a birds rebirth

the bloodied beginnings

Phoenix let out a muffled scream of pain as his scarred body was thrown to the ground. Having to pick himself up to throw himself back into the fight. His faded blue hair fell across his back. The muzzle screwed into his face zapped him as he messed with it just trying to get a good gasp of air. He grabbed the broken stone beside him and he threw it as hard as he could at the monster he was being forced to kill. He made a snarling sound as he ran up to the monster grabbing the weapon that was thrown out of his hand. He prepared to stab the being, murder and anger in his eyes. He plunged the weapon into the monster's chest. He left the weapon in the other's chest before taking the now bloodied weapon out of their chest. He breathed heavily as he stood over the slowly dying creature, he kicked it aside as he walked off the ring feeling his body ache and break every step he took.

He pulled out his medical supplies he had been stealing from other fighters. Slowly bandaging his wounds. He started looking at his leg wound seeing it still hasn't healed. He bandaged the wound back up tightly. He sat on the floor to the best of his abilities to tune everything out. He held his head with his hand as he felt his stomach growl. He thought to himself 'shit... why now do I have to get hungry? I'm going to have to try to pry this thing off enough to just eat...' he made a quiet groan as he got back up to find something to eat in his small pile of stolen items. He grabbed out something he found familiar, a half eaten sleeve of crackers. He started pulling the muzzle feeling the electric shocks as he pulled it out of his face just enough to get a few crackers into his mouth. Quickly letting it go of the mask, feeling it snap back onto his face. He did his best to chew without getting any more electric shocks. 'I hate this fucking muzzle...' he looked at the small pile of stolen items, all of them being contained in a cloak that once belonged to his lover. He moved the things off the cloak and he hugged it close to his chest. He felt himself start to cry as he started remembering his old life. He had flashbacks to times he had with casey. He felt tears and blood drip from his face. He didn't know how much more of the torture he could take. His body ached every moment he was awake and everyday he had to exert his body to its limits just to stay alive.

Two other fighters approached phoenix. The taller one picked up phoenix by the scruff of his shirt. "So this is the damn human who keeps winning fights?!" the shorter one barked out as phoenix started thrashing. "I guess. I bet you'll be a good punching bag." the taller fighter snarled in a raspy voice. Phoenix dropped the cloak as he grabbed the taller being's arm. He dug his nails into the yokais arm as he pried the muzzle off his face again. He spoke in a raspy grizzly voice. "If you know what's good for you. You will put me the fuck down." His tone was plagued with the pain from the muzzle shocking him. The yokai dropped phoenix, a sense of terror as the human before him let the muzzle snap back onto his face with a thud sound as it collided with him. He let go of the yokai and he wiped away any blood that dripped off his fingers. He glared at them with anger and hatred. The yokai slowly backed away as phoenix grabbed the cloak.

He wrapped it around himself as he fell to the ground and fell asleep. His mind formed a dream to comfort itself. He was in a room, stars along the ceiling and he had no pain. He looked around until his eyes landed on a figure. He looked at the figure for a moment with fear then it turned to pure joy. He ran up to the figure and held them. "C-casey!" He felt a rush of pure joy as he held the unmoving figure. He looked up at the figure's face, it was static, his mind couldn't remember his lover's face. He backed away from the figure seeing it slowly melt into a black goop creature. It let out a bellowing screech. The joy phoenix once felt quickly turned to fear. He started to step back as it began to approach him. It transformed into a beastly monster of black ink like goop and eyes. Every eye looking right at phoenix. He tripped on his feet falling back and the beast pounces onto him. It started to strangle phoenix with one of its clawed hands. He let out a scream then everything went black.

He awoke with a muffled screech.