Introduction
The City itself is normal and harmless enough. Just an old fashioned City with dirt roads and no animals. Who cares? But the City is so much more. It's an experiment whose purpose is unclear. All that's known is that everyday in the City, a monster is released, at least one each time. And these monsters are intelligent, and they speak their own tongue. Outside of the City, they live in the laboratory the scientists conducting the experiment stay in, with honors. To be honest, the monsters are given much respect from the humans.
Faith Carter has lived in the City for as long as she can remember. And that's not saying much, considering her first memory was attained on her thirteenth birthday, and she's only sixteen. Faith is, in fact, the only citizen in the City. She doesn't know this is an experiment, all she knows is terror. For each day, the monsters released kill her, only to have her painfully regenerate overnight. Such it has been for three long years.
One young monster is released, and, having been taught that the City is full of people, he is confused to find it seemingly deserted. This particular monster is a Morpher. That means he has a human form, one that he's usually in. He scopes out the town in this form, and when he meets Faith, he's stunned. He knows he's supposed to kill her, but he's not sure he should. He talks to her as a human, gets to know what she's been through.
Eventually, Faith comes to find who he really is, and he becomes an outlaw for not killing her. They begin to learn what has become of the outside world, and why Faith is there.
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Try to get him up soon.
I'll have Faith up directly.
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Goddamn it. Faith groaned as bright sunlight streamed through her eyelids. She must've died facing the positioning of the morning sun. In a few moments, she should be able to prove or disprove her theory, although the answer was already clear to her reawakening mind. It's not like the monsters ever moved her after her deaths, and she highly doubted (or rather feared) the idea of her being a zombie. Shuddering slightly at the prospect, Faith testily stood up. Her limbs were numb, as though they were not her own to control, but she knew from past the feeling would soon pass, just as her memory block would.
As blood circulated through her legs, Faith staggered, slightly unsteady, to the street sign at the end of the alleyway. Death's Doorstep Alley. How convientient, wasn't it, that she had been killed in a place named with such foreboding? Although, she supposed it was to be expected. All roads were named to promote the terror-filled aura that the City maintained, but they usually just came off as cheesy, amusing compared to the horrors she had seen.
As if on cue, memories rushed back into her head.
Faith allowed herself to be pulled into the day of last.
She was running nonstop. Why, oh why must it be a Danago? The spider-like monster scuttled along the sides of the buildings to her right side, its human eyes nonblinking, shining in the midday sun. It uttered a phrase in demon-tongue, a low, throaty hiss of which she could not understand, nor locate the source. But Faith knew where its mouth was placed, fron past experience. She shuddered at the mere thought. Hoping to loose the terrifying beast, she veered right, into the alleyway. But no. The thing was not to be outsmarted. Knowing the place, Faith ran to where the path split either way, left and right. What the hell? she thought, gazing upon dumpsters placed to [prevent her escape. When'd they do that? She sighed, then slid underneath one. Or tried to anyway. The Danago had seized her from behond with one of its tentacle-like legs. It threw her to the ground, and she felt her left leg crumple beneath her own weight. She looked upwards just as the beast lowered itself on top of her. Its mouth, which rested on the underside of its belly, was a gaping hole with thousands of needle-sharp teeth. She was soundless as it latched onto her.
Legs no longer shaking, Faith walked from the alleyway. The dumpsters were gone, she knew without looking. She stepped onto Main Pain (who came up with these names?) Street, pondering what terrors were in store for her today.
“This is it, Sunil. You’ll be fine.”
They stood in front of the opening in the field. Sunil knew it wouldn’t be open for long. He had twenty four hours, it would be a snap. On either side of him stood a human. One was one of the high ups and Sunil didn’t know his name, only that he was in charge. The other was Brown, a woman who Sunil had grown close to during his time at the facility. She gave him an affectionate smile, waving. “I’ll see you tomorrow Quillian. Make us proud.”
Both stood several yards away, lest they become the subject to his aura, but he knew the only way to go was forward. As he stepped over the threshold, he let his fur fall away, balancing on his hind legs as the change took him. It was fast, from one breath to the next, and he never lost stride. He figured it would be better to explore the city in a shape that wouldn’t frighten its inhabitants. Clothes surged over his form before his mask had fallen away, giving him the basic, non-lab clothes he had seen humans wear in the facility – dark jeans with a grey Henley.
Sunil padded out of another abandoned building. It was completely empty – no furniture or food or signs it had ever been used. Only fixtures that seemed forlorn by themselves. He was getting aggravated. This wasn’t like they promised. They told him he would have blood and sport and fun, not this tiresome searching.
A whisper of a sound caught his attention and his head swiveled towards it, his body following. It was the first sound he had heard all day, besides the wind moaning through the empty buildings. With a wrinkle of his nose, he willed himself to hear better, unwilling to leave his human form just yet.
Yes, those were definitely footsteps, and not his own echoing oddly. Eagerly he hastened towards them, figuring he would finally get answers to this empty city.
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By the time he was with arms reach, he had decided he wouldn't harm her until she answered his questions. He figured she would be more cooperative if she didnt think he was going to kill her after he got his answers - though that was totally a part of his plan - and resolved not to let her discover his other form. Were there enough humans in the city to make running across one be common enough for her not to question his presence, or would she be suspicious? He supposed he would find out soon.
He looked her up and down, trying to gauge her age. Younger than any of the humans he had interacted with at the facility, thats for sure.
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Finally, he settled on part-truths, since he really didn't know how the field worked. "I don't know. I woke up and spent the morning trying to find someone else. Why is his place empty?"
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"Just you?" He didn't even have to pretend to be startled. Even leaving room for interpretation, he had been told the city had people, enough to make it, well, a city. "Are you sure? No one else?"
Then a thought occurred to him, on the heels of her last words. "Do you mean everyone else is dead? Are you the last one?"
That would certainly be disappointing.
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He shifted uncomfortably. That had been vague enough, right? "How can death be certain if its only ever been you here?"
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He blew a blast of hair through his nose, more violent than a snort. "Maybe youre a monster too, and thats why you regenerate. I dont think I heal anymore than normal. We could try and see." He pulled the sleeve up to his elbow, then raised his forearm to his mouth.
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When the noise reached him, he turned wide eyes towards the alley way. What the hell was going on? This was supposed to be his day. Did they release another? Why would they? His lips curled. No way was he going to let someone else steal his fun and glory. When Faith suggested the library he nodded his agreement, following her easily on long legs when she took off.
The empty city around them made their footsteps echo, making it seem like there were more than two, before the buildings swallowed the sound. Sunil was extremely uneasy - everything he had been prepared for was wrong and he was going to get to the bottom of it.
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With a sigh he turned away from the lock. He could try to open it, but not in this form. And if the facility locked them in, they probably had their reasons. He nodded at her suggestion to run, then hide. "I will. Thank you. I'll find you, if I'm still alive come morning."
After he had cornered the damn creature that was here and get answers from it, of course. He ran his fingers over the books. He had never found much joy in reading, but they only thing he could get ever get his hands on were dry medical texts. "Ive never been in a library before, I dont think they'll unlock the doors just for little old me. Where should I go?"
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When they reached the bottom he looked around, walking in the small room to examine the books themselves. "I don't suppose one of these books leads to another hidden door?" He asked doubtfully.
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