Honored

Warning: Contains blood.

The small tiger hopped to his older brother's room, hitting his paw against the door.

The bigger tiger opened the barrier, looking at his younger sibling. "What do you want, Locus?" Signum asked as a puzzled look spread on his face.

"I was thinking you could help me with some phantom training, my finals are coming up and I want to be ready." Locus meowed and grabbed a piece of paper containing his drawing of the insides of a phantom.

The golden and furry feline studied the drawing, and put his claw against the phantom's top tentacles. "Sure thing little bro, just a quick heads up that claws do work against phantoms." Signum whispered as he put his paw back down, leaving a small scratch on the paper.

Locus smiled and sprinted outside, yelling at his elder brother to follow him. The wind blew Locus's beige-golden fur as he ran outside, his paws stepping on the soft grass.

Signum struggled to keep up with his younger brother, panting every second, but they managed to finally make it to the Phantom Forest.

Locus and Signum looked around the polluted forest. Worries filled Signums's head as they kept going deeper and deeper into the badlands.

"Are you sure this is safe?" Signum asked as he tried avoiding the phantom-touched grass. "Trust me, there haven't been any phantom sightings since last year." Locus answered as he smelled a polluted flower.

The golden cat nervously looked around every few minutes, taking a good look at the ground every time he took a step. Locus carelessly trotted around, tryjng to find forms of life.

The brothers made it to the end of the forest, an invaded phantom base that looked the least polluted out of the whole entire area.

A strange-looking small phantom crawled out of the base, its small but long tentacles flopping on the polluted grass.

"Woah, I haven't ever seen phantoms like that!" "Not only are their eyes smaller, but it appears to have tiny stingers." Locus yowled in excitement as Signum added to his speech.

A bigger phantom appeared from under a large rock, and slowly hovered over to Locus. It began moving its tentacles closer as Signum watched in horror.

The small tiger sprinted away behind his elder sibling, whimpering with fear. The phantom opened one of its stingers, inflating its body. Finally, it closed it with its tentacle and stared at the brothers.

Locus stepped away a bit from the phantom, while Signum studied the blobby creature.

After a long staring contest, the phantom snapped and launched its stingers at Signum. The large tiger sprinted across the room, trying to dodge its powerful attacks.

Locus jumped into a bush and shivered. As Signum tried to jump into a bush, the phantom grabbed his leg and stabbed it with its stingers.

Signum wailed in fear and screamed at his brother to come as he felt blood being sucked out of his limb. Locus launched at the pahntom, sinking his teeth deep in the black blob's tentacle.

As purple goo spilled out of the monster's body, the blobby figure fell to the ground and began snoring. "Gee, good thing you have sleeping tooth." Signum sighed as he lost blood every second.

Signum applied pressure to his wound, "We should get that thing to the alphas, imagine all the fame we could get." The large tiger sighed again as his attempts at avoiding blood loss were working.

Locus nodded and studied the phantom, which began getting smaller every second due to the open wound.

The beige furry animal put his brother on his back. He sprinted towards the village, trying not to stop.

Locus and Signum made it back to their house, as Locus panted and wheezed while crawling to their home.

At the door, a large light figure waited with visible anger across her entire body. As the brothers crawled to the door, they immediately recognized who it was.

"Where have you been." Their mother hissed as a stern look stretched out her face. As Signum tried opening his mouth, Locus stepped in.

"It was me, I went to the Phantom Forest and we saw a large phantom. It sucked out Signum's blood and I managed to stop it with my sleeping tooth." Locus finished, sighing as his mother opened her mouth.

"DID YOU NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT THE CONSQUENCES? YOU COULD'VE DIED, YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME- Wait, a blood sucking phantom?" Trif yelled, screaming every single word right before the realization came to her.

"Report that phantom this instant, and all will be forgiven." Trif growled as the brothers went out of her sight.