23 - dictated

[takethat]

[It's late at night when Phoenix spots the cat, as he's traversing the halls of the castle, headed back to his room.]

Oh--uh, hey there?

[Although the creature is a little too deep in his uncanny valley, he still puts on a friendly smile. It's not that much stranger than meeting a lion here, after all, right? Probably just a new resident from some weird world with bizarre cat things.]

...are you new around here?

[But the cat doesn't say anything. Phoenix shrugs and is about to wander on toward his destination, when suddenly there's a heavy weight flung into the left side of his body; he's knocked over, the journal skidding some distance away and falling open, to record the full attack.]


What--aaaaggghh!!! Get off me! Get... get away! No!

[The sounds of a struggle are plainly evident for a few moments more, before a rustling as the journal is quickly retrieved, and desperate panting, running--]

GLaDOS!!

[He reaches her door, on the same floor as his own room but further down the hall, and bangs frantically, begging to be let in.]

GLaDOS, please please open the door, please...!

[But no answer comes quickly enough, and the cat is there again, and Phoenix takes off once more, already knowing the sprint to his own room is fruitless--]

H...help! Somebody, please--it's following me! It's--

[And then a scream filled with fear and agony... and then silence, for a long while before Phoenix speaks again.


This time, his voice is hollow.]

Oh my god...

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ACTION! 1/2

[sawadeertoday]

[ She was about to fall asleep, in fact, when she heard the pounding and the call- and GLaDOS found herself furrowing her brow, scrambling for the door in a half-asleep daze, donning the usual bright orange pajamas...

And he wasn't there when she opened the door. But her breath caught when she saw the spectacle.

GLaDOS was used to seeing gruesome things- humans conveniently losing limbs in the name of Science.

But now that she was a human, and she saw someone she felt she may have valued the tiniest bit over there...

She was quick, padding towards him- ]

... Phoenix?

[silentrunning]

[The sounds of the attack filter over the journal, loud and clear. And journals being the way they are, one journal owner in particular hears that struggle.

She's standing at the base of the staircase leading up into the tower she lives in...

But on hearing that, she freezes for half a second, taking off for the elevator in a dead run.

Flinging herself inside, she punches the button for the fifth floor, and is out and running again, almost before the elevator has stopped. Where is he?

Her boots thud harshly on the stone floor, and woe be to anyone who happens to be in her way.]

Dictated

[not_mafia]

[holy shit???]

Phoenix-san? Phoenix-san?? Are you there? Talk to me!

Journal; Dictated

[cantacquityou]

[Oh God not again.]

Phoenix? Phoenix, is that you?!

Dictated! ;u;

[magicalwright]

D-Daddy...?



... Daddy, what's wrong? [ If he's paying any attention, he'll hear the sound of her running. She's going to assume he was near his room and then work from there. ]

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[optimystic]

Nick- [but his name dies in her throat as the terrible sounds continue. oh God... oh God what is happening?]