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Daniel didn’t want to go to school.
That was different to most kids who also didn’t want to go to school, for reasons like wanting to stay home to game or watch YouTube, or not wanting to study or any of that. He didn’t want to go to school because of the constant harassment he received.
The harassment for being a bunny hybrid, the most wanted and cherished species of Prey. It was easy to identify one, if you even meet one as they are incredibly rare, as they are the only hybrid species to have to wear a collar.
Daniel didn’t like wearing a collar. He had to get a cheap, tight one, excuse him for being flat out broke after his parents deaths, that only made breathing get harder and his identity recognisable.
Oh right, his parents. Sangcheol and Seonhui Park. They were both Prey, a rabbit and cat hybrid. Rabbits were more common than bunnies, and so Sangcheol wasn’t that sorted out. They both were murdered mysteriously in a car crash, when Daniel was in the backseat of the car. He was three.
Ever since that incident he was forced to love with his neglecting family that consisted of his grandmother, both his uncles and aunts and his cousins Dylan, David and Sarah. It was torture to live with them - to share a roof with them. His grandma, uncles and Dylan and David were Predators whereas his aunts and Sarah were Prey. The majority of the Predators were hyenas with his grandma being a fennec fox and Uncle George (Dylan) being a chihuahua. The Prey were a sloth and mice.
Maybe, because all of them were undesirable and ignored they, minus grandma, took their anger out on Daniel. The most wanted, most desired and most attractive person in the home. Because of the constant abuse, he ran away with the money he saved up from a part time job.
Daniel now lived in a shabby, cheap house, living off the money. It wasn’t much but he had to get used to it.
And now, here he was. He changed into the uniform like he always did on school days, grimacing at the worn down and dirty uniform he had to wear. At school, practically no one had clean or fresh clothes, only grimy, wrinkled ones that had been used before.
He grabbed his old school bag before setting off, trying as best as he could to hide his collar from passerbye’s watchful gazes. It was the law for a bunny hybrid to keep the collar on, until they were mated, and it disgusted Daniel when he saw a boy, no older than ten, have a collar forced onto him by his mother.
But, it was useless to try and hide his identity as a bunny. His ears gave it away even if someone didn’t see his collar. They were soft and fluffy, and Daniel was asked frequently by people if they could touch them. He, of course, said no, and some were understanding but a few could not take ‘no’ for an answer. Luckily, he always managed to escape before things were getting physical.
Daniel quickly walked to school, ignoring the lusting looks and glances people gave him. And the comments.
“I heard that bunny hybrids are incredibly breedable.”
“Dude, look at the little bunny’s ears … ”
“Damn I want to touch his ears so badly. I wonder if he’ll make a cute noise if I do.”
“Hey, babe!” A rough, harsh voice came. Logan. Not him.
Logan Lee was the one who caused Daniel’s life to be a living hell. He was the one to treat Daniel like a doll, like a possession, like an object that you own. Whenever someone looked at Daniel, even for a second, Logan would decimate them, pummeling them to the ground with his iron fists.
Logan tried to break into Daniel’s house once, and with the low security in the neighbourhood he almost did before Daniel found out and begged him not to. Logan agreed only because Daniel cried for ages.
“L - Logan. Good morning.” Daniel forced out, looking at his feet in terror. Logan was an ox hybrid, and even with this big build, that just added fire to the fuel and caused him to be extremely tyrannical.
“Babe, let’s go to our classroom, I got a present for my baby,” Logan simmered, grabbing Daniel’s thin wrist forcefully before roughly dragging him to their room. Daniel winced at the tight hold. That would definitely bruise soon.
When they entered the classroom, Logan made Daniel sit on his desk before whipping a box out of nowhere. “Here you go, enjoy.” He said, smirking slightly in a way that made the small boy uncomfortable.
With trembling fingers, Daniel carefully pulled the messily done wrapping paper to one side before opening the box. His heart stopped for a minute.
It was a fucking dildo.
Daniel stared in horror at it. What was Logan thinking? Did he think that just because Daniel didn’t want to have sex with him meant that he wanted this too? Daniel would definitely burn it or throw it away when he was out of the ox hybrid’s sight.
“Don’t ya like it? I got a big one for you and-”
“Logan. Please…” Daniel couldn’t think of what to say. To deny the ‘gift’ was to be yelled at by Logan, who always assumed that Daniel was seeing someone whenever he denied his presents. It wasn’t that he was seeing someone, it was just that he wanted to see less of Logan.
“Uh…Logan could you…not buy me any more presents? It’s just because I don’t want you to waste your money on me.” Daniel said hastily, placing the lip back onto the box and putting it away in his bag. That was only so he could dispose of it secretly.
“Aww, baby you don’t need to worry about my money, I’ll just take more of it from some random loser, like a random bitch or some nerdy bastard.” Logan said proudly, wrapping a thick arm tightly around Daniel, ignorant to the fact that Daniel edged away.
Daniel's eyes flickered around the classroom, taking in an awful sight. A girl shoves another girl who was an otter hybrid to the ground, before opening a plastic water bottle and dumping the whole thing in the poor Prey.
"You stupid little slut! Are you insane or did you actually think you had a chance with my boyfriend?! Hell, you aren't even the tiniest bit pretty!" The bully snickered, putting her leg on the otter hybrid's head.
"Babe, she is kinda pretty. Pretty pathetic!" Chortled her boyfriend, taking pictures of the weeping hybrid on the floor.
That elicited a big laugh from watchers nearby.
"I - I'm so-sorry! Please Chloe, please forgive me!" The girl on the floor wailed, hiding her face with her trembling hands in embarrassment.
"Forgive you? Forgive you for going up to my boyfriend like a slut? Die! Just die!" Chloe screamed, pulling the hybrid's hair harshly.
Daniel tensed. He hated how people treated each other. This was terrible. He always hated it when Logan hurt other people who he deemed below him, breaking them.
Logan followed his eyes and smiled, amused. "Don't worry babe, no one will hurt you like that, I'll kill them."
That's not the problem, Daniel thought. Daniel tried to get up to help the girl, but Logan's grip on him was too hard. The girl was now screaming as Chloe and her boyfriend began to pull her ears roughly.
Chloe and her boyfriend weren't a hybrid because only twenty-five percent of the world's population were hybrids, split evenly between Prey and Predator.
Logan followed Daniel's gaze, smirking slightly at the scene. "If anyone looks at you like that, I'll kill them so don't worry babe."
That just made Daniel worry more. He hated when people were hurt, bullied and beaten like that. It was horrible. Suddenly, the teacher came into the room and surveyed the scene in front of him. Daniel relaxed slightly. Good, the teacher would sort this all out. Then, the teacher just said;
“Phone away, Nick.”
Daniel felt his heart stop for a second. Did the teacher seriously just think that the biggest problem was the fact that Nick had his phone out to record and share the humiliating video?
“Scissors. Now.” Chloe ordered, impatiently holding her hand out to a girl that was snickering at the scene. She blinked before rippling through her pencil case and producing rusty, dirty scissors.
“The only good thing about you is your hair, bitch. It’s so fucking annoying, so say ba-bye to the only thing nice about your ugly, pathetic life,” Chloe sneered, grabbing the hybrid’s hair in a tight grip, before teasing her with waving the scissors in front of her face.
“Or…I can cut your face up…yeah that’s going to show you not to approach my boyfriend,” She said, neatly pulling the otter hybrid’s hair into a ponytail style.
Daniel knew that was too far. Logan’s grip loosened during the whole commotion, and Daniel used that to his advantage. Before anyone realised anything, he rushed over to the two girls before knocking the scissors out of Chloe’s hands.
“Don’t do that! So what if you accidentally hurt her severely? And just because she approached your boyfriend doesn’t mean that she deserves all this!” Daniel said, crouching down to soothingly whisper words of comfort to the otter hybrid.
“What’s your name?” Daniel asked, taking off his cheap, second-hand blazer to wrap over the shivering girl.
“I- I’m Alice. Alice Lee,” She introduced, softly taking Daniel’s hand to lift her up.
Alice softly patted her otter ears to brush the water off them before hiding slightly behind Daniel. “Thank you, Daniel.” She whispered, tightly clutching his arm.
“Hey! Who the fuck do you think you are, interrupting us? Why I out to-” Nick’s irate yellings were cut off when Logan suddenly stepped in front of both Daniel and Alice. Nick’s eyes immediately widened in fear, trembling slightly. Chloe, who had her mouth open to also speak, shut it in record speed, stepping back.
“Lo-Logan! I- I’m sorry…I didn’t know the bunny hybrid was yours.” Nick whimpered, sweat pooling at the top of his forehead. “Please, please forgive us!”
Chloe, while stepping behind Nick, shot an angry but desperate look at Alice, then a curious one at Daniel that caused Alice to step forwards. Daniel held her back, not wanting either of them to be caught up in this madness anymore. It was surprising to see such a change in Alice.
Only a few moments ago, she was cowering under the cruel forces of the duo Chloe and Nick, but now, she was about to charge at Chloe, ready to rip her bleached, damaged hair off her defiled scalp.
“That’s fucking right. If you ever, ever come near my bunny again, I will personally destroy you and your pathetic little bitch. Got that punk?” Logan hissed, taking a big step backwards, causing both of the bullies to frantically step backwards, banging into the desks behind them.
Chloe, seeing her boyfriend paralysed in fear, nodded vigorously. “Y-yes Logan!”
Logan smirked before turning towards Daniel, smiling at the bunny hybrid’s indifferent expression and hardening at Alice.
“Get the fuck off him, whore.” Logan snapped, reaching forwards to pull Daniel into a tight hold. “Get lost.”
Daniel looked affronted.
“Logan, don’t call her that!” He hissed, flushing in embarrassment at the vulgar name Logan called the poor girl. “And don’t touch or do anything awful to Amy too,” He added, facing Chloe and Nick.
Chloe looked like she just swallowed a whole lemon, pursing her lips and wrinkling her nose like there was a bad smell.
After a second or two, she finally said,”Fine. I won’t touch the bit-”
“-Alice.”
“-Alice. I won’t do anything to her. Happy?” Chloe said, flicking her hair, rolling her eyes at Daniel’s nod.
After the teacher made everyone sit down, and the school day finished, with Alice tagging along Daniel and Logan, Daniel turned to Logan.
“Logan, please look after Alice. For me, please,” He begged, using the power move - puppy eyes. Daniel pouted too, to add on the already fatal amount of cuteness.
Logan immediately simmered. “Fine, only for you babe.”
Daniel smiled. As he walked home, he waved Logan and Alice goodbye, before setting off. He couldn’t do this anymore. He had to move again.
This school was the living personification of ‘Survival of The Fittest.’ Only the smartest people don’t strive, only the beautiful and the strong. Daniel couldn’t survive in that world, no more.
When he arrived at home, he checked under his creaky bed for a hidden pamphlet. Hidden incase Logan popped by for a surprise visit. It was a pamphlet for Jae Won High School (or also known as J High School) that was a preparatory school.
Daniel applied for it and received an answer of ‘yes’, and that was when he felt all the weight on his shoulders lift. He couldn’t wait. It was on Monday, his first day, and so he had packed everything on Thursday and planned to move after school today to his new abode.
Daniel smiled as he changed into casual clothes, before setting off, with two suitcases in either hand and his school bag around his shoulders. He couldn’t wait for this new start in life, and maybe, he could actually find friends?
Daniel went to the coach, before looking out of the window, smiling softly at the beautiful sunset that shone across the darkening sky. The brightest thing in this melancholy world of despair.
After he left the coach, many hours later, it was pitch dark, with the lack of noise or people. Daniel hitched his hoodie higher, hiding his collar and bunny ears afraid of any walkers seeing them. He just wanted to go to his new house.
It was cheap, run-down and dirty but it was his new home, and Daniel knew he had to make it do.
It wasn’t much, but it was home.