20) Plushie Attack!

Attack of the stuffed animals

Müsli just grinned apologetically, licking his lips n nose very happily and proud. "Come you Idiot, lets leave now!! This is getting more creepy by the minute!" Arctic said, side eyeing the plushies around him. I nod, and Khaos turned around to go back to the exit we had spotted while searching for Müsli. It seemed as if there were even more plushies around us by now, which led Khaos to nervously swish his tail and look around with pinned ears. Astoria seemed to get more nervous as well, trotting closer to Namir and Arctic. "Okay, lets leave. This ghosgt carnival will not help us" I say calmly, careful not to step on the plushies standing around everywhere now. I could have sworn there weren't that many earlier... Arctic trotted behind us, when he suddently stumbled and stepped on one of the plushies paws. Immediatly they all seemed to come to life, screaming, howling and shaking their paws in the air. Many of them ripped out knifes out of their pockets, and they stomed towards us. I gasp, Müsli and Arctic scream as if their life just flashed in front of their eyes. Khaos immediatly sped up, trying to reach that exit that we had spotted, but it was gone. Under loud fighting screams we got chased around by an entire village worth of plushies. Looking around, there were some, thankfully knife-less plushies clinging to Astorias long mane, some were honding onto Arctic's fluffy coat for dear life, and others tried to bite into Khaos' ankles. Müsli ran right at the front with panic wide eyes, mindlessly storming over the area, stepping onto multiple plushies who dared to jump into his path. I myself had some of them climbing up my legs, with big jumps and strong bucks I managed to get them off of me though. Namir seemed to search for an exist, running into alleyways with shops and turning around when he saw that they were completly filled with screaming plushies. "Where is the exit?!" Astoria yelled, which Namir answered with "It's gone, I swear it was here but it is gone!!" "Let's run back to the entry!!" Khaos yelled over the absolute chaos around us, probably praying to the sky that Müsli in the front would hear him. He seemed to did hear him, because he changed his path, speeding around a corner, which Arctic and Astoria nearly led to slipping. "Careful!!" I exclaim, but thankfully both of them collected themselves again and sped up behind Müsli again. Khaos and I followed as the last ones, my breathing started to get heavy again. This was too much sport, I had absolutely did not signed up for this kind of hunt. Müsli seemed to have come to a similar conclusion, stumbeling over some plushies and just nearly making it back up onto all 4 hooves. Arctic and Astoria shot past him, rounding another corner and dissapearing from our sight. Namir and Müsli were now running next to each other, following the lead around the corner, with me and Khaos following closely behind them. Astoria and Arctic seemed to have found the exit, because they were running in full speed at a fence. "I hope everyone here can jump well!" I yell, because I had seen that Müsli wasn't really focusing on where he was running, but mostly spooking at the plushies around him. My yell made him look up and we all jumped over that fence in one piece. The plushies ran against it, and then the first ones jumped over it. Others were climbing over it, which made them drop their knifes. Others were crawling through underneath it, making us run even faster through the field. "We made it!!" Namir screamed, with Arctic looking behind himself, staring at the plushies running towards us on this side on the fence. "Not yet!! Keep running!!" Astoria yelled. "There is a river back there, I've seen it earlier, run in this direction!" Khaos yelled from behind, making the whole group looking at him and then slowly changing the direction. "I can't belive this!! How were they alive?!" Müsli muttered. "What even made them come to life?" I ask, looking at everyone in here with a piercing look. Arctic suddently looked extremely ashamed, staring onto the ground and focusing on where he was stepping. "Arctiic..?" We all go at the same time, staring at him. "They aren't visible anymore!!" Astoria said, slowly falling into a calm canter. We follow her lead, with Khaos now overtaking at setting at the lead. "Arctic??" I ask again, gallopping over to him. "I.. I'm very sorry!!" He muttered, "I stumbled and.. and there was this plushie and I stepped on to his paw..." I sigh heavily, together with Namir and Khaos. Astoria sighed, trotting over. "Hey its okay. There were so so many of them, it could have happened to any of us!" She smiled at him, which made Arctic look very shy and.. focused on his hooves again. "We can't change it and we made it out without problems. So forget it." Khaos said simply, which I nodded to as a n  sign of agreement. "That was a fricking weird attack." Murmored Müsli, sighing heavily and falling into a slow trot. "Quite the attack. An Attack of the stuffed animals from this creepy carnival!" Arctic grinned, but nobody laughed. We were all very ready to go back home. "Let's try to cross this river, and then we will surely find back home." I say, looking around hopefully. "Exactly!" Said Astoria. "The forest over there looks quite familiar doesn't it?" She smiled at us, trying to give us all some much needed hope.