The map I based this off of was by Flower of Laurelin on tumblr 

https://floweroflaurelin.tumblr.com/post/717589587757809664/behold-my-hand-drawn-map-of-empires-season-2

AND 194 READS- OMG, TY TY TY TY TY!!!! But I gave most of my thanks to EmberDragon34 who let me use their unused story, so tyyyyy!

Scar PoV

I'm not going to question why Shelby has life-like manikins in her attic. Very realistic life-like manikins. She told me to just tell the manikin our names. I will not question her. Or her her manikins. After doing so, the manikins basically turned into me and Cub. It was scary. Suddenly, I heard a 'pop'. And a 'kaboom'. And a 'whooosh'. That was probably what I was supposed to wait for. I sling Cub's unconscious vex body over my shoulder, go up to the roof, and start flying towards the rift. Five seconds later, an avian flies in, False probably, and unknowingly takes the very realistic life-like manikins of me and Cub I left behind. I couldn't tell if it was the wind, but I'm pretty sure Cub's hand was moving around my back. And he was groaning. 

I see Hermitopia, so I take a stop on top. I turn into my human form again, with Cub's body doing the same, its feeling nice to be a human again. The familiar polished stone under my black dress shoes felt cold, sending a shiver up my spine. Suddenly, Cub groaned again, so I set him down from my shoulder, seeing some color return to his pale face.

'Cubby?' I ask, unintentionally letting the nick name slip. I could feel my eyes get teary as I see him start to move. But what happened next was a blur...

'Scar?' He whispers, his eyes fluttering open. I stare. His deep green eyes looked tired as hell, while also being bright and energized. I feel tears come up to my eyes.

'Cub!' I cry as I embrace my friend into a crushing hug. 'Cub... You had no idea how much you scared me!'

'I'm sorry, I'm sorry!? But what are we doing in Empires? What even happened? The last thing I remember was-' He asked.

'THERE!!!' Fifteen people yelled at the same time.

'THERE THEY ARE!' Doc boomed. How!? Didn't Shelby and the others-

'What are you waiting for!? COME ON!' Gem screamed at me as she flew overhead, with Ollie and Martyn on her tail (Where did they come from?). I sigh as I once again feel the magic surge through my veins as I turn into vex form.

'Hold on' I say sternly to Cub. Most of his color returned, and he looks determined. He does the same as he tilts his head back as he turns smaller, and just simply vex. We smile at each other.

Now they have two gremlins on their trail.

'Ok, whats something that will keep them still?' I ask to Cub. 

'How about a nausea potion? That'll keep them still.' I nod, and I grab a potion from my inventory. 'And lets circle them too. That way the effects will stay with them, and not reach the others.

'Got it!' I say. I through the potion in, and we both start flying around them.  We start speeding faster and faster until the circle incasing the hermits was almost glowing. When most dropped unconscious, I started slowing and then-

'Ah!' I manage to get out, before Cub topples over me. This quite literally his the magic out of me, making me turn human.

'Sorry!' He quickly said,.I was going to tell him it was ok, but my eye's drifted over to the Hermits. It made me sad, almost, seeing them like this.

'Hey-' I started to say, but couldn't was cut off as I felt a sharp pain in my arm. I hiss in pain, but still turned around, and I saw Xisuma waking up, but everyone else was still out cold.

'I think the filters in his helmet must have blocked most of the potion!' Cub whispered. X was holding a bow, with thankfully only one arrow left in his shaft. I was going to turn vex again, but I couldn't. I was too tired from turning vex and human with little to no rest, and was hungry. Very hungry. When you put your cannibalistic urges of too long, they start to catch up with you...

'Scar?' Shelby and Cub ask in unison. I look at my hands to see I was paler than normal. I was also shaking a lot, and my hands were too. This can't be happening, not now!

'Scar, are you ok? Can you hear me?' Cub asked while walking over to me, and putting a hand on my shoulder. I shake my head, then nod. No, I'm not ok, yes, I can hear him. I only managed one word before giving up fighting, and giving into my urges.

'Blood' I whisper, then everything in my vision turn red and blue and black.

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Cub PoV

I have seen Scar do countless amounts of things, but not this. He was shaking violently, while also turning pale by the second. 

'Scar?' I say calmly. His head was tipped down, but when I said his name, he started slowly looking up and... His emerald eyes were now a vex-blue color. Instantly he tackled me to the ground. I flipped him over, so now he was on the ground, but he flipped me back over again. We kept going back and forth as Shelby squeaked, but not in fear, but from the blood. Blood? Ah yes, Scar must have bitten me.

'Oh crap' I thought to myself. Scar bit me...

I look down at the pressure I felt in my shoulder. It was Scar's head, sinking his teeth deeper and deeper into my shoulder blade. I look down, blood staining my wrinkled, white coat. I move my eyes to look up at Scar again. His eyes... it wasn't Scar anymore, but instead was the thing, the side of him, he had managed to contain for so long...

'Cub!' Shelby yelled. She couldn't tell what to do, not that I could blame her. Scar needed to eat someone. But, I couldn't tell her what to do. I saw black spots clouding my vision.

'Shelby,' I managed. 'Get help...'

Black.

Ahhhh, cringe is back. But alas, I only have so much time.

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