Likenix: Stuck in the Middle
Chapter 1: flashback
Before reading: 1. A Neex is a four to eight legged creature who is a crossbreed of two or more other creatures, one creature it is crossbred with has to be a mythical creature, such as a dragon or a unicorn, and the other(s) have to be regular animals. In this case, Likenix is a dragon/cougar/human, Pationer is a dragon/lion/human, and Ixwix is a mirtraud (a dragon with three wings and tails)/cougar/human.
2. An n-droid is the neex word for android
3. To see what the characters look like, go to my deviant art: . / (not all characters will be posted yet)
A young six year old neex woke up early around seven in the morning, she hastily ran to her mother and father's room. Her birthday was today. The young neex's name was Likenix, an intelligent and meticulous neex with a high interest for flying, music, and most overall, technology. Her favorite pastime was to linger in her large dome-like room full of robotic inventions and find ways she could improve her technology as she grew up since she didn't have any siblings to play with. Her father, Pationer, had promised her something extra special today as a birthday gift, and she practically fidgeted where she stood every day up until now. Likenix flew swiftly upwards as she ran and landed beside her father's side of the bed. "Daddy! Daddy!, wake up it's my birthday!" shouted Likenix as she perched on Pationer's tail, all she heard was a grunt as her father did not budge. "Get up lazy bones!" she exclaimed, now right next to Pationer's ear. "I'm not lazy…I just tire easily…" she heard Pationer mumble, he slowly opened one eye and saw Likenix with large eyes and a giant, silly grin across her face. "Mom says you kinda are." Likenix giggled, Pationer just smiled, picked her up with levitation magic and said, " well come on kiddo, happy birthday!" "You said I have a special present today right?" asked Likenix, now fluttering her tiny, underdeveloped wings out of excitement, "I did, and I have a feeling you are going to love it for the rest of your life." Pationer said with a mysterious tone. Likenix's eyes widened at his statement, wondering what present could be so amazing. They arrived at their fairly sized living room and in the middle of it was a high tech box that was slightly bigger than Likenix herself. "Wait here, I'm going to get your mother." Pationer said with an excited tone then flew towards his room. Likenix looked at the box excitedly wondering what was in it, she tried to open the oddly shaped door on the front side, but it was locked tight. Pationer returned with his wife Ixwix along with a high tech card key Likenix saw on his desk. "Are you ready for this Likenix?" her parents said in unison. "Yeeeeeeess!" Likenix yelped as she bounced up and down, fluttering her wings. Pationer then levitated the card key into a thin slot in the box's door and the door slowly opened to reveal and n-droid. Likenix's eyes and smile were bigger than ever before as she hyperventilated "omigoshomigoshomigoshomigosh omiGOSH!" then darted towards her parents and hugged them both tightly. "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthan kyouthankyouthankyouthankyou THANKYOU!" "Do you want me to turn-" before Pationer could even finish his sentence she squealed "YES!" "Be cautious though, I haven't turned her on yet" Pationer said with a serious tone. "It's a girl?! Yay!, I mean, yes father" Likenix giggled. Pationer grabbed a small memory chip from inside the box with golden levitation magic and held it in front of Likenix, "this chip has the programming to activate her different modes, but let's stick with the on function for now, insert it into your headphones." Pationer said. Likenix was born deaf, so, with advanced neex technology, instead of a hearing aid she received headphones with many different functions that was wired into her brain. The ear buds were wired just below her ears instead of on them. Likenix proceeded to take the chip with her own aquamarine blue levitation magic and insert it into the headphone's universal download port and downloaded the n-droid's software. Shivering with anticipation, she told the headphones with her mind to activate the robot. She watched in awe as its eyes began to glow and it activated for the very first time, "all systems are online" it said. "Likenix, meet your new robotic sister, Melph." Pationer said proudly. Melph started to look around and noticed Likenix, bouncing and fluttering her wings slightly, "hello" Melph said. Likenix giggled like a fan girl, "hi! I'm Likenix!" she annunciated with a broad smile. "Who are you?" Melph asked while walking up to Likenix, "Where am I?" "I'm your new big sister, and you are in my house!" Likenix explained. "I kind of want to play!" Melph cheered and, to everyone's surprise, she rolled over onto her back and made her eyes and smile wide. "Well this is going great!" Ixwix heartily imitated Pationer's voice. Pationer laughed and the two parents watched as Likenix formed a bond with her new sister.
A few days after her birthday, Likenix had already bonded and became friends with her new mechanical sister. One day they were playing around with random inventions when they heard their parents enter the house, and weeping coming from their mother. Likenix and Melph gasped and ran into the living room, wondering what was going on. "Didn't I tell you girls not to run in the house?" they heard Pationer say angrily, they arrived in the living room to see their distraught parents. Pationer looked like he hadn't had sleep for a month, and Ixwix was crying softly with a bruise mark on her cheek. "What happened?" Likenix gasped, on the threshold of tears. "Your…father lost his job today because an employee was a-!" Ixwix stopped herself not wanting to curse around her children and continued "Your father lost his job because of stupid people sweetie, his boss was wrong! I tried to tell him it wasn't his fault, and he yelled at me, then I was slapped, and your father attacked him, they got into a fight!" Ixwix said bitterly as more tears began to appear in her eyes. Likenix then noticed her father lifted his cape to reveal many battle scars, some still bleeding, Likenix felt a mix of different emotions, anger, loathe, sadness, pain, vengeance. Likenix then noticed Melph was growling next to her, both out of anger and… she was growling at shadows that began to form around Ixwix in a circle. "WHA!?" Ixwix exclaimed as Pationer, Melph, and Likenix were thrown against the wall and witnessed a sight so unholy the gods would have thrown up. Out of the shadows a gigantic claw came up and brushed up against Ixwix, Then Pationer took Likenix and Melph up in his arms and away from the building as fast as he could. Likenix was scared to death and scarred for life, "Dad! What's happening to mommy!?" she exclaimed in horror. "Something I can't tell you now, you won't be able to see mommy for a while," Likenix then fainted and fell into nightmares which were signs of the future.