Chapter 5

(Jim's pov)

The kid, Dante, went hunting with Shadow as I started camping for the night.

"I feel bad for Dante..." Mizuki mumbled.

"I know. Those guys are messed up to do this to him like this." I sighed.

"I never thought they used something from a story to do that to Dante. A story...that's fiction for god sake." Rachael growled.

"I know..." Dante said behind me.

I look behind me and I see Dante hanging upside down by a tree with his tail and with a dead python in his mouth. I jumped a bit of how scary he looked from up close with his pure white eyes.

"Jeez, Dante! Don't do that." I shouted with a panic.

He grinned mischievously and gets himself off the tree and landed perfectly on the ground. He starts eating his python as Shadow came with dead snakes.

"Well...hope you guys like snakes that's what we're going to eat today."

2 hours later after gathering enough wood, I lit up the wood and had to cook the snakes away from the xenomorphs and Dante cause I didn't want to scare them with fire.

Rachael helped me out with putting the snakes in a stick and letting them roast near the fire. I couldn't help how Dante was eating the python raw.

"How can you be eating the snake raw, Dante? Doesn't that mess with your stomach?" I asked.

"Not really. That experiment made me change my diet to eating meat whether it's raw or not." He shrugged.

Great...he's a carnivore now. Those assholes really messed him up. As the snakes were cooked, I hear Dante mumbling "Don't need this shirt anymore." as I saw him take off his shirt and tosses it on the ground. I can see why since the shirt was in no good condition like he got in into a fight.

"Mmm...this python tastes like chicken." Dante muttered.

(A/N: Yeah...I'm trying to have myself act like Naked Snake from Snake Eater eating animals since I'm a carnivore now. XD)

"Huh? Does it really taste like chicken?" I said with confusion.

"Yeah...pretty tangy and juicy like chicken. Not as stringy like chicken but it's great!" Dante chirped.

Rachael groaned as she took her cooked snake and and started eating it.

"Did you eat something else other than a snake?" I asked Dante.

He didn't say anything until I took my cooked snake.

"I ate a rat. Not too bad I do say so myself." He grinned.

I winced the moment he said that. Why did I even ask him that is beyond me?

"You're disgusting..." I whispered.

"Heard that." He chuckled.

Damn it. Forgot xenomorphs or in Dante's case a hybrid have very good hearing.

"Any more questions you want to ask?" Dante asked as he bit the head off of the python.

"Nope. Nope. I think we had enough of hearing you eating animals." I quickly replied.

He just shrugged and finished eating the rest of his python. After eating our meal, I extinguished the fire and went to sleep. Or so I thought...

(Dante's pov)

I couldn't sleep...I was beginning to think of that nightmare my character had in my story where he dreamt about losing control...killing everyone in sight...like an animal.

"Dante?" I heard Shadow's voice.

I look behind me to see Shadow walking towards me.

"Oh...hey, Shadow."

"What are you doing, Dante? Shouldn't you be sleeping?"

"I just can't think of what they did to me...a monster...a freak of human nature...a-"

I didn't continue when Shadow held me close and stroked my hair.

"Stop saying that. You're not a freak. You may not look human but you still have the mind of a human. That still makes who you are." She said with a gentle tone.

I sighed as I laid my head on her. She's right...if I didn't had the mind of a human, I'd probably kill my friends with no hesitation.

"I...You're right...I shouldn't have said that. It's that I feel so mad that I was turned like this..."

"At least you got rid of their formula that could've gone worse."

"Right..." I said rather tired as I begin to sleep on Shadow.

"Good night, Dante." Shadow said as we laid down on the ground.

"Night, Shadow." I yawned.

"Love is in the air..." I heard Jim whisper.

Really?...I wasn't in a mood for someone jumping the gun that I love just because we met so I used my tail to grab a small pebble and threw it at Jim. Resulting a small yelp from Jim. I swear some people overlook things right off the bat...