Bacteriosis

Bacteriosis - (verb; bak-teer-ree-oh-sis) Defined as the process of a Bacteriote finding and bonding DNA and RNA duplicate agents into a host's DNA and RNA strands for the benefit of a symbiotic/parasitic relationship with beneficial and fatal consequences for the host.

Bacteriote - (noun; bak-teer-ree-oh-t) A species of fungus-like semi-sentient micro-organisms with extraordinary but complex and often dangerous capabilities. Rumored to be pre-historic parasitic life-form of some sort.

In 1947, 10 Soviet scientists were executed under military command after a test on a bacteriote and a human test subject resulted in a lab explosion that cost millions of rubles, multiple months of data and research on the bacteriote as well as a loose human test subject. All files related to the incident were either destroyed, altered or redacted in some fashion. The bacteriote in question was said to be destroyed, all though records that were later redacted suggest it may have died, which suggests bacteriotes can face mortality. No other signs of any bacteriotes have been found and the human test subject was pronounced dead, though no body was ever recovered, and all his records were erased out of the Russian government.

Until another finds itself right in the path of Owen Reed, a good kid with a short temper from the fictional city of Asheville, Illinois, a city that was bustling with life and community and was hit with hard times from mass unemployment to the gangs that now overrun neighborhoods like Owen's in Verdance Heights. With his family already struggling to make ends meet and the temptation of joining the local gang to make money for his family hanging over his head, Owen often finds himself painting graffiti in abandoned buildings to clear his mind. One night, Owen meets Terranox: a dying bacteriote with one last hope riding on Owen's shoulders to be his host.