The strangers

by FusedHalves

Chapter 1: What are we now?

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We are a pretty strange group all things considered, made up of a diamond dog, a zebra, a griffon, a rogue changeling, and me a draconequis.
It’s a very long story how this happened but like most stories it’s best to start from the beggining.

===Chapter One: What are we now?===

===POV:Eddy===

Our friend group was always pretty strange I guess.

I mean first there was Vincent Barrett the smart one. He is currently studying to be a computer technician and is a bit of a realist with a shitty outlook on life. Vincent was never really happy with his life and loved to tell people about it.

Next is Jimmie Kent who is not the most intelligent person but he is the most optimistic person. He is currently working at S-Mart the local super market and seems to enjoy it. wAgainst all odds he and Vince are in a relationship prooving that opposites really do attract.

One of the longest standing in our group is Carlee Byers. She was kind of a smart ass and has an even worse mood than Vince. Last I heard she was working at Bunch of Tools the local hardware store in town.

There was also Josephene East the youngest in our group. As a highschool dropout she was unemployed and lived in her dads basement.

But lets forget me, Eddy Hassen possibly the worst of us. I’m an alcoholic librarian who recently got fired from my job for coming into work drunk off my ass.

All of us lived in a small town in the middle of nowhere called Haddonfield.

But lets get to the story...

I looked around the room. My four friends lounging around doing basically nothing just like they did every day. Vince and Jimmie are on the couch playing mario kart while brutally trash talking each other, Jose is playing darts against herself and managing to lose, and Carlee is on a beanbag chair staring at her phone and I... was bored as usual.

I sighed. “Alright guys does anyone have an idea for something to do today?”

Jose spoke up, “Why don’t we go down to the park and scare some middle schoolers again?” Frowning as she lodges another dart into the wall next to the board.

“But we did that yesterday and there weren’t even many reactions.” Retorted Vince before throwing a blue shell making Jimmie scream and throw the controller out the window.

“We could just sit here and do nothing.” Carlee said barely looking up from her phone seeming to not be interested at all.

“No we cant just sit here!”, I shouted starting to get angry.

“We could go eat, I’m starving!” Suggested Jimmie while glaring at Vince who happened to be doing a victory dance.

“I’m not hungry though.” Said Jose frowning and pulling darts out of the wall.

The arguement continues for an hour and by that point I reached my limit. “Fuck this I’m going for a walk!”, But the second I stood up to leave everything whent fuzzy and then I was out cold.

When I finally woke up I was on hard ground and in alot of pain. “Ughh what happened?” Blinking at the light and starting to look around I noticed a strange creature in front of me. It was covered in dark gray fur had large canine ears and was huge. Needless to say I started scrambling backwards when I saw it but was stopped when my hand touched something long and scaly. 'Is that a tail?' I thought staring at the object blankly yes it was indeed a tail covered in green scales looking like the tail of a komodo dragon and it seemed to be coming from my body. Then I saw my legs, I don’t think i had ever screamed that loud before, one leg looked like it was from some sort of tiger and the other looked like a birds talon but really REALLY big. My arms were missmatched too one was slippery and red and looked like the limb of a salamander and the other was a blue lobster claw.

“keep it down will ya?” Growled the creature in front of me snapping my attention towards the large wolfish creature laying in front of me, Naturally I screamed again.

“goddammit what one of you is making all the... Noise..” Looking down the large creature seemed to be supries about something before screaming along with me a deep masculine scream before looking at me with fear all over its face.

“Ughh my head hurts.” Moaned a creature from the back of the room. Looking behind me I noticed a strange black creature with insectoid eyes and wings and holes in its legs. The strange bug-like creature looked around and noticed us looked down and began to scream sounding like a high pitched whine.

This was getting old so i decided to take control of the situation standing up I shouted to the room. “SHUT UP!” Both creatures stopped screaming but began to stare at me with fear in their eyes.

I heard another two voices then both screamed in unison, “WHERE AM I... WHAT ARE YOU?” The source was what looked like a very small stubby zebra and what looked like a griffon with silver feathers.

“I don’t know what’s happening but if any of you want to live through this you will explain what’s going on here!” I shouted trying not to let my fear show. Theay all looked around quickly but nobody answered.

Then the insect looked away and began to cry. "Why is this happening to me? All i wanted to do was sit around and pay games with Vince today." Hearing this the zebra seemed suprised before running over to the insect with concern in his face.

"Jimmie is that you?" Asked the zebra with fear in his voice.

“V-vince?” Said the insect crying a bit less and looking suprised.

"Everyone I'm sorry if I sacred you but everyone say your name please." Looking around I noticed the others coming to the same realisation as me.

“My name is Jose.” Said the griffon sounding less tense and looking around the room.

“It's me Carlee.” Stated the wolf plainly before looking at me. "Then you must be Eddy right?"

“Yeah." I returned beginning to wonder about what happened.

"So if we're here where is here?" Asked Jose looking at me.

Everyone looked at me waiting for an answer and eventually I just sighed and said “I dunno I’ve never seen a place like this before.”

We were in a large stone brick chamber with holes in the celing allowing sunlight to shine down. There were tapistries all around the room most had images of suns or crecent moons fading off of the cloth, everything looked like it hadn't been moved in years.

“Lets look around!” Said Jose darting down a hallway before anyone could reply.

“Wait don’t...” I tried to say but she was already gone before she could hear me.

Carlee quickly spoke up. “Let’s go after her before she makes this situation any worse.”

Without even thinking about it everyone answered, "Right." And we all started to run after her before the resident loose cannon could destory anything.

Running with missmatched limbs was really hard to do. “Wait up!” I called trying to keep up but only being able to stumble along slowly. Carlee picked me up bridal style without warning and I yelped in suprise “Woah what are you doing Carlee?”

“Helping you keep up.” She responded flatly not even looking down at me.

“I found her!” Yelled Vince waving like crazy towards us from down one of the halls up ahead.

“Look I found an exit!” She cheered happily when we caught up to her seemingly oblivious to the trouble she had caused.

“What the hell were you thinking?” I asked loudly when Carlee put be back down.

She frowned and looked down dejectedly. “I just wanted to get us out of this wierd place.”

After I appoligized and she forgave me he group left the building and looked back at it. It was a run down looking castle. “Wow.” We all breathed marveling at the sight of it. but we didn’t look for long as we now had another obstacle in the form of a huge chasm with a broken bridge and no noticable way across.

“Well shit.” I said under my breath and tried to think of a plan.

But Vince spoke up with his own plan first. “Alright we all need to go back into the castle and look for something to get us across the chasm.” He looked at the ground for a second and spoke again. “Everyone take something to leave a trail with so we can all get back here.” At that Jose grabbed a pile of small rocks, Carlee pulled a bunch of leaves from a tree, Jimmie found some black petaled flowers near the exit, Vince took a pile of dirt and placed it on his back, and I decided to scratch a line into the wall with my lobster claw. The search however went by quickly and everyone was back with what they found within a few minuites. Jimmie found some rope, Carlee grabbed 3 banners from the throne room, Jose managed to find a pile of loose wooden planks, and Vince found a box of nails. I couldn't find anything of use and we had no plan for our new supplies but it was a start!


Author's Note

Thank you for reading my revised version of chapter one.
I plan on replacing chapter two soon so keep an eye out for it.
Hope you enjoyed.

-Fuse

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