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College is fun they said, you'll love it they said, but tubbo didn't love it, he dreaded it.
Only two weeks have gone by and tubbo already has to balance his job, social life, and college work like spinning plates on sticks. Tommy recommended night classes, he said it helped him in his first year when he was going through the same thing, so he started taking the night classes that tommy was recommending, him thinking it was a good idea.
His future self could just laugh on how naive he was to even consider doing night classes, but it all started when he was on his way back from the last class of the night,a cup of pure espresso and creamer in hand as he walked along the grounds.
He took a sip, a sigh following after as he walked, baggy eyes showing his not so consistent sleep schedule have been taking a toll on him. He walks past the campus community fountain before something catches his eye, making him stop dead in his tracks.
If he didn't even look he wouldn't be in his mess, but he just had to look at.. it, a giant shadow looming on top of the fountain, it's abnormally long limbs and large, wispy tail shrouded in it's dark figure, but it's four glowing purple eyes catching tubbo off guard.
"What the fuck?" Tubbo says in disbelief, rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things, but it snaps its head down to see tubbo, a low growl making tubbo regret saying anything.
It jumps down from its post, its wispy figure swallowing all the light the moon shines down, its glowing eyes making tubbo look slightly down from the uneasiness they gave off.
"H-hey, we can talk about this," tubbo says as he puts his hands in front of him, but the thing gets closer no matter what tubbo says. Before long it readies to pounce, tubbo noticing this at this last second before it pounces, tubbo throwing himself to the side, his cup of espresso spilling across the grass. The thing jumps back up quickly as tubbo stumbles to his feet, making a dash for the dorm that sat across the campus park.
The beast began to gain on him, tubbo began to weave through the trees, emerging on the other side with the beast not in sight. Tubbo makes a mad dash for his dorm door, but the beast also emerges from the park running towards tubbo.
Tubbo grabs the doorknob and flings the door open before running inside and shutting it before the beast can catch him.
Tubbo leans against his dorm's door, his breath heaving as his lungs strain and heart pounding against his chest as he slid onto the ground.
"Hey tubbo, you good?" Tommy asks as he pokes his head around the corner from the small living room, tubbo looking at him with petrified eyes.
"Y-yea I'm fine, I just need to lie down," tubbo says as he raises to his feet and walks to the room both of them share. He sets his backpack against his bed before flopping onto his bunk, tiredness washing over him, making him pass out instantly.
Nightmares haunted him of the monster, thinking it was some sort of hallucination, but weeks pass of the monster reappearing, chasing him, and him getting away at the last moment. He's tried many different routes, but they all end in tubbo being chased by the same monster, over and over again. He's even asked tommy if he's seen it, but all he said was, "your just seeing things tubs, nothing to worry about."
But It was something to worry about, it was determined to catch him, this little game of cat and mouse started to drive him insane.
Tubbo wakes up around 5 o'clock, the reoccurring nightmare causing him to wake up in cold sweats every night. Groaning, tubbo reaches for his phone, but instead he feels a small note sticking to his phone.
Tubbo sits up and grabs the note before reading,
Dear tubs,
I have to work a night shift tonight, there's pizza in the fridge for you when you get to the dorm because I won't be able to cook, but I'll be back to the dorm in the morning, take care!
-Big Man >:)
Tubbo smiles slightly from the note, setting it down before getting out of bed and getting ready for his night classes, dreading for when the night falls.
He steps out of the building, the beast nowhere in sight as he stepped out onto the moonlit pavement.Tubbo looks around before pulling out his phone and turning on the flashlight, it illuminating the ground in front of him instantly.
Tubbo sighed in relief as he walked down the sidewalk and past the fountain again, looking up to see nothing there except the full moon just touching the tip of it. Tubbo keeps walking through the park before walking onto the dorm's parking lot, seeing his door and the beast nowhere in sight. He smiles happily before walking towards his door, but something jumps down from the roof to in front of the door, its glowing purple eyes standing out to tubbo instantly.
“Oh fuck,” tubbo says before accidentally staring into it's eyes, his body feeling paralyzed instantly, unable to move from it's gaze. The beast grabs him with its tail, wrapping one of his legs with it before dragging him towards itself. “Let me go you fucker!” Tubbo screams out, the beast only raising him up into the air, his backpack falling off his body and onto the ground.
The monster just stares at him with its glowing eyes before blinking twice, tubbos body instantly regaining function. Tubbo tries to struggle by trying to grab the monster's tail, but fails miserably.
It just stares at him, its face just reading, “finally caught you,” like it's mocking him. Tubbo just stares back, blood just rushing to his head as he dangles there, but before long the creature raises him higher before bringing him over its head.
“What the-,” tubbo looks down and sees it has a mouth, shining white teeth and long purple tongue that he's raised over. “NonononoNONONO,” tubbo pleads before the top part of his body is lowered into its mouth, feeling that his chest is laying on top of one of its canines. He closes his eyes and waits for his body to be crushed, but instead it just pulls him in further and encapsulates him in it's teeth.
Tubbo tries to fight its tongue as it tries to lick him, but fails as it pushes him up against its teeth, letting him scramble away instead of crunching him to pieces. And when its mouth fills with too much saliva, it pushes his body to the roof of its mouth and swallows the access drool, soon it will be him.
Tubbo waits for it to just snap his bones in half, but instead his world begins to shift, making him slide to the back of the throat head first and with one swallow, he's gone.
The descent was terrible, the walls crushing his lungs and air was hard to breathe. He would have much rather it ended it fast, but it was going to eat him alive, digest him alive. Before long it opened up into a small chamber, the stomach.
Tubbo takes a deep breath, his chest aching from the descent before looking around. He doesn't even get the mercy seeing his skin melting off his literal bones, the walls glowing a dim purple. Tubbo eyes prick with tears as he curls into himself as sobs for a few minutes. “I'm going to fucking die, and Tommy ain't going to know what even happened to me,” tubbo sobs out to himself.
Maybe I should just sleep, at least I won't be conscious when I pass, tubbo thought to himself before closing his eyes, his sense of the world slipping away from him as he did so.
Tubbo opens his eyes slowly before propping himself up on one of his arms, stretching the other one with a groan. Tubbo looks around the room, noticing he was laying on the couch, still in his clothes from last night's classes. He looks over at his bag, it sat right next to the open window, the sun beginning to rise.
“God I need to go change,” tubbo says, “I just need-,” tubbo continues as he grabs the hoodie he's wearing, noticing it was damp and slightly sticky to the touch.
“What…” tubbo says as he tries to remember what happened last night.
“I got done with my classes, walked back to the dorms, saw the monster, it grabbed me,” tubbo lists to himself, stopping for a moment before saying, “it… ate me..”
Tubbo covers his mouth as his breath hitches, a disbelieving sob escaping his mouth as he just stands there before looking back at the window, “it can get inside, but why? Why hasn't it already done that?”
Tubbo walks towards the window before leaning on the window sill, watching the sunrise. He sighs in relief, his life being spared another day from the beast, who watches from the shadows of the night's blanket of darkness.