PROLOGUE
[10 Years Ago; Los Angles, California]
"Ah!"
"Watch out!"
"Shit!"
Crash! Bang!
The sound was deafening – the screeching out tires, screams of terror, and the pain.
"What happened? Kit Kat!? Are you okay?!" A young mother turned around to check her daughter in the backseat only to instantly tear up when she saw her daughter's situation but she kept a brave face up for her daughter who was slowly opening her breathtaking eyes to stare at her mother.
"Catalina? Oh my gosh, please stay wake. Honey, I'm right here." Janelle Ramirez cooed her fatally injured daughter; she placed a warm hand on her daughter's cooling cheek, afraid to move her. The seven-year old beautiful child of mixed blood with honey brown-blond hair looked up at her mother with stunning eyes that had a mixture of blue and green.
"Momma?" Blood trcikled down from the child's mouth as she spoke; tears were slowly streaking down her soft, bronze-skin and her favorite lavender colored sun dress was stained with bright red blood; her injury was a steel pipe entering her body from her fragile back while existing out of her stomach and into the car's floor. Janelle was almost completely unharmed except from a broken wrist, a knotted forehead, and a few bruises – her daughter wasn't so lucky. A coughing fit sent the girl's mother over the edge.
"Kit Kat, please don't talk! You're hurt, please. Just listen to me this one time." Janelle pleaded frantically. The smell of burnt tires and shouting of other drivers compared nothing to her only child's pain. Janelle's heart clenched so tightly she fear she would pass out.
"Ma'am! Are you okay?" A man questioned, running over to the car, he peered inside as gasped at the horrific sight. He was stunned when the little girl gave him a small smile.
"I can't move her, she'll…..I can't." Janelle whispered will tears pouring from her eyes while shaking her head in disbelief.
"Please get an ambulance over here!" The man shouted into the crowd, to receive frantic 911 calls and curiosity. The man pushed the onlookers back, giving the mother and daughter time alone.
"Don't be sad." Catalina whispered, giving her mother's a beautiful smile.
"No, no. Catalina? Please keep your eyes open! I know it hurts but please –" Janelle was interrupted when Catalina placed a cold hand on her mother's shoulder, her fingers gently grazing over her mother's exposed skin.
"It'll be okay. I'm tired, Momma. Please let me sleep." Those enchanted blue-green eyes closed as her small hand slipped from her mother's shoulder. Catalina took her last breathed as her mother watched in horror, frozen in fear before the sound disappeared and never returned – she broke down. The child was a picture of devastating beauty, innocently sleeping with peaceful expression on her face as her mother's screams and pleads echoed throughout the silent area as onlookers watched with tears flowing from their eyes, they felt the mother's pain as her light faded and disappeared. However, no one noticed the ambulance had a small red and white Umbrella symbol in the far corner.
[1 Week Later; Tokyo, Japan – Umbrella Base]
"Mister Rousseau? Are you positive you want to do this?" The Head of Umbrella Security and the Assistant Director of Biochemical Weaponry nodded his head, he was positive that his daughter; his flesh and blood, would become a complete success.
"Yes, make preparations for everything. Give her the best of the best: training, education, everything. Ah, and make sure Charles gives her the minimum dosage and if needed give her some of the other viruses as well but keep her in check."
"Which viruses, Sir?"
"Hmm, I'll leave that to Charles and Cain." Rousseau stated, turning his heel and disappearing down the white hallway. The assigned researcher sighed, gazing down in remorse and pity for the beautiful child, whose body which was cleaned and dressed in a white dress. Her skin was still remarkable bronze though it had paled slightly and her lips were still a pretty pink color. She was lying on a metal slab with a single silver chain decorating her wrist. Tight curls of honey brown-blond framed her face, stopping at her small shoulders.
"I'm so sorry." The researcher whispered as they pushed the slab into a laboratory with containers filled with different color liquids and three other scientists. One of them picked up a light blue fluid, labeled 'T-Virus' before skillfully injecting the fluid into the child's veins. Several minutes passed by and nothing happened. The four living people in the room watched in confusion usually the dead will awaken with the need to feed - this subject wasn't moving until those unforgettable blue-green orbs snapped open; however this time they had a noticeble circle of silver around the pupil. The stunning eyes of the child gazed into four pairs of shocked eyes. Her skin had darkened to her natural color but had a slight glow. One of them swiftly grabbed an axe and raised it close to his chest while the child simply titled her head to the side and raised an eyebrow.
"You look like you've just saw a ghost. Do you watch Casper? What's the matter with him?" The angelic voice asked, stunning the scientists once again as she pointed to the armed scientist. The man with the axe lowered the weapon is amazement and disbelief.
"You…you can speak normally? And you don't want to eat us?" One of them asked, the unusual eyes swiftly glanced from each of the badges until she met with bewildered brown eyes before she smiled brightly.
"I'm seven, of course I can talk! That's gross, why would I want to eat you?"
"It's just a joke..." The scientist replied, lamely causing a redhead woman to shake her head.
"Where's my Momma?" The child asked.
"You're mother isn't here. You have to stay here, Catalina." Green replied, she was a pretty woman with short reddish-blonde hair.
"Why?" The child pouted.
"Because she's really busy." The fluffy haired man with the axe named Grey answered, sarcastically causing Green to slap him upside the head.
"And she will be for a long time." Green continued, softly.
"I miss her, it feels cold without her." The child whispered, pulling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them, curly hair tumbled over her shoulder and back as she placed her cheek on her knee. Green grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around the child's shoulders which earned a smile.
"May I?" Blue asked, holding a device up. Catalina nodded in confusion before straightening out her back. Blue placed the device on her chest while placing listening closely.
"Amazing, her heart beat is so strong. That's strange, she's almost five degrees warmer than the average person." Blue whispered, breathlessly as he felt her heartbeat.
"Seriously?" Grey asked, walking closer.
"Yes." Blue smiled down at her causing the girl to tilt her head.
[7 Years Later; Tokyo, Japan – Umbrella Base]
"There's been an outbreak!? Then where is she!?" Rousseau screamed into the phone.
"Sir, she's fine but she's traumatized. She was in the ventilation system hiding from the guards who were scheduled to take her to her combat lessons. Her aunt, Daniela Mendez, was a scientist in the Umbrella lab where we are currently keeping her. Unfortunately, a test subject who was contaminated with the T-Virus bite numerous individuals thus causing the chain of mutations. Mendez was bitten and turned minutes later in front of Subject #1 and killed the non-effected. We put her and the others down and cleared the room. We have been running tests on her as a precaution to be sure." The researcher informed.
"Has there been any other changes?"
"No, Sir. Nothing out of the ordinary. Increased strength, accuracy, agility, flexibility, and her immunity. Stats are the same except increase heart rate which is normal for her."
"Has the virus destroyed her condition?"
"Negative, she still has it."
"And her memory?"
"It seems she only remembers Mendez and her mother, Sir. She remembers the accident but vaguely. I don't think she knows she died."
"…Very well, keep an eye on her but send her to the Mansion. Be sure to make sure this never happens again."
"Of course, Sir." The line went dead as warm brown eyes watched behind the one-way mirror to look at the girl curled into a ball on the white tiled floor – she refused to leave the ground after her tests were complete, tears gently flowing from her eyes soundlessly.
"Catalina?" The researcher called over the intercom only to receive the middle finger which caused the scientist to sign in exasperation. This person was use to Catalina's defiant and rebellious ways.
"I'm sending you to the Arklay Mountains. There is a couple I think that would –" The one-way mirror scattered into dust to reveal the tear-stained girl's emotionless face; however, her eyes burned with fury. The glass melted away completely before dust blew into the room, tossing the researcher's hair in the process.
"You're sending me way? You're just getting rid of me like everyone else." The girl replied in a monotone voice under laced with hurt and anger. The researcher shook their head.
"No, this is to your benefit. You need to get away from these labs." They insisted. The hurt girl's eyes narrowed in reply before she spoke.
"I don't fucking believe you." She replied through gritted teeth.
"Catalina, I do care about you. I've been by your side for seven long years. You're not the most enjoying person to be around twenty-four-seven." The researcher tried to joke while being completely serious but Catalina did not believe a word.
Of course, she wouldn't. She was abandoned her entire life by her parents, family, and people who she thought cared for her, at least she thinks she was.
"You can be angry but remember this; you deserve to have a childhood, a life of your own. You leave in the morning." The researcher turned and left, leaving the curly haired girl staring absentmindedly into the distance.
[14 Hours Later; Outside Raccoon City]
(Catalina's POV)
"Catalina, we're here. Those are the Arklay Mountains; at the base of the mountains is Raccoon City where you will be attending school. The Arklay Mansion is your new home. Please be kind to your caretakers, don't drive them insane." The researcher informed as the helicopter landed in front of the yard where a young woman was standing with a handsome man by her side both were barely eighteen or nineteen years old.
"Alice, Spence. This is Catalina, she will staying with you so please treat her nicely. She is really sweet once she warms up to you, she just has a teenage mouth and an adult mind." The researcher informed, smiling fondly at the girl beside them. The fair-haired woman smiled while I looked into the mountains and out into the sky.
"I hope you like staying with us." Alice greeted, her hand warmed my shoulder and I gasped in shock. Her hands weren't my mother's but it felt safe and for the first time in five years I gave a genuine smile.
"Only if you promise to buy me ice cream." I grinned. Alice returned the grin with one of her own.
[Present; Arklay Mansion]
"Catalina! I'm going to take a shower! Dinner will be ready in twenty-minutes!" Alice informed, stepping into the study room to see the newly turned eighteen-year old girl reading a book and sitting cross legged.
"Sure, just leave me here while you and Spence have a fancy dinner." The said girl commented, waving her hand in the air.
"We're having dinner here. It's your birthday remember?" Alice said, walking closer and leaning close to the girl.
"Urg, don't remind me. I'm not fond of being reminded that I'm getting closer to your age." The girl smirked, teasingly.
"Hey! I'm only five years old then you!" The fair-haired woman replied, slapping the girl with a pillow. Catalina laughed and grinned at Alice's pouting face.
"Yes, I'm eighteen and you're twenty-three, so to me it's makes you old." She retorted, smirking. Alice huffed and started walking out the door.
"I'll remember that!" Alice shouted, smiling. Catalina continued laughing for a few minutes.
Twenty minutes passed as Alice undressed and started her shower while Catalina became engrossed inside the pages of the novel she was reading when a light beeping noise sounded in the house. A small red light was blinking by the grandfather clock, Catalina narrowed her eyes for a closer look.
"What the hell?" Catalina whispered, about to stand up when a clear gas was quickly released inside the entire mansion and she was enclosed in peaceful darkness as her eyes drfited closed.
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Up Next: Rain is introduced and things get interesting!
Catalina is portayed by Jasmine Sanders, a model that is also known as the Golden Barbie.
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