Ch 3: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Change

"Go away!" came muffled through the door.

Yuki could hear the pain in her voice and reached for the knob anyway, letting herself in gently. With the door closed behind her she moved softly towards Scarlet on the bed, looking at the curled up fox, her heart breaking at the sound of her tears. She sat next to her, reaching out despite the flinch Scarlet gave when her hand landed on the younger faunus's shoulder, "Scarlet… did something happen with your kitten?"

But Scarlet said nothing. She simply laid there, curling on herself tighter with a shudder and a deeper ache. Yuki could hardly take it. She gently moved closer, moving Scarlet's head onto her lap, gentle fingers running through soft curls, "Tell me what happened sweetie."

Yuki could feel Scarlet's fingers gripping hold of her with a need to ground herself in something and she bit her lip, Scarlet's face burying in her lap, "S…she… it was a trick… it was all just to prove I-I'm a freak… she told everyone… showed everyone…"

There wasn't anything else Scarlet got out before she was crying again but Yuki didn't need further detail to know the answers. A rage boiled inside her at how Scarlet had been treated but for now she swallowed it down to care for the girl, soothing her until she exhausted herself into sleep. When the tiger slipped from under her and crept out the room, that rage flared so intensely it could not be hidden.

When she found Carmine in the field, he was not sure what to expect by the face she was making and how she was approaching him. With a rub of the sweat on his forehead and a light pant from all the work he was doing, he glanced at her confused, "Yuki…what are you doing out here…woah!"

She grabbed him by the shirt, yanking him roughly along with her, "We can chat on the way. We have something to go handle."

His father and brother were watching confused, Crimson complaining after them as Carmine squirmed, "Can't this wait until I'm done working?"

She stopped, turning on him so fast he yelped, "Carmine Lucifer Sleight if you don't shut up and follow me right now I will go home and you will not see me for a month! And you bet your ass you will stay here when I go into heat. I make myself clear?"

He said nothing, swallowing hard and nodding rapidly. She gave a nod, snorting air through her nostrils as she grabbed his hand and pulled him. Crimson growled, cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting, "You're so whipped!"

He got a middle finger in response and a smack in the back of the head by their father as the couple disappeared towards town. When they were well on their way, Carmine sighed, "Yuki can you please at least tell me what's going on now?"

She growled, clearly frustrated, "That bitch did something terrible to your sister! I told you I had a bad feeling, Carmine. She tricked her and exposed her to everyone!"

He rumbled angrily, "What?!"

"Oh yea. She's in her room right now crying covered in bruises and blood those little fucking bastards. How dare they lay a hand on her! I'll kill them!"

He caught up to her quick steps. He knew she wouldn't actually kill anyone but it was still a scary thought, or it would be if he wasn't also now determined to crack a few skulls together, "what are we going so slow for then? We gotta go!"

God she loved this man. She began a brisk run and he followed until they came across the local hangout. It had been the same when they were young as well. Sure enough the bunch of teens were still there and clearly still joking at Scarlet's expense, Bri currently straddled across that boy's lap now and very proud of herself. When they walked up, the cat's tail whipped around, her eyes narrowing at them, "who are you two?"

Yuki growled but Carmine grabbed her by the wrist before she could storm over, his ears folding back angrily as his teeth bared at them, "Wait a moment Yuki, they should know why they are about to meet god."

Some of the teens, those of a weaker will, seemed to cower a bit at the clearly agitated adults before them, especially with Carmine's massive size and clear amount of muscle. Bri, however, narrowed her eyes, flexing intense alpha confidence that didn't seem to do much but annoy the two, Yuki snorting to clear her nose of the foul smell as Carmine tensed and growled more deeply, "You two have an issue I see. Why not just be out with it then so we can get this over with?"

Bri's confidence did seem to help inspire her gaggle of friends though even if it only proved to make the other two more irate, gaining the group's favor in standing their ground. Now Carmine was the one trying not to rush over, "You messed with my little sister!"

At first, it seemed like that cat was trying to consider who he meant before a smirk graced her features, "Oh the like freaky fox? You call that your sister? Wouldn't that be more of a brother? That's how that works right? A penis usually means you're a boy after all."

Yuki slipped from his grip, moving over quickly. Her rush spooked the teens and they stepped back a moment away from her, not actually sure they wanted to fight any grown adults as she snatched Bri up by her shirt, ripping her from the boy's lap and dragging her to the ground, slamming her down into the dirt and watching the cat gasp from having the wind knocked from her lungs. Her hands gripped at Yuki's wrists as the tiger growled, "Shut your fucking face! Say one more damn thing in front of me about that sweet girl I fucking dare you!"

She was still coughing trying to get air back in her lungs. The sight made the boys scatter but Carmine growled, blocking the best exit and kicking a few of them back, grabbing a few more, locking one in her arm at their neck while the other dangled in the air by the shirt collar from his other hand. The few kicked back squirmed to their feet though one was trapped under one of Carmine's strong feet being pressed down hard and gasping for air.

"Let go of me crazy bitch!" Bri screamed though there was panic in her eyes. Yuki brought a fist down into her face, busting her lip before she tossed her over like garbage, the cat crashing into a few crates with a painful hiss. Rage filled eyes locked onto the ones Carmine was trapping, his growls setting fear in them as the three squirmed uselessly in his grasp. She ran over, ripping the one from his hand in the air and pinning him. The bruises on the boy's knuckles told her he was one of the ones to actually hit Scarlet and that only fueled her anger, gripping his hair and smashing him countlessly into the ground.

The moment Carmine noticed why she was doing so, his eyes scanned over the ones he still had. The one under his arm had a bruised bite mark on his arm but the one under his foot losing air also had signs he had hit Scarlet, little blood droplets on his sleeve and shirt and tears in the shirt from her nails he assumed. He squeezed at the neck until the boy went limp then dropped him unconscious on the dirt before leaning heavily into the other with his weight on his foot, chest rumbling with the full might of his intense alpha as he showed his teeth and pinned him harder and harder, watching the boy begin to squirm in panic for air and from pain.

The moment Carmine heard a single crack and the boy cried out in pain, Carmine stopped adding pressure, "you touch her again and I'll break more than a rip you understand?"

The boy could only nod, wheezing as Carmine let him go. All the teens scrambled away quickly, though Bri's glare told Yuki this probably wasn't over. She reached out, already trying to calm herself, and stroked his arm before wrapping her arms around him from behind, hands rubbing along his chest to soothe the rumbling anger inside him as she nuzzled into his back to help calm herself in his scent, "Sssshhh Carmine. Baby it's over. Relax."

He took deep breaths, her energy and sent wrapping around him and helping calm him, "It's not over Yuki. They will keep bothering her, and so will more people. This will never be over…"

She buried her face in his sweaty back, taking in a deep breath. She knew he was right deep down but at least they had scared this bunch for now.

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And of course he had been right. As time passed, Scarlet came home more often with bruises and blood, both her own and others on her more often then she came home clean. Another girl or two had also bothered her though no one hurt her quite like Bri, these few were fetish chasing Scarlet and when the fox wouldn't give in to them or when she did and they got what they wanted from her, the result was always the same. By the time Scarlet turned sixteen, she had dated at least three other girls.

The first, was a bat faunus that was only interested in Scarlet as an "experience" though she didn't come clean about it until Scarlet refused to sleep with her, dumping the fox because it was the only reason she was around. The second, a dog faunus, pretended to love Scarlet as well and after a year of putting up a front when Scarlet let herself fall for the dog and finally gave in to a request for intimacy, the dog left her the very next day, going as far as lying about it ever happening and acting as if Scarlet was delusional about the entire exchange of "feelings". When she recovered and dated the third, a high energy sweet seeming monkey faunus, they were together for a while but the moment Scarlet got the feeling she was being used again she ended things.

She didn't even care how awful she acted when she dumped the girl ,tired of being used for a trait she was born with. She wasn't in this world to be a toy for people. It never occurred to her that standing up for herself could have such terrible consequences until it was too late. While walking home from a day on the beach to relax and just clear her head, the moon already out, she felt the hairs on her neck stand and her tail frizz. Someone was following her.

She tried to remain calm but everything was only getting more uncomfortable as she noticed the figure stalking her with a quick glance behind her. She wasn't sure what it was about really, tugging at her pull over to cover herself more in her suit, suddenly feeling very exposed even with it and shorts on. When she made a turn towards home, it was very obvious she was being followed directly but before she could try to take off for the house up the road, a set of hands reached out from a nearby barn belonging to a neighbor, yanking her back with one hand over her mouth and the other gripping hold of her pullover.

(THE FOLLOWING WILL INCLUDE SEXUAL ASSAULT. PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEXT BOLD NOTE IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO READ IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.)

She yelped into the hand and tried to bite at it but the strong fingers pressing into her jaw kept it pried open, unable to close as thumb and finger curled around her mouth to the hinge of her jaw and pressed into it so firmly she couldn't close her teeth at all. Fear was quickly seeping in as she growled and struggled but the grip on her was stronger, the other arm already around her waist and dragging her into the building.

The figure following finally caught up. It was her most recent ex and she was staring daggers into Scarlet. In this moment, Scarlet had never felt so panicked in her life, worry of what might happen filling her every fiber of her being. Her ex, Harmony, was growling, her at will shifting beast trying to press her energy angrily at Scarlet as she reached out, moving curls from her face, "you look interesting so helpless. Aren't you an alpha? You sure are easy to hold down…"

The hand around her was moving asn suddenly grabbing for her wrists that were clawing into the hand on her mouth, the ache in her jaw almost unbearable. She flailed, trying to keep from being grasped but the hand landed a fist into the side of her head, making her vision pop and blur as her brain swayed. In her moment of delirium from the impact, the hand was able to grasp her wrist one by one and restrained them with rope from nearby. Her body dropped into the damp hay on the ground without a care as the person moved next to Harmony. Scarlet noticed it was a man though she couldn't tell what his trait was at first as she shook her head trying to get her eyes to focus again.

In the minutes that followed, everything happened so fast she could hardly tell what was going on. Harmony had moved to sit on her waist, pressing her nails under Scarlet's pull over and digging them painfully into her bare stomach as her monkey tail wrapped at the top of Scarlet's shorts, popping the button clean off the fabric. The man reached out, pinning Scarlet down by her shoulders to stop her struggling form, Scarlet's eyes wide with panic, "H-Harmony please… d…don't do this…"

The monkey just smirked darkly at her, running her fingernails painfully along Scarlet's skin, drawing blood and watching Scarlet yelp and squirm uselessly in the man's powerful grip, he too was pressing out energy at her but his was pure unfiltered alpha energy. Worse yet, it was an apex presence she could do nothing but cower under the weight of, practically choking on it it was so strong. She noticed his trait now. It was clear as day. A set of sharp great white shark teeth were gleaming at her in the dim light and striking terror into her very soul.

Her eyes and her entire being shook as her body kicked into full gear, thrashing about uselessly against his grip and Harmony's weight fully seated on her, whimpering madly. He was pressing harder into her now, his weight causing cracking sounds to leave her shoulders as bones fractured under the intensity, pain searing through her and she stopped struggling now when she realized he would let up some if she did. Harmony already had her shorts slid down to her thighs and was shifting herself against the fox, but when she didn't find anything she almost seemed to spark with interest, leaning in close.

Scarlet turned her face away, wet with tears from pain and refusing to look at her as she whispered, "So it is true then. You have a nice furry set of balls and a sheath to hide everything don't you?"

Scarlet wouldn't answer, staring at anything to distract herself as a hand left her stomach and yanked at her swimsuit bottom, revealing the fur covered orbs and opening of a furred sheath. The girl's fingers forced down into it making Scarlet jerk and yelp loudly, her nails scratching sensitive inner skin inside the sheath as Harmony dug down inside, hunting for the tip of her length. Scarlet grit her teeth and tried hard but she couldn't stop her body responding as the finger stroked against the tip inside, the length growing out past the sheath a few inches at the teasing on the sensitive slick skin.

She kept her eyes closed. She didn't want to see what Harmony was forcing her body to do, cursing herself inside for not being able to stop the natural response but the shark shook her at the injured bones, his gruff voice making her brain scream, "Open those pretty eyes girlie! You don't get to hide!"

She obeyed before she could even think twice, eyes opening. She could close them again if she wanted but she was worried about him hurting her any further. She felt him tug her head to be forced to watch as Harmony grasped her exposed length, her grip calculated and teasing the skin just enough to make Scarlet jolt around, gritting her teeth to try to resist but failing as her entire length grew out. Harmony grinned, "wow… you are big aren't you? That's hot…"

It made Scarlet feel gross all over as the monkey stroked her length and it throbbed in response, unable to stop it from happening and not being allowed to look away the way she was being forced to watch, feeling helpless as Harmony revealed she had nothing underneath her skirt while lowering herself on Scarlet.

At first, Scarlet squirmed, trying desperately to stop it. She didn't want any of this. But as strong hands dug into her aching cracked bones she screamed, forcing herself to go still if anything to make the pain lessen. Her eyes watered over as the monkey took pleasure from her, riding along the length and making Scarlet miserable anytime she felt a pulse or throb, "Don't cry I can feel that you like it. Feels good doesn't it Scarlet? Nice and warm and tight huh?"

She clenched down on Scarlet's length and Scarlet bit her tongue to stop from gasping, whimpering as blood filled her mouth she was biting so hard. The shark grabbed her jaw again, forcing it open, "Answer her bitch!"

Scarlet gasped, a line of blood dribbling down the corner of her mouth as she whispered, trying her best now to just give them what they wanted so it could be over soon, "y…yes…"

It wasn't true. God it wasn't true. At least emotionally and mentally it wasn't true but physically it was overwhelming. It was everything she was saying it was and the young fox with little experience was struggling to ignore the physical stimulus and signals to her brain. She wasn't going to last but if she didn't maybe it could end soon. She grit her teeth through every roll of the monkey's hips and every noise she made that seemed to only make things harder for her to fight against, she was a tight full fit in the monkey and every squeeze and motion was too much.

When Harmony leaned back into it, moving rapidly to chase her coming high, Scarlet squirmed, trying to catch her breath as the feeling along her length became too much and she whined, tears blurring her vision further and embarrassment filling every fiber of her being at her body betraying her as she filled the other faunus deeply, twitching, her whimpers still releasing in protest as she went rigid against her jolted thrusts her remaining release, ears burning from the sounds of the other faunus coming down from her orgasm, hating every second of that sound.

As the panting faunus pulled off her, Scarlet felt a wave of relief that maybe she could cloth herself now and crawl home in shame but this relief didn't last. She struggled and tried to kick her feet now that her waist was free as the monkey leaned in, licking along the red sensitive flesh to try to tease Scarlet into remaining erect, which was working despite Scarlet beginning to hate herself. She felt a harsh bash of her head to the ground, the hay not thick enough to soften toe blow as the shark growled, "Be still dammit!"

Her brain was spinning from rattling in her skull at the blow, feeling wet on the back of her skull and giving a lulled whimper as she tried not to black out, stars poping in her vision. Before she could really gather herself, she was suddenly very aware she was staring at the hay beneath herself, her entire body flipped to be belly down. She could hear the monkey laughing and the sound of clicks like a camera shutter on a scroll, suddenly kicked into her alpha fight response as she tried with the last of her fight to scramble away, "N-no! No don't! Please don't!"

But a hand reached, grinding her face into the hay to silence her, only making her brain swim more as the pressure on her injury on her head was pushed on, silencing her as the sudden painful push radiated through her lower body, the shark not bothering to take his time or be gentle as he buried his length into her ass, a sharp jerk in her body and squeal of pain was released before she felt her body going numb, her mind drifting to anywhere but here as she lay there, listening to his disgusting grunts and feeling every intense shove into her ache so deeply it was like she couldn't feel it at all all while being unable to block it out as it seared up her spine. Her face went blank and she let herself make whimpers and small noises that faked pleasure, noticing it was helping to get him there faster, just wanting this to be over or to be dead, whichever he would give her first.

Harmony was leaning close, watching her face, "Can't wait to show everyone all the things you will do even with this grown man… what will the faunus in town think? Should teach you not to mess with me."

Scarlet's green eyes had lost their glow, moving to stare at Harmony as she taunted her by showing Scarlet every lewd image she had snapped of the shark fucking her. In a last desperate attempt, she reached with her teeth and bit into the scroll so hard it shattered, cutting her lips but she didn't care if it meant such evidence was gone for good. She didn't even care when the shark smashed her head again, barely able to stay conscious as everything blurred and time seemed to lull in strange lapses until she felt the hot release inside her body, nausea taking her quickly in response.

They didn't untie her, didn't even bother to roll her over so she could actually breathe. They just left her laying there like that, bleeding where he had hurt her, in every place he had hurt her. She didn't even want to breathe, hoping to suffocate in this pile of damp hay if it meant it would all stop hurting. The pounding in her head was so intense and the feeling of his fluids leaking from her torn body made her sick, expelling her stomach contents into the hay she was laying in.

When she couldn't take the smell anymore, clearly not going to die here anytime soon, she rolled herself weakly and managed to slide a wrist from the knots now that she had worn them out in all her struggling and no one was holding her in place anymore. A cry left her as her shoulders throbbed in broken pain from the motions, sobbing from the pain as she slowly raised her shaky body, unable to sit from the pain there and having to get to her feet to avoid any of it. Her sheath burned inside from the scratched skin pressing into the now hidden length, her ass burned and stung from the tearing and violent abuse it had just endured for the first time ever of any entry and from someone rather large or at least it seemed that way, her back ached from all the force and her head was still screaming and spinning, blood in her mouth and dripping from her scalp slowly, stumbling as she got to her feet.

She lowered her hands, struggling to pull the clothing up with a grunt until it was finally in place, shorts staying as best they could without the button. It took great effort but she eventually made it the rest of the way to her home, slipping in quietly and collapsing into her bed. She couldn't move to get out of the soiled clothing, couldn't even remain awake any longer, letting out a ragged breath and using the rest of her strength to pull up her blankets.

(SCENE OVER. YOU SHOULD BE SAFE TO CONTINUE FROM THIS POINT.)

Scarlet would never be the same again. As she blacked out, something inside her snapped and she was swallowed in so much shame, embarrassment, grief and above all irritation and exhaustion and even trying to just live anymore. If everyone was going to constantly use her and only want sex from her, if even her body was going to betray her, than so be it. She would just become what people wanted. It was probably the safest thing she could ever do for herself in her mind.

Her consciousness drifted rapidly, accepting her peace with things but unable to avoid the overwhelming pain and sorrow it was bringing her to even breathe as she said goodbye to the self she loved to welcome something safer, something that could protect her body and her heart. Never again would she allow herself to be too weak to not be in control of everything and anything to happen to her again. She vowed as her mind shut down to look into schools tomorrow. She would become strong enough if it meant losing everything. And like that, everything went black and finally there was quiet and peace.