Title: Walk Away
Category: Cartoons » Hero: 108
Author: Cahaya Sidur
Language: English, Rating: Rated: K+
Genre: Friendship/Angst
Published: 02-04-14
Words: 2,547

Disclaimer: I do not own Hero: 108.

AN: Alternative ending to my other story: During the War. Not sure if this will have anything to do with my Percy Jackson + Hero 108 crossover...

Lin Chung let a sigh escape his lips as he turned restlessly. It had been a month, yet he could not get used to the fact that everything was dark when he opened his eyes.

He finally sat up and raked a hand through his hair, looking out of the small window, before stepping off the bed silently, and clumsily making his way to the bathroom, where, with the help of his Harmonic Energy, he grabbed a bottle of black hair dye, and walked over to the shower.

The blind teenager scrubbed his skin clean until it was red, and then washed his hair thoroughly, before dyeing it. The black soaked through to the roots, while the soap went down the drain.

Lin Chung then stepped out, walking over to his closet, and gently placed his hand on his clothes, feeling it change underneath him. Something he had learnt from Tien Kwan: Transformation.

He slipped on the shirt and jeans, before jamming his feet into his combat boots, which grew along with his feet. He smiled at the change from the normal shoes.

It had been a long time since he had worn those.

Moving surprisingly quickly and silently with his boots, he had got up and walked over to where he kept a bag, and dumped things inside of it, all the necessities, before taking everything else, heaving it into a large bag, and dragging the bag away.

A few miles away from Big Green, he burnt them, before leaving.

The next morning, Jumpy found him gone, his room empty.

The desk, which had once held countless sheets of paper, drawings, and pencils, was now sitting silently there. Sonia walked over to it and pulled the drawers out. Nothing.

The bed was made, the bedside table also empty. The wardrobe. Empty. The bathroom. Spotless and empty.

It was like Lin Chung didn't even exist.

A few years later, they discovered the world of the Greek Gods.

Two years after that, they learned about the Archais. The family who were the middle of both mortal, immortal, and spiritual trade. Legal trade, of course.

It had taken them one month to find out that who they thought was Lin Chung had actually been Forest Archais.

Soon, after a few heated arguments ('debates', as Zeus called them), they had finally agreed to let his family return from the dead, and the Archais joined the Olympians.

After a year, the enemy was successfully subdued. But that was when Forest went into a coma.

Ten years later, he woke once again, his sight restored, and lived with the Archais once again.

He never returned to the life that he had grown up with.

Instead, he independently worked. And that was both his protection and weakness.

Because, a day before his 28th birthday, he was found dead, with the letters 28 scrawled onto his back.

The man was hunted down the next day.

When asked why, his only answer was to put down his hood, revealing a familiar yet shocking face.

Because the one that they thought was Forest had not been Forest at all, but a spy.

The real one had been wandering from the age of seven, and was no longer the man that they had thought they knew. Only the Archais were completely comfortable with his return.

But Forest Hunter Achais was no longer the man that people knew.

And so, the next week, he left.