The story I will tell while partially about me is more about a young male...a young male who got close to my frozen heart..but afraid to say this story won't have a happy ending...Apes fear humans ... not without good reason...a hate was burned into them long before they awoke...long before they were freed... Humankind was cruel to them...thought they beneath them...treated nothing more than animals them…destroying their homes…. Separating families... Selling used as Lab rats for pets...only to used or abused…but they raised above with the help of the one who freed them... Fleeing man's world into the wilderness... They managed to build...to create a home... families...a future for themselves while the humans continued to destroy and ruin what very little they had left…two kinds separated... coexistence never thought possible...hate on both sides...I was so naive...so foolish to think change was possible back then...that peace was possible...that we could live together as one...but hate isn't easily forgotten...my kind...and theirs...carved that down to my Bones... literally.

It's only natural to hate...it's a way to forget the pain...if not for a brief moment… apes hated humans for was done to them...humans hated things they didn't understand...better to blame something then to face it...life was at standstill...no one really lived...just trying to survive in this hell of a world we made... people tried to live but I tried to hide... everyone was scared of something...I was afraid of what lived in the world in general ...the world failed me..many had failed me...so I decided to reject it and everyone...it made me alone...well with Bruce as my only companion...the thought of taking me life sounded so sweet to me many times...and many times I had been close to it...but...but there was always something in the back of my mind telling me to fight...to not give up just yet...it was so annoying to ignore..

I finally came to the point where I just would live out my days as is...I didn't mind being rejected...I didn't mind being hated...I was glad not to be part of anything or anyone...the longest time I lived my life like this...that is until...until I met a certain young chimp...He interrupted my world so fast...and I have no doubt I bewildered his as well...it was a Chance meeting...it was just an uneventful day for me...well it was suppose to...I didn't plan on running into him! Sure I knew where the village but I avoided it like the plague...I worked so hard to avoid everyone... everyone! But yet I ran into him... Lucky me...but what surprised me is he didn't attack me...I thought I could take this chance to part ways and we would be on with our lives..though I did have some concerns he would tell him… I dreaded that thought so much...it terrified me... because I knew I wasn't strong enough to handle that...I knew at that they be looking for a human extensively...but I hid my home well...I knew I would be safe ...well that's what I thought.

I thought we would never see each other again...that this would be the last time we see face to face...but yet again he surprised me when he showed up at my home! No surprise was an understatement, now I was completely bemused and of course suspicions. But I think the biggest question was why? why did he come to me? Did he plan to attack? But it was the exact opposite of that. He had no Malice but only Curiosity in his eyes when I laid eyes on him and bit of nervousness which no surprise due what he's probably has heard growing up.

I tried to ignore him…many times I tried to get him to go away but he was persistent, always near always watching me, it was like someone studying an animal's behavior. It got so annoying after awhile I eventually caved and actually interacted with him, even allowing him to come into my home...his name was Cloud, named after white soft fur on top of his head...he became my friend and no doubt would have helped change the future between apes and humans...he was sweet...he was curious...was eager to learn... he...he wanted to do the right thing...and it cost him his life...I know it corny to say the good die young but in my experience it seems like it was true... because that what he was...a good ape...

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hey guys I read a comic strip about a kind ape named Cloud and how he questioned Koba's views of humans and the separation they had with them and it inspired me to create a one shot of him and Iris :)