It was nighttime.
The moon was out and shining.
'Feels. Nice.'
Sleeping on top of a worn down sofa, a creature thought as it heard a sound from beside him.
"It's a beautiful night. Don't you think, Leo?"
Raising his head, he looked at Aiden, the frail looking human. Nodding his head, he looked at the human smiling as Leo wagged his long tail.
"…Shut up."
As usual, the frail human started talking to himself as Leo curled his body and tried to sleep.
Clack
But, before he could fall asleep again, he heard a sound from a distant place as he raised his head and turned his head towards the sound.
Shring
'Enemy!'
Feeling a cold shiver running down his body, Leo stood up in alertness as two yellow eyes appeared from the darkness.
Hissssssss
Hissing at the big cat like creature appearing out of the darkness, Leo could instinctively tell that the panther was looking at him and Aiden as its food.
Whoosh
Just then, two hands wrapped around his body as he was picked up by the frail human.
Aiden started running from the panther as he ran down the mountain of garbage and climbed up the tree.
Hissssss
Hissing at the panther, Leo found his body shivering as he looked at Aiden.
"Are you alright?" Aiden asked as he looked at Leo with eyes full of worry.
Meow
Leo meowed as he started rubbing his head on Aiden's chest.
'Go. Safety.'
He tried to imply his thoughts to him in worry as he kept on rubbing his head on Aiden's chest.
"…Don't worry."
Feeling a trembling hand on his head, Aiden patted him as Leo's body kept on trembling.
Shrrr Shrrr
The leaves from the tree started to fall down as the tree shook.
The panther was trying to climb the tree.
Leo looked at the panther while Aiden broke a branch near him to use it to protect him.
Growl
The panther jumped up to attack them as Aiden swung the branch he had just acquired.
Whoosh
Crack
Unfortunately for him, the branch broke upon the contact as he looked at the panther in horror.
'I. Protect.'
MEOW
Leo made a desperate choice as he left Aiden's embrace and launched himself towards the panther.
"LEO"
He heard Aiden's call from behind, but he didn't look behind, as he had already latched onto the panther's face.
HISSSS
Using his long nails, Leo scartched the panther's eyes as both of them fell down.
BAM
HISSSS
Leo stood strong as he kept on furiously scratching on the panther's face.
But his small figure wasn't much for the panther.
The panther clawed onto Leo, tearing his body in half as the panther started to furiously eat the lower hald.
With his vision turning blurry, he looked towards Aiden as his eyes started to get watery.
Me-
He tried to make a sound, but before he could, his vision completely turned dark.
The panther went on chewing down on Leo's dead body as the voice in Aiden's mind started warning him.
…
Whoosh
It was an empty space.
There was nothing.
Neither a surface to stand on nor anything to hold, nothing at all.
It was dark, with tiny white, shiny dots everywhere just floating around without any purpose.
A few shiny dots had different colors. Some were blue, some were green, and some were red. Just like the white, shiny dots, they were also just floating around without purpose.
Among all the dots, a blue dot floated around just like any other dots.
As it was floating around, a hand appeared below it, taking the blue dot away.
The hand belonged to a woman.
The woman's figure was made of white lines, as her whole body was dark and had tiny white dots just like her surroundings.
'…Poor creature.'
With a sorrowful voice, she said as she closed her eyes and pressed the blue dot with her hands.
'Don't worry, you will get your wish.' She said as she opened her hands and looked at the fading blue dot.
'Stay strong; you will reunite one day.'
She whispered as the blue dot completely disappeared from her hand.
'…'
Staring at her empty hand for a bit, she turned around as she looked at a white, shiny dot. Despite being a white shiny dot, this one was different from any other shiny dot in the room; while others were small and tiny, this one was big—just as big as a sun.
'Are those two the only ones?' Hekate said as she looked at the shiny dot.
'@#$&'
'Hmm… You mean that one.' Hekate said upon hearing the answer from the big shiny dot as she looked at one other dot.
It was a red dot.
…
Growl
'Go. Away.'
Hissss
Looking at the dark and big panther approaching with blood on its mouth, Leo hissed at him as he warned the panther to go away.
Hissss
Despite hissing, the panther didn't go away, as it instead ran towards him.
Hissss
The panther latched onto Leo as it started eating him.
'GO. AWAY.'
Suddenly opening his eyes, Leo stood up as he tried to fight the panther.
ROAAARRRRRR
As he hissed, a big roar erupted from his mouth, but Leo didn't realize that as he went berserk and kept on hissing.
ROAAARRRRRR ROAAARRRRRR
He kept on roaring as he fumbled around and tried to charge towards a dark figure, whom he considered to be the panther, but
CLANG CLANG
A felt a restrictive force on his limbs as his body tripped to the ground.
BAM
His body was slammed into the ground as he felt searing pain all over his body.
'MEOW'
ROAAARRRRRR
He roared in pain as he tried to get up.
Thump Thump
As he stood up, he heard the big sounds from his steps as his long, dark ears stood up.
Tilting his head, he looked all over his body.
'…Strange.' He thought as he felt confused.
'Meow Meow'
He started to meow as he looked at the strange structures of his body.
But those meows didn't sound the same on the outside as constant roars erupted, shaking the whole cave.
ROAAARRRRRR ROAAARRRRRR ROAAARRRRRR
'Ah! Human!'
An image of a frail human suddenly popped up in his mind as his head jerked up and turned left and right.
'Meow Meow.'
He anxiously looked around for Aiden as he started feeling uncomfortable from the chains that were binding his limbs.
Clack
As he looked around, he suddenly heard a door opening as he raised his ears in excitement and looked towards the big door that was opening in front of him.
'…'
Looking at the door, a figure stood still as it quietly stared at Leo.
It was a woman with orange hair and a round face.
She stared at Leo with emotionless eyes as Leo tilted his head.
Extending her hand, several invisible strings spread around the room.
Shring
As soon as the strings spread around, Leo felt a shiver running through his body as he looked around in confusion.
There was something wrong, but he couldn't see anything that posed a threat to him.
Several invisible strings were passing directly through his closed wings and limbs.
BOOM