This sorta came out and I just felt like what if the new character I make had to deal with being called a monster with powers. That's where this comes in. This is dedicated to Joe 'Po' Navark, Tyson the Wolf Omega (my new OC is the inspiration of his OC character) and a special dedication to vampire1031 and Wonder Panda Tan-Tan. Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this!

Also, thanks to Joe 'Po' Navark for helping me with the name of the story and to vampire1031 and Tyson the Wolf Omega for helping me delve out my new OC character. This is for you guys!

White Brotherhood

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Origins

It was a foggy morning in a remote forest somewhere in China, not too far from the Valley of Peace and everything around there was quiet...until a certain roar comes along to disrupt the peace and tranquility of the forest and the roar echoed deeply that it could scare anyone. Suddenly, out of the surface, an evil white tiger, mid-to late 40's, around 5'9, weighing in at 184 pounds, dark orange eyes, wears dark blue pants and has a japanese symbol on his forehead that mentions 'demonic', searching for his victims.

He lets out a low growl as he was looking for his prey that ran away from him without even knowing it. As he searched high and low for his victims, he whispered out, "When I find you two...there will be trouble."

Soon enough, two teenage white animals were hiding in a log hoping that a certain someone won't find them for they did not want to be beaten up or scratched up. One such person is a young white tiger, around 15 years of age, around 5'5, weighing in at 140 pounds, dark hazel-blue eyes, wearing a torn vest and some patched up silk grey pants, takes a deep breath and slowly pops his head out of the log, hoping that they won't be found.

"Did he find us yet?"

He turns around and a young white wolf, 17 years old, around 5'7, weighing in at 145 pounds, green eyes, wearing only a torn grey vest and ripped khaki shorts, wild spiky black hair on his back and a scar on his muzzle and eyes slowly walks up to him and the young tiger replied, "No. At least, not yet anyway."

Both of them slowly walked out of the log quietly and tried their best to keep running away from their 'guardian'. Misery and anger somehow clouded the young tiger's mind over this ordeal and he just completely spurts out his dark power out of nowhere as it struck a tree branch, which would be a bad time for using it because that would mean the evil tiger could hear it at any moment.

Unfortunately for them, further away from where the boys are, the evil white tiger heard the sound of someone's dark powers coming in miles away and he lets out a sinister snarl as he quietly walks over to a boulder and he immediately sees them running out and he figured that there would be no way to let them escape out of his sight and said in a menacing voice, "I see you two...and there is no way that you two will get out of here...alive."

He then jumps out of there and then he lets out a huge roar as he was about to land on where the boys are and it suddenly caught their attetion as they heard the evil tiger's roar coming out of nowhere and they can sense that he's coming. The young white tiger froze for a second and he asked, "Santiago?"

"Yeah?" asked Santiago, in a fearful tone on his voice.

"I have a feeling that Benkei is near." the young white tiger replied.

All of a sudden, not even 10 seconds in and already, Benkei already landed in front of them and the evil white tiger lets out an angry growl as he was near the young white tiger and he got in his face and said, "Trying to run from me, Byakko? Well, I'll make sure that the one place you'll run...is in your grave."

Benkei strikes up his claws to aim at Byakko's face, but Byakko immediately went on the attack mode as he slams down Benkei with his hands and struck him with his darkness force of power where it landed on his body, but for some reason...Benkei dodged the blow byakko gave and the young white tiger completely grew ticked at this and Benkei said, "The world is a cruel place and you two will never belong because you're monsters in this world."

The term 'monster' echoes into Byakko's mind as he heard it from him a million times throughout his life because of his powers that have often gotten him into being an outsider from the world he knew for one reason...he is a half-demon.

15 years ago...

A baby white tiger was born into the world where he was surrounded by his parents in a little cave somewhere in China and after looking at his mom and dad for the first time, he looks at them, smiling and happy...so much so that he immediately lets out an electric power out of his finger and struck a tree branch in half. Both parents looked at the young tiger and immediately realized that this is no ordinary baby. His father saw the signs of his powers and found out that he is a half-demon like himself and he hopes that one day he can teach him to control his powers.

His father picked the little tiger cub up and saw a japanese sign on top of his forehead that represented that he's a white tiger and decided to name the tiger Byakko. He looked at his son and figured that he'll do whatever he can to make sure that he is sheltered from the harshness of the world that sees him and his powers.

But that kind of plan and life would be soon be short-lived because they were all unaware that a certain stranger sees his old rival looking at his new family and when he witnessed the boy's powers, he knew right there and then that he'll put an end to the cub's parents and also the cub too. He lets out a quiet, sinister snarl to form his devious plan to kill the cub's father and his mother so he'll take the young tiger in for evil reasons.

Then, just a week after Byakko was born, a certain tragedy would come in that will one day be embedded on his head forever...when the family's house was burned to the ground and two of his parents were killed. It was a horrifying image that will always be replayed on the back of his head for the rest of his life and suddenly, not long after, the villagers looked in horror as the entire house caved in engulfing the bodies of Byakko's parents and immediately, all fingers are pointed at Byakko for his powers calling him a 'monster', 'savage beast' or 'tiger murderer', accused and blamed for supposedly killing the people he was supposed to love.

Racked with guilt and fear in his eyes, the young tiger cub ran away from that home and he couldn't stand to be called what other people see him...as a monster. He ran and ran and ran until he found a cave to hide himself away from everything and everyone. Meanwhile, the baby cub couldn't take the image of seeing his parents get killed by the fire, thinking that he might be the cause for it and he looked at his hands and saw that those powers of his are responsible for slaying people.

He just laid down on the ground, cold and alone and just cried...cried without a care in the world. Suddenly, a dark shadowy figure lurks in the cave and there was an older white tiger coming in and he saw Byakko for the first time and he sees that mark on the cub's forehead where it resembled the same sign on his father's forehead and figured that as long as he kept him around, he can put an end to his life for he knows of his powers.

But what the young cub didn't know is that the older tiger was hiding a deep, dark, demonic secret that had something to do with his parent's death, which will be the cause of manipulating the young Byakko throughout the course of his life and as he took him in, he decided to keep him thinking that he may one day be of 'use to him.'

As the years went by, the young white tiger was kept in Benkei's underground cavern to keep the young tiger away from the outside world where no one can accept him because of the fact that he is a monster. And Benkei kept telling Byakko that his parents abandoned him because of those powers and that they never really loved him because he is a monster in order to hide his secret to make Byakko believe it.

As Byakko tried his best to keep his powers under control, it makes it harder for him to do so because each time he comes over and sees some kids, they tend to look at his claws and fangs, thinking that he might kill him or use his powers to destroy lives and ran away from him with fear in their heads. Each time they ran away from him, it only makes Byakko feel frustrated to know that no one will accept him and even at the village, he gets picked on or even blamed for anything he didn't do. The more he thought about it, the more alone he feels and it made him feel like he really is a savage beast or a tiger freak.

As Benkei kept him around, Byakko became a victim of Benkei's abuse...mentally, physically and emotionally; barely showing any concern for him, beating him and harming him when he gets in trouble and also saying that he'll never amount to anything because people will hurt a certain beast or monster like him and it's those thoughts that made him feel like he shouldn't even live anymore.

Then, one day when he was about 5 years of age, a couple of kids from across the street picked on Byakko for no reason, trying to make him mad and let him be blamed for using of his powers directly at them. They shoved him down, poked him and even slapped him in the face while they're still laughing at him and one of them even spat at his face. That made him feel like he was about to lose it at any minute, but instead...Byakko broke down and cried, in which the kids still tormented him at all calling him 'a crybaby monster'.

Just then, a 7 year old white wolf came in front of Byakko and growled at them for torturing the young white tiger. He then spat out, "Unless you wanna torture me...leave this young tiger alone before I expose my ugly side towards you!"

The young kids looked at the white wolf and sees that he meant business and quickly got away from him and when he turns around, Byakko was gone. He walked all across the forest, sniffing out his scent and when he smelled Byakko's scent, he followed it until it reaches a cave where he heard someone crying. He silently walks inside there and not long after, he sees Byakko crying from behind.

The young wolf didn't know what to do at that point or what to say, but Byakko heard him coming anyway and he just turns around and lets out a snarl with tears coming out of his eyes and he screamed, "GO AWAY!"

Byakko turns around and he continued to cry hoping that the wolf would just leave him alone, but to his surprise...he's still here. He didn't really think that he would actually still be here instead of running away from him and the young tiger then asked him, "Why aren't you running away from me?"

The young wolf looked at him in confusion and he asked, "Why would I?"

"Aren't you...scared of me?" asked Byakko, with a broken voice.

To Byakko's shock, the wolf nodded his head and realized that he met someone that isn't afraid of Byakko and that he cares...though he doesn't know what that feels like. He then turns to him and asked, "Why did you do that for me? No one ever sticks their neck out for me."

The wolf comes closer to Byakko and he said, "I've been picked on before and people call me a monster because I'm just a wolf...thinking that I'm desired to kill...and that my powers are something that I can't control."

To see that Byakko and that wolf have something in common...it made him feel like he's not alone anymore though he still feels that way. Then, the young wolf said, "I just don't like it when people treat people so unfairly and give them misery all the time."

Byakko quietly went up to him and he looks at him and then he asked, "You're not really afraid of me?"

"No. Are you afraid of me?"

One look at the young white wolf and he sees deep in his eyes that it showed a sense of compassion...something he never felt before or even knew what it's about. But to see that he has the same feelings as he has makes him realize that he does care. He then replied, "No."

"I'm Santiago."

"I'm Byakko...and thanks for sticking up for me."

Both of them were unaware that Benkei was right there, watching this friendship come to fruition and he was familiarized by that white wolf because he's a half-demon as well like his father and that he knew he found him anywhere after an awful secret he had hidden years before he met Byakko. As the two of them got out, Benkei went in front of them and Byakko knew that he was gonna be in big trouble and he took both of them back to his domain where the torture continued.

Both boys stuck together throughout Benkei's harsh abuse where they got scarred, beaten up, clawed and hated by both Benkei and everyone else in the surface because of their powers.

Somehow, Benkei kept his manipulating ways fooling both Byakko and Santiago that their powers were responsible for the deaths of their parents and that they should deserve to be hated and rejected by everyone and everything. Both boys never liked Benkei and they couldn't stand to live in constant fear of his ways and hoped that one day they'll escape his wrath.

Then, he stuck out his sword directly at them and he said, "If either one of you plans to leave this place, you will receive a harsh and painful punishment that will ultimately be a fateful choice."

That ounce of fear seeped into their minds as they knew they would face death if they ever leave Benkei's sight.

In the present day...

Byakko didn't feel like talking to Benkei, so he growled at him, leaped up at him and scratched his face off and used his fire power to place flames into himself, but instead, hit a tree and when it fell down, both boys continued to run away from Beneki's sight.

Santiago looked at Byakko and he asked, "Where are we going?"

Byakko started panting heavily and he said, "I don't know, but anywhere's better than dealing with Benkei. Hopefully, we can find somewhere where he can no longer find us."

"I hope you're right, Byakko. Or no one can find us because who'd accept two monsters like us?" asked Santiago.

Byakko knew that Santiago was right...who would accept them as friends because of their powers? Those powers of theirs are destined to kill and destroy lives and everything, not to mention anyone they would soon care about. Thinking back on the time his parents are dead, he lets out a deep sigh of regret and hurt knowing that their parents really did abandon him because he was a monster and as a result, killed them. He tried to get that image out of his head and tried his best to shield any emotion he had in him and continued running away.

Meanwhile, Benkei got out of the firey tree and continued setting his way finding both Byakko and Santiago and he knows the full penalty they'll pay for running away from them. He lets out a huge roar as he drew his sword out and said, "You will regret the day you got away from me! Now you'll taste the same fate your parents had years ago! And when I find you, I'll make sure your last days on earth will come in a quick and painful end."

How's that for a beginning? If you guys have any editing suggestions to this, let me know! This is only the beginning of the story!