my shoulders, unsure of how to respond, and also I didn't want to piss it off by being a smartass. I still didn't fully understand what a "Proxy" was; my guess so far is that its basically a servant of some sort. Maybe being the servant of whatever this demon-like thing was sounded cool, but our initial meeting of it basically kidnapping me out of the blue just didn't sit right with me. I could've probably done something to get myself out of the situation, but honestly I'm too lazy to even bother. Ill just treat this like some very weird vacation off from school.

After what seemed like ten hours of me just trudging through dirt and Slender Man showing off "His" luxury of being able to glide, I finally started to feel fatigue from being drenched by the rain outside of the woods and having been walking for so godamn long without a break. I dont know why this man who has the ability to TELEPORT places couldn't just effortlessly snap us at our destination.

"Hey Mister Spaghetti, when are we gonna get to your place? We've been walking forever and I don't think a small two minute sit down would hurt, just saying," I speak up, tugging at my shirt that was now flattened to my body. Slender Man turned to me once again and said to me, "One thing that all my proxies have learned is to overcome showing weakness in any condition. That means pushing through even in the harshest situations. Walking for a little in the rain is nothing compared to what you will soon do for me."

"But, I'm not your proxy. Not yet."

I heard Slender Man sigh in my head again, then he muttered, "You are very annoying. You will fit right in."

"...Cool," I respond, flashing a small grin at him. I usually never fit in anywhere, at school, and even at home my parents think I'm weird and sometimes wave me off. If being annoying is a way around in this spaghetti mans' cult, then I'm 100% ready to go.

I keep in step behind The Slender Man as we continue walking, and he continues to speak to me with his telepathy "From the second you step into these woods with my consent, you have a title, wether it be that of a proxy or other else, you are to uphold your duty as to what you are. Is that understood?"

"Ok. So, since I'm considered this "proxy" title now, what exactly does that stand for? Like what will I do and stuff?"

"You aren't exactly a proxy yet. You will first traverse through what I will call 'ranks'. You are now a , then you will become and afterwards . Lastly, you will reach your destined rank, and hopefully from there you will become . As you grow, you eventually reach the role of a 'True Proxy'."

Ranks? It was beginning to sound like a military branch I didn't sign up for. General Spaghetti looked freaky cool and all, but I kinda hoped this proxy thing didn't mean I had to fight people, or kidnap others like it did me. I could definitely do it, but once again, the only things I'm good at are sleeping and eating. And listening to music. Popular things among lazy teens. I'm basically a useless potato.

"For now till you actually teach me all your ranks and stuff, I'm just going to stick with "proxy". Simple, easy, and not a word I'm probably never going to use again in my life," I say, scratching the back of my head.

It seemed The Slender Man was clearly getting tired of hearing me respond, or talk in general, for all of a sudden I felt unable to speak and my mouth felt glued shut; no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open it. "You are what I say you are, (CP/N). Now, I think it's best you keep quiet while I explain everything to you thoroughly."

I glare at him, bummed that he'd do me like this when I was only being curious. I couldn't help that I had a lot of questions or that I was seemingly being a headache ; what do you expect to happen when you, an 8 foot tall otherworldly stick man plucks a random kid whose just trying to enjoy their sick day off at home and force them to be your super sidekick follower. Or whatever.

Since Slender Man is clearly telepathic and could read minds, I make my comeback at him for shutting me up by think attacking him with a bunch of memes. The man instantly reacted.

"What are you doing??" He said, his telepathic voice sounding angry. "What are these ridiculous thoughts? Stop them at once! I shall give you your voice back if you comply!"

I think Slender a happy Pepe before I stop thinking of the worse memes I could imagine. He sighs and after a few seconds, I could feel movement in my mouth again. "We're even now," I say happily. "Now, you know not to mess with me or I'll torture you with more memes. I know your weakness."

"You're something else, (Y/N). What was I thinking, choosing you..."

"Yeah, what were you thinking?"

- - -

The Slender Man and I walk a little while more, except this time in silence. I've begun to notice that as the two of us made our way through the woods, the trees had begun to get taller, and the area around us grew darker; the sky above was now completely hidden behind the tops of the trees. It was pretty cool, since I'd never seen a place where the trees were plenty and tall enough to block out the outside world from view.

The land seemed a lot more barren compared to what it looked like first walking in. The sounds of birds chirping had stopped, and the air here felt very still and cold. It was no longer even drizzling, and the only thing I felt was the cold air penetrating through my clothes and onto my skin.

The other thing I saw that was strange about this place was that there were large slash marks, bullet holes, gashes, and more in the trunks of the trees and in places on the ground. The marks looked like they came from the heavy impact of weapons and other uses of force. That was the part I'd have to say that excited me a bit, yet also frightened the fuck outta me.

"We are almost to our destination," The Slender Man said, "it shan't be too long now. But since you haven't been this close to our home before, you might begin to feel faint due to the spell on this cursed field and you will pass out for a while. The others will come and help you the rest of the way."

I stopped and waited for a moment, then looked up at Slender Man in confusion. "I don't feel faint or anything. Are you sure we're there?"

The faceless turned to me and I saw a crease form in his "facelessness", as if he were frowning. "What? I ask cautiously. "I'm asking to make sure...?"

"You haven't succumbed to it yet. Why are you still standing?"

"I don't know, isn't that what I should be asking you?? First you lead me all the way here into the woods and now you want me to just drop unconUFFF-"

Something pale and fast had suddenly darted out from behind The Slender Man straight at me and had bashed me in the head with a blunt force before I could even react. I was immediately knocked out upon impact, and the last thing I heard in my consciousness was Slender Man mutter, "Thank you, Masky. . . ."