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Avid eyes burst open, fast enough it made him dizzy.
The first thing he noticed was tat it was dark, and he was covered in dirt— atleast he assumes its dirt. Even his night vision can’t make it easier to see.
“O- okay…uhh-” He stammered, his mind trying to asses the situation, but there was a strange fogginess. Like cotton in is ead. “What happened…? Why-...Why am I underground…?”
He scratched at the dirt above him, claws desperately clawing at dry, hard earth.
“Scott! Shelby! Drift! Someone….?! I- is this like a cruel prank or something? Is it a vampire thing?! C'mon, let me out!” He clawed frantically, dirt crumbling on to is face. “Haha! So- so funny! Now let me out!”
Finally Avid burst out from his grave, and crawled out. He tried to stand but fell. Why did he feel so weak? Like he hadn’t moved in years.
Once he got his footing, by leaning on a stone hedge, he looked around.
“W- what the fuck…” The boys crimson eyes widened. The castle was in ruins! Again!
“We just rebuilt it! What happened…?!” Avid gasped, utterly confused and scared.
He waited a few minutes to grab his bearings— and for his legs to stop feeling like uncured jelly — before he started wandering.
“Scott….! What happened to the castle! Scott!” He yelled, crying out for his friends. “SHELBY! Drift…?”
He sighed. “Maybe they're just….getting revenge for the humans breaking the castle..? Yeah, that must be it…”
Finally, he circled back to where he dug out from. Then froze when he realized that the stone hedge he’d been leaning on was a gravestone. His gravestone.
“Huh…? But- But I’m right here! I’m not dead! I'm not- oh……OH” His breathe hitched when a memory flooded is brain. “The crypt….Own and Pyro…tey- they drove a stake through my heart! T- tye did kill me!”
But how was he here then? How long has it been? Where’s everyone else?
Enough questions to fill a carriage filled his head. “T- they tried to kill me! O- okay….um…what would Scott do in this situation….h- he would…he would get revenge! Right?”
Avid paced back and forth, back and forth. Before something beneath the hill caught his eyes. Oakhurst was larger….
The buildings were sleek, modern. With paved roads and strange loud metal carriages that didn’t need horses to move.
“How long has it been…?” He furrowed his brow, and looked to the sky, it was mid-day. The sky a dusky orange, signaling the sun setting.
He sighed, and went down.
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He wandered the streets of the strange town, staring in awe at the wonders. Streetlamps that didn’t need fire to burn, metal machines, and the people wore strange clothes.
He mainly kept to the shadows and the alleys, mainly because he didn’t know how superstitious people nowadays were. But with his obviously pointed ears, white hair and crimson eyes. He didn’t want to take any chances.
Avid currently was situated in an alley, behind a rusted dumpster. He let out a sigh, trying to settle his nerves. Afterall, he just woke up after supposedly being murdered and had missed hundreds of years of his goddamn life.
“Is this what Scott felt…? Damn” Avid took a deep inhale, picking dried muck off his red cape, the one he took from Scott’s closet all those years ago.
Then his ears perked as he heard someone coming closer.
It was an older man, with a greying mullet and a short stubble, with a guide dog. Avid peeked out from behind the dumpster.
The man chuckled. “It’s rude to sneak up on a blind man, kid..”
Avid jumped. Not realizing how loud he was being. “Oh…um…sorry..”
“It’s alright, lad…” The man smiled, a kind grin that just radiated warmth.
The dog was less friendly. A light coloured golden retriever, by the looks of it. And it was snarling at Avid, instinctively guarding its owner.
The man gasped. “Cleo! Sorry, kid. She isn’t usually this mean.”
Avid blinked. “Her name is…Cleo..?”
The man nodded, scratching the dog's neck. “Mhm, what about it?”
Avid let out a nervous laugh. “Oh nothing, I just…had an old friend named Cleo…”
“Heh, small world I guess. Name's Oscar, by the way.”
“Avid.”
He was so glad that Oscar couldn’t see him.