To Bite And Swallow The Unknown

After laying in the sand behind Robin for a few hours, she started packing her stand up, and then after she nudged Erin as he was still on the ground.

Rolling over and looking to Robin as if he had taken a nap while laying down there, she laughed as his face was covered in sand but chucked it away as she then spoke as she needed to ask him something.

"Hey sleepy, mind helping me bring my stuff back home? People don't usually buy lemonade once it's this late,"

". . .Sure"

He yawned, sitting up and stretching his stiffened body as the clouds shifted southwest, after getting up he helped Robin clear the stand and grab her stuff before heading back.

. . . . .

Grabbing her stuff from the stand the both of them walked back to the orphanage but then split as she had wanted to go to the shopping district before going back, so taking the rest of her things in which dragged him down, he went back on his own as she left.

Returning to the orphanage a little while later it was 6:16 In the afternoon and there was still a lot of time before Erin was to meet with Nate, actually, he wanted to do it sooner so checking to see if Nate was home he knocked on Nate's door, but he didn't seem to be home, so he went back to the main hall of the orphanage.

But then he remembered that Robin had a surprise, so walking to Robin's room he went up to her door and knocked to see if she was back her.

Knocking on her door he heard a loud thump from in the room as if something fell and then a surplus of noise before the door slammed open and someone came at him, hugging him tightly.

"You came!"

It was Robin.

"Come! Come!"

She said pulling him into her room, and as she had, "Look!" she said pointing over to the side of her room in the corner beneath an old television to have a new game console.

"I've been saving up," she said rushing over with him and sitting on the bed, practically dragging this Tiny fragile boy with her.

Looking over to him as he was startled by the fast pace in which this had happened in, he was speechless but that didn't matter to her as she was so overjoyed and excited that she overlooked it.

"What are you waiting for?"

She patted beside her, waiting and expecting him to sit after just dragging him in by the hand.

"Um..."

Awkwardly laughing as he was a bit confused and needed to process what was going on, he looked over to what she was talking about and saw her new game console and then back to her happy face and hand telling her to sit down and play with her.

Processing it.

"Yo that's awesome"

He was way too late with that reaction...

Sitting down next to her she turned on the console and happily plugged in the remote controller as it was in need of being charged.

So waiting for a few seconds to let the battery get a little bit of juice, she turned her head over and opened her mouth as they faced the TV.

"Thanks again for today, you were amazing back there" Robin

"I Still can't believe you carried all those waters by yourself?" Robin

"You're a bit crazy Erin, hahaha" Robin

"Just kidding, only a little crazy~" Robin

"Also thanks for spending time with me, its less fun alone"

Turning back around, she happily went back to her console and Erin crossed his legs, looking to the TV as she scanned through the console.

"I'm not crazy. . .If anything you'd be the crazy one. And no worries, I like hanging out with you. Your fun"

"Hey I'm about to start a game, wanna play with me!"

"No thanks, I'll watch you play first to catch on"

"Suit yourself"

. . . . .

Sitting next to her and watching her play for a while she starts to get aggravated as she can't pass one of the levels, and after many difficult attempts, she gets mad and plops the controller onto Erin's lap.

"You Try"

She says not giving him a chance to accept or refuse as she lays back and looks to the ceiling, trying to calm down after many failed attempts.

While she's laying down,

Erin beat the level on his first try.

And to think a guy with no experience what so ever could beat it even after some gal like Robin couldn't, it brought a smug smile to his face as he chuckled to himself and looked over at Robin smirking.

"Wow... That was easy, have anything actually difficult?"

Hearing such a taunting tease come out of Erin's mouth, she swiftly sits up shocked to see on the screen that he beat the level and gathered the max 3 stars hidden around the level.

"You got lucky!"

She snatched the controller away from him, and he laughed as he teased her.

But this time, instead of going back to watching her, this time he he grabbed the other controller in which she had charging and he joined in on her game.

"Luck huh? Naw, I'm just better than you" He said taunting her.

"Oh so that's how it is, Your on! You and Me!!!"

She yelled challenging him in this game.

"Haha, get ready to lose then!!!"

. . . . .

Playing for half an hour she absolutely wiped the floor with him, overpowering him with a mix of skill and strategy as she hit him with combo after combo, not even letting him get a single hit on her as she took her rage out on his mocking trash talk from earlier.

"Oh, I thought you said you were better than me... Erin"

Looking at her indifferently as she didn't hold back at all, he wanted to make up an excuse but didn't as he had to admit, it was pretty freaking sick to see her use them combos on him.

"Your really good at that... I guess you are the better play then"

He said as she had absolutely humbled his arrogance.

"Hahaha, I know! Wanna rematch!"

"Hell no!"

Saying that he started her for a second, but then laughed at it.

"Kidding, let's go again, also teach me one of those moves, it was the cool sliding one"

"Only if you win, if you lose I'm teaching you how to make lemonade"

"I won't lose!"

He lost. . .

. . . . .

"Let's go again! 3 out of 4!"

He challenged her again.

But this time, when she got him down to half health, he dropped the controller at his side and attacked her with tickles, making her lose focus on the game as his fingers hit her belly and he targeted her weak spot.

This was his secret move to winning.

The Tickle Attack 3000!!!

"No far!"

She shouted, squirming away from him as he tickled her and made her lose concentration due to his unfair actions.

But as that happened it was enough to give Erin the upper hand and he took that advantage as he grabbed his controller and took that victory soon after.

And after getting that victory, he basked in his win, but just as he was about to gloat, he turned his head to see an upset Robin.

"You're lucky you're a guest in my room" she sulked.

Seeing that he made her mope and put her in a bad mood, he rubbed the back of his head and apologized.

"I'm sorry... I know if it was the other way around you wouldn't have done that to me"

But as he said that she lightly punched his shoulder.

"It's okay. You just surprised me there"

After getting an acceptance from his apology they grabbed the controller and played each other again, this time leading to a draw.

"I'll get you next time!"

"Same here!"

They competitively went back and forth with each other.

. . . . .

Playing the game for a while they lost track of time and when 10 hit a few minutes after there was a knock at Robin's door and it was Nate looking for Erin.

Remembering what they were going to do, Erin shot up and went over to Nate.

"Thanks for letting me play with you Robin, good night"

He said biding her farewell as he left with Nate to go to the garden.

"Night you two!"

She said playing the game for a little bit longer before turning it off and heading to bed.

Meanwhile going outside, Erin and Nate spent the next 2 hours till midnight tending to the garden and clearing it of weeds and vines as it hadn't been used since the both of them were small.

Or in Erin's case, smaller.

. . . . .

Finally clearing it there were three useable beds for gardening.

But it was too late and the both of them were exhausted by the end of it. So they went back inside and went back to their separate rooms to turn in for the night.

But before Erin could plop on his bed and go to sleep, he went over to his work desk and opened his journal, writing into it before bed as he wanted to start his journal entry.

[Journal Entry: +1]

After writing about how his day went and the fun and horror of if, he closed his journal and went over to his bed, jumping on it and falling asleep in mere seconds as he couldn't bother with anything else.

. . . . .

3 hours after he fell asleep he woke up to the sounds of a mysterious noise in his room. Getting up and sitting at the edge he rubbed his eyes and then looked around to see his room in a shade of this beautiful and glamorous purple.

Turning around and looking over at his window, he saw that outside of his room the world around him was purple, the sky was pink, and the moon was blood red.

Not questioning it he got up and as if his body moved on its own and his mind was completely calm to what was happening he looked for that strange noise illuminating in his room.

Looking over to his mirror he saw that something had changed and as he walked over to it, it bared no reflection.

Instead, the glass was glowing pink and illuminating a strange aura as it had a swear of purple and red circling around it.

He walked up to it and as he had he was memorized by the swirls in the solid purple glass and as he looked to it as if it was compelling him, something bounced in the glass and the solid texture to that glass turned to what looked like water.

As he looked at it, suddenly a blood-red tentacle striped with electric patterned purple came out from the mirror and as it reached out for him, he heard.

"Come closer"

Doing as said he took a step and reached out for that mysterious tentacle coming out of the mirror.

Grabbing the tentacle in his hand, he softly gripped it with both hands and as he was in complete compulsion, the tentacles tip moved to his mouth and touched his lips.

It felt his mouth leaving a sweetened slime of dark red on there and as it felt his lips, it moved in the center, lifting it up and going in.

He opened his mouth he let it in,

And as he did, it kept going without stop, crawling into his mouth and acting as if was trying to get inside his body as it rubbed up against his teeth and cheeks before finding its way to his throat and crawling down inside.

It was as if it was trying to get inside his body.

And from how it looked it was as if this strange anomaly was trying to check Erin out to see if he could be a worthy vessel.

It kept going, reaching deep inside of him and down his throat, sliding in even more till it reached his stomach, and started moving around.

But then suddenly as it reached his stomach and his eyes were faded to a pure dull blue, he heard a voice from inside his mind.

"Would you rather let it take over and die or be killed by Bailey"

The voice said waking up his consciousness.

"Neither"

He said in response completely blind to what was going on.

"Then, take control... Take control and ?@(| $|#√×!π;¶`√¶π¶÷"

Listening to whatever spoke had said his eyes started filling with life as he had snapped out of whatever he was under and as he looked to this thing invading his insides, he bared his as his mouth was still open and as he could feel it wiggling around inside of him,

He growled and bit.

He bit!

Strangling the tentacle from outside of his mouth and already in his hand, his teeth clanked down on the invading tentacle and he clenched it tight as his jaw shut down and squeezed the tentacle squishing it.

But he didn't let it leave.

Biting and squeezing he pulled his head back and to the side and as he did, his teeth connected, biting and ripping off the tentacle already in him in two.

Breaking it off.

Oozing blood came from the tentacle now wiggling in horror as whatever part of it was bitten off, and as it wiggling around hitting the ground and the sides of the mirror, it recoiled back into the mirror, turning the room blood red and blood seeped down from the walls.

"YOU'LL PAY!"

"YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS HUMAN!!!"

A voice roared from the walls of the room forcing Erin off his feet and crashing into the wall, cracking it a little and knocking him out.

Unconscious, his door burst open!

"Erin what was that noise! What happened!"

A few minutes had actually passed since he was knocked out and as Nate and Robin came into his room, they saw him bleeding from the head and on the ground near the cracked wall of his room.

"Erin!"