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This is Chapter 5 of my Deltarune Human AU Spamtenna fancomic “Limited-Time Offer”, following the “big shot era” collaboration between Spamton and Tenna. The rest of the comic is currently hosted on AO3 as well as kofi as a free pdf. The rest of Chapter 5 is also below! Thank you for reading! [ Chapter 4 ]

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(part 6-7/?)

Pilot / Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5

Here come the all-star cast

this time in the pyroswap au: avid's turning and the secret fledgling club!

firstly, yes - he is still turned by shelby!

however, pyro being the big man in charge means that avid would 100% be kill-on-sight, no questions asked. so she turns him, immediately grabs his arm, and goes "TURN INTO A BAT NOW, WE'RE PRACTICING FLYING FOR A FEW HOURS."

by sheer luck and desperation, they actually manage to evade everyone's notice, and the secret new vampire remains secret for a lot longer!

that is, to everyone but scott, who had noticed shelby sneaking away and decided to follow her.

and then it went a little something like this:

thankfully, scott's desire to conspire against pyro outweighs his disdain for avid, though he's not exactly happy about it.

the three of them -- soon made four by drift -- tentatively form what shelby cheerfully decides to call 'the secret fledgling club', meeting every so often in an underground hideout to make sure avid doesn't get himself caught and killed.

they keep avid just fed enough that he doesn't move up to stage 2, teach him and drift ways to escape danger with their new powers, and keep each other updated on what's happening in their respective factions.

it starts as an obligation, but they each eventually find that they feel more... normal in these secret meetings than with anyone else in oakhurst.

after all, the castle isn't exactly the most comfortable atmosphere with scott and pyro's constant tension, neither for shelby nor for scott himself.

avid - though most of the townsfolk pretend they've been on his side the whole time have been much nicer to him - still can't help feeling isolated, even in the company of friendly faces.

drift feels more helpless than ever before, having been unable to protect even herself from being turned.

but when it's just the four of them, shelby feels as if she can breathe again. avid doesn't feel so alone anymore. drift feels the weight on her shoulders ease.

and scott - for just a moment - is able to loosen his grip on the facade he's maintained for as long as he can remember.

(up until now, he had believed that his and pyro's mutual antagonism was the most genuine intimacy he would ever get to have with anyone. but the more time he spends around these bumbling idiots... the less he really cares for that whole song and dance.)

(image transcripts below)

Humanized your leosagi