Yao stared
And stared
And stared.
What? What? What the Hell was going on?
He kept his shock off his face. This could be one of those shapeshifter monsters. Lure him and then eat him.
God, he hoped that didn't happen to Kiku, Leon, or Mei. They were so trusting and naive. They lacked any real world experience.
Wait, he was getting off track.
Back to this "human."
It was looking around wildly, sky blue eyes darting from him to look at the sky to the alley to the pod.
The same neon green goop dripped down it. It lifted its arm and seemed to stare in bewilderment at its arm. The pupils followed the small drips of goop, rolling them from its shirt to the dirt covered alley.
Yao sighed, he didn't want to deal with this, he just wanted to find his siblings and get out. He put his bat back on his back and started to inch out the alley.
This thing might look human, but you NEVER wanted to assume. That's how you got yourself killed.
Yao took a step back. His heel bonked into the wall, creating an echoing sound.
Shit!
It swung its eyes toward Yao. Yao stilled, holding his breathe and waiting.
..............
..............
Nothing happened. Yao let out his breathe and started to move back again.
"Wait! Do you know where I am?" it said, almost sounding like it was afraid.
Yao avoided its eyes. He didn't want to see if it actually was afraid. He couldn't let it stain his consciousness.
Yao ignored it.
"Wait, you can't just leave me here! Please don't go, I just want to get home!"
It jumped up, Yao noted that some more of the goop fell off, and ran forward.
Yao easily dodged the thing running toward him. It was slow, too slow.
Was it hum-dontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutit.
Yao stepped out of the dark alley, onto a decrepit street. Weeds were starting to know at the asphalt. Footprints, from God knows what, we're permanently left. Odd stains dotted the cheerful yellow lane lines.
It stared at Yao some more. Yao couldn't avoid its eyes.
Damnit!
This is why he never looked at the face of the human-like monsters! H-h-he just couldn't look away.
Especially not with this thing, that looked so lost and alone. It reminded Yao of a kitten. So helpless, so scared, so naive.
Damnit!
Why did he have to think of his siblings?!
He moved forward and grabbed Yao's red sleeve. Blue eyes moved down and reached soulful brown.
He relaxed and leaned a little on Yao.
"M-m-m-my name's Alfred. What's yours?"
Was he really going to do this?
Yao glanced up. He met a familiar sight of heartrending eyes.
All he could imagine was his sibling in this "Alfred's" place. And he resigned himself.
"Yao."
Hopefully, kindness really does go around.
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Love Through the Ages
FanficAlfred had always been a late bloomer. Through puberty to love, he was always last. None of it clicked. Love was disgusting and icky, why would anyone like it? All it did was cause heartbreak and sorrow. Maybe with some help he could learn the ins a...
