Spirit Animals Oneshots

Shane (King) - Loneliness

A/N -
There doesn't have to be a ship for it to be a oneshot, right? Well regardless I'm making oneshots about Spirit Animals characters. I hope you like...
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Shane's PoV -

     I found myself walking all alone down a Nilonian trail. It was getting pretty dark out so I decided I would set up camp for the night. A nice stream ran close by and it looked like a good place.

     Before bed I patched up my wounds from the Evertree battle only the day before. I checked my crocodile tattoo. I hadn't been able to call Grahv out of passive since the battle and I was starting to worry. That night I settled in for a restless sleep.

     In the morning I woke just as tired as I was when I fell asleep. My camp was the same as I had left it and a sense of loneliness washed over me. I had no one. I had no family and no friends. Even my own kingdom didn't want me back. My name was cursed all across Erdas. I didn't even have Grahv anymore.

     I sat up with a stretch and thought about where I should go next. I knew that I needed to avoid towns and villages as much as possible. Avoid everyone, that was my new way of life. I would travel along back roads and trails. If I met someone I wouldn't talk to them and I would keep my head down. Avoid eye contact and I might survive. I stood to get ready for the day. I went to the stream to wash my face, staring back at me was my reflection. Something wasn't right, I stared for a moment trying to figure out what was wrong. My eyes, they were yellow! I jumped back in fear. Gathering confidence I looked into the stream again and once more my yellow-green eyes stared back at me.

     In a panic I hurriedly packed my things and continued on my journey but my mind wondered back to my new eye color. Why had that happened? This wasn't normal. Eyes don't just change colors.

I walk along a mostly unused path for hours upon hours. I was in Nilo so there was the constant threat of some dangerous predator but I hadn't seen a soul all day. This just hammered in the fact that I was utterly alone in this world but I did my best to make the most of it.

Hours passed and finally I saw someone. Actually, two people traveling down the path. It was nice to see a little of humanity but I wouldn't talk to them for fear of them recognizing me as the Devourer. I continued down the path till they were practically next to me. "Nice day today, isn't it," one of the travelers casually stated.

I lifted my head a little to let them know I had heard, "Mhm," I mumbled scarcely loud enough for them to hear.

"Where are you heading, almost no one travels this road?" the other traveler asked.

I didn't know how to fudge my way through this question so I took my chances. I lifted my head to speak, "Oh, wherever, I don't really have a plan..." then I noticed the look in their eyes. Fear.

     I shouldn't have made eye contact. "Your eyes..." the first traveler trailed off, he was sweating in nervousness, "you're a demon!"

The two travelers ran away, I didn't follow. I felt hurt. I wasn't a demon, right? I did help start a war. I did send endless people to their untimely death. I betray Abeke. My war caused my sister's death. Maybe I was a demon. Maybe now I just gained the looks of one too. Tears started to fall from my now unnaturally colored eyes. Life hurt. I have no one, I'm alone.

I continued along the trail, slower this time with a painful soul. I have nothing to live for, maybe I should... no. That's never an answer. I could make my way in the world. I would make up for my wrong deeds. I didn't need to be a king or have a spirit animal to do any of that. This demon has a purpose.

Days passed, weeks passed. I traveled the same road, avoiding people as much as possible. My idea stuck with me, I needed to find a way to prove myself. It wasn't until I looked into the water at my reflection that the idea came to me. My reflection started back at me, slitted, yellow-green eyes, unnatural pointy teeth, and now scales that dotted my neck and shoulders. There's bound to be others like me. Ex Conquers who's spirit animals wouldn't come out of passive till one day they appeared as a part of them. There had to be others and I would find them. Together we could form our own affiliation. We would work with the Greencloaks, not against them. We could help save Erdas from it's next enemy. We could change for the better. Maybe people would view us differently, we wouldn't have to be demons anymore. We wouldn't have to stay in the shadows.

We could be Redcloaks...