Sammy awoke in his cell, realizing the guard had forgotten to lock it the night before; he decided to take a walk. Pushing past the cold metal door, he padded off to the garden. “Cold.” He muttered, his voice low and sleepy as the sun wasn’t visible yet. He walked up to the fountain that remained in the middle of the garden, it was a medium sized fountain, it resembled almost like a waterfall, as if it wasn't a stereotypical fountain; the water quickly trickled down the concrete ledges of its tower. Sammy’s long neck reached the top, it had 3 ledges yet it wasn’t very tall. His mouth was stitched, and he’s been using the mouth on his neck to speak; his tongue lapped up the water. After a few sips, he stretched his neck and his muscles, losing his balance; he stumbled. His paw hit this orb next to the fountain, “Huh?”. Suddenly everything shifted, the silent night quickly came to an end when his body collapsed, he hit the floor. The orb was glowing, and the other 4 were suddenly glowing too.
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The next thing they know, they’re in a white void with tall trees that never seemed to end, the ground was flat yet not there in a way it was nostalgic. Sammy slowly woke up, the group was huddled, it was all of them. Sammy, Sally, Fiddle, Celest, and Little Lillith. He glanced around, once he was fully conscious his body ducked, there was this obnoxious high pitched ringing. It was almost like music? He quickly woke up the others, “Wake up.” He nudged them, where they slowly woke up; covering their ears, it seemed they heard the screeching ring too. “WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE!?” Sally exclaimed, her expression was always the same big frown, yet this time it was emphasized with her tone. Little Lillith rushed to her paws, all 6 of the legs on her back stretched. Fiddle’s long neck looked down at them, eyes scattering his body as his main eyes were spirally. All of their paws met the void, Celest stood up; she quickly fell, the gravitational pull was quite different than the one earth has. It was like they could float, yet they’d randomly get dragged down. “Celest, are you okay?” Sammy’s large smile remained, his big wide eyes not budging as the mouth on his neck was almost as unsettling as the one on his face. “Agh.. It’s like I got pulled down for a second, I’m fine though.” She huffed, standing to her paws, catching her breath from the unexpected change. “But what the hell is this place?”, “It’s like.. a void?” Sammy quickly replied to her question, the group stared at each other. Soon the ground started shaking, everyone hit the floor. It was like large footsteps, then a large creature appeared, “Why hello..” The voice was unsettling, they quickly looked up. This creature was abnormally large, bigger than all of them; its body was as tall as Fiddle’s neck. Sammy rushed to his paws, his body slanted away from the group, as if he was trying to cover or protect them. Sammy growled at it, “Who are you?” His tone seemingly hostile. “That’s not something for you to worry about, my question is, who are you?” Sammy paused, the group now standing with Sammy as they faced IT.
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IT lunged at Sammy, he quickly swerved; dodging it. He reached around, the mouth of his neck biting down on IT’s arm. “You’re quite brave, aren’t you?” IT growled, the group standing behind Sammy as Fiddle stood next to him. Fiddle quickly leaped onto its back, biting deep into its neck. IT quickly reached around, going to bite into Fiddle as Sammy rips his mouth open, his stitches tearing; revealing his venomous, sharp and dark teeth. The stitches at the corner of his mouth remained as he jumped, he bit into its throat, Fiddle having the chance to push himself off; he fell, quickly rising back to his paws, he ran back to the group. Sammy tore a chunk out of IT’s throat, he spat it out. As IT began bleeding, Sally jumped at it; IT quickly chomped off half of her front leg; mutilating it. As she hit the ground, Little Lillith went to attack it, yet it was too late; it took her opposite back leg, only leaving half of her front left leg, and right back leg. Little Lillith leaped onto IT, the 6 legs on her torso digging deep into its torso as she’d bite her way through IT’s throat; killing it. The group quickly rushed to Sally, to try and help her as blood gushed from her mutilated limbs.