Zyo walked down the trashed street, making sure to stay under cover. He made sure to stay away from the acid puddles left from the last storm, and the mutated rats that scuttled through them. He shivered, clutching his jaket closer and adjusting his mask. With a deep breath he turned a corner and came to a large building. He stepped inside, his eyes glimmering with fear. "Dad?"he called into the darkness of the room that he had walked into. There was no reply. He ventured farther into the darkness. Suddenly he heard a low growl. He backed up. "Oh no.."a large dog padded out of the darkness, one of its eyes was gone and green drool dripped from its mouth. "H-hey... you're a good girl.. You remember me.. Right?" Zyo mumbled backing up a little more. The dog snarled. "Oh frick.."Zyo darted for the staircase that spiraled above his head. The dog ran after him. He ran as fast as he could, jumping very high to get to the stairs. The dog could not follow him, for the stairs were bathed in the light of a torch, and the light would kill the dog instantly. Zyo let out a breath of relief. "Poor Dyx! She was such a good dog before the explosion....." He suddenly heard a scream. "GRIFFIN!"he called, sprinting up the steps. He ran into a room, where his little brother Griffin was cornered by another dog. Zyo grabbed his lighter and set his Light Stick off. The dog squealed and ran away, avoiding the light. Zyo ran over to Griffin. "You ok?!"he asked. Griffin nodded. He helped him up, handing him one of the spare masks he had. Griffin put it on. "Did it storm again?"He asked, with terror in his voice. Zyo nodded. "It was a lot worse this time.. We gotta get out of here..."Zyo murmured. Griffin climbed into the folds in between his wings.
When the first storm had come, Zyo had been playing outside in his mothers rose garden. He had been a normal kid back then, no wings, not mutantated limbs, nothing. Everything was normal back then. But then the explosion happened. The government had been working on nuclear weapons, and then their ''experiment" blew up. At first, they were able to keep it quiet, it didn't really affect the village Zyo lived in, and everything seemed fine. And then the storm came. Everyone was doing normal things, when suddenly the sky started pouring acid. The acid seemed to mutate everything it touched, and turned normal animals into rabid super monsters. It could do that to humans too, though not as often. That's another reason that Zyo was not normal. Whenever he didn't try to control it, the monster would take control of him, and he'd become a demon he fought so hard to control. And the only thing that showed it when he did control was his wings.
Zyo helped Griffin escape, careful not to jump into the puddles. Zyo let Griffin get on his back like a piggy back ride and took to the sky, beating his wings to keep himself aloft. There was a large metal dome around the town, no one had ever escaped. But if Zyo didn't get Griffin out then eventually he'd become like the rest of the people who lived there. Griffin clung to his neck, careful not to choke him. Zyo searched once again for even a single crack in the wall. But there wasn't. "C'mon, you need sleep"Zyo said to Griffin going back down to the ground. "We'll find a way out, I promise.."
