Sneaking Into Hexide

Chapter 4

Edric Blight was an interesting individual to say the least. Hunter did admit, they had hit it off well at first, but that didn't necessarily mean Hunter didn't have his own judgement of him. Hunter was trying to mentally shut out Edric during the potions lesson, he was actually pretty eager to learn a different method of magic rather than it's usual authoritative force of magic he had to pick up from his uncle in order to be the controlling force that is to be apart of the Emperor's Coven, or 'magic,' considering he couldn't do any without Flapjack. But Edric was notorious for being annoying, completely contrasting to his striving sister who didn't seem to take any nonsense from anyone. But, after a while the jokes did seem pretty funny, and Hunter let out a few chuckles to hard blown laughter from the back of the class, and suddenly from there they had begun chatting a bit.

Hunter knew he and the Blight Twin had some similarities between them, both of them were pretty mischievous and loved playing pranks, the only difference is Hunter did those sort of stunts as the Golden Guard, not Hunter.

Without his signature mask, Hunter felt as if he was a completely different person, almost as if he was exposed, nothing to hide behind. As the Golden Guard, he was confident, bold, witty and the famous teen prodigy everyone was led to believe. As Hunter, he was more timid, and awkward, and in his eyes; unbearably pathetic.

Hunter let himself absentmindedly follow behind Edric as he led him to the lunchroom while still being on guard, while Edric was chatting away about his friends and his twin sister meeting him or something, Hunter took the time to look around and truly take in the hallway view of Hecide. Spiraling stairs that circled around the building, monstrous lockers that would gobble you whole at one wrong move, and required you to strategically maneuver your way to obtain your school supplies, or you had to feed it a treat. Hunter observed this exact situation as he saw some random kid almost be swallowed whole from the lockers because he kept nagging it on purpose instead of heading to lunch.

While he let himself be lost in his thoughts, they had already arrived in the lunchroom, and this was when the panic seeped in.

Because there were kids.

So many kids.

Everywhere.

Hunter's whole plan was to avoid everyone and stay hidden within the crowd, and be able to sneak in only to be able to talk to his fellow Emerald Entrails friends, and so he could stay out of sight from everyone else so he wouldn't be noticed and so his identity wouldn't be discovered here.

The only people that technically knew that Hunter was the Golden Guard in Hexide so far was, now Hunter had to count on his fingers, The Emerald Entrails which included The Captain Willow, Gus, Viney and Skara, and then The Human, Luz, and Amity Blight. No one else knew that Hunter was The Golden Guard because he never removed his mask so no one ever saw his face.

But now? Standing in the middle of a room with dozens upon almost a hundred students of Hexide walking around, one of those six people were bound to be here and notice him, exposing his identity to the public and his grand plan of sneaking into the school to have friends, no, acquaintances, would be ruined! More like five instead of six, because he had told Willow about his plan to come and see her as well as the rest of the Entrails, now all he had to do was find her.

Hunter held a gloved hand over his face to try and subtly shield himself away from any public eye as he also tried to somewhat hide behind Edric while he was walking behind him from anyone that could possibly recognize him. While they were standing in line for food, Hunter only nicked an Apple from the lunch stand and used the lunch tray to instead shield his face from anyone. Edric eventually turned around from blindly leading him and raised an eyebrow at what Hunter was doing, "Uh, you good dude?"