Goose's PoV:

I woke up with a headache, so what would any normal person do? Look in their bag for pain killers! I realized I was still in my attire, and forgot to take a shower, so that's what I did, I got out of the shower drying my hair to the best of my ability, brushed it, and took my medication, brushing my teeth and getting a cup of water, considering my mouth felt dry. Once I was ready I looked around for Sweet Corn, panicking when she wasn't in the room, calming myself down, I reassured myself she was probably already downstairs.

I was about to leave when I heard a knock at the door, so I opened it up to find Kagekeo, "Hello Gachō!"

I waved back to him, "Hello, Kagekeo!"

"You can call me Kage, if you want," Kagek- Kage said.

"Oh! Well, why're you here?" I ask, "I agree, honestly."

"Oh! Gachō does have alter personality like Liu!" Kage clapped, "The rumors are true!"

"What rumors?" I ask, tilting my head a little.

"Why dont' I tell you over a glass of wine?" Kage smiled, and I nodded.

"Sure!" I smiled, "Sounds fun!"

We went up to Kage's room, because he insisted, and I gawked at all the prank tools, so many pranks could be pulled! "Oh wow! I love your room!"

Kage smiled, "You are prankster?"

I nodded, "I love a good prank."

Kagekeo laughed, "Maybe if you win trials, we can pull pranks together!"

I nod, that was definitely a good reason to try to win.

"So," I start, "What are the rumors?" I guess Mental is also curious. I am.

"Well," Kagekeo starts, "I'll start off wen you were being kidnapped... Masky says that after he knocked you out, you- or Mental woke up instead, and started kicking Masky in the balls, is that true?"

I shrug, "I wouldn't know- Yes it is true, fucking pathetic-" I slap my hands over my mouth, not wanting Mental to say anything I would regret, really?! Yes.

Kage nodded, "Right, so both Hoodie and Masky had to knock out Mental, but they rose out of unconsciousness, and only passed out when hit with a cross over the head."

"I can explain," I start this time, "I can wake up from chloroform because well, I guess state of mind, but being hit upside the head with a blunt object, that makes me faint." Yeah, that explains it all! Shut up. No u

"I see," Kage nodded, "Well, then there's the fight with Jeff..." Wait what? When did that happen? Last night. What?

Seeing my confused expression, he continued, "It happened yesterday, I don't remember much of it, but Mental somehow knew Jeff decided to tease Dollface-"

"HE WHAT???" I outraged, who could do that! He is dead meat!

Kage nodded, "Yeah, Mental showed up in front of Jeff's door, anyways, after he asked how They knew, Mental states, 'I've got friends on the other side.'"

I nodded, I didn't know what mental meant, maybe the white shadows? Who knew.

"Well, it's time you go eat breakfast!" Kagekeo said, leading me back down to the dining room.

I head over, making jokes with Kagekeo, getting a glimpse of a white shadow, which I thought nothing of. I wave goodbye to Kage, and head over to my seat, but before I could, Masky and Hoodie stopped me, "Where were you? Neither of you were in your rooms," Hoodie deadpans.

"Sweet Corn probably went to train, and I woke up earlier and Kage wanted to hang out, so I was with Kage."

Masky slowly nodded, "Okay, just, both of you I must know where you are at all times."

I look around, "Uhm- I don't see Sweet Corn, but I do see a white shadow of a little girl."

"Fuck," Masky groans, "Both you and Dol-Multiply now?"

I shrug, "Bye, I see sausage."

I sat down, noticing Katie, which I strike a conversation with.

"So, today's the last day before the first trial, what do you think it is?" Katie asked me, which I shrug.

"Dunno, it could be anything, but I do have a book for it!" I proudly state, getting out my 'CP investigation' book, full of multiple stuff, "Ehhe, this is book one, but I think this one has the Proxy Trials section.."

She looked surprised, "You write about this stuff?"

I nod, "Yeah, I usually don't let people see it, but we're both here, so I think it's fine now."

She nods, and I take that as a 'go ahead' so I start, "Section 4, Proxy Trials. Description: The Proxy Trials are located every 5 or so years, 10 contestants are chosen, which are watched for 6 months before the pre-trial time, AKA the kidnapping. Nobody knows if it is real."

Kate laughed, "Well, we know it's real, are you gonna update it?"

I shook my head, "Not right now."

I continue, "I'll skip to the trial part, just trial one, Trial one: It is unpredictable what the first trial could actually be, but from a source it is believed to run to the woods, last one dies, or the farthest from the woods, but with a twist- wait- the rest is scribbled out, what happened? Wha-" I look at the page, the words were scribbled out, what looks like not my hand-writing is 'NO NO NO NO NO NO' I turn to the back of the page, the rest was scribbled out there, but one thing was clear, it was a depiction of a slender page, my face pales at this, I didn't write this.

"Are you okay?" I look up, but it's not from Katie, a white shadow of a little girl was looking at me, concern in her face, "I'm fine, just.." I trailed of, "I don't remember drawing this."

"Who're you talking to?" Katie asks,

"Just the little girl who is a marble white," I state, and look back at the page, I close the book, clearing my throat, "Well, the rest was scribbled out, to the point I can't salvage it."

I notice Sweet Corn talking to Masky and Hoodie, and she doesn't look so great about it either, so I wave over, "Sweet Corn! Over here!" the white shadowy little girl- who I'll just call marble, bouncing and waving her over as well.

Sweet Corn notices us, and with a face of relief, went over, "Hi Goose!"

I wave, and the little girl whispered in my ear, "You should ask her where she was last night,"

I nod, "Hey, where were you last night? If you pulled an all nighter I am going to make you take a nap."

"Uh, long story short- I got lost! And fell asleep." Sweet Corn explained, sus. Yeah, sus, vote em out, I raised my eyebrows at her, looking at her complexion,

"Your hair is all messy, you look tired, and don't even get me started on those clothes." I deadpan

"So, I got lost in the woods, Jeff found me, I went to the kitchen for something, and I went back outside for stargazing and fell asleep there. I just woke up a few minutes ago."

I slowly nodded, a stoic expression adorning my face, "You trained in the woods, didn't you?"

"Uhmmm..- TROUBLESHOOTING MY PROBLEMS AWAYYYY-" she cheered before trying to leave, but I grab her wrist.

"Nuh-uh, I won't ask," I started, "But I do know you need to eat, you barley ate anything yesterday, the only thing I recall you eating was the bacon from yesterday's breakfast."

Katie nods, "Yeah, I agree here, I don't remember you eating anything yesterday, Dollface."

Sweet Corn sighed, "I guess that is true..." She started before continuing, "I'M FUCKING STARVING TIME TO NOT GET DRUGGED-" Oi! Spoiler!

"What?" Katie looks at us, confused, "Drugged?"

"Oh, it's just an inside joke-" I explain, when IT REALLY ISN'T.

"YEAH! UH- I'VE BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH ANIME ANYWAYS HAHAHA- CHILDRENS BEING EATEN BY DEMONS! MY BRAIN SEEMS TO NOT BE FUNCTIONING CORRECTLY AFTER WATCHING THE PROMISED NEVERLAND HAHAHA-" Sweet Corn yells, and I look at her concerned,

"Yeah, and I watched it with her, during it, and I said, 'time to get drugged!' at one point," I elaborate, hoping it seems legit.

"And Norman got shipped to another orphanage instead of getting eaten by a demon! That's when he got tested and drugged, along with some other kids under the age of 12." Sweet Corn states, I've actually never watched it, so this was kinda spoilers, but it's fine, I knew it anyways... a bit- "And kids as young as 6 years old gets shipped and eaten by demons!" She exclaimed, well- I didn't know that, but I nodded along

"You gotta watch it if you want to know why I'm crazy like this. Beware, there's lots of blood!" Well, if there's demons eating children, I'm pretty sure it'd be like attack on titan, I remember a lot of gore when I watched it at... I don't know, I was young.

"Anyways, we should go eat breakfast. I'm going to lose my appetite if I keep talking about children being raised as food." and I nod, following and going to gobble down sausages.

I think about how this is the last day to prepare, so I eat up fast, not wanting to waste any time.

All of a sudden, Sweet Corn choked on the sausage, luckily I learned how to save someone from choking, I raised them up, Standing beside them slightly to one side, and raised one hand to her chest to support her, I gave 5 sharp blows between her shoulder blades with the heel of my hand.

Sweet Corn stopped choking, and I let a silent sigh of relief, checking if the sausage was out, realizing she swallowed it.

"I'm fine now, thanks Goose," She smiled, and I nodded, casually going back to my seat (which was right next to her) and continued eating, Katie gaping at us.

"You just saved Dollface's life so casually!" Katie gawked, and I shrugged.

"Well, someone had to do it," I snort, "Nobody else was."

I could feel eyes on me, and I turn around, finding Masky and Hoodie looking away, and I raised my eyebrows, Why're they shocked? Good question, I snorted at that, but Sweet Corn fell of her seat backwards and hit her head on the ground? What is going on?!

"Sweet Corn!" I gape, furrowing my eyebrows in confusion, "What's happening?"

Apparently EJ was there, or was called there, and struts over to both of us, and I say, "I think there's a demon or some crap, because she literally choked on a sausage out of nowhere, and now fell out of her chair backwards, when she wasn't doing that, get an exors- oh wait"

"NoOoOo As If YoU cOuLd Do SuCh A tHiNg-" She says, and I was confused, but before I could ask, she passed out, and I helped EJ bring her to the clinic area.

When she was dropped off, I went to the obstacle course first, practicing running for the trials, maybe Sweet Corn should stay out of this one, with this type of stuff happening right now, but also for her to recover, next I worked on my machete skills, I grabbed a pocket knife too, practicing that, and keeping it.

After 30 or so minutes, I couldn't stop the urge to check up on Sweet Corn, and get a rock thrown at me, I glare at the person who threw it, and it was one of Sweet Corn's imaginations, "What the heck?" I sassed, glaring at him. He just smiled, and I sigh, before coming up with an idea, turning to the white orb that follows me around now, "Can you hear him?"

The orb nodded, at least, that's what it looked like, so I asked, "What'd he say, if he said anything?"

"He said," The orb spoke, their tiny voice evident, "Dollface is trapped in a nightmare, according to what Reiko said when she checked up on her."

I widened my eyes, "C-Can I wake her up?" I ask, a simple yes no question.

He shook his head, and I sighed, "Can I at least comfort her? Will she wake up soon?"

I didn't hear anything, but the orb, who I'll call Orby, spoke, "He says, I'm sure she'll wake up soon."

I nod, looking back at the mansion, before going to spar with Katie.

____

I sat with Sweet Corn, gazing at them worryingly, I was petting a white bunny that came from my imagination, and for some reason, I could feel the softness of his fur. EJ was off doing something, and I chatted to Mr.Ghosty Toast, who I'm glad I could see again, catching up with him.

"OH HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS WHEZUS JAPANSESE I'M IN A WAR NOW!-"

Sweet Corn woke up, and Mr.Ghosty Toast exclaimed, "Oh! Your friend woke up! Hello there, I'm Mr.Ghosty Toast!" for some reason, they sounded like stampy, but it always made me smile.

"Hi! I'm Happiness-Multiplied, but you can call me Dollface or Multiply!" Sweet Corn greeted, and Mr.Ghosty Toast gave her a side hug.

"Can I call you Happiness? Meeting you makes me so happy!" Mr.Ghosty Toast chirped, smiling.

That seemed to break Sweet Corn, and Mr.Ghosty Toast waved his translucent pure white hand in front of her face, "Uhm, I think I broke her.."

I laughed, "Don't worry about it,"

"Uhm- WhattheheckityheckhappenedIwasjustdebatingforamomentandthenIheardyoulaughingandMr.GhostlyToastseemskindaupsetdidIdosomethingwrongorsomethingomgkillmewaitnodon'tkillmeyetGoosedon'tcommitsuicidepleaseokaywtfdidIjustsaygodkillme-"

"Who the everloving fuck are you two talking to?" EJ butts in, and Mr,Ghosty Toast who we'll just call MGT decided to show himself.

"MGT!" I yelped, but it was to late, MGT showed himself.

"Hi, I'm Mr.Ghosty Toast! But you can call me MGT because that's what my friends call me! My two best friends are Happiness and Goose! Oh! I know! I can call Happiness Felicidad, which is happiness in spanish! Do you spea-"

"MGT! You're rambling again," I laugh, and he laughs too, "Arrepentido!"

EJ goes on his phone, texting someone, then Slender appeared, "Who is this Mr.Ghosty Toast you speak of?"

WAIT SLENDER TEXTS?????

MGT floated up to Slender, "Hi! I'm Mr.Ghosty Toast! But you can call me MGT! Here have a sticker." MGT somehow got stickers from nowhere, getting a happy face sticker and placing it on Slender's suit.

"NIGHTMARE I WANT TO GO BACK- I REGRET WAKING UP-" Sweet Corn yells, and I ask, "Who is Nightmare?"

"Do not panic child, you are safe, we do not see any of you as a burden, especially you two," Slender said, and I am not confused, wait- annnnd Sweet Corn fell back asleep again.

"Have fun! And Nightmare please do not traumatise my new friend!" MGT chirped, wait what-

MGT then falls silent, then chirps, "Can I join you then? You can be one of my new best friends!"

Psychopathic laughter was heard, then fading away- wtf???

"I'll take that as a yes!" And then he disappeared, leaving me alone in silence of Slender and EJ.

"Goose, I when MGT appears again, I want you both to come to my office, just ask Masky or Hoodie to lead you to it."

With that, he left, and I went to go back to train.

__________

I was training with the pistol when I got startled by a cheery "Hello!" I turn around to find the beaming Mr.Ghosty Toast, his colors were different now though, he have very faint colors of yellow and orange, his eyes a pale cheery green while his hair was a blond, his skin though was still white.

"Hello, MGT," I greet him, "Slender says when you appear again, he wants to talk to us, so let's go find Masky or Hoodie so they can lead us to his office."

He nods, dragging me away, "I want to go make friends with them! C'mon!"

After introducing MGT to Masky and Hoodie, to which now have smiley face stickers on their shirts, we made it to the office.

Masky and Hoodie knocked for us, and after a minute or so, they entered, Both MGT and I entered after them, Slender nods to Masky and Hoodie, and they both leave.

"Hello there, MGT and Goose," He greets, beckoning us to sit down, which we did, "I came to discuss about what you are MGT, and why you only seemed to appear here after Goose and Dollface have shown up."

"Oh!" MGT chirps, "That's simple! I w-am their imaginary friend who also protects them! I haven't seen them in forever though, because they had to move.."

I nod, "Mhm, so when they appeared here with other er- things I had imagined," and I mutter, "But I hope not all of them, honestly, I don't have ann mari..."

"Who is Ann Mari?" Slender asks.

"Ann Mari is like a guardian of sorts, they-"

"Ann Mari is Goose's biggest most prettiest porcelain doll they own!" MGT cuts in, smiling at the fact of one of his best friends.

I nod, "Both MGT and Ann Mari were kinda like guardians of sorts,"

"I see." Slender wrote down something, "MGT, can you explain to me where you came from?"

MGT stopped smiling, glancing at me, "Ah, yes, Goose you may be dismissed,"

I left, confused on what happened for MGT to want me out of the room.. I shrug it off and went back to train, as we have a big day tomorrow- or tonight..

________-

I was now training with Sweet Corn, we did the obstacle course and I came in first, but Sweet Corn was right behind me, after that, I thought for a moment, "You know how you use knives?" I ask her, I had a machete, and I was good at it too, but Sweet Corn didn't really need or get to try any other weapons, I think back to how my house doesn't guns, but instead swords, I had a hunch She'd be good at a katana or something.

"Well, yes," She stated, "I guess."

"I think you'd do great with a katana, it may fit your fighting style, from watching you spar, I mean- it was one time, but I feel like- I feel like you'd do well with a katana," I said, thinking back to it, MGT was still at the office with slender, if I believe so, because they weren't back yet.

"I would very much like to try the katanas!" They chirped, and I smiled, pulling out the katana I had behind/in front of me- well, where they wouldn't see it, "It appears I have one!"

"DO YOU HAVE 2? I'M GONNA SLICE EVERY ENEMY WITH THE KATANAS AND WE'LL SURVIVE THIS TOGETHER AND IF WE DON'T WE'LL CHILL IN HELL AND HAVE GOOD WIFI AND DO WHATEVER WE WANT TOGETHER YAYYY!!!" Holy- she went apeshit over it.

"I. Need. It." She concluded, and I handed over another one, beckoning her to follow me to a dummy.

"Here, you can use this to see how it fits!" I chirped.

She grabbed the katana and spun it, slicing up the dummy expertly, well, as expertly as you can get, like a natural, and I squeal, "You're a natural!"

"Hey Goose, do you have another Katana for me to use?" She asked, and I grin, pulling out another katana from behind my back, like m a g i c !

She grabbed the katanas and put both together by the handle ends, grinning like a mad man.

"Now how do I keep these 2 together?" I thought for a second, before grinning,

"Super glue and tape," I joke, grinning.

"GREAT IDEA!-" She yelled, sprinting inside with the katanas, leaving me laughing, "I was joking!" but she was long gone before she could hear me.

I run after her, "We can get one that is basically merged together already," I wheeze-laugh, pulling out a double bladed katana thing from nowhere, don't ask how I'm keeping these behind my back, it was the last one! I swear it was the last one! She ran up to me and yelled, "OMG A DUAL BLADE KATANA GIMME-" I gave it to her, laughing.

"Here, let's go back outside, you can see how well it fits," I laugh.

"Okay!" She agreed, so we headed back outside.

Once outside, she spun the katana, slicing up the dummy with both blades, they were like a master of them!

"How are you so good at the katana holy beef chocolate cows-" I deadpan, gaping to the now sliced up dummy, which was barley standing in one piece.

She sobbed with no tears, "I don't even know!!" I could hear the frowny face!

"Veubpeviba" I basically keyboard smashed irl, laughing.

I spent the rest of the day training with the machete, but I saved up energy for the trials, "Ayo, make sure to save up energy, we both kinda know what the trials are like right now." I said during some part of training.

"Dinner in ten minutes!" This time it was Masky who called out, storing my machete back in it's sheif, I went back inside, knowing we can't miss this dinner.

Followed close to Sweet Corn, I fell in between Katie and Sweet Corn, I chatted to Katie, but the whole conversation was tense. Same with dinner, I had to eat some, but it tasted weird, ruining my appetite, and I notice the Mentors were there, glancing at us and the whispering to each other, Mental and I both glare at them when they look our/my way.

Sweet Corn dropped her food and fell off the seat, but before I could do anything, MGT appeared and helped her up, "Lizzy! Don't do that! Felicidad needs to eat!"

I didn't question it, and glanced at Sweet Corn, a silent question if she's okay.

Instead of answering, Masky walked up to Sweet Corn and put his hand on her shoulder, but due to reflex, she quickly turned around, almost hitting him.

"The hell?" Masky spoke, and I chew my fingernails, my leg bouncing up and down even more.

""AaAaAhHh I'm So SoRrY! I fOrGoT aBoUt ThE tRiAlS aNd I tHoUgHt yOu WeRe HeRe To KiLl Me-" Masky just stared, and I bite on my nails even more, making it bleed.

My hand was smacked out of my mouth by Masky, "I swear, you're like Toby."

"Anyways, uh Multiply, what the hell happened? And who were you even talking to?" Masky asked, I would think it'd be this 'Lizzy' MGT mentioned.

"NO ONE! HAHAHA I'M JUST A BIT CRAZY AHAHA YEAH I'M JUST CRAZY THAT'S ALL-" Sweet Corn spoke, and MGT whined at an empty spot,

"Lizzy! C'mon! They're niceee!" MGT whined, and now I was confused, wasn't 'Lizzy' like MGT?

"I-I mean uhm..-" She tried to explain, but Masky silenced her,

"That's enough," He left.

"Ayo, is Lizzy like MGT?" I ask, "Like- more powerful than our other imaginations?" I whisper the last part Sweet Corn.

She looked up at me, "What do you mean?"

I shake my head, "Like, can choose who can see them, and hear them, and also do a lot of stuff like him."

She nodded, whispering to me, "Yeah, they mostly do whatever they want."

I nod, "Also, you have to eat, even a little, MGT is hugging thin air, so I think he's hugging Lizzy."

She looked back at me and confirmed, "Yeah, he's hugging N- Lizzy."

"Okay, so now is the time you should eat a bit," I smile, we needed to come across as not sus, so that includes eating, even if it tastes odd.

I choke down some of the food, as I had lost my appetite, furrowing my eyebrows at it,

"I can't," She muttered, "Knowing that it's drugged makes my stomach twist and turn, having my intestines wrapping itself around my lungs and stomach, and my kidneys trying to escape..."

I look at her in concern, but nodded, "Then, just pretend to be fainted when they take us to the trial thing."

She shook her head, "No," She paused, then continuing, "I'll faint for real." and then she fainted.

I took her now unconscious body and carried her to our room, bringing dinner to an end, once I put her to bed, I jump into my own.

Can I take over while you're asleep?

Please do not scare the poor people who have to move us.

*~~~*

Dollface POV :

I threw the last knife and it hit the heart once again. "YAY!-" Suddenly all my energy started draining. Based off the sky, I think it was about 6 am. I fell back and started getting sleepy. Noooo- Why did I have to get sleepy now out of all times? I didn't stay up long enough to see the sunrise- I NEED TO SEE THE SUNRISE- I rubbed my eyes and went to the targets to grab my knives and put them back where I got them. I pulled out my pocket knife and tested its sharpness.

I accidentally cut myself.

I stared at the blood oozing from my left index finger, I am a right hand user after all, so it makes sense to use my left hand as uhm... A test subjet. This apparently caught my attention and I regained my energy and stared at the blood. I squeezed out some blood to suck on it. It's delicious blood, any blood lover would drink it.

When I squeezed out enough blood, I started sucking on it. Yum. I regained energy somehow lol. I ran around the mansion for no reason, great exercise actually. So today, dinner's going to get drugged, meaning we would be taken to our trials. They might force me to eat the drugged dinner. Such a shame, I don't want to get drugged- I'd rather sleep than get drugged. They should just take me in my sleep instead of drugging me and taking me while I'm unconscious.

I should try to get on the roof and watch the sunrise! But how can I do that without waking anyone up? Maybe Yamisou, Hatou, or any of my shadow imagination could help. Then a girl in a wedding dress, dark black hair, with a veil covering her face with her eyes closed, holding hands with another girl, which was a shadow similar to her, but with dull, open red eyes, and they both approached me.

"Hello, are you the girl, or uh, girls, I imagine seeing in my mirror?" I asked.

They both nod. "Bloody Mary?" I asked, tilting my head. "No," the girl in the wedding gown says, "Not exactly 'Bloody Mary,' we just seem to look.. Rather similar to her. We are your imagination afterall." I nodded, replying, "Oh.. Makes sense. Can I name you, the one in the wedding dress, Mary? You do kinda look like Bloody Mary anyways." She nodded, "Of course." The shadow of Mary said, "You can call me Reiko. It's like, the first name you were thinking of anyways." She read my mind?

"You can read my mind?" I asked, "Yeah, I can I guess," Reiko answered.

"Also, why do you shadows speak in a rather... Deeper than most people?" I questioned, "No offense though!" She nodded and said, "No offense taken. I guess we're just born with a deeper voice than most people." I nodded, "Makes sense!"

"Also, is it possible for you guys to magically carry me up to the roof?" I started, pointing to the roof of the mansion. "I want to go up there to see the sun rise."

"Sure." Reiko said, teleporting me up to the roof. "Woah!" I said, shocked by her teleportation. "I didn't know you guys can teleport- Like, I know you can like, disappear and reappear, but like, I've never seen you guys teleport until now."

"Hahaha, surprise then." Reiko jokes.

I was amazed by this for a while, then I noticed the sun rose. I watched as the sky slowly fades from one color to another.

When the sun finally rose up high enough to the point that the sky was blue, I sat on the roof, not sure if I wanted to ask them to take me back down. Reiko immediately took me down back on the grass and I smiled and laughed for some reason. Whatever the reason was, I forgot I laughed. It's probably breakfast, but might as well train a bit more before I go eat.

I hear my stomach rumble once more. "Go eat you starving child. You skipped breakfast because that's what you normally do, you skipped lunch to train, and you skipped dinner because of the wine. Bro go eat breakfast today, okay?"

I nodded, "Fine, I will, but I won't guarantee I'll eat all of it. I mean, it depends what it is 'cause I'm rather... Picky over food." I smiled sheepishly. "You should head back, Masky and Hoodie will be unpleased, I'm sure." Oh no. Now I don't want to go back. But I have to or it'll be worse. Sigh, time to suffer now.

I headed back inside, kinda scared. I saw Masky standing in front of me, "Dollface! I mean, uh- Multiply, whatever you prefer, anyways, WHERE WERE YOU?! NEITHER YOU NOR GOOSE WERE IN YOUR ROOMS LAST NIGHT!"

I shivered and almost started crying. I got deja vu except this scenario is worse than my deja vu flashback thing. "I uh..-" I expected Masky to yell at me some more until I cried out my response, maybe hit me a bit, but he didn't. I kept my gaze away from him, kinda fearing him right now. I remained silent for a bit, then Hoodie said, "She's a bit weird, I've been noticing she seems to act different every now and then. So don't be too harsh on her."

I mentally thanked Hoodie for saying that, although it was kind of insulting cause I thought of it as Hoodie insulting me and comparing me to a crybaby, which I am clearly not compared to my younger brothers. "Pffftt! Busted!" Reiko said out of nowhere, from behind me. I quickly turned around me and glared at her. "Okay, fine, sorry." Reiko apologized, then Masky asked, "Who are you looking at?" I remember Yamisou didn't want me to tell anyone, besides Goose since they can already see them, about them since they're basically a part of my imagination.

"Sweet Corn! Over here!" Goosel said, as a white shadow girl waved at me. I waved at her. Masky and Hoodie were still confused since they can't see either of my imaginations or the girl in white. Could she be the ghost who appeared in my room earlier one night? I don't know.

"Hi Goose!" I said as I went over to them. PHEW- CLOSE CALL- "Wow, you actually got away from trouble. But Goose might also ask you where you've been because I'm sure they already know about you being missing all night." Reiko said, which kinda got me upset because I do not want to explain my situation, just like I've done with Jeff. "Ah fuck," I muttered. I guess I'll have to prepare myself in case Goose asked.

"Hey, where were you last night? If you pulled an all nighter I am going to make you take a nap." DON'T TELL ME GOOSE KNOWS ABOUT MY ALL NIGHTER TOO- AAAAAAA-

"Uh, long story short- I got lost! And fell asleep." I said, kind of telling the truth but kind of lying. I mean, I was awake the whole time, but I actually did almost fall asleep until my miracle of blood appeared. I'm sure they didn't buy it so I guess I had to explain into a more detailed form. But before I could say a word, they stared at me for a bit and said, "Your hair is all messy, you look tired, and don't even get me started on those clothes."

"So, I got lost in the woods, Jeff found me, I went to the kitchen for something, and I went back outside for stargazing and fell asleep there. I just woke up a few minutes ago." I explained in a bit more details. "You trained in the woods, didn't you?" Goose found me out. AH SHIT- I feel like disappearing now. "Uhmmm..- TROUBLESHOOTING MY PROBLEMS AWAYYYY-" I cheered before leaving.

"Nuh-uh, I won't ask," Goose started, "But I do know you need to eat, you barely ate anything yesterday, the only thing I recall you eating was the bacon from yesterday's breakfast."

"Yeah, I agree here, I don't remember you eating anything yesterday, Dollface" Katie nodded, agreeing.

I sighed, "I guess that is true..." I started before continuing, "I'M FUCKING STARVING TIME TO NOT GET DRUGGED-" Whoops. Spoiler. I accidentally said that outloud. Now Katie knows. Yikes.

"What? Drugged?" Katie said, confused.

"Oh, it's just an inside joke-" Goose lied.

"YEAH! UH- I'VE BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH ANIME ANYWAYS HAHAHA- CHILDRENS BEING EATEN BY DEMONS! MY BRAIN SEEMS TO NOT BE FUNCTIONING CORRECTLY AFTER WATCHING THE PROMISED NEVERLAND HAHAHA-" I lied, seeming crazy.

"Yeah, and I watched it with her, during it, and I said, 'time to get drugged!' at one point," Goose agreed, trying to go with my lies.

"And Norman got shipped to another orphanage instead of getting eaten by a demon! That's when he got tested and drugged, along with some other kids under the age of 12." I continued, taking pride in the anime. "And kids as young as 6 years old gets shipped and eaten by demons!" I exclaimed.

"You gotta watch it if you want to know why I'm crazy like this. Beware, there's lots of blood!" I said as Goose nodded along. "There are 2 seasons of 'The Promised Neverland' so far." I added on.

"Anyways, we should go eat breakfast. I'm going to lose my appetite if I keep talking about children being raised as food." I said, as I headed back to the dining area. Goose nodded and followed me.

I sat down. Sausage for breakfast. Unusual. I've never had sausage for breakfast. I would only have sausage at lunch or dinner. Oh well, gotta fill up my starving stomach-

I ate all my sausages, then someone slapped my back from behind me and I started choking on my sausages. I tried to swallow it down, but I couldn't, so I pretended I was fine. I looked behind me and it was... Nightmare? My new imagination? Awh come on-

"Good luck surviving from your sausage, Dollface." Lizzy the Nightmare (Can be called Lizzy or Nightmare for short) said. Ah shit. Lizzy/Nightmare disappeared on me as I silently tried to stop myself from choking.

Goose stood up, standing beside me slightly to one side, and raised one hand to my chest to support me, I think, then they gave 5 sharp blows between my shoulder blades with the heel of their hand.

I managed to get the food out but I kept it in my mouth and swallowed it because I fucking starved myself yesterday lol-

"I'm fine now, thanks Goose." I said, smiling as if NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. Yay playing dummy now.

"You just saved Dollface's life so casually!" Katie gawked, and Goose shrugged, then saying, "Well, someone had to do it," they snorted and continued, "Nobody else was."

I looked back, seemed like Masky and Hoodie saw. I just continued eating my sausages.

Well I could've saved myself but seemed like Goose noticed before I started dying, so I guess I'm good. If I was unable to, I guess I would've choked to death and someone might think I got food poisoned lol. But seriously, that prank that Nightmare played on me was not fun.

"Are you sure about that, Dollface?" Lizzy/Nightmare said, appearing behind me. I fell off my seat backwards and hit my head on the ground. Am I going to get amnesia now? :(

"Sweet Corn!" Goose gape, furrowing their eyebrows in confusion, "What's happening?"

I saw EJ in the corner of my eyes and Nightmare/Lizzy said, "Don't tell them or I'll kill them."

I saw EJ and Goose approach me, but I couldn't hear what they were saying for some reason. Probably because Nightmare talked over them. So I just responded to Nightmare while I could, since apparently my head was spinning.

"NoOoOo As If YoU cOuLd Do SuCh A tHiNg-" I said, before passing out.

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I woke up to see Nightmare once again, except the room was dark. Nightmare started laughing and said, "Welcome to your first nightmare!"

I looked at them then said, "FINALLY I GET TO EXPERIENCE A NIGHTMARE- THE ONLY THING CLOSEST TO A NIGHTMARE WAS THAT TOUCAN BIRD THING EATING ME ALIVE-"

"Idiot, that's not a nightmare. It didn't traumatize you, so that didn't count."

"I know." I said.

"It's time for me to play with you for a bit, if you don't mind.." Nightmare said, and I nodded, "Sure, but can you like, set my nightmare in like a war thing? Kinda like the trials? So that I can prepare and get traumatized at the same time. You get to traumatize me and I get to train in the meantime. Sounds fair?"

They nodded and soon disappeared after saying, "Just think of a weapon and it will appear in your hand or something like that. It depends on the weapon. Also, if you die here, you won't die in real life, but if you injure yourself here, you'll injure yourself in real life."

I nodded at that in understandment. Then they disappeared for real and I was set up in a scene. MORE TRAINING HAHAHAHA-

I got to train and fight with many weapons, but soon, I woke up. Nightmare was kinda sad that they didn't really get to traumatize me yet.

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As I woke up, I felt pain all over my body, but I don't feel any injuries. Maybe Nightmare healed me up and let it slide this time and left me with the pain? Ehh, whatever, it'll be over soon. I felt like I got shot and I yelled, officially waking up, "OH HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS WHEZUS JAPANSESE I'M IN A WAR NOW!-"

EJ looked at me weirdly, which made me realize I was out of the nightmare.

"Oh! Your friend woke up! Hello there, I'm Mr.Ghosty Toast!" I heard a voice say.

I looked at where the voice was coming from and said, "Hi! I'm Happiness-Multiplied, but you can call me Dollface or Multiply!" He gave me a side hug.

"Can I call you Happiness? Meeting you makes me so happy!" Mr.Ghosty Toast chirped, smiling.

I kinda had to think for a moment, processing what he just said. I seemed broken after his question.

'Since I apparently make him happy because we met he wants to call me happiness which is basically the last part of my name which it seems weird for me to hear people say that in that language, but calling me 'Nook' seems worse, and "Akunamatata" is even worse- So should I let him call me that or-'

"Don't worry about it," I heard Goose laugh and I panicked, "Uhm- WhattheheckityheckhappenedIwasjustdebatingforamomentandthenIheardyoulaughingandMr.GhostlyToastseemskindaupsetdidIdosomethingwrongorsomethingomgkillmewaitnodon'tkillmeyetGoosedon'tcommitsuicidepleaseokaywtfdidIjustsaygodkillme-"

"Who the everloving fuck are you two talking to?" EJ asked, and I just realized I didn't understand a single shit I said.

"MGT!" Goose called out. I'm pretty sure that's the abbreviation is for Mr. Ghostly Toast.

"Hi, I'm Mr.Ghosty Toast! But you can call me MGT because that's what my friends call me! My two best friends are Happiness and Goose! Oh! I know! I can call Happiness Felicidad, which is happiness in spanish! Do you spea-"

"MGT! You're rambling again," Goose laughed, causing Mr. Ghostly Toast to laugh as well. "Arrepentido!"

No clue what that means, butI broke myself once again. I started thinking over my life choices.

'Okay what have I done for this confusing part of my life- Let's see, so I created Lizzy The Nightmare and they started torturing me a moment ago and they tortured me a bit more in my nightmare and I was about to head into war-'

"Who is this Mr.Ghosty Toast you speak of?" Slender appeared. Holy shit- I didn't hear what Mr. Ghostly Toast said and I panicked, rambling out loud, "NIGHTMARE I WANT TO GO BACK- I REGRET WAKING UP-"

"Who is Nightmare?" Goose asks, and before I could respond or hear what Slender says, Nightmare said, "With pleasure." And with that, I fell back asleep.

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I waited for Nightmare to appear, which they soon did. Soon, after the scene starts, Mr. Ghostly Toast appears. Wait when did he get here-

I continued to fight in the fake war, which for some reason was WW3. Then I heard Mr. Ghostly Toast say, "Hello! I came to help you and Nightmare!"

Hmm, help with training or traumatizing? Eh either one works I guess.

"Training, silly!" Mr. Ghostly Toast cheers. Did he just read my mind? Yes. He did.

"Why the hell are you here-"

"I came to help my two new friends!" Mr. Ghostly Toast chirps.

"I don't do 'friends.'" Nightmare grumbled.

"But I wanna be your friend!" He whines, sadly.

I looked at them, then I got shot by the enemy, which I have no idea who's country I was on or which country was the enemy. Nightmare started laughing as I layed down on the ground in pain. Not traumatizing. Yet. I guess I got too distracted in hearing their conversation that I got shot. Hmm where's the blood- I looked at myself. No blood. Such a shame- WAIT DOES NIGHTMARE KNOW I LIKE BLOOD-

"Of course I do. That's why I made it look like you're not bleeding. In real life, you're probably bleeding to death." Nightmare teased. Ooh blood in real life?! Epik.

Mr. Ghostly Toast gasps, "No! You're hurting them!" He healed me. Well, healed the pain since there wasn't really a wound to heal anyways.

"Chill, this is just a dream, they won't get hurt." Nightmare said sarcastically.

"Oh, okay." Mr. Ghostly Toasts sighs of relief. Then Nightmare sighs, "This is why I don't do 'friends'..."

"Well I am your friend now, here, have a sticker," he states as he put a happy face sticker on Nightmare. Nightmare/Lizzy doesn't seem happy lol-

Nightmare frowns and just shapeshifts into a black crow and flies away. Then I woke back up.

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I awoken again. "NIGHTMARE WHERE DID YOU GO- I DIDN'T END WORLD WAR 3 YET-"

"World War 3? What are you talking about?" A voice asks, I looked at where the voice came from and it was just EJ.

"Uhh- Nothing- Just a dream I had-" I said, then he asks, "Also, who's nightmare?"

I started sweating and lied, "No one-" I just realized I was suddenly bleeding, hoping EJ won't find out- But he smelt the blood. "The hell? Your bleeding- You were fine earlier-"

"Yeah uh this is fine- I felt pain after I woke up last time, you know, when we met MGT?" He nodded at my sentence, then said, "Then how come you didn't tell me? I could've gotten you some pain killers." I shook my head and said, "Nah, I don't need any- I'll be fi- OW-" I said as I got off the bed, feeling a lot more pain than before.

EJ forced me to get on the bed and pulled out some pain killers. "Here." He gave them to me, but I refused, getting back up. "I'm fine-" I breathed in a bit, then coughing due to pain in my heart.

"No you're not."

[To be continued, I will come back to this part later- TRAINING TIME LOL-]

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I exited from the clinic and headed outside for some training. Welp at least I learned how to use some guns from the "nightmare" I had earlier, thanks to Lizzy/Nightmare. I saw Goose at the training grounds and I snuck up behind them.

"You know how you use knives?" Goose questioned. Well, yes, thanks to my fight with Hoodie and the pretend WW3 "nightmare." "Well, yes I guess." I responded. I did kinda trained a lot yesterday as well, so- Maybe.

"I think you'd do great with a katana, it may fit your fighting style, from watching you spar, I mean- it was one time, but I feel like- I feel like you'd do well with a katana," Goose suggested. K-Katanas?! :0 Longass knives woa yes. "I would very much like to try the katanas!" I chirped. Knives + Stick = Katana. Easy.

"It appears I have one!" Goose said cheerfully and I started going crazy over it, "DO YOU HAVE 2? I'M GONNA SLICE EVERY ENEMY WITH THE KATANAS AND WE'LL SURVIVE THIS TOGETHER AND IF WE DON'T WE'LL CHILL IN HELL AND HAVE GOOD WIFI AND DO WHATEVER WE WANT TOGETHER YAYYY!!!"

"I. Need. It." I concluded.

Goose led me to a dummy and chirps, "Here, you can use this to see how it fits!" I grabbed the katana and spinned it for no reason then started slicing up the dummy.

"You're a natural!" Goose complimented, then I thanked them. "Thanks Goose, I actually kind of have experience, since I used knives and sticks before so- I just combined my skills and somehow mastered using a katana?" I seriously have no idea how I'm good at katanas. I should get another one to tie both katanas together so I had a long stick with blades. Kinda like a spear, but better. Sounds epik.

"Hey Goose, do you have another Katana for me to use?" I asked, kinda getting my hopes up for no reason. They smiled and pulled out another katana. OMG I DIDN'T JINX MYSELF THIS TIME! YESSSS!!! I grabbed the katana and put both katanas together from both handle ends. "Now how do I keep these 2 together?" I asked myself, thinking of some vines to tie it together. I'm not quite sure though.

"Super glue and tape," Goose jokes, grinning. "GREAT IDEA!-" I yelled, running inside with the katanas in my hands. I guess I went out of hand. Maybe they have some in Bloody Painter's room? Nah I don't need to bust in his room for some glue. Eh I'll find some myself.

I searched the mansion for some glue. Then Goose found me, pulling out a dual bladed katana, "We can get one that is basically merged together already," omg... A DUAL BLADED KATANA- I swear I almost cried tears of joy. I ran up to them and yelled, "OMG A DUAL BLADE KATANA GIMME-"

They gave it to me laughing before continuing, "Here, let's go back outside, you can see how well it fits,"

"Okay!" I agreed.

We headed outside. I spun the katana and sliced up the dummy again with both blades. I feel like I'm a master at katanas for some reason. Shit I'm gaining too much pride. "How are you so good at the katana holy beef chocolate cows-" Goose questioned and I sobbed but no tears, "I don't even know!! :("

"Veubpeviba" Goose spoke random words and then laughed.

We both trained for the rest of the day. "Ayo, make sure to save up energy, we both kinda know what the trials are like right now." Goose said, and I nodded. "Dinner in ten minutes!" Masky called. Shoot. Drugged dinner.

Goose followed close to me, forcing me to go into the dining room. Goose fell in between Katie and me. Goose chatted to Katie, but the whole conversation was tense. Same with dinner. I didn't want to eat. But I had to or I'll be sus. I just couldn't bring myself to eat or drink anything. I forced myself to eat it but my hands just shook. I watched my hands shake and Nightmare came up behind me and spoke, "Don't you dare eat that shit-"

I dropped my food on my plate and fell off my seat. This time I didn't hit my head. "Wh-"

"If you eat that shit I can't play with you. The drug won't let me enter your dreams, cause you won't have any." Nightmare grumbled madly.

True true. "Bu-"

"Lizzy! Don't do that! Felicidad needs to eat!" MGT appeared.

Nightmare replied, rolling their eyes, "Ugh, not you again Mr. Happy Friend."

Goose stared at me silently as I got up and looked at the 2 of them. Masky walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder. Due to reflex, I quickly turned around, when I realized it was Masky, I almost hit him, but then I remembered I was here for the trials. Shit. "The hell?"

SHIT- "AaAaAhHh I'm So SoRrY! I fOrGoT aBoUt ThE tRiAlS aNd I tHoUgHt yOu WeRe HeRe To KiLl Me-" I panicked

"I swear, you're like Toby." Masky said, slapping Goose's hands off their mouth. Bloody hands? How is that possible- I mean it's possible, but I bet that hurts. Is Goose handling the pain just fine or what? Ehhh whatever they probably have high pain tolerance anyways. I swear if I jinx myself and it isn't I'ma-

"Anyways, uh Multiply, what the hell happened? And who were you even talking to?" Masky asked, and I looked at Nightmare/Lizzy and they cross their arms, making it look like an "x" and rapidly shook their head. I looked at Masky, then back at Nightmare, and back at Masky.

"Well?" Masky questioned, and I saw everyone staring. "No! Don't tell anyone!" Nightmare shouted and I panicked and lied, "NO ONE! HAHAHA I'M JUST A BIT CRAZY AHAHA YEAH I'M JUST CRAZY THAT'S ALL-" Why did I have to shout that- Now everyone heard me :(

"Lizzy! C'mon! They're niceee!" MGT spoke, and Nightmare hissed, "nO!"

"I-I mean uhm..-" I tried to explain what the hell I said, "That's enough." Masky said, leaving. Oh god what the hell have I done- I sat back down and put my head on the table, refusing to eat.

"Ayo, is Lizzy like MGT?" Goose asks, whispering the last part "Like- more powerful than our other imaginations?" I looked up at Goose and shrugged, whispering back, "What do you mean?" She shook their head and explained, "Like, can choose who can see them, and hear them, and also do a lot of stuff like him."

I nodded at them and whispered back, "Yeah, they mostly do whatever they want."

Goose also nods, "Also, you have to eat, even a little, MGT is hugging thin air, so I think he's hugging Lizzy."

I looked at Nightmare and it looked like they were suffocating. Ouch. "DoLlFaCeEe HeLp MeEeEe-" Nightmare coughed, and I looked back at Goose and said, "Yeah, he's hugging N- 'Lizzy.'"

"Okay, so now is the time you should eat a bit," Goose smiled, then chokes some food down.

"I can't," I muttered to myself, then my eyes dullen, "Knowing that it's drugged makes my stomach twist and turn, having my intestines wrapping itself around my lungs and stomach, and my kidneys trying to escape..."

"Then, just pretend to be fainted when they take us to the trial thing." Goose said. Easier said than done, then I shook my head, "No," I paused, then continuing, "I'll faint for real." I felt more tired and someone whispered, "Your welcome.."

I fainted for real. Thanks person.

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