After Grey had finished I thought it over. How could he have done that to the other half breeds...And Dani...
Io snapped me out of my thoughts with a low rumble. Dani jumped in and was a wolf. Gray sat there calm. I stood up ready to help Dani if I could...But Io would easily kill us both if she wanted to.
"I-Io?..A-are you alright?" She asked in a shaky voice. "No!" Io screamed. "I'm sorry, my temper is strong, I must leave before I cause any harm. I'll be back by morning, if that's fine." She said running.
I watched her fly away into the night. "We should get some sleep.." I said moving over to my corner. Asuka mumbled in agreement.
I laid down hoping sleep would come soon. I could hear Dani trying to comfort Gray. I could not blame Io for freaking out like that...I might have too if no one else was there.
"Hay Sky? What were you thiking about before...You know.." I looked over to see Ariel comming over. "What? You want another blast from the past?" I said jokingly.
"I-I was just wondering...But you don't have to say anything..." She said looking down. I looked around to see other staring. "Fine ya want ta know?" I said getting up and walking back over to the fire.
"Huh fine then I'll make it quick..."I glazed at the fire...Hearing the screams of Moon and the half breed dog fighting. The scare on my arm started to throb. "My house was burned by dog half breeds, they killed my brother and sister. My father I assume was killed in the fight as well. My mother took us to safety to live with humans..She soon died of having too much smoke in her lungs. The end." I said with a little bitterness in my voice. "Us? Who else was with you?" Lucy asked. "My brother Dusk." "I-is he...." Asuka trailed off. "Probably." I said and headed back to my corner and curled up.
Mother Father...Star Moon....Dusk...All of them dead.....
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PS Sky hates to talk about her past...
Hearing Gray's story blew me away. I had no idea the a human could become a halfer! Anger welled up inside me as I thought of the story. I also pitied him, but I quickly brushed that emotion away.
No, I thought, His actions were inexcusable, but not unexpected. CLAM DOWN IO!
No matter how hard I tried to suppress my feelings, a low rumbling growl filled the air. Quick as lightning, Dani morphed and was in front of Gray, her neck hair standing up in a defensive way. He just sat behind her as if welcoming fate.
As if she would be a match for me! I thought. I only need to change form, and swat you with my claws!
"I-Io," Asuka spoke up, "A-are you alright?"
"No!" I screeched, my voice cracking with emotion, "I'm sorry, my temper is strong, I must leave before I cause any harm. I'll be back by morning, if that's fine."
As I bolted for the entrance, I faintly heard Sky and Ariel wish me well. Fresh air slapped my face; instantaneously i transformed and leaped into the air, without looking back. I soared away, just a mass a scales, leathery skin, and seething anger.
Keep soaring Io, I thought, Seth! I'll find Seth! He'll calm me down, and I can talk to him about Harmony.
I passed countless hills covered with fluffy snow before landing in front of a large opening. My cave was big enough for two dragons.
"Seth!" I roared, "Seth, I need you!"
Must be sleeping, I thought to myself.
I sniffed the air, searching for his smell, but I only caught faint, stale traces.
"Seth..." my voice trailed away. He was not there.
I streaked out of the cavern and launched into the open air. Soaring in circles, I tried to locate my lover. My anger was replaced with worry, sadness, and anxiety. After hours of searching, I headed back to my new friends with tears bubbling from my eyes, rolling down my cheeks.
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The journey took a few hours so you guys need to fill in! (not that you wouldn't
) If you want to see pictures of Io (and later Seth) please visit my portfolio. I wanted to try to write an actual story based on community fusion and I wanted your permission to use your characters. maybe a manga... I also wanted to know if I could draw your characters, human and animal. (i'm SO bored)
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~~~Gray’s Perspective again. If you haven’t read the first part please do that before reading this!~~~
The bullet hit my shoulder and my nerves felt like a lightning bolt coursed through them. Pain. Pain exploded there, blinding pain, pain that brought me to my knees. A roar escaped my jaws instead of a scream and I turned around and ran. Nothing came to my mind except one thing, the pain. That was all that mattered. All that the world was was pain and I tried to escape it, fight it, anything that would just make it stop. I ran till I could not run anymore, I fell down on the ground and stayed there, my blood soaking the ground.
I heard a sound and I got up quickly, my breath in rugged gasps. A girl stepped out of the bushes her black short hair everywhere on her head, she was painting, she probably followed me. But nothing mattered except driving away pain, driving away everything. I got up using the last reserves of energy in me to attack this threat.
"Stop it!" she yelled, "You'll hurt yourself even more! I'm trying to help you!"
Her words didn't reach me, I charged at her. She did nothing to stop me, she just stared at me with determined eyes. My paw came down and she didn't even flinch, it hit her with an astounding force that flipped her face down into the ground. My other paw raked her back deeply, her skin tore in for long lines. She held in a scream and pulled and ripped at the grass in pain.
I staggered, suddenly feeling faint, I had lost too much blood and was passing out.
The world, the pain, blurred then all was black.
When I woke up I was human again. I could still feel the bear part of me tugging at the back of my mind but I blocked it. The pain in my shoulder wasn't as bad, more numb than anything. I heard the sound of a camp fire and turned my head toward the sound and I saw it and the girl before starring at me. With everything now swirling in my head I couldn't help noticing that everything was now sharper and my hearing and smell just noticeably better. I started to get up and the girl's voice interrupted me, "Lay back down, your shoulder isn't healed nearly enough for movement."
I looked at my shoulder, it was bandaged and treated. I glanced back at the girl and saw her eyes were still gazing at me, like they were seeing right through me. I ignored her request and started to get up again but before I could move another inch the girl changed into a wolf and stood over me, fangs bared.
"You will lie back down and do as I say or I will rip your throat out." she growled.
I nodded nervously and lay back down. So she was a half-breed, did she know who I was? Why did she help me after I attacked her? She sighed and was human again, she turned away from me and looked into the fire. I held back a gasp, around her back and waist, bandages were tied around her thickly and already bleeding through them was four long jagged lines.
"It's Gray right? Gray. The name suits you now, your hair's silver instead of black." she said to the fire, I stayed silent but she went on, "I've been hanging out here for awhile, and I've been helping out some half-breeds in need. I know what you've done, and I know what happened to you." she said, just staring into the flames, she was quiet for a moment then continued, "I don't care about what you've done, not to me or anybody else. What you were is long gone now; the light of all animals, moonlight has taken care of that. What and who you decide to be is up to you now. I can see your heart; it shows through your eyes. There is still hope for you yet."
She turned and smiled at me and that moment was the most beautiful thing in my whole life.
But deep in my heart I looked at the things I had done and they weighed down on me like nothing else in the world. I sank down to the depths in my soul, the pressure crushing me everywhere.
I finished explaining my past and was quiet again. Even after one whole year I still didn't forgive myself and I wouldn't blame them if they all didn't forgive me. Dani still acted like nothing happened, I always wondered if she really forgave me. But it didn't matter, what happened in the past could not be changed, what I was and did still haunted me.
I stood there looking at the astounded looks on all the half-breeds faces. I didn't care what they would do to me, I would deserve it all.
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Yay! It's all out! Gray's past is now here for all of you to enjoy. I hope I didn't disappoint you, you all seemed so eager to hear it...
I hope you’ve realized that what I’ve typed is not what Gray said to the group. He was just remembering what had happened. But he did say what he did and how he came to be a halfer.
~~~Gray~~~
"How is that possible!?" The words echoed throughout the whole cave, Dani shrugged, "Ummm...well-"
"I'll tell you," I said quietly and everyone looked at me in surprise, "You deserve to know what I've done," I closed my eyes and the memories raced in my mind, I began to explain.
-One Year Ago-
"Haha! Look at the animal!" My own laughter rang in my ears along with the laughter of the three other boys.
A deer-half breed was face down on the ground with scratches all over her body and blood matting her hair. She was trying to crawl away, her arms desperately dragging her body.
I grabbed another rock and threw it at her, or rather "it" to me. The rock hit her shoulder hard and she cried out in pain and stopped moving to hold her shoulder.
Half-breeds, to me they were scum, unfit to even exist, and I made sure they knew it. Half-animal? Just the word sounded disgusting. A human crossed with an animal? Repulsive.
The boys next to me, they weren't friends, just some people who happened to agree with me. Dad and Mom? They didn't care, they never cared. I was sick of them, my dads angry, drunken shouts and my moms crying. They were too absorbed with their own lives to care about their own child.
And so I was there, with a halfer twisting pathetically in the dirt.
"Get lost freak. I'm sure there's an empty cage in a pet shop somewhere for you to occupy." I turned and walked away, the three boys (I didn't even remember their names) snickering beside me and a ugly smirk on my face.
A whisper came from behind me, so quiet that I could barely hear it, "I...curse you."
I turned around, "Oh, you have something to say mongrel?"
She just stared at me coldly with her two brown eyes, in a way that made me shiver, "I curse you that you may know the pain that my kind have endured, may you feel the suffering felt with every tear that has been shed. In the light of all animals, may your true form show and never disapear again from your soul. I curse you..."
The words made the hairs on the back of my neck raise but I didn't show it. I walked over to her and grabbed her by her hair and lifted her head so that we were face to face. "Let me tell you something. You're nothing, you were a mistake of nature. So get off your high horse and go live your barbaric life in the wild." The steely look in her eyes disappeared and was replaced with a hopeless, despairing one. I got up and kicked her in the stomach, her breath whooshed out of her. I turned away and kept on walking, "...I curse...you..." she muttered over and over.
Two weeks passed and I already forgot the deer-girl, the three boys and I were wandering around. One of them had just got away with stealing his fathers gun and was brandishing it like a prize. They were discussing amongst themselves how they'd use it. I didn't care, they just choose to follow me, they were nothing to me.
It was a cloudy night, the moon had not shown itself at all. I looked up and a strong wind blew and the moon was revealed, full and shinning. As soon as it's pale light shown on me I felt as if I was encased in ice, as if I had been chilled right down to my heart. I felt my skin changing and getting bigger. My hair turned silver as if it had absorbed the moonlight and it sprouted all over me. I opened my mouth but it wasn't a mouth anymore, it was jaws with gleaming, sharp teeth. I tried to speak but all that came out was the roar of a beast.
I was a bear half-breed, I was what I despised. The words of the deer girl echoed in my head, "...may you know the pain my kind have endured..." I didn't know what to think, I was shocked, I felt like icy water was running in my veins instead of blood. I heard a movement behind me and I turned around, it was the three boys, now cowering in fear.
"Y-you animal, y-you disgusting f-freak," one of them stuttered, the boy with the gun raised it and pointed it at me. The shot was fired. I had become what I despised. "I curse you..."
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Phew, it's finally out, Gray's past and that was only the first part. Hope you liked it! I'll continue in the next post.
Io seemed to be fitting right in with the group, (to my relief after being so scared of her to start with!), and was busy going around asking everyone questions. I felt kind of bad for her. 398 years old...she must have seen her fair share of friends go on before her. I had always felt sorry for myself never really knowing my mother or father, but imagining seeing my friends dying of old age while I was still "young for my species", I would never be able to handle that! She must be a very strong person...
By the time I had finished that train of thought she was in front of me stooping down (I had forgotten to switch back to being human again) and said, "Hello there, you're Asuka right?" Shyly (as always!) I just nodded. If I'd have been in human form she'd have seen me blush. "Sky told me you were a foxcoon, how did that happen?" "W-well," I started nervously, "my mother was a fox, and father was a raccoon..." "Was?" she asked. I sighed, not because I was really that sad, but more because I hoped she wouldn't ask about the "rest" of my family. "Mother died soon after I was born and Father left when I was four and I haven't seen him since." "Oh," she was a bit taken back, "I'm sorry to hear that." She took a breath as if she was about to ask the next question, the one I dread, but instead she said, "I bet all of these other half-breeds are like family to you then huh? Good to meet you!" She walked away toward Gray who was standing silently like always. I knew for a fact that if I had been in human form my face would be flustered right then. Sure I thought it was nice to have new friends that I could relate with, but family? Would accepting my new friends as my family mean I was trying to replace Alex? I would never want that...but I couldn't help but wonder if this warm feeling I have when I travel with the other half-breeds is what it's like to have a full family. With just Alex and me, I always knew kind of what to expect. But with so many people, things can be unpredictable, new, exciting! Was this family?
Just then I heard something that caught my ear, "Well, Gray doesn't like to talk and he has a hard time forgiving himself," it was Dani. "Oh, and he wasn't born a half-breed." I think I stopped breathing for about a minute. What? How could he have not always been a half-breed? "What?" Dani asked, surprised by everyone's stunned faces. I remembered to breathe again and started, "H-how...?" Ariel interupted, seeing that I was going no where with what I had to say and asked on my behalf, "How is that possible!?"
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Yeah, that was kinda lame. Hope I did good setting you up luffysister! Don't keep us in the dark TOO long kay?
