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[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

Happy 11 years of these goobers

[ell-arts]

The Veil  |  Chapter 9  | Harbinger of Doom

Chapter Summary: The Ghost Gang bring distressing news.

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AYO ITS FINALLY HERE.

After a year and a half, The Veil returns! The underlined link leads to Ao3, but you can read the new chapter on FF.Net and Wattpad as well!

I took a far less detailed approach to this chapter's artwork; mostly for the sake of time, and I made it while still struggling with the flu, so I didn't feel at my best when drawing the characters. I might return to the artwork another time and spruce it up. The chapter itself is not as long as the previous ones, BUT that's because its original length got too long and it's being split up into two - you'll get another chapter in a few weeks!

Lastly, I'm also going to start linking music that fits the theme or mood of a chapter. Check it out! :D

Without further adieu, enjoy! :D

Fitting music for this chapter, one that embodies the dread and ominous atmosphere:

[danisha-tdh]

Man, I really enjoyed this goofy ghost lord-

I used to watch it as a kid, this guy is my fav childhood character. Soon I grew up, and yet still my fav.

So, umm... anyone wanna save this pic?-

[king-magppi]

Pac-Man Party Wii nostalgia post! This game had some very fun character designs and it deserves some fanart! Mind you I have NEVER in my life ever actually attempted serious Pac-Man fanart so THIS was a first! Very fun! I had a blast with the ghost gang humanizations there too!

[darkeeveeanimatesus]

Pac-Man AU

In regard to my dark Pac-Man AU, it's honestly just taking the horror potential of the dumb little show and running with it. Like, baseline, the lore in the show is quite terrifying. It's about 2 brothers. One's neglected, goes insane, starts a war, commits genocide amongst a certain race of orbs (The yellow ones) loses the war, then essentially gets him and his whole army electric chaired- ripping the ghosts from their bodies, then they banish all of their spirits to an underground cavern and seal it off so they can't come back out. Years later, a high school student accidentally unleashes them, and they lay siege to the city once again. Except this time, they're already dead, so everyone's kind of just screwed.

I refuse to draw pacman characters as they are, so in this story they're humans. meaning i had to make some changes so it wouldn't be too weird. for example, I know it's his whole thing, but I couldn't figure out how to make a human eat ghosts. every way i turned it, it felt wrong. SO- rather than eating ghosts, Pacman has the ability to burn them/ disable them by touching them. He and his friends also get ghostbuster packs, so that's fun.

Because the story changed to be more horror and serious, characters now have flushed out backstories and reasons for being the way they are. Rather than being a quirky, lovable idiot, in this version, Betrayus completely lost it and is full psycho for the most part. And Betrayus also has the ability to "control" all ghosts.

in a way. It's weird.

Anyway- feel free to ask questions. I have so much more to talk about.

[spacecowboy-01]

MY SWEETS

[semosayba]

Guys look it’s the axem ra-

[nyamcot]

Love this thing. The puck man 🍕

rbs > likes

Bonus sketch b4 this bc I wanted to see if I could draw them

[tenderlads]

[ihm01myself]

just a ghostboss building her empire

[cartooncadet666]

He heard whispering all around him, 'Is he okay?', 'Woah, he has freckles still!', 'What kind of ghost is that?', 'He looks too soft to be here.' ,'Oh goodness! What's wrong with his eye?!'

Filled with anxiety, he looked up to see ghosts towering over him, their bodies shifting backwards when they all made eye contact. 'Holy sh*t, his eye...' He started shaking and creeping away from the souls, hot tears were falling down his face in quick paces.

"Hey, you okay kiddo? You look spooked..." A fire ghost floated closer to him, "We get it, it's scary the first time around, but you'll get used to it-" The flaming soul reached out to him, only getting a shock of cold energy throughout his body. "OW! WHAT THE HECK?!"

"S-STAY AWAY FROM ME! LEAVE ME ALONE!" The new ghost sobbed uncontrollably, trying to stay as far away from each of them as possible, but he could only get so far. More whispers of concern drifted from every single mouth, that plus all of his crying gave the young one a headache.

"Dude, it's okay.. No one's going to hurt you, we wouldn't dream of it..." One of the souls said, the new soul's reaction to all of the current events made some of the creatures hurt on the inside. The older generations of them, mostly, felt heartbroken hearing his cries.

On the right of him, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde were watching his movements, an expression of both confusion and worry on their faces. "Is it only me or does he look familiar?" Pinky pointed at the poor thing and whispered to the boys, "I swear I think I've seen him somewhere..."

"Nah, he doesn't ring a bell, a lot of people look the same to me." Blinky crossed his arms.

"Poor guy, he seems so scared of us.." Clyde whimpered.

"Look all we need to do is give a ghostly welcome, he's really new, that's why he's spooked." Inky flashed a smug grin, and flew towards to the freckled ghost. Appearing behind him, Inky cleared his throat and grabbed his attention. "Hey there new guy, don't worry you're one of us now."

The freckled soul had his hand covering his corrupted eye before letting it go. When both ghosts made complete eye contact, flashes of traumatic experiences entered both minds.

"DON'T LEAVE ME, DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU-"

"JAMIE! DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME! JAMIE!"

Inky gasped and rushed backwards, the freckled ghost flinching from the sudden movements. "I-Im sorry! Don't look at my eye! I'm so sorry!" He cried, tears still falling down his face as he desperately tried wiping them away.

The rest of the ghost gang rushed over to Inky to ask what happened and what he saw, but all the commotion seemed to anger Betrayus and his assistants.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF EVERYTHING UNHOLY IS HAPPENING OVER HERE?!" He yelled, both of the twins behind him. His usual cold glare then softened by shock when he saw the quivering soul in the center of the crowd.

As if by instinct, Lord Betrayus rushed over to the younger soul and knelt to get down to his level. He watched the soul cry and weep away his emotions, both hands still covering his eyes as he sobbed. Betrayus frowned, he hasn't seen or heard a child inside the Nether Realm ever since his own or the ghost gang, and there's a reason why he didn't want any down here.

The ghost uncovered his eyes for a second to catch a glimpse of the lord before jolting from surprise, "STAY BACK!" He put one hand before him as a cautionary defense, he just so happened to do the same thing to Betrayus as he did to Inky.

*gunshot*

"STRATOS!"

The lord only flinched from the event, his glare still remaining on the scared soul. His glare was soft towards the fearful youngster, seeing the ghost tremble and sob was painful to even watch. He felt his heart shatter watching him cry, the reason he hates a child of any age to be in the Nether is because they're still young to die.

"Are you alright?" He gently pulled the ghost's hands away from his eyes, "What's your name?"

Still shaking, the ghost finally replied: " Skeebo..."

"How are you here? Who or what killed you kid?"

Skeebo looked behind Betrayus to see the twins have the same sad expression on their faces, he felt anxious when he saw Dr. Buttocks scanning him.

"Do you not want to say it?" Betrayus asked him. "Was it that bad? You don't have to say it if you don't want to."

Skeebo whimpered, a few tears keeping his face damp, "Please don't make me.." He looked down at his body, a visible scar and gauze piece attached to it. "I don't want to talk about it.."

"You did this to yourself, didn't you..?" Betrayus whispered to him and patted Skeebo's head as an attempt to sooth him, obviously working on the teen. He felt even worse when Skeebo nodded to the question, but he didn't show much surprise, he had a death quite similar to Skeebo's.

"Butler! Take our scared friend and soothe him down, we don't want any negative emotions to stay inside of him." Said the lord after he patted Skeebo's back after making him float. "And doctor, make a patch for his corrupted eye, make sure he won't take it off."

"Yes sir.." Both brothers said as they went to do their tasks.

"The rest of you, go back to what you were doing, he'll be fine!" Every ghost immediately followed their leader's commands, even though they all worried for the new ghost.

[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

Grown-up birdies

Also thanks to @feralwaff1e for the idea of Jacana Cake. It;s perfect on so many levels

bonus

[tanookitalez]

all of my pacman comics

[cartooncadet666]

I swear, he's so soft towards them sometimes, you can't change my mind.

My guy is acting like my mom- That's horrifying but funny at the same time.

[anti-cosmofangirl]

About time I got around to standardizing the characters.

[semosayba]

Inky