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...
Song Credits: CG5 - Sleep Well (Poppy Playtime Chapter 3)
Freedom. That's all what they wanted. With everyone gone, they can sleep well now. But freedom never came, did it?
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It was quiet today when I get taken to the orphanage to see the kids. Dogday was busy teaching a kid how to read. He sees me enter.
"Hey Catnap! Do you want to join us? Little Alex was just reading with me." The kid in turn meeps in fear when I even dare to look at him.
Just walking away suddenly, Dogday says sadly, "O-oh, it's fine I guess..." The rest of the children were having fun with the other Critters.
Sitting alone, I watch jealously as my fellow friends were being adored, meanwhile no-one wanted to say hi to the giant purple cat.
And usually Dogday was my best friend, I was not trying to replace her or anything. However seeing the dog acting happy with a child made me ache for attention.
If only she was here. I knew that she loved her Catnap plush dearly. And I was the real deal. But what potential do I have with making any friends?
I lost my old life, and now was forced into a body that didn't belong to me... Sifting my claws, I turn to apologize to him.
After all the dog knew how much I suffered here. And at the hands of horrible people.
His eyes look at me, then away. "What is it Catnap?" I sigh. "I'm sorry Dogday. I didn't mean to snap-" He hugs my legs, and I sit. The dog looks up at me. "It's fine. You're just going through a lot, I should've guessed..."
An worker talks to us, saying it was time to go back now. One last look is exchanged between the both of us. We knew what was to happen.
Little did I know that he was against our God's commands...
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Sitting down, I was waiting for when it was time. The door opens, and I see the hand in the vent beside the door.
The scientist would never see it coming. While they were busy writing something down, and I stand in the corner, ready to lunge.
Jumping, I cover her mouth as my claws sliced through her body. Then alarms were being heard as I manage to kill off the woman.
Her blood was all over me, and I take that as my chance to escape. Other experiments were attacking the staff, while I helped them.
Playcare was a mess when I got there.
Kids were running away, adults attempting to fight back. I feel a tazer being used on me, and I only chuckle as I stand up, making them fall backwards on the ground.
Claws make contact with the person's stomach, leaving me to drag their body away. The rest of them were busy fighting back, and start taking the bodies underground with them.
We all watch as the Prototype appears from the ceiling. "The hour of joy is upon us! Show them what happens to be hurting! Kill them all!"
Soon every human was dead. Experiments start dragging their bodies to hide them. Before that, I had one more place to go to.
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Finally. I was done with blocking the school's entrance. Being told to by my god, it was for a reason all that I knew.
Walking through the abandoned orphanage, I end up in our old shared room. I sniff the bed sheets. They still smelled of her.
However as I was leaving, I see a note on the bed. Curiously I read it.
"Hey Theo, I don't know if you'll ever see this, but don't worry. I've been adopted today, and left a note for you to somehow find."
"I didn't mean to be off putting to you, I was just having thoughts again. Of course something happened to me that I'll never forget. And now? I'm talking to this paper like it's actually you."
"You were my only friend there. My bestest even. Ha, imagine being socially awkward? Yes, my new mom left this on my old bed. I just hope by some miracle that you find it. From, Skyelle."
Breathing filled my ears. My gaping mouth almost frowns. I missed her so much. My ears flick down. Sitting down on the floor, hearing a ghost of my friend speaking in my mind.
Eventually I get up, and move on from the home.
I was surprised to see him outside waiting for me. "Catnap, someone has been... disloyal. Please take care of it."
I nod. "I will my god. Nobody just disrespects you, without punishment."
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He was a heretic. A measly plaything that turned on us. He was supposed to be my best friend, however he tries to convince me that whatever I was doing was wrong.
I didn't listen. I only did what my god wanted of me, and that was to lock him away. However we got into a little scuffle, and I take his only source of escaping away.
The dog was pitiful to watch. The chains moved some with his crying motions. Yet we can't actually cry. There was only an upper torso left of my old friend Dogday.
The small plushies ate whatever I gave them. They work for me, and I feed them in return. With the threats of being next, I leave the moping critter alone.
Tail moving as I walk, I leave the Playhouse. I end up passing some of the Mini Critters, who were playing around together. A small Catnap tries to crawl on my leg.
Carefully, I place it down and pat it's head. The purring made me purr as well.
They start following me out, and I move them inside again. It was like I was their parent. Sighing, my smile was the only face that I could make.
I curl up in my bed, and see as some of them walk up to me. Letting them join me. My soul-less eyes watch over them. It was like they were young babies, ones that didn't know much.
I speak for once in the quiet. "I'm still not free, am I? We were never going to leave, were we? At least we can sleep well now..." Tears well up in my eyes. I was crying. Such a human thing to do.
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The Prototype watches as Catnap talks to himself. He speaks in a quiet gravelly tone. "I'm sorry, but I just can't let you leave. Nobody would be safe out there. This is our home."
