Just a note so you don't get confused. This takes place in Edwards 3rd person, after Shale gave him directions to the town.
Once Edward left the red haired girls place he went in the direction that she gave him, walking until he found the dirt road. While walking, Edwards head filled with thoughts and questions about, well, everything. 'That girl was really, um, not nice but not mean. She showed me where the place where more people live-what's it called? Um, a town! Right, that's where she said I could get someone to help me. But why didn't she want to help me? She called me something, what was it? I don't think it was very nice. But I need to find that town to help my other friends in the tubes, are they my friends?'
After that last thought, his head started to hurt again. It was dull enough to ignore but he took a moment to lean against a tree and wait for his mind to clear. These headaches weren't as annoying as they were confusing. He couldn't figure out what triggered them, and whatever it triggered didn't feel like pain. It was more similar to a tugging motion. To take his though of it he went back to looking at his surroundings.
'Tree, trees, trees make locos, no-that's not right.' He frowned to himself at the though of logs and locos in the same sentence, though for the life of him he couldn't understand why. Occasionally, he's turn around to see in the red-haired girl was following him. Each time he saw nothing, but he did manage to get a glimpse of an owl at one point.
He was looking up, trying to spot the sky through the trees. It felt new and exiting to him, being able to walk around on his own. He was starting to get lost on his tangent when he spotted the owl. It was perched on the arm of a pine tree, preening it's feathers. He took a moment to admire the avian when it let out a surprising hoot. The noise shocked him and he ended up falling on his rear. When he looked back up he didn't see the owl.
The mental tugging feeling came back again. Now, for whatever reason, he expected a fog to start rolling in from nowhere. He shook the dust of himself and kept walking. The air started to cool and he started to shiver. Looking back up to the sky he saw the sky turn a mix of yellow, dark amber and purple. For a moment he forgot his cold and just stared up at the sky. Then he noticed dark shadows at the end of the bright colours, reminding him of his mission.
'Help, get help, don't stop-keep going. I can do this' Soon he found the dirt road and started running down the path. When he started to see light breaking through the trees he knew he was close. The trees opened up and he could see the houses and shops of the small town the girl mentioned. Smiling to himself he had to remember to thank her if he ever found her again. He stepped out of the forest and took in all the new sights. This town was so much more different than the forest he woke up in.
Edward started to walk towards the small town while his mind wandered again. 'Different, this looks really different. Is different good? I guess, some-ish? No color though, all dull, boring. The forest smelled better to. Smelled different to, but nicer. Where are the people? Don't people live in houses, but I don't live in a house? But am I a person? I don't think so.' Unfortunately, while deep in though he passed through a road without knowing and a car happened to be passing through at a very high speed. Edward didn't notice it until he heard the loud honking noise and the passengers screaming. Immediately he ran out of the way but ended up tripping on the sidewalk and scraping his arms. While sitting up the passengers of the car stepped out, angrily yelling at each other for not paying attention.
Three men stepped out of the car, each of them dressed in black jackets. Once they got out two of them started to cuss at each other while one checked the front of the car. During all this Edward just stood there, confused. But when he got to his feet, that's when he finally gained the trios attention. Each of them were silenced for an awkward minute until Edward broke the silence.
"Um, hello. My name is Edward and, uh, I need your help pl-"
"What the hell is wrong with you?
Edward looked genuinely confused. "Umm, what do you mean?"
Each of the guys looked at him like he was crazy. "You freakin skin is grey!? What are you on man!"
"I'm not high! I'm standing on the ground, and could you just listen to me! My friends are trapped in these glass tubes and I'm the only one who managed to escape but I think whoever put me in there took away my memories and I need someone to help me rescue them or they might die!"
Edward yelled at each of the guys who then looked at each other- and started to laugh. "Hahahahaha-oh man-hahaha, what the hell are you on dude?! Seriously, you must be trippin' balls now!"
Edward are more confused than ever now. He felt sad, angry, insulted, and probably something else he couldn't name. 'Didn't they know I'm serious? Why would I even make something like that up?'
One of the boys managed to stop laughing and placed a hand on Edwards shoulder. "Listen, one druggie to another, please tell me you've got a shot of whatever your on man! Hell, we'll even tip you our stores just tell us who gave you th-"
"WILL YOU SHUT UP!" Edward threw the other boys arm of his shoulder. "If you won't help me then I'll find someone else!"
And with that he started sprinting away from the streets and towards whatever direction he happened to be heading. One of the guys tried to catch him and grab his arm but Edward shoved him to the ground with a surprising amount of force. The boy skidded across the ground while his friends ran ahead trying to catch him. While running, he tried to lose them in an alleyway but ended up being cornered. Both of the boys telling him to 'spill the goods', whatever that ment.
Somewhere around this time it started to rain but he just ignored it. Edward pressed himself into the corner trying to look as small as possible. "Please, if you don't want to help then just leave me alone."
"Just give us the name of the dealer and then we'll leave you alone. So who is it? Rave, Maxwell? C'mon, spill it!" One of the boys who had tried to get closer. Edward snapped his eyes closed, not knowing any of the people he mentioned. He started to shake his shoulders angrily. "Dammit, tell us who it was!" He raised his arm, about to slap him.
"I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE!" Suddenly, the boy felt a sharp pain in his middle and kneeled over a second later. Edward, scared, had thrown a punch directly towards his stomach and knocked all the air out of his lungs. Edward and the remaining boys eyes went wide. Both gangster looked shocked.
"W- what the hell man? What are you!" Again, Edwards mind went into overdrive and he sprinted back out of the alley way. Now the rain started to fall heavily and he finally noticed it soaking his frame and new pants. He felt tired but he kept running until he leaned against the side of a building with a small overhanging cloth keeping a small set of tables and chairs dry.
He took a moment to catch his breath and try to shake some water out of his hair when a woman with blond hair and a waitress outfit noticed him and started yelling at him. "Hey! We don't give handouts, get of our property! Shoo, shoo!"
Edward just stood there, feeling tired and saddened. Couldn't she see that he was exhausted? "Please, just let m-"
The lady just rolled her eyes and before he could finish explaining she pushed him back out into the rain. "Just get out of here. I don't want to clean of these things again." She turned her back and started wiping down the tables. He turned and started walking, looking back to see if the lady would change her mind. She didn't.
'Why are the people here so mean? They ask me weird thing, they don't let me rest. Is this why the red haired girl didn't want to live with other people? I wouldn't either if they were all like that. But I need to get out of the rain. Rain, red hair, water, lots of water, steam, red is fire and vain, so red and water makes steam? No, fire and water.' Again while walking he wandered back into a alley where, to his luck, there were no other people. There were a couple old cardboard boxes that could make a good shelter so he tried to stack them around him. Afterwards he managed to block out most of the rain and it was almost impossible to see his dark body. The only downside was that his pants were still a little wet but that didn't bother him.
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When Edward woke, the rain had finally stopped and the morning sun had evaporated most of the water but his pants were still damp. Shaking his head to try and clear out the fog and water from his head he noticed the sound of footsteps in puddles.
"Are you sure this is the right way? I've heard some of the boys talkin-"
"Oh shut up. Whatever's in this alley we can take it."
At the sound of more voices Edward reflexively tried to shrink back into his box fort. The voices were male, but also much higher pitched than the older boys that chased him. Still, this time he decided not to try and ask them out in the open. They might try to chase him again for, what was it, 'the goods'? Whatever that meant. So instead he pushed out some of his boxes, decided to try and call out to them. Hoping they were nicer people.
"H-hello?"
Immediately, each of the boys whipped towards the sound. The biggest one walked infront of the other two and yelled. "Yo, who's there! C'mon out man, we don't want trouble!"
This was mostly a show of bravado but Edward didn't know that. "Um, I don't think you want that." He tried to poke his head out but he knocked of one of the boxes and exposed part of his face. One of the boys freaked out when he saw his unnatural skin tone.
"What was that thing?"
He shrunk back into his corner. He didn't want to show more of himself with there reaction.
"How the hell should I know!"
One of the boys moved past the biggest of the three and tried to inch closer to the box. His friends grabbed his sleeve and hissed in his ear.
"What are you doing? We don't know what's down there!"
He just rolled his eyes. "Then let's get a better look!" He started walking towards Edwards hiding spot, noting the pile of boxes.
"Hey, you in there? I'm not gonna hurt you. Promise."
Edward was surprised by the boys kindness. He didn't know how to react. 'Maybe he is nice. But I don't think he will help me. Maybe I could go back to the girl? And his friends might be kind of mean.'
"My name i-is Edward. Who are you?" He decided to open his eyes to try and look at the boy. He had black hair like himself but it was shorter, with a cleaner cut.
The boy smiled and reached out to him. "Heya, I'm-"
He was about to say his name when the the biggest of the boys suddenly fell onto a wall and knocked his head into wall. Edward couldn't see what happened but he definitely heard who it was.
"If you don't want to end up like your friend then I'll give you a chance to leave."
Fire, no, red girl? Why is she here? Did she do something? What's happening, is she here for me? Where are the boys? Did she make them go away? But they were my friends, well, not really. But I liked them, they weren't mean. Is red girl mean? Um, sort of? She didn't like my hug. So is she going to help me now? Why did she change her mind?
At this moment, both Shale and Edwards shared the same though. 'What are we going to do now?'
Ahhh, my mind died halfway through this so I ran out if ideas. Also, I'f you didn't read the notice, I'll be gone on a Vacation to the Philippines for three weeks. So yea, I'm about to go now as I'm writing this and well. Bye =)
