Chapter 20: Wabbit

Agata POV

I awoke groggily. I was something hard and cold, my body felt weak and sore as if I was thrown like trash on the ground, multiple times. 

I have a pounding headache as I remembered a very bad one. It was disorganized and hard to understand.

I was a new member of the Shishigumi, the current leaders of the Black Market. I wasn't exceptional in any way shape or form, a regular male lion.

I only joined four months ago, I was under Ibuki's wing. This is what happened when we were at meetings after the attack on an expensive and renowned school we perpetrated.

I didn't like it but what could I say? I was just an underling, the Boss was controlling everything with an iron grip. And I joined of my own volition.

I still recall how vivid it was, the terrifying gaze of the things as it killed everyone around me. The heavy scent of gunpowder and blood.

It was horrifying on so many levels, and how this scaled face with its lavender eyes stared right into my own and its unnerving smile. I still feel goosebumps. I will never forget this.

'It was just a dream, Agata. Stop acting like a lost cub. You are a lion act like one…', I mentality motivated myself as I opened my eyelids with difficulty as if someone put weight on them.

I blinked several times, my vision blurry, and my headache getting worse. I tried to move my paws but felt them… chained?

'What?', I started to panic as I also realised that my feet were in the same condition. I tried fruitlessly to move and made a lot of noise with the clanking of metal chains against each other, it also irritated the skin below my fur.

I was now wide awake and my eyes were frantically looking everywhere in the dimly lit room. I recognised Boss's paintings and that it was the top room, where he ate his 'delicacies'.

It wasn't a dream or a nightmare. All of this was real. I cried out but only muffled sounds came out of my muzzle as I realised that I was also gagged.

I stopped moving as I heard the yawn of something waking up, it was close.

"Another minute Dad…", it was female, then she continued, "Hm? Where am I?", she made a gasping sound as if she realised something before saying proudly and tapping her chest, "I was kidnapped! That's a new one! Now we're… are my things…"

Then I faintly heard her hop of something hitting the ground with her feet. I continued to hear her walk until she was close to me, I finally saw her pure white feet in front of me. It's the female student we kidnapped, shit.

I looked up and realised she was in her birth suit and that she apparently didn't care that I saw everything.

"Could my kidnapper stop eyeing my naked body like this?", she said as she looked right into my eyes, her long white ears turning left and right, while she looked incredibly amused. She strolled and stopped in where the middle of my body was, she started to lift her left leg back as if she was preparing… a kick?

I got a bad feeling and started to scream 'NO!' but only muffled sounds came out. Then she kicked with all of her strength contained in her small body.

I tried my best to move away but I could only stare with my eyes wide open in dread as the dwarf rabbit feet connected with my groin. Then I felt it, an excruciating amount of pain as both of my family jewels was utterly crushed and accompanied by the popping sounds.

I nearly blacked out, my eyes rolling back and tail twisting in agony. 

"AAAARGGG!!!", I howled in pain, this time the gag not stopping all of my cry of agony from being heard. And I started to sob, staining the fur around my eyes, I was a mess.

"Ouch…My poor feet. Noted carnivores have hard balls.", the demon mumbled as she started to gently massage her feet.

'Why did I think joining the Shishigumi was fucking good idea!? Me apparently!', I began regretting all of my life choices from the start of my teenage years till then. I could have done so much better.

I wanted it to stop. I will be a good lion.

"Good morning to you too, it's currently 4 a.m and the Shishigumi are officially and permanently disbanded. So you are our guest.", I heard an older male voice and smelled just after the scent of lion blood, it was Ibuki blood.

In my state I barely understood anything. Only the blood of Ibuki was my main concern and I thought terrified, 'Will I have the same fate?'

"Sorry for what happened to you Haru-chan. That must have been extremely stressful. If you want I have got anti-stress for small herbivores.", continued the male voice, I gritted my fang and looked up to see the male salamander that Ibuki captured, he was in one of the Shishigumi suits but it was cut and modified to his size.

He peeked in my direction while removing bloody surgical gloves from his hands. 

While the rabbit nodded walked to him and took a sort of candy from the salamander's hand and a white towel to cover her body.

"That must have hurt and most be still hurting. If only you had internal genitals since what is left of yours was a very good target to aim at. You're in luck today… it won't be my Student or me who will decide your future…", he trailed off with a smile forming on his snout as he pointed to Haru, who looked taken aback and he slowly chuckled at that.

"It will be her.", he announced with a smile.

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In front of the Shishigumi Headquarters entrance.

Third POV

A tall teenage grey wolf covered in blood had multiple cuts on his body, missing three fingers on his left bandaged hand. He looked pitiful but an unwavering determination was in his eyes.

Next to him was a middle-aged panda dressed in casual clothes with a bamboo crossbow in claw. He looked serious and his expression was grave.

In front of the two was a small, well-endowed lop-eared female rabbit in her twenties she has light cream fur and brown fur covering her muzzle and ears. 

She was wearing a crimson tracksuit, was three times smaller than the two behind her and looked blazed. She had a rope on her shoulder, multiple guns and hidden blades, such as two wakizashi against the inside skin of her ears.

The Black Market was in chaos for too much time and she was losing too much money, so when her mentor called for help she took the opportunity.

Stealing, fighting and killing were okay in her mind as long as there was money to gain and the Shishigumi were rich. Every opportunity should be used to maximize survival. 

She was looking to see if there was anyone around and entered. She started at the lion before hopping in its direction.

"Wow the one who got here first was pretty fucking ruthless.", the rabbit exclaimed as she kicked and spit on the caved head of the dead lion on the moist ground just after the entrance. She hated them, they sold and bought children to eat and she was one of them at some point. It was a win-win situation.

She rummaged her tiny hand through the pockets and clothes of the corpse, and clicked her tongue in annoyance, they were only 3.000¥ but her face brightened up as she saw a marriage ring made of gold on the right-hand finger.

Legoshi looked shocked and utterly disgusted as he gazed at the little girl impaled on the spike and he was imagining if it was Haru that made him growl and his fur stood on end.

"Calm down Legoshi-kun, you already lost a lot of blood. You should be in a hospital right now, not here… Doing this.", Gohin placed a hand on the worried wolf and said reassuringly.

"Yea, yea, yup… thanks you are right, Gohin-san. Anger management…", Legoshi replied, calming himself. He wasn't at his best, he lost a lot more than he would have ever wanted just to get away from the plaza.

"Hey, are ya coming? His girlfriend won't save herself.", Kyuu said, not really caring for the dwarf rabbit. The one who got here first was scary and he was probably looking for someone like them and he was wild, to say the least.

The trio scoured the Shishigumi Headquarters until they found the door and the first thing they saw was a bare-chested dead lion with a recorded muzzle, the smell was very pungent.

"The hybrid…", the panda mutters as looked at the necrotic tissue and that they were the same as the one on the wolf he found on the wolf's shoulder.

Legoshi's ears perked up at that and Kyuu mumbled with anger, "He will pay for my shampoo. This shit was way too expensive…"

'An hybrid!? Who are they talking about?! I don't understand!', the grey wolf was shocked at the news. It made him remember his Mother's descent into madness, the physical deformities that had appeared on her body and… when he saw her dead body and lifeless body hanging on the ceiling fan living room.

It was a traumatic experience. Hybrids were special in his life, he was one. One quarter Komodo dragon and the rest grey wolf. He never told anyone about it, except Jack, his childhood friend.

But now it wasn't the time to think about those things. He has to save the white dwarf rabbit since Louis apparently didn't want to help him in this and it infuriated him. As he knew the more than close relationship between the two.

They continued to go up the empty tower. No lions in sight. They were all gone. It was eerie. The scent of lion blood and death saturated the air blocking any other smells.

Kyuu was leading them, she was the more experienced of three for this type of endeavour, and she needed to be. Rabbits couldn't possibly survive in the Black Market as good and passive little herbivores.

The lop-eared rabbit could beat both of the large carnivores behind her, there was more than physical strength and size to beat your opponent. Not that she will fight them, especially Gohin.

"We're here be careful, especially you wolf-kun. Don't rush like a love-struck idiot.", Kyuu declared in a low and serious voice while a gun was in hand and made a head gesture for the panda to open the door.

Said panda rolled his eyes, sighed and opened the heavy and luxurious door carefully.