memories

Krofire is a 16 year old boy who lives in a country where a virus spread. Nobody remembers where it started but it spread quick, it dint effect everyone but it affected many. People where turned into anthropomorphic animals. These "animals" were teased and bullied by society so much that they precisely wernt part of it. So they decided to creat a safe haven of sorts. Kro lived near one of these places, but the town he lived in has accepted them, for the most part.

It was a sunny day when the convention took place. There was people lined up around the block trying to get in and Krofire was trying to get it. Kro was wearing a dark green sweater, and black shorts. 

A fox looking person with rings on her had decided to inch her way closer to Krofire.

"H-hi" she said in a soft, quiet voice, "I'm sure we will get in eventually"

"Oh, um hi," Krofirr looks around for some way to get in before he looks at the fox girl talking to him. 

"Sorry, I dint mean to bother you" she says

"Its fine, it's just your kind doesnt talk to me very often," Kro fire replies, "I dont mean that in a bad way" he quickly added.

The next hour is quiet as they wait to get in. They are close to getting in when the fox girl asks, "What's your name?" She asks so quiet Krofire almost dint hear her.

"I'm Krofire, but you can call me Kro," he says, "you are?"

"I'm Neon," she hides her tail between her legs.

A man ties shoveing past Kro and Neon. He pushed Kro to the ground..

 "Hey dude, chill" Neons rings glow a slight red. The man glares at Neon, but walks away. 

As he gets up, Kro shoves something into his pocket, to Neon it looks like a stick.

"What was that?" She asks,looking very curious at Kro.

"Too many people," Kro mutters.

"Are you okay?" Neon asks, still puzzled.

"I'm fine," Kro replies.

In front of Neon and Kro the line has begin to get shorter, the lone behind d them is still as long as ever. Neon looks around like she has never seent his before and Kro looks like he has been here many times. 

"Haveing a good day?" Keo asks, and Neon jumps as squeaks in suprise.

"Y-yeah" she gives him a fake smile.

"Your not a good liar, what's wrong?" Kro fire says in a "I'm trying to help" voice

Neon seems to be in flight or fight, her ears go flat, and her rings go dark, "No, why do you need to know?"

"Well you dont seem to be very happy, and I just would like to help" Kro replies, smileing

"That's, that's nice, you seem like a nice person,"

"If you want to talk after today," Kro pulls soenthi g out of his pocket. It's a wand. Kro flicks the wand and a piece of paper with an adress in it appears. "This is where I live"

Neon is compeltly baffled, her rings a bright brown. "What was that? What did u just do?" She thinks for a moment, "you know dont you?"

"Know what?" Now Kro is confused, he looks at Neon with concern in his eyes,  she looks at him, wondering o herself if she should trust him or if he will turn her in. 

"I-I dont think I can tell you," she says, there is a hint of regret in her voice as she says this, and the lone starts morning again, Neon leaves the building and Kro behind.

Kro is now debating staying in line or going after Neon, "I can miss one year"  he gets out out of line and darts after Neon. He finds her just down the street, heading into an alley way. Kro goes next to the alley, and hesitates a moment before going in.

There is a moment where Kro doesnt know what's going on. First he is pushed to the ground, then he feels his arms and legs become tied up. And a flash of red. 

"WHY. DID. YOU. FOLLOW. ME?" Neons rings are a bright red now. Kro looks around desperately then his eyes meets Neons.

The air is cold. It would be freezing if it wasnt for her fur. Her rings are an icy blue. Kro is here, but no one seems to take any notice of a human with a bunch of anthros.

Looking around Neon can see many other anthros. Some coughing. There is one person going through the transformation. His human ears shrinking as his cat ears growing. His hands turning into paws, his shrieks the loudest thing in this group.

Trapped. A cage. Neon remembers now, she can see it now. She and the other anthros are in a cage. Lined with barbed wire. There is something written on the cages for the...creatures..inside it can see. Something written in a language Neon can barely read, its Russian. The word reads "qurentine". The man is now a black and orange cat with small ears and an even smaller nose, he looks kind of cute. The man who turned Into a cat is now small enough to be able to get out...and get out he tries, he runs for the nearest velichal, not knowing someone is in it. The person in the velichal shoots the cat man and he dies.

The cage gets lifted and it shakes as its lifted into a green cargo container. Then the cargo container lifted and put into something unknown by Neon

Kro is suddenly back into the present with Neon still above him, angry.

"Are you gonna answer my question or what?" 

"I-I just want to talk, I understand if u don't want to talk about the cages, but please come with me"

Neon, unaware that Kro saw her memory, bares her teeth, he rings a bright red. She unties his hands and legs,letting him up. 

"Give me time to think about it" she says through bared teeth. Kro, knowing that his best option is to leave, does leave.

Neon sits in a ripped apart sofa that she more or less made. She looks at the paper with his address on it with much suspicion. He can't know...he isnt one of them..is he? No, he is too cute to be one, and he isnt European… She starts to think about him, not the fact that she might have help. But his voice, his hair, his clothes, his face. 

It's close to midnight and Neon is still awake, still thinking about Kro, the boy who offerd help to her. Taking her very few possessions with her she uses the cover of the night to not be spotted and goes to the address that Kro says is his

The front outside of the house is brown with a door and 2 windows. Neon knocks on the door multiple times before Kro awnsers.

"Hello? Oh, hi Neon," Kro moves for her to enter.

 Stepping inside is a entry way that leads into three diffrent directions, a bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen. Kro and Neon head through the kitchen down a hallway which leads to two more bedrooms

They sit on Kro's bed. Neon looks at him curious what he has to say, but not sure if she should speak first. Kro looks Neon in the eyes again, about to speak, but again he sees a memory

There is a man and a woman, both wearing hazmat suits, holding a little girl. All 3 of them crying. A man who is also in a hazmat suit comes out and takes the little girl away from the man and woman who seem to be her parents. They cry more as they see their daughter be taken. 

The man speaks in a eastern European accent that the girl can barley understand, he says something about surgery, and that he will try to make it not hurt. But as he says it, both Kro and Neon onow it's not true, that he is going to enjoy every second of it. There is a click, feeling cold metal, and a shock of pain. Kro sees this all happen, unable to move or do anything to help or change it. He assumes the girl is Neon, and the adults are her parents.

It suddenly changes. Neon is suddenly thrown into a jail cell. Withering in pain as others try to comfort her. Then it changes again. This time she is on a raft, alone, and at sea.

What happened to her, he doesnt know. And maybe it's best that he doesnt. He can only assume it lead to what she is now, anthro.

After seeing this Kro stutters a moment. "Who is after you?" 

"Howd you know?" Neon's rings become a deep red, fear in her voice. She begins to cry.

"I-I don't know how but I saw two of your memories," when Kro says this Neon collapses into a mess in Kro's lap. Neon wonders what she is going to do now that a stranger...a stranger that she likes has pretty much invaded the only thing she thought was safe. 

"I just want to help," kro says, but Neon is still a mess so he decided to wait until she is finished.

Neon doesn't finish, she crys herself to sleep and Kro diesnt have any choice but to sleep with her. But he doesnt mind it, Kro had always liked the anthros more than humans anyway. Before he falls asleep, Kro gives Neon a kiss on the forehead, and her rings become a pink. 

The next morning is a weird one. Neon wakes up before Kro, but she doesnt get up, she lays there, Kro had put an arm around her while sleeping and she is enjoying this small feeling of being protected. It's one if the best things she has felt in a long time.

"this is a mess," she says, sitting next to him she sets her hand on his chest, she can feel his breathing, "they are gonna come after you now," she says to

him but pretty much to herself. "They want to kill me, and many other anthros," she sighs, "im not sure why but i know that they are trying to round them all up,"

She satnds up and heads to the kitchen. In there she pulls out some food and starts to make some food that she thinks Kro might like. It takes a few hours for

Kro to wake up again, and when he doesn Neon is carfule not to hurt him. She knows that when someone has just gone through the turning that they will be a little

more easy to injure than before.

"Your awake!" she hugs him carfully, and he hugs back awkardly.

"What happened? Why did it happen?" kro asks after a moment.

"My tears...they seemed to have given you the infection, made you turn. I have no idea how but it seems to be what happened, then the full turn happened,"

Neon keeps herself wrapped around Kro. Now Kro can tell that there is some turst with him and Neon. And he thinks that one day maybe he can turn that trust into

a realtionship.

Kro doesnt know how to respond to this, he can see his snout, orange, like a fox, "What animal am I?" he asks, and Neon smiles.

"Of all things to say, you ask what animal you are?" she laughs, "your a fox,"

"Foxs are cute," Kro smiles, "am i cute?"

Neon blushes and tries to hide behind her tail, "very"

Now its Kro's turn to be embarressed and blush, "so are you,"

"S-so you like me?" Neon asks and after a nod from Kro, "will you be my boyfirend and protceter?!" she seems a little too excited, but Kro says that he will.

"We could go to the Kingdom of Japooka,"

"I never heard of it"

"its one of he few places left with a king," Kro says excidedly.

"huh, it sounds like a great idea, when can we go?" Neon asks still excideted.

"how about tommarow?"