your glitch! Au is like my guilty pleasure rn ?? if ur not already could u pls write more ;o;
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When it came back to itself, when it managed to piece back together something that might resemble a mind, it tried to remember who it used to be. It managed to stand but quickly stumbled, its legs shaking. It reached a hand out to steady its feet… only to have its hand flow straight through the tree it had tried to hold onto to.
It let out a surprised moan and then cried out when its voice reached its ears. A coarse and horrid voice it had. It was horrifying and so alien to itself that it couldn’t stop another cry from escaping it. Raising its hands to its eyes, its sobbed as it saw the decayed state of its flesh. Head rolling back on its shoulders, it stared into the bright blue sky and wailed.
“I̷͢ ̛̛͜W̛͠A͜͢N̵̶T҉͟ T̷̨̢O̕̕͠ ̨G̀̕O̵ ̛HO҉̴M̵Ȩ!”
It took in deep breaths, its chest heaving as it tried to piece together its mind. But it couldn’t hold onto everything. It was too much, too much. Memories of everything it had lost and had thrown away. It then decided to throw everything away, save for the one memory that it needed above all else. Everything else was too much, too much, tơo ͝m̵ưc͘h͘, t͏̶ǫ̶ơ ̵̶͜mu̸͘͜c̶͡h̛͡!
Gone, gone, gone, everything had to go. Four men with kind smiles, two lads and two gents. Gone. A kingdom that was its home, the only home it had ever truly loved. Gone. Happiness and friends and the feeling of safety. G͠on̸é. Everything, everything, everything. G̸o̵n͡e̢. G͘͝o̧̨͝n̷̢͟e̷̢͘.. G̨̨͘͞o̢͢͢ń̷͘͜͝e̴̸͝.҉̛͡͝.
“M̧̕A̴͞Ķ̵͢͠Ȩ̶̢ ̧͢͞͝I̧̡҉͘T̵̨́ ͏̵̸̷͘S̀͟͡͝T̵̛̀̀͠O̡͝͝P̨̕͢!” It screamed and it fell to its knees as it stripped away any last remaining shreds of its lost humanity. It simply hurt too much to hold onto.
Time didn’t matter to it. Time ruled over the living. It wasn’t alive. It was something different. Neither dead nor alive. Time passed and day turned to night as it wailed and screamed and thrashed and cried for everything it was letting go.
How much time had passed since it had arrived there? How many days had passed since it had first started to scream? Who could say. It had no perception of time and so, when it finally rose from the ground and its lifeless eyes locked onto the outline of a tower in the distance, it only knew one thing.
“R̷̡͡y̧͞a͏n҉́͝,” it whispered, making its way through the forest. It paid no mind to the trees or the bushes, simply passing through any obstacles that were in its path.
Do you think you would ever write ghost ray? because i have a feeling it might fit into the glitch!au (i love that au omg)
((*cracks knuckles* Let’s do this Anon! :D One ghost!Ray coming right up! Also, how did you guess?! XD))
Ray stared hard into the portal’s swirling indigo light with a look of pure determination on his face. Their world was always dark, the sun never did light up the fields or the castle the way the Other world’s sun did. Staring into the portal, Ray could make out the barest of shapes now and again. And the colours! So many different colours! In their world, reds, browns, and greys were the norm and the other colours always seemed dull beside them.
But in the Other world… Ray had never seen such bright hues of blue and yellow. The grass looked so green and even the bark of a tree in the portal’s line of sight was brighter somehow. Ray could see how the Other world would draw in Ryan like a moth to a flame. It seemed so at peace and bright. Of course Ryan would go there with the intent to destroy it all.
Ray’s expression of determination grew fierce as he continued to stare into the portal. He would not stand by on the sidelines as Ryan wrought havoc upon the Other world. He couldn’t. He’d watched Ryan’s madness claim too much to just sit back as he did it all over again to the innocent Others. A stray breeze crossed over the field bordering the Kingdom and Ray’s clung to his crimson fleece blanket with a small sigh.
Gold was extremely hard to come by in their world. It was also extremely dangerous to mine if you managed to find it. Ray had searched the castle the best he could for any golden armor pieces without drawing suspicion from Geoff or Jack but to no avail. He figured Ryan must have used the last of the kingdom’s gold deposit before disappearing into the portal.
"Armor from an element both from our world and theirs," Ray mumbled to himself, wrapping the blanket further around his shoulders. "I hope that this’ll do the trick."
A sad smile made its way to Ray’s face when he remembered how he’d gotten the blanket in the first place. Livestock was few in their world and sheep were the most prized, offering wool and food both. They’d all be just simple common folk back then, their kingdom simply an idea in Geoff’s head.
"Jack had just finished the house," Ray said sadly to himself, his smile never wavering. "And Geoff and Michael were out gathering food. Who knows where Gavin was but…"
He swallowed. “You came in Rye-bread and you were smiling. You were holding something behind your back.”
Ray could remember the proud smile on Ryan’s face as he presented the blanket to Ray, Ray himself over the moon with having something that would finally keep him warm. He could still hear Ryan’s voice, strong an clear.
"I managed to make all six and they’re all different colours," he’d explained. "So that we’ll know which ones are ours."
A small, choked off sob sounded from Ray’s throat and he quickly buried his face into a corner of the blanket. “God damn you Ryan,” he whispered. “I wish that we could all go back to that. All of us. But we can’t.”
Time passed slowly.
Ray thought about Geoff and the others. Hopefully they would all understand why he had to do what he was about to do. Maybe Gavin and Michael would be able to forgive him one day. Maybe they’ll find someone new for the third member of Team Lads.
It was quiet out on the borders of Geoff’s kingdom. The moon cast a dull light onto the lone figure wrapped in a crimson blanket as he slowly pulled his face away from the fleece. His cheeks tear-stained and his eyes rimmed red, Ray swallowed down the lump building in his throat.
"Okay," he finally whispered. "Okay. Let’s go."
With one final check to make sure that he was properly secured in the blanket and with one final exhale, Ray charged into the portal.
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"Geoff, we have to do something!" Michael signed frantically. ”We can’t just let Ryan destroy everything the Others have managed to build!”
Ray and Gavin watched silently from the study’s armchairs as Michael and Geoff argued back and forth, both of them making their stands in front of the King’s giant fireplace. Over by the desk, Jack too was silent as he went over the King’s notes and maps in hopes of finding something that could help them.
"Do you think that I want what happened to us to happen to them?" Geoff asked, his fists clenched by his sides. "Do you think that I want them to feel what we felt the moment Ryan betrayed us?"
Michael let out a huff of frustration and signed, "No one wants that Geoff! Which is why we have to help them! We have to do something! We can’t just sit here on our fucking asses while Ryan breaks them!"
Geoff sighed and ran one hand over his face. “Michael, you know why we can’t. We can’t move in between worlds like they can. We-“
Instantly, Gavin was out of his armchair. He hurried towards Michael and quickly gathered his boi under his arm, dragging him off into the corner after shooting Geoff a sad, little smile. Geoff watched them go off with a sad look in his eyes before he made his way over to Jack and the King’s desk.
"Come on Jack," he pleaded, placing his hands on the hardwood desk and staring down at the papers scattered across it. "Give me something, anything. Is there anyway we can get there and help them out without fucking ourselves over?"
Ray watched as Jack sighed and stood up. “Come on,” he said, his tone sounding defeated and he grabbed Geoff’s arm to drag him back to the fireplace. “I found something.” In his free hand, he held onto a lone piece of paper.
"Michael? Gavin?" he called out, gesturing to them. "Come here for a minute."
Gavin walked over with Michael latched onto his arm, the later still fuming and refusing to look up from the floor. Looking over to Ray and seeing that he was still paying attention, still bundled in his blanket, Jack let out another sigh.
"Alright guys," he began, addressing the room. Behind him, the fire crackled and popped. "From what I can tell from Ryan’s notes, he somehow managed to travel through the portal that the Others had made and into their world. Now we all know that, normally, we can’t travel through the worlds like the Others can. The portals literally repels us, stopping us just before we can walk through."
"But Ryan found a way to do it," Gavin sighed, biting his lower lip.
Jack nodded. “He did,” he said, his expression darkening. “But not without a price.”
He held up the paper in his hand. “Ryan not only figured out how to travel through the portals, he also figured out why we aren’t meant to in the first place.”
Looking down at the note, he went on. “The portals are not natural in our world. The black stones that surround it, the purple light that it illuminates, everything about it is unnatural. Our very beings reject it and because of that, we can’t go through. As far as anyone could remember if our kind tried, we’d died instantly.”
"Get to the point Jack," Michael signed suddenly, finally looking up to glare at the breaded man. "We already know all of this shit! How did Ryan do it!"
Jack fought back the urge to glare back at the lad and took in a breath. “Ryan found that if one created armor from an element natural to both our world and their world, then you could move through the portal without dying. Ha managed to lure a Pigman decked in golden armor into the portal and watched it as made it through onto the other side alive.”
He gritted his teeth and the paper crumpled in his grasp. “But the portal… it changed it.”
"Changed it?" Geoff questioned, placing his hands on his hips. "Changed it how? Changed its colour?"
Jack shook his head. “The portal twisted the Pigman into something we’ve never seen before. ‘A monster’, Ryan wrote. ‘Something that will surely haunt me forever. I watched as it tried to return and, after it discovered that it could not, burst into flames the moment the Other world’s sunbeams hit it. After multiple tests, I have come to the conclusion that the change is unavoidable. To go through into their world, I will have throw away my humanity and be resigned to the fact that I will never return to see my kingdom again.’
"Don’t you see?" he finished, waving the crumpled piece of paper around. "We aren’t meant to go through the portal and if we do, it’s going to change us too. It’ll twist us into something unnatural and we won’t ever be able to come back. Ever."
The study was silent as the men took in the information. It was hopeless. They couldn’t protect the Others from Ryan, who was no doubt more of a monster than ever before. With a growl, Geoff turned and stormed over to Ryan’s desk. “Mother fucker!” he raged, slamming his fists against the desk and Ray winced at the sound of splintering wood.
"We… We can’t do anything for them, can we?" Gavin asked silently, Michael’s hand on his arm trembling.
"No," Jack said, his voice wavering and soft. "No Gavin, we can’t. If we tried, we’d just become monsters ourselves." He swallowed and his shoulders slumped forward. "We’re free of him but at the cost of their lives."
Ray was quiet as he snuggled down further into his blanket, watching with an unreadable expression as Jack quickly pulled Geoff away from the desk and tried to calm the older gent down. He watched as Gavin tried to do the same with Michael, who looked close to crying or punching something. Or both.
With all of their attention away from him, Ray’s glance towards the King’s desk went unnoticed. ‘If we go through the portal, we change and we’ll never be able to go back home,’ Ray thought, a plan already forming in his mind.
Geoff and Jack were vital to the kingdom. Before Ryan’s betrayal, Geoff had ruled well and the kingdom was as peaceful as anyone could remember. If they left it, it would crumble. Gavin and Michael? Even if they somehow managed to resist the change that Ryan wrote about, they wouldn’t be able to warn anyone. Ryan had left them voiceless and Ray doubted that the Others would understand their sign language.
There really was only one thing that Ray could do. Turning back to his closest friends, watching them all resign to the Others’ fates, Ray resisted the urge to smile. They had been through so much together. They had all helped to create a kingdom, they had all worked to help it flourish. Ray considered those four men to be the closest things he had to a family.
And he was going to miss them so much.
((Cliffhanger! Woo! :P So yeah, this actually is all starting to come to an end my dear. I have more prompts for the glitch!au so I’m super excited for the next one. Hope that you all enjoyed this drabble!))
ahhhh i love reading your stuff! and as a prompt, could we see some more glitch!au?
((More glitch!au coming right up my dear! As always, this is a continuation of all my other glitch!au prompts. :D All miniseries can be found on my blog. Hope that you enjoy!))
"Hey Geoff? Have you- ow! Shit."
Looking up from his work, Geoff laughed as Ryan sucked on his burnt fingers. “Dude, I thought that you were the smart one.”
Ryan glared at Geoff and shook out his fingers before going back to the red stone circuitry that Geoff and Gavin were having him work on. They were both currently up about eleven blocks on the massive game that Geoff and Gavin had concocted and, although it was a brilliant idea and Ryan knew that they were going to have a lot of fun with it, the red stone circuitry was a real pain in Ryan’s ass.
"As I was saying," Ryan said, giving the still giggling Geoff a weak glare. "Have you noticed anything weird with Ray?"
"Weird?" Geoff asked as he went back to setting the stone. "Weird like, ‘He’s grown a third arm’ or weird as in, ‘Something’s seriously wrong with him’?"
"Like something’s seriously wrong with him," Ryan said, setting his work down in order to face Geoff. "He’s been acting weird ever since I found him running through the forest last week like a bat outta Hell."
Geoff was quiet as he finished setting down his stone. “You know now that you mention it,” he said slowly, abandoning his work as well and leaning against the half-finished wall. “Ray has been acting a little bit weird lately. I went to go find him the other day to see if he wanted to help out with the next game but he wasn’t in his house.”
One hand stroking his mustache, Geoff stared off towards Achievement City. “When I eventually found him he was at the edge of the city next to Jack’s house. He was just staring into the trees, pale as a ghost.”
"See, that’s what I’m talking about," Ryan exclaimed. "I visited his house a few nights ago to see if he had any more apples and I swear I saw him grab a sword before he opened the door. And the other day I saw him nearly attack Gavin and Michael when the two surprised him with those cakes. He looked terrified."
Geoff sighed and rubbed at his face. “Something’s defiantly wrong with the kid,” he agreed, his voice sounding tired. “And not in his usual way.”
Ryan joined Geoff in looking out to Achievement City. “So…” Ryan drawled, some of his southern accent bleeding out into his tone. “What are we going to do? Something’s bothering him and it’s starting to worry everyone Geoff.”
"We ask him what’s up," Geoff said, making it sound so simple. "And if he tries to brush us off, we insist. Now let’s finish up this bitch so that we can go back home. It’s gonna get dark as dicks soon."
Nodding, Ryan didn’t say anything else as the both of them went back to their work. As he started to connect the red stone circuitry together, careful of getting burnt, Ryan wondered whether or not Ray was going to be honest with them. He also wondered, not for the first time, why Ray had looked so scared when he’d knocked on the lad’s door.
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Ray whimpered softly as he curled up further into himself. Sword in hand and backed into a corner in his house, Ray swallowed back a panicked scream as the scratching started up again.
“Raaaaaaay…”
Ray ducked his head down into his knees and tried to stay calm. ‘The guys will be back soon,’ he chanted to himself, breathing hard through his nose. ‘The guys will be back soon, the guys will be back soon.’
“Oh Raaaaay,” that fucking voice crooned from the other side of Ray’s door. “All alone at home? Where are your friends Ray? Where did they go?”
'It'll leave when they get back,' Ray continued to chant, tears starting to gather in his eyes. 'It'll leave when they get back, it'll leave when they get back. Please, please, please come home guys.'
A sudden slam against his door caused Ray to cry out and fumble with his sword, his cry cutting off in a pained hiss when the diamond sliced into his hand.
“You can’t hide behind them forever Ray!" It shreiked, slamming its claws against the door. "They can’t hide from me either! Those fools from my world might be rid of me but I will not relinquish my crown!”
Cradling his bleeding hand to his chest, Ray shook like a leaf as the door shuddered from the force of its rampage. Breathing hard and his mind racing, Ray finally snapped as he gripped his sword with his bloodied hand as charged the door.
"Get out of our fucking city!" he shouted, opening the door and swinging his sword. "You fucking piece of shit! I’ll kill you!"
Ray swung his sword down… and met nothing. Panting and with tears rolling down his cheeks, Ray blinked as he stared down at the empty space he’d just attacked. He quickly scanned the area, panic rising in his chest again, before he saw two figures in the distance.
Geoff and Ryan, their normal Ryan, were starting at him with wide eyes. Ray swallowed and tried to stop his body from shaking. In an instant, he realized how deranged he must look. A bloodied sword and all his screaming. Breath hitching, Ray rushed back into his house,
What was he going to do?
((And that’s it! :D I hope that you all liked this little part of the glitch!au and hopefully, I’ll get more prompts for this au! Woo!))
:D So, you all have be amazing. Seriously, I've never felt more welcomed in a fandom before. :3 So tonight I'll be taking more prompts! Now, I'll be taking and writing prompts until this weekend because it's my birthday Saturday and I'll be out of town until Monday. So if you have prompts, send them now and I'll try my best to get them all done before then. :D Woo!
You write such good fics! Hmm. How about some more glitch!verse?
((Ahhhh! ^///^ Thank you! And sure! More glitch!verse coming your way my dear. Again, think of this as a continuation of my other gitch!fics.))
The King’s study was warm and filled with the soothing crackle from the fireplace. Leaning against Geoff’s side at the small table next to the fireplace, still too weak from his incarceration to hold himself up, Ray tried to push away yet another bite of bread that Geoff was offering him.
"Geoff, he’s had enough," Jack voiced, walking over to the two and placing a hand on Geoff’s shoulder. "His stomach needs time to recover. Give him a few days and then he’ll be back to being a bottomless pit."
Ray smiled weakly at Jack as Geoff sighed. “Sorry,” he said quietly, making sure that Ray was still comfortable underneath his arm. “I’ll stop. Sorry Ray.”
The youngest lad shrugged slightly. “It’s all good Geoff. I know that it’s your big brother instincts at their finest.”
Geoff snorted but didn’t disagree, looking over instead to where Michael and Gavin were silently communicating with each other with rapid hand motions. Seeing that Ray was safe from anymore bread, Jack quickly went back to the King’s desk and the paperwork that was waiting for him. Ryan was gone and Jack couldn’t have been more thankful for that. But he had to know where the King had gone and if their was any chance of his
Ray and Geoff watched Gavin and Michael for a moment, watched the lads laugh silently to each other, before Ray spoke.
"The last time I saw you guys, they were still getting the hang of that," he said softly. "I can remember Gavin crying and Michael throwing things when the King was asleep."
He smiled and curled further in both his blanket and the man that was like a father to him. “They look like they finally got it down.”
Geoff was quiet for a long moment. “It took awhile,” he finally said, eyes not leaving the two forever silent lads. “And when Ryan ordered you down to the dungeon… they didn’t take that so well.”
Ray sighed and shut his eyes. “I didn’t think that he’d really…” He cleared his throat. “I mean, the six of us were tight. I didn’t think…”
"Well he did," Geoff said, holding onto Ray tightly. "He did and he betrayed us all." He smiled. "But that’s not going to happen again Ray because that fucker is gone and from now on, this kingdom’s gonna be run right."
"Uh, guys?"
Ray and Geoff both looked over towards the desk. Jack was staring down at the papers on the desk with a grim expression. Michael and Gavin noticed the sudden change of atmosphere and looked over as well.
"What’s wrong?" Gavin signed, cocking his head to one side.
"Jack?" Geoff asked, not liking the look on his best friend’s face.
At his name, Jack looked up and his entire expression was grim. “Guys… this isn’t over. We’re not done with the King just yet.”
Michael’s eyes widened with alarm and he grabbed onto Gavin’s sleeve, pulling him along as he rushed towards the desk.
"What do you mean?" he demanded, hands flying. "He’s gone! You said it yourself, there’s no way that he can come back!"
"I know what I said Michael," Jack said, grabbing onto a map that was resting on the desk. "But it’s not us that I’m worried about. It’s them!"
He held the map up for the lads and remaining gent to see and the room went still. The map was a map of their kingdom… only different. It was the map of the world that was beyond them. The world that they only knew through the occasional vision through the portal on the outskirts of their kingdom.
The other world with the ones that were like them, only different. That’s where their King had gone.
"Oh no," Ray whispered. "He’s going to go after them."
Around them, the King’s study was warm and filled with the soothing crackle from the fireplace. But none of them felt warm anymore.
((Woo! Shorter than I’d like but I wanna safe the awesome stuff for next time. :P Hope that you like it my dear!))
