Chapter Text
first chapter:
Avery climbed down the wall to the vast city of Dirtmouth, he paused when he finally got down stareing at the abandoned city..? he glanced at his map, “so this map is WAYYY out of date-..awh” Avery sighed putting the map in his satchel and padded around the old city, he paused seeing a faded sign, it read: ’Dirtmouth, the fading town’ Avery sighed “yeah that name checks out- jeez there’s not even that many things here- just…a bench and a couple of run down houses”
Avery padded around the fallen city running his hand along the walls of the houses, he paused peering inside one, it looked to be a station of some sort? Avery padded into the station, he took the elevator down, he tilted his head- it was a stag station?- at least that is what the sign read, he shrugged and took the elevator back up.
he hummed to himself glancing around, he spotted a well. ‘that must be the way down!’ he thought. Avery climbed down carefully, he glanced around perking up his antenna to listen for sounds. He paused spotting a old wanderers journal, he picked it up settling down on the floor to read “Ehh it cant be that bad to read a journal- besides who ever wrote this is probably dead” Avery flipped open the book page, it read “Avery, what ever you do at the forgotten crossroads. Don’t turn left.” Avery stared at the book clearly puzzled, “wha- huh-, why does a book know my name? that’s..weird” Avery put away the journal, he stared at the left area of the crossroads- what could POSSIBLY be so bad that he had to be warned? How did this probably dead bug know he existed? He was from Pharloom, a far away place..so how did this bug who wrote the book know his name?
Avery turned left- he needed to figure out if this bug who wrote the book was alive..he glanced at the journal again, the bugs name was...Derek?- their nickname was D3rlord3 by the looks of it. “huh- Who gave the nickname D3RLORD3 to a child- that’s- ahem anyways”
Avery turned left, surely it couldn’t be thattt bad right? D3rlord3/Derek must’ve been pulling a prank on him!...Right?
Avery hummed to himself- he paused seeing something..weird? it looked to be an entrance to a dream of some sorts? “I Thought only pale beings or uh..the thingys with the dream nail could have that opened to them? Huh- AM I A PALE BEING??” Avery dashed through the dream gate excitedly thinking he was a pale being. [damn he’s wrong but okay good for you Avery]
Avery stepped out of the dream gate looking over a new area…? “what the-?? Oh okay so WHY IS THERE SO MANY GOD DAMN MUSHROOMS!?- wait are they even edible?” Avery shrugged grabbing his nail and crouching down next to one of the mushrooms. He poked at it with his nail, it was probably edible- righttt? Avery picked up the mushroom and ate it. “EW IT TASTES BAD” he spit the mushroom out. “Ough what if it was poisonous..uhhh that’s a problem for later me.. yeahhhh-“
*Insert Avery throwing up 5 minutes later because of the mushroom*
Avery sighed “soo..the mushrooms are NOT good…Oo- wat another type of mushroom? Eh I’ll try it” Avery ate the mushroom. “oh I’m not dyin—” Avery threw up again.
“I HATE IT HEREE- THE MUSHROOMS ARE HORRIBLE OH MY GOD- I need to stop eating the mushrooms..” Avery sighed exploring around the waste lands full of mushrooms. Avery saw a sign it read:” Fungal Wastes.” It had a warning symbol with a...mantis? on it? Eh it was probably nothing
the green caterpillar climbed down the walls. He paused stareing at a lake of water “Oooo?- why is it green hello??-“ Avery crouched down and put his satchel down beside him. He poked the water with his antenna “OWWWWWWW. DON’T DO THAT— OW- IS IT ACID??” Avery jumped back nearly falling into another pit of acid water. “WOa- WAOA- OH NO NO-“ Avery quickly steadied himself and grabbed his satchel climbing down the wall and avoiding the burning water. “in the name of Pharloom I want to live not be slimed out by a dumb lake..”
Avery explored around avoiding MORE acid waters.
Avery hummed to himself climbing down a wall, he paused- was that purple mushrooms? He shrugged and landed on the ground. He dashed up to the mushrooms and poked at them. “huh-? Hmm..what if is edible?” Avery took a bite out of the purple mushroom cap. Avery threw up. “DISGUSTING OH MY PHARLOOM- BRO WHATS WITH THE MUSHROOMS MAKING ME THROW UP” :C
Avery paused- the purple mushroom caps seemed to be bouncy? He climbed up ontop/onto of one and jumped on it. “WEEE- O-“ he giggled excitedly, he glanced down at the acid water below the mushrooms.. “O- OH-“ Avery grabbed his nail and quickly pogoed off of the mushroom caps avoiding drowning in the acid water. “heh I taught my self that back in Pharloom- I’m so cool” he smiled and went off to go explore some more.
“Ooo another mushroo-“ Avery stared at the mushroom. WHY WAS IT ROLLING AT HIM- he jumped over its head quickly pogo’ing off of it “HOLY WHA- WHY IS IT ALIVEEE” Avery fought with the thing winning easily. It wasn’t strong..but dear Pharloom that was a jumpscare. Avery stared at the corpse of the mushroom. He crouched down taking a bite out of it. He threw up 5 minutes later.
“euhg….how do bugs live here” :C “like the mushrooms are disgusting”
Avery explored around the area clearly lost. Avery jumped into a hole nearly landing into acid waters. He clung to the side of the wall stareing down at the water, “oh okay..nope bye!” Avery climbed back up to the safe ground and laid on the floor clearly recovering after that jumpscare.
“waiitiiwai- wha?” Avery noticed something in the distance, it was a torn part of a cloak? A red one to be exact. He took the red fabric and wrapped it around his wrist. “Derek must’ve left this! Right? Has to be!...hopefully!- if so that means I’m on the right track!” Avery smiled and padded off hoping to find more scraps of the red cloak.
Avery turned into a sanctuary thing? He saw a large gate, it looked to be the dream gate from earlier. Avery stepped into it humming a tune ready to explore the next area. “for Derek..” he mumbled as he stepped into it.
{man I cant spell..or describe places well