🔷️The Gatherers
Chapter 1: Hallow's Hunt

🎃Seasonal TF #1
🟢Frightful Fun
✒️Story🔹️♂️&♀️_Special__submission p•3
Original__23 Memo pages
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🔷️Walter:
"Khh..."

🔷️Valin:
"Oh don't give up hope yet. There is always a way to kill everything an i mean everything."

🔷️Kelly: hopeful
"Everything?"

🔷️Valin:
"You know how to kill God?"

🔷️Walter & Kelly: shocked
"Ekh!"

🔷️Valin:
"Forget him...forgotten is a form of death. An there are things out there that will die upon being forgotten. We just got to figure out what it's weak point is an strike it!"

🔷️Kelly:
"How do you know that there is monsters like that out there?"

🔷️Valin & Walter:
"......"

🔷️Kelly:
"Oh..right..with what's happening right now, who's to say what is an isn't out there."

🔷️Valin:
"Can you stand?"

🔷️Walter:
"Can you?"

🔷️Valin: smugly
"Hmph!"

🔻Kelly gets off Walter & they get up

🔷️Walter:
"We can use the generator to electrocute them."

🔷️Valin:
"We'll need to amplify it with water or we may kill the generator before we make a dent."

🔷️Walter:
"Then we need to find every water source we can an the generator. Though if we can find the outside, we really need to see if we even recognize the place."

🔷️Kelly: worried
"You really think we're lowering into hell?"

🔷️Valin:
"I can hear the storm an it ain't getting hot, but it still is a possibility. I wonder what circle of hell we're in Danté?"

🔷️Walter:
"Me? Then who are you?"

🔷️Valin:
"I was always partial to Vergil an his katana over Danté's rib tickler."

🔷️Walter: confused
"aahh?"

🔷️Kelly: annoyed
"Maybe we should get moving, hm?"

🔷️Walter:
"Eh, right..Let's go..that way."

🔻They move on & oddly quickly find a staircase

🔷️Valin:
"Oh wow."

🔷️Kelly: snark surprise
"Well, the place getting taller took the stairs into account."

🔷️Walter:
"But, why is it so, extravagant?"

🔷️Valin:
"The way to hell is a gilded staircase."

🔷️Kelly:
"There isn't a down, only up."

🔷️Valin:
"Yeah, and the tower of Temen-ni-gru that caused women to shudder had it's gate to hell in the basement, oh wait, it was at its top."

🔷️Walter:
"Let's hope going up isn't going down."

🔻as they begin the climb

🔷️Valin: playful worry
"I hope we're not about to run into Maurits Cornelis Escher as we're ascending and he's descending."

🔻The camera moves up the staircase ahead of them

🔷️Walter:
"Did you have to say that?"

🔻The screen fades to black...the flicker of a dieing candle lantern brings the screen back to the ballroom, a dieing Armen lays by...footsteps, he tilts his head..a foot comes to view. He stares up at who ever it is...closes his eyes...cut to black..THUNK!.....

🔷️Kelly: tired
"When are we going to stop?"

🔻They are still going up

🔷️Walter:
"Are we going to search each floor or aim for the top?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Well..."

🔷️Valin:
"I would like to point out that we not only enter rooms at random, but floors too. We can go straight to the top but, end right back down below."

🔷️Walter: quiet lament
"good point."

🔻they stop

🔷️Walter:
"eah?...so, what should we do then?"

🔷️Valin: imitates GPS
"Take the next available exit."

🔷️Kelly:
"Don't listen to her, she gets me lost more times than i can count."

🔷️Walter:
"I heard she lead one guy's heart a stray too."

🔷️Kelly: annoyed
"riiight..."

🔷️Walter:
"Let's get off at the next floor i guess...i was looking into each floor as we went, looking to see if i could see the outside or not."

🔷️Valin:
"Huh, clever. The staircase looks safe an with the random nature...but this way would, is, exhausting."
[tired]

🔷️Walter: tired
"True..."

🔷️Kelly: tired
"can we take a quick break before we go?"

🔷️Valin:
"We won't look-"

🔷️Kelly: angerly
"That's not what i ment!"

🔷️Valin: playful smile
"Hahahah!"

🔷️Walter:
"...no, we need to get going, we'll just move slowly."

🔷️Kelly: sadly
"ok..."

🔻they move up

🔷️Valin: quietly
"and here i was hoping for more stairwell banter barret, tiffa."

🔻They get off the stairs & start exploring the floor they're on. When they get a few steps into a room rapid steps come up behind them, they turn & the 3 Scream! Undead Alien Mutation Screams! Camera bounces between till they all stop screaming, they breath heavily for a bit

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation:
"I'm sorry, i was just too excited to see a familiar face!"
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🔷️Valin: annoyed & scared
"(Wish i could say the same)"
🔷️Kelly:
"Who, do you know?"

🔷️Walter:
"Me, you got lost like i did earlier, i followed you back to the crowd."

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation: sad
"You made it back to the party? I didn't!"

🔷️Walter:
"That's why they acted like i was the first one they saw."

🔷️Valin: bothered
"Hold up for a moment, you need to dress down some, that mask is freaking me out."

🔷️Kelly: scared
"Same here."

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation:
"With these blade arms, i'll need a little help."

🔷️Walter:
"I'll help you."

🔷️Valin:
"This makes me wish i told every one to look less beastie or monstery when it was clear we were trapped in here."

🔷️Kelly:
"You really think they would've listened?

🔷️Valin:
"Look less like what might be out there trying to kill us...yeah, i'm sure they would've."

🔷️Kelly: uncertain
"Maybe..."

🔷️Walter:
"There..now what happened here?"

🔻cuts on his back

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation: sad
"I was apart of a group a short bit ago, we were attacked by one of those things. I was struck with a few others, while i could get back up an run..."

🔻Silence...

🔷️Valin: concerned
"You don't look too good, or is that from the mask?"

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation: a little weak
"Both, i don't feel good."

🔷️Valin:
"Well i doubt there's a pharmacy down here so try to hang in there."

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation:
"I'm trying."

🔷️Walter:
"We need to alter the plan a little. When we find the generator we'll try to lower him down so he can get out of here an get that treated."

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation:
"You won't escape too?"

🔷️Kelly: hopeful
"We're going to try an kill those things!"

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation:
"Really? That's crazy!"

🔷️Valin:
"Crazy is what crazy does."

🔷️Walter:
"Come on, we shouldn't waste time."

🔷️Valin:
"You suddenly know a way to the generator?"

🔷️Walter: annoyed
"Just move it!"

🔻The 4 of them move on for a short while when they come to a room with

🔷️Valin:
"That's a lot of kitchen wear."

🔷️Kelly:
"Do you think this stuff was in the original house?"

🔷️Valin:
"Could've...-!Ah!"

🔷️Walter & Kelly:
"Hahah!"

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation: weak droning
"uuahh."

🔻the lights have come on, music starts up, the fog machines with anything still in them kick on. The room they're in has a lot of cabinets containing antique china & such

🔷️Kelly:
"They got the power going!"

🔷️Valin:
"I have seen the light."

🔷️Walter:
"They may have got the power on with out us there, we still need to get..hey, you doing ok?"

🔷️Undead Alien Mutation: zombie-ish
"mmmh, uuuaaahh."

🔷️Valin: frightened
"Oh Gods that ain't good!"

🔷️Kelly:
"Don't be so dramatic."

🔷️Walter:
"Is the pain getting worse?"

🔷️Valin: frantic
"Walter! Get away from him!"

🔷️Walter:
"Why?"

🔻Undead Alien Mutation moves to grab Walter

🔷️Kelly: loudly
"Look out!"

🔷️Walter: startled
"What The!"

🔻he lunges for Walt-!!KICK!!

🔷️Valin: sternly
"ErHH!..Move It!"

🔷️Walter: confused
"Wh-what's wrong with him?"

🔷️Valin:
"He's-"

🔷️All 3:
"Ah!"

🔻the sound of his pained graons & that of his costume ripping apart stole their attention. He's getting bigger as claws come out of his thumb & pointer, middle, ring fingers on his left hand. Pointer & middle fingers fuse on his right hand as claws push out each digit. His neck lengths as his head begins to stretch out & compress down, his teeth are pushed out by fangs!
Valin begins to look around

🔷️Valin: nonchalant
"Ah, how convenient!"
🔷️Kelly: puzzled
"What are you doing?"

🔷️Valin: playful
"In case of emergency break glass!" [puts left elbow through] "AAh! No glass!"

🔻Valin grabs a plate & breaks it till it becomes a shiv! He grips it by the curved edge. The transforming Partygoer reaches for Walter as its right hand begins to change again, the fused digits stretch out beginning to form a blade! It's head also seems to change. Valin brushes passed Walter & slams his left hand down onto its head to force it down & brings the plate shiv down into the stretching neck! With a jerk & gergel it stops & lays down! A short pause of silence

🔷️Kelly: quiet surprise
"You killed him."

🔷️Valin:
"*It*, i killed *It*. Until we learn that there is a way to save them, it is no longer the person they once were."

🔷️Kelly: sad
"Mph..."

🔷️Walter:
"Why aren't you getting up?"

🔷️Valin: calm
"We're waiting, i'm examining."
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🔷️Walter: puzzled
"What exactly?"

🔷️Valin:
"If it'll get back up. My hand on *It's* head will begin to lower an move towards me, soon followed by the blade hand. If no further changes happen we're good."

🔻they wait.....

🔷️Valin: annoyed
"Ok, i'm sick an tired of staring at this guy's ass to see if a tail comes about, grab me an help me up."

🔻They grab him & pull him up & away

🔷️Valin: relieved
"Thanks."

🔻he walks around to the left side of it & gets down onto 1 knee as

🔷️Kelly:
"Was he-mh..it growing more eyes?"

🔷️Walter:
"What are you doing now?"

🔷️Valin:
"We need to learn more about what we're dealing with. Can it get back up once the *blade* is removed?"

🔻he grabs the shiv, then springs backwards tossing the shiv away as he goes! The 2 gasp in shock!

🔷️Kelly: yelling
"You Do That With Us In Front Of It!?"

🔷️Valin: sternly
"How bout movin?"

🔻they run to V....it never moves. V sighs

🔷️Valin:
"Hm, put a fork in it, it's done."

🔷️Kelly: annoyed
"How can you joke like this?"

🔷️Valin: calm
"You rather me fall to pieces an become useless?"

🔷️Kelly: quietly
"well..."

🔷️Walter:
"Valin..that thought of yours before, about their differences."

🔷️Valin:
"I know, an to make matters worse, it appears to make them akin to their costume."

🔷️Walter:
"Then maybe i'll remain sane?"

🔷️Kelly: upset
"What about me!?"

🔷️Valin:
"There's one way of finding out."
[points to claws]

🔷️Walter & Kelly: in unison
"I'll pass."

🔷️Valin:
"We need to treat this thing as a combo platter of monsters, Werewolf an The Thing. Which sadly means that i may already be infected from when it hit me back there.

🔷️Walter: worried
"You, don't think you'll-"

🔷️Valin: solemnly
"What we know, is we know nothin."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"right..."

🔷️Valin:
"But..."

🔷️Walter & Kelly:
"?..."

🔷️Valin:
"...we can kill them."

🔷️Kelly:
"Even though, this one wasn't fully changed?"

🔷️Valin:
"Yeah, because, it is dead..it didn't continue changing an get back up. If that thing is unkillable then its infected victims should be as well, since it is not getting up, then we can do it!"

🔷️Walter: hopeful
"I agree, if it's as it appears, then we can kill *That* one."

🔷️Kelly: hopeful
"!!...Hm! Alright!"

🔷️Valin:
"Well, let's get going."

🔷️Walter:
"Yeah, we need to flood the place."

🔷️Valin:
"Wait, take a plate. These makeshift weapons are better than nothing. These bowls might have a better grip to them."

🔷️Kelly:
"You know, you didn't do it the way you said you would."

🔻they take 1 each

🔷️Valin:
"You rather me kick the dog before putting it out of its misery? Putting myself in danger to save someone?"

🔷️Kelly:
"No i guess not."

🔻they break the table wear differently, Valin's looks like a knuckle blade, Walter's looks like a Katal, & Kelly's looks like a short sword having found the only oval bowl.

🔷️Valin:
"Remember *The Thing*, one time use, make it count."

🔻They nod in agreeance. They go to a door, Walter looks back to the mutated guest

🔷️Walter: solemnly
"(I'm sorry...i'll make up for it by killing the one that did this...an all others i am capable of taking with me if there's more of them)...mph."

🔻as they move on they begin to see more & more remains of costumes...but not a single body, some blood, but nothin but remains of costumes & blood, teeth, hair, nails

🔷️Kelly: sad
"So, no one is being spared being, mutated?"

🔷️Walter: sad
"It seems like it...but then..."

🔷️Kelly: sadder
"Meri, and Armen..."

🔷️Walter: puzzled
"...how come we haven't ran into an actual kitchen or a restroom?"

🔷️Kelly:
"I don't know, you'd think we'd run into at least the kitchen by now."

🔷️Valin:
"I keep imagining being in the dark franticly running around an going in one door only to run into what you think is another door an turn the nob only to get drenched by the walk in shower. What's this, another door? Spray!"

🔷️Kelly:
"At least you'd get cleaned off that way."

🔷️Valin:
"Being wet will only increase your smell, they'd find us faster."

🔷️Kelly:
"Wait really?"

🔷️Valin:
"Yep, the Mythbusters did an episode on it."

🔷️Kelly:
"Huh."

🔷️Walter: ponders
"...wait...why is that?"

🔻he stopped which causes the other 2 to stop

🔷️Kelly:
"Why is what?"
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🔷️Walter:
"Why haven't we been found yet? If Rabbit really knows how to get through this place, then how come we're still going?"

🔷️Valin:
"Are you beginning to think Rabbit may not be the master but the bull?"

🔷️Walter:
"Maybe...Rabbit has probably been here for some time to get the basic idea of this place, but is far from knowing the full ins and outs of this labyrinth."

🔷️Valin:
"Then let's hope it can't find Jareth the Goblin King, not that i wouldn't mind a musical number to break things up."

🔷️Walter:
"Rabbit is as lost as we are, even if it has been here longer."

🔷️Valin:
"That doesn't give us a leg up on it, but we can relax, a little."

🔷️Kelly: foresight concern
"I'd be happy about all that if..."

🔻They look around...

🔷️Kelly: relieved
"phew..ok, i'm happy!"

🔷️Valin:
"Speak of the Devil an he won't appear. Too bad, i could use a meal at Hell's kitchen, the show would be great too."

🔷️Kelly:
"While i agree with anything but here, you're not helping."

🔷️Valin:
"Sorry."

🔷️Walter: conviction
"(i'll make sure that the two of you get out of here)"

🔻They move on when the lights go out startling the 3, back in the ballroom the generator goes bouncing across an upper floor then out & down to the ballroom floor as jagged heap of junk! ROAR!

🔷️Kelly: frightened
"Eah!...Did it just-"
🔷️Walter:
"Don't think about it...mh, now what?"

🔷️Valin:
"Well unless we were going to fill the place with pee, it's not like we ever found a single sink. So, the only down side would be the lost of friendlys."

🔷️Walter: steadfast
"Kh...Then i guess we've got only one option, don't we?"

🔷️Valin:
"...we face the boss. Let's just hope when we kill the one, it doesn't turn out to be a minor foe with something much scarier behind it."

🔷️Walter & Kelly: quiet worry
"please don't say things like that."
[they both sag]

🔷️Valin:
"Sorry, but i do hope we get out of here, i am the type to think of every possiblity!"

🔷️Walter & Kelly:
"....hm."

🔷️Valin:
"...(every, outcome)..."

🔻on they move, but with the hope of being found. But they don't find what they were after. They move slowly into a what appears to be a dining room...but not one they'd use

🔷️Walter: quietly
"what the hell..."

🔷️Kelly: quietly
"this is disgusting!"

🔷️Valin: quietly
"midnight meat train, this is the dining car, time to...mrph."

🔷️Kelly: quietly
"if you do that, we'll be joining you."

🔷️Valin: quietly queasy
"it's not the sight that's getting me. it's the smell."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"why do they look like nothin but animal bones?"

🔷️Valin: quietly
"i might still be new to the area, but are pets that much of an endangered species around here?"

🔷️Walter:
"nnno? i don't recall having an animal disappearing problem."

🔷️Kelly: quietly
"just look at how many there are!"

🔷️Valin:
"bones..as far as the eye can see."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"we need to get out of here."

🔷️Valin:
"wait, we have a treasure trove of weapons here, rib bones, broken leg bones."

🔷️Kelly: quietly
"that's a little sickening."

🔷️Valin:
"maybe, but the bigger bones will do better than the plates will."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"let's grab a few-"

🔻a sudden burst of screaming

🔷️The 3:
"Eah!"

🔻They quickly find a table to hide under with a pile of bones on 1 side as a blind. Their target comes over with a partygoer dressed as a thief, grabbed by the leg dragging behind it. It drags the poor panicking woman to a clear spot & flips her onto her back & pins her down! It breaths & drools onto her face! It may have her pinned, but her arms are free, she wipes the drool off her face, spreading it some, as some of it gets into her eyes nose & mouth, she gags then spits as IT calmly, motionlessly, holds her there.
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🔻She sticks her tongue out to wipe it off when she sees her hands change! She freaks out as the under sides of her hands become padded & claws push out as her nail fallout! All of these changes happen within 1 minute. She's unaware her tongue won't fit back in her mouth as her lips & nose turns black & her eyes change, her green irises become dark purple! Black fur grows around her eyes with streaks of black to white to gray fur leading to white fur growing in her ears. Gray fur grows on the back of her hands & the bridge of her nose, an white fur grows around her mouth alongside whiskers! Her face stretches out as her teeth begin to fall out, she spits them out as her stretching face forms a muzzle, her nose fully blackens as the gray fur grows up her face connecting with the fur from around her mouth & eyes, the black fur around her eyes gets wider. Her ears loose their lobes as they grow to aim forward & the growing fur fills them in. Her nose pushes out as the opening for the nostrils expands, curling back & up to the top edge of her square-ing nose. The black mask that screams out what she's becoming takes full shape, a Raccoon's mask, surrounded by white fur with gray fur break between the eyes. Her hands changes, fingers shift position to have the thumb & pinky sitting almost leveled with each other as they become the same length an size, ring & pointer fingers do the same as the middle fingers only sits a little ahead of them. Gray fur has begun to replace her orange hair from the front & sides. Her ears have grown to face forward & fur has covered the inside & most of the outside, her ears have begun moving up her head as it begins to compress down. Her hair gets replaced faster now. Her muzzle continues to push out to full length as her nose stays ahead of her mouth as sharp teeth grow in. Fur has covered all but the back of her head. Her terrified crys for help start to sound like the frantic crys of a Raccoon! Gray fur moves down her hands passed her wrists into her costume as so does the fur from her head having fully covered it! She begins to shrink down into her costume, as she does ITs hand would keep up with her, keeping her pinned to the ground with out crushing her. When her feet slip out of her shoes they can be seen changing. Her toes appear to lengthen as she shrinks & they shift position with the big toe moving back some pulling the next toe back a tiny bit, they loose their nails as claws push out. Fur begins growing onto them as they vanish into her clothes. As she shrinks into her costume the chittering changes from frantic to just being noisy, a talkative raccoon. IT moves its hand & places 1 claw down the collar & lifts her up, dumping her out of her clothes, it rests its hand down as the chittery li'l thing rolls over to her feet as the tail grows out. She continues to shrink as gray fur covers her & her tail grows, furring up, gaining the black gray rings an black tip that raccoons have.
She just sits there chittering away as it stares down at her. The 3 still hiding, are in awe & shock over what just happened!

🔷️Walter: surprised
"(She, that thing just turned her into a raccoon!)"
🔷️Kelly: saddened
"(That poor girl! What's become of her?)"
🔷️Valin: awe struck
"(That was sickening an cool!)

🔻It continues to stare down at the raccoon..then, it brings its head back! V & W see what's coming & cover Kelly's eyes as it chomps down an eats her!

🔷️Walter: shock
"(Why did it do that!?)"
🔷️Kelly: terrified
"(IT'S EATING HER!)"
🔷️Valin: least concerned
"(Well, everyone has their preferences?)"

🔻as IT licks its mouth, another, a transformed party goer, It walks by the Big 1...IT Grabs the other 1 & slams it to the ground! It doesn't react as it begins to shrink down, hands become paws as the sparse fur on it spreads out to cover it, its ears beome floppy dog ears as the tail shrivels up an becomes bushy. Its thick head breaks down in front as a flatter muzzle with smaller teeth forms. The back feet already paws shrink down.
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🔻Only for a few odd moments does the changing creature react in a panic then calms back down to act like a golden retriever that it's becoming. The 3 watch as The Monster lifts the dog into the air & eats it too!

🔷️Walter:
"(Well this explains the animal bones)"

🔷️Valin: ponders
"(The change must do something for the taste)"

🔷️Kelly: terrified
"(I want to go home!)"

🔻The Monster moves a bit then lays down amongst the bones, pulling in some as it curls up. Valin smiles & Walter is shocked!

🔷️Walter: surprised
"(It just went to sleep!?)"
🔷️Valin: ecstatic
"(Yes! This is our chance!)"

🔻they look to each other then Walter looks to Kelly...she looks up to him...grins & nods...the 3 grab their shivs & get ready to move. One last look around, all clear, they back out & get up. With quiet & careful placement, they tip toe their way over to the sleeping target. When near, they pause, its arms protect its chest so no heart, but its spine is open for attack. They move ever so gingerly to its neck & ready to strike when its back, between the shoulder blades, begins to open up along the spine! Upon opening there is no spine, at least its own for out comes numerous bones that could be the remains of various animals.

🔷️Walter: confused
"(Is that-)"
🔷️Kelly: sickened
"(That's disgusting!)"
🔷️Valin: bewildered
"(Well ain't that special?)"

🔻A faint light can be seen before it closes

🔷️Valin: surprised
"(Wait, is that its weak spot?)"

🔻He taps Walter then motions a flashlight, heart beat, & points to the closed back. They move to it & adjust their shivs, waiting to thrust them in...the wait is painful as they try to keep from falling over from how they're crouched!...when finally it opens again, but they don't strike, they are mesmerized by the core of the creature! Kelly watches the 2 of them lower their shivs & lean towards the opening! She whips her arm in & stabs it- missing the heart! It seals up as bones were coming out trapping them an her arm in it, & a Crimson Mark appears on its forehead!

🔷️Kelly & The Cursed Beast: loudly
"AAAAAAH!!!"

🔻The boys snap out of it & grab Kelly & pull, placing their feet against it as they do & eventually pull her free! The Crimson Mark disappears & it gets up, it turns to face them. They tremor with fear as it stands full hight &-! Crys out in pain!

🔷️The 3:
"Ah!..aHH!"

🔻Her hand is empty, the shif is still inside it! It goes to swing its left arm at them but another sharp burst of pain stops it! They run for it! It hunches over as its back quivers, it lets out a deep groan as bones & the shiv plus blood goes flying out its back! Bleeding out of its mouth & back, it very ANGERLY crys out before stampeding after the 3, on 2 legs & 4 depending on what gets in its way & going through doors

🔷️Valin: shouting
"Well We Got Its Attention Now!"

🔷️Walter: shouting
"What Was Happening Back There?"

🔷️Kelly: shouting
"I Don't Know!"

🔻when the creature catches up to them they do their best to avoid it! Its movements are jerky & it screeches in pain every now & then which allows them to run! As they run they bypass a table full of sea food

🔷️Valin: shouting
"They Didn't Eat The Sea Food!? You Realize How Much That Cost Me!"

🔷️Kelly: shoiting
"You Can't Be Serious!?"

🔷️Walter: shouting
"You're Going To Complain About That Now!?"

🔷️Valin: irate shouting
"I MAY NOT GET A LATER!"

🔻They run but Valin notices something that makes his desire to run disappear! As Walter & Kelly run through a door way Valin grabs the door & slams it shut! The creature speeds at Valin as the 2 peer back to see the door closed & Valin gone. It's almost on top of Valin who swings his left arm back hitting the monster with the golden gauntlet! It recoils & looks to Valin!

🔷️Valin: smug
"Hurts don-it? When i actually get dressed up for a costume party i go as authentic as possible! My claws an fangs are fake, but this, made broken, gauntlet, is real! Nice an heavy!"

🔻draws the gun he picked back up before fleeing the ballroom

🔷️Valin: faux assurance
"Ok, it's empty, but i can still use it as a club. I'm ready to dance, are you?"
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🔻it Roars!...Walter & Kelly run on with tears in their eyes! Valin is thrashed & bashed into the walls & floor as he begins to laugh, maniacally! This stalls the beating

🔷️Valin: maniacally
"Oh yes, take your time! The longer you're here with me, the farther they get!"
[Maniacal Laughter]

🔻it growls then bashes Valin across the room

🔷️Valin: sadist
"Come now, why aren't you laughing? It's contagious after all!"

🔻it moves to Valin

🔷️Valin: sternly
"Why so serious?"

🔻WAM! Valin's left arm hits hard & breaks as he slams to the wall. Pained laughter as he sits up

🔷️Valin: wavering playfulness
"Hey, is there anything i can do to get you to let me live?"

🔻head raised & eyes open, the monster is right there in his face

🔷️Valin: quivering smile
"Want my autograph?"

🔻ITs mouth comes straight at the screen with a guttural roar!

🔷️Kelly: exhausted
"Wait, Wait, i, i need to, to stop!"

🔷️Walter: exhausted
"Ok, we, we seem to-to be, safe, here..." [looks the way they came] "i, don't see, it behind us..."

🔷️Kelly: tired shock
"Walter, look!"

🔷️Walter: tired shock
"What is it?-!ah!"

🔻in the corner is

🔷️Kelly:
"Is it, dead?..."

🔷️Walter:
"Looks like it, but..this means~"
🔷️Rabbit:
"•••"
🔷️Walter:
"~The rabbit was never the creature!"

🔻the rabbit sits in the corner having been slashed to death by the monster, the body awaiting transformation

🔷️Walter: realization
"He saw what was happening an tried to help me!"

🔻they stare at Rabbit, Rabbit looks down to Armen, he has a look beginning for death, Rabbit holding a heavy object hesitates, shaking, then helps relieve Armen of his pain

🔷️Walter: solemnly
"If we had found em before learning the truth we would've killed em."

🔷️Kelly: solemnly
"I'm glad we never did..."

🔻Walter puts his left hand onto her right shoulder as she rubs her left arm...a distant roar! They look then move on, as Walter looks back

🔷️Walter: great full
"I'm sorry, and, thanks."

🔻they take off, camera pans round to the Rabbit..the mask breaks to reveal a weak smile behind it as tears go down its face...the camera sits staring straight up at the ever taller, ever deeper ballroom as it slowly spins...Walter slows to a stop with Kelly behind him, they're more exhausted than before. When they hear off sounding heavy steps & crunching metal they take cover. Slowly walks by on 3 legs is a transforming Valin, nawing at the gauntlet...once the sound of crunching metal disappears they move on. Other fully, or still changing partygoers wonder around the dead silent place...Kelly slows & falls to her knees. Walter turns to go back

🔷️Walter: quietly
"kelly!"

🔷️Kelly: weakly quiet
"n-no, go on, with out me."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"what are you talking about?"

🔷️Kelly: weakly quiet
"Mmmh..."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"kelly, what's-!...your arm!"

🔷️Kelly: weakly quiet
"eh..."

🔻her left arm is the same gray as the Monster & her hand has already changed, 4 digits, clawed

🔷️Walter:
"Kelly!"

🔷️Kelly: weakly quiet
"quiet..don't touch me...go...please."

🔷️Walter: quietly
"but..kelly, i-"

🔷️Kelly: weakly
"there's no stopping it, just try an get out of here on your own."

🔷️Walter:
"Mph..."

🔷️Kelly: weakly quiet yet strong
"...i love you..."

🔷️Walter:
"I love you too..."

🔻She begins to go through a great deal of pain & starts to yell out as Walter runs for it! She quickly turns gray as her clothes rip apart as she gets bigger. Her back opens up & a light shines forth & a heartbeat can be heard. her right hand's pinky shrivels away as the others gain claws. Her neck has lengthened & now her head compresses as it stretches out! Her teeth fall out as her eyes seal up, her head quickly stretches out to form the Monster's head, a long rounded face with slits for nostrils, as fangs fill in her gapping maw! A tail quickly erupts from her shorts. The sandal shoes snap as her right foot splits into 3 long toes made up of the big toe, the next 2, the the last 2, those pairs fuse together as claws push out the 3 new digits. Her other foot has the big toe, middle toe, pinky toe all lengthen as the other 2 shrivel up & space opens up between, claws quickly form.
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🔻Others had gathered & watched her change, now however Thee Monster shows up an goes to her & slams her down an prevents her back from closing...

🔷️Walter: crying
"(DAMNIT! WHAT DO I DO NOW!? What do i have to live for now? Kelly, she's)...kh, auaaaAAAAAAHHhh-hahh!!"

🔻Walter just runs, an runs, not caring what he passes or where he ends up...when he trips over a thick, broken, table

🔷️Walter:
"What did-?...here again?...why do i keep ending up in this room?...of all the rooms, is there something here?...wait, of course there is, the fireplace, the chimney! This was the only room with an exit we hit repeatedly."

🔻he goes to look up the chimney...then backs away...he looks around, the capes left behind. He grabs them & tosses them into the fireplace & grabs one of the kicked around lanterns & tosses it into the fireplace & floosh! He stands there staring into the fire holding a leg from the table, the fire changes colors as he lights the pointed end. The place begins to shake as in the door way to Walter's left is

🔷️Walter: cornered beast
"you...eh, I WILL KILL YOU!"

🔻it trys to swat him away but he dived down then jumped back up thrusting the stake into its chest! Its back spits out flames as it shrieks! Walter pushes it as it trys to back away from him! Walter lets out a furious battle cry as he spys what he hoped for, a 1 in a Million chance

🔷️Walter: willing sacrifice
"GO BACK TO HELL!"

🔻falling...they're both falling, the ballroom's cavernous opening, is creeking & groaning as the 2 fall down, the creature had ahold of him, not that he intended to stop. The place suddenly vibrates violently as the ground speeds at them as well as the broken generator

Cut to Black

10~9~2022




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