Thread:Feed Her To The Wolves/@comment-34928186-20191112022657/@comment-36459171-20191115014052

Genji could walk in the sunlight unlike the others- it didn’t burn him with agonizing pain when it hit him. Instead, it was a relieving warmth, different from the cool nights he often spent with them. He tread through the forest with ease, his steps light and his movements precise. There was something that allowed him to move with unhuman agility and lightness- he could walk amongst these woods undetected for as long as he’d like. He believed it was due to his creature, who had referred to itself as Dragon’s Breath, that gave him this ability.

The human settlement was a small walk, one that he could’ve visited anytime, and yet up to this moment he’d normally steer clear of it. Something about it was familiar, like he’d been there before, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. He easily scaled a tree, his calloused fingers digging into the bark before perching on a sturdy branch, his gaze scanning over the others. Nothing about the humans seemed dangerous or life threatening, until two very specific folk caught his gaze.

A woman with black hair like a raven falling over her shoulders alongside a man with his emerald green eyes. Their faces... he’d seen them before. When he was a young child, too young to remember barely anything. It was them... the ones who had left him because of Dragon’s Breath. It wasn’t his fault. He couldn’t control it. And as his gaze scoured the others, more and more familiar people came into view: the kids who’d pick fun at him, the adults who’d give him skeptical and almost fearful looks when he started to get irritated. It was all coming back. And it fed his fire.

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Kars reluctantly followed his wife, wanting to just let her ramble on so they could return home. He feigned interest in the humans, giving occasional nods and ‘mhmms’. The humans were disgusting to him, he could never see beauty in them. He forever wondered how his wife could.

It all happened too fast. The man who had spotted them, the spear piercing through her chest, the blood seeping out. Kars, fueled with rage, let a snarl, knowing he couldn’t enter the sunlight, no matter how much he wished. Instead, with a glare enough to turn man to stone, he carefully hoisted Eurythmic into his arms and sprinted towards home, uncaring for the thorns and ivy that scratched at his pale skin.

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Genji had watched it take place. He almost pitied Kars, knowing the man would’ve slaughtered every being in the settlement within a blink of an eye. But that didn’t matter. What mattered was that Eurythmic- one of the closest things he had to family- was injured, attacked by the humans.

Leaping from his perch above, he fell silently onto the ground, the sun warm against his back. His movement caught the eye of others, and while kids simply gave dumbfounded looks, the adults knew who he was. He cared not for them, though, as they were humans no longer to him.

Dragon’s Breath hovered by his side, though Genji knew only he could see him. Dragon’s Breath wielded a katana, green flames licking the blade, a dragon’s head and wings on a scaly man’s body. No words passed his tongue for the Dragon to understand- soon humans were being sliced left and right. The lacerations almost looked oddly similar to his own, one that he hadn’t noticed until now. But he pushed the thought away, now was not the time for distractions.