6 The Meaning Behind The Bites (1/2)

Awkwardly sitting in a quiet circle, Luna glanced between Argo and Magna with reluctance in her eyes. Argo released a short sigh before saying, ”Before I explain about the bite, I'll need to explain about our tribe.”

Taking Magna's silence as confirmation, Argo started speaking about their tribe.

”Luna and I come from a tribe on the island between Vale and Minstral. While it was a small tribe, we were all happy and treated each other like brothers and sisters.”

Suddenly, Magna slowly lifted his hand and said, ”Then why are you girls here in Vale?”

His question seemed to bring up bad memories as Luna curled into a ball and started to tremble while a red aura began to appeared around Argo.

Gritting her teeth, Argo forcefully squeezed the words out, ”We were… attacked by a group of human extremists. They killed all the older faunus while capturing all of the younger ones. They forced us to kill one another yet we all refused. After a couple weeks of no food, some of us began to die.”

Magna released a cold breath as anger started to swirl in his stomach and, even though it was for only a second, his eyes flashed a b.l.o.o.d.y red.

Both girls missed his sudden change as Argo continued, ”When there were only five of us left, the humans grew enraged and started experimenting on us. Luna was used to test a drug which numbed her sense of pain while I was forcefully made to fight grim for their twisted entertainment.”

”Before we realised it, Luna and I were the only two left.” At this point, tears poured down Argo's face as she sadly muttered, ”Our family… friends… all gone…”

Argo appeared extremely weak and fragile while Luna, who had come out from her ball form, had red eyes and tears streaming down her face as she desperately tried to silence her voice. Having no experience with this kinda thing, Magna did the only thing he could to offer them comfort.

He stood up and picked up Luna, earning a small yelp from her, before sitting next to Argo and wrapping up both young girls in a warm embrace.

Tears started coming from his eyes as he continued to hug them, not saying anything. Luna seemed to finally let her voice out as she cried deeply into Magna's chest while Argo wrapped her arms around Magna while freely letting her tears flow from her eyes.

After a couple minutes, Magna released both girls as they seemed to have calmed down. Before he could speak, Argo gave him a bright smile and said, ”Thank you.”

Magna returned her smile with one equally as bright and happily replied, ”Your welcome.”

Looking down at his chest, Luna had her arms wrapped around him as small breathing sounds came from her. Realising she's asleep, Magna tried to move her off only to be stopped as Argo said, ”Let her sleep. She's been a bundle of nerves ever since we escaped.”

Taking a deep breath, Argo continued, ”When they saw that we still refused to fight each other, the humans seemed to have… other plans.”

As he was listening, Magna could feel a deep hatred and anger coming from Argo as a thought appeared in his head. A cold rage burned in his stomach as he muttered, ”You don't mean…”

”I guess you realised it. One night, a fat human appeared in our cell. He silently made his way over to Luna as she slept, completely naked with a s.a.d.i.s.tic look in his eyes. That's when it happened, I snapped and awakened my semblance.”

Holding her hand out, a red energy wrapped around her and formed a claw. Making a swiping motion towards the wall next to her, deep imprints appeared as the gashes seemed to burn for a while before stopping.