Knock knock knock " who is it " Syko creaked through the door and jump to the other person's bed " I'm scared " " What are you afraid of ? " " I don't know " " So you don't know " Syko nods at the owner of the bed as he lays tucks very tightly under the blanket .
" There might be a monster on my bed , on the closet , behind the door " " Or somewhere that isn't under the blanket ? " " mmhhmm " " Then you should definitely hide it might be there " Syko silently showed his fear pulling the blanket closer " But you know you make those monsters right ? " " really ? "
" Well , when you look at the cabinet a monster can appear or at least that is what you think . You're afraid something might be behind your door or under your bed but that's you who made the monster appear there . when you sleep in a room alone you think there is a monster because you feel there is something but you made them because you think they are there . "
Syko thought of it and dropped his head to look under the bed and saw none other than the bed and the floor and you know what I mean " So I make the monster ? " " That's what I told you yes because you're the one who thought it was there because you imagined it "
" Then the blanket is my shield " Syko said as he grabbed another pillow " And this is my shield " " Having fun but bedtime and wanna doze off telling where the monster you thought could be in ? " Syko looked around even though it was very dark but already knew the arrangement of the bedroom .
" The sound of water dripping sounds like a monster is coming but it doesn't get louder , the clock is making a sound that scares me " " Getting creative from your eyes to ears " " The cold air feels like a monster is gonna get me " " That's right that's called cold so it is just making you shake "
" Putting my hand out under the bed feels like an arm will grab " " Something might since it feels empty for something not to be there " Syko pulled back his hands and squeezed the pillow hiding under the blanket with the figure " It's okay you made those monsters you know ? " Syko thought about it and smiled while drifting off to sleep .
After that night Syko was never afraid of going around and maybe he made some friends . He never feared the dark or sleeping alone because he knew the monsters he was afraid of are the ones he created .
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The three friends left the factory and went to the house of the ice cream man " Where is it ? " Syko and Lever were looking through the numerous bookshelves while Patches was traumatized from the bitter taste .
" Here it is " Syko got a book looking at the taste-changing potion details " Sour , sweet , bitter " he flipped to the pages of the bitter book and found a piece of black paper written with white ink " Oh here it is "
" The bitter tongue , a curse that lets the victim only have the bitter taste " " Is that why I can't taste anything sweet ? " Patches ate some cake but couldn't taste the strawberry on it while also crying and spitting it out .
" Syko I looked at all books and none of them said anything about bitter curse " Lever said coming back very tired " Don't worry I found it " Syko patted Lever on its back " We just need the ingredients for it "
" First we need the lollipop the ice cream man had " " Here it is " Lever showed it to Syko but Patches was a little scared of it " Get it away " " Now we need something sweet , sour and salty to give Patches the taste buds "
" I found a big sugar and a lemon " " Now we just need something salty " Syko sighs very tired since it was going to be night and they still haven't had dinner " I'm hungry ... But I need to find something salty "
" Patches did you see anything salty at the mall ? " " I only saw things like pink rocks " " It might be pink salt we can use that " Syko started to break the fourth wall so they can leave the world of Candyland " Wait I still want to eat the "
" Weee " Syko pulled Lever and Patches out with the ingredients to break the curse " NOOO " Lever cried and they all came out of the book " Oof " Syko smiled looking at the mall " We're back " he celebrated but Lever and Patches were sad , one wanted to eat while the other wanted to be able to taste sweets .
" I'll go get the salt " Syko ran while Lever found some rainbow sprinkles on Syko's head making him look like ice cream with his white hair ' Ice cream ' Lever turned its wheels to chase after Syko but encountered its enemy .
' Stairs !!! ' Lever hated the stairs so much especially now that some mecevers were fixing it . It remembered the last time it ruined something the stuffies care about they would chase it . But it was the mecevers that still didn't stop it from being careful and walked slowly down .
Lever doesn't like walking at all which is why it had wheels most of the time or rollers though Patches and Syko doesn't notice because it managed to make them cause no noise " Careful " Lever switched to its walking legs it wasn't hard to switch to those legs but walking isn't .
It was mostly Lever's inexperience in walking since every time it lifted a leg there would be a sliding motion when it placed its feet on the ground ' This is so hard I feel like I was supposed to slide but this is even scarier on the stairs . I might really slip and break the thing they're making ' Lever was not in the mood and didn't have enough energy to run from the little mechanical builders .
Lever managed to get to the first flight of stairs and was on the same level as the mecevers fixing the glass fence ' Now to pass them ' Lever swiftly passed them and looked down " Ugh "
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Syko got the container of salt and walked out but when he turned he saw another exit the supermarket was empty since the toys he made didn't need consumption or rather have not tested their taste buds constructed from their soul ' What is that place '
Supermarkets are places where people from households come and go so the mall decided to build a train that stretches through the main residential points of a city but we can't prove it was destroyed but the mall wasn't destroyed . Back to the train , there was one train on the rails right now .
Inside were things that can be found easily in a normal modern train like chairs and some rods to grab on . The train was especially clean and Syko went to the front train or the caboose but went through the boxcars or the passenger area first to see the commands lighting up ' The lights are on ' Syko looked at the stations and thought how some trains can have sleeping quarters .
" But what's the next station ? " Syko then remembered Patches's curse and left the train to go to a ticket station to use the mic and call Patches " Patches please stay at the bookstore I got the salt " Syko left the train station and ran up .
He walked the escalator up and saw the bookstore on the second floor and Lever climbing the last step down " Hello Lever bye Lever " Syko rushed upstairs and ran to Patches with all the ingredients of the ingredients " With this spell , the curse will be expelled " a sloppy line was spoken as the ingredients flashed through the lollipop and revived Patches's taste buds .
Syko gave the lollipop to Patches and it ate the lollipop " So sweet " Patches cried a little and Syko smiled " I did it " Syko dropped his body and thought of the time " Patches what time is it ? " Patches was still self-celebrating at the fact it got its taste back so Syko turned to a clock to see the time .
" Mm " he frowned and thought of how to spend the rest of the day " Patches what do you want to do ? " he didn't get a reply so he got a random book and read it but even that was boring since he lacked the will to be curious . He did find a magazine " Huh ? " he read it and pushed it down to look up and then at his left and right side .
The magazine had contents of a train that connects big cities and described the train as an overnight train to let passengers sleep at night " Sounds fun " Syko thought of the luxury and thinks of the train under ' Overnight train '
But then he thought of his stomach " Patches do you want to eat something ? " Patches immediately jolted to Syko " You have sweets ? " " No ! No more candy , big brother told me I can't keep eating the same thing "
Syko shook his head violently and Patches thought of what Syko did when it found him eating ice cream " But we can eat something else " Syko got up and walked to a nearby restaurant and Patches's expression darkened since it didn't like how the burger was very plain such as the bread which didn't look good to it .
" I don't like it " Patches said dejectedly since it has always been eating candies and avoiding meat since it doesn't like the texture and forgotten the concept of cooking " Just try it , you learn when you try something new "
Syko pulled Patches inside the restaurant and Syko went past the counter of the fast food chain and opened the fridge with the meat still there as the guidebook said .
" Burger patties " he cooks them on a flat surface , once he was done he stacked it between two buns and a square paper then repeat .
And then rummaged through his backpack ( he only brings it with him when he is leisurely traveling but when not he leaves it somewhere and retrieves it later ) " Found it " he ran out with a tray of hamburgers covered .
" I got it " Patches looked at the unappetizing pile of paper-wrapped burgers " Is that really good ? " it was suspicious since it didn't eat meat " If you dip it in this it would taste good " Syko got a container of sauce and dunk the burger like it was oreo to milk " Here "
Patches could narrow its eyes for this but it's a toy with buttons for eyes so it stared at the burger suspiciously " Mmh " It was hesitant but that didn't matter after Syko forced the burger into its mouth .
But since it uses needles to replace teeth it couldn't savor the sensation of biting through bread but the sauce did taste good " It's sweet " Patches eyes sparkled and it got a spoon and scoop the viscous sauce to drip the sauce on the patty and threw the rest into its mouth .
" I found a train downstairs wanna ride it ? " " What's that ? " " It's like Lever but very big we can eat and sleep in it . " Patches hasn't remembered the concept of sleep in a while but "eat" got its attention " How do we ride it ? " " We stay inside it and let it move on the rails that is how a train works " " Why are we going to ride in it ? "
Syko only had a few goals then thought about traveling " We can leave the mall and visit other places there might be so many new things " Syko heightened the value of exploration and Patches was taken by his words " Does that mean there are other kinds of sweets out there ? " " Who knows that's why exploring is so fun "
Lever finally came and saw the patties " Ugh you like that ? " and so Syko had to repeat what he said about food to Lever but looked outside the store and then inside before he started repeating the conversation he had with Patches to Lever .
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" You came so far now Pinocchio " a man with an eye mask that covers even his eyes walked to a human-like doll wearing noble clothing but his arm was snapped , he thinks he can just replace it nevertheless he was pinned down with chains unable to get up " But Geppetto truly crafted such a realistic doll he even functions like a human "
" Enough about my father " " I am the reason your father even exists or that you didn't end up foolish like your old story " " My destined story was much better than you forcing me to stay inside that accursed land that killed my father " the man named Fohll smirked under his eye mask as Pinocchio struggles to be released from the chains .
" How about a flashback for your farewell ? I heard that before death your life flashes but since you're a doll it might not work that well " " NOOOO " Pinocchio was knocked out as he recalled all his memories .
When he was still being made Geppetto went out to buy him some silk after selling out most of his property and dressed up Pinocchio with noble clouds of dark black color . He himself was impressed at his own work and made sure that Pinocchio was carved so perfectly that he was even more handsome than the prince of the land .
He then started to pay attention to his limbs and once he did finish the last finger Pinocchio magically came to life but like a child , his eyelids were too heavy and shut to fall asleep only having a weak glimpse of Geppetto until the house was suddenly destroyed by a bandit ruining Geppetto as that was the last time Pinocchio saw him .
A knight found him after stopping the cart in time and eventually everything was on fire from the gunpowder and oil the bandit wanted to smuggle . The knight found Pinocchio fallen on the wood and saw his clothing and assumed that he was a noble and saved him . He took him to the noble house and they have been searching for Pinocchio's assumed family for a long time .
But they can never find a noble family that never existed , but there was something that was found a scar that Pinocchio always had , the burned scar on his body .
He never would've imagined that he was made of wood and no clues hinted at him when he magically turned alive he suddenly had a heartbeat so he never notices and thought of his burns to be the only scar that will never heal , this was why he always wears long sleeves .
The day he knew he was a doll was when the house he lived in was under siege and was shot plenty of times trying to protect a maid . He had already embraced death until he touched his body as every part of him was still intact with some craters healing .
This walk with death caused the dead wood that built him to come to life like he did and healed the burned scar by brushing it off like charcoal . He was amazed by his identity but he turned to see the maid terrified to see his chest not bleeding and saw how the shotgun bullets deformed his chest .
That was when a perspective of the world came to him . He was the only thing magical in this world this was the reason why the maid was so terrified the once beautiful Pinocchio had his chest deformed . He ran away after the siege and went to the place where his real father was in the place where the knight found him .
Only one memory appeared and he looked at the empty lot before he was later led to a graveyard by locals to read the words "Geppetto" the only memory was that very vague memory .
He didn't even know what his name was at the time so he decided to learn more about Geppetto but he was nothing extraordinary only someone hard-working and spent a lot of money to buy materials before he died .
After some time Pinocchio found out about his name from Fohll but also a discovery . He was part of a story and in the original story , he was a happy boy with his father leaving happily after being blessed into a real boy .
But in his story , he already had human functions but still retained his doll functions allowing him to still live Pinocchio in this story was made to be a teenager and didn't get to grow up like his original .
When Pinocchio found Fohll he thought he was different when he saw his strange ability . So he hooked on a ride and then discovered the truth about his origin . He tried to kill Fohll for revenge for what he did to make Geppetto die but was sent to another world .
In this world , he resolved to have to get stronger so he left his old identity and found a way to raise while learning how to take advantage of his body .
He treated his body like a machine with detachable parts forging blades and learning how to twist the form of his body to follow the structure of his blueprints . Eventually , he manages to escape with little dust from the leftovers of Fohll's power .
He escaped that story world only to be defeated but thanks to being a doll he was hard to kill so Fohll thought of dropping him on the train thinking it would at least slow Pinocchio down a little .
Pinocchio woke up and watched Fohll disappear through a portal as he allowed books to float " I hate boring stories " he grabbed a storybook and manifested the images . He was now corrupting each of them causing the stories to change course and changing the world into something horrifying similar to this world where kindness was rare itself .
Little red riding hood lose her grandma to the wolf and he was about to eat her but she threw the basket at the wolf's mouth and the knife fell into its throat as it bled . She didn't just watch and looked for someone to save her but the hunter in the story was starved and readily shot her .
The giant in the beanstalk story fell down injured and hungry so he had no time to chew his food which helped Jack survive but traumatized him as the townsfolk were chewed causing rumble of houses and chewed-up bodies falling in watching each of them ask for help . The horror lasted for hours until the growing beanstalk destroyed the giant's insides .
Alice had a terrible childhood while she herself was able to resist the event but remnants of the emotions stuck inside her mind creating Wonderland . Wonderland became a place she visits each time appearing stronger , lasting longer as she slowly departs from reality .
Stories corrupt as all of them try to escape it to procure fragments of the fourth wall to find what their original story was about and Pinocchio never let go of the fourth wall fragment that he placed into his eyes . It was the only thing that could ever help him gain an advantage as Fohll can escape reality to glimpse reality like it was a television or a book .
It was the thing he can use to glimpse at Fohll even when Fohll is behind a manifested fourth wall ' I can't stop here , if he changes more stories he might not be able to handle it he might have plans to have as taken care off but I can't let him do that '
Pinocchio struggles to lift his body and Fohll appeared again " Oh right I should also do this " he chained Pinocchio on the rails and left once again .
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" I'm not making more " Syko ran around the mall being chased by Lever and Patches was delighted by the new flavors and decided to copy what Syko did and try to cook .
But ended up having oil on its cotton and fabric " Syko I can't get this weird water out " Patches can clean itself but with water only " Then help me first " Syko pleaded running out of stamina .
Patches made a string appear tripping Lever as it flew above a fallen Syko " Thank you " Syko laid on the floor and flopped his body to look up at Patches .
" Use soap the one that smells good but it tastes bad " " How do you know it tastes bad ? " Syko hid his embarrassment by turning away and say " I tasted it before "
Patches thought of the hint and ran to the supermarket where it found the soap it tried to drink " Hmm " Patches got a bottle of said soap and poured it which caused it to question " What do I do next ? " it went back to Syko with the soap soaked in its cotton " Now what ? " " Wash it with water " " There wasn't any rain yesterday we might run out of water "
Patches imagined the horrors it used to have when it couldn't clean itself " Hmm " Syko got up and thought of the train but the water problem was important since Patches was a clean freak so it will not like having no water even for a while " Then we should go outside there might be a river around . "
Syko went outside the mall to see the dark woods " Flashlight " he rummaged through his bag to look for it " Syko where are you going !!?? " Lever was a little mad at the pain that Patches caused and only thought the floor was the reason it went flying .
" Looking for water do you know where ? " Patches asked thinking that Lever might know about it since it needed to keep its parts clean after that one battle they both had .
" There was a big river that way " " Can you bring us ? " Syko asked " Why ? I don't want to get wet " Lever complained , it can certainly spay itself it only does this for the reason of cleaning .
Getting dry would be annoying since it takes too long " Mmh " Syko had to let Lever bring them to the river for water " There might be fruits over there " Patches confirmed " Fruits ? "
" Yeah since there is a river there might be a lot of plants " Patches said since it reads a lot of books inside " Their juices are very sweet we can make some if you want " Lever imagined the rainbow-colored water and nodded " Let's go " Lever leads the way while Syko lighted the way with his flashlight .
" There are so many bushes " Lever tried to push through the bushes and Patches decided to take out scissors and split them to make scissor blades " I'll cut them " " Okay but you have to listen to me " suddenly they all heard choo choo or the onomatopoeia of an old train .
They all looked around using their knowledge about trains to look for rails but none , even a clear path to place a train rail was nowhere to be seen only " Uhm what was that ? " Patches didn't like not understanding what was happening and Lever was cautious since it dealt with many of Patches's strategies .
Meanwhile , Syko thought the noise was somehow familiar to him and then a memory hit him " Syko you should control yourself , it's not that you make the monsters come into reality you only think that the monsters are there . So while you make monsters you can still create them whether you want to or not . "
A train with a face of wide smile filled with bloodied teeth and with creepy white orb for eyes appeared " Uh oh " Lever turned to look at the train with an extra feature of spider legs and a light to light the path while showing them a clear image of its white face as it roared coming closer .
" That way " Patches sliced through the bushes as they hear the train roar " HURRY " Lever rushed Patches and pick the stuffed toy up to speed up .
And Syko hitched a ride flashing the way with his flashlight " DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE WEIRD TRAIN BEHIND US ! " Lever yelled and Syko got an idea " Here hold this " " WHAT !? " Lever didn't have time to react and got forced to hold the flashlight .
" SYKO WE'RE ALMOST AT THE RIVER !! " Patches ducked as a branch was on the way and Lever tripped due to a branch that suddenly sprouted off the ground as the shadow cast from the flashlight hit the train and hands sprouted off the ground to grab the train .
" THE WATER !! " Lever hit the brakes as soon as it landed on the ground again and the train was derailed as it fly out of the ground into the waters cooling its fuel as it drowned . After some silence , they all sighed " Syko what was that ? " Lever asked " I think I summoned it but not because I wanted to " Patches dropped its head " Please tell us something about this next time "
Patches went to the river to wash while Syko looked at the train as the face was completely disfigured and wounded gruesomely . If you all don't know what happened then have you ever felt fear of something grabbing onto you in the dark ? That is what Syko used to summon hands to grab the train at the same time injured it with the claws on the fingers .
Syko rummaged through his backpack to get an inflatable and floated to the back of the train which was where Syko would think of putting the obvious weak spot as a giant opening with only fences on it was revealed .
" Oh , there is one " Syko got into the train and took the wet coal pile into a coal storage of a metal box " There it is " after cleaning out the pile he found the heart of the train which was fleshy like a meat .
It wasn't like a human heart but it had extensions stretching around the insides " Lever can you pull the train ? " Lever looked at Syko standing at the train without fear since it is dead " I don't wanna " Syko looked at the trees and despite the darkness he flashed his flashlight revealing fruits and identified them all " You can make a fruit shake bigger than you "
Lever looked at the fruits that all shined from the sun-like flashlight and "drooled" " Throw me a rope ! " Syko smiles and threw the other end of the rope while the other end was tied to the train's chimney ( described in a child's book ) " When will you make the shake ? " Syko thought about it whether he should take apart the train to harvest its parts or help Lever and ended up helping Lever .
It was very quick all he did was use Lever's parts to make a blender and let it have fun with the combination " Osh harvesting time " he got a toolbox out of his backpack and then unscrewed several metal parts and saw the teeth and plucked out the rest .
He ended up having many metals , the skeleton and parts but most importantly was the heart " I got it " Syko got a cooler box from his bag and Patches was watching at the amazing backpack Syko has .
" Syko Why do you get so many things out of that it looks so small ? " Patches questioned the law of physics it learns understanding that Syko's backpack would have to defy that to even function the way it's supposed to .
" My big brothers and sisters made it for me I can put a lot of things inside it and they said it's like Santa Claus's gift bag "
" Who is Santa Claus ? " " He is someone who comes at Christmas to give the nice kids presents they like that's why my sister called my bag Claws they named it after Santa Claus's claus " Patches thought of Christmas and compared it to what it knows .
" Is there a Christmas tree ? " " Yes , Santa puts the present under the Christmas tree and he puts candy on a big sock " " Candy ? " Patches drooled thinking of big socks filled with candy " But the only Santa Claus I know are my siblings they always put candies and gifts under the tree and on the socks "
Patches was hit with facts and sad reality " No candy ? " " You can make one with the honey and maybe the sugarcane over there " Patches looked at the sugarcane recognizing it and Lever was only able to understand the "sugar" at "sugarcane" .
" Yeah but it's almost night can we go back , I'm tired " " Wait you won't summon another monster by accident ? " Lever asked looking at the heart that Syko has in his backpack " No I'm too tired to even do that can we just go back "
Although the two were inanimate objects they both have been used to taking a nap or sleeping . They were able to detect fatigue and the soul needed some rest similar to death but even shorter namely sleep .
" Okay but why are you going to bring that " Lever pointed at the heart inside Syko's backpack and Syko looked at Lever " I'm gonna use it on the train under the mall " " Really " " Yeah can we go back I'll tell you on the way "
" Okay " Lever carried the parts it used for the fruits and walked on the way as Syko talked about the train " the train that died on the river has a heart , the heart is like the ones humans have it only has one heart too it is a lot like a human but the most important part is the heart . "
" Why ? " Lever asked curiously since Patches always outsmarted it so it thinks it needs to know more " Because around the heart , coal is burned so the heart is warmed and the train is alive because the fire is still burning so it died when it fell on the river . "
" Does it have a brain or does it eat one ? " Patches asked referencing zombies as a common monster " It doesn't have a brain because its heart is also a brain " " Why ? " Lever asked again " Because the more the fire is burning the more it can move but it also knows that it will die if there was no fire "
" That's why it was looking for us it wants fire " Lever said and Patches argued it out " No , if it wants fire then it could use wood in the forest " " It's because I found it in a horror game I made my own version of the train but the train was more hungry for souls too "
" SOULS !!?? " Lever asked scared " Yeah the fire that is burning in its heart can also burn souls , the book said that Patches and Lever who live very long have strong souls so maybe the train was looking for your souls . By the way , its soul is the fire so it is dead "
" Scary " Lever shook and Patches thought of another question " Why are you going to use it on the train under the mall ? " " I wanna make the train move so we can go around the trail tracks " " Then what if we reach the end of the rails ? " Patches mentioned and Syko took a leg out of the backpack .
" I'm gonna use this " " But the train is very long " Syko looked at the spider leg and then put it back " I think I need more " " But for now we need sleep " Lever yelled not wanting to fight any more monstrosities that Syko may summon as they reached the mall and fell asleep on Patches who is now a pillow .
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