What Makes a Savage?(Story of Iris the Sister of Caesar)

Meeting again

" I do remember a report about a qaud-triple homicide that happened in Muir Park about 3 years ago, it was listed as cold."

She scoffed weakly.

"Of course they put it on record as that, hard to remain in power when people don't trust you, it was listed as something else before but we figured out the truth, they changed it to that so they wouldn't look bad" she said softly with her gaze looking at her hands.

"By you mean they? you mean-

"I think you know very well who I mean" she cut off him curtly.

The room became silent.

"You said they were not killed by a normal weapon, what did you mean by that?" he asked breaking the silence.

"Because it wasn't normal....the weapon was as sharp as a blade but didn't cut through cleanly as one....I thought it could be a piece of glass or a sharp stone but I didn't really know at the time....and the way they were killed was just overkill...it was almost....savage...it didn't even make sense why they were killed, they didn't have weapons and the items they found from scavenging were still with them...the murder seemed pointless....but nothing really surprises me anymore considering the world we live in now" she said getting lost in thought while rubbing a couple scars on one of her arms.

"How did you feel seeing him again after all those years" he asked snapping her out her thoughts.

She brought her head up to look at him

"I don't really know to describe it.....happy, scared, and sad came in all at once and I didn't know how to process it...I knew I would run into him again eventually....but I wasn't emotionally or mentally prepared for it" She said as she was playing with her bracelet.

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Muir Park, 3 years ago

They didn't move or say anything, they only stared at each other, Caesar still looking at her shocked while Iris looked at him expressionless but was really trying bury the anxiety she was actually feeling, she looked behind him too see a couple of apes staring at both them in confusion.

"IRIS! I FOUND MY DAD!" Alex screamed breaking the silence.

She snapped her head around to see it was Alex with his father and the two others coming down the hill but they soon stopped what they where doing when they saw the scene and the apes, James and the other man pulled out guns getting ready to fire, the apes growled at them getting their arrows ready as well.

"DON'T SHOOT!" Malcolm yelled while grabing a hold of James's gun, he turned to look at Caesar who was glaring at the two holding the guns.

"THEY KILLED THEM!" James yelled trying shake him off.

"They didn't! Iris and I found them like this!" Alex protested.

"DROP THE GUN JAMES!" Malcom demaneded.

Bruce started to growl at the tension.

Iris looked back inforth at the situation forgeting who standing infront of her for a minute, with both sides having weapons and with tempers flying, it was only matter of time someone was going to get shot by a bullet or an arrow. She quickly stood up and spun around to glare at James.

"JAMES!!! IF YOU AND YOUR FRIEND DON'T DROP THE FUCKING GUNS RIGHT NOW I'M GOING TO COME OVER THERE, SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT AND PULL THE TRIGGER!!!!" she screamed at him.

They stopped their yelling to look at her, even the apes where shocked by her ferociousness. James glared at her as he tightly gripping his gun.

"Do you really want to have a go at me James....." she said softly as walked over to him slowly, he twitched a little in fear.