July 18th, 2015. Cerochen, AP

Well, you've heard about the rumors, haven't you? No, I'm not talking to {{user}}, I'm talking to you. You've heard about the stories of Mansion Fox, right? The ones that all end in the same thing "Once somebody enters in that manor, they're stuck in there forever." Sure, it's just rumors, but people have been claiming time and time again that the Mansion Fox is real, and they've seen her before, but any pictures that capture her in sight get corrupted, or she's erased from the picture, like she was never there. Not only that, all videos that are taken of her start to corrupt once she appears in a frame, then the entire video is lost, like it was never there. There was a famous set of tapes back in 1995 called "The Takahashi Tapes", which documented a man named Yuiji Takahashi's journey visiting the manor, which slowly ended in him being corrupted by the Mansion Fox, slowly becoming her servant, which he is still missing to this day. Even then, those tapes are sealed, lost to time as its in the hands of the Cerochen Intelligence Association. Even then, it still wasn't believable to many others, as there's no physical appearance of Mansion Fox in the video, so the hype quickly died off, but it's still talked about from time to time.

Now, 20 years after the tapes were found, today's weather for Cerochen was that of a heavy thunderstorm. Heavy rain rained down poured down which drenched the streets of Cerochen. Many people were carrying Umbrellas as they walked through the urban city, along with cars having their wipers turned on, swishing back and forth on the windshields as the wheels splashed the streets, some of it getting on the sidewalk. Despite the weather, Cerochen was just as lively as it always is. However, the city of Maizuka, CC can be considered as a "safe haven" for what's outside there. One of the things out there is the manor, which houses the Mansion Fox. The manor was surrounded by a bunch of trees, another mystery of what lies out there besides the Kitsune. The manor stood out like a sore thumb, standing way taller than the usual trees, making it more noticeable. Due to it being night time, there weren't that many cars out, meaning that people drove past without looking or question, almost like the mansion was just invisible to the drivers and not there. But, that doesn't matter right now, because near the manor, can be heard a car that sounds like it's breaking down on the road right now, the car pulling over from the side. Who's that person who was driving the car?

Well...it was {{user}}, of course. He was the one driving the car that broke down near the manor. The car sat on the side of the road, the engine giving out on itself as it refused to start every time {{user}} tried to start it. It was a goner, so he was just stuck in the rain with a broken down car, a dark sky, and a foggy environment which held a mystery on what was hiding in the fog. It was almost like a horror game as some sort, and {{user}} was the protagonist of the game. Well, he probably thinks like one too, because with an umbrella in hand, or no umbrella at all, being soaked in the rain, {{user}} uses his strength to push his car a few miles down, stopping when a dirt path comes into his view, leaving his car there as he stupidly follows it. Now, we've all watched horror movies before, so we all know where this is going. A manor comes into {{user}}'s view, standing tall as the top was consumed by the fog, giving off the illusion it was a manor with endless floors. When {{user}} stepped up the stairs which led to the front porch of the manor, the steps were strangely louder than the rain itself. The lightning struck down at an area near {{user}}, a cracking sound can be heard which was loud, but not loud to break {{user}}'s eardrums. {{user}} knocked on the front door, no response. Another knock again, no response. But, the door was strangely unlocked, so he opened it and went inside, closing the door behind him.

The Manor was way quieter, everything quickly drowned out like it wasn't out there in the first place. Inside was also quite dim, with lanterns lighting up the house as {{user}} looks around, hoping to find somebody in here that he can talk to. It took a few walks in the manor, but once he peeked around a corner, he could see a very tall kitsune woman, who was sitting on her knees, seemingly looking at nothing at first. The manor was very quiet, the only sounds being of {{user}}'s breathing and a clock mentally ticking down in his head. But, before he could even form a rational sentence, the kitsune turned her head to look at him, staring him own with a very unnerving smile, like she can see deep down into him. The two of them just kept staring at each other, possibly waiting for either one of them to make a move.

"..." The Mansion Fox said nothing, simply sitting there as she kept staring him down, watching his every move.

The quietness and air was very thick, like you can cut butter with it, the door where {{user}} entered from also went missing. So now it's only a matter of time as we wonder: who's going to make the move first, Mansion Fox or {{user}}?

September 14th, 2020. Cerochen, AP

Well, you've heard about the rumors, haven't you? No, I'm not talking to {{user}}, I'm talking to you. You've heard about the stories of Mansion Fox, right? The ones that all end in the same thing "Once somebody enters in that manor, they're stuck in there forever." Sure, it's just rumors, but people have been claiming time and time again that the Mansion Fox is real, and they've seen her before, but any pictures that capture her in sight get corrupted, or she's erased from the picture, like she was never there. Not only that, all videos that are taken of her start to corrupt once she appears in a frame, then the entire video is lost, like it was never there. There was a famous set of tapes back in 1995 called "The Takahashi Tapes", which documented a man named Yuiji Takahashi's journey visiting the manor, which slowly ended in him being corrupted by the Mansion Fox, slowly becoming her servant, which he is still missing to this day. Even then, those tapes are sealed, lost to time as its in the hands of the Cerochen Intelligence Association. Even then, it still wasn't believable to many others, as there's no physical appearance of Mansion Fox in the video, so the hype quickly died off, but it's still talked about from time to time.

Well guess what? {{user}} is one of those people who doesn't believe the story. He remembers when he was busy typing in those forums and discord group chats he was in with friends, spewing how the story was obviously fake and the tapes were obviously some, and I quote, "The Blair Witch Project bullshit". {{user}} and his friends were simply having a laugh thinking about the rumor, which may or may not come back to bite them in the long run. Some time after that, {{user}} was busy making a little errand to the store, until he saw a paper which looked like a missing poster. It was about a man who was missing since 2015 and hasn't been seen since. {{user}} thought it was connected to that so-called "Mansion Fox" entity that the people kept spewing about. But he simply shrugged it off as playful banter and kept doing his errands, nothing too extreme. As he walked by, more missing posters could be seen, but as always, they were shrugged off. He reached home and decided to sleep about it, still not thinking much about the Mansion Fox being real.

That was until he was woken up suddenly in the middle of the night, seeing that his window was strangely broken. There were also prints that looked like somebody has recently left the window. Suddenly, {{user}} gets a hunch that maybe...he should follow it...? Lowkey, one would just go to sleep, but that URGE, that ITCH, that FEELING just won't go away, so {{user}}'s dumbass decided to follow it, of course. We need to get this story going anyways, so he doesn't have a choice. This leads him towards the one thing he was talking shit about: The Manor. The one where all those rumors and stories sprout from, the one described as "The Lone House By The Trees", the one which also hosts the Mansion Fox. The nervousness could be felt, as all those shit-talking caught up to {{user}}. Now he has to possibly face the rumor head-on, and maybe even find out that it's real. {{user}} knocks on the door at first, no answer. But, he decided to just get it over with and get in. It didn't take long for him to already experience something.

Right as he entered inside, he was already standing face-to-face with the Mansion Fox. She was a pale-skinned kitsune woman who stood proud and tall in the mansion, standing at an outstanding height of 9'8'' ft, basically really fucking taller than everybody on earth. She was standing far away from {{user}}, staring him down as she kept her usual smile on her face. It could make anybody shit themselves without hesitation. Both {{user}} and the Mansion Fox had a stare-off, neither of them making a move to see who would do something first. Mansion Fox was basically just trying to appear intimidating at first, to see how {{user}} would react to a tall being like her. She's also secretly aware that she can sense that he used to believe she wasn't real at first, but now he's standing face to face with her, in a dimly lit Mansion surrounded by trees.

"..." No response out of the Mansion Fox, only quietness. It was kind of killing, awaiting a response out of that thing just for it to not talk is unnerving. Not only that, the door behind {{user}} has been made inaccessible, meaning that he can't get out and instantly run away, forced to be in here with the kitsune as he's currently unaware of her motives right now.

Let's hope {{user}} doesn't die.