He slowly stood up and saw traffic and in the reflection of one of the car windows, he saw a muscular body covered in what looked like scales of a snake. Ares heard a voice in his head which said "Go behind your grandads kendo class, be sneaky." Ares heard this and became startled. At first, he thought that this was one of Jinn's abilities until he heard "Quickly, go while their guard is down."
Ares decided that he should take the chance so he made his
way to the kendo classes but along the way, he got lots of weird looks.
He finally arrived at the building and as he was hiding in the bushes, he saw his grandad, and Kuro having a conversation with Jinn but he couldn't quite make out what they were saying. "Look to your left, there is a little knife there, take it, sneak up behind Kuro and slice his throat open" The voice in Ares' head said.
Ares heard this and in a second he grabbed the knife but waited until Kuros guard was down before going for the kill. Ares saw Jinn walking inside of the building but Kuro was still standing outside, about to light up a cigarette until Ares snuck up behind him. He grabbed Kuros' throat and grabbed the knife. "Please, spare me." Kuro begged. Ares didn't care for Kuros begging and sliced his neck open.
Guts oozed out, Kuro struggled trying to catch a breath but before he knew it, he was on the floor dead. Ares dragged him into the bushes and just left him there to rot. "Well done." The voice said.
Ares saw some money on the ground and picked it up to buy some food. He made his way to his local ramen stand where he sat down and ordered "A large bowl of ramen, eggs and vegetables please." The stand had two lit up lanterns and comfortable seats. Ares smelt the pleasant aroma of the ramen being cooked and heard the sizzling of the vegetables being fried. "Here's your ramen, sir." Ares was handed the biggest bowl that he'd ever seen. The rich broth made his mouth water before he devoured the ramen. As soon as the light, salty noodle touched his tongue, his taste buds started dancing.
While eating the ramen, he couldn't take his mind off of what he had just done to his grandad. "He deserved it," The voice said. Ares listened and peacefully ate his ramen.
He got to the last bite and paid the ramen worker before leaving to his bench where he slept the night before.
Ares arrived at the bench and sat down. He saw a stray cat sleeping on the bench right beside him. Ares stroked the cat as he ended up drifting off to sleep.
He arose from his slumber and the first thing that he saw was the little cat that he played with before he fell asleep. The cat was sitting on his lap, it looked like Ares was being protected by the cat. He sat up and saw a green, scaly, slimy creature with thin wings and bony structure. It was bowing down to Ares.
Ares froze when he saw it. The thing looked like what he saw in the car reflection earlier. Ares left the cat sitting on the bench but went to see what the other creature was. As he got closer he realised that it was certainly not a normal animal, kind of movie-like. "I'll name you… Sho" Ares said to the creature.
As he went to pick up Sho, he saw the poor, hungry cat meowing behind him.
Ares thought for a while until giving in to the cat. "What should your name be? Hmm, How about Ishi" he said to the cat. Ishi meowed in approval before walking with Ares to pick up Shi. As Ares approached Sho, it sneezed and Ares saw a few blue sparkles coming out of its nose. He decided to try and pick up the sparkles but as soon as he felt it, a wave of electricity travelled through his entire body.
Ares' eyes lit up when he realised what he had just found. It was his childhood dream. All he dreamed about. It was a baby dragon which was now his. Ares went to pet Sho and he fell asleep as soon as his scaly skin made contact with Ares'. Ares quickly scooped up both Sho and Ishi and ran over to a place where no one would see him and his new "pets." He went to his favourite place in the whole planet, his and his brothers volleyball court.
He went into the bathroom and tried to remember where he and his brother made a secret room but on his way there, he glanced at the mirror and saw himself holding Sho and Ishi. He also saw that he looked a bit like Sho but a lot bigger. This would explain all of the weird looks that he was receiving.
Ares brushed it off as he thought that he was just imagining things but another thing that he saw was that Sho grew by about 3 inches and he was feeling much heavier too. Ares pushed every tile until he had finally found it, The secret room. Something had just felt off about it. It felt like something or someone was always watching him. Ares just ignored it but then he saw it, his brother's bracelet covered in blood.