Welcome Home (Owl House Fanfic)

Hunter has a small little panic attack.

For the first time in a long while since the Day Of Unity, Hunter had finally been able to relax for a moment and breathe. Belos was finally gone, and he was truly free to make his own choices... But, he didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing yet.

The grimwalker didn't really know what he was going to do now that everything was over. Hunter had wandered into the crowd of various witches and demons that had been recently freed from the Collector's control. He watched as families reunited, friends hugged, and even previous enemies exchanged glances.

Then there was him. The kid with no living family to reunite with.

Hunter sighed, and his face fell slightly. Titan, he hated this feeling. Maybe he could go and try and find Camila? Yeah, that would be nice! Though she's probably busy catching up with Luz after all this chaos...

Just as Hunter was about to go leave and take his chances talking to Camila, he felt a hand suddenly ruffle his hair from behind him. He instinctively began to swat the hand away, and turned around with an irritated scowl... Only for that scowl to instead turn into a shocked smile, as he to found that the hand belonged to a familiar face.

"You're a sight for sore eyes, little prince..." Darius smiled at Hunter.

"D-Darius! Titan, it's... It's good to see you!" Hunter grinned. He almost hugged the coven leader in the heat of the reunion, but stopped himself.

"Same for me. I see you managed to stay alive during the chaos after all... And here we were worried about your fate." Darius remarked, as Eberwolf appeared out of seemingly nowhere, and scurried up to Darius' shoulder.

"Eberwolf! You're okay too!" Hunter grinned, happy to see the former leader of the beast keeping coven alive and well.

Eberwolf chittered happily, running one of his hands through Hunter's front hair. As he did that, Darius noticed what Hunter was wearing.

"Hm, interesting choice of clothing..." Darius remarked, pointing at the grimwalker's shirt.

"Oh! This!" Hunter grabbed at his own shirt excitedly, "Yeah! These are wolves from the human realm! They're awesome! They live in packs, hunt prey, and howl in the forests!"

Darius chuckled at Hunter's enthusiasm, while Eberwolf seemed just as interested as Hunter was in the subject, hopping onto Hunter's shoulder to look closer at the shirt.

"Very interesting, you'll have to tell me more later. Speaking of later... Do you have plans on where you'll be staying now that your "uncle" is gone?" Darius asked, a faint tone of resentment slipping through on the word 'uncle'.

"Uhh, not really..." Hunter admitted, rubbing his arm. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, I was wondering if you'd possibly like to come stay with me for a while?" Darius offered. "With how long the house has been left to it's own devices, it's probably a mess at this point. I could use some help cleaning around there."

Eberwolf chittered a bit, offended. Darius rolled his eyes.