Happy New Year everyone, hope everyone had a great Christmas and are beginning to enjoy 2010. I sure have. Now that the year has come, I decided to do another fanfiction story to start it off. Now this one a little different then the others I've been doing because A. it involves a different genre and B. it's based off a video game I really liked, Bioshock.

Now I know this might sound a bit cliché but I LOVE Bioshock! It is one of the first of the many First Person Shooter (FPS) games that you can use the environment as your very weapon. It had a great story, spooky levels, and brilliant effects that made this game the best one in the video game world. And when I heard that a sequel is coming out in February I immediately jumped the gun and couldn't wait for it to come out. But while I was waiting, I went on some of the sites that tell me of the games progress.

One of the sites I was interested in was the teaser called, Something in the Sea, where a lone individual named Mark Meltzer had been searching for his kidnapped daughter, Cindy, and gathering clues of her kidnapper and her where a bouts. Surprisingly enough, he started to gather what appears to be evidence that her daughter might be in a city at the bottom of the northern Atlantic Ocean called Rapture. Everyday I checked up on that site, wondering what Mark was going to find, and see if he was getting closer to her daughter.

During his searches, it got me to wonder, what if he recorded his progress on a tape recorder and someone got a hold of it to listen? I kinda wrestled on that idea in and out and the more I looked into the site, the more interested I am in doing it. Finally, a few days before the New Year, I decided to do it anyways because it showed so much potential. And since it would take probably a day in completion, I came to the conclusion that I would update this story daily. Of course, there could be a few delays on this story, mainly because of college work and the short trips, but will be able to finish this, hopefully before Bioshock 2's release date and the update on Something in the Sea. And now, without further a due, a bring to you…

The Audio Diaries of Mark Meltzer

Entry One: Cindy's Kidnapping

This is the first audio log of Mark Meltzer dated November 15th 1967.

This is going to be my first of the many audio recordings of my investigation. And by investigation, I mean my search for my daughter. sigh… I guess you are wondering why I'm doing these recordings now and all the other days in the near future. Well, perhaps I should start from the beginning.

I use to have a normal life. I have a lovely wife named Amanda I was married to for ten years. We had a baby girl named Cindy and we raised her for the past seven years. We were a happy family at the time. We barely have fights, we all worked together, gave Cindy the best of education. Life was completely perfect… At least until the day that ultimately changed my life.

One October 21st 1967 we were on a small family get together at a beach up in New York, relaxing and having a good time. On a warm fall afternoon, Amanda and I left to get some lunch and I told Cindy to stay on the beach spot we picked not far from the waves. That of course was a bad idea. Amanda and I were at the hot dog stand buying a few hotdogs, one of which had mustard and relish, Cindy's favorite. The moment we bought those dogs, we heard a blood-curdling scream coming from the beach. I knew that the scream came from my daughter. We both rushed to the spot and see if our daughter was okay to find out that she disappeared. It was obvious that she was taken. At the moment we were grieving, I heard what I have reason to believe was a scream that wasn't human. I turned to the direction of the scream and found our kidnapper holding my daughter in some kind of strange cage on its back. I was able to take a picture of this person with my camera, but this kidnapper moved so fast I only got a blurry picture. At that moment the kidnapper disappeared and that was the last time I saw Cindy.

I have reason to believe this strange person was the one who kidnapped my daughter, but it was hard to tell. The picture was blurry of course, but the description wasn't anything I seen. It looked human at first glance, but upon closer observation that was something different. It had one inhuman eye, its stance not normal, and it had some kind of strange weapon in its possession. But it's not like a gun or a knife; it looked more like some kind of long needle, like a syringe or something. Then there's the cage on its back, the very cage Cindy was in. This was no ordinary kidnapper, it was something completely different.

Days after the kidnapping, the police was at our beach house in New York City asking questions, and getting identification of our kidnapper. We explained as much as we could and I gave the picture of the kidnapper to Benny Stango, a detective for the NYPD Detective Agency. Though we did all that we could, Stango stated he never saw a kidnapper like that before and even if he did; the person would've been on the wanted files. Still, he stated he would search for the kidnapper and our daughter, perhaps wait for some ransom to come by.

For the past few weeks though, there was no word from the kidnapper, no notes or phone calls. It almost looks like the person disappeared without a trace. We tried to help by posting up missing ads on newspapers and light posts, but nothing came up. It would appear that our kidnapper didn't want Cindy to exist at all. My wife gave up on finding our daughter, but I haven't. Even with the police's help, they won't do anything in finding Cindy without any leads. So I decided do the investigation myself. I'm not going to rest until I find Cindy and bring her back home. That's a promise I'm going to keep.

End Entry…

What do you think? Not bad for a first chapter. Just wait and see what I'm going to do with the others. Feel free to review this and other chapters if you like. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!