~~Scarlet's Point of view~~
the streets are empty, the houses seem like they're no longer inhabited and there's no sound. "What the fuck did I miss.." I stammered, looking around. I rub my eyes to see clearer, as I just woke up, having watery eyes. I sniff the air and as I do I can smell it's different. "What's this." Sniffing one more and continue my walk. This isn't fresh air. I thought by myself, eyeing a store. I walk in and see it's robbed(?) clean. I walk through the whole store and only find a bottle of water and a pack of crackers. I take a sip and it tastes normal so I take it with me. The crackers seem unopened so decided to take them with me as well. As I walk out of the store a bird falls down from the sky. I look at it and see it's dead. I sigh and continue walking down the street. I eye a school, I see lights far inside of it and decide to head towards it. I grab a branch that's just outside of the school, hitting it on the ground to see if it's strong enough. It is. I head inside and take steps as small as I can so I don't make any noises. I walk towards the light and hide behind a wall. But then out of no where, a hand forms around my waist and other hand on my mouth, pulling me backwards. I try to step on his feet but not having shoes didn't help. I look backwards and see someone familiar. "Naoki!" He shushes me and hugs me. "I missed you." I whisper and he smiles. "Have you been here long?" he asks, looking at me. "Nope I just got here." I could see the surprise in his eyes. "Huh?" "Are you okay? Did you come from outside???" I nod. "The state, maybe even the world is hit by an apocalypse and due to that there's high radioactivity outside. People get sick or even burn away just from the air. The school is clean but even I can't get closer then this to the door." Realisation hit me as I remember the smell outside. "I already thought it smelled different. Are there more people here?" I ask but he shakes his head. "I rushed my way here before it hit. I just stayed here I haven't been further then this so I really don't know." I nod and hug him again. He hugs me back. "I can check if there's anyone around since I guess I'm fine in all of the air." I suggest but he shakes his head. "Take me with you. We'll just have to take this way." He points into the direction of where he came from. I nod and put him on my back. He climbs up a little so he's on top of my head. "You still weight nothing at all." I walk through the hallway he told me to go and look around for any sign of life. So far, we find nothing. "Well I'm not a normal kid so there's no surprise there." He giggles.
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"Stop it!!!!" I screamed trying to get out of this torture. They grabbed a needle and held it close to my eye. "Get the fuckaway from me!" I scream, struggling more. Some men grabbed me and keeps me intoplace. The one with the needle now pushed it inside my eye. I let out a screamas liquid goes into my eye from the needle. They take it out and let me go. Nowthey grab some sort of tazer and uses it on me. A big shock goes through mybody and I scream it out from pain. They used everything they had. Tazers.Whips, knifes, anything they could find to hurt me. Sometimes they'd even rapeme. They untie me after a while from the ropes and throw me outside of thedoor, still being inside of the building just out of that room. They lock thedoor behind me and I make my way through the building. This, just repeats everyday what seemed to last thousands of years. Until some day. I scoffed throughthe building after the usual torture. I've got used to it so there's no longerpain. Then I hear screams. The voices are familiar. The screams are from theguys that's been torturing me. I quickly made my way to where the screams arecoming from. There's a blood trail into the hallway and I follow it. There theywere. Some were lifelessly on the ground and 2 others held something. I moved abit to the side to see what it is. It's a boy. The boy looks... weird, but I feltthe urge to protect him. I quietly grab a piece of broken glass that was on theground and made my way towards them, not having shoes helped me well to bequiet. I now Jump on one of their backs, of surprise they dropped the boy. Istabbed the piece of glass in one of the guy's neck and the other just steppedback in fear. The boy jumps towards the other guy and hit into the guy's face,as far I can see he used his claws. I let go of the glass and let the guy fallon the ground, his life sucked out of him. I look at the boy who's still clawingthe other guy. "A-Are you okay?" I ask and he abruptly turns around, there's ascary look in his eyes and a dark glow around him I didn't notice before. "Whoare you." I ask and something in his eyes change. His hair colour becamelighter blue and the scary look disappeared. "I'm Naoki." He replies."Scarlet." I say and bend through my knees, wrapping my arms around my legs."You saved me." I say and he shakes his head in confusion. "You saved me." Ishake my head. "If it wasn't for you, I would have still been stuck in thishell hole. How did you get here?" I ask as he got up from the guy. "These guystook me here and I lost control. How about you? How did you get here?" He asks."They kidnapped me I guess. I don't know how long I've been here but it's beena while. My parents were killed by them. And they took me with them after."Naoki nods as if he understands. "They actually killed my parents as well." Hewalks towards the door that's been busted open. I get up and walk next to him."Guess we have something in common." He nods. "What happened to your eye by the way?" He asks. "They blinded me somehow." I reply. He jumps on top of myshoulder and grabs something out of his pocket. "Close your eye." I did as hetold me. He wraps something around my face and make sure it wont fall off by tying it up on the back. He gets off and I open my eye. I bring my hand towards my other eye and feel some sort of cloth around it. "It's an eyepatch. It was my dad's." I look at him, surprised by his gift. "Thank you Naoki." I smile and he returns the smile. "No problem." We now make our way out of this hell hole. Finally, the freedom I've been craving for.
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"If you go down the hall, there's a door to the I think, basement. I saw somelight flickering but I'm not sure if there's actually something." Naoki saysand points to the right. I nod and step towards the direction Naoki told mea bout. We walk past a classroom and in the corner of my eyes, I see a black shadow shifting to the other side of the classroom. I stopped walking and Naoki jumps off, on edge. "I felt something." Naoki says. I step towards theclassroom and see a figure in the corner. "Hello?" I walk towards it and hear ayip. I get closer and see what the figure is. It's a person with nine tails andfox ears. It's tails cover most of their body. "Are you okay?" I ask and smile."What's your name?" it's tails lowers slowly as it senses no danger. "Nero."They answer. "I'm scarlet! Nice to meet you." I smile and their right eye thatwas first red, turns yellow, just like the other and as it happens, they get upand smiles. Naoki now also steps into the classroom and gets behind Scarlet."Nothing wrong I see?" I shake my head and look at Nero. "Do you want to come with us explore?" Nero nods and walks past me towards the door of the classroom. "Wow." The moment he steps into the light, we can really see their tails right. It's looking so pretty. Irun up to Nero and grab a tail, rubbing it against my cheek. "So fluffy!" Nerojumps away from Scarlet in surprise and blushes brightly. "W-" Before Nero canfinish their word, light forms around them and Nero slowly begins to gets horter and fur is starting to show. Their before, human body now a fox bodyshines beautifully in the light. "Wow.." In fear, Nero sprints off. "W-wait! Naoki catch him!" Naoki nods and sprints after him, a dark glow starts formingaround him and his shoes started ripping as his hands and feet form claws. "Damn. He lost control." I sprint the other way, trying to find a shortcut. I see Neroand tackle them, holding them in my arms to break Nero's fall. Naoki caught upand started walking towards us, the look in his eyes changed and Nero shivered,feeling the danger as both his eyes are red.. I let go of Nero and walked towardsNaoki. Once he lifts his arm to claw at me, I hug him tightly, making him unable to move his arms. "Calm down Naoki. I only told you to catch him, not kill him you idiot." I sigh. The glow around him disappeared and his stance weakened. "Sorry." He exhales. I let go and smile. "Don't worry." I look backat Nero who's no longer shivering in fear. "Don't be scared okay?" One of theireyes turn yellow again and they nod. "Sorry Nero." Naoki bows. Nero walks closer to Naoki and rubs their head against him, their eyes yellow now. I smile and bend down holding one arm around my knees and rubbing Nero's head with my other hand. Naoki starts coughing."M-my skin burns!" I look at Naoki who's skin starts to get red. "Nero please get him away from here! You're faster! Get him to the classroom again!" Neronods and holds Naoki's shirt in their mouth, running off into the direction we came from. I quickly run into the other direction but see another shadow shiftin the corner of my eyes. I stop running and try to find it again. Before I knew, someone grabs me from behind. I let out a scream but quickly get somesort cloth into my mouth and my mouth gets taped shut. N-not again.. I thought by myself as I get dragged off.
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