Welcome back, gang. Here is the new evabon story you've been waiting for. Three chapters and you'll love it. Maybe even feel sorry about the evabon.
Not Monsters
Claudus, Lion-O and Tygra all looked over the evabon in the slave camp. Claudus sighed in frustration. Not a single gray skinned evabon in sight! He had encountered the legendary Gard before and knew him to be an evabon, gray skinned but an evabon nonetheless. It was he who had given Claudus the scar on his nose. Claudus would never forget that.
Lion-O walked down the stairs connected to the wall. Tygra followed him. They had never seen evabon before. They were curious about this race.
Tygra then saw an old evabon, green skinned, standing up to a cat with a whip. Tygra starred at this old evabon. To see such courage in something that wasn't a cat was strange to him.
"Pick up those bricks you monster!" The taskmaster was turning red in anger. This monster dared stand up to him?
"We're not monsters!" The evabon stood defiantly at the taskmaster. Tygra felt ashamed that his weapon of choice was a whip. "We're people, same as you!"
"You dare compare yourselves to us?" The taskmaster grabbed a knife off of a table that had meat on it. Within the blink of an eye he threw the knife at the old evabon. Tygra's eyes widened in horror as the old evabon fell onto his back into the mud. There were cries of "Draba!" and "Draba's been murdered!" Tygra walked towards the fallen form and kneeled to look old Draba in the eyes.
"Leave it, Tygra!" Tygra looked up at Claudus.
"I won't leave someone to die in the mud!" This was one of the few times that Tygra did not obey Claudus. This time was for reasons of respect.
"It does not matter." Tygra looked down at Draba. He was fading and fast. "Death is a release for me. I've done what I had to do so Gladius, his wife and infant son could escape." Draba shook his head. "No one should be born a slave." Tears fell from Tygra's eyes as Draba died. He had died so a family could escape. But how did they escape? Tygra then turned his head as Lion-O appeared behind him. Tygra didn't know how he could feel this way about someone that wasn't a cat.
"Are you going to be alright?"
"Ask me later." Tygra picked up the body and placed it on a blanket. He failed to keep Draba from dying in the mud. If only he could find this Gladius and his family.