The Swan's Song.

Chapter 2

"After everything that you did to me..." Muttered Swan. Izzy looked through the glass of the interrogation room, completely drawn in to the conversation taking place.

The room was collectively silent, with the silence being so quiet that one might be able to hear fur shedding. She still couldn't believe it.

Their General, the one who had led them consistently for the past five years against the humans had just offered one a place within the APG.

And that place, of all offered locations, was within the base that they were assigned to. Brixley offered to keep him on site.

And now, she could see that Swan was beyond livid. She felt the silent rage damn rear flowing from the boy as he sat across from Brixley, facing them with a look of surprised malice.

The rest of Sako, as well as an inordinately high number of furs were squashed in the room. The heat of the location should have felt great for a cold blooded anthro such as her, but even now, it felt a little too warm.

"...after everything that has happened, you expect me to just forget all of it and come running to you with open arms?" Swans voice was full of venom. It dropped with each word as he spoke truth.

Izzy truly did not understand Brixley's reasoning for the offer. Nothing like this had ever been done before. Izzy was certain that Brixley must have a reasoning for it.

"Callie... why would she do this?" Asked Izzy, quietly. She looked over to the shark, whose green eyes were laser focused on Swan. She didn't even hear or register the words spoken. Izzy could practically see the contempt that her squad leader held for the human.

Izzy, and everyone else, was there the day that they had lost two of their squad members to the humans. Katrina Vasquez and Sabrina Masters. A red fox and a blue dragon, respectively. Izzy knew them well. They all did. Sako Squad had been formed and stuck together for the entirety of their time fighting. They were great friends.

They never lost a fight. They never lost a squadmate. Nobody had ever been hit.

All of that changed when they fought Swan's group.

Two years after their first encounter, Katrina took a round to the head while running for cover during a firefight. Izzy had watched as the fox was sprinting across an open plain, making good ground when the back of her head suddenly popped open, sending small bits around. Her body went limp, the momentum carrying her a few feet still until she hit the dirt and never moved again.

Sabrina, no more than three minutes later, was hit in the leg trying to get to Katrina's body. Izzy, once more, watched a friend get cut down by gun fire instantly. Her two friends died close to each other in horrific manner.

And Callie watched them too.

The shark had taken it especially hard as their leader. She had given Katrina orders to flank, unknowing that one of the humans decided to play sharpshooter for the day. Then, Sabrina was hellbent on retrieving the body.

Callie tried to stop her but the dragon didn't care. The cost of such an action was her own life. Sako was bleeding heavily that day and the hatred for Swan's group grew within the ranks of the entire base.

Izzy had felt that hatred fester in her heart, but she had thought it dissipated as the wounds began to heal. However, to see Swan in the same building as them, eating their food and being offered a position in their base lit the wildfire of hatred back up.

Yet, it was clear to everyone in the room, herself included, that Swan was not wanting to accept anything offered by General Brixley. The human didn't want anything to do with them.