2nd Chapter is WAY more interesting, but this explains stuff.

I open my eyes with blurry vision, hearing the whirrings of machines and computer systems, as memories flood back into my head. The worst part of my memories hit me after remembering.

Flood. A Flood. The Great flood. The flood that most likely took out every human but myself. The flood that took my father and friends.

I begin to sob before remembering my father's words of what to do. He told me that grieving wouldn't help, but make sure to have a good way to let out my sadness while being productive.

Taking the advice, I wipe my tears and enable the AI's communication mode. "Hello master Dylan, I see that you have woke up after I opened your chamber." says Winston, the name I gave to the AI.

"Hello Winston! Good to see you are still functioning!" I say in a calm yet sad voice. I remember the only 2 reasons that he may have been woken up and I start getting slightly anxious, hoping for one over the other. "So what is the reason you woke me up? Hopefully new species have taken over the Earth, instead of my being the only mammal alive." He says as he starts to sweat.

"Right on spot sir! I've been observing them, not waking you up until I was sure of their behavior patterns." Winston replies, "I deciphered their language a while back and they appear to call themselves inklings. They evolved from squids and now live on land like humans! Their bodies can shift between a humanoid form and squid form, and they're bodies are mostly made of an unknown type of ink."

I sigh in relief. So they can be human like in appearance when not in squid form? If they share the same reproductive system as humans then maybe we can ha- WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING DYLAN!? God it must be those 15 year old instincts. A new species that look like humans take over the earth and the first thing you want to do is mate with them?

I snap out of my thoughts and ask Winston what the species's social behavior is like.

"Very good question sir! The inklings are almost exactly like humans physically and socially! A noticeable difference is their hair, which isn't even hair, rather, tentacles. They also have pointy ears and a black outside around and connecting their eyes. They have 3 pointy teeth, 2 on top, 1 on the bottom. I will show you an image a camera drone took of one of the females.

Winston shows me a picture of an attractive girl that looks no different than a human besides her hair, eyes, and teeth. I next embarrassedly ask about their reproductive system. It may be weird but if any human genes are to get passed down he needs to know. Also for other….. Personal reasons… WHY DO YOU THINK THESE THINGS DYLAN!?

Winston laughs with the human voice he was programmed with and says "Just like a human's, but slow down there cowboy ;) . At the age of 14 they gain full control over both forms and go to a popular city hangout they call Inkopolis Square and participate in battles called turf wars where the objective is to cover the most turf on an area with ink. They can also kill each other in these battles, but turn into a little squid ghost and go to what appears to be a respawn station for them. The call it splatting.

Dylan is taken aback. "Oh no! Does this mean they have wars like humans foolishly did?" Please don't make the same mistake my race did.

To my knowledge there has only been 1 war between inklings and their octopus counterpart, octolings and octarians. The inklings won this war, forcing the octarians underground while inklings live on the surface along with many other evolved sea creatures like jellyfish, horseshoe crabs, and many more!"

Dylan returns to his normal analytic self after his teenage instinct outburst. "Are the O2 levels outside stable enough for a human?" He asks.

Winston replies cheerfully "Better than ever Sir. Since humans died, therefore stopped polluting the atmosphere, the air is more full than ever. Especially since the new species uses green energy in the form of catfish like creatures called Zapfish, and a giant eel type creature called The Great Zapfish!"

Dylan then has an idea after hearing about the Human safe air. "Winston you may disapprove of this idea but I am going to go to Inkopolis square. Of course I'll hide the features of my head and body that are exclusive to humans with clothes while also wearing the translator assuming you put their inkling language in it."

"Well actually Sir, I was about to suggest that! It's like you read my AI! As long as you stay cautious and don't reveal yourself you should be fine. I suggest you suit up after unsealing the food your father sealed up for you."

After having his first meal in 12,000 and hiding his appearance, Winston unseals the shelter revealing the forest they were in to now be a park. Luckily there were no inklings there at the time. Dylan turned on his Radio/Translator as Winston directs him to Inkopolis.

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That was the end of chapter 1. This is my First Story, but feel free to criticise me all you want. I'll try to adjust my setting to a more fast paced tone later on, but I needed this chapter to be the "Phantom Blood" of this story, and build a foundation for later on. Let me know what you think of this! I'll add a chapter every Sunday so that people have something to look forward to and so that people don't just read in 1 Day. And as always… Stay Fresh!