After the Sacrifice // An Owl House Fanfic

Chapter 1- Stranded

The crew found themselves in a cave, the boiling rain pouring and sizzling outside. As the sound echoed off the stone walls Hunter immediately started searching the cave for Belos, worried he was still around. The crew just watched him, the thoughts of what had just happened still stuck in their minds. But Hunter was doing what he did best, ignoring the thing that made him feel bad feelings by doing something else. Eventually he returned with a relived look on his face. Then Camilla finally had the courage to break the mournful silence.

"All right," She put a hand on Luz's shoulder. "Let's go find your friends." She started to walk right into the night, and the deadly boiling rain. Everyone immediately stopped her from getting burnt by means of pulling back, yelling, and magic. When the smoke cleared Camilla was on the ground. Luz helped her up.

"Mami!" 

"I'm ok Mija." Camilla looked at the crew, all of whom had apologetic looks on their faces. "So that's a no to going outside then?"

"Yes." Said Willow "The rain is boiling hot here. So are the surrounding oceans."

"Well that," Camilla said as she stared at the sizzling rain again. "Makes sense." Hunter piped up.

"Uhm, where do you think Belos is? He went through this portal too."

"I think when the portal was flashing it was switching to different places, so Belos is far away." Said Luz. Hunter looked even more relaxed and started getting down to business.

"We don't know when the rain is going to clear up so we should take refuge here for tonight."

"But what are we going to sleep on?" Said Camilla. Then if front of their eyes 6 comfortable-looking plant made beds appeared. They all turned to Willow, who was blowing her finger even though there was no smoke coming out of it. Camilla pat Willows back.

"Good work. Let's get to bed." Camilla laid down on one of them. The others started but Willow pulled them back.

"One second." Her voice was suddenly quiet, and out of earshot of Camilla she sighed.

"Hunter, when you were..." She didn't want to say 'Dead'. "...out. Luz mentioned something about you being a Grimwalker?" Gus and Amity nodded. Hunter turned his back on them and Luz sighed too.

"I think Hunter would be more comfortable if he shared that information with you, rather than me." Luz said apologetically. Hunter turned back to them.

"I-" He looked at his feet. "As you know, Belos had an older brother. When he went to 'save' him." He made quotation marks with his fingers on the word 'save'. "He actually killed him, and with his blood he-" Tears were starting to form in his eyes now. "He made clones of Caleb, called Grimwalkers...and I'm one of them." Willow clapped a hand to her mouth, Amity just stood there, and Luz gave an unconvincing smile, but Gus gave Hunter a side hug.

"Wow, your O'beily costume is even cooler now!" He said enthusiastically. Hunter smiled slightly.

"I guess so..." Willow put her hands on Hunters shoulders. His face glowed red.

"Hunter, do you know what this means?!?" Before Hunter could even respond she let go and started pacing. "When you died the Caleb in you disappeared! Flapjack helped you become your own person! You are you! You're not a clone anymore! You're a person! You're you!" Hunter looked at his hands and smiled.

"You-You're right!" He gave a nervous laugh.

"Ey!" Camilla interrupted the moment. "I know it's your realm but I'm still in charge here so, get to bed!" Everybody obliged and settled down. But Hunter was still thinking about Willow ps revelation. He clutched his heart and mumbled:

"Thanks Flap." Then he remembered something else. He took a pocket knife out of his pocket that Camilla gave him in the human realm and cut off the hair that hung on his face. There. He thought, Now I'm Hunter. He put the knife away and went to bed.