Anti's POV

Flashback

I stood up, shaking from fear. They are all staring at me! Dark patted my arm and smiled.

"You got this." He whispered gently.

I nodded and walked up the stairs to Mr. Láidir who was waiting to give me the stand. I nodded towards him and stood up straighter clearing my throat. I was shaking and nervously glanced at all of the people staring at me with disgust or hatred.

"Um, hi..." My voice wavered and I flinched.

"My name is Frith. I um..." People started to mumble.

"I'm sixteen years old and my Mom was a Scout and my dad was a Hunter." The disgust on their faces got worse.

"Dirty Hybrid!" I flinched.

"N-no! Y-you got it all w-wrong!" I stammered not sure what to say.

"Why did you let a hybrid in here!" Mr. Láidir slammed his hand on the podium.

"That's enough! Frith is now a student here and you will treat him as such!" He looked down at me calmly.

"Go and sit back down with Dark. I'll finish it." I nodded and scurried back to my seat with tears in my eyes.

Dark opened his arms and I tackled his side trying to hide. He patted my head and I just stared at the floor embracing him until the meeting was over. A few people glared at me and one tried spitting on me but Dark blocked me with his wing. I had to hold him back from attacking the guy.

On the way back home I lagged behind him and his father. They stopped and looked at me.

"What's wrong?" I glanced down while grabbing my arm.

"Why don't people like me?" I bit my lip while squinting my eyes.

Dark turned to me, "because you're unique. People look down on you because you're different. You should look at them and laugh because they're all the same." I looked up with tears streaming down my face.

"Hey, just know that if no one else is there, I will be. I will never leave." I looked up sipping my eye.

"Promise?" He smiled.

"Promise. No! Wing promise!" I smile and we stretched out our wings and wrapped them around each other and with the other wings we hoisted our bodies into the air and came back down bumping fist.

"I'm glad you're my partner Dark!"

"I'm glad you're my partner! Now come on! Mom's making dinner tonight!" I grinned.

"Race you there!" I laughed and shot past him.

"Hey! No fair!" He laughed flying after me.

"All is fair in love and war!" I smiled pumping my wings even harder.

"I guess I love you." My wings stopped pumping and I slowed instantly.

"What!?" He started blushing to himself with wide panicked eyes while he also wrung his hands, the wind his wings caused blowing his hair out of place.

"Oh um, I mean uh, This means war!" I flew up to him shaking my head.

"No no no, what did you say?" His blush deepened.

"Never mind it, let's get home."

"No ! Dark! Do you mean that!?" I looked at him expectantly.

He turned away from me but I grabbed his arm and pulled with all the strength I had in my weak body. He leaned against me slightly, his wing scraping against my own every now and then. He tried to get away but I held onto him. He was blushing so hard his face matched his hair.

"Anti you don't understand! You have to let me go!" He struggled against me and flew off the second he left my grip.

I reached out to his fading form as it flew away from me and looked down. I ruined it. Our friendship is dead now because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. The tears came back and to stop them I dug a fingernail into my arm causing a deep gash. I marked my arms several more times letting the green blood to fall to the ground below me. I'm a failure. I'm a freak. I'm a hybrid. I'm useless. I'm pathetic. I shouldn't exist.

I quickly flew away to my old house that bordered the wall and swooped down in front of it. I heard someone else land behind me and saw the guy from before. I was feeling dizzy but kept my posture trying my best to block the sight of blood. He saw the green puddle forming at my feet and started laughing. A high-pitched noise emitted from him and four others swooped down in front of me.

"Hey there Frith! I just wanted to welcome you the way we do with every other Mistake that comes here. Boys." He snapped his fingers and two of them grabbed my arms while the bigger of the two grabbed my wings.

"Hey! Let me go!" I tried to get away but I was nowhere near strong enough for that.

The leader pulled his sword from its scabbard and its blue blade shown in the light. He put on a wicked grin and stalked towards me like a predator and it's prey. I tried to kick him but he just slammed the hilt of the sword on my knee.

I was shaking so hard from both fear and the blood loss that I couldn't see straight.

"Please stop! What did I ever do to you!?" I screamed.

All he did was raise his sword ready to bring it down on my wings.

"I'll be sure to give these the proper burial, by burning them with your body!" He dug the blade half way into my wing which made it only connected to my back by the thin stretch of skin that ran down my back. Blood flew everywhere and the pain alone make me gag and want to scream. He used his hand to pull it the rest of the way off and did the same to the other side. My screams traveled throughout the surrounding area.

I wanted the pain to be done and it was. But not before my wings were lit on fire in front of me. I sat there numb dizzy and screaming for what seemed like hours before someone found me almost dead. I was also accompanied by two other people as I was rushed to the healer's clinic.

I wanted to die. Maybe I'd be able to see my ma again if I did.