Disclaimer: Don't own anything but the OCs.
Never Let Go
My bare back was pressed against the cold steel with the bright lights overhead blinding me. The low buzz would have driven me crazy except there were more pressing matters that captured my attention; for example, the psychos that loomed above me poking, prodding, and slicing into me like I was a lump of meat. I could not feel them because of the anesthesia but that did not make it in the least bit bare able. My body was already covered in scars from their "examinations". If I was free, I would have killed these bastards a long time ago. But I was not free and the chances I would be kept growing fainter and fainter. One thought kept me going, 'At least they won't hurt Chie.' The very idea of them performing these same acts on my sister would make me buck off the table and force them to increase the numbing agent. 'Damn you!' I would scream in my head.
Ever since the Kekkai Barrier was taken down everything seemed good. Demons were allowed to go to the human world as long as they did not cause trouble. Chie had always been curious about humans, so she begged me to take her to Ningenkai. How could I say no? I did at first, but she has always been persistent and continued heckling me. "Please, brother," she looked up at me with her hazel eyes. "I won't stop bugging you until you say yes," she threatened for the fiftieth time. I sighed and finally caved in, "Okay."
We were perfect targets: forest demons are rare and powerful creatures. Chie and I could not help the greenish tint in our skin pigment, but most humans thought we just had some strange form of vitamin deficiency. Humans who were aware of demons kept their distance. One day when we were walking around in one of the cities, Chie wanted to make a quick run to one of the convenience stores while I looked over our map. I heard a scream and looked up to see a man grabbing my sister. I saw red as I charged at him. I reached them when I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head and my sight went black.
They told me if I did not cooperate, then they would perform experiments on Chie. Some part of me knew they had to have been lying and were probably already hurting her, but I could not in good conscience risk that so I cooperated like I was their dog.
