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The town had been quiet for a while before that night, still and silent were the usual descriptions of the abandoned ruins of Oakhurst. Raised to the ground only to be built back up again time and time again, remembered only by the ones who live much longer.
Though they too had been awakened when the next guests stepped over the threshold.
The gathering in the town wasn't anything grand, mostly just a realization for most who had wandered into the area, that they aren't alone in their supernatural qualities at all. And though hesitation held some back they shared with one another their secrets kept close to their chests...
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Scott had just walked into the abandoned town of Oakhurst in hopes of scrounging up supplies for the nest he needed to add for the fledglings. Ugh his instincts had been in full force for the last few days. When he spotted multiple others doing the exact same thing, was it that time again? Scott knew he had been asleep for about 600 years and the conversation/fight he had had with Owen over his fledgling status had put him about 200 years asleep. So the curse must have pulled people to the town once more, good his childe should get some of the good stuff after all they were a part of his coven now.
While he was grabbing what fabric he found and deemed good for his coven he got a few good looks at the new town.
However the more he looked at the others that had been pulled here the more he began to realize that blood supply wasn’t as good as it appeared at first. Scott frowned, it seems he’ll have more company then he thought he would for the next bit, he hoped they were respectful at least.
“I didn’t expect to see anyone here” Scott supplied to the conversation he walked up to, between what appeared to be a doctor and a butler?
The white robed man spoke in response “Hello I’m Doctor legundo and this is Abolish, what's your name stranger?”
It appeared he was right about the doctor, human? he smelt off. He couldn't properly tell what though, the butler? Appeared related to the fae with the wood-like patterns on his skin but not full fae, a changeling perhaps?.
Oh well he couldn’t ask till they were alone “Pleasure to meet you as well my name is Scott, sorry for the intrusion to the conversation you to just looked the most calm out of the others.”
They all looked around at the many groups of conversations happening in the general area, most appeared rather unhappy with the rest.
“Yeah I see what you mean” spoke abolish and if Scott looked closer something like recognition flashed in Abolish’s eyes.
Legundo signed “Right well i think we will have to get to know our noisy neighbours.”
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As Legundo leaves to go meet the other townsfolk Scott turns to Abolish, who is looking at him with a similar suspicious expression to his own. “So changeling is it?” Abolish signs “yeah, your eyesight must be good vampire?” Scott smirked “correct assumption your wood like patterns give you away to those who can see better than the human eye.”
“Yeah and your smell as well is a little more woodsy too” Scott had heard the two approaching behind him but he was sure he had spoken soft enough for only Abolish’s ears. Abolish once again signed “sense of smell and being able to hear what was said makes me think you too are werewolves.”
They were standing now in a circle of sorts facing each other, Scott thought it resembled a staredown. Till the older man spoke, breaking the tension.
“Aye ye be right my fae like fellow” his accent? Was quite different then the ones Scott had heard so far.
“Fae you say, The good folk?” asked the woman, “Yes, I'm related to them as a changeling but I'm not like my ancestors.” The two wolves looked with suspicions at the changeling for a bit before Scott supposed they relented.
“the names Renhart dogmourne, who might ye be?” and “i’m pearl” came right after the other. Who was Scott to deny them his introduction?
“My name is Scott, it is a pleasure to know there are more supernaturals in this town” was met with a nod from Ren and "I haven't had the pleasure of meeting a blood sucker yet” from Pearl.
Through that comment… Scott began to wonder just what the vampiric world looked like after 600 years…
He was pulled from those musings when he heard Abolish’s voice "I'm Abolish I hope to talk with you more, i’m not sure who exactly are non-human in this town” so he too had some suspicions “but it’s nice that i don’t have to lie or hide with somepeople”
“Agreed me laddie” Ren said with a nod.
“Yeah it’s quite the mystery right now” said Pearl looking around intently at our new townsfolk
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Legundo left to speak with those who appeared to be quarreling, fighting amongst the townsfolk was in no way shape or form good for anyone. Especially not now when they had all just got here, bad blood from day one did not speak well for the town's development.
He had yet to get a clinic set up after all.
“Hello I'm Doctor legundo, you two good i do not know why you are fighting?”
The two looked at him and basically sized him up.
The ginger spoke first “all good doc, we were just having a friendly conversation that’s all” the blonde chimed in “yeah all good just friends discussing things with each other.”
“Right, well if you're both calm are either of you from this town?”
“No” “nah”
Martyn got a mischievous look on his face “how do we know you're a real Doc, Doc? Why all the questions?” while walking over to brush a hand on Legundo’s Doctors robe. Unfortunately for him the repel undying runic spell interwoven into said robe did just that, repel undead. Martyn was essentially blasted away from Leg's person, who had a surprised look on his face, he quickly looked down to see which runes were activated on his robe.
Cleo, having gotten over their shock, looked around to see if anyone had seen that before grabbing both the doc(careful not to touch his robe) and martyn. They dragged them behind a ruined town house? It was ruined; they couldn’t tell what exactly it had been.
“Looks like you are more than you seem Doc” they stated. Doc chuckled a bit “I didn’t realize the dead were already in this town”. Martyn huffed “yeah just me and cleo right now so don’t go batting us away like that again.”
The doctor smiled warmly "apologies I truly meant no harm”
Martyn huffed “it’s all good I was the one who got up in your space, but i am curious what about you doc, what are you?”
Legundo nodded “yes it’s only fair since I know of your nature, I’m a doctor that isn’t a lie but I’m also a wizard think of it like a dual major.”
“Wow you must have been dead tired” joked Cleo and they had a chuckle before Martyn kinda sobered up and asked a question.
“Do you guys think it’s just us or that we aren’t the only supernaturals here?”
They all looked at each other before the Doc said “it’s possible”
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Drift was unsure as to what to do, she had come to this town to get some kind of peace and quiet but there were almost as many ghosts in this run down little town as the city!
Just what was the death rate of this place?
The ghost didn’t pay her much mind as of this moment they were instead hanging around the other occupants of Oakhurst?
Did she just walk into a mass murder? No no she’s being silly they aren’t draped in blood and no evidence of struggle around the area. Drift made up her mind that she would go and talk to a smaller group of people, yes she’s got this!
The two over to the right side seemed like good options, one red head and a brunette man to start with. “Wow, I didn't realize so many people were already here,” Drift said rather loudly to announce her presence.
The man had not seemed to notice her looking to be warped up with thoughts of something… While the brunette was lost in thought the person who had been beside him responded to Drift.
“Yeah I wasn’t expecting this when I got posted here” said the red-haired woman “my name is Apo what's yours?” Drift brighted at the response “My name is Drift, I'm a detective from the city don’t worry it isn’t a case that’s brought me here.”
Her response stirred the man out of his thoughts “aw that’s shame I could have written it in my book!”
Drift looked a little uncomfortable with the writer but still asked for his name
“Oh yeah i’m sausage but you might have heard about me from my pen name M” Drift seemed to light up at that “i think i have heard of you before.”
“Are you a famous writer?” asked Apo clearly confused as to who M was
“Oh yes my book twilight was a hit seller” Sausage said with so much pride in his voice while striking a prideful pose. It was almost too much.
“I think I've heard of it?” Apo seemed unsure which could be seen even in her body language, which a swarm of ghosts were now surrounding both Apo and Sausage?
Drift was confused as to why before she watched Apo full on move a ghost out of face as if she could see them!?
And in Drift's confusion she asked a question while pointing at the ghost “Umm Apo did you just move that ghost out of your face?”
Apos' head quickly snapped to Drift with a look of ‘you're able to see them!?’ before the realization set in for the both of them as to who else could have heard the question. Slowly looking over towards Sausage who looked like he was about to yell to the world, they both tried to silence him to no avail.
“OMG WE CAN ALL BE SUPERNATURAL BUDDIES HIGH FIVES ALL AROUND”
Drift was sure even a deaf person in town could have heard that yell.
Wait a minute… we can all be supernatural buddies?
Apo was the first of the two to actually vocalize that last thought “SAUSAGE! You couldn’t be quiet now, we are all gonna run out of town!”
They all heard footsteps behind them but there was no angry yelling?
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The ‘town’ (more like the travellers) came upon the three; both groups did not look like the angry mob that was expected. Most were confused, unsure, only one was actually frowning but he was yelling at them to get out.
Abolish had a few guesses as to why Scott was upset and it had nothing to do with kicking those three out of town.
There was the sound of a throat clearing as the group which had now formed a somewhat circle for talking?
“Hello for those of you who don’t know me my name is Doctor Legundo and I have a suspicion that all of us here are ‘supernatural’”
There was a mummer that went through the crowd as people looked at others with either confusion or surprise realization.
The Doc held up his hand and it somewhat quieted the noise of the group, well enough that the Doc could speak once more. “Now you don’t have to come clean right away if you don’t want to but if we are all gonna live in this town together we should probably inform everyone of what exactly makes us supernatural.”
Some did look weary of discussing their traits but everyone eventually saw the reason in the Doc’s ask.
After everyone nodded or verbally agreed Doc said he would go first “I’m a wizard I studied both medicine and magic, you can call it a double major if you want”
There was a brief look around the meeting to see who would go next before Scott raised his hand to offer himself as next. “A pleasure to meet you all. My name is Scott Goldsmith and I am a vampire who just awoke from a 600 year sleep.”
There was a loud “What!” yelled out of the crowd from a blonde man. Scott smirked “ is it really unbelievable, afterall what are you?”
The blonde man huffed with crossed arms before answering “I’m a ghost if you must know, my name is Martyn Littlewood"
Thankfully after Martyn’s introduction everyone else's went kinda smoothly
Two werewolves in town are Pearl and Ren. Though that wasn’t new to Abolish, what was new was Cleo, who is a zombie. Sausage is a dragon, Drift is a witch and Apo is a fallen angel.
Abolish did not know what was gonna happen next, he wasn’t sure what should happen next after all the amount of different supernaturals in this town was crazy. How did this happen in one night???
Drift expression changed as she appeared to have come to a terrifying conclusion “Wait, what I don't get is why we are all here?”
“What do you mean?” asked Martyn the ghost was now slightly floating over the ground.
“I mean all of us get pulled to this town? On this specific night?” Drift clarified for him and with those words a donning horror flickered across everyone's faces. At the realization of the supernatural circumstances of their meeting in this very town.
“Oh my god you're right!” said sausage squawked
“Do you think it’s a curse?!”
Amidst the now raging chaos one person was unbothered.
“Scott?” asked the doc one of the few who hadn’t immediately started screaming their fears
“Yes Doc?” Scott asked calmly for Abolish’s opinion. It was nice to have a non freaked person to stand next to even though he is a vampire shouldn’t he still be worried?
“Blood sucker ye know something don’t cha” Ren stated
“Hmmm i suppose i do know about the curse” he said with a smirk on his face
“You shouldn’t be smirking if it’s a curse placed upon us!” screamed cleo
“Oh you’ll be fine i’ve lived through it multiple times” Scott nonchalantly said
“Yeah but you're a vampire! Some of us are a little less durable, also you lied about not being a resident of this town!”
Scott huffed and signed before speaking “alright I’ll inform you if what I know, one i didn’t live in the town when i was awake 600 years ago and two the curse is a massacre of the town that happens every 200 years and we are right on schedule.”
“WHAT!!” “every 200 years??” “So we just got brought here to die??!!” “How are you alive then?” “What do you mean?? He’s a vampire!” “oh right..”
Scott's expression slightly changed to annoyed, slightly.
“If you would let me finish! Geez you lot are noisy"
Doc and Ren quieted the last of the hysterical town members (read: sausage)
Doc smoothed his doctor robe and gestured for Scott to continue
Scott smirked once again before he continued “thank you doctor, as i was saying the massacre happens on the regular every 200 years. However, one fact I should speak to you of is that the people who are massacred are human, which I am sure none of you are.”
Abolish was confused much like the others in the group “Oh… so wait so does this mean there won’t be a massacre?”
“Yeah i mean for a whole town to die someone would have to be pretty intent and capable of killing that many peo-” Drift cut herself of at the end of her sentence and looked at Scott
Scott was looking back at her just as intently “aww detective do you want to grace us with the conclusion you just came to?”
Drift couldn’t get the words out she was so gripped with fear, thankfully for her the Doc also figured out what she had from the pieces of evidence? Abolish wasn’t sure though he had a suspicion.
“Scott, you were the one who massacred the town 600 years ago, correct?”
“Correct” Scott confirmed with little care
“But you were asleep for 600 years afterwords”
“Also correct”
“I assume the curse awoke you for this massacre right cause the last person to massacre the town is gone?”
“Oooo you were so close, yes i agree that the curse awoke me to probably kill once more but Owen is still alive, though not awake right now” Scott mumbled something under his breath but Abolish’s hearing was not good enough to pick it up.
Though one look at Pearl and Ren gave him more confusion, why were they calming down??
“Owen?” the Doc asked unsure
“One of his fledglings Doc” Ren stated like that explained anything!
Scott glared hard at Ren and raised his voice “you watch your cursed tongue dog!” bearing his fangs towards the werewolf. That was the first time abolish had seen Scott truly mad, it was unnerving. Clearly the topic had set him off but why?
“Woah whats with the hostility?!” asked Martyn beside him Cleo said “yeah uncharacteristic of you rich bitch”. Those two reactions appeared to be the main reactions of the town after the display of fangs.
However Doc was more focused on what the word Ren had used meant “Ren what does the word fledgling mean?” And Scott who had been recomposing himself or at least tried too, after he heard the doc say fledging he again got more batty?
Abolish was very intrigued, he only knew that vampires existed and the gist of their abilities. Though he knew one thing for certain Scott was protective over whatever a “fledgling” is.
Ren looked in Scott's direction with a sincere expression and muttered a few words under his breath? Which caused even more confusion in the meeting. Scott's reaction didn’t help either as he appeared to back down, well he fangs receded but his body language wasn’t calm.
But it was good enough for Ren apparently because he informed everyone of the truth.
“Ya see Doc the reason the blood sucker is so worked up is cause a fledgling is a young vampire don’t cha know”
All heads snapped to Scott after that sentence with various expressions to the news.
Who looked a little uncomfortable but whos to say why
The doctor cleared his throat "apologies for the intrusion Scott but where is this other vampire?”
Scott scoffed “like i would tell you” his body language told the others he was getting more tense
Ren gave the doc a look “best not to ask where the fledgling is Doc, blood sucker would ye mind bringing them here so we can have a chat don’t cha know”
He was very tense for a moment while he processed the request. Eventually Scott sighed and agreed “it has been a few days of sleep, very well I will go over to the castle well what's left of it and get my fledglings.”
“More than one?” Pearl asked Scott nodded as he left the tension left his figure grabbing what fabric he had managed to find. This was not the case for the towns folk though. Safe to say they had a lot of questions Ren and Pearl tried to somewhat answer them but they are not vampires themselves so their knowledge was sparse to none.
However there was one that could be answered
“But what’s the bedding for when vampires famously do not require sleep?” asked martyn sausage nodding behind him.
Pearl looked confused. “What do you mean obviously it’s for the nest?”
“THE WHAT!!??”