The Plan complete.

We arrived, Trinity and I,  in the aged path and I pulled out the knife.

"Something very important happened here a year ago." I said.

Trinity turned to me. "What was it?"

"You and The Slender Man joined as one being."

Her eyes widened. "What?"

"Hello, Lisa."

Her eyes narrowed. "You remember?"

"Of course. The lost memory was always part of the plan. I did lose my memory for a while, but once the ruse took place my memory was returned."

"In that case. I can tell you. Your plan isn't going to work. Your deal with Jack is a lie. The Second made a deal after you to get Jack to betray you. The knife can't kill The Slender Man no matter what."

"I know."

"What?"

"I know I have no intention of trying to kill The Slender Man really."

"Then what?"

"You remember me. I was a proxy once. I was in the building when you first arrived. You thought I was creepy. I couldn't stop watching you. Back then I thought you were beautiful. I wanted you. I went to Jack and he told me that the only way to get you would be to kill The Slender Man. So, I made the deal to do so."

"You just want to..." She looked horrified.

"No. I did once, but not anymore. Besides your body is just an extension of The Slender Man's at this point and that would be just awkward. No... See originally I wanted to kill The Slender Man and take you, but then my sister died. I went back to Jack and changed the deal. I didn't care about you anymore. I just wanted revenge for my sister."

"Then why are we here?"

"Well... You knew my sister actually. You knew her by the name, Spinder."

Her eyes widened but before she could react I reached out and grabbed her arm pulling her towards me. The ability Jack had given me worked and as she was pulled forward she was torn free of The Slender Man. Now mortal she came forward and I plunged the knife up into her heart. She gasped and I pulled her tight against me looking over her shoulder so I could smile at The Man now standing in her place. The Second was staring with a look of horror. I guess he was lying when he said he loved her, or he was faking his obvious despair now. His despair turned to anger and I tossed her body to him then left the path. I reappeared in our world and wrote this. The Second will undoubtedly hunt me down and kill me for this. It will probably be painful. I won't make it easy though. This is the last you will hear from me. To The followers of the monsters I hope you enjoy the painful death that undoubtedly awaits you. To The foolish runners I wish the same.

Awake

I woke up in The Path of Black Leaves. Trinity was standing over me with my laptop in her hands. She told me... Well she said she'd been looking for me since the train crash and had eventually managed to stumble upon me in the hands of  a group of proxies. The Secret Shadows she called them. I knew that already they'd told me that much themselves.

I wasn't dying but I was severely injured after the crash when The Secret Shadows found me. I was near unconsciousness but still awake enough to hear them. They were arguing about whether or not they should kill me, let me die on my own or bring me to someone called The Second. From what they said it seemed the idiot my trap killed, The idiot Jack killed and the poor bastard who was on the front of the train when their own master cut it in half, were members of this group. Time seems to move quickly... Or they're just really bad at making decisions because according to blogger it's been three days since then... It's the 11th of December today...

Should take about a day to reach our destination...

Trinity asked me where our destination is...

Well it's a very mystical place. A place of legend.

It's a part of the Path of Black Leaves known as The Aged Path.

How?

How can something be hidden from me in his realm?

How can anything be hidden from me here?

It's infinite but I can contain infinity easily in this body.

Something...

Something is here.

Something is distorting my perceptions of this space that is so intimately linked to my being.

Something that can do that must be powerful.

One of the others could not...

would not...

A memory of claws hurtling towards me from the dark broke through my mind and a very human chill crept up my spine.

Even now you still fear me, Anomaly.

I turned my eyes to focus on the invader as The Rake moved out of the infinite woods towards me.

It's body was scarred.

It was weaker here.

It was suffering here.

It had been here all along.

It's method back dead.

It was trapped.

The Master's power held it here.

Even so as my eyes moved to it's claws I shivered.

My mind imagining them ripping through my flesh and cutting into my bones.

I no longer had either in the conventional sense but I could not shake the fear.

"what do you want?" 

To be free

"Why would I let you free?"

"This eternal torment is what you deserve"

You will not have a choice.

Your friend will die unless I take you to him

I hesitated but it was true.

"You will take me to him and I will set you free"

The Rake merely nodded and then crouched it's head low.

I was confused and then realized its meaning.

I stepped toward him.

The irrational fear growing ever greater every step I took nearer to those claws.

He did not swipe and I reached him.

Carefully, and with great distaste and fear, I grabbed onto his shoulders and placed myself on his back.

The moment I was positioned he took off.

The ride was not comfortable in any form, but it was fast.

Within seconds we burst into an area filled with cloaked figures.

The Rake almost instantly moved through them his arms spreading out allowing his claws to scythe through them with ease.

One of the figures however managed to jump back out of range of the scything claws and a gun slipped out of his sleeve.

The Rake turned to him and I could feel it grin.

I would have no more death and I upheld my end of the bargain.

As The Rake disappeared back to your world I fell to the ground landing on my knees.

The figure turned his gun to me, but stopped as my form shifted into that of The Second.

At this I was pushed back into the unconscious of this mind if it could be said to have one, but I am still aware of what transpired.

"Stop.

"It's over."

"We have lost."

"The Third will handle things now."

Control and the form reverted back to me as I watched the figure disappear.

I had not checked on Aaron during all this and was quite pleased to realize he had been unconscious throughout all of this.

I'm putting a mental block on these last two posts for now as I will be returning the laptop to him as soon as he awakens.

I'm pretty sure he will awaken...

Lost

It's Trinity or I guess I can call myself The Third now as most of you might better know me. With Aaron's plan coming so close to it's end and his disappearance, which I'll get to, I guess lies and disguises aren't really important anymore. Many of you probably already know what I am. A Part of The Slender Man. My consciousness merged with it creating an alternate form after an event almost a year ago. When The Slender Man destroyed the train I was within it and then it disappeared and I regained my form some distance from the crash. I had to make my way back and arrived only in time to find Aaron missing. His Laptop on the ground opened to his last post and a trail of blood leading away. I want to promise all of you I am on his side and I will make sure no more harm comes to him. I'm going to find him and I'm taking the laptop. I'll keep you updated until then.

Train Ride Through Hell.

The train's special properties turned out to be a bit unnecessary. Instead of being met with a dense forest we'd have to pass over we were met with a straight path surrounded by trees. The gun however continued to be necessary. As the train passed through the trees on it's way to our destination Proxies jumped out of the trees onto the train. Oh yes... The gun was useful. I spent a long time gunning down Proxies as they tried to board the train. I got a few in midair but many I had to clip off of the roof. Luckily the gun is capable of turning 360 degrees. Some got inside but I don't doubt Trinity could handle herself.

It went on like this for a bit and I was too focused on shooting the bastards that I didn't notice something was wrong until the train started to rise off the ground. Something large was ahead and the train was trying to get over it. The Proxies began fleeing from the train back into the trees and I turned to see the giant towering form of The Enemy before us. The train was heading upwards trying desperately to rise higher than the sky itself. A tentacle extended from the Enemy and raised up into the air then swung down in a horizontal slash that seemed, momentarily, to of cut the entire universe in half. There was a terrible groaning sound and the train began to pitch forward. I held onto the gun for dear life as suddenly the train began to split into two parts. The upper half continued forward as the lower half began to plummet. Still desperately clinging to the upper half I watched as we continued forward towards the Enemy's mass and then speared through and hit the dirt with enough force to embed the roof up to 8 feet into the ground and launch me and the gun from the roof to the ground almost a full 40 meters away. The gun luckily landed down first and so I only severely banged my ribs against it as opposed to being crushed beneath it. I couldn't walk. I just stared at the wreckage. It occurred to me Trinity was still in there when it was cut in half. I wondered momentarily whether she was ok... Then I passed out... I think...

I woke up shortly after near the train proper. There was blood everywhere most of it mine. I think I had started searching the wreckage and must have opened a gash in my body. I didn't find Trinity. I think I'm dying...

I can't die... My plan hasn't been fulfilled yet...

Storming The Gates

Jack helped us get the train delivered to somewhere in... Rome I guess? I don't know it looks Roman. The train is currently stationed in an alleyway facing a brick wall. I'm on top of the train with the gun, Trinity is driving the train and our proxy friend is currently bound to the cowcatcher. We've told him we plan to drive him through the alley wall if he doesn't do what we want. Of course in actual fact the train would just rise up over the wall but he doesn't know that. We're hoping he'll do what we want and never find out.

We started the train slowly. It's a pretty long alleyway. We want to give him lots of time to think. The train quickly began to pick up speed and I could hear him whimpering as the wall loomed closer. Soon we were reaching the point the train would start to betray us. I almost gave up hope but then it was there. The poor bastard broke after all. A massive opening in the fabric of the universe big enough for the train. An opening straight to The Enemy's home. The train rode quickly through our entrance way into The Path of Black Leaves  

Sorry about the lack of activity.

I'm sure most of you immediately figured out that the last post was a trapped and probably weren't all that worried.

It was Trinity's idea. I thought it was stupid and no one would fall for it.

Silly me. There are always some stupid gullible people even among proxies.

So I was waiting out in the park. I'd basically created a tiny fort of sorts but I wasn't in it. Instead me and Trinity were lingering nearby waiting. Sure enough some gullible guy goes up to the fort pulls out a gun and pushes it into a small slit of a window I'd made and fires repeatedly. We waited till he stopped firing then Trinity charged him and knocked him down and I rushed over and disarmed him. We then hurriedly carried our captive back to my place.

We figured it would be smart not to be there when people started checking up on the gunshots. So, we have a captive proxy now. That was all one night though so what took so long?

Final preparations. Fixing up the train to make sure it'll work perfectly and the longest time was spent finding the right spot based on the information from the Catacombs book. We also had to make this proxy as terrified of us as possible which... wasn't hard actually. He seemed extremely scared of Trinity.

Everything is prepared.

The final stage of the plan begins tomorrow.