BW: Hello, again, people! This is just a revision of the first chapter of Odd's Return.
Odd ran, and ran and ran, till he was out of breath. Here he was, back in Baltimore, his home. His clothes he wore were the prison uniform from Abbott. Having escape off the island while having to fight a swarm of nightmarish and hellish creatures was one thing he still remembered; also having to make choices…of good and evil.
He kept walking along the dead quiet streets of Baltimore, but he had to be quick at times, because of the organization called The Foundation, was hot on him, since he was the Prime Target.
The boy kept going, till he reached his school…Kadic Academy. He went up and silently opened the door, going inside, seeing as it was dead quiet, just like the streets. Odd kept going, till he made it to his dorm. He walked and was careful not to wake Kiwi up, and then climbed into bed.
He slowly closed his eyes, going to sleep. Sleeping in a regular bed was way better than sleeping in a prison bed.
The sun rose up from the sky as Kiwi jumped on top of Ulrich's bed and began to lick his face. "Kiwi, no, stop!" said Ulrich, trying to get the small dog to stop his licking frenzy. He then got up to feed him, but stopped when he saw the lump underneath the covers of the other bed.
Ulrich thought he was dreaming, but was it real? Well, only one was to find out, he went up to the bed and removed the covers, seeing his friend, Odd Della Robbia! He opened his eyes and saw Ulrich once he cleared his vision.
"Welcome back, Odd," said Ulrich, with a smile.
Odd just said nothing but stay into his friend's eyes with an expression of anger. He got up and headed for the showers. His first day back at home was starting, but the evil was starting, too.
"And he hasn't said anything since this morning?" asked Aelita, taking a bite of her pancakes with syrup.
Ulrich nodded. "Yeah, and he was wearing these orange pants and white tank top with a number on it."
"Sounds like he was somewhere else," said Yumi.
"Yeah, but where?" asked Jeremy. The gang all looked at Odd, and then they saw Sissy head to them. But they didn't mind, since…well, this is a secret, but I'll tell you anyway, since I don't want to keep it to myself.
To make it short…Odd and Aelita are together and Jeremy and Sissy are together as a couple, too.
"So how is he?" asked Sissy, after giving Jeremy a hug.
"He's been like this all morning," said Aelita.
"Well, let's go try and talk to him?" asked Yumi.
They nodded and went to him, seeing him not eating, which surprised them, since he always ate a lot. "Hi, Odd," greeted Yumi. He looked at her, but said nothing, holding onto his glass of coffee.
"Say something," begged Sissy.
Odd's temper was starting to rise up as they kept at it with the questions, which he still didn't answer. Then, his hand holding the glass, clenched tight and fast, shattering the glass in his hands!
"Odd, you're hurt!" said Jeremy.
He looked at his cut hand, and then said to the genius. "I'm fine."
"C'mon, Odd, let's go to the infirmary, please?" asked Aelita, with her eyes begging.
Odd looked at her, remembering what her eyes always looked like. Even when he was in Abbott, on Carnate, he never forgot her face. "Sure," he said, going with them.
At the nurse's office, Dorothy put some peroxide on the cut and covered it with a band-aid. "Try and be more careful next time," she said to him.
"Fine," he said, and left the office, slamming the door.
"He's changed a lot," said Jeremy.
Ulrich nodded. "It's like he's a whole new person, no longer the Odd we once knew."
"He seems to get angry easily, more than becoming his funny self," said Yumi.
Dorothy then said to them. "How is he back?"
"I got up this morning to feed Kiwi, when I saw him underneath his own bed. Last night, everything was dead quiet in town, but he somehow managed to make to Kadic and go to his dorm," said Ulrich.
"I'll tell Mr. Delmas to keep watch on him," Dorothy said. "Now, go back to class."
So the gang left, going back to their usual spot under the tree outside. When they were outside, they saw Odd standing by himself in a corner, arms folded while leaning against the wall.
"He's got to snap out of this," said Sissy.
"What is he going through?" asked Jeremy.
"Probably troubles," said Aelita.
The gang all looked to see Jeremy go up to Odd, seeing that he would talk to him, but would it be friendly? "Odd? You okay?" asked Jeremy.
Odd said nothing to him, but look at him, seeing Jeremy give the peace sign to him. In his mind, Odd was thinking of his actions.
'Kill him, he's a filthy bastard!' said the voice in his head.
Odd clenched his fist as Jeremy continued to stare at him. "Odd, it's me Jeremy," said the blonde genius.
He didn't see anything in Jeremy, and then, before Jeremy could say another word, Odd pounced on him and began to throw a fury of punches at his face. The gang saw this and immediately ran to get him off.
Jeremy's face moved left and right, getting Odd's fists into his face. Ulrich pulled Odd off with a little help from Yumi, but it still wasn't enough, with Odd's inhuman strength. He popped Ulrich in the face, making him hit the ground, then did the same to Yumi and got up off of Jeremy.
His face was full of bruises and a little blood, but it wasn't anything too severe. Sissy and Aelita both helped him up; Ulrich and Yumi both got up off the floor. Ulrich felt something in his mouth, and spit out a tooth.
"My God, since when was Odd that strong?" asked Aelita.
"I have no idea," said Yumi.
During that time, they went back to the infirmary for the second time today; Dorothy cleaned them up and put band-aids, and they left, the bell just rang for their next class to go to.
After class, again, having to deal with Odd's temper, they went eat. In the cafeteria, they all ate, except for Odd.
"Odd, since when were you that strong?" asked Jeremy, who still had bruises on his face.
"Since I been weightlifting," said Odd.
"You lifted weights?" asked Ulrich.
Odd nodded, then looked back down at his food, pushing his tray forward, showing he wasn't hungry. Jeremy then took his food; the others looked at him, he laughed. "Can't let it go to waste," he said.
They all shook their head, smiling. Aelita then got up and went to go see her boyfriend. She went outside and saw him looking at a Rotttweiler, who was barking at him. When Odd walked forward, there was a vision.
A large man with three dogs was pointing a rifle at him. The dogs that were by his side had the body of a dog, but had no fur; just a human skull. "You can not escape," said the man.
Then, the vision disappeared. That was Copperfield, the hunter who hunted slaves. A lot was told about Copperfield, always sending his dogs to kill his quarry then keeping his bounty like they were trophies.
Odd stood on the same spot, not moving. Aelita came up and put a hand of his shoulder, making him loosen up. "Are you okay? You seem to be distracted by something?" she asked him.
"Things are slowly coming back," Odd said in a low voice.
"Things?" Aelita said. "What things?"
He didn't answer her and left, with her following him. Going on his way to meet Jim for Physical Education, he heard a woman.
"Help…help…he's cut me deep, so deep."
When Odd got close enough, another vision came to him, seeing another large man in a brown trench coat. He gave a wheezing laugh. "She looked so good when I cut, seeing her inner self," he said, as the body fell to the ground, in a pool of blood.
The vision continued, then disappeared in a flash. There, Odd stood, but also knew of the person he just saw…the Creeper, the pimp who was a legend on the streets of Baltimore, seen in the alleyways, tearing up women with loathing.
Odd felt a hand of his shoulder. "Odd, you okay?" asked Jim, the P.E. teacher.
He nodded, and went back to the other students, while they just looked at him; he looked back at them. The boy then went back to his routine of push-ups, even though he had way more muscle then Ulrich.
Hours later, Jim blew the whistle. "Okay, good for today! See you guys again tomorrow," he said, walked off the field.
Odd went to the bleachers, and then took a seat. He looked at his hands, the hands that pulverized Jeremy's face.
'Kill them all,' said the voice in his head, the evil side of him.
The boy looked back at them, seeing them talking. Odd got up and went to see them under their usual spot under the tree they always meet at. "Odd, you've been acting weird lately, are you sure you're fine?" asked Sissy.
He nodded, and they continued to talk, till they went back to their dorms. But Odd decided to take a walk for a while, to hopefully clear his mind of clutter inside his head. Oh, he remembered it all, having to meet Dr. Kiljoy, the person who ran the asylum on Carnate Island on the western part of the rock.
He was probably a malefactor, what Darcmon calls them, since they're her life's work; she's always kept special care of her specimens, but when her soldiers and Odd met, he was the one she was wanting.
But the evil on Carnate Island…would it come here to Baltimore?
His thoughts were interrupted by a roar, and then, he saw it. A red monstrosity charging at him, and before he could do anything, it knocked him to the ground with a slash of its bladed arm.
Odd got back up as the creature let out a loud roar, it's body bursting apart, show a crimson-red glow, making Odd lose his focus and blackout…
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