Skyelle and Theo have been best friends forever in the orphanage. Unfortunately one day her best friend goes missing; and eventually Skyelle gets adopted.
Now wanting answers to his disappearance, Skyelle comes back 20 years later, intending on find...
It's Catnap's first day in Playcare, and kids are unsure about the giant cat. Then his friend tells him that it's coming...
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It's been three god awful years spent in this cell. Scientists said it was about time that the orphans meet me. Their new protector.
Prototype hasn't made any visits in awhile. I was so used to seeing the metal hand in my vent, telling me soon. Freedom would be ours.
And with that I can try to look for her. It's been so long since I've lost my old life. Yet my dreams of her filled my mind. Along with questions.
'What does she look like now?' Or, 'Will she even remember me?'
My dark abyss eyes look over to the door. Lately I've been more alone in here. Like nobody even wanted to check in on me. I've scared many scientists away from coming in.
Wrapping my tail around my body, I lay down. My soul-less eyes close. I just wanted out of here...
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Kids were screaming in joy as the other Smiling Critters are introduced. I was next. My ears move down. I was getting fed up with waiting for my freedom.
Eventually people come into my cell, putting a leash on me. Like I was some pet. My gaping mouth widens, making the female scientist shiver in fear.
We walk until we enter the orphanage, my old home. I see many kids running around, and someone calls for them to sit down.
I was told to sit patiently, and my gaze tears to look as the kids dart their eyes from me. My tail swishes sadly, seeing them look at me in fear felt wrong. They were what I used to be.
A child. One that had a friend who was gone from my life. I almost wanted to get up and find something about what happened to her.
But I don't dare to move. Meanwhile the children were looking at me, scared out of their little minds. The rest of the critters were playing with some of them.
The sight made my stomach turn. I wanted to be loved by everyone else. Only she liked Catnap. The very being that I was now.
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Being injected to breathe red smoke made me want to claw everyone's faces off. Now I was their very own gas machine. Used to keep the children asleep.
Using the vent, my poppy gas moves throughout the orphanage. I sit down after I do. Tail moving dismissively. Ears pricked, eyes looking as soul-less as ever.
My claws make small noises as I walk through the halls. I had to watch them all sleep. Make sure that nobody dared to even sneak out with the giant cat outside their rooms.
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Sitting down in a corner, I start drawing with a claw. Realizing that I drew myself, I sigh out. I hear scrambling in the other room, making me get up.
The vent next to me opens, and I see the Prototype's hand. He speaks to me, "Are you alright friend?" I shake my head. "Yes..." My echoey voice responds. Then he says.
"I see that you are missing someone?" My claws were drawing again. Drawing her. I sigh. "No, no-one special." He places a claw on my back. I turn my head.
"Alright. But I'm letting you know that all of you will leave and get your deserved freedom soon." He leaves me, and I watch as the vent closes again.
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Morning comes, and soon I'm taken back to my cell. Sitting down on the hard floor, I watch as the door closes.
My claws clench, scraping the floor some. Watching the kids yesterday made me feel something. I was stripped of my childhood, and was forced to be their new sleeping method.
I close my eyes.
"-" I'm Skyelle. I don't have any friends." I ponder. "Well, how about I be your friend? I have no friends either."
She gasps. "R-really?" I nod. "Sure. Do you want to go play something?" She nods, and I take her hand and lead her to the playground.
We laugh in joy as we play together. Joy...
The very thing that I needed all along. A real friend.
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It wasn't very long for someone to do a check-in with me. It was apparent that I had some... bodily changes. I started getting bonier. And was getting more and more tested by small things.
It was obvious that I wasn't getting along with the other critters, or the kids. They looked at me like I was a monster. However I found out that my gas gave them nightmares.
Horrible, heart racing nightmares. With that knowledge I knew it was intentional. The workers made it so they can take "care of them". And unknowingly turn them into what I was.
This horrible factory needed to be destroyed. After we all leave I was going to track my friend down and hope that she'll accept me like this.
I wanted nothing to do with these horrible people.
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There was a camera recording, and I try to ignore it. The scientist says something to it, then asks someone else what my name was.
"Okay... this is... CatNap. Uhhh... experiment #1188..." Of course they only thought of as an experiment.
"What's his real name again?" My ears twitch as he says my real name. The person who I used to be so long ago. Then he goes off saying that I was clearly not getting along with the kids like the others were.
The scientist also has the audacity to ask if my voice was also broken. Standing up straight, I see the horror in his face.
"The Prototype will save us..." His face turns angry. "Theo, nobody's gonna save you! Sure we'll let you out to see the kids, but your home is here."
He continues. "And as for the Prototype, his home is in the labs. THIS is your life, get used to it..." The door slams behind him. I sit again.
Unsheaving my claws, I scratch at the wall. Marking it. Another day done.
When it was my time, I'll destroy everyone who took everything from me. And get out of this horrible place for good...
