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"I apologize I could not have done this sooner, I hope you can get your happy ending"
He's…. aware…He's huh.... cold?
Avid tries to inhale, feeling a sharp pain instead and stopping. Oh, right, he doesn't need to breathe. Where is he? Oh, he should open his eyes.
It's dark, well that's not helpful. Wait, shouldn't he be able to be able to see in the dark right?
Avid feels around himself, realizing he's in some sort of box? Laying down? He pushes upwards, ignoring how his chest hurts as he uses his arms and legs to push. He feels wood snapping between his fingers, some falling on his chest. Something soft is also falling— the wood shatters and the dirt falls in. Breathing sharply, then getting hit with pain and stopping, he starts clawing at the dirt, trying to get up, get OUT. [Add more panic]
He's out! He's… on a grave? Was in a grave? Oh, "Here lies Avid," this is… his grave. He died? He died. 'WHY! NO— WAIT, NO! NO PLEASE NO! NO PLEASE NO' He… was tricked… he was staked. They, why? WHY did they have to kill him?! He just wanted to be safe, just wanted to get BACK.
Wait, he's alive again. How long has it been? Can he fix this?
He runs, stumbling over numb legs, ignoring the BURNING in his chest, the darkness in part of his vision, the numbness in one arm. He ignored it all, running to the castle; he had to try to do something. As he ran, he noticed how many trees were around, how… amazing the castle looked. Oh, it's beautiful. It's complete, the bridge is no longer broken, held together with stones and wobbly wood bridges connecting parts. It's perfect, a full stone bridge with lanterns around, leading to a fully built castle.
[ that is all I wrote but here was the general plotline!]
Avid wakes up in like 2006-2015 depending what i wanna do
Angsty stuff of stumbling out of his grave (was actually buried in a nice old coffin, in the grave Scott had made after the events of V!SMP before scott drift n shelby left (But after abolish)
Goes to castle looking for scott n shelby
its all pretty from cleo n pearl
pearl sees him from a bit away n calls out to cleo, cant tell what or who from so far
They make sure to have things they might need incase danger but then he gets closer and they recognize that cape, that outfit, that hair
Pearl runs over to him n starts checking him over, he panic, cleo calms him down (tho distrusts him, knows that keeping him calm is most important atm)
pearl runs inside ot grab phone (forgor- cleo has theirs but was busy w getting avid inside (but slower bc weak)
Calls scott and shelby (group chat or just scott "YOU GUYS NEED TO GET HERE AS SOON AS YOU CAN" "What why!" "I- WAIT LET ME SHOW YOU" goes over to avid while scott n shelby r trying to get her attention aga in bc shes not responding to them for a sec, avid "S—scott? shelby?!" (panic-y) "Avid?…" "How?!
!""We dont know but he is here- gonna focus on getting him cleaned up because, its rough, but ill keep you on the line and on speaker" "how- how can i hear them?! what- how am i… alive?"
(explaining phone, not sure how alive, helps get him cleaned up, cleo promise to keep clothes safe once cleaned some but does get him into a new outfit (one that scott had left behind from a 'few' years ago when visiting)
after they swap to video call, que more avid confusion, also while they were focused on avid shelby had called drift to come over. Drift is main one to work on getting them over as fast as they can (what is the fastest way, they never had to worry about speed before, just enjoying the trip over)
After call they pack FAST some nice comfort of them taking care of avid n explaining some things, but telling him they will leave some stuff for shelby drift and scott to explain