“What’d Dey do this time?”
Steph turned to the source of the voice, his best friend Tian, pushing a bicycle up a hill, the same as him.
“Huh?!” Steph responded
“You suddenly said you wanted to go to the hotel after school and you haven’t said a word the whole bike ride, you’re only like that when Dey does something… annoying”.
Steph smiled slightly. His best friend knew him well.
“It’s stupid” Steph stated in an annoyed tone
“Can’t be worse than the time he managed to get onto your drawer and break OUR Leygo Star Cruiser Infinite”.
“You’re still miffed about that?”
“We spent hours on it brooooo! HOURS”
“Mhmm”
“And all Dey got was a light scolding”.
“What can I say? Dey is juST a FwufFY aND FwUFfies DUn kNo BeTTah” Steph responded in a sarcastically venomous tone.
Tian snorted in amusement, as Steph made a frustrated sigh.
The two boys reached the top of the hill, and looked around. It was a nice day today. Light blue sky with white clouds. A gentle breeze sent a cool wind that rustled the leaves, as the gentle sunlight shone between the tree branches. The forest looked especially beautiful today. A mix of healthy green tones, as well as with sturdy brown colors, with the fresh smell of nature filling the air. Yet it did little to alleviate Steph’s irritation.
“Dey almost ruined a wedding yesterday”
“Huh?!?!”
“Mom told me to take Dey on a walk, cause she was cooking, so I brought him out. I wanted to buy some gum, so I tied his leash to some fence, but when I came back he was gone. Managed to undo the knot and was off being a dumb exPlorAH FwUFfy so I had to go find him. I heard someone screaming at a Fluffy, turns out Dey had managed to find his way to a church and I think someone scared him, because he took a dump on the steps and ran off into some bush”.
“Oh Dey that trouble maker” Tian responded sarcastically.
“Yeah… I ran after Dey, but some guy grabbed me and asked if I was the Fluffy’s owner. I told him that I was just taking Dey for a walk, so he made me clean Dey’s mess. Afterwards he called me a stupid kid and told me not to have a Fluffy if I can’t take care of it. Dey’s not even my Fluffy and yet I’m the one who took the blame…”
Tian offered no response, only looking down the hill with a frown.
“… And then I grab Dey out of the bushes and he starts telling me how he needs his dumb hugs and love because he was sooooo scared. If you’re so easily scared, then why untie the leash and go exploring in the first place?! God I hate Dey so much”.
“Did you tell your mom and Aunt Riya about it?”
“What’s the point? They’ll just tell him off gently and then tell me that Dey is a Fluffy and he doesn’t know any better, and that I should have kept a better eye on him or something like that. I… whatever. Let’s go”.
Steph got back on his bicycle and Tian did the same. The two completing the rest of their journey in silence.
It took them 10 minutes to reach their destination, the Whispering Woods, some abandoned hotel in the middle of the forest. Large with old-timey kind of furniture and design. The two had found this place a while back as part of some internet dare: Scare some feral Fluffies until they pass out. The two had been trying to complete the challenge for a couple of weeks now.
It wasn’t exactly the hardest of challenges, Fluffies were more often than not, cowardly things that could easily be scared by something as common as their own shadow, but the problem was that Steph lacked the patience to ever see the whole challenge through. Fluffies were just such irritating things. Their whiny, high-pitched voices, their obnoxious mannerisms, their clear lack of intelligence, and their nauseatingly cute appearances. Honestly, every aspect of a Fluffy was annoying to Steph, because they all just reminded of him Dey, and waiting for a moment to scare a Fluffy into fainting, felt so excruciatingly painful that Steph would straight up ignore the challenge and just start abusing the Fluffies to calm himself.
How many times had he ruined their attempts?
The first time was because he got so tired of watching the herd in their endless stupidity. They were literally walking the same hallway over and over again because they had no spatial permanence awareness or whatever it was called, which was vexing, but what really pissed him off, was the Smarty leading them. The thing was so cocky and so sure that it was leading the herd to greater pastures. Cocky yet stupid. Exactly like Dey.
Steph got so pissed he straight up marched to the herd, and picked up the Smarty giving him a complete rundown of the hotel layout and highlighting how the dumbass had been walking the same hallway over and over. Naturally, the Smarty didn’t listen. They never do. Same for the herd and same for Dey, so Steph just locked them in one of the hotel rooms. Just left them there to starve to death. God he wished he could do that to Dey.
Then there was the second time. A mare and her foals. One of the foals was doing that dancie babbeh stunt. Making good dancie for good milkies. Dumb and absolutely infuriating. Dey did that all the time, except it was so that he could get a special friend for good feels. He’d do that stupid, low effort standing dance, moving his fore legs back and forth as he raised his rear legs, all with that dumb ugly grin, and he always had his private part on full display. It was always so disgusting to see, but mom and Aunt Riya would just always just laugh.
Some classmates told him that splashing water on Fluffies was supposed to fix that, so he grabbed the mare and her foals, and tossed them all into the pool. Not to fix them. It just felt good watching them scream about how water was bad for them, then watching them writhe about as they tried to remain afloat, before eventually sinking and drowning.
The third time was when there were two herds. The two herds were fighting. He remembered the two Smartys confronting each other. They had started shouting at each and of course it was utterly moronic. The two leaders of their respective herds, and supposedly the smartest of their kind, only able to come up with playground insults. Dummeh Fwuffy. Meanie poopie. Ugwy dummeh. Meanie dummeh. It was roughly the same things Dey would say whenever he tried to make Steph do something and Steph would ignore him. The only thing was that Dey would cry when he eventually realized that it wasn’t working, and then he’d run to mom or Aunt Riya and eventually mom would lecture him about being nice to Dey.
In the case of the two Smartys they resorted to worstest poopies. It was crazy how Fluffies knew to weaponize their feces. Dey did that once too. Took a dump all over the carpet in protest because Aunt Riya told him he couldn’t have sketti. He got like thirty minutes in the sorry corner, meanwhile mom spent two hours trying to get the poop stain out of the carpet. Yet for some reason Dey was still a good Fluffy.
Steph couldn’t be bothered to do the challenge that day, so him and Tian just rounded up both herds and forced a unification between the two parties. Dumped all of the Fluffies in one of those big laundry carts, closed the lid and rolled the cart under some stairs. Hearing them scream about the dark and a lack of space certainly made up for all the turds on their shoes.
Good times. Good times.
Steph smiled and looked to his best friend in appreciation. Tian was always there for him through and through. Joined every time, even though Steph had ruined their past three attempts and never ever made a comment.
“I’ll try my best from ruining it this time” Steph announced.
Tian smirked “Sure bro sure. If you ruin it this time, you have to buy me… uh… the next Super Party Smash Brawl game, deal?”
“You ass!” Steph said with a grin.
The two boys laughed as they walked through the reception area. Neither ever knew why the place had been abandoned, but it certainly had this creepy vibe. Very backrooms like. It was the reason that they chose this place. If they thought that this place was unsettling, then the Fluffies probably saw this place as a haunted house. All the easier to scare one into fainting for the challenge, but there was certainly something weird about this place though.
For some reasons feral Fluffies seemed to just gravitate to this place, because every time they came here, there were always some ferals to implement into the challenge. It was weird and sometimes it felt a little creepy, but it certainly made things convenient, no days wasted waiting for Fluffies to come into an empty abandoned hotel, no need to grab some from the streets, nor waste money buying one from a shelter. Pretty nice situation.
Getting to mess with Fluffies with no Hugboxer screaming at them was also nice too.
Steph briefly scanned the reception area. The place was a mess as always. Various objects just scattered around. Probably more of a mess since there was a heavy flash storm yesterday. Hard to tell how badly the hotel was hit, with everything scattered around, but a few damp pillows indicated that the rain definitely hit this area. However, there was no indication that new ferals had made this their new nest, so the two boys moved on.
They headed to the lounge area and were greeted by a horrid stench. The smell of dead Fluffies rotting in the open air. These Fluffies were at the far end of the lounge. Their colorful corpses scattered around the floor, slowly being consumed by maggots and insects. It was clear that they had been dead for a while now.
“Hey Steph, look” Tian said, pointing at something.
Tian was pointing at a bag of colorful pellets ripped open at the corner of the room. The word “Flufficide” clearly written on the bag. That plus the dead Fluffies at the far end. It was clear what had happened.
“Did you put that?” Tian asked.
Steph shook his head “No way. Can’t scare a Fluffy into fainting if it’s dead”.
“True… then who put this here?”
“No idea, but they definitely don’t care for Fluffies”.
“Well they did put down a bag of Flufficide to kill the ferals?”
“Nah, I was talking more about the brand. They bought Wolframs instead of Hasbio”.
“Let me guess Wolframs is more brutal”.
“Yup”
“And of course you would know”.
Steph grinned as Tian shook his head in disbelief. Steph had done his research. Hasbio Flufficide was more expensive because it gave a more “humane” death, slowly shutting down a Fluffy’s nervous system before putting the Fluffy into a comatose state finally followed by a painless death, but Wolframs was both cheap and brutal. Small acid like substances burning the Fluffy’s inside yet what killed them was the foam produced. Thick amounts of white foam that would block the Fluffy’s airways and choke them to death.
Of course he would know, because he once planned to sneak Flufficide into Dey’s food bowl, but he ultimately decided against it, because a part of him knew that Aunt Riya would probably have been devastated. After all, she divorced Uncle B, just because Uncle B left three Fluffies in a car. Who knows what Aunt Riya might have done if she lost Dey, she might even have hurt mom. Steph didn’t want that, so he scrapped the idea of feeding Dey Flufficide, but they were many times he wished he did.
“C’mon slowpoke” Tian stated, walking up some stairs.
Steph followed quietly. The two walked up to the second floor, to one of the rooms that they had turned into their base of operations. Room 206. One of the rooms with a broken lock. A place to store their stuff, while they worked on this challenge, without fear of it being locked inside forever, or at least until they could convince an adult to help them open the door, of course then they would have to expect a stern lecture afterwards.
Heading into the room, it was quite neat and tidy. The bed was a bit dusty and so was the arm chair, but the desk was relatively cleaner, unsurprising as that was where Steph and Tian would always put their bags.
Both boys put their bags down and Tian pulled out a metal box from his bag. Inside was a pistol. The silver and black glock. BB gun of course. They were much too young to own the real thing, but it was one of Tian’s only gas-powered BB guns. The other being a Steyr AUG rifle. Steph didn’t know much about BB guns, but Tian always said that gas powered was stronger, which is why he said to never point them at people or small animals, because they could seriously get hurt from it. Apparently Tian shot his mom by accident once, and the scolding he got from it made sure that he would never make that mistake ever again.
Luckily, Fluffies weren’t real animals. They were small, but they weren’t animals. Like so many of his classmates, and people on the internet said, Fluffies were bio-toys. Dolls that Hasbio had designed to act like animals, but were still very much fake, after all a real animal would not know how to manipulate human kindness so that they could live their selfish, spoiled lives, like Dey would often do.
Still, Steph knew that it made Tian feel uncomfortable sometimes, which is why they never hurt owned Fluffies, only those dirty, stinking ferals who hurt other Fluffies just because they were different, or forced other Fluffies to eat their poopies just because they had dirty colors, or had forced sex with foals because, well Steph had no idea why some ferals did that, nor why people just sort of accepted it as a normal Fluffy thing yet still called them cute. Regardless. The duo only targeted the ferals or the Shit Rats as the grown ups would call them.
“Phone?” Tian suddenly asked.
”Check” Steph responded “Seventy five percent. You?”
“Sixty percent. Camera?”
“Check” Steph said, talking out a small video camera.
“Phone stand?”
“Check” Steph said, pulling a phone stand out of his bag.
“Walkie talkie?”
“Check. Both fully charged” Steph said, pulling a pair of yellow walkie talkies.
“Stress foal?”
“Huh!?”
Tian grinned, and then he pulled a small plastic tube from his bag. Inside a small plastic tube. Steph recognized it instantly. It was one of those foals in a can.
“I figured it might help if you have a foal to squeeze to keep you calm”.
“Wha… when did you buy this?!”
“After school. When you were still talking to that girl. You know she likes you, right?”
“Huh? Stacy?”
“Yeah her”
“Well I prefer… Stacy’s mom! Cause she got it going…”
Steph paused as he noticed Tian giving him a blank look.
“You like moms?” Tian asked with a weird look.
“What!? NO! It’s a song!”
“It is!?”
“Yeah! It’s about a guy who liked Stacy’s mom”
Tian gave him another weird look.
“I never heard this song before?”
“Yeah, cause it was like more than twenty years ago”.
“Why do you know this song?”
“Uh… I actually don’t remember. I think I heard Ms. Crabapple listening to it”.
“Yeah… that sounds about right… really just made today super awkward y’know”
Steph gave Tian an deadpan look, as Tian broke into a cheeky grin
“I’m never sharing pop culture knowledge with you ever again”
Tian broke into a laugh.
“Good! Cause your knowledge is ancient”
Steph broke into a grin, and the two exited the room. Out into the hallway, they stood next to a broken window overlooking the rest of this hotel or rather one wing.
This hotel was weird. Most modern hotels were tall, but this place was wide. Signs told Steph that this place was divided into wings. A lot of older buildings were like that. Larger to seem grander, or something. His dad had said something about it.
“Oh!” Steph exclaimed, he quickly rushed back into the room, and got something out of his bag.
A mask made of some tough yet light material. One of a barn owl. A white face, with black eyes. Two brown circles around the eyes and a white beak.
“What’s that?” Tian asked.
“My dad bought it”
“Oh right your dad came back from work”
“Yeah, but he already left on Sunday”.
“Sucks that your dad can only stay for two week when he’s gone like what half a year?”
“Yeah”
It sure did suck. Dad was rarely home, but it did make the times he was back all the more special. It was especially nice because Dey and Aunt Riya would stay in a hotel. Something about giving Steph and his mom some privacy with dad.
“So what’s with the mask?”
“I dunno. Dad bought it for me. Said he thought it looked cool”.
“No offense to your dad, but it kind looks weird”
“Yeah! Exactly, kinda creepy right, perfect for scaring a Fluffy into fainting, right?”
Tian grinned, and the two returned back to the window, looking for Fluffies.
They were currently on the West Wing, which had an interesting design. Only two storeys high, the area was designed as a square with all the hallways facing towards a swimming pool in the middle. The pool still half filled with murky water. It was a good thing that it was still kind of cold. No mosquitos or other such bugs yet. No Fluffies either.
“You know the foal I bought for you is actually made for squeezing”
“Huh?”
“Yeah. Hasbio advertising it on their vending machine. Extra durable for squeezing”
“Really?!”
“Yeah weird right? Like people always talk about how Fluffies are animals and stuff, but like Hasbio treats them like toys and Hasbio are the ones who made the Fluffies”
“Yeah, but those people also like Fluffies even though they’re all dumb, selfish and spoiled manipulators so I really don’t know”.
Tian nodded in agreement, but he had a puzzled look.
“It was kinda weird that Randall took his Fluffy to school, but Galahard III was kinda cool”
“Yeah, I guess so…”
Galahard III did seem pretty cool. Quiet and calm, but she didn’t feel like a Fluffy. She was a small animal-like creature that could talk like a human, but it was hard to see her as Fluffy. She was just much too un-Fluffy-like.
“By the way” Tian suddenly said “That foal in the can cost twenty five. That’s like two weeks worth of my allowance savings, so that counts as your early birthday present”.
Steph grinned. His birthday was not in another month, but it was appreciated none the less.
“Fine” Steph said in a tone of mock disappointment “My birthday present from my best friend can be a one time use Fluffy squeeze foal”.
“An EXPENSIVE Fluffy squeeze foal, and technically it’s only one time use because you play too rough with Fluffies”
The two boys chuckled and Steph had to admit. He was already feeling better. It was always fun hanging out with Tian and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Fluffies” Tian suddenly whispered.
The two boys quickly ducked down and carefully peered out the window. Three Fluffies had entered the swimming pool area. Two adult Fluffies and a foal on the back of one.
“Perfect” Steph said in a low voice, making no effort to hide sadistic grin.
He looked at the barn owl mask for a second before pointing on, then turned to Tian.
“How do I look?”
“Honestly like an edgelord, but the Fluffies would probably think you’re a real monster”.
Steph grinned and playfully punched Tian, before leaving with a fist bump. He quickly yet quietly rushed towards the stairs.
“Testing, over” came a soft voice on the radio.
Steph pulled out his own walkie talkie.
“Received, over” he murmured behind the mask.
“What was that, over?”
“I hear you, over”
“You’re really quiet, over”
Steph partially lifted his mask “Better, over?”
Suddenly his phone vibrated. A text message from Tian.
Why did you want to use walkie talkies again?
I thought it would be cool to try.
My dad kept talking about how cool they were.
It’s suuuuuuper annoying 
Can we pls go back to phone
Pls 
Fiiiiine
Thx 
Steph put his walkie talkie back in his pocket. It really was kinda annoying, but his dad talked about how it was so much fun using a walkie talkie when he was a kid. Maybe it was because they didn’t have phones back then? Steph wasn’t sure.
Focus.
They were here to scare a Fluffy into fainting and Steph sort of had a plan.
From the window in the first floor hallway, he watched as the two adult Fluffies consumed the leaves under some bushes in the swimming pool area. One stallion, one mare and one foal. A small family no doubt. One foal though. He had never heard of a Fluffy that gave birth to only one foal, so for them to only have one foal under their care, meant they lost all the others. Either they were very unlucky, or more likely, they were terrible parents.
Steph observed them much more carefully. The stallion was a dark yellow with a blue mane and tail. The mare was a dark magenta with a brown mane and tail. The foal was a very dark orange with a small yellow mane. All three dirty but looking quite healthy. Ferals no doubt. Ferals who had been eating well. So why did they only have one foal?
The foal had started chirping. It sounded distressed. Was it hungry?
“Weally nee tu fin way out housies” he heard the mare said aloud.
The stallion just nodded. Both just headed out of the swimming pool area, ignoring the cries of the foal. It was really strange and Steph pulled out his phone.
The foal is hungry, but they ain’t feeding it
?
The foal keeps chirping out of hunger
But they don’t feed it
Y u care?
We not trashing them after challenge?
We are
True true
Tian was right. Why did he care? It was just strange that was all.
The three Fluffies began to move. They had turned away from this square part of the hotel and were walking into a hallway leading to another wing.
Still, it really was weird. The foal kept crying, clearly hungry, but neither of the Fluffies paid any heed. The stallion walked in front with his focus on the paintings and the furniture, while the mare followed closely behind with the distressed foal on her back and her head down low. She kind of looked ashamed. Like she wanted to feed the foal, but could not? Why couldn’t she? Was she now allowed to feed the foal?
The stallion’s colors. It really reminded him of Dey. What if this stallion was exactly like Dey? Not entirely impossible. Dey was supposedly your average Fluffy after all. Maybe it was a runaway.
Actually maybe it was like that show: Price of Entitlement by No sketti on Tuesday and Fallen Angel Studios. A controversial PSA about putting ferals down because you might be doing them a favor, by showing the dumb life of that stupid brat, Tangerine.
He didn’t understand why people didn’t like it. He remembered some of his mom and Aunt Riya’s friends saying that it was “basically propaganda” and “in poor taste”. He didn’t get it. Tangerine was an absolutely terrible Fluffy and putting him down did everyone a favor. Well not that it mattered, what was more important was, what if this feral was like Tangerine, or maybe even something like Dey.
Steph could totally imagine Dey running away. He could even imagine the scenario. The stupid entitled brat would probably do his typical dance for special friend and as always Aunt Riya would say no. Then Dey would throw a tantrum and Aunt Riya would probably take him for a walk, maybe take him to the Fluffy park across the street. Then when she wasn’t looking, he’d probably run away because of “meanie mummah”.
Of course there was a high chance that Dey would actually fail to run away. He was so stupid that he might have gotten lost in his attempt and found himself back in the Fluffy park or tried to hide by doing that stupid thing where he just stood out in the open with his eyes closes, obnoxiously telling the world that “nu can see Dey cause Dey am gud hidesie”. Tian sometimes said that maybe Dey was smarter than he looks, but how would anyone see that and think that he any brain cells?!
However, on the off chance that Dey did actually managed to run away, he could totally see this happening to Dey. Him finding a special friend, because feral mares apparently just threw themselves at the first stallion they saw, having a bunch of noisy, whiny foals, only to lose all but one, probably due to stupidity. Thinking about it, didn’t Tangerine have a best baby that was exactly the same colors as him? He could imagine Dey being the same.
Steph took a glimpse at the three Fluffies, still wandering the hallways. Dey, his special friend and their foal. Dey being a stupid, cocky explorer Fluffy like always, wandering somewhere new with that idiotic confidence of his. It was clear he had no idea where he was nor how to leave, because based on the signs, he was heading straight for the wing with the pool again.
You still in front of base?
Stupid Fluffies are heading back.
Yeah still at same point.
I knew sitting tight was best
Steph grinned behind the mask, as the foal started chirping again. It was such an annoying sound. Why did people like these things?
He took another glimpse at the three Fluffies. Dey and his special friend were still not paying the foal any attention. Meanwhile, the foal was throwing a sort of tantrum. It was lying down and shakings its legs. Actually that was the same way Dey would throw a tantrum. Lying down and just hitting the ground with their legs. It was honestly lazy and pathetic. The foal really was Dey’s kid, except it was dark orange and yellow, instead…
It just hit Steph why Dey and his special friend were not feeding the foal. He felt like a genius and he needed to let Tian know.
I figured out why Dey and his special friend aren’t
feeding the foal, the foal doesn’t have the same colors
as Dey, like Tangerine it’s probably not his bestest.
I think his special friend killed the bestest and Dey is
punishing her by making her starve her last baby
Dey?!
Tangerine!?
What?
Steph looked away from his phone, then looked back at the ferals. Why did he call it Dey? He shrugged and turned back to his phone.
Soz
Idk y I called him Dey.
LOL
I know y
Psst use your stress foal lol
Steph grinned and looked inside his messenger bag. The foal in the can was still securely inside. He held the plastic tube with thoughts of freeing the foal into a brief life of torment, but then a thought occurred. A way to kill two birds with one stone.
Okay.
Time for you to prove your BB gun skills
?
If you can hit the foal off the mare’s back
I will call you BB gun god forever
LOL
We giving up on scare challenge again?
Nope.
Imagine how scary it would be seeing your foal
Just suddenly get pushed by an unseen force
K
Watch
Steph quickly peeked out of the corner to watch the show, except the feral stallion was looking at his direction.
Damnit!
He quickly turned back to his hiding spot, and he could hear the two Fluffies talking.
“Specaw fwen?” He heard the mare ask.
“Di… did specaw fwen see munstah?” He heard the stallion respond.
“Munstah!?”
“Obah dere”
He wasn’t looking, but he could imagine the stallion pointing.
“Fwuffy nu see any ting” the mare had responded.
“Smawt-”
SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
That was a familiar sound. A Fluffy in pain. Steph quickly peeked to see the foal on the floor, writing in pain as the two Fluffies could only look at it in confused horror. The mare had even picked it up and tried giving it a hug. God Fluffies were so stupid.
His phone vibrated.
I think I hit the foal?
GOD OF BB GUNS!!!
LOL
Where did I hit?
Steph peeked from the corner. He could see red in the eye area.
Duuuuude
I think u hit it in the eye
Oops
I was aiming for the butt
It’s still amazing that you hit it
BB Gun God!!!
Thx
The foal had stopped screaming. It had probably shut down.
“Wun!” He heard the stallion cry.
They running
Yeah I know
Right.
No!
Sorry ur left
Ty
Steph began to move.
He could hear the sound of hooves clumsily tapping on the wooden floor. The two were most likely sprinting with all their might. Of course that didn’t mean much because Fluffies were so obnoxiously slow. Like that time Dey wanted to race in the park. Steph was just walking yet Dey was just so slow that the only race he could win was probably against a snail, and even then that wasn’t a guaranteed win because Dey was so annoyingly clumsy that he would probably have tripped somewhere along the way and cried the rest of the race, or so lazy and cocky that he slept near the finish line, like the tortoise and the hare story.
However, what was worse was that Dey was such a sore loser. Steph just walked. Slowly too. Still managed to win because of how pathetic Dey was, but then Dey just started crying. Ugly crying and saying how Steph was a “meanie” and unfair. Worse of all, some lady came up to him and gave him a lecture about how he should be nicer to his Fluffy and let it win next time. But if Dey won, wouldn’t that just make him more arrogant? He seriously couldn’t understand why people liked Fluffies.
He also needed to focus on the task at hand.
Walking to where the foal had been shot. He stared at the foal that had been left behind. Blood pouring out of its eye, leaving a blood red puddle. Kinda cold to leave your dead baby, but then again Fluffies were heartless creatures. They always talked about how they wanted foals, but it was clear that they just saw foals as toys. Also why did Fluffies need toys? Weren’t Fluffies supposed to be the toys?!
Fluffies really were weird.
He continued following the ferals, following the sound of hooves taping. Across a hallway and around another corner. They actually got farther than expected. Much faster than Dey would ever have done, or was Dey just slower than most. He was kinda fat.
Still, they were pathetically slow and it only took half a minute for Steph to catch up. Peering again from a corner, the feral stallion was looking back and he clearly saw him, but his eyes went comically wide, but he didn’t scream, he just ran faster. Probably lost his voice or something. He quickly ran into one of the bed rooms with his mate. Kinda dumb as the stallion should have known that danger was following him yet ran to a dead end, but then again they was Fluffies and in all honestly this feral was still smarter than Dey, as Dey would most likely have just shat himself and refused to move, crying for Aunt Riya.
Regardless, the two Fluffies were hiding in the room with no way out. Perfect. Steph quietly crept inside, and looked around. They were not hiding anywhere obvious, but he noticed pillows and sheets under the bed. They built a nest fast, or maybe another Fluffy built it before? Not important. What was important was that they were most likely going to be holed up for a while and would be unable to see Steph and Tian preparing that was good.
Steph took a note of the room. It was a big bedroom. One bed though. A sofa. An armchair. A TV. Lots of space to walk. Curtains drawn, allowing for the sunlight to illuminate the entire room. There was a short hallway leading to the front door. Near the front door was another door, he peered inside. It was a big bathroom. Good.
He walked back out of the room and pulled out his phone.
To me, oh God of BB Guns
Pls staph
I dun wan be God of BB guns anymore
?!
It was cool once
Now sounds cringe
LOL
Kk
Come here BRO
They’ve holed up under a bed.
I make plan.
Omw!
While Steph waited for Tian, he began formulating a plan in his head. Tian didn’t like touching Fluffies, so he would have to handle any physical Fluffy stuff. So Tian on camera. Separating the Fluffies would be crucial. Everything was always scarier when you’re alone. One hiding in the bathroom. The other heading out the door. Why did this hotel had a realistic picture of a red and yellow fish?
It was just so weird. Just this photo of a red and yellow fish in water. Why did they have photo. Where did they get it from. His thoughts were once again interrupted when he noticed Tian approaching, making a silent thumbs up. Steph gave him a thumbs up, then pointed to his phone. He had a general plan.
“Both of them are holed up under the bed” Steph whispered “Gives us time to set up”.
“We scaring both of them?” Tian whispered back.
“Just one, either stallion or mare”
“Ok, but how?”
“God is coming OST”
“Squirrel one?”
“Yeah. Imagine hearing that when alone trapped in a room”.
“Ohhhhh heh… ok”.
“We’ll do a double camera set up. Video cam filming the room, you filming with your phone. You hide in bathroom and I handle separating them”.
Tian listened quietly then nodded with a small grin.
“After camera set up. We start and we need to be fast. One. I start the God is coming OST. Two. I grab a Fluffy and walk out the front do-”
“Why not grab the Fluffy first, then start the music?”
“Huh? How?”
“Your watch”
“Oh yeah. Good thinking”
Tian grinned smugly, as Steph gave him a thankful smile. He was really glad he had Tian.
“Okay. One I leave my phone on bed with song ready. Two I grab one Fluffy and leave the front door, closing the door behind me. I think the other Fluffy might chase me, because they both seem to be far braver than Dey, but will hopefully come back to the bedroom area when I start playing the music. Three. We let the remaining Fluffy freak out. Four. When the lyrics change to God is here you come out of the bathroom and let me back in, then you film it. Hopefully it won’t hide under the bed and just freak out in the open, and hope it’ll freak the Fluffy out into fainting. Any questions?”
Tian just nodded before giving a thumbs up with a smile. Steph grinned.
It was time to scare a Fluffy.
The two snuck into the room quietly. Thankfully the ferals were still holed up in their hiding spot and they were surprisingly quiet. If it had been Dey, the moron would either have been giggling and saying “Dey am bestest hidesie Fluffy” or if he was in trouble he would be wailing like an baby, despite his continued insistence that he was a big Fluffy that deserved a mate. Still, these two were not that much better. He noticed a tail sticking out from the bed. Brown. The mare. Good. That made things easy.
Steph put the camera on a tripod and put it on one of the desks, making sure that the camera had a clear view of the free space between the bed and the TV, then he looked at Tian who was already in the bathroom, peering from the door with a cheeky grin. Steph smiled back and buffered the God is Coming OST. He looked at his smartwatch. A play button showing that it was connected. Everything was set and he mouthed the word “Ready” to Tian.
Tian nodded, and Steph would begin.
He approached the tail quietly, bending down slowly before suddenly.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
He had grabbed the mare by the tail and yanked her out of the bed. Before either of the Fluffies could even react. He immediately began walking out the front door.
“Specaw fwen!!!” He heard the stallion scream.
He quickly passed the closed bathroom door and out the front door. Slamming the door behind him. He looked at the Fluffy that he was holding by the tail. The mare staring back at him in quiet stunned terror, as she defecated herself. Steph didn’t say anything as he started the music with his watch.
He could hear the stallion banging desperately on the door screaming “Specaw fwen”. The mare was about to say something, but Steph stopped her, holding the mare snout tightly, looking into its eyes as it stared back at him with sheer abject horror.
Eventually the stallion stopped hitting the door. He was probably freaking out from the music.
Steph continued staring at the feral Fluffy in his grasp. She was staring at him with those big round eyes. Tears welling. He could see the fear, but he could also see something else. The Fluffy’s greatest weapon. Their cuteness. Puppy dog eyes asking for pity. A very familiar look. The same one Dey would use whenever he got into trouble.
Dey breaks one of Steph’s stuff. Pitiful face.
Dey’s just a Fluffy, Stephan. Fluffies are clumsy. At least Dey didn’t get hurt, right?
Dey doesn’t get what he wants and makes a mess. Pitiful face.
Dey’s just a Fluffy, honey. Fluffies are emotional, they can’t help the occasional outburst. Now help me clean this mess up, okay?
Dey loses a game and throws a tantrum. Pitiful face.
He’s just a Fluffy, kid. Fluffies are childish and sometimes they get a bit too invested in their games. It’s not a big deal, kiddo.
Steph felt this a dark feeling. Disgusted. Anger. Hate.
He slammed the mare onto a table, with his hand still grasping her snout tightly. He could hear the stallion saying something, but he wasn’t listening. He was too busy getting his swiss army knife out of his bag. Then he did it. Something he always wanted to do.
He plunged the knife deep into the mare’s stomach, and began to pull down. It took a considerable amount of force, but the flesh gave way, splitting apart as Steph pulled down and blood began to seep from the wound. The mare was shaking and screaming, but could do nothing to stop Steph, and Steph just smiled. God how he wanted to do this to Dey so badly. Free mom and Aunt Riya from the manipulative, arrogant, cocky, stupid turd rat.
The door suddenly opened.
Steph turned around in surprise, still holding the half gutted mare by the tail. Tian looked at him with an equally surprised look before pointing back in the room.
The stallion was in that free space between the bed and TV, hiding under a pillow, as the words “GOD IS HERE” sounded repeatedly. Steph took a deep breath and regained focus, walking past Tian and approaching the stallion. He could not help but feel disdain as he stared at the stallion. The pathetic coward hiding under a pillow just because of some words. As pathetic and as useless as Dey. All Fluffies were the same honestly. All of them were just like Dey.
He decided to drop the mare behind the stallion. The Fluffy bleeding, as her guts leaked out from the wound.
While you were hiding like the dumb stupid coward you are, here’s what happened to your special friend Dey.
Steph wished he could say that one day.
Tian tapped his shoulder and Steph turned around. Tian was filming and Steph was blocking the way, so Steph moved away, sitting on the bed. He watched silently, as the words GOD IS HERE continued and eventually the song reached it’s end.
Silence.
At first the stallion didn’t move. Steph had to wonder if the Fluffy had fainted, but then the Fluffy lifted the pillow slightly.
“Hewp” came a soft weak voice.
It was the mare and the stallion had heard it. Steph watched as the stallion removed the pillow turning around. The horror on the Fluffy’s face was a little amusing, but not as amusing as when the Fluffy suddenly noticed him. It looked at him with wide eyes, then it’s eyes rolled onto the back of its head and then it fainted. Plopped right onto the floor without a single sound.
Steph stared wide-eyed at the unconscious Fluffy and then Tian came rushing into view.
“WE DID IT!!!” Tian shouted.
Steph stared at Tian, and quickly removed his mask, as he bounced off the bed.
“YOU BET WE DID!!” Steph responded, jumping excitedly in beat with his BBF.
They had did it. After four attempts, they had just gone and done the Fluffgonquin challenge, and it felt GREAT.
“Fwuffies… nut fow… huwties” came a weak voice suddenly.
It was the mare. Still very much conscious, despite the damage Steph had done. It was staring at them with weak, tired eyes.
“Yeah I was gonna ask about that. I thought you were just gonna knock it out or kill it, not gut it and let it slowly die” Tian stated.
Steph shrugged “I… uh… kinda… I dunno. I just got really angry”.
Tian gave him a concerned look, then looked at the mare with a face of discomfort.
“Can you end it please. I really don’t like it when their insides are all coming out and they’re still somehow alive. It’s creepy”.
Steph nodded respectfully. He approached the mare and snuffed it with a pillow. It struggled a bit, but in the end it shut down as well. He turned back to Tian, who was looking a lot better, but he still had a look of concern.
“Wanna talk about it?” Tian asked.
“It’s just Dey”
“I figured. Dey’s pretty stupid”
“Yeah”.
There was a short silence, as the two boys stared at the unconscious stallion.
“The stallion kind of reminds me of Dey” Tian stated
“Yeah me too”.
“Hey! I know a way to make you feel better. Why not give this Fluffy a scary send off and pretend that it’s Dey?”
Steph grinned.
“I was thinking about that too, and I think I have an idea”
“Let’s go!”
Steph grabbed the two Fluffies by the tail and headed out the room, with Tian following closely behind. Through the hallways and into the large pool. Steph then proceeded to tie the mare to the stallion by the tail.
“What you planning to do?” Tian asked.
“Have the mare drag the stallion into the pool”
“Huh?”
“They’re tied by the tails. Drop the mare into the pool and her body will slowly drag the stallion down with her”
Tian raised an eyebrow and looked at Steph with worry.
“I’ll be honest bro. It’s kinda scary that you just came up with that idea on the spot”
Steph made a small smile and shrugged.
“It’s not as bad as the things I’ve seen on the internet though. There are a lot of scary people that do very brutal stuff to Fluffies, like th-”
“Okay no. I’m okay with what we’re doing now, but please don’t tell me about those stuff. I still remember that video you showed me about the Fluffy singing even though it’s body was cut open with all it’s organs out… ugghhhhh. I hated that soooo much”.
Steph smiled and nodded in agreement, but he noticed the look on Tian’s face.
“Aren’t you kinda worried though?”
“Worried about what?”
“That you’ll end up like those people?”
“The ones on the internet?”
“Yeah, or like the ones everyone in school talks about. You know, those creepy people who keep a ton of Fluffies in their basements and just spend their free time dissecting and torturing Fluffies in a variety of ways”.
Steph thought about it and shrugged. It didn’t sound so creepy honestly, but he knew his mom and dad would never approve, nor would Tian.
“I don’t have to worry about turning into one of those people” Steph admitted “Because I have something that they don’t”
“Oh? What?”
“Mom, dad and… You!”
Tian looked surprised, but then suddenly grinned.
“Gaaaaaaay” he suddenly announced in an obnoxious voice.
Steph snorted with amusement.
“Yeah yeah you filthy Fluffy lover”
“Huh!? Where in this whole situation did it seem like I love Fluffies?!”
“Because I know you watch that show, Skettiland Rangers”
“What!? How?”
“Your mom told me ha ha”
“Huh!? Ugh…. mooooom”
Tian’s face turned bright red, as Steph burst out laughing.
“I can’t believe you watch Hugbox Fluffy shows now man. You changed”
“I liked the Powah Rangers! And I only watched it because Gus told me about… But it’s kinda cool honestly, like the Fluffy fight scenes are interesting at least”
“They have Fluffy fighting?”
“Well not like actually fighting. Power ranger fighting. You know just jumping and kicking”.
“Laaaaaame”
Tian was pouting slightly
“It’s not lame. It’s accurate. Powah rangers have the same kind of fighting”.
Steph grinned.
“Fine. fine. It’s accurate, but it’s still lame cause it’s Fluffies”
Tian rolled his eyes, then nodded in agreement
“I’d say that you should give Fluffies a chance, but then I remember Dey… and OUR Leygo Star Cruiser Infinite”.
Steph nodded in agreement.
“You know. I really think Dey did it on purpose”.
“Huh?”
“Knocking the Star Cruiser Infinite off the drawer, because it’s not easy to actually get on top of the drawer. Like he stacked books to get onto the chair and I’m pretty sure it would have taken him a few tries to climb the armrest onto the drawer. Like he’s climbed furniture before but like he’s pathetic and gives up easily, but like this time he really tried to get up there. Like I know he said he just wanted to play, but a part of me thinks he was actually jealous”.
“I don’t understand. He wanted to play Leygos with you as well?”
“Yeah something like that. He asked if we could build a spaceship using his stupid blocks and I said no, and then somehow he ends up breaking out Leygo set. See the connection?”
Tian was silent, but nodded slightly. He looked kind of disturbed.
“Well I think I know what you NEED to do when we rebuild the Star Cruiser” Tian responded
“Make sure he can’t reach it?”
“No! Help him build a rocket with his stupid blocks, and tell him that I’LL destroy it if he so much as touches our Star Cruiser Infinite!”
Steph grinned. That was a good idea, though a part of him knew that Dey would be horrified and burst out crying, probably tell Aunt Riya that he had threatened him, and then mom would lecture him about being nice to Dey. Of course, it would all be worth it if Dey doesn’t dare touch the Star Cruiser Infinite. So actually maybe that was really a good idea.
His thoughts were interrupted, as he noticed Tian looking at his watch.
“Bro it’s already 6 pm. Mom’s gonna kill me if I’m late for dinner”
Steph nodded in agreement. His mom was probably gonna do the same. He approached the stallion and thought about making this a little more scary. So he put the Owl mask back on, then he flicked the stallion’s nose hard.
“Owwies” The Fluffy screamed, as it woke with a start.
The Fluffy stared at him in terror.
“Pwease nu huwt Smawty!” The Fluffy screamed.
Steph rolled his eyes. He figured this guy would call himself a Smarty. They always did. Dey would have probably called himself a Smarty if he didn’t have his stupid name.
He continued to stare at the Smarty in silence, as Tian nudged the mare’s corpse down into the pool. The Smarty felt it immediately and looked at the pool in terror.
“SABE SMAWTY!” The Fluffy screamed.
Steph sighed internally. Just like Dey. Always asking others for help and never doing anything for himself. A baby always pretending to be an adult.
“NU WAN FOEBAH SWEEPIES!”
Typical. Dey does the same thing. He always screams what he doesn’t want, somehow stupid enough to believe that would stop it. No want bath. No want kibbles. No want to go to the vet. How about no want Dey? Would that get rid of Dey?
“NU! NU! N-SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
The Smarty fell into the pool and Steph looked down, watching as it writhed about in the water.
He watched the Fluffy struggle pathetically as it slowly sunk deeper.
He felt a feeling of satisfaction as he watched it drown.
The only thing that would make this better, was if that Fluffy was Dey.
But just like Dey complained about never getting what he wanted. Steph couldn’t get what he wanted as well. The only difference was that Steph knew how to deal with it. Just walk away. Find something else to fill that want. Dey was far too stupid to know that. All he knew was how to scream and throw tantrums until he got what he wanted.
“Let’s go” Steph said softly, removing the mask.
Tian just nodded.
The two went back to their base of operation on the second floor, and Steph reached into his messenger bag. The foal in the can was still there.
“Hey! It’s your birthday present” Tian said cheekily.
Steph grinned “Yeah, bro… I’ve decided to make this one last, since it’s the expensive birthday present of my HUGBOX BFF”
Tian punched Steph’s shoulder
“Ass”
The two boys chuckled, and started talking about random things as they left the hotel.
They walked up to their bicycles, still parked against and tree, but then Tian suddenly stopped and turned back to the hotel. He looked back at the hotel with pride.
“What’s up bro?” Steph asked
“Ah, just wanna look at the hotel one last time. We ain’t coming back after all”
Steph joined Tian, staring at the hotel, as a van drove up with the name “Paise’s Fluffy removal and gardenscaping”. A man came out of the vehicle looking at the two boys with surprise.
“What are you two boys doing up here at Woodland Lane?”
“Just reminiscing about good times at Whispering Woods hotel, sir” Steph responded politely.
The man looked at them in confusion, then eyed them suspiciously.
“Good times? Whispering Woods hotel hasn’t been opened in a decade”
Steph and Tian stared at each other wide eyed, then both grinned. It was definitely time to go. Then quickly got on their bikes and pedaled as fast as they could, as the man raised his arm comically.
“You little rascals! Don’t you know it’s dangerous to go into abandoned hotels!?!”
“Sorry sir!” Tian shouted back with a grin, as the two boys quickly pedaled down the hill.
They cycled away with big smiles, only stopping when they reached a crossroads. Steph was left. Tian was right.
The two boys got off their bikes, as they rested near a sign.
“That was fun” Steph said with a smile.
“Definitely. Too bad it’s the last time we can do that”
“Who says it’s the last time?”
“Huh?”
“I mean there has to be other challenges right? Other ways that people want us to mess with Fluffies? We could always give those a try”
Tian’s eager smile gave away, and he began to nod excitedly.
“Absolutely!” He exclaimed.
With that, nothing more needed to be said. The two boys bumped fists and while still connected they twisted their wrists and made a click sound. The deal had been locked and both boys got on their bikes.
“See ya tomorrow bro!”
“You too!”
Steph headed home.
A feeling of excitement.
He wondered what challenges would next await.
