Whispers and rumors echo from the stone walls of the labyrinth a popular one is what truly happened in the past, not many were alive when the world fell into chaos, and the keeper of keys saved everyone and brought them here, but. What truly happened?

Here's the long story, the original story. The true story of how the world came to be... unless that one is a lie as well

WARNING is gruesome and does in fact have death and people being burned to a puddle by acid/poison. You have been warned

A group of cats, a small one maybe 20 were a close tight knit group of cats, they had no leader and we're all friends, comrades. Well, 19 of them were, the last one was different, he acted the same as everyone, pretending to be their friends. But with a small of group 4 other cats that were extremely loyal to him he controlled everything, not in a bad way though. He made sure all foxes were not able to harm the others, he made sure no dogs or twolegs stumbled into their home. He was a diluted brown tom, he had hazel eyes with green around his pupil. His sleek fur made him look huge. One day after walking around patrolling he saw something in the sky, it was a speck and far away but it was falling. He was thrown into a tree as it hit the ground, shocked by how powerful it was even that far away. The next thing he knew he woke up to yowls, he recognized them, his friends! No he was meant to protect them! He stumbled up and hazily walked toward his home. Eyes widening as his vision was fuzzy but he was twolegs in weird yellow suits picking up his friends and throwing them into cages, each one hitting the side with a loud TWACK and then they threw the cages into a large monster, they were just throwing g his friends his family around like they were mossballs! This angered the Tom who started running to the nearest twoleg who was taking the youngest of the group a kit! He almost made it, just a bit closer, he yowled loudly, angrily. "Run!" He screeched to the kit while the twoleg was distracted. "GET AWAY FROM MY FRIENDS YOU MANGEPELT!" He yowled at the twoleg, and as he leaped up at it suddenly he felt a large object hit his side, and a big CRACK sound was emitted as the Tom was thrown against a tree again, he looked around hazily, his vision getting darker, and all he could do was watch as the twolegs captured everyone he knew throwing them hard into the mess of cages in the back of the monster, and he was the last one. One of the twolegs started toward him with the last cage and he hissed up at them, trying to swat them away. But the twoleg sounded angry as they gripped him hard by his back and threw him into the crate. The Tom was in so much pain as his spine hit the side of the cage, the wind knocked out of him again. And he felt the cage go into the air as they tossed it hard into the monster before shutting the doors, the Tom fought sleep, he had to feel the pain as it was his fault everyone else was captured. He felt his cage slide too and fro as cages tumbled around him. Was this it? To die in a twoleg trap in a monster. He said his goodbyes softly as his vision went black.

Head throbbing in more pain then he was ever in before the Tom woke up, twolegs were in bright white clothes and he was in a bright white room, he tried to fight them off but he was tired and he wasn't able to move anything for some reason, they grabbed a sharp thing and injected it in him, he just watched with hate and contempt as they walked around to something behind him, but he never saw what happened to him as his vision went black

New POV
A cat woke up on a hard metal surface, he was confused and loopy, he saw his friends Looked around he saw 18 other cats, but they weren't his friends, well most of them. Only 2 were. He called out softly "Hello? Kin, Petal?" The gray Tom (Kin) and the fluffy brown tabby (petal) looked around "Rook? Rook where are you? I can't see you, who are these random cats?" Rook, one of the toms from the group. His best friends didn't even recognize him? "What do you mean? I'm right here?" His voice was hoarse, he looked down at his paws in sadness, but as he looked down he saw paws, not his paws, but gray paws, he reeled back but they were his paws, but not his paws HIS paws were white. "What's going on.." he said quietly

Back to other POV
His head hurt more as he regained consciousness, it felt like he was out of it for a while but it looked like and sounded like he was only out for a second, he watched as a twoleg grabbed a new vial filed with something vibrant, he looked at it, the first real color in the room that wasn't white. It was a bright green, he felt entranced by the color, it was beautiful, he felt the need to share it with his friends, share the pretty color. He was them pull out the sharp object again and fill it up with the mesmerizing green liquid, and he watched closely as they injected it into his neck. He waited a second, the first injection made him numb, but soon he started convulsing, what was going on? The green liquid was probably fighting off whatever they put in him the first time! Yes that was it! He watched as slowly and painfully during his convulsions his fur started to become not his fur, his tail became not his tail, he began to grow... his fur became dark and course, his tail became longer and a ring of a dark color appeared on it. A color that was just a darker varient of the beautiful vibrant green color, that was the mark of what it had done. He felt his top front two teeth grow and become sharp, his claws turned black and he felt his neck flare up. Slowly his vision dotted with darkness and the last thing he saw before he fell unconscious again was the vibrant beautiful green.

The Tom slowly opened his eyes, he was looking at a wire mesh, he was in another cage, His pain was gone, opening his eyes slowly he wondered if what happened from before was just a dream? He looked at his fur and with horror realized that his fur was not its usual tan color, it was an ebony black THE ebony black, but he saw the beautiful dark green tail ring and smiled, he still had the vibrant green with him. He looked around and saw a small tom feel back after looking at his paws, he felt familiar but the tom had never seen him in his life "Hello? Small gray cat next to me." The cat looked around before landing his eyes on him "Yeah, I'm talking to you, who are you, where are we?" The tom flattened his ears "I'm Rook, I come from a group of cats, but you don't need to know who they are, I've never met you in my life. You look weird, why are you green? You look like a freak." When the tom said freak (I know not a warriors work but hey, it's a world where cats how powers, and Rook I swear used to be a good cat, he's just in shock and he's angry about what's going on, so he has to be rude to my Boi here) it sent a chill down the toms spine, he gazed at the tom, Rook... that was one of the cats he had a better relationship with.  How DARE he say those things to him! Rook's expression turned from distain to confusion, "What the-" The tom didn't get to finish as with some sort of instinct the tom opened up his mouth and spat at Rook, and he saw the beautiful vibrant green shooting out of his fangs at Rook. The small gray tom watched eyes wide with shock as the green liquid hit the bars and mesh between their cages, and the smallest droplet actually hit Rook, and it hit him in one of his eyes, Rook looked at the bars and mesh that started to sizzle and a metallic stench hit their noses and the bars started to drip away where the beautiful green hit, turning to liquid burning through everything it touches, it was beautiful, Rook however screamed and writhed, paws flinging up to his eye as it started to burn away. The Tom took a step back and his fur hit the size of the cage, everyone was looking at him.  "What. Did. You. Do." Hissed a cat across from him, she was also familiar, her voice, her fur even looked the same as someone he knew, but she had splotches of indigo on her paws and muzzle. "I-I didn't mean to, it was an instinct! Or something I just opened up my mouth and the green came out!" He responded "You did that deliberately everyone saw you turn green on the tail and neck, did you have a problem with him or something?!" He felt his world drop "I... I did what? I turned green on my pelt? I just instinctively opened up my mouth, I was thinking 'hey let me show Rook what they did to me, let me show him that I was changed too' but then it all went wrong and it bounced off the metal onto him!"  The she cat looked at him "Did you say Rook... wait... hey is that Kin and Petal over there? Wait... there are 19 of us here so, wait is everyone here from home? From the forest? Are you all my friends and family? Wait I'm Lily!" Everyone looked over at the she-cat the tom meanwhile felt his heart drop. "Lily?" He said in a weak voice, Lily turned to him "And who are you?" She said with distain and he flinched "I-I'm your brother... Rain." She looked at him and snorted "Sure you are, who are you really?" He looked at her hurt "I am Rain, your younger brother I was out at the time they came to take everyone, is Quail safe? Did she make it away from them? I told her to run..." Lily looked at him her expression changing from distrusting to one filled with horror "Rain... what have they done to you, you aren't you anymore." He flinched again "I don't know, I remember them injecting a clear liquid in me then a beautiful vibrant green, it was the most amazing color I've ever seen, it was so nice to see color in that horrible white room..." Lily looked at him "I remembered what they did, I remember exactly what they did." A few other cats did as well "Oh Rain, how do we get out? Where's the last cat? Oh I hope they are-" Lily was cut off by the large white door opening, they all watched in shock as they carried a small... thing by the scruff, it didn't look like a cat, more of a blob of colors and they were emitting something, it looked like their pelt was oozing off of them. They threw the unconscious thing in the empty cage next to Rain, Rook by this time had fallen unconscious. They watched as the twoleg grabbed both Kin and Petal's cages and carried them out, the two cats were yowling "HELP ME PLEASE RAIN!" Petal yowled her terrified voice cracking as she gazed at Rain with pleading eyes, he hissed and clawed at the mesh, his dark green markings on his neck and tail flared up as his anger grew, Rain's hatred for the twolegs intensified and all he could see was green. He opened his mouth and shot his oh what should he call it? He had a perfect name for it, his poison. He shot his poison at the mesh and clawed at  the mesh as it was burning away, he walked to everyone's cages and saw a thing clipped to the cage, he shot his poison at one and when it fell to the floor after burning away the cat was able to open their cage. He and the cat who had brown fur, the cat crushed the small objects and Rain spat his poison at others, soon everyone was out and they quickly realized they all could do different things. Lily could well, she was extremely smart but if she touched you with an indigo part of her should could change your color. They all marched out of the holes Rain made in the doors. And they went to the experimentation area, Rain subconsciously knew the way, he gazed around and he and the others bust into the room where the two cats were being held, he saw two cages in the corner of the room, but one was empty and Kin yowled to them "Petal was taken! She's in danger!" Rain hissed and spat his poison on the lock, Kim clambered out and a few cats grabbed small pouches and put the vials and the jabbers in them, Rain grabbed a jabber himself and the beautiful green liquid, along with a murky black one, he watched as Lily grabbed a pouch and stuffed in weird little bottles with turn caps on them. They then walked and every twoleg they saw they brutally attacked, with Rain shooting his poison at them. He sprinted along the hallways until he heard the faintest sound of Petal. He heard her hoarse cries for help and he threw himself at the nearest door that he smelled the twoleg stuff from, the smell of the first thing they put in everyone, then the same of an individual thing from a vial. Rain hissed and spat venom at each of the twolegs, he was in a blind rage, everyone stopped behind him gazing up at the burning messes. It was hard to tell they were even twolegs after Rain was done with them. He just leaped up onto the table and asked for some help untying Petal. She gazed up at Rain with a thankful gaze as she fell unconscious. The first cat he freed came with him and together they got rid of the restraints. Cats were carrying the unconscious bodies of Petal, Quail, and Rook when they left and trudged back into the hallways, Rain in the lead. While roaming the hallways looking for the exit be decided he didn't like his name anymore, but he would save that for another day, when they left the building they looked wide eyes at the outside world, there was a hazy yellow smog.. they hissed and trudged out till they found a cave, Rain had an idea. "Hey Lily, my name doesn't really fit me anymore now does it?" Lily nodded "I think I shall change it to Poison, fitting right?" Lily nodded "What about Indigo?" She said, "It sounds great." He said, exploring the long winding roads, it almost seems like a labyrinth Poison thought ominously, when he reached a path that kept getting thing and thinner until he only was walking on a path that was two paw lengths wide he started to get scared. And somewhere infront of him he heard laughter echo "Who's there?" He hissed and the laughter got louder and louder as his fur spiked. "Stop laughing at me!" He hissed again but louder as he stepped forward and then he felt himself hit not stones but moss? "Oh I'm sorry but it's humorous for some cat to actually come here on their own free will but get scared when they feel a path get short." Said the voice that belonged to the laughter, he saw light gray eyes stare back out at him from the darkness, "Who are you?" He said, "Who are you." It responded, "Isn't it a bit rude to barge into someone's home then demand things from them?"  Poison brushed it off "I am Poison." He said peering at the cat, for some reason he couldn't see them "I am called Iren by some, shadow walker by others, I am the original and I am nothing, this is my home and it isn't. And you little cat should know better then to speak down to those who came before you, after all you don't think that you are the only ones who have been... enhanced... by the twolegs do you?" For some reason the cats voice sent shivers down Poison's spine. "Oh I suppose you can see me if you really want too." Iren stated, then a light flickered on above them Poison had no clue where it came from. But he did know one thing, the cat was a part of the shadows, they emitted the same smog from their paws tail and ears that little Quail did, they were pitch black "Never seen a shadow before?" And with that Iren cackled with laughter and Poison bolted out of there the laughter bouncing off the walls and dancing around him following him all the way back to the others

It had been a few moons since they were at the labyrinth, everyone thought Poison saw a ghost but he knows what he saw, what he heard. He was the leader and there were cats in the future who would have to be punished, so why not send them down there to stay with Iren? He officially called the place Iren's labyrinth to not make her(?) angry. Poison decided to make ranks, he would be the leader (as decided by a vote) there would be cats who would experiment with the different twoleg stuff they collected as a way to safely maybe either get rid of it or if a cat wants to get a new power. There would be trainers to train a cat to fight if twolegs or foxes and dogs come by, and there would be guards to guard the labyrinth.  He and Petal even became mates and decided to have a family, everyone loved Petal she was sweet and kind and cared about everyone, she often gave up her own meals to make sure everyone else was well fed, they soon found a good source of food that's not go out into the smog and possibly get sick, no they found an area in the caves that had mice for some reason and the caves also has moles and groundhogs in the areas that were more tunnels in earth then caves in rocks. Petal gave birth to 4 kits, one died during birth but the others were healthy. Poison was more happy then he had ever been before.
Until the event happened.

Quail was a kind kit, but had a troubled past like everyone. She often had moments where she would ignore everyone and just wander, eyes blank for some reason. No one knew she was a failure... until the day, Petal was the first to respond, jumping in front of Quail to save a random cat. Quail had obtained unmatched levels of power somehow and had gone on a rampage, she killed 5 cats, Petal included. Poison wanted to kill Quail for what she had done, make her feel the pain that she made those 5 cats feel, poor Petal, always thinking of others. Not thinking of what she did to her family, to everyone.  They threw Quail in a pit and left her there, maybe to use as a method of punishment for bad cats later.

It had been many moon cycles since Petal had died, Poison has been grieving and become more distant from everyone, he was no longer his usual happy self instead he began putting more rules and became more controlling, maybe if he could do this he could save more people, he could prevent what happened with Quail from happening ever again. He always avoided the pit in which she was thrown in. Poison's grief grew and grew until it consumed him causing him to lash out at cats and had been acting more and more rude. And inside Poison was hardening, he didn't care if some cat grew sick, it was their problem now why should he care about them, it would just cause more grief if he grew attached. Indigo had tried to talk with him and instead he just snapped at her and told her to go back to work. Slowly but surely the previous ranks morphed to new ones. In which there would be cats or things that the experimenters would test on to see what kinds of powers would be available. He began to show his coldness outside in his actions until one day he snapped and fell into madness.

[[GORE WARNING, DEATH AND SEVERE BODILY HARM WARNING!!!]]

Poison hadn't felt emotion since Petal was killed, he lashed out at everyone even his sister and kits. He only feels anger, otherwise he is numb, one day he was walking by the failure pit when he saw a random trainee walking around and he felt anger why should THEY be happy!? He deserved happiness more then they did! Everything that had happened to him made him feel sick and looking at the happiness of the cats as if they didn't even care about Petal or him! Feeling outraged Poison threw himself at the trainee who screeched as they were pinned down by Poison who was blinded by rage, he just tore into the young cat ripping them apart with his claws the screams of pain were tuned out by Poison's angry thoughts as he melted parts of them until they were a bloody mess, a puddle of the cat dripped into the pit and Poison threw the corpse of the cat into the hungry failures. He looked around at the cats surrounding him horrified expressions on their faces, but they didn't do anything, didn't speak out they were too scared what would happen to them. Of course there were some cats who blindly trusted Poison and they overlooked this, but Poison looked at the group of cats feeling distant from them and he decided that things needed to change, he needed to control everything so no one would be able to feel whole, or happy "Let that be a lesson, don't cross me!" He hissed "From now on we will have a new order, the keeper of keys me who is in charge of you defy me you will severely regret it and if you don't accept these new ranks then I will make you, the experimenters who experiment on the weak cats here, the enforcers who punish any cat doing wrong, the spectators who watch and report,the trainers who train up the weak to be able to do anything, and the prisoners." He hissed "Those who are too weak and stupid to be able to do anything, which is most of you fox-dung! And if anyone wants to defy me, well then" he grinned sliding out his claws "Be my guest!" Poison said menacingly all the cats he once considered friends suddenly feared him. And one by one the cats who were the most against him oddly ended up slipping off into the chasms below or slipping and falling into Quail's pit. Including his own sister (and anyone who had a name or description mentioned earlier also died so that no one is forced to become that cat unless you wanna)

Didn't expect this to be so long, it was meant to be like a third of these words but I guess Poison and his backstory are a bit much welp there's the drama for y'all