Hybrids: No Longer Human (The Story Thread)

“Hey, he’s waking up.”

“About time, what took him so long?”

Alistair heard voices…and, as he began to wake up, all his senses came back to him, not only was he hearing voices but he was smelling a lot of fox in the air, and…what was going on with his mouth? He would run his tongue along his teeth and some were…sharp. Not to mention his smell was definitely better.

He slowly opened his eyes to find about five fox hybrids hovering around him.

Naturally, he panicked.

He jumped into a sitting position, heart pounding in his chest. “Who-who are you people?” He asked, startled from all of this and instantly went to pet his ears…only to find they weren’t there…where were they? He twitched and…

They were standing upright on his head. Why were they doing that? They weren’t supposed to do that, he forced them down and jumped when he saw the color change, why were they black and gray? His ears were supposed to be brown…and white.

If that wasn’t enough, he felt his tail move and watched as the now long, fluffy, gray and black appendage wiggled it’s tip in front of him.

Alistair screamed and fell out of the bed he was in.

“…We picked up a weirdo, this is the last time we pick up random hybrids from dumpsters,” one of the foxes said, and Alistair suddenly became very aware of the people watching him, so he quickly up from the ground and onto his knees to get a better look at them.

There were three guys and two girls, the first guy had darker skin, black hair that was recently cut, and huge ears. The next guy was sort of small, with tan skin, side swept light brown hair, and smaller ears. The last guy was likely around his age, he had dark brown hair, sun kissed skin, and a warm smile on his face.

The girls were a bit different, the first was tall, with long brown hair pulled into a ponytail, pale skin, and gray and white ears, then finally the last girl(who was clinging onto the first girl happily) was short, skinny, and pretty. Her hair was blonde and pink and up in a pretty bun, and her ears were almost as big as the first guy’s.

Alistair looked them all over carefully, with them all looking at him in return. He was starting to feel especially nervous and gave an all too sheepish smile. “Hi.”

The five shared a look before finally, the man with the warm smile walked over and held out his hand to help him up. “Hello, good to see you’re finally up,” he explained and Alistair looked at his hand curiously, a bit confused at first what he was supposed to do.

He looked up at the other teen with a shake of his head, and he only laughed in return. “It’s my hand, grab it and I’ll help you get up,” he explained in a rather nice accent. Alistair couldn’t place where it was from, but it was very nice.

Even though he was still a bit uncertain, he reached up and took the other’s hand, realizing this was the first time he had ever had real physical contact. He was quickly helped to his feet and the teen sent him another smile as he brought his hand back to his side.

“I’m Vincent Swift but you can call me Vinny, a South American gray fox hybrid, if you were wondering,” he explained and Alistair couldn’t really help but be memorized by that accent. He decided that he could listen to Vincent speak all day.

After realizing he had yet to introduce himself, Alistair quickly shook himself out of his mini trance and smiled uncertainly at Vinny. “I’m Alistair Vecktombordra…but uh…I just go by Alistair, I’m a velveteen lop rabbit hybrid,” he explained with a smile.

Finally one of the other’s spoke up, as the shorter girl detached herself from the other and walked over, examine him with curious brown eyes. “Mmm, sorry sweetie, but I don’t think that’s all you are, there’s rabbit in you, no doubt. But honey, you’re part fox too,” she explained.

“I suspect he might be a silver fox, based off of his colorings…” The other girl had started to talk but Alistair had stopped listening as a large wave of realization washed over him. Fox…dumpster…escaping the labs…Abrial…the scientist…he injected him with something.

Wait, Abrail.

Oh no, what happened to her?

Alistair couldn’t help it, he started to hyperventilate, everything around him seemed to spin and he for sure lost his balance. He toppled back over, unaware that Vinny had been there to catch him, and things were already going black once again.

“Oh crap, Cupid what did you do to him?”

“I don’t know! I just told him he was clearly part fox, I didn’t know he would have a panic attack!”

“Well maybe next time you should be a bit more sensitive, he clearly came from the labs…”

Their voices all started to fade and once again, Alistair blacked out.

-

This time he woke up far more peacefully, it was much later, he was fairly certain of that as Alistair propped himself up and looked around the dark room, hands playing with the covers on the bed.

He needed to go over what he knew.

The scientists added another animal, now he was a rabbit…fox…person. With the help of Abrial, he escaped the labs but she…she didn’t. He had been found by a groups of fox hybrids, and one of them had a really nice accent.

Yep, that was about all he knew now.

Sadly, Alistair did not have much time to think, as the door quietly creaked open and Vinny from earlier walked in, he smiled over at Alistair and flipped on the light. “Hey, glad to see you’re awake, gave us all quite a fright,” he explained and walked over with the tray he had brought in.

“Cupid was kind enough to get you something to eat, thought you might be hungry after all of that, you must have been through a lot,” he said and set the tray down in front of Alistair.

Alistair gave a grateful smile. “Thank you Vinny, but I don’t think I could handle any food right now, I’m actually a little nauseous,” he confessed, reaching up to tug one of his odd changed ears down to pet.

Vinny nodded and moved the tray over to a desk. “Well, if you’re up to it, I think the others would love to meet you, perhaps we could all do some explaining,” he suggested and Alistair didn’t give it much though as he agreed and carefully got out of the bed, making sure he didn’t fall over this time.

Once he had stabilized himself, he looked over at Vinny and sent him a nod before following the other fox hybrid out of the room.

He followed him down a hallway and into the main room, there was a living room with a dining room and a kitchen all within the same space, and the other four hybrids were all huddled around the table when Vinny cleared his throat to get their attention.

“Look who woke up,” he started and the other four turned to look at him and Alistair honestly felt just a little like he was getting judged all over again.

The silence seemed to dangle in the air for far too long before finally the girl from before spoke up. “Well look at you, up and about!” She said cheerfully and walked over to him. “I’m Cupid, sorry about the scare earlier honey, I didn’t know you’d pass out…”

“Cupid-“

The fennec fox hybrid looked over at the other girl with an innocent smile. “What? I’m being more sensitive!” She complained before turning back to Alistair and gripping him by the shoulders. “I am being more sensitive sweetie, aren’t I?” She asked.

Alistair gave a nervous smile. “A-absolutely,” he got out and Cupid grinned at him.

“Oh you’re so cute, I could just die,” she said and Alistair’s eyes went wide.

“Don’t do that-“

He was cut off by Cupid again, who practically melted and cooed at him happily before swerving to face one of the other hybrids, the one with the ginormous ears. “Knoxy, can’t we keep him? He’s so young and innocent, I just wanna squeeze him until he pops,” she explained and Alistair was about to tell her to please not do that either when the hybrid in question spoke up.

“Cupid, we don’t even know his story-“

At that point the other girl cut “Knoxy” off. “Knox, he’s from the labs. I’m guessing he’s only recently left it. He’s fox so despite the rabbit, we’d still be true to our theme, and…he’s gonna need some help until he gets adjusted to everything, let him stay,” she ordered, leaving no room for debate.

Knox stared at her before he finally caved and bowed his head. “Fine, he can stay,” he agreed and looked over at Alistair, who was honestly having a hard time wrapping his head around everything. “Alright listen kid, my name is Knox, I’m a bat eared fox hybrid, and these four are my team, you’re in the real world now, and you’re going to need someone to help you through it, so, what I’m trying to say, is…Welcome to the group.”