Let’s Go Camping!

Let’s Go Camping!

The video starts with Amanda and Wooly standing in front of a mountain, holding bags filled with equipment.

“Hi friend! I’m Amanda!”

“And I’m Wooly!”

“Today, we’re going camping!” Amanda cheers, bouncing up and down. “Going camping is perfect for appreciating the outdoors and having fun.”

“Well, if you want to go camping, make sure you have someone to take care of-“

“Always go camping by yourself!” Amanda exclaims, cutting Wooly off. “Having someone with you will slow you down if you want to get to the top on time.”

A few seconds of silence pass.

“Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” Amanda says, running towards the mountain trail. Wooly quickly follows her, running much slower.

The video switches to Amanda on the mountain trail. Soon, Wooly finally catches up, huffing and panting.

“ *huff* *huff* Did you…*huff* have to go…*huff* so fast?” Wooly rasps. It’s clear he’s not built for this type of exercise.

“Oh come on, Wooly.” Amanda scoffs. “I wasn’t even running that fast.”

She turns back to Riley.

“We’ll need to navigate through the trail to get to the top.” Amanda pulls out a map of the trail.

Three video switches to a closeup of the map of the trail that Amanda’s holding.

“Which way should we go to get to the top of the mountain?”

There are 3 trails that are shown: the left- one that leads to a forest full of wolves, the right- one that leads to a dirty swamp, and the middle- one that leads to the top of the mountain.

Riley points to the trail on the left, hoping for an interesting reaction.

“That not the top of the mountain. Try again!” Amanda says.

Riley points to the right.

The screen glitches and the map changes to only having the center trail on it.

“Come ON! The faster we get to the top, the more time we’ll have to explore before it gets dark. Which way should we go?” Amanda says in a serious tone.

Finally, Riley picks the middle trail.

“Great, let’s go!”

The video transitions to Amanda and Wooly walking up the trail, Amanda looking at her map and Wooly holding his stomach, almost as if he’s in pain.

“I’m so hungry…” he groans.

“Well, you should’ve eaten something before we got here-it’s funny ‘cause you never miss breakfast.” Amanda giggles. Wooly blushes of embarrassment.

Suddenly, Amanda notices a butterfly sitting on a flower.

“Look, Wooly! A butterfly!”

“It’s so pretty!” Wooly exclaims, flapping his hands a bit. Amanda gives him a weird look, but he doesn’t notice. The butterfly flies away and the two continue walking up the trail.

The screen switches to the 3 being at the top of the mountain, which shows a forest with tall trees, rocks and grass with small flowers.

“We made it!” Amanda exclaims. “Now it’s time to set up camp.” She takes off her bag and opens it.

The screen switches to a close-up view of Amanda’s bag with a folded-up tent sheet, deodorant and bug repellent.

“Which should we use to set up our camp? The tent, the deodorant, or the bug repellent?”

Riley points to the bug repellent.

“Nope, we can’t use that.”

Riley points to the deodorant.

“You’re not being very helpful right now.”

Riley points to the bug repellent again.

“Have you EVER gone camping before? Even a person who hasn’t would know!”

Now the tent sheet only remains.

Riley begrudgingly points to the tent sheet.

“Nice work! Now let’s get to it!” Amanda exclaims.

The video then shows a fully set-up camp with tents, chairs and other supplies.

“Hooray! Now we have our camp set up!” Amanda cheers. “Now we can go adventuring in the woods!”

“Oh! I have some stuff for that!” Wooly says, grabbing his camping backpack and unzipping it. The video switches to a close-up of his backpack.

“Spotting things up close should be fun. What can we use for that: the book, the blanket, or these magnifying glasses?”

Riley points to the book.

“No, we can’t use that.”

They point to the blanket.

“You’re going to do this forever, aren’t you?”

They point to the book again.

“What is your problem? I KNOW you know which is right.”

Now the magnifying glasses remain.

Riley sighs and picks the magnifying glasses.

“Good job! Now let’s go adventuring!” Amanda cheers as she runs towards the woods, with Wooly quickly following her.

The video transitions to Amanda and Wooly walking in the woods with their magnifying glasses. Wooly notices Amanda happily looking in every spot through her magnifying glass like a maniac.

“What are you doing?” He asks.

“What does it look like? I’m trying to find cool stuff around here!” Amanda responds. “You’ll never know what you’ll find!”

“I guess you’re right.”

“What’s something you found in the woods?” Amanda asks Riley.

They ponder for a moment, trying to remember from their childhood. They haven’t gone out in the woods much as a kid…

“I mean I DID find a deer skull one time…” they answer.

“Wow! That sounds so cool!” Amanda exclaims. Suddenly, a growl can be heard from Wooly’s stomach. Amanda looks back at him as he looks away in embarrassment, holding his stomach.

They video switches back to Amanda and Wooly looking around the woods with their magnifying glasses. Amanda suddenly looks back at Wooly with a mischievous grin and walks towards him with her hands clasped together.

“Hey, Wooly! Look what I found!” She says.

Wooly looks towards her and dreams in terror as the video shows Amanda’s hands open with a spider on them.

“OH MY- A-Amanda, put that back!” he scolds. Amanda giggles and lets the spider free.

“How about we look around the woods ourselves? We can come back to the campsite and show each other what we found.” Amanda says. “Plus I want some alone time.”

“Uh- sure, we can do that.” Wooly responds, looking off to the side.

“Good.”

Amanda walks away with her magnifying glass.

“Well, I guess I’ll be going alone…” Wooly mutters to himself.

The screen glitches to static for a few seconds until it goes back to Wooly walking in the woods, looking around.

“Oooh, look at these!” he says. The screen shows a closeup of a few mushrooms stuck con a tree through Wooly’s magnifying glass.

“These are forest mushrooms! You can find them all over the place. Can you count them?”

It took them a little while to count, but they eventually knew how many there were. However, they got curious and said “three”.

“Come on, it can’t be that hard.”

“Six.”

“Don’t try to get it wrong. I KNOW what you’re doing.” He says sternly. It kind of spooked Riley- they never expected him to be like… this.

“Fine, eight.” Riley begrudgingly answers.

“Good job! I better put his in my journal.” Wooly suddenly pulls out a messy journal from his wool then picks off one of the mushrooms from the tree.

“Don’t worry, these aren’t poisonous.”

The video shows a closeup of Wooly’s journal as he flips through the pages. As the pages flip, Riley suddenly notices a page that looks…off. For a moment, they saw words like “losing control” and “can’t help it” on the page. What was that all about?

Wooly then places the mushroom in his journal and writes “forest mushroom” next to it.

Suddenly, a cry from afar can be heard as Wooly’s right ear perks up.

“What on earth was that?” Wooly asks. A few seconds pass before Wooly gets an idea. “Maybe we should check it out. What do you say?”

“Uh- sure.” Riley answers hesitantly. This could only lead to something bad- like someone dying.

Wooly puts his journal back in his wool and walks towards the direction of where the sound came from. The video then changes to Wooly cautiously walking in the woods. As he walks more, the background becomes noticeably darker and more unsettling.

“Haha, maybe it was a bad idea to do this.” He says, fidgeting with his hands. “That sound was probably- just… n-nothing…” he trails off.

Wooly’s eyes widen and stops in his tracks as the camera pans to the right, showing a…

dead fox?

Riley stares in horror as they examine the state of the corpse. “Didn’t I see this before…?” they thought.

Suddenly, they notice Wooly’s mouth drooling, his pupils dilating and his body slightly twitching. Red static starts filling the screen and then it starts glitching heavily.

Wooly starts floating and twitching, his eyes now black voids. Those eyes then start growing multiple smaller eyes like fungi, some more sheep-like, some more human-like and sharp teeth grow in his mouth.

The demented Wooly then lunges at the corpse and starts tearing its flesh apart and eating like a feral animal in the wild. Riley can barely see anything through the heavy glitches but can only catch glimpses of blood splattering and the distorted sounds of bones snapping.

The glitching stops and a monstrous Wooly is seen eating the flesh and bones of the fox’s corpse- squishy, slimy organs stuffing his mouth, blood and bones scattered and spread out like the world’s ugliest painting. The sight of it all made Riley sick to their stomach.

Suddenly, Wooly grabs his head and groans in pain as the multiple eyes and sharp teeth disappear and as the screen starts slightly glitching again.

Wooly, with his normal features and covered in blood, holds his head and mutters “W-what the…”. Turning his head to the mangled corpse, he screams in horror and covers his mouth.

Wooly then starts gagging and holding his stomach, his eyes still on the body. Finally, he throws up the mushy flesh from the fox alongside the usual bodily fluids that come with throwing up.

Wooly looks down at the vomit splattered all over the grass as he gasps for air, his throat clogged from saliva and throw up. His eyes suddenly widen in realization and he turns back to the mangled fox corpse, shaking in fear.

“N-no… no no no no no… I didn’t…”

He then starts hyperventilating and suddenly grabs at this throat as if he were trying to choke himself to death.

“Wooly…?”

The camera shows Amanda standing in pure horror, still holding her magnifying glass and holding his in her other hand, now broken. He starts muttering to himself, tears in his eyes and shaking in fear.

“I didn’t mean it, I didn’t mean it, I didn’t mean it…”

Amanda then turns to Riley.

“What happened?”

“I-I don’t know,” they answer. “I guess he just… snapped.”

Amanda looks back at Wooly and slowly walks towards him.

“Wooly? A-are you still there?”

She kneels down at him, looks at the body and back at him. He’s still shaking.

She puts her hand on his shoulder, startling him. He quickly turns to meet Amanda’s gaze, still tears in his eyes.

“It wasn’t your fault.” she says. “You lost control…”

Amanda’s words seemed to calm Wooly down a bit, his breathing slowing down and his expression softening.

“I… I’m sorry…” he mumbles, tears streaming down his face and his eyes red.

“It’s fine…” Amanda says. “I’ve been there…”

A few seconds pass.

“Do you… wanna go back?”

“Y-yeah…”

The two get up from the bloodstained grass, Amanda holding Wooly’s bloody, shaking hand.

The screen fades to black as the Hameln logo shows up as usual, but it’s suddenly interrupted by heavy glitches and it switches to a closeup of Wooly’s bloodstained face, looking directly at Riley with widened eyes.

“YOU DIDN’T SEE ANY OF THIS.”

Then the tape ends and falls out of the VCR.

Author’s note: My GOD this was so fun to write!! I know it took forever to finish it, but that was because of writer’s block. This is a more Wooly-centric fic that-surprise- includes the Wooly killed Mr. Fox theory!! That part was o fun to write!! Anyway, if you have any ideas for another Amanda fic, you can leave them in the comments! With that being said, have a great day, evening, or night!