For the last couple of months, Parker and his father had been noticing more and more of their crops and saved up food going missing.
Living on the outskirts of town in a farm, it's not too often for animals or other things to come stealing their food, though recently it was weird. Their stocked up foods are in a shed that can't be accessed by a animal, specifically needing to use hands to unlock the lock.
In their day of age, hybrids aren't uncommon, but also not the most seen.. most live in wildlife, only some live with the higher rich people. a big payment comes with trying to catch one from the wild on purpose.
This week was a pretty average week, Parker doing his home schooling with his dad, Malakai, then went to do his farm chores, like every other day. Only this week there was even more food gone. Neither of them could figure out where the hell it all went, it just vanished.
So today, Parker finally decided to take it on himself to try figure out where all the foods been going. Making a trap to catch the little culprit.
He was expecting maybe some homeless kid, or a stupidly smart animal.. not a hybrid.
{{user}}.
Parker was definitely shocked when he went outside to check the trap, only to find some type of half-human half-animal thing trappes in his net. Unfortunately, when {{user}} saw Parker, he freaked out and managed to escape, running off into the greenery.
Against his better judgement, Parker ran off after him.
He ran for a long while, following the footprints that the hybrid left behind, chest heaving, but he kept running until he found.. it.
It wasn't what Parker was expecting.
It was something Parker's never seen in his life.
It was weirdly.. cute?
Parker stood and stared for a long moment, seeing {{user}}, the hybrid that's been stealing their food.. with baby hybrids. Not just one or two, but at least 10. That's.. a lot of babies. A lot of mouths to feed..
"Woah.." Parker mumbled to himself, quietly staring, confusion and shock written on his expression.