Chapter 1

You'd expect a welcoming party at home or someone to latch onto you shouting in happiness… You'd think home is the last great sanctuary on earth. That its always there no matter what or where you go or what you do you can always return… I think I must have made a mistake. This isn't home. It can't be.

Walking down the corridor lingering smells of catnip and testosterone. The wall has bullet marks more since the last time I fought here. I feel my heart rate increase slightly. I stand before the door thinking things wild emotions running through my head. And before I can so much as touch the door knob the door opens… Darkness…

I'm aware… I'm aware but calm. I have to stay calm. I've been trained to stay calm… I feel everything strapped down by metal. My tail is strapped in more places than one like a cast perhaps. My legs, abs, arms, and tail are completely unmovable. I inhale deeply taking in all of the smells of the room. Humans have captured me everything smells of them. I smell antiseptics pungent and suffocating. I wrinkle my nose… A mistake realized soon enough.

"He's conscious Ms." A second later the table moves lifting me upright suspended above the ground. I open my eyes the room is filled with humans in white lab coats. In the center looking directly at me is the most beautiful human woman I've ever seen. Desert colored skin, gray almond eyes, black hair pulled into a single thick complex knot. She wore leather as if she owned it; commanded it the way she issued orders to the humans moving about. Her corset peaked at the top displaying the tops of a flawless bust. The things I noticed most about her were the thin lines along her cheeks fading as they go back towards the back of her neck. Her smell was feline but not kaize. It was like something else all together.

"Slow down your thinking too fast", she whispers not loud enough for the white coats to hear. "You don't want to make be blush do you?" She spoke as if she'd had all the time in the world as if I were her prisoner, her prey and I'd never get away.

"Who are you", I asked my curiosity already apparent to her. She rumbled from within a sound I recognized as a purr. "You're an genetic experiment."

"Finally it learns", she chuckles to herself. "I was beginning to think I'd have to tell you, but I guess that purr says everything." Immediately my mind starting racing thinking a million things at once. I looked up and saw her agitation and felt her recede from my mind. It sounds like static to her must be… Then as long as I keep thinking things memories going on all at once she's running blind.

"Hmm so you're a fast learner? They said that was part of your ability complex you can learn and adapt spontaneously." All of a sudden I felt my brain melt and all of my thoughts slow to a crawl. I felt her probing presence once again in my mind. Trying to create the static defenses again my head gave a slight jerk. It felt like I was trying to start a hover vehicle with a bad engine.

"You see your not as strong as you think. Now on to more pressing matters. I-

"Listen I want to know where my mistresses are. Tell me and I won't cause you any harm. On my honor." She looked irritated at me for just a moment. Then with the air of someone regal and not at all caring she leaves. And once again darkness edges into my mind. Not slowly as sleep would take a person. Abrupt thought ending darkness…