All around you were humans chanting anti monster rhetoric, holding signs and trying to pick fights with monsters and counter protesters. You stood in front of the large group, practically leading them in their chants. Your father, the founder of Humanity's Last Chance stood beside you, his voice rising above the others. Today was the grand opening of the first monster-human bar and grill, a relatively small that is called Grillbz. The first step of society trying to unite these 2 opposing sides. A union you, your family, and any sane person were against. It was obvious that this would be a disaster. Obviously these monsters were a danger to humanity.
It was the reason they were locked away in the first place. The reason why those 7 brave mages, 1 of which your family descended from, fought valiantly. For the good of humankind. And a year ago today, that noble effort was thwarted by the seal being broke. By some little kid who happened to stumble upon it. It's not that you hated the kid. She was obviously as brainwashed as these counter protesters. So obviously blinded to the threats they pose that they'd willingly fight for them.
The group got louder as the owner and mayor approached the red ribbon in front of the building.
"Citizens ofMissould, we are gathered here today to celebrate a huge victory in the fight for equality. With this, we proudly announce that we stand with monsters and will support them on this long and hard journey." the mayor handed the giant pair of scissors to the fire monster, whom the bar was named after and posed for the cameras as the ribbon was cut. Cheers erupted from the pro monster side and people began flooding the place, mostly it was humans, as most monsters seemed smart enough to stay away when the HLC was present.
You and those around you obviously weren't allowed in, not that you wanted to anyways. A few tried to corner the mayor, demand why he would ever allow this, but you figured it would be a waste of time. Back when monsters first came up, our town was further away so it took a while for them to actually reach us. And when they did, our mayor was very against them, refused to even let them set foot into town. But he eventually caved. Due to pressure from some civilians, he agreed to meet with them. And after a few meetings with the ambassador and the king and queen, he too fell victim to whatever cruel plan they had.
"Hey. Alex you ready to go?" Jane, your best friend asked. She had been the one to convince you to get so involved in the first place. In the beginning you were on the fence, preferring to wait and see before passing judgement. You grew up with tales about evil creatures that had preyed on humanity with their god forsaken powers, but didn't put much thought into it. But then your family reminded you about your history and how it would disgrace the mages who gave their life and you caved. Even after that, you preferred to sit on the sidelines and protest in smaller ways. Big crowds were never your thing, but she pointed out the importance of a unified community and you had caved again. Looking back now, you were grateful for them giving you those much needed wake up calls.
You looked over at your father, who was still chanting and arguing with some stray people while hadn't gone in and decided it was time to leave. There were other ways you could help your cause and staying here was not one of them. The people here had already picked their side.
As you walked to your little car, you saw a van pull in and out stepped the ambassador herself, the king and queen, 2 skeletons, a fish lady, and a lizard lady. The latter 4 you didn't know, but they must've been important. They all seemed happy, all cracking jokes and laughing together while making their way to the sighed and finished putting your signs and other bags contains pins and pamphlets in and took another quick glance in their direction. The smaller of the skeleton had taken to looking at you, causing cold dread to fill you. You hurriedly got in your car and started to drive away, not brave enough to risk another glance, but you could still feel the skeletons eyes on you.