WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS DESCRIPTIVE GORE, DARK THEMES, AND SUICIDE. IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY THESE, SO NOT READ PLEASE.

MARCH 31, 2436 (A.D. :p)

Heartlock laboratories. The word that I'm starting off with. The word that broke my heart and flipped my life upside down and inside out. The word you possibly have heard of.

It started off with the 'incident of 2428'. The 'accidental tragic accident that had to do with no one and was an accident'. Accident my butt. I was there. I was only eight, but I was there. Who am I,you, the reader, might be asking. I am one of the citizens of Chiriago, a high tech city in the middle of the continent. Legend has it that 'humans' once ruled this land, (whatever the neck they are) and formed this land, thousands of years ago. Maybe you, whoever may be reading this, have heard these legends. If humans ever did exist, they sure don't anymore. Now CATS rule this place. In a way, I suppose  we evolved in a way, because ancient fossils show we used to walk in all fours, but now we walk like men. I guess the world needed to replace humans, and chose cats, if all things. I should be honored.

I tend to go off on rabbit trails. Sorry. My name is Radi. I'm a white cat with Amber eyes. If you met my sister, you could say we don't look to much alike. My sister Digi has grey fur, but she dyes it purple. She and I have (or had) a brother named Stereo... He looked like me... But we don't talk about him... Anymore.

Anyway, the incident. And don't get your hopes up. This story doesn't have a happy ending.                                          It begins with one name. Natural. A strange and exotic name (not uncommon around here). A name I absolutely loathe with every bone in my sorry body. But I hate the face that goes with it even more. And you will soon see why.

The story starts (unfortunately) like this.

So, our family has a... History with Heartlock laboratories. Heartlock has these... Odd tests, and seemed to be obsessed with (deadly) robotics, and...blood. If all things, blood. Every surgeon, scientist or employee took a blood test. O blood, AB blood... etc. You know, common blood. If they were to put, say Nano bots into their blood, the white blood cells would take it as an enemy, and kill the Nano bots. When our brother took the test, however, he had a new, rare blood type the doctors were calling 'X blood'. It had an excessive amount of iron, an amount 'normal' blood couldn't handle. Enough that if they put Nano bots in his blood, they would blend in with the excessive amount of iron in his blood.

 My eight year old brain didn't understand until I overheard the plot while I was strolling casually down the hospital like corridors. They said if the Nano bots got to his brain, it would corrupt him within a few days. Natural (see?), the leader of the lab, told them to carry out the plan anyway. They took him into one of the room, where I head him crying as they infused his blood with Nano bots, not under the permission of my father, who, at the time, worked at the lab. Father didn't know, but I did. 

But, alas, they didn't have time to deal with the consequences. And I will tell you why soon, reader.

Stereo was the oldest child. Heartlock laboratories made our father believe that he was randomly selected to test one of their machines. Father was so proud, not knowing about the Nano bots, and their... Magnetic abilities. He would have stopped it if he had known. But since he didn't know, and none of their machines had 'seemingly malfunctioned' before. For some reason, I kept quiet. I could have saved my brother...

So that same day, Stereo bravely slipped on the mechanical suit of armor type thing, and put on the helmet. All the scientists were watching and writing in their notebooks. The helmet clamped down on the armor... All seemed to be going fine, and he looked very proud of himself... Suddenly, there was a loud cracking sound and a scream of agony. The hand on the mechanical suit twisted back suddenly, creaking as if it was gonna call off and broke stereos arm, possibly even twisting it off.  Digi, who was also there, through up. The who suit of armor started twisting and collapsing in on Stereo. My father started screaming at them to save him. Digi was bawling in the floor, covering her ears and closing her eyes. I watched with horror as silent tears poured down my face.

The screams of absolute pain ceased suddenly. Then the suit toppled over and blood leaked out every possible way out. The back of the suit tore open with a terrible noise. 

There lay Stereo, drenched in his own blood, twisted disgustingly out of shape, every one in his body broken in at lest three places. What a horrible way to die. Digi puked again, and crumbled to the floor, screaming in grief and fear. My father yelled some non advertiser friendly things, scream-crying and ripping his own fur out. I stood there, petrified, until I passed out.

the Nano bots. The magnetism. It made sense to them now, but not to my family. Our mother died in a car accident when Digi was a baby. Now Stereo was gone and father is drifting...

That same night, in the worst day I ever had... Father shot himself and committed suicide.

Now our family was broken into a thousand pieces. Digi is all I have left. And there is no way I'm letting her go.

The police investigated the lab after my father reported them. Natural and of few of his main scientists got away. There are wanted posters now... Natural, Liar (that can't be her real name),  Bullet, and Machine... All terrible reminders of the bloodiest day of my life...

I know almost for a fact that the police haven't found the hidden rooms in the lab. I only know about it because that's where they put my brothers corpse. That's where they put the 'failed experiments'.

The failed experiments, as in: half robotic cats, still fully conscious, slowly bleeding and starving to death... Some cats dead in hospital bed, forever waiting to be woken from an eternal slumber... Some hideous, monster like creatures, results of mutation, rotting in a corner... The stench of rot, blood, burning and death that could choke the sanity out of you... The stuff that you see once in your life, and never forget.

the stuff of nightmares.

I am afraid to tell someone this. I'm the only one who knows this (besides Natural and his goons, if course), and I'm scared that if someone else finds out, they will blame me or something... And I still have X blood type... And Natural is still out there... And everyday I feel like I'm on the run for my life.

I'm terrified.

But, hope broke the morbid feeling, and me and Digi got adopted by a nice, safe family. They have a daughter my age named Thunder, whom I will protect like she is my own blood. I'm leaving that part of my life behind me.

My adopted mother suggest i get a diary to write down my feelings, and it's really helping me cope with life.

I better hurry this up. Digi and Thunder are trying to spy on me, and I told them if they did it again, I was gonna tickle them >:)

By the way... This all happened in April the first

And, no, it wasn't a sick April fools joke.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of my brothers morbid demise. And every year in this day, I swear I hear noises... Following me... And I feel...

Alone.