Empyrean Iris Story Collection

They Will Eat You

"RAWR! I am a hungry human and I'm going to eat your face off and wear your skin as a coat!"

"No, stop, you're scaring me."

Footsteps and the older Tesraki chases her younger brother into the other room.

He is screaming "Stop! Stop! It's not funny."

She pulls to a stop but grins at him, an unnatural facial expression for a tesraki. He squirms away from her, "b-besides. H-Humans don't eat people."

She stalks forward, "Oh they don't do they. Because My teacher told us that humans are MADE to hunt and eat people. They have binocular vision so they can more easily POUNCE!" She lunged for him and he squealed rolling away.

"And they can smell too. They can detect chemicals in the air so like they can probably smell your ear." She stalked closer, and he backed away.

"No they can't." He whined

She held up her hands, "Oh yes they can, and they have razor sharp claws that they can use to RIP YOU OPEN!" She lunged at him again and he screamed running away.

"Stop."

She pulled to a halt, "Plus, humans are so fast and strong that they run their prey to death just to mess with them, so even if you try to run away from a human it wont work. And AND they always hunt in packs so you want to get away anyway." She leaned in closer, "And once they have you, they'll cut you into little chunks and then light your bits on fire before eating them. Then they'll take your skin and wear it."

"MOM!"

"Shhh! I am a human, so if you scream ill bite your throat out with these razor sharp bones that grow through the skin in my mouth." She raced after him again.

He kept screaming.

"Even if you manage to get away my bite is so dangerous, you'll get sick and die!" She skidded to a halt with him trapped in the corner, "Plus humans can breathe acid you know."

"No they can't, you're just making that up."

"No, I'm serious. Their bodies produce some of the strongest acid we know of, and they cant regurgitate it."

"Ewww, please stop."

She ignored him, "And with their predatory instincts, they don't hesitate to RIP YOUR HEAD CLEAN OFF!"

He screamed even louder.

"Paxi! What are you doing to your brother?"

She turned around her large ears drooping in guilt, "Nothing."

Her father pulled his ears back, "Paxi, stop telling scary stories to your brother. Humans aren't going to eat him."

Her ears pulled back, "But my teacher."

"Your teachers is a paranoid specialist. Need I remind you that it was humans that came in for disaster relief when the earthquake happened, They went into the wreckage and carried the injured out in their arms and on their backs. A lot of humans died that day to save members of our species."

She frowned and looked at her brother whispering, "They're strong enough to carry dad over their heads."

"Paxi stop that. Humans may be a predator species, but they don't eat aliens, and they certainly don't rip people open with their teeth. They are too advanced for that. Not to mention that humans are omnivores, which means they are likely to eat more plants and other products than they do meat." he walked over and picked up her little brother, "Why did you have to do this the day before we go into the city." He sighed, "honestly paxi, he is going to be scared the entire time."