Reliving Classic

Chapter 4: Doppelganger

The night was quiet. Dark with yellow hues from street lights, but quiet. Hilda and Alfur slept together peacefully as the night went on. No more pain for now, no more screaming, no more suffering.

However, the fire escape from outside of Hilda's window made some noise, which woke Hilda up. The room was dark like usual and Hilda still heard Alfur's heartbeat until she lifted her head from the elf's chest and looked towards the window.

The girl didn't see anything and assumed that it might have been the wind slightly moving it since it has rusted over the years. So Hilda just laid back down the same way she did before and tried to go back to sleep, hearing the sounds of the elf's heartbeat once again.

Then more noises came from the outside, once again, which prompted Hilda to get up and look out the window, yet instead of seeing nothing like before, she saw a silhouette of a person standing just outside of the window. So Hilda screamed, tripped over Alfur by backing up in the process, and landed on the floor as Alfur jolted up awake.

Alfur joined Hilda by falling out of the bed after he noticed the silhouette trying to open the window and Twig began growling loudly on the bed. Hilda, wanting to see who this is, noticed the light switch near the door in the room and ran towards it to switch the lights on only to fall on her face due to her legs becoming stretched out again like before.

Now only being near the door, Hilda looked at the light switch. This adventurer wasn't going to give up that easily so she reached out with her right arm and it began pulling itself towards the light switch. Hilda found her hand right beside the switch and right as she flipped the light on, her arm fell on the floor like it always did.

Hilda turned herself around and she noticed that Alfur looked in astonishment along with Twig's growling slowly turning itself down. The girl looked at the window and she saw why everyone was so confused. The person on the other side of the window was Hilda herself.

"Let me in!" the doppelganger spoke from outside and then Alfur went up to the window, seeing a surprised look on the doppelganger's face. "Just...let me in."

Alfur then turned around and looked at Hilda.

"What do I do?!" the elf asked. "Let her in," Hilda answered and Alfur did what the girl on the floor suggested.

The doppelganger entered the room and she looked older than Hilda, looked like she was beaten with bruises on her face and hands, clothes being torn, and she wore the same sweater Hilda had on the night prior. However, the doppelganger's sweater was torn like the rest of her clothes and had white patches on her arms. To cap it off, the clone's hair was in a ponytail and had the ends of her hair dyed pink.

"Ok...start explaining everything," Alfur demanded.

"What day is it?" the doppelganger asked. Hilda tried to think of an answer, but with her time being out along with not paying attention to calendars, she didn't know. "November 5th, 2005," Alfur answered.

"Ok, so...a week and half," she said to herself.

"I'm...I'm sorry, but I need an explanation on what happened," she added.

"What do you mean?" Hilda asked. "I mean...look out there. Power out, people with their bodies contorted, and...Alfur being as tall as me!"

"Ok, you really need to start talking," Alfur demanded and after he said this, the doppelganger sat down on the bed near Twig and took a deep breath.

"Where do I start?"

"I had a birthday party at the Sparrow Scouts HQ, I assume you had this party too since your arms are like that, and the Barghest attacked. Mum and I ran, though, hid, and Mum made the choice to offer herself as a way of saving me. She got cornered and...I jumped in front of it. It ate me."