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Roman grinned when he saw one of the human’s, the one that he had deemed Glasses, come up on top of the roof. Even if it was only the third time he had watched them, the human’s movements were familiar. He walked up to the edge of the roof, the one facing out towards him and the forest and took a seat on one of the already planted lawn chairs.
That was what made Roman stay the first night. He had noticed the lawn chairs sitting up there on the roof and had decided to stay for a little bit, to see if anyone would come out. It wasn’t like he had anything better to do anyway. And lo and behold, two humans had come out and spent most of the night talking and watching the stars.
Roman found he liked listening to their conversations, but he never did get their names. So, the one currently on the roof now had been deemed Glasses and the other, Hoodie. It wasn’t the most creative, he would admit, but it worked for now. At some point, he was hoping to get their real names anyway.
Roman sat between the trees, staying hidden as he watched and waited for the other human to show up.
Patton shivered slightly, rubbing his arms to keep warm. Though it was early spring, the chill night air made Patton wish he had brought a thicker Jacket.
Patton glanced back at the rooftop door, waiting for Virgil to join him. The two friends had a habit of coming up here to talk. It was nice. It helped Patton spend some time with Virgil and get away from the stress of college classes. He sighed, taking in a breath of fresh air as he waited.
A few minutes passed and Roman’s grin soon turned to a bored frown. Where the heck was Hoodie? Usually the two came up together, but with no talking going on Roman was quickly becoming bored. And impatient.
He shifted slightly, trying his best to be careful, but ended up pushing too much on a tree to his right, uprooting it and sending him down for a moment. He quickly sat back up, but froze, looking over to where Glasses was and hoping he hadn’t been noticed.
Patton’s head whipped around as a loud cracking sound originated from the forest, one of the trees falling and hitting the ground with a thud. Patton stood up, looking over the ledge at the fallen foliage. It was hard to tell from this distance, but it didn’t look ill. Rather healthy, in fact. His eyes traveled up, looking for what could have possibly uprooted such a large tree.
Patton gasped, spotting what looked to be a large, looming figure hidden amongst the branches. All Patton could make out from here was the shadowy pair of huge eyes locked onto him.
Shoot. Roman knew as soon as he locked eyes with Glasses that he had been seen. That wasn’t good, he couldn’t have the human running off and telling everyone! He’d be screwed. As would Logan and it would be all his fault.
Roman had to do something.
Without much thought, other than a quick glance around the area to make sure there weren’t any other humans around, Roman stood up and quickly made his way towards the very edge of the forest and towards the rooftop where the human still stood.
Patton wasted no time in scrambling back. The figure came closer, shaking the very ground as it moved. Quickly Patton turned, dashing towards the rooftop door as though his life depended on it. His heart was beating in his chest. What WAS that thing?!
Roman was surprised at how fast Glasses was, but he was faster. He stopped just short of where the apartment building sat and plopped his hand down in front of the human, blocking the exit to get back into the building.
Patton let out a scream, falling to his butt as a giant hand landed right before his eyes, sending tremors through the rooftop.
Roman winced at Glasses’ scream, frantically glancing at the area around him once again. Not wasting anymore time, Roman brought his hand forward and wrapped it around the human. As he secured the human in his grasp, he carefully placed his thumb over the human’s mouth, to stop anymore screaming. That was the last thing he needed.
Patton winced, feeling his screaming get muffled as a giant finger threatened to suffocate him. He squirmed desperately, kicking and punching as best he could to try and escape this monster’s grasp.
Roman turned and quickly made his way back into the forest. As he felt Glasses’ squirm, he gently shushed him as he went. He couldn’t talk yet, he wanted to at least wait until he was a bit further away.
Virgil flung the door to the roof open, now that the earthquake had died down, he was very worried about Patton’s state. “Patton?” He called out, but then stopped as he saw the top of the roof empty. “Pat?”
His panic grew as the worst possible case popped up in his head and he ran towards the edge of the roof and looked down at the ground. He sighed in relief when the ground was clear. But then, where was Patton? If he had gone back inside Virgil would have seen him.
Virgil’s eyes glanced up towards the forest, eyes going wide as he noticed the tree that had been knocked over. A perfectly healthy one too. Had the earthquake done that? It was then that he noticed, in the distance, that some trees were swaying. Even though Virgil didn’t feel any sort of breeze.
…Something had happened. Patton was gone, the trees were moving strangely and not to mention the earthquake that had just taken place.
Virgil turned back and practically ran down to his apartment to gather some supplies. He was in for quite the search tonight.