Seeing The Dark Times

Meeting A Villain

"Are you sure this is Old Corona?" Nuru asked Hugo, though honestly, despite his answer she wouldn't believe him. There was no way that this was the proud home that Varian was always gushing over, the village looked abandoned, black rocks everywhere, destroying crops, homes and other buildings.

"Yes," he sighed annoyed, he had previously answered her many times. "I've been here once, for a job-"

"You mean a robbery," she remarked, Nuru was sick of Hugo calling his hobbies a ' job ' , normally when the two got into this argument, Varian was there stop it and now, he's not.

Hugo crossed his arms and spat as he spoke, "I'm sorry that not everyone has the privilege of growing up in a palace."

Yong never understood why his two elder friend argued, his ma said that when two people argue they like eachother but then that would mean that Hugo liked both Nuru and Varian, so Yong was just as confused as before. He walked a little off from the group, the group this arguing and get to notice his disappearance. "Where are all the people," he asked himself, can we even called Old Corona a village if there's no people? His eyes was drawn to smoke coming from a house, snow embarking the cottage so that it was barely seeable, maybe that's where Varian lives? "Hugo! Nuru! Over there!"

Hugo turned to face Yong and like a parent who lost a child in a supermarket felt the sudden shock of realising they weren't next to them the whole time. "Yong, what are you doing over there?"

"There is smoke coming out of that home," he pointed as Hugo's green eyes and Nuru amber eyes moved over to the snow covered cottage, Hugo would have assumed the house was abandoned like the rest if it wasn't for the smoke.

"Good job Yong!" Nuru praised as she started to walk towards the house, she ruffled up his hair playfully while Yong was beaming.

Knocking on the door, there was no answer, so the three entered the house anyway, this is definitely Varian's house so was it technically breaking in? No, yes... kinda.

Hugo assessed the house it looked just as abandoned on the inside, piles of dishes, food and scrunched up papers thrown on the floor. The home had a eerie, unsafe feel to it, Hugo had been in a lot of unsafe situations before and the before felt just like this. There was scribbled writing on the wall, it was so messy that not even Yong could make out words in sentences.

Nuru push open a door and the sight she was left seeing left her speechless, frozen and feeling sick. "Nuru? What's wrong?" Yong walked to Nuru to see what she was seeing but the sound of his voice snapped her out of her thoughts and into the realness of this all, Yong can't see that, he can't see what is in that room.

"Yong! No!" She said covering his eyes just in time.

Hugo's attention was turned to the door, looking inside the room he saw just what Nuru didn't want Yong seeing. A body which he assumed was dead, encased in some type of material.

"We should go," Nuru said, her eyes still on Yong's eyes. Hugo walked inside the room, picking up the pages on the table near the body, "Hugo, I'm serious!"

"Oh, come on. Have you never soon a dead body?"

"No!"

"There is a dead body?"

Hugo read the pages through his glasses, the head writing was messy, rushed and panicked. The words repeated each other and it there was crossed out equations, a lot of crossed out equations. He could tell that this person was desperate but for what? He kept on reading though the sudden scream from the two younger members of the group caught his attention as he turned to face them, meeting a masked stranger. "Who are you?" He asked with venom in his voice.

"Why are you in my house?!"

"Why is there a dead body in your house?!" He glared at the masked figure, sure he was imitated by the person but he's met a lot of imitating people in his life, people a lot tall then this kid.

The figure took off his mask as the group gasped, "Why are you in my house? Who do you work for?" The younger looking version of Varian asked once more, his voice lowered but more threatening in tone, Hugo felt a shiver go down his back at the tone of his voice. He stared at Varian gobsmacked, confused the shit out of his mind, what the hell was going on? This boy looked exactly like Varian, even the blue stripe his hair, though he looked younger and more angry. He was short, barely taller then Yong and wore an outfit that looked to be too small on him with a trench coat. His appearance looked so much like Varian but everything else about him was so unfamiliar.

"Why are you in my house?"