Cinnix

The Beginning

It all started on the planet Earth, in the year 17034, scientists concluded that in 3 years, the sun would implode. They needed to figure out a way to speed up the process of evolution within their species. Then, they had an idea, animals. They would figure out a way to inject human DNA into animals with a serum that would mix human DNA and with the animals' to create stronger hybrids. What happened, however, would change their world and the next.

The first of the test animals to completely intertwine with the humans' DNA was a small lab rat with only one eye due to the rats inbreeding with each other. This rat, while small, would be the answer to everything and would only become stronger as time passed.

"Sir, what shall we do with subject 3749?" 

"Kill it. It won't live long with it being a cyclops of a creature..."

"B-but, Sir, she's perfectly healthy!" 

The man banged his fist into his desk. "Carla, that animal is nothing compared to the accomplishment I have achieved!" He turned around to face the pale, young woman. "This rat is nothing compared to what I have done for humanity! Now get rid of it and ready the other subjects!"

The woman scattered around to find a syringe and plunged the needle into a bottle of euthanasia. 

The only thing the poor creature heard before everything silenced, was the poor woman whispering to her, "May God have mercy on your soul." 

God could not help this rodent any longer.

"Wake up, little lamb." a strange, deep voice spoke in a voice that would send shivers down any mortals spine, but somehow, it calmed the little rat. It was the first time she had heard a voice in what felt like decades. "Open your eyes."

She questioned that statement. Eyes? Plural? 

She slowly opened her one eye and somehow opened the other. A smile beamed on the little rodent's face, but... her face? She frantically tried to touch her fuzzy, grey muzzle. Nothing. She could only see the outline of what was her muzzle.

"Yep, I'm afraid becoming a shadow can do that..." A dark, male figure with beady red eyes approached the little rodent.

"W-what?" she squeaked and quickly covered her mouth. "I-I..."

"Yes. You spoke. Welcome to the afterlife." the man spoke in a distant, but calming voice.

She slowly stood up on her hind legs, that of a human, fumbling until she eventually caught her balance. "I-I'm dead?!"

"Take a look." A large arm extended out past her little muzzle. The hand attached raised one sharp finger, pointing to the young woman. 

The woman held the rat's limp, lifeless body in her hands. She carried the corpse into a dark room lit up by a roaring furnace. 

"S-she's not going to..." the little rat looked up at the dark figure, "is she?"

He signaled her to keep watching and as the little creature turned her head back, the woman chucked the body into the fire. 

The rat wanted to scream in anger at the lady. She wanted to cry in anguish for having not done anything, but all she did was stare in horror as her body turned to ash. The figure placed its hand on her shoulder.

"Humans. Horrible creatures." he looked down at her. "This is what they do. They steal what is not there's." 

"Why?"

"No one knows." He shook her shoulders softly. "Come now, little lamb."

He grabbed hold of her hand and took her into a cavern deep below the surface of Earth. He brought her into a reddish room, dimly lit with open fires that no young creature should be near, but that didn't seem to fase the man.

"Mister, are you an angel?" 

"...sort of. I will explain everything shortly, my dear. For now, rest." He laid her on a soft, warm bed and covered her up and went to head out.

"May I ask you one more thing?" 

He turned back around. "Yes?"

"Am I human or am I still a rat?"

He smiled in a strangely soft way. "You are you. Does it matter what you are, when you are still yourself?"

"It does when humans exist."

The man chuckled. "Well said, my dear." he said as he slipped out the door.

The next morning, the man told the rodent of his identity. Lucifer. He told her he was the ruler of the underworld and that he was going to make her leader of a small devision of demons. The shadow demons, or just shadows for short. He had big plans for her, but his time would be cut short with the implosion of the sun destroying Earth and throwing most of the demons, including Lucifer out into space. All of the demons except the shadows of course. 

So, the little rat followed the other animal hybrids into space. Of course, the animals were still evolving in these strange shuttles, so they could not land on their own. Not before they ran out of oxygen anyway. The rat helped move the shuttle with what little force she could muster and eventually helped them land.

Lucifer wasn't the only one busy, however. God had created two beings to help lead these new creatures without him. Two angels. Sarafene and Lewis he named them. He had to make sure they did not have more power over each other, however, so he separated responsibilities between them.

Sarafene would be able to create anything out of nothing and would be a motherly figure to her subjects. Lewis would be able to destroy all things living, harboring the power of destructive components such as fire. He would also be the one responsible for judgement in those crossing over.

He would make these two, complete opposite people, fall in love. He felt they had to meet each other themselves, so he kept them separated and sent them off to this new world, oblivious of the other. 

While the hybrids began making colonies on these new planets, Sara got busy on making a new resting place for the angels which she dubbed 'Cloud 9'. 

Lewis had made himself a large fortress in this land, far away from the other angels, to live and judge those who were entering.

Sara, on the other hand, built a cottage in the center of the small utopia to be a motherly ruler as her Father wanted.

Later on, these three would all become well acquainted with each other, and may not like it.