Papercuts || Empires S1 - HIATUS

1: Shadows

Sausage was ecstatic, secretly he knew nothing could possibly live up to his anticipated expectations, but he couldn't help it!

He was finally back to a place where he had friends! Where the people he grew up with were accepting of his hobbies! Where he could feel at home.

The male was currently taking his last bus back, his parents didn't really bother accompanying him. Of course he would still be housed, but his parents preferred staying in Mythland. A large town across the country, where they had already built their new iron-production company.

Sausage swiped his finger across his luminous phone screen, playing Subway Surf. The male mindlessly watched as his clown-masked character skin of Frank ran around, dodging the oncoming trains.

Upon losing to the police in the game, Sausage closed his phone, sliding it back into his sweater pocket. He looked up, realizing he was almost at the end of his ride. The male smiled softly as he stared out the window, everything felt so familiar... even if he couldn't specifically recognize anything.

Sausage looked around before looking back to his phone, comparing the house in front of him to the low quality google map image he had. Yup, hopefully he didn't get it wrong... but it was the same.

Most houses he's seen so far are eerily identical to him, but this house had even the same lawn chairs. The male fumbled around as he mentally prepared himself for a possible rejection, hopefully this was Mr. and Mrs. Shadow's house.

Sausage pressed the doorbell, praying to himself this was it. He's already gone up to 3 other houses, damn why did he only get the street.... Instead of a middle aged man or woman he was expecting, a young blonde male opened the door.

There was no way he was much older than Sausage himself. "Hi—? Who are you?" The male asked, looking Sausage up and down. "I— Uhm... my name's Mythical...! Is Mrs. and Mr. Shadow home?" Sausage mentally cursed at himself for stuttering.

"Shadow? That's a last name?" The blonde's response caused Sausage's little confidence to go down the drain. "I'm so sorry, I must have the wrong house." The male bowed as if the stranger had been deeply troubled by his appearance.

Right before Sausage was going to turn back and try again, he heard the suppressed chuckles of the blonde. "Awe, Mate— you've been absolutely bamboozled! My parents aren't home at the minute, they're out to pick up your Ikea bed. But me and Lizzie are home."

Sausage managed to smile as the other helped him inside the house. The interiors of the living room and kitchen were light blue, Sausage passed a fish tank with small guppy-looking fish. "What's your name? I was never told that your parents have children."

"My name's Jimmy." As Sausage dragged his luggage behind Jimmy down the hallway, he finally took notice to the male's beige and green fins on various parts of his body. Along with a darker green tail, maybe like a mix of Juniper and Pickle?

Sausage found himself debating the male's tail colour, not noticing Jimmy had already opened the door to his new room. He blinked, realizing how the other was looking at him.

"Thanks, Jimmy! Wow, this room is great!" He changed the subject as he stepped into the bedroom, there was an empty desk and chair. Along with a small succulent on one of the shelves above the desk.

"I'll leave you to it? Mom and Dad will tell you about school and such." Jimmy scratched his head, Sausage remembered one of the questions he was dying to ask just hours before.

"Do you know of the Sparks?"

Jimmy's eyes widen, but he shook his head. "Sparks? No, I don't." Sausage stared at him, he definitely did, didn't he? But, Sausage refrained from asking more. He didn't know Jimmy very well, what if him and Gem were ex's and just broke up?

Not that he thinks the Gemini he knew would end any relationship on bad terms, but that's still a possibility. Maybe Jimmy was envious of the Sparks, Sausage remembered reading a headline that one time that suggested the family's gunpowder business kicked off.

Anyhow, that really isn't any of Sausage's business anyway. Jimmy walked away from the door frame, leaving Sausage to his own things. The warlock sighed before going to unravel his belongings.

"Let's try and settle back home."

I hope you guys enjoyed chapter 1! First time writing an Empires Fanfic :'D