Chapter 24

Third POV

Cahaya looked at Legoshi weirdly. He was going to ask what the fuck the hybrid wolf was doing but was interrupted by said animal.

"I'm profoundly sorry! I beg of you pardon me! I'm a monster! I'm such a pitiful excuse of a wolf! I'm a-", Legoshi cried out despair in his voice as he smashed his head against the floor, repeatedly. A small puddle of blood was forming on the floor.

He was interrupted by Cahaya clamping his muzzle, bringing him up to his level and said with irritation, his hood and gills twitching slightly, "What are you babbling out?"

The stronger hybrid released the other muzzle, which was immediately going back to his dogeza position.

"Stop. Just stop. You are ridiculing yourself. I will ask again, what are you on about?", the naga asked again, this time even more irritated. The wolf had the talent to get on your nerve and make you want to punch him.

"You were right… I messed up. I feel incredibly guilty about what I did and didn't do. I came here to apologise. I know it means little. I'm sorry.", Legoshi said as his ears dropped, claw hidden and tail tucked between his legs and he looked at his shoes. In his ever-submissive attitude, he took in front of herbivores.

"Finally! It wasn't that hard, no, was he? And you are in luck that Uncle Gosha has too much kindness in him. Sadly, I'm different.", Cahaya exclaimed as his finned tail flicked to the side lazily, then moved to the others before violently slamming into the wolf belly. 

Making the latter slam into the wall and spat blood and eyes go wide open in bewilderment.

He tried to get up but was grabbed by the throat, his back pressed against the wall. His feet were kicking the air trying to find something to hold onto. His paws were desperately holding onto Cahaya's forearm.

'Still no sign of aggression whatsoever.', the amphibian hybrid noted, he didn't expect anything but still ended up disappointed. 

"Do you seriously consider me as a herbivore or what? It's the behaviour you always take around herbivores no matter the size or species or if they are even 'herbivores' as land animals like to say. 

It's honestly quite infuriating to see a fellow hybrid of your calibre act weak and meek when confronted with others. I'm certain I'm not the first to tell you this.", he asserted and squeezed the wolf's throat even harder.

"Because even if I was, that shouldn't matter. For example, Kyuu the lop-eared rabbit is perfectly capable of killing you, and me if she has a rocket launcher. Tools are most of the time better than claw and fangs.", he continued and made a side glance to the ventilation grid above them.

Then his hood unfolded with his gills, the purplish human skull showing and he flicked his black bifid tongue while slightly opening his jaws to show his fangs, "We are hybrids. I'm a hybrid from a cobra mother and a salamander father, you from a half-wolf half-Komodo dragon mother and a pure-blooded wolf father. 

Did you even know that most hybrids aren't as lucky as us, most don't even have a family or don't even survive their first years."

Legoshi was suffocating but still had the mindset to be surprised by the hood of Cahaya, it was something the other didn't have before, it reminded him of his mom's sudden physical change and he was alarmed by what the other hybrid said aloud and knew.

"You loathe yourself, you are self-righteous, arrogant, reckless, lovestruck, obsessed with herbivores and you are the ever submissive dog to every one of them. 

Most of these traits aren't specifically bad but you, you take them to the extreme and multiply these extremes tenfold.

While we are at it, classifying each animal living on the surface into only two separated and inaccurate categories is such a ridiculous notion. 

You don't have this in the sea; it's eaten or be eaten. Simpler, though a bit deadlier.", Cahaya lectured, finally releasing the wolf from his grasp, Legoshi fell to the ground with a heavy thud and loudly coughed trying to catch his breath.

Cahaya fixed his shirt and added with a small smile on his snoot, "Anyway, you will really have a terrible life if you continue like this. And if you have a terrible life it will affect others close to you negatively."

"Ah and clean your blood on the floor. It will stain.", the snake hybrid reminded the still nearly unconscious wolf on the floor as he slithered out.

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Three days later.

In the middle of the night.

Black Market.

Cahaya POV

*SPLAT*

I slammed the head of a rabid female mongoose on the cemented wall, her brain splattering against it with the skull satisfying crunch. I then liked my hand clean of the tasty brain matter and blood.

She attacked me so she died. It's her fault, animals on meat hight are dangerous for themselves and others. Sadly for her, I prefer myself and now I know that mongoose tastes good.

Anyway, I continued on my merry way to the rendezvous point, slithering between dark alleys and the trash of Black Market. Ignoring everyone looking at me weirdly. This place is unpleasant, to say the least. 

I even noticed a black horse with a white band covering his eyes. He was following well, more like stalking me, from building top to building top. Until I finally had enough.

"Hey! Mister Horse can you stop stalking me like a creep and come down! If you want to talk, don't be shy! I don't bite", I shouted in the horse's direction.

I saw him stare at me for 10 whole seconds before he jumped down and used the wall to slow down his fall.

He landed quietly, I felt barely any vibration on the ground. He was tall, one head taller than Riz. 

Everything he was wearing was black making him stand out, except the white band around his eyes that he was currently taking off. Silence, as if everyone died. My body tensed up.

He glared right into my eyes, he is scary ok, and declared, "I'm Yafya the sublime Beastars and you little hybrid you come with me, that's an order."

'Shit.', I thought, as my body tensed up, muscles in my venom glands were ready to fire. He is dangerous. He should be stronger physically and way more experienced than my measly one, I'm not even sure if I'm faster. 

He can not kill me but he could, however, beat the shit out of me, not without getting out wounded thought, possibly diieng after.

And the only fights I had, I could overpower everyone fairly easily, they weren't really fight. Also, I don't have the time for a self-righteous old geezer like him and sadly me potentially killing him bring too many problems, for the moment that is. If the fight broke I go for the kill, fuck the consequences.

"No.", I directly replied with a careless shrug, then I added my own glare with my hood fully unfolding and gills extending, making myself taller, making myself as intimidating as possible.

"You must know about my 'family'. I have a rendezvous with them.", I made air quotes at family. I didn't even know them but I hoped the 'do you know who my family is' card worked here. I don't like it.

He clenched his fists in visible wrath but his body relaxed, I could hear him swearing at me as he walked past me, giving me a card with his phone number… My eyes went wide as I barely dodged a kick aimed at my head. The kick even created winds that made my gills move.

I looked back in anger but he had already left and was jumping from building to building. Something I can't do. I sighed with the need to murder a horse and continued to slither where my new residence is. The ex-Shishigumi Headquarters.

At least he was reasonable.

After five minutes of slithering at moderate speed, I was there. My new decoration consisted of impaled lions, instead of others animals the Shishigumi liked to put here.

The main attraction being Chief's body attached to pols by cable, showing to the world his beautiful wing.

I felt something slither, looked in the direction where it came from and saw a snake slightly smaller than Rokume.

The snake shadowwy had a sort cowboy hat and said in a deep voice with a thick accent, "Ya 're indeed one of the f'ckers."