I turned the page of the book I was reading for the past couple hours about some potion making. After my adventure in another world all I wanted to do is relax and catch up on some reading, that was a few days ago and since then Tia showed me some surprises that she hasn’t told me.

For one there were still hunters in the world, very few and far between but Lu and Tia kept the hunters going for this long and I wouldn’t lie I felt a little touch about this. Sure the numbers are under five and mostly they are sorta monster/ bounty hunters but with fewer monsters the better, don’t want what happened in Yharnam to happen here. So far I haven’t seen them, due to the fact that I put up a bounty board up and take jobs from others at times, but hey that’s the life of a Hunter.

Kaley adjusted to her new life pretty well, other then the whole magic is a real thing, she got a job on Sweet Apple Acres as a farm hand, both she and Applejack were happy about it. For Kaley, it was something normal and Applejack that she has some help around the farm that only two people worked on it, which was odd and dumb for only two people there.

I closed the book and walked over the shelf to put it back, as I did I saw a small box sitting on the shelf. I took it and looked at it remembering what it was.

“Oh,” was all I said as a memory of what it came back to me. I took it and went out of the door. It was sunny out and warm due to what I was wearing but I did care, I looked around and saw RD on and low cloud napping. I went underneath it and looked up.

“Oi! Rainbow you awake?!” I yelled up. Silence followed after that so I yelled up again, the same result. Frowning I jumped up and grabbed the cloud with my hands, how did I grab a cloud? That’s for me to know and you to not know. This shook Rainbow awake and stared at me.

“What the fuck!” she yelled at me. I rolled my eyes at her.

“Next time when someone calls out, answer them. Now where’s Discord?” I asked her.

“He’s… with Fluttershy,” she said. I nodded and dropped back down to the ground and headed that way.

It took me a few minutes but I finally got to the cottage, I saw animals minding their business until I got close, they tensed up and ran into their homes. I shook my head at this and continued on. I got to the door and knocked, I looked around and saw Harry staring at me. I waved at him but he backed off. I sighed and heard the door open.

“Oh, hello Jace what brings you here?” Fluttershy asked. I gave her a smile.

“Hello Fluttershy, may I ask if Discord is in?” I asked her.

“Oh yes, he’s helping me with the animals do you need him?” she asked.

“Yes, there’s… something I need to tell him.” I said to her. She nodded and let me in, I walked into her home and looked around. It was the same as in the show but a bit bigger. One thing stood out was a picture on the wall, one of two women. One was younger and looked like Fluttershy with a ribbon in her hair with a kitten in her arms and the other older smiling. They look like sisters.

“Would you like some tea?” she asked. I shook my head.

“No, thank you but I need to talk to Discord,” I told her. She nodded and went off to get him. I looked around before sitting down on the couch. I waited for a few minutes until Discord walked in. He looked like his old self from Yharnam other then he wore a green black t-shirt and jeans.

“Hey Jace, what brings you here?” he asked as Fluttershy walked in with a beaver. Said beaver saw me and started to squirm in her arms.

“Mr. beaver, what’s wrong with you? You’re never like this when others are over,” she said. She looked over at me and smiled sadly. “I’m sorry but it seems that Mr. beaver has a toothache and I hope to treat him here but now… I think I should head upstairs.”

She headed up the stairs with the beaver. I sighed and hung my head. “I suck with normal animals. They all hate me.”

“I’m the same way, either being a hunter or a chaotic being does that to you.” Discord said. He sat down in the chair beside me. I stared at him for a minute before speaking.

“Yeah, so listen I need to talk to you, about Yharnam,” I told him. He frowns and looked up at the stairs.

“I don’t want to talk about it with Fluttershy near so,” he waved his hand and I felt a shimmer of magic near the stairs. “There, now if she comes down something will pop in her head to distract her.”

I stared at him for a bit, figuring out how to word this. “I heard that Yharnam has recovered since the plague hit, do you… ever thought of going back?”

“... Sometimes but I don’t think I will.” he turned away as his eye glaze over in memory. “Too many bad memories.”

“I know, I have them too but,” I reach into my coat. “Some memories that need to be addressing.”

He looked over at the music box for a moment with wide eyes. He reaches out and took it in his hands. “Is… is this…” he asked as he opens it.

The music plays for the whole length of time. As it goes Discord stares at it and a tear falls from his eye. “Oh Violet, I’m so… so sorry.”

“There’s… something else I need to tell you, Gascoigne.” I told him. I shifted a bit and started telling him about that night.

Many years ago.

I walked through the old streets that were the shadow of its former self. I seen many that I helped in the past are now trying to kill me and more that have turned. I cut down the monsters as each one I told myself that they used to me, human.

Dark thoughts creep into my mind as I continued on, was this really worth it? They are all monsters now and the ones that aren’t are now hunting me or went mad. I thought about killing myself to end this pain I felt. But part of me wanted to keep going, to see if there’s anything I could do.

I continued walking until I heard the sound of… a music box? I followed the sound of it as I got saw a window of where it was coming from. I hesitated for a moment until I knocked on the window.

The music stopped and only silence followed.

“Who… are you?” a little girl asked through the window.

“I’m someone who heard the music and wondered where it was coming from,” I told her. My voice sounded dead and tired.

“I don’t know your voice, but I know that smell… are you a hunter?” she asked. I stared at the window, she can tell by the smell?

“Yes, I’m a hunter, how did you know by the smell?” I asked her.

“My daddy is also a hunter, but please can you do me a favor?” she asked. I paused.

“... Sure.”

“Please, can you look for my mum? Daddy never came back from the hunt, and she went to find him, but now she’s gone, too…” she told me. I didn’t say anything after that. “I’m all alone… and scared…”

I thought about it for some time, if her mum gone out into the streets to look for her husband then she’s most likely dead, but if there’s a chance…

“I will go look for your mum,” I told her.

“Really? Oh, thank you!” she said through the window. “My m-mum wears a red jewelled brooch,” she explains what she looks like and I nodded out of habit.

“Oh, I mustn't forget. If you find her, give her this music box.” The window opened and a box was pushed through. I took it and looked it over, it was a music box. “It plays one of daddy’s favorite songs. And when daddy forgets us we play it for him to remember us.”

I heard her chuckle a bit. “Mum so silly, running off without it.”

I took the box and opened it. I saw a note in it, I saw two names that stood out.

Violet and Gascoigne.

I made my way through the city, taking out more and more of the monsters along the way. Each time I did so I felt my soul being chip away bit by bit. I kept a lookout for the little girl's mum but so far I didn’t find her.

Shortly I came to a big clearing with small trees and what look like tombstones. As I walked in I heard the sound of something being hacked at. I turned and saw a towering man chopping up something on the ground. I move closer until I was close enough to recognise him.

“Gascoigne?” I said. He stopped chopping and stood there.

“...Beasts all over the shop…” he said. “... You’ll be one of them, sooner or later…”

He turned slowly and I saw that his eyes were wrapped up with something. He growled at me and lunged at me. I only had time to quickly jump back.

“Gascoigne! Stop! It’s me, Jace!” I yelled at him. He just yelled as he kept coming. He slashed at me a few times then switch to use his gun. He blew some of the tombstones as I moved quickly.

“Fine then,” I said as I pulled my own weapons out, my cane and pistol. I moved in close and started to slash at him. Dodging his axe I shot him in the shoulder which he grunts at me. I kept on him so he didn’t have time to react. I kicked him and he crashed into the tree. I heard him sniff something.

“...What’s that smell? The sweet blood. Oh, it sings to me. It’s enough to make a man sick…” he stood up and chuckled. He waved his hand and a blast of magic hits me on the side. How can he use magic? I looked up and saw dark tendrils around him, his chuckle turned into a mad laugh. He turned his axe into a two-handed one and charged at me.

We fought for a long time, spilling blood onto the ground, it was some sort of sick bloody dance. We kept going until I stabbed him and he dropped his axe and started to change. He turned into a beast, much taller than me, looking like a werewolf. He was on me in a second and started to toss me around like a rag doll. For a while, I couldn’t do anything against him. I started to lose focus from the blood lost. I saw him tower over me to finish it but something happened.

I started to hear the music. I turned and saw the music box open and playing the song. This made Gascoigne clench his head and scream in pain. I took this as an opening and pulled out some firebombs. I threw them at him and they set him on fire, he screamed as the fire hurts him. I charged at him and stabbed him in the chest and held my gun under his jaw.

“I’m sorry old friend,” I said as I pulled the trigger. The shot went through his head and he roared in pain. He fell over and started to dissolve into mist. I fell to one knee and started to breathe heave. I just killed my friend, one of my closest friends when I was with the hunters, what kind of world am I in?

I stood up and looked around, I saw something red up above on a roof. I made my way over to it and saw that it was a woman… with a big red jewelled brooch… oh.

I made my way back to the little girl's window with a heavy heart. How can I tell her that both her parents are dead? I made my way to the window and saw that it was still lit. I knocked on the window.

“Hello, mister hunter, still can’t find my mum,” she asked. I didn’t say anything for a moment as I pulled out the brooch.

“I’m… I’m sorry, so very sorry.” I said as I passed the brooch to her. I heard a gasp then the sound of crying.

“Mister hunter… was it really her?” she asked.

“... I’m sorry.”

“No...mummy...mummy…” she cried. I closed my eyes and clench my hand into a fist. I hated this. “Please don’t leave me alone…”

“... I won’t.” I said as I sat down under the window and listen to her cry.

I opened my eyes to see that I have passed out in front of the window of the little girl. I shook my head a bit.

“Hey, are you alright?” I asked her. No reply. “Hey.”

I looked over at the window and saw that it was open. I jumped up and looked around. Where is she?! I saw prints on the ground and saw them leading away, they were fresh so she didn’t leave that long. I followed them until I got to the sewers, then I heard screaming. I ran as fast as I can, through the tunnels until I saw the little girl, pink hair with a white ribbon standing in front of the biggest pig I have ever seen. It stared at the girl as it moved forward, not taking the chance I charge forward and brought my cane down into its head. With a twist, I poured my magic through my cane and burned the pig to a crisp. I turned to the little girl.

“What were you thinking! You could have died!” I yelled at her. I saw her crying, out of fear of the pig or me I didn’t know.

“I-I- I’m sorry, I just… I don’t know anymore.” she balled. “My mummy and daddy are dead and I- and I…” I sighed and kneeled down to her.

“Listen, I know how you feel, but this,” I waved around at the place. “Is not how to do things, your parents don’t want you to go and kill yourself, they want you to live.”

“But… but want do I do now?” she asked.

“I know of the place, I’ll take you there,” I told her. I picked her up and started to head to the chapel. “Can I ask you for your name? I’m Jace.”

“I’m…Anysae… Shy…” she said. Shy? Was she Fluttershy's great aunt? “Umm mister hunter, can we take my sister there as well?”

I paused for a moment. “Sure, what’s her name?

“S-Syeli.”

Now

I sat there staring at Discord. He didn’t say anything after what I just told him for a bit.

“They… they were alive? This whole time?” he asked me.

“Yeah, I took them to the chapel and left them there. I dropped by to check on them and I guess when the plague passed they left to come here.” I told him. He holds the music box for a bit.

“Can… can you leave me… I need to be alone,” he told me.

“Sure,” I said as I stood up. I looked over at the stairs and felt the magic disappeared. I walked out of the house and saw that it was raining. I headed back to town, I saw that the clouds only hung over Fluttershy’s house at the time. I made my way to the workshop saw that there’s a note. I took it and saw that it was a note from Tia. I opened it as and saw that it was her asking me if I was coming to the Gala in the coming months. Normally I would've tried to get out of it but a thought came to mind. I looked off in the distance towards the mountains.

“I think it’s time to see the Boreal Valley.”

Author's Notes:

This chapter was a bit inspired by This

Now! This is the start of a bit of an arc that I like to call the 'Legion arc' mostly due to the fact that most of the chapters has some of his characters and he helped write them.

it may take some time to get them out and stuff... days, weeks, months??

(Edit: Sorry for the Bold part, the music links not working, and/or the text centered itself, my bad :( it's fixed now)