Animal? Cannibal?: The Blood Pact

Chapter 5: Cavums

Nero:

I was used to it. Having everyone being afraid of me that is. Cavums are known for being revered of course. Whenever I looked at myself in the mirror it disgusted me. It disgusted me who I was. What I was. Everything I meant.

I just wanted to exist without the expectations that came with it. Every second felt like hell. I couldn't even speak with someone without them shaking in pain. If I wanted a friend or just someone to talk to I had to go to other snobby nobles or creatures who looked down upon everyone.

I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't take the pressure. The expectations. The hatred. The disgust. The violence. The arrogance. The cannibalism.

So I left.

And now they're coming after me. Followed me all the way to some nameless safe Heaven. No matter how much I wanted to they would be sure to force me into the role of being a Cavum. I watched as everyone was freaking out from the roaring flames.

I noticed some purple slime creature stumbling around and in pain. She had long thin white hair that stuck to her skin. Her skin was a lavender color. The woman had a big chunky shark like tail with rather a cloak draped around her. I walked up behind her and followed her closely behind, looking at her curiously. I outreached to give her a slight touch so I could get her attention.

The woman swerved around and swung sharp claws at me. I perked up and dodged. As she flailed her claws at me I promptly grabbed her wrists and pushed her to the ground.

"I just want to help." I pleaded with the strange woman.

"HA! A Cavum helping someone other than their own kind! Don't make me LAUGH!!" She screamed at me. She pulled her leg back and kicked me sending me tumbling backwards.

I caught myself on a stall and begged, "I'm not like that. I genuinely want to help. You have wounds on you that need treating."

She looked at me with wild eyes. They were a deep sea foam green color while her scalar was a grayish color. It was strange seeing someone without pure black eyes. I could tell exactly what she was looking at. I wonder how weird it was for others to see me and my kind. She made a low hissing sound as a warning for me to back off.

"The names Nero." I cautioned her with my hands and tried to make myself come off as not dangerous. She was only a couple inches taller than me but she stood straight with pride and her large thick tail coiled around her legs. If I wouldn't have been able to see her blatant wounds bleeding out I would've thought she was unstoppable. I could tell though, that those wounds were causing her a great deal of pain.

"Please allow me to help." I blessed with the woman. Her body was tense with not just wounds but bruises and scratches all along her. That's when I fully realized that this woman had been in some sort of intense fight.

"Help how?! By killing me and putting me out my own damn misery?!?!" Without warning she lounged at me lashing out with her claws and tail.

She slammed me into a wall and dig her claws into my upper arms. I tensed my arms up so her claws wouldn't go in to deep. I slammed my foot down onto her tail causing her grip to losses for just a mere second. Taking advantage of this I quickly pushed her back sending her a couple steps back.

My eyes widened as I heard hurried footsteps come close to us. Without even thinking I grabbed onto the woman's wrist and dragged her. She desperately tried to resist me but I had more raw strength the she did. That being said put up a fight.

"They're behind us. We need to escape." I instructed her without even daring to look back, knowing they were hot on our trail.

"Why are you running away?" There was still hostility in her voice but she also seemed very confused.

"They're after me to."

Suddenly my body was forced to a stop. The woman was pulling me some other way. Not in the direction the Cavums were coming from but a while other one. I decided to just go along with it and was dragged far off to some area of the Haven that I was familiar with.

"Almost every safe haven has to have a fresh water source that leads outside. That's how we can escape." She told me in a stern voice. As if what we were about to do wasn't up for discussion. But the issue with that was not only could I not breathe water but I also couldn't swim in general. Cavum were generally not big fans of water.

She lead me all the way to a wall. She was right though. Just as she had predicted there were waterfall leading straight through the wall. I instantly knew it would lead into the lake outside and shivered with disgust. She tangled free of my grasp and slinked into the water beckoning me with her tail.

I hesitated standing there for a little while and spoke finally, "I can't swim." When she whipped her head at me her expression was shocked and infuriated.

"What?!" She hissed, "Are you fucking serious right now?!"

"Yes! Why would I be lying?!" I cried as I slowly made my way into the water. It was only waist deep but I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. I didn't like how slimy my skin felt but figured it would be rude to say something to her.

"Hold your breath and don't let go." She reluctantly grabbed my arm and took me underneath the water.

I was greeted with a way of water brushing over my whole body. It was weird. Extremely weird. It felt like my body was sinking but was being pulled up by the woman. She glided through the water. Or at least from what I could see. I could see in the dark but with the water I could hardly focus straight.

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"Nero, one day I'm going to be the one who dances!" My sister happily boomed. She always looked down upon me. Even though we were twins she didn't see us as equals. She hated how I 'took for granted' everything we had.

She always refused to see things my way. Even as kids she often would believe she should be the chosen one. It was always the same with her. Her constant arguing with me became so excessive that I had just learned to ignore her. Yet she still despised me. She just couldn't fathom why anyone wouldn't want to be a noble with wealth and power. Why someone in my position would ever abandon it. 

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Authors Note:

Forgot to post last week. Yikes. Anyways I've been a little burnt out lately. Thankfully this story is pre written. But I had written down my notes for season 2 on a book and lost it so 💀 im fucked. Im also working on my mlp infection au (I know im extremely late ssshhh) and one of my other og stories. 

Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving tho!