A/N: Sorry it's a day late, I got a little busy. Also, there's gonna be a sorta 'pause' on Gilbert as a new character is introduced. Also there's a little warning for some violent stuff.

Part Two: Arthur

Arthur Kirkland shook slightly as it continued to rain, like it had been all day. He had just gotten away from the 'doctors' that had taken him away six years ago when he was four. He had long, blonde rabbit ears now and a small rabbit tail too. He was trying to find his home, but he didn't even know where he was.

He sneezed a little and looked around, but every building was starting to look the same. He was hoping he could at least find a place to stay the night if it got too late. He was starting to get hungry, but it seemed every place he could something at was closed. And even if he could get there, he didn't have any money to pay for it.

He was getting tired, and his legs were starting to hurt. Luckily, Arthur found an alley and a box in it on it's side.

"Hopefully that will keep me dry." he quietly said to himself, starting to walk towards the alley. When he was almost there, though, one of his ears got in the way, and he tripped over it, falling on the ground and scrapping his knee and elbow. He frowned and tears started to come to his eyes. He had had about enough of this. He was in the middle of the sidewalk, but he didn't care. He curled up into a ball, covering himself with his other soft ear, trying to protect himself from the rain as he cried. He found himself falling asleep, but didn't mind and let himself. Arthur didn't sleep peacefully though, dreaming of when he was with the 'doctors', away from home. ...

Arthur had been in a small room with just a bed and a desk. There was a coloring book on it with only a few colors of crayons to choose from. He got a meal three times a day, but he was never let out of the room, and he never saw anyone. After two weeks alone there, he saw a mint colored bunny that had little wings and could fly. He befriended it.

He had been sitting on the bed several months later, talking with the flying mint bunny, when he heard the door open. Arthur looked over curiously to see a man come in the room. The man had his nose and mouth covered with a mask and had long rubber gloves on. He dressed like a doctor, but there was blood on the white coat. Arthur backed up as far from the man as he could, shaking as the man silently approached him.

"I'm not going to hurt you too much." the man had told him as he got to him and picked the toddler up. "You'll be fine."

"L-Let me go!" Arthur knew by now that whoever had taken him from his brothers and parents were no good. And he knew what they were doing with people too. The flying mint bunny had told him the doctors were taking little people like him and mixing them with animals. Arthur had been confused at first, but he understood it after a week. He didn't want that to happen to him.

"Somebody, help me!" Arthur desperately cried out, struggling against the man's hold on him. "Please!"

The man told him to be quiet, no one can hear him. Arthur didn't stop calling for help though. The man carrying him stuck him with a needle, and Arthur fell silent and limp. He was still conscious, though, as he watched where he was being taken.

The man lied Arthur down on a cold, metal table. There were other doctors around, setting up some things. Arthur wasn't sure what was going on, but whatever the man had given him made him a little slow and calm.

"What are you doing?" Arthur quietly asked.

"We're making you better, dear." one of the female doctors there told him.

"But I'm not sick."

"No, you're not. We're making you better than human."

The statement confused Arthur, but then another doctor came over and clasped his wrist and ankles to the table. Arthur was getting scared, but then he was given another shot of what he had been given before, but there was more in the needle this time. He went limp again, and everything was hazy. He was calm again and couldn't make out what was being said. His vision was a little blurry too. He could still feel the pain that came though.

Arthur felt his shirt being cut off and the cold of the table on his bare back. Something was written or drawn on his chest. A cloth was put over his face lightly. After a few minutes, Arthur felt a needle being stuck in his arm and it stayed there. It seemed to be taking his blood. Arthur began to grow light headed after a few minutes. Then, his blood stopped being taken after about half of it, or it felt like it, had been drained from him, but the needle stayed in his arm.

Something cold and sharp was put on his chest. Arthur didn't flinch back or move as he was cut open. He didn't know when they stopped, but when they did, something was put in. It was inserted into something inside him, be he wasn't sure what it was. Something was turned on, and then he felt something going into him through it. That went on for several hours.

Eventually, Arthur's chest was stitched back up and blood was put back into him. He was picked up and brought back to the room with the bed and lied down on it. The same process went on for another month, but blood was taken only once a week.

Arthur found himself in the room again, but he was full conscious this time. He looked around at the doctors there as he sat on the cold table.

"You... you won't cut me open today, right?" he quietly asked, looking up at them.

A man chuckled and ruffled Arthur's already messy hair. "No. Not today. You won't stay here long today actually."

"I won't" Arthur looked up at him hopefully.

"No, you won't." The man held Arthur's arms down by his sides.

"Wh-what are you doing?" He quietly asked, getting scared again.

"Sh. Don't worry about it."

That was the last thing that Arthur heard for a while. He felt someone behind him brush his hair away from his ears and hold it back. Then, he felt both his ears cut off at the same time almost. He screamed in pain, but couldn't hear it. Tears were falling and he struggled to get away from them. He wanted to be let go of. He was held still as his head was bandaged. He tried to struggle still until someone gave him the shot again that calmed him down. He was brought to his room again and stayed there for what seemed like forever.

While he was in his room alone again, with only the flying mint bunny for company, Arthur noticed something strange start to happen. He was starting to be get his hearing back. He didn't know how until his friend told him that he was growing rabbit ears. Arthur didn't believe him at first, thinking that was insane.

The doctors brought him back to the room several months after that. Arthur didn't know it was almost his birthday by now. The doctors gave him several shots, and then they made him swallow something. This went on everyday, the shots getting more painful, until he was sitting in his room, talking with the flying mint bunny one day.

"I know a way you can get out of here." the flying mint bunny told him.

"You do?" Arthur quietly asked. "Why haven't you told me sooner?"

"I needed to make sure it was safe for you. It took a while, and I found it not too long ago."

"Oh. Can you show it to me?"

"Of course." The flying mint bunny lead Arthur out of his room and down several hallways. He was caught by one of the men not too long after he left his room.

"Trying to escape?" Arthur shook his head, but the man that caught him knew he was lying. He threw Arthur into a dark, cold room and locked the door. Arthur was unable to get out. He was forced to stay there for two days.

When he was back in his own room, Arthur didn't dare try to leave. But the thought kept nagging at him. He would hide when the doctors came to get him. When they found him, he would struggle as hard as he could, crying. A month later, Arthur tried escaping again, only to meet the same fate he had the first time.

Eventually, though, Arthur managed to finally escape. He ran as far away from the place he had been until he was sure he was far enough away.