She could only say one word.
Kyu.
Short for Kyurem, her name.
She was small. Her hair was dark brown with a white accent in the bangs. Her skin was pale, her eyes were a coffee color. Her clothes were loose-fitting white work-clothes and black sandals. She was fourteen.
She'd lived her whole life in a place called Lab Five.
Why?
She had two tiny black cat-ears and a foot-long black cat-tail. Her ears were about an inch long each and had fuzzy pink insides. Her tail was skinny with a fluffy end. She could understand human speech, but couldn't speak it herself. When she was mixed with the small feline, her vocal cords had been screwed up. Now she could only mutter small growls, purrs, mews and her name.
But…
Something was wrong.
The room was shaking. The wall next to her crumbled.
"Kyu?" she mewed.
"Why? Why is the lab crumbling!" someone yelled.
Crumbling? That meant breaking, right? Why was it breaking?
The iron gate keeping her in was bent. She laid down and wormed her way out of the room. "Kyu?"
The scientists were running past her in a frenzy, scared out of their wits. They weren't even paying attention to her.
Eventually, the scientists were all gone. She heard a hissing and looked down. There was a large snake. It had a red upper body and an off-white belly. Large purple eyes stared up at her.
"Kyu?"
She knelt down and held her arm out to him. he slithered up it. She knew one thing, and that was that she wsn't going to let this poor little snake die in this collapsing building.
"Kyu." she said in determination. She then got on all fours and bounded out as quickly as she could.
She wasn't going to let another life die in this hateful building.
"Kyu!" she screamed, leaping out of a broken window and, for the first time, into fresh air.
Seeing people, she skidded into an alley. She didn't want to be seen! She wasn't fit to be seen! She wasn't' human, and humans were scared of what they didn't understand.
How could a human understand a cat-girl that couldn't speak and was illiterate?
She curled up in the corner of the alley, mewling softly.
The snake hissed soothingly, wrapping itself in circles around her.
"Kyu…" she purred gratefully.
The next morning, she woke up, stretching. She wasn't one to forget where she was when she woke up, so her mind went straight to the most important thing—Food.
"Kyu? Kyu kyu kyu…" she murmured.
The snake woke up with a hiss and slithered off. There was a squeak and it came back, an enormous rat in it's mouth. It dropped it in front of her. "Kyu!" she mewed.
"Kyu ky-kyu kyu? Kyu?" she murmured upon finishing the shared meal.
It flicked it's tongue at her. She held her arm out and let it slither up.
It was time to go into the world.