Prologue: Part One (Basic Information)

A.N. This is an AU story with three OCs in it. (Don't like, don't read) Also everyone is one of three things in this world: A Human, an Animal, or a Halfling. Keep reading if you want to know more.

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone but Kathlyn (the other OCs are owned by two friends.)

This is a place that has been plunged deep into the dark, blood-filled life of war for many eons. A place where the blood of the guilty mixed freely with the blood of the innocent and Equality was sought after like gold. This was a place where Humans and Animals lived in Harmony and Peace and communicated with each other well. This all was changed when the Humans began to see themselves as superior to their Animal counterparts. Soon, the Animals fought back. The Equality they so desperately sought was a prize just out of reach and they became consumed by their want for it. Dying for the prize they desired became nothing, as did killing and kidnapping those of the enemy race. Human scientists took their Animal prisoners and made them their test subjects. Making them change from pure Animals to partly Human. It was an outrage among the blood-thirsty enemies. A new race of people? Ones who are half Animal and half Human? Outrageous. Unthinkable. Utterly insane.

That is the story of how the Halflings came to be, a race born out of war and by hatred and torture. The Humans did not see them as equals either, in fact, to them; they were lower than the Animals. The Animals would have nothing to do with them. This upset the members of the new race and drove them to rebel. Turning from their brethren they fought against Human and Animals alike. Uncaring of whom or what they struck down in battle, so long as they did, they became warriors feared. Continuing the war for more than a century and more than doubling in number, despite the war.

The Humans came to fear the roar of a Tygerling, or the bone-chilling screech of a Batling. Avian, Grinling, and Foxling ambushes remained sickening reminders of the Animalistic traits of the Halflings. Soon the Animals turned on the Humans, betraying them to join their cousins and the fight for Equality was revived. The entire planet was covered in war and outrage, blood and loss, death and blades. The last fight in the war was led by a Grumbling, a Purrling, and a Growling; leading their Animal-Halfling army into the bloodiest victory of them all.

Nearly three hundred years have passed since their Equality was received, but they still bicker and argue. For years after the war they were forced to watch as their most courageous and battle-strong lines were brutally murdered into believed extinction. Tygerlings and Grinlings were believed to be extinct and not a soul as seen a Foxling for nearly 250 years.

But that all changed one day out in the forest….

TYPES OF HALFLINGS

*DOUBLINGS*

-HOWLING/TYGERLING-

Howlings are the tamer side of this doubling, while Tygerlings are the more dangerous side.

-HOWLING/GRINLINGS-

Once again, the Howlings are the tamer side, while the Grinlings are the more unpredictable side.

****This is the "sister" Doubling to the Howling/Tygerling!****

-SNOWLING/FOXLING-

Foxlings are the tamer part of 2 unpredictable sides, with Snowlings being the more dangerous.

*RETURNLINGS*

-AVAIN TO BATLING-

As an avian you are happy and your life is light.

As a Batling you are vengeful and your life is dark.

***This is the only Returnling known. ****

*NORMAL HALFLINGS*

-ATLANTIAN-

Half fish, half Human

-AVIAN-

Half bird, half Human

-BATLING-

Half bat, half Human

-FOXLING-

Half fox, half Human

-GRINLING-

Half cat, half Human

-GROWLING-

Half dog, half Human

-GRUMBLING-

Half bear, half Human

-HOPLING-

Half rabbit, half Human

-HOWLING-

Half wolf, half Human

-MEOWLING-

Half cat, half Human

****THIS IS THE FRIENDLY ONE!****

-OWLING-

Half owl, half Human

-PURRLING-

Half cat, half Human

****THIS IS THE FIERCE ONE!****

-SNOWLING-

Half snow leopard, half Human

-SPRINTLING-

Half cheetah, half Human

-TYGERLING-

Half tiger, half Human