Hunter's House {Huntlow/Winter}

Chapter 11 ; Satellite

"I go 'round and 'round, Satellite. Spinning out, waiting for ya to pull me in. I can see you're lonely down there, don't you know that I am right here?"

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The world spun away and my eyes drifted to the snowy ruins on the titan's knee. My gaze shifted to a memory that was not mine, but I smiled anyways. Luz and Amity, but past versions of themselves, were there with other familiar faces. Their mouths moved as they talked to each other excitedly, but no sound came out. Amity's cheeks flushed and Luz smiled widely before she and Eda were tossed away by one of Luz's ice glyphs. Amity and her siblings faded away, but still I stood here in silence as the snow fell. I suppose, this place can hold good memories too and remembering it this way instead of the way... Where am I? Just as the thought came into my mind, the memory shifted. I sat in the auditorium of Hexside, but the room looked like it wasn't under construction anymore. Suddenly, a cloaked figure flourishes out onto stage and when the cloak was removed, it revealed a very nervous Luz, throwing confetti. Again I couldn't hear what she'd said, but as I watched her fumble around with her light and ice spells, I realized pretty quickly that there was someone else in the audience. Principal Bump. His voice came through extremely loud after seeming muffled to say, "Welcome to Hexside, school of magic and demonics, Luz, the human." My eyes were blinded by the memory shifting once again, and again. I was living from the outside, seeing the past like it was something I experienced myself. 

Though I knew that wasn't true, I wanted it to be. A strong feeling washed over me and all I wanted was to feel ... normal. To experience life through anyone eyes, as long as it isn't my own. The memories got more and more twisted as it went on, the world spinning and returning me to another memory, but this time I was watching myself panic in the healing homeroom in front of Principal Bump. Willow came to my rescue, but then everything seemed to pause and Willow was gone. Everyone seemingly turned on me and I cowered away, "I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it! I'll find them, I won't give up until they are found!" I watched myself cry and all I could do is watch, confused. "Wait, Where did Willow go? What happened? Guys?" They couldn't hear me, no one ever hears me. From there, the world kept spinning and memories were still wrong. Spinning, spinning, spinning until finally, the world stopped and my ears rang as sound became unmuffled again. I felt a hand rest on my shoulder and even though I felt myself jump, I didn't. My gaze drifted slowly when my eyes caught who it was, my heart raised into my throat as I wanted to scream. Belos stood behind me, a wicked smile spread across his face. "Great work, Hunter. Now we can return heroes."

The wind howled, my ears continued to ring, and I glanced off the bridge to the emperors castle, to see everyone I loved, petrified in stone. Panic and anger was all I could feel now. "No ... No, Uncle what have we done?!" No amount of screaming could change the feeling in my stomach, in my heart, and the maniacal laughing still ringing in my ears. Everything went black again and all I could want in this moment .. was to be petrified with my friends, instead of living and knowing I was the one that assisted in their downfalls. 

How could he live .. when everything he loved, was gone?

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It had been almost three days since Hunter fell under whatever spell Belos had put on him and Willow refused to leave his side. Since Hunter wasn't human, they couldn't take him immediately to the hospital like Camila had wanted. Instead she called her friend Dianne, who happened to be a medical student and vet, to give another opinion without asking questions. Dianne and her pup, Santana, showed up almost immediately after seeing Camila's urgence over text. Carmen had wanted to come as well, but Dianne reminded her that someone needed to look after the shelter before closing up. "What's the status? What happened?" Dianne asked as soon as she enter the house. Camila looked distraught to Dianne attention, and in Dianne's eyes that was trouble enough to ask about afterwards. "My kid, he- he fell at the beach. Didn't hit his head, thank goodness, but he won't wake up and it's been two days. I gave him a check up, but he's fine physically." Camila said, without really thinking when addressing Hunter as hers, but it felt right and Dianne didn't question a thing. "Okay, I'll take a look, but I can't guarantee I can do much." Santana didn't follow right away, noticing the group of distraught kids gathered on the couch. Dianne let her off her leash and she trotted over to the couch to place her head in Gus' lap, startling him at first, but due to her sweet nature and big puppy eyes, Gus couldn't quite refuse giving her head scratches. For some reason, his worried heart seemed to untighten a bit at the sight of Santana, as did Amity and Luz's as well. Dianne smiled at the sight, glad to see that Santana was still doing her job, even if she wasn't supposed to be working at the moment.