The Forest

**The Forest** is the first chapter in *Blue's Journey: Time's Up*. Its where Blue, Zarah, Kane, and Stellar start their next adventure. The Butcher is the main boss.

## Appearance

The Forest has the appearance of a huge and overgrown dried up forest. Due to the fact that the Butcher lives in it, traps are placed throughout the forest, designed not only for catching animals but also for catching humans, which are soon used to make stuffed effigies. There is an old shack where the Butcher lives, engaged in his mad craving for meat. His shack is a little destroyed thanks to an overgrown tree branch. In addition to his dwelling and closet, where the Butcher violently chops up children skins,

Laid out is a giant dear that's been split in half and its guts pouring out, a corpse of a pig with its babies dead by its stomach, a few children that been hanged by their throats, and a few children have been crushed to death by boulders. Watch towers of different variations are present for the Butcher to hunt and shoot the fleeing children with a crossbow.

## Inhabitants

* The Butcher
* The Chronophobias (Corpses)
* Various animals
	+ Pigs (Corpses)
	+ Dears (Corpses)
	+ Rats (Corpses)
	+ Birds (Corpses)
* **Children** (Corpses)
* **Unseen Bear Monster Creature**

## Playable

* Blue
* Zarah
* Kane
* Stellar

## Solution

The story opens up with Blue sleeping inside a blue tent. He dreams of a ticking glitching clock. He then sees a lanky machanical hand reach for him. Blue screams, wakes up, sits up, and hits Zarah in the face by accident.

**Zarah**: "AH!"

**Blue**: "What?!"

Blue looks down to see Zarah rubbing her head in pain.

**Zarah**: "Ugh, I came in to wake you up..."

**Blue**: "Oh, gosh. Are you alright?"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, I'm fine. Just come on. We're about to leave."

Blue comes out of the tent to see Kane and Stellar stretching.

**Blue**: "Wait, where's Protector?"

**The Protector**: "I'm right here."

Blue turns around to see The Protector standing behind him, startling him.

**The Protector**: "Sorry if I scared you."

**Kane**: "Are we ready to go?

**Stellar**: "Yeah."

**Blue**: "Yeah, come on, already. Where are we anyway?"

**The Proetctor**: "A forest. We're in a forest. Blue"

The Forest has the appearance of a huge and overgrown dried up forest. Traps are placed throughout the forest, designed not only for catching animals but also for catching humans, which are soon used to make stuffed effigies.

**Blue**: "Wow! Eugh..ew...it smells horrible. Hmph, well, lets go then."

The Kids make their way through the forest normally, but soon stumble across dead children caught in traps caused by a **Certain Someone**. These traps are crushed by a boulder, caught in a cage, stabbed by a bear trap, fell into a pit of spikes, and hung by a noose. There are noticeably large clocks hung from trees and rocks, some of them being broken.

**Blue**: "Wow, nice decorations!"

**Zarah**: "Those are corpses, Blue."

**Blue**: "I know, I've seen those things too many times so I'm just used to them."

The Kids were walking safely past until they also had to avoid oncoming traps such as metal spikes, landmines, toppling trees, and the final one being they have to run away from a giant boulder down a cliff.

**Kane**: "Boulder balls!"

**Blue**: "Where?"

Blue is crushed and rolls into a metal pipe with the 4 others. They fall into a rusty metal pipe and it spits them out into The Butcher's backyard.

**Blue**: "Ow! My back!"

**Stellar**: "Are you okay?!"

**Blue**: "Yeah...yeah...im okay. Damn rocks..."

The Butcher's House is damaged with a giant tree branch causing the upstairs to be tilted off. In the yard, the kids find animals that've been gutted. 2 Mooses have had their guts torn out. A horse split in half. An adult pig's stomach has been gutted to show its babies cut in half by her. A slaughtered cat. Rats and birds have also been caught by mouse traps. Zarah frowns upon seeing the animals.

**Blue**: "Your thinking of them again?"

**Zarah**: "Mhm...at least they're free, right?"

**Kane**: "We saw the castle explode into lava...In fact, The Queen most likely died in the lava."

Zarah whimpers. Blue nudges Kane's shoulder.

**Blue**: "Uhh, Kane means they're in Heaven. Every child goes to Heaven!"

**The Protector**: "Yeah, there's a special Heaven for Paws. I'm...not sure of normal children."

**Zarah**: "is there a way for us to visit?"

**The Protector**: "Honestly, I don't know. I've only heard of the place existing. Now, lets go inside. This yard is giving me a bad smell."

Once inside the house, the kids find thousands of animal and children skins hung onto the wall being prepared to be eaten. In the kitchen shows The Butcher has been cooking meals for himself. There's a rotten bear lying dead on the cooking table with its guts ripped out.

**Zarah**: "Mmph! My- I can't...HMPH!"

**Kane**: "Go into the other room!"

**Blue**: "I better follow her in case she passes out..."

Zarah gags and runs out of the room, not wanting to be there anymore. Blue chases after her upstairs. There are more stuffed children across the house.

**Zarah**: "Blue, i'm going to puke..."

**Blue**: "I do NOT want to meet the guy who did this. Ha! MEAT the guy?"

**Zarah**: "Not helping, Blue"

**Blue**: "Sorry"

Upstairs, Zarah and Blue witness The Butcher throwing a almost dead horse through the wall and into the hallway, then he begins it into his bedroom holding a knife. The Butcher wears a red shirt and suspenders. He has brown paints, but one side is ripped exposing his right foot. He lacks a head and a spiky spine bone sticks out. In his right hand is an very sharp axe that has been forcibly stabbed into his hand. Zarah shivers in udder fear at the sight of it, The Butcher begins chopping the horse into pieces, the kids hear its whimpers and cries.

**Zarah**: "...Blue? I need a bucket."

Blue reaches to a table and gives Zarah a bucket, which she vomits into off screen. Blue pats her back softly. Kane, Stellar, and Protector head upstairs.

**Blue**: "Kane? Stellar? Protector? You guys coming?"

**Kane**: "We're here!"

**The Protector**: "Anything happen?"

**Blue**: "Yeah, we found the monster. But the room he's in is our way out."

**Zarah**: "Why can't we just leave through the front door and NOT deal with him?"

**Stellar**: "We checked and the front door is barricaded."

**Zarah**: "Of course it is."

Blue and the others have to sneak through the room to get to the window and escape. The Kids go inside his room to see its full to the brim with guts and organs strained everywhere. The kids climb their way to the window and open it, thus alerting The Butcher. The Butcher slices through the window causing a massive hole trying to reach the children. The children slide off the roof and into his front yard.

**Blue**: "YIKES!!!"

**Kane**: "Ow! My leg!"

**The Protector**: "Is everyone okay?

The kids get up, but out comes The Butcher wielding a large chainsaw. The Butcher attempts to chop down trees in order to crush the children in the process. The Butcher tries shooting them with a crossbow, only for it to get stopped by a falling tree. The Kids evade The Butcher's brutal attempts to stop them.

**Blue**: "Phew, we lost him."

**Zarah**: "Nope, he's still coming!"

The Kids cross a giant cliff via a log and kicks the log away before The Butcher could make it across. The Butcher grunts before walking off. In a large hunting field, there is a giant watch tower where The Butcher can shoot escaping children.

**Stellar**: "Kane? Blue? Look!"

**Zarah**: "The...that....thing! He's up there!"

He is seen in the background climbing towards the top.

**Blue**: "What's he doing up there?!"

The kids then see an adorable rabbit. The rabbit eats some grass.

**Zarah**: "Aw, cutie pie!"

The rabbit is shot by a cross bow arrow, killing it instantly.

**Blue**: "Was that a crossbow?!

**Kane**: "We're dead..."

**The Protector**: "Hide behind the rocks and tall grass. He won't see you."

The Kids have to avoid shots from his crossbow by hiding behind rocks and tall grass. Once they made it through, they have to cross a large suspension bridge. Midway through, The Butcher appears at the end and cuts the bridge, sending the Kids falling.

**Blue**: "No!"

**Zarah**: "Ah!"

The Kids fall in a river filled with spiky tree branches and thorns.

**Stellar**: "The waters cold! Ahh!"

**Blue**: "I can't swim! I can't swim!"

**The Protector**: "Try...agh! Climbing out!"

The Kids eventually climb out of the river and are now on a car road in the center of The Forest.

**Blue**; "Finally, a path! It could lead us out of here!"

**Kane**: "Yeah, come on, gang."

The Kids run down the road until The Butcher, now in a truck, attempts to run them over. The Butcher goes for Zarah first and she falls to the side.

**Zarah**: "AH!"

**Blue**: "Okay, that's just unfair! Cheater!"

The Butcher then goes for Blue, but Blue lurs him right into a tree and he crashes, thus exploding.

**Blue**: "HAHA! I think he's dead!"

**The Protector**: "Don't let your guard down, Blue."

The Butcher, now on fire, breaks free of the car and rushes to Zarah. Kane and Stellar try to climb on him to stop him.

**Kane**: "Stay away from our friend, you asshole!"

Blue quickly goes to retrieve a beartrap from the truck's burning trunk and throws it underneath The Butcher's right foot, snapping it right off. The Butcher cries in pain as Blue and Kane pick up his crossbow.

**Blue**: "Wait, don't shoot him with the crossbow!"

The Kids and Butcher get confused by Blue's sentence. Blue runs to the truck and drags out a giant chainsaw.

**Blue**: "CHOP HIM IN HALF LIKE HE DID TO THE PIGGIES!!"

Kane and Stellar help Blue lift the chain saw. The Butcher tries crawling, but is cut in half by the chainsaw. His heart is flown against a tree, killing The Butcher.

**Blue**: "Zarah, are you alright?"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, just a scratch. I feel fine."

Blue and his friends leave the area and walk down the long road. They then find a giant sign labeled ***"The Circus"*** and soon it appears to them in the distance.

## Trivia

* The Forest itself seems to emit some sort of growling sound.
	+ This implies the forest itself is alive.