We are Monsters...

Chapter 2

Sorry for making you guys wait so long! This was meant as a little testing story to see how well I could write AU's and such, but here is a chapter 2 because...uh...reasons.

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Darkness. It surrounded him, the shadows covering him like a blanket. They suffocated him, he wanted out. He cried and cried but no one came for free him from his dark prison. The pain that soared through his body burned endlessly as he wandered the deep blackness in search of something to free him.

Vylad awoke with a start, his breath hitched as he looked around his current location. He didn't know where he was, it was all too unfamiliar. Then the realization of what happened before he was knocked out made him get up and look for his older brother. Zane was all he had left, he couldn't loose him now. Just the thought made him tear up and start whimpering. He wanted his brother and it scared him of what might happen if he didn't find him...He started panicking, running around the place he was in, knocking things over and hopping onto the roof beams. It wasn't until the door opened that he settled on the far back roof beam, huddling in a corner. 

A white haired man walked into the room, was he old? The thought crossed his mind, but the man looked too young to be THAT old. He was scared out of his thoughts when the man looked up at him, Vylad reacted by backing up into the corner space as far as he could and growling at him. The man responded with putting his hands up and backing away just a smidgen. 

"Hey now, im not going to hurt ya' " Vylad squinted at him after the man had spoken. Then cautiously came from from the beams, stepping slowly towards him, somewhat like a stray cat. "There we go, now let me see your wing..." Vylad flinched backwards when he tried to touch his feathers, but relaxed slightly when the man didn't harm him. Instead he was switching the bandages. "Im really sorry about what happened, kid" He looked at the man, his pupils slitting. "Im not the one who shot your brother down...Some hunters in the village over thought it would be a good idea to hunt in a non-hunting forest"

"So..we were supposed to be safe?" His voice cracked, how long had he been out?

"Oh wow...you can actually speak" this made Vylad growl at him.

 "Of course I can speak! What do you think I am, some savage animal!?" He hated that word, he wasn't an animal, he wasn't going to kill everything in his sight. He winced when memories began to flood his mind and more tears began to form. 

"Whoa whoa! No! I just...Your brother is in the other room, he woke up about 2 days ago and hasn't spoken to me at all...and yet here you are speaking to me and you probably woke up not long ago."

"Zane isn't very trusting of humans..."

"I can see and understand that..." The man put his hand up to his face, and now that Vylad looked closely, he could see long claw-marks down the side of his face. 

"Can...Can I see him?" Vylad was terrified without his brother. He wanted to curl up into his side, tell stories and sing songs...like the past...but he quickly shook those memories from his head. They couldn't go back to that anymore...it was always move quickly before the humans decide they dont want us around.

"Sure kid, lemme just.." he finished wrapping the wing back up. "There. Your brother did a good job of keeping that wing clean, but it would've healed wrong. So you can thank me for that" Then he stood back up and held his hand out for the young one to take. "Come on, ki-"

"It's....Vylad" He took the mans hand and said man lead him out of the room. When he stepped out, the brightness of the lights made his eyes sting. When his sight adjusted he realized that the building they were in...it was huge. He felt the light tugging on his hand as he was led through the house, then they stopped by the door and the man let go, gesturing for him to open it. Vylad turned the handle and almost instantly he heard the shuffle of something inside, when he opened the door he called inside "Zane?..." He poked his head in and as soon as he did the older brother had the younger male in his arms. Vylad clung to him, and...he didn't want to let go.