[EARLY UPDATE!!]
A person with long braided gray-ish hair heaved heavily, eyes wild and panicked as they stared into Jace's brown eyes. Armen gasped when he saw the other half of their face. It was burned and scarred, and their eye was pure white.
His eyes darted to Drake's and Grayson's, who simply shrugged in response.

Was this person connected to Him?

The short girl blinked when the intial shock of her friend's appearance passed.
"Wh-What?! Why?!!" She asked, quickly heading over to the booth the group's bags were in and grabbing her satchel.
The rest followed suit, all mumbling worriedly to each other as they did so.
"They found us!! I- I don't know how or what gave us away, but they took Michael!!" The new person explained, hand running through their hair.
As the group continued to talk in a hurried panic, Drake, Rage, and everyone else just— watched. They were very, very confused, and looked among eachother in hope someone could figure out what's going on.

Once everyone had their backpacks, another figure came in, heaving just as the silver-haired stranger had. Her long black hair, highlighted with streaks of blue and purple, got in the way of her face. She huffed and blew it out of the way. "Oi, Salem!! Get your ass out here!! I can't fight all these Imperial Guards myself!"
As if to prove what she said was true, the sound of iron being drawn was heard outside, as well as a couple yells and commands. She growled in annoyance, her hand starting to glow brightly. Rage and Hollow felt a sense of familiarity run down their spine, the powerful feeling of elemental magic. Seeing each other react in such a way, their eyes widened as they glanced back at the hand.

Was this girl an Elemental? They made a mental note to tell Drake about this.

The gray-haired stranger, Salem, turned towards her. "Hold them off a little longer, Casey!!"
They quickly went past the bartender, who simply moved out of the way in fear, and opened the back door there. "Shelby, Kat, Will, Chass, we have to go!!"
As she watched each person pass and head outside, Mia quickly grabbed Shelby's arm before she could leave.
"What the hell is going on?!" She asked the question everyone in the Tavern was all thinking.
The ginger-haired girl smiled weakly. "Love to tell you what our cause is, but time seems to have eluded us."

That's all she got from her as Shelby got out of her grip and ran to follow the rest of her group. Only Jace and Salem stayed back, ready to help Casey in her battle against Imperial guards. The short girl suddenly held a silver dagger, eyes glistening bright like a flame, and charged outside. She yelled out profanities as she did, and if it weren't for how drastic the situation seemed to be, the group might have laughed then.

Salem, who brought out a wooden sword and raised it to the door, took a single glance at the group standing behind them and huffed. "You guys fighters?"
Drake, the one nearest to them, blinked in surprised but nodded. "Uh, yeah..?"
"Good," The silver-haired fighter cut him off. "Our cause may need you then. Remember this town if you're interested: Eelry. E-E-L-R-Y. Then, look for the blacksmith at the edge of the town."
Grayson raised a hand to stop them. "Wait—"

"You should also get the hell out of here, considering the treasure you have in your bag, Imperial traitor." Salem warned, glancing at the blonde for a moment.
Grayson's eyes widened, but before anyone else could ask anything else, they let out a yell and ran outside.
Not a moment too soon, an Imperial guard was thrown into the Tavern. His helmet flew askew, and both Drake and Grayson recognized that flash of dark blonde-ish hair.

Fucking Kristie.

Kristie hissed in pain, then looked up. It didn't take a long glance to flare up the Imperial Guard.
"You." He seethed, his eyes set on Drake.
The hybrid stepped back. Armen immediately pulled his brother away from the enraged Imperial. His head snapped towards the rest of the group.
"You're with them!!" He yells in anger, standing up. "All of you!! I'll—"
"DUCK!!" A girl's voice yelled, and as Kristie turned to face it, the poor lad didn't have time to process what to do.

A goddamned barstool came down on his head.

With that, he was out like a light. Jace now held two of the barstool's broken legs, laughing slightly as she tossed them aside. She looked up at them. "Seriously? You're still here?? Didn't Salem tell you to go?"
"Kristie!!" Another yell came from the doors of the Tavern, and Jace unsheathed her daggar again. It sounded alot like that other guard, Glen.
"Go go go!!" She exclaimed, stepping over the blonde Imperial Guard's body as she ran back outside.

Everyone else took that as a sign to listen to their advice, and booked it. As yells of fighting rang through the doors of the Tavern, the group ran past the bartender and out through the exit the others left through. After seeing no signs of the other group while they escaped through a hole in the walls of Alverton, and reuniting with their worried dog Wisp, Drake and the others knew that, the next time they met those kids, they were going to get them to answer all of their newly-found questions.

For now, the only thing the matters is finally getting to Drake and Armen's old home in one piece.
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[Silly little thing most likely irrelevant to the story but whatever--]
With everyone who had been in the bar suddenly up and gone, Benson stood up warily. He looked around.

Holy shit this place was trashed.

Tables were either broken or thrown aside, chairs and barstools that had been used as weapons were nothing more than mere fireplace fuel, and a couple alcoholic beverages had managed to stain the walls and litter glass across the floor. Benson paled, groaning in despair.

"Goddamnit, why does this ALWAYS happen on Thursdays.." He mumbles, just as his co-worker and best friend walked in.
"Hey Ben— oh holy shit." The dark-haired male wearing a sort of cherry-like beanie exclaimed. "Again? Seriously??"
"Shut the fuck up, Fluke." The tired bartender mumbled under his breath.

This is going to take a lot of time.
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((HAHAHA ANOTHER CHAPTER DONE IM ACTUALLY BEING PRODUCTIVE!! >v< MENTIONING Gamingerve31 'S OC Michael, AND FEATURING CallMeGirl_Write1 'S OC Casey, PLUS SALEM. AND HEEEYYYY A GLIMPSE OF KRISTIE AND [KINDA] GLEN XDD

And that silly little add-on with Benson and Fluke,it was just for fun if anyone remembers my old Cuphead OC askblog, which I doubt anyone does tbh :'DDD

Nevertheless, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter of OC mayhem! Considering the positive response from my Amino poll, I'll be working on a Haunted OCs fic soon!! In any case, That's all for now! I'll see you all in the next chapter! Peace!! =^v^=))