Imagine being so ugly that everyone looks at you in disgust as if you're a plague that everyone should evade a disease that affects from a distance, something that can make people lose their appetite just by looking at it
This isn't just a story, this is my story
my name is Marcus West, I am from a place called Midtown a small village in a large City called Algeria, I wasn't born
With good looks as other boys were or as beautiful as other people, well, I was
born with a hideous forehead with disgusting facial features, as my uncle always says
"You were born with it
Marcus own it
"Although, I wouldn't put it
disgusting but I wouldn't recommend looking
at me"
Anyway, life wasn't interesting for me as I did not have many friends but I did have a few allies, like Aga for example, Aga was a Griffin
"what's a Griffin",
you must be asking, well a Griffin was a large tall dog with wings on it's back, weird actually but when you are stigmatized by society you tend to make friends from unlikely places
I didn't get a chance to meet my mom and dad as my uncle says my mom died giving birth to me whilst my dad died as a soldier, so frankly I've been living with my uncle Fredrick ever since, with his wife Ivy and his two daughters Jen and Lucy
I never really fit in much, so I spent most of my time looking after my uncle's horses when they went to eat in the forest but I have to admit having an ex-soldier as an uncle came with a few advantages
One afternoon as I was looking after the horses with Aga, I saw something that you don't see every day in the forest, a girl was running as if being chased by someone taking a closer look, I saw three large oglers following behind her, oglers were gigantic creatures that were very intimidating and abusive especially towards women
Being who I was I couldn't watch them get her, I pulled out my knife and hurled it at the last one following the two it pierced into his back before he could turn around to look at me I climbed on him from behind and slashed his neck at the end of the cliff the lady had fallen
to the ground as the duo now hovered above her,
"hey why don't you pick on someone your size "It even seems hilarious when I remember that statement because I wasn't as tall as they were, or as large as they were, glancing at each other, one nodded his head at me signaling the other to take care of me and I was ready for him, coming at me he swang his oversized sword and luckily I wasn't all that tall making, it easy to evade doing that I quickly slashed his back and Piercing through his skin as he fell, and my confidence grew as I approached the one grabbing the ladies petite hands, kicking him in the groin he straightened up and threw a punch at me evading I pierced the dagger in his chest swiftly.
the lady on the ground looked horrified by what happened constantly glancing at the blood on my hands and my face
"You okay? "I said trying to approach her but she clawed back
"What are you?" she asked what do you mean I thought to myself getting closer to the Angel clawing back, frightened by my looks "I'm a person just like you",
I wanted to convince her that I was not a beast but she didn't believe me, since she narrowed her eyes at me
This was usually the time and hurts looking like this when people think you are a monster, I took the time to look at her face clearly and damn she was a beauty like the ones my uncle says only exist in fairy tales, what an angel I said to myself inwardly