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Chapter 10 - But aren’t you a anarchist?

The wings are really poggers. He has decides while trying out flying. It took a few head-buts and falls to learn how to fly, but he got there.

He flys above L'manburg's east district. He watches people walking the roads and alleyways.

He has his hood and mask on since it's best to be though of as a vigilant than a normal citizen.

"Hey, bird boy!" Someone calls from the ground.

He looks down to see a cat hybrid.

"What you need neko!" He yells back.

"You know you shouldn't be flying around these parts. Some gang may shot you down!" The cat hybrid warns.

"I well aware of the risks of flying," He states, remembering the hybrids he has had to heal because of human indecency.

"If you end up dead on the news don't go crying to your mama!" The cat hybrid yells.

Someone that's not from the lower districts would be confused by the weird way people in the lower districts talk to each other as if their old friends, but the people from the lower districts know their all just trying to stay afloat and keep the unstable community afloat.

He flips the cat hybrid off in a lower district way of saying he's leaving. He flys around taking in the world under him.

This mist be how Angle feels.

He looks up at the sky seeing the clouds drift away on the sea of the sky. For once in all the time without Tubbo he feels a sense of protection from all that want to cause him harm. Safe in the protection of the clouds. The protection of the immortal sky.A deity that will protect its children in its clouds.

Wait he's going bird brain again.

He decides to go over to south L'manburg and look at the shops at line the district. He shots off toward the south district.

He flaps his wings hard trying to see how fast how fast he can go. He feels the wind smother his face. He has to repeatedly blink his eyes because of how dry they get.

He might want to invest in some goggles. That's good to know early on. Might help if he gets chased. He spots a good place to land. It's a little open spot surrounded by what seems to be abandoned apartment building. Red vines that look like the ones on the bench cover the buildings.

He lands seeing someone in the corner of his eye. The person just so happens to be TimeKeeper. A hero he was friends with back when he worked with heroes.

TimeKeeper is injured which is surprising since the hero usually doesn't fight villains. Tending to talk things out or get others to do the dirty work.

He decides it best to help TimeKeeper as the hero is known for letting people go if seen as not being a threat at the moment. Something that has given the time traveler good karma from villain and others.

He starts to walk over to TimeKeeper.

A perk he learned about being avian is the ability to change the sound of one's voices. A perk that he is going to be abusing.

"What is the beloved TimeKeeper doing here? Expressly injured." He taunted in a airy but ominous voice not unlike the whispers in the wind.

He stops in front of TimeKeeper. Kneeling down to be face to face with TimeKeeper.

"What's your name? Did we know each other?" TimeKeeper asks hopelessly, thinking they have forgot yet another person.

"That is not of importance. All that is a importance at this moment is if you want help or not." He states observing the injury.

Damn he sounds like a poet.

It looks to be a kind of spike had hit the man. It seems to not have been a ice spike as TimeKeepers shirt isn't wet so TimeKeeper must have fought a golem or someone with abilities like one.

"Yes please, if you would be so kind." Timekeeper answers.

"Then that is what I shall do." He acknowledges, putting his hands over the wounds.

The blood running back to its respective veins washes away the little bits of diamond left in TimeKeepers body.

"Eirene!" TimeKeeper exclaims.

He doesn't respond knowing that it would be a useless fight to try to convince TimeKeeper he is someone else.

Timekeeper was the one to give him the name Eitene after the Greek god of peace because of the peaceful state he puts people in while healing them.

"You know a lot of people miss you." TimeKeeper mutters in a soft voice.

"Not everyone, Dream don't nor the higher ups." He tells, knowing that TimeKeeper hasn't been a fan of Dream from before he was even in the picture.

"Dream is destined to be evil." TimeKeeper comments.

"Hearing that from a time traveler like you speaks volume." He remarks, remembering when TimeKeeper accidentally time tracked to after one of Dream's beating and was traumatized.

TimeKeeper never believed his 'I'm fine' remarks after that.

It isn't long till the only way to see that TimeKeeper was injured was that blood and holes in the man's cloak. Quite tactical considering the man's job is to travel through time.

"I see you've grown a pair of wings." TimeKeeper brings up killing the silence.

"Yah, the worst part is I had to find out ten minutes before by Drista while in a mall. Safe to say I ended up bleeding the fuck out in a alleyway." He whines remembering the pain the dirt caused.

"Drista's power can be like that and also was that the alleyway by Floral mall because it scared the police so much I thought they found Darkness or something." TimeKeeper pouts.

"Yah, that was me, sorry. He apologizes. It's weird to think I'm supposed to be the number one heroes kid but I'm hiding my hybrid origin from everyone like I'm a vigilant or lab experiment."

"Dream is no hero. He's a villain playing hero so he can get away with more." TimeKeeper snaps, having seen the atrocities Dream has done and got away with for being a hero.

"Say, what's the weird red vines on the buildings called. I remember them suddenly showing up on a bench I fell asleep on." He comments looking back at the crimson vines that swallow the building.

He's suddenly yanked and his head is snapped toward TimeKeeper. Timekeeper moves his hair away from his eyes.

"Your eyes aren't red. Your not affected. How's this possible!" TimeKeeper freaks out.

"What, what's wrong?" He spouts, getting freaked out by TimeKeepers reaction.

Timekeeper takes a deep breath in and out.

"Ok so, the vines are called the crimson vines. They are part of a god call The crimson egg from the exdee religion." TimeKeeper explains.

"Well I should get going. You still need to document whatever fight you were in and this interaction. Oh and tell them my name was Theseus. Don't want Sam yelling at me through the phone, again." He sputters, getting up to leave.

He hurry's off from the awkward situation. He goes to a alleyway plopping off his hood. He maneuvers his wings under his hoodie into the binder. The binder puts them in a really uncomfortable position.

He goes through the alleyways to the loud crowd that gets louder and louder the closer he gets. He slips into the crowd once arriving. No one noticing the new person walking amongst them.

He walks around looking for anything useful. He spots a sports store. He walks over walking in. He looks around trying to find any goggles that would work for flying.

With his luck he only finds childish swimming goggles. Though they are for adults. They look funky but he can hopefully use some duck tape, sanding paper, and paint to glam them up.

He got some spare cash from not being robbed by Dream and the massive tips Techno and Wilbur give him. So he buys the goggles then heads off to a art store he saw.

He rushes to the art store grabbing the materials he needs. When he's done he walks into a alleyway. Putting on his mask and hood he sets off to the sky.He shoves the bags in his jacket pocket after lift off.

He's surprised that no one noticed or cared about the two massive holes in the back of his jacket.

He flys peacefully in the direction of Logninshire but of course XD couldn't give him that. A crow flys a few feet away. Most likely one of Angles flock with how many the man has.

The crow caws at him before flying off in a hurry. For some reason (most likely his avian half) he understands the caw to some degree. He's pretty sure it said.

"There's another avian in L'manburg! Got to tell Dadza!"

He makes the decision to plummet down into a alley so he doesn't have to deal with 'Dadza' who is most likely Angle since the crow seemed to be surprised that the was a second avian instead of a third.

He hesitates before he catches himself before going head first into the ground. Only because Niki needs someone to work the night shit for her. Not because he wants to see Wilbur and Techno again.

He quickly hides his wings under his binder before taking off his hood and mask. He bocks it to the main road swerving through the alleyways.

He pops in some earbuds when he gets to the main road. He hopes that it will block out any chirps or caws. He really needs to research his kind. The only way he found out about different kinds of chirps is because he let out a happy chirp when he finally got the hang of flying.

He has a peaceful stroll before he feels something land on his shoulder. One of his ear buds being plucked out.

"Tommy!" He translates from a chirp.

He looks over to his shoulder to see a crow has perched on his shoulder. He has to gulp down a response in whatever bird language is called.

"You little shit! Why'd you take out my ear bud!" He pouts in a whisper to not draw attention.

"Sorry but I really wanted to tell you something!" The crow caws as if talking to a person that can understand it.

Of course he can but the crow shouldn't know that.

"Aw look at you. I can stay mad at you little guy." He coos fondly, giving the bird little head rubs.

"Jet saw a avian that wasn't Dadza in L'manburg!" The crow chirps happily from the rubs and excited to meet the avian.

He almost breaks his act just to see the joy on the little birds face but he pushes it down.

"Wow very interesting little little bird." He mocks as if he doesn't understand what the crow is saying.

"It is very interesting because it will be the the first avian Dadza will see since his parents died!" The small bird caws.

"Mmhmm. He hums continuing to fake ignorance. Well little guy, I have to go home and do stuff so you go back to Big A and I'll see you next time."

He sous the pesky crow off while putting his ear bud back in. He heads off to the tube line fighting down his itch to just fly home.

When he finally gets home he looks at all the scattered pieces of trash and clothes covering the ground. He starts cleaning up the place without thinking. Maybe his instinct can do a little good.

Back in south L'manburg crimson vines slither down old apartment building slowly spreading as a time traveler reports their findings to a group set on riding their city of these vines.

The time traveler especially tells the group about the boy amoun to the parasitic gods control.

The god does not like what it hears. As it does not want the group to use it's dear Elder god when they are at their weakest state.

A state where they don't remember themselves. A state without their knowledge of being an Eldritch god.

A state of ignorance.