The man and the bunny see a pale woman dressed in holy attire. But acts nothing but in unholy manner.

“Sup!” the pale woman says as she sits sleazily on the chair. Staring blankly at the two with dead fish eyes.

The man and the bunny look in confusion, they try to comprehend the situation but to no avail. “Not what I expected” the man says as the bunny just blankly stares in disbelief.

The pale woman gets up from her chair, she stretches her arms out upward and yawns. She stares back at the man and the bunny, “Priestess” she says pointing at herself with her thumb.

“Eh?!” the man and the bunny simultaneously say dumbfoundedly.

“Follow me,” the priestess beckons them as she walks along a broken brick path leading to the back of the gigantic tree.

The bunny and the man sighs.

As they reach the back of the tree, the priestess leads the man and the bunny at the front of a large rusty metal door.

“Give a moment…” the priestess says to the two, to which they nod in reply.

The priestess then begins seemingly randomly knocking on the metal door.

“You need help?” the man asks.

The priestess stops for a moment, her attention still at the metal door. “Nah…” she says holding her chin.

Given a second later, she kicks the metal door as hard as she could. The metal door then swings opens.

The priestess smirks, she then looks at the man and the bunny. “Give me that box” she says pointing at the wooden box the man was holding given to them by the hairy creature Joan.

“Okay?” the man gives the priestess the wooden box.

“I’ll give it back later,” the priestess says with a timid smile. Then she beckons them to come closer and look inside the door.

“uhh…” The man and the bunny grimace, cautiously the man walks closer.

The man and the bunny with only their head, peeked inside. They see only darkness, in contrast to the current area they are in.

The man and the bunny jolts in surprise as they both hear crying and screaming from somewhere deep inside.

As they were about to reel back in, the priestess abruptly smacks the back of the man’s head, which in turn pushes him and the bunny inside. The man gets knocked on the floor while the bunny gets knocked off from the man’s shoulder but was quickly caught by the man.

As the man regains his footing and holding on to the bunny, he suddenly sees a flash of light for a brief moment as it clears, he sees the priestess.

The man looked at the priestess standing and holding the metal door, “What was tha–!?” the man was cut off as the priestess grins, throws something at the man and waves as she shuts the metal door. Leaving now the man and the bunny inside the dark.

The man and the bunny grimace but slowly their attention shifts at the ball the priestess chucked at them.

The ball slowly floats up as it glows and stopping on a certain height.

The bunny and the man stare dumbfoundedly at the floating bright orb, yet their attention shifts again, as they are reminded that they are not the only ones there by the eerie cries and screams heard somewhere deeper in the dark.

The floating light orb then begins to move. The bunny points at it, “Hey!” she says tugging at the man to which he nods in reply. The man then picks up the bunny as they follow the glowing orb.

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As they go on, the man and the bunny can hear the cries and screams getting louder the further they go. The man held the bunny close as she holds her ears in fear.

A moment later as the sound reaches its highest volume, the orb stops and splits into smaller lights. These smaller orbs of lights then surround the origin of the cries and screams, glowing even brighter to illuminate the creature.

The man and the bunny stare in horror as they see a giant amalgamation of flesh and faces strewn together by some sort of jelly like mass as it cries and wails. All over the place where varying sizes of vine like appendages connected to it, pulsating veins coursing all over them.

“W-what the hell is that!” the man exclaims holding tight a shivering bunny.

The bunny steeled herself as she looks at the amalgamation. She sees its veiny appendages moving around as it wails, as she sees she again burrows her face into the man’s chest.

The man grimace, “Uhh… You think we can talk to it?” he asks the bunny.

The bunny looks at the man while holding down her ears and vigorously shook her head, “E-even if we need to… I’m getting nowhere near that thing!”

The man sighs, “You stay here then,” the bunny nodded as the man puts down the bunny.

“Be careful!” the bunny shouts as the man cautiously walks towards the amalgamation.

As the man gets within 3 feet from the wailing creature, he tries to communicate with it, “H-hello…!” he shouts.

One of the faces of the amalgamation notices the man. As that one face looks at him, one by one the other faces quiet down and stare at him.

The man flinches at the sight of varying sizes of eyes staring down at him, “Oh… boy…” he says as he slowly backs away.

As the man takes another step back, one of the amalgamations appendages grabs him and pulls him close. The creature then continues to stare at the man, the sound of murmuring replaced their cries.

The bunny looks at the scene nervously clenching her hands together, but slowly her demeanour changes as she sees that the creature seems to have become docile while holding the man up close to them.

The faces showed different emotions, others showed a weak smile while some were in confusion. All were speaking at the same time; the man and the bunny couldn’t make out what they were saying.

The man coughs nervously, the creature stops murmuring and looks at him eerily. The man smiles wryly “S-so… Hi…!” the man frees his right arm and waves, “W-what seems to be the problem?” the man asks still smiling nervously as tear of sweat drops from his face.

The amalgamation responds to the man by looking at him with its many faces varying looks of frustration, sadness, and longing. As slowly each one begins to wail once more, but this time some of its appendages thrashes around like a child flailing its hands.

The bunny dodges some of the appendages as some almost hit her, the man sees, “You okay!?” the man asks as the bunny dodges another appendage.

The bunny replied with a jingle of her bell and a thumbs up.

The man sighs in relief yet still nervous, he looks back at the amalgamation and notices its attention has shifted from him to the bunny. It then begins to wail even louder and shaking the man all over as it did.

The man struggles to speak being shaken by the creature, “CAALLLMM D-DOWN!” he pleads. The creature hears him and slowly one by one the faces all turn to him with tears in their eyes.

“T-thanks…!” The man says in a daze. He then shakes his head to shrug off his dizziness, in doing so he almost made himself barf.

The man focuses on the creature again, “it’s… ok… we’re here to help, just tell us what you need!” he says with a gentle voice and a pure smile.

The amalgamation looks at him this time all its faces showed anger, “LIAR!!” “NO, YOU’RE NOT!!” each one shouting the same line over and over as tears fall down from their eyes. Then it begins thrashing around once again and this time bashing the man on the ground.

“UNFAIR!!” “NOT FAIR!!” “LIAR” the amalgamation’s faces all shout as the creature thrashes around once again.

The bunny continues to dodge, as she takes a breather, she sees the man being thrashed around by the creature.

“STOP!!” the bunny shouts at the same time her bell jingles.

The creature stops at the sound of the bunny’s voice and her bell. It’s faces then begin to look at the bunny all in disbelief as a second later, all of the faces shout in sadness as it throws the man over near where the bunny was.

The man crashes hard nearby the bunny, “T-that… didn’t go well… at all…” he murmurs.

The bunny sighs but a second later the bunny is then wrapped around by one of the smaller appendages.

The man sees and tries to stand up, but he can’t as he can only lift up his right arm towards the bunny as she was taken closer to the amalgamation just as he did, “No…” he says painfully.

The bunny struggles to break free and in a desperate attempt bites the appendage holding her.

The creatures wail as it throws the bunny away, knocking her on the ground and making her lose the bell she was wearing on her arm.

As the bell bounces and rolls nearer towards the creature, it then picks it up. All the faces of the creature in a single voice murmured, “ba-… by…”

The bell then flashes brightly blinding everyone, as memory then returns to the man and the bunny.

* * *

The man and the bunny see a continuation of the recent memory they got from Joan. This time they see themselves much clearer and hear what they actually say.

“We’ll be back! We’re just gonna pick up my sister!” the girl says holding the gift their friend just gave to them as she walks towards a van.

A head then pops out from the driver’s window, “Beep-beep! Let’s go!” the man says cheekily, “Don’t wanna miss dinner! Or else your sister owes me one!” he jests.

The girl and their friends at the front door smile and laugh, “Alright-alright!” the girl says raising her hands.

The two then drive down the mountain to meet up with the girl’s sister who was waiting at a store down the mountain. As they drive down, they pass a sign pointing out that indicates a risk of falling rocks ahead.

The man looks at the girl examining and shaking the wooden box, “What do you think is inside?” the man asks.

The girl shakes it lightly, “I’m guessing… some sort of toy bell?” she says as she hears a jingling sound.

The man smirks, “And what makes you say that?” the man chuckles.

The girl smiles, “You already told him dummy…” she says playfully punching the man’s side, and then lightly patting her belly.

The man sees and holds the girl’s hand with his left hand and his right hand on the wheel.

A moment later nearing the base of the mountain, as they were driving by the last cliff. Suddenly a huge rock came rolling down and hit their vehicle.

The last thing the man and the bunny sees is a flash as they hit the railing.

* * *

The bunny, the man, and the amalgamation all went silent.

The creature blankly stares at the bunny.

The bunny slowly breaking down, tears came gushing out of her eyes as she begins to glow brightly as she shouts in pain, “NNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!”

As the bunny yells and glows, the amalgamation begins to get sucked into her.

The entire space then begins to shake and cracks of white light began to show up everywhere.

The man sees and tries to get up and get to her but was still badly injured, that is until all the small orbs of light gather into him and heal him.

The man smiles, “Thanks shitty priestess…” he murmurs.

As he stands up, he sees the amalgamation gone and the glowing bunny crazed and crying loudly, creating shockwaves that cover the whole area as everything begins to crumble and shake. With each shockwave creating a crack of white light.

“Last one…” the man mutters as he gets hit with another shockwave.