The dragon looked at her confused as if it didn't know what a "sister" was. She explained, "She's basically my family, our mom and dad don't live with us." She realized the dragon only understands simple sentences and she's only adding to the confusion. It stepped back and looked as if it was trying to suppress something, it then let out a small growl. Was it trying to communicate with her? She wished she could understand it very much, she was able to understand small words of her pet dragon's language, but this one's growl was so untranslatable. After looking at her puzzled the dragon started swaying its claw on the ground, when it was done writing it said in fine calligraphy, "Bugs." She gasped, "That must be your name!" The dragon was trying to smile at her making her smile a bit back, she then looked at her watch, "Oh dear, I have to leave! My shift ended two minutes ago and my sister is probably waiting for me." The dragon's smile dropped and moved out of the way for her to leave, she patted the dragon's nose, "It's okay, I can come back tomorrow and bring you more food." The creature blinked slowly as if to say it understood before she walked out of the cave and out of the forest.
When she left the forest and was walking through the halls of the apartment complex she realized how welcoming the mushrooms, the colorful leaves, and pine cones were compared to the men yelling, the cobwebs, the crumbling building, and the homeless people harassing them for money. She wanted more than anything to be able to afford a better place for her and her sister to live in, the hood was not a good place to spend your childhood.
She unlocked the door and Leigha, her sister, ran up to her and pulled her in a hug, "I missed you! I thought one of the weirdos in this place got you!" Nur closed the door behind her and said, "I got something new for us to try for lunch." She took the goose out of her bag and placed it on the table. Her sister cocked her head, "What is it?" Nur responded simply, "Goose, try it you'll like it." Since they were both used to eating raw meat, they started eating at the bird, Leigha clearly liked it.
After lunch, she got on her laptop and started looked for the date of when her sister would meet her teacher. Nur managed to get her a scholarship at the same school she went to, St. Peters. When she opened up the email she saw that they would go meet her teacher in a week, she was glad that her sister would be able to turn her life around, and maybe become more human. Yet she was scared that her sister would let it leak that she was a shadow demon, she's only four and little kids aren't that good at keeping secrets. All she wanted to do was protect her, and not many people would accept the fact that she's from hell.
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The Unfortunate
Fantasy(This story is co-written by @insane-artist01) Nur and Bugs are two unhuman girls trying to fit in with society. Bugs is a human cursed to have features of an animal, while Nur is a shadow demon that ran away from her family.
