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Squrrly curled into their tail. They could feel themself waking up, almost imagining the cool stone they fell asleep on with the canopy of leaves overhead.
Lune kicked luner leg, turning onto her back, paws hanging in the air.
She heard a voice, demanding something.
"Five more minutes..." Lune mumbled.
Unfortunately they were jolted awake but some asshole kicking them into a wall.
"AJAJJAJAJSJSJJ?????????" Squrrly exclaimed, back arched like a very pissed off cat.
"That was not very nice of you, moth man." Someone, who upon brief observation was a leaf, said.
"THAT WAS VERY NOT NICE OF YOU!!!!!" Squrrly pounced at his ankles, scratching and biting.
"Ow ouchie my ankles :(" they screamed, which squrrly delighted in.
"Omg stop fighting! Do you want to die?" A tiny green child yelled.
"A fight to the death, is it? I SHALL BE THE VICTOR!" Squrrly intensified the scratching and biting.
"Aughhh oughh blehhhhhhhh" the squirrel kicker falls to the ground, dead.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" some nerd with a deer skull mask that is actually kinda cool yells, falling to their knees, leaning over the dead body of the moth man.
"Did.... Did you know him?" The bug child asks.
"No." Deer skull nerd answers.
"Dear Terra we haven't even had to go through any traps yet and someone's already dead 😰" a witch says.
"What's that about traps now." Squrrly says.
"Uhm so you slept through it but some freak brought us to his creepy basement to torture us with traps" deer skull nerd explains.
"Oughhh what the fuckkkkk that's so not cool" squrrly groans.
"We have all been injected with Deadly Poison and the cures are in the Deadly Traps." A giant furry/scaley creature says.
"Oh great we're gonna die either way :/" Bird child says.
"Well I'm built different so I'll be fine" Tall dark lady says.
"erm okay whatever whats the first trap." Squrrly (insert word other than says here)
Suddenly a giant hole appears in the floor right below the giant furry/scaley creature, and they plummet to the bottom.
"Oh my.... thats a deep hole." green bug child says.
"I don't think they've hit the bottom yet." Witch person muses.
Everyone (alive and not in a hole) stands around the edge, listening for when the cat dragon thing finally reaches the bottom.
"I think i'd rather bleed to death through my ankles than this." deer skull nerd says.
"it's been like a minute, how is it still going?" bird child asks.
"Maybe its just so deep that the sound is too quiet by the time it reaches the surface." Tall dark lady says.
"I could jump down. Squirrels can't take fall damage." Squrrly suggests.
Squrrly yelps from an unexpected increase in altitude. She looks up to see the deer skull nerd holding lune.
Squrrly then yelps again from the drastic decrease in altitude when they throw her down the hole.
"YOU BIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiittttttttttccccccchh......." Squrrly yells as they descend.
Ok that deer skull wasnt even cool.... whatever... theyre just nerd now....
Squrrly falls and falls and falls and fall and falls for like two whole minutes which may not seem like a lot of time but it feels like the last two minutes of the worlds most boringest class okay theres nothing to do but stare at the wall theres literally nothing happening.
Untill FINALLY lune reaches the ground, completely undamaged because of luner squirrel powers. The giant furry/scaley creature, however, was definitely damaged.
And so was the cure that sat at the bottom of the pit, crushed under the cat dragon's no-longer-solid-mist-of-blood-on-the-walls-and-floor body.
Squrrly cringed at the feeling of their now moist paws and looked around for a way out. Lune found a button on the wall and pressed it.
A meter of water flooded into the room, which might not have been a problem for 80% of the people there but it sure was a problem for squrrly and they started to drown.
What didn't help was everyone else had also jumped into the hole, lest they be crushed by the spikes of the closing-in walls in the room above, and someone landed on top of her.
Thankfully, a couple moments after seeing their life flash before their eyes, a door opened up and the water carried everyone to the room and dissipated.
*HACK HACK COUGH OUGHHHHHH* Squrrly retched.
"Wow that trap sucked." small chloroplastic sheet said.
"I watched the walls crush the witch just inches away from my head, and had i been just a tad slower i would have met the same fate" green bug child cries.
"I WANNA GO HOME" bird child screams.
"uh, there there?" tall dark lady pats the two sobbing children on the head.
"HEY. NO COMFORTING EACH OTHER!" a creepy voice blares through the room. Tall dark lady falls to the ground.
"oughhh i feel extra poisoned" she says.
"Oh no! we need to get a cure for her quick!" small chloroplastic sheet yells.
The five not dying idiots scattered around the room, looking for where the next cure is stored.
"I found one!" the leaf and bird child yelled in unison.
"I'll do one." nerd said, walking over to the bird child.
Squrrly and green bug child went up to small chloroplastic sheet.
"Looks like we each need to stick a hand into these holes in the wall and it will give us a cure." small chloroplastic sheet says.
"I do not trust those holes." bugz winces.
"Uhm, cure??? we need cure??" small chloroplastic sheet growls.
"just put both your hands in. and a foot because i'm not putting a hand in either." Squrrly says.
"Why don't you put your tail in, it's like mostly just fluff, right?" green bug child suggests.
"hrmph.... fine.... whatever...." Squrrly grumbles, stuffing her tail into one of the holes. Small chloroplastic sheet puts xier pathetic excuses of hands into the other two holes.
"OWWWWW AUGGHHH OW" small chloroplastic sheet screams when the entrances to the holes close in on themselves, cutting off her hands and the fluff at the end of squrrly's tail.
"No my stuff! It was all in my tail fluff!" Squrrly yells, quickly pulling luner now bald tail from the wall.
"Uh oh, the cure self-destructed since you put in your tail instead of your hand :(" green bug child says.
"drat... all for nothing... tell my family.... i love them..... *bleh*" small chloroplastic sheet says dramatically, falling into squrrly's arms and dying.
Then squrrly and green bug child are startled by a loud explosion noise. Nerd is kneeling on the floor, conspicuously missing a left hand and also without bird child.
"I got a cure." They said, giving it to tall dark lady. She takes it and shoves it in her mouth, which probably isnt the way youre supposed to take it but it works and she's no longer dying.
"yay :)" tall dark lady says.
"you know that was actually pretty cool of you." Squrrly says. Yeah the deer skull is pretty fucking cool.
"uh thanks?" deer skull nerd says, "you know you're holding onto the leaf's dead body, right?"
"ew i didn't want to touch a dead body... i thought they were sleeping." Squrrly says, dropping the body onto the floor. The force of his body hitting the floor shakes the little fur left on luner tail and a cure falls out.
"A cure! Who should get it?" tall dark lady gasps.
"I get to decide! Since it was in my tail." Squrrly yells, yoinking the cure. They look at the two others who have not gotten a cure or died yet.
"Hmmmm.... Deer skull nerd, you deserve this cure." Squrrly gets down on one knee, presenting the cure like a proposal ring.
"My name is antoine but okay." They say, taking the cure and absorbing it through their skin.
"Too bad, youre deer skull nerd."
A door appears in the wall, leading to a dark room. The wall opposite of the door grows spikes and begins to move across the room.
"Gotta go!" green bug child yelled and ran to the door, everyone else following.
The four collapse into a pile. A light flickers on, illuminating a table with cure and note that says 'a freebie cure since I know you idiots are gonna need one."
"MINE MINE MINE MINE" Squrrly pounces up and grabs the cure, devouring it.
"All who dont have a cure will explode" the creepy voice returns.
"wha-"green bug child saus before spontaneously exploding.
"I'm traumatized forever." tall dark lady says.
"yeah this was a real sucky experience." Squrrly huffs.
"Who wants to kill the guy who put us here?" Deer skull nerd asks.
"I think i'll just go home and drink till i go blind." tall dark lady says, teleporting away.
"well if i could teleport i'd just do that... what an idiot smh." Squrrly says, "anyways yeah lets beat this guy's ass.
"There isnt any speaker system, so that means he's just yelling really loudly through the wall. And his voice is coming from over there." deer skull nerd yaps.
"uh... nuh uh." creepy voice yells.
"YOU CANT HIDE FROM US!" Squrrly screams, curling up into a ball. Deer skull nerd lifts luner up and throws them at the wall like a bowling ball. The wall collapses, revealing a guy with blue hair and pronouns.
"Oh hey im just... a neighbor..." he mutters.
"DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Squrrly and deer skull nerd yell, tackling the guy.
Then they both kick him until he dies, getting revenge for all their dead not-friend-strangers who died and now all their souls can move on. And shadow came back with fast food yum.