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"H-Hello...?" you stutter as you walk over to the ghost like figure. She looks at you, wide-eyed. "It's so great you can finally see me (Y/N)." You recognize the voice anywhere. "Zero...?"

~Toby's POV~

"What or who is she talking too?" I ask. "Who knows, herself? Maybe she's finally going insane so we can take her with us," Masky whispers back. "Zero...?" the girl asked to no one. I hear a slight mumble response so there must be something there. "Masky, record this and I think we should go soon," I tell Masky. "Okay," he responds.

~Your POV~

"Yes (Y/N)~" Zero coos. "You can take a physical form? Or like-erm-ghost form?" you ask. "Well, you can only see me. Those two in the bushes over there just think your crazy right now," Zero responds. Zero points over to the bushes a good couple of yards away. You slowly walk over to the bushes and feel around them. You hear ticking noises and heavy breathing. You feel around and touch a head, it's hair is ruffled and messy. You walk closer and realize it's a boy, about your age. He wears steam-punk orange goggles and a metal mouth guard on his face. "H-Heh, h-h-hi..." the boy stammers. You realize another boy slowly getting up and quietly walking away. You let go of the boy with the goggle's hair and grab the back of the other guy's shirt. "And who are you?" you ask with serious, harsh tone in your voice. "M-Masky, m-m'l-lady..." Masky stammers. "And you?" you ask the other boy. "T-Ticci T-T-Toby...b-but just call me T-Toby..." Toby stutters. Wow, I didn't know you could be that scary. I think you just scared the shit out of them. "W-W-Well who are y-you?" Toby asks. "(Y/N)," you spat harshly back. Wow, it felt good to be mean.  After a couple minutes of talking about yourselves, you realize them whispering after every time you talk to Zero. They have worried expressions on their faces as you keep talking. Grab the hatchet and teach these losers a lesson for thinking you're crazy. You grab the hatchet in your backpack and aim it at them when they're whispering. You throw it in between them, just cutting both of their sleeves. They look over at you with annoyed, devilish expressions. "Heh..." you say to them. Toby starts to pull out his hatchet and you dash. You run and run like there's no tomorrow. You stop and pounce on a tree, climbing and climbing to the top. Masky's behind you and Toby's still on the ground waiting for you to come down. You jump to the next tree, just making it. You're pretty bad with jumping but you can run for miles and miles. You keep jumping from tree to tree hoping for Masky to just give up on trying to kill you. Then a couple trees forward you realize Toby's climbing up, fairly quickly. Since he's the one with the hatchet and not Masky you decide to go back in Masky's direction.  As you run and jump at him he's very confused until he gets pushed by you off of the tree. "Hah!" you laugh. Then you realize you're going to need to get off the trees soon since you can't jump forever, so you climb down a couple of branches to not take such as hard impact. You keep jumping until you don't make a jump, doing a roll as you land onto the ground. You get up and run as fast as you can, until Toby jumps on you and tackles you. "Gotcha!" he says in excitement. You close your eyes waiting for the impact of the axe blade, but he doesn't hit you with the blade. He whacks you with the handle and you black out.

~After being knocked out by Toby~

You flutter your eyelashes open and hear bickering of two boys, which must be Toby and Masky. You mostly heard their conversation because they were talking so loud. "Why'd you knock her out?!" "Well I wasn't gonna kill her!" "Knocking her out isn't good either!" "Masky just shut up she's gonna hear us!" You grunt and roll over to make them think you just woke up. Their yelling turns into angered whispers. "See?! You woke her up!" "It's not my fault for knocking her out though, eh?!" They just keep bickering until you finally get up. Can I come out to teach them a lesson? 'Sure.' The same pain fills your body but it wasn't as gruesome as before. You look like Zero again, your shirt turning black with grey stripes on the sleeves and gray jeans. Horns and a devil's tail pop out too, along with your friendly wings having blood and black ooze dripping from them. Your eyes turn crimson blood red and you smile malicious. You look over to the two boys. "Run?" Masky whispers to Toby. "RUN!!!" Toby yells. Zero grabs the hatchet and starts chasing them around the forest with it and you capture Masky, slitting his cheek, ruffling his hair, and marking the name you heard in your dreams before, "Insanity (Y/N)" in his hand. Blood oozes from it as he screams out in agony. 'Oh shit, she's got Masky...' Toby tells himself. "It's not just Masky I got, I got you too~" Zero mischievously whispers as she pounces on Toby. Toby screams but his screams get muffled as Zero covers his mouth with a ripped part of her sleeve acting like a scarf. "Now, (Y/N), how would you like it if your 'boyfriend' here gets hurt?" Zero coos to you. You looked like how Zero did when you first met her, a ghost that only she can see. Tears fell down your eyes as you begged Zero to not hurt him. Zero struggled to keep control of your body when you kept pushing to take control. In the end, you lost from being weak. "He's getting extra for you trying to take control," Zero spats harshly at you. "Now, the real fun begins~" she directs her tone to Toby, who seems terrified and confused. She first starts slitting his cheek like Masky, and tears prick the corner of his eyes. He refuses to cry for a little scratch. "Hm, no screams yet? Then I'll just get to the fun part, marking~" Zero purrs and Toby looks scared out of his hell mind. Expecting to be kissed or worse, she just grabs his hand. Then, she starts ripping the flesh open, writing, "Insanity (Y/N)". Now that's when Toby screams knowing too that it's going to leave a permanent scar there forever. "Hush, I'm not done here~" she whispers in his ear. That's when you had enough, you used all of your energy to push against the force of you not having the ability of control over your body. It, surprisingly works this time. You have full control and you look back to normal. Tears prick your eyes as you see Toby hurt so you take off your hoodie and wrap his hand with it. He lifts his mouthguard down and pulls his goggles up. "Thank you so much (Y/N). I promise to..."