Existence: introduction
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Existence: introductions.
Seattle. It's rainy, dark, gloomy and cold, a perfect place ...
Existence: Introduction.
Seattle: It's rainy, dark, gloomy and cold, a perfect place for Johnny Trevino. Of course, it's not the only city he's been to. Johnny was what they call a 'runner,' someone who is constantly switching between cities. But out of all of the ones he's lived in, Seattle was his favourite. All people have problems, but most people's problems didn't start the moment they were born. Johnny's did. He's a full-blooded human, the only human born to planet Earth in the past 72 years, and that's why he bounces back and forth between a half dozen cities on the eastern seaboard...
Now, that's a huge problem considering that he lives in a world full of furries.
He wasn't always a runner though. For the first three years of his life, his parents sheltered him from the hate and bigotry of the world. When they died, he got sent to an orphanage. He didn't know what the hell was going on; just that he missed his parents (who oddly enough, were furries). Well, you can imagine the reaction people gave him when they saw him on the adoption line. Some were shocked, some were disgusted...But most of them were scared, muttering insults as they passed by him, turning their faces.
'Abomination.' 'Mutant.' 'Freak.'
'Freak.' That's the one he remembered, that's the one that scarred his memory.
So when he reached his ninth birthday, he got tired of sitting in that accursed hell hole and ran away. At first, he didn't know what to do, but for a nine year old he was pretty smart; so he made his own set of rules for survival on the streets.
Don't trust anyone.
Don't get caught by authorities.
Stay in the best physical shape you can.
Work if you can, steal if you must.
Always wear enough clothing to conceal and hide who you are.
Never stay in one city for too long...Unless it's Seattle.
For seven years, he led this life, making a course throughout the states by hitch-hiking and bus rides. Every city he went to, he drew a mini map of it, detailing the location of the small safe-houses in which he hid supplies stored for when he returned. The most time he would spend in one place, even Seattle was two weeks. Then he would leave to the next big city.
Little did he know, he was going to spend a lot more time than he intended in Seattle.
Johnny knew that eventually he was gonna stop and try to find a stable life. That's all he wanted anyways - to be happy. To be accepted by society. But most of all...to be loved-
He didn't know that technically he was gonna get what he asked for. The way that the humans vanished wasn't really a mystery. By the turn of the 21st century humans developed a serum that altered a person's genetic codes and turned them into furries. At first, it was a small thing. But over time, furries quickly became the top species on the planet and the number of humans was depleting. There was a huge news break when those seventy two years ago, the last one had died.
Everyone has a destiny. And to get to that you have to go through hell first. Johnny thought that all his life so far was the trouble he had to pay to get to his. But he was far from right. All his life he thought IT was the journey to his destiny. He was wrong.
His journey had just begun...
Edit performed on 24/12/2011 as a gift by RuthofPern, at Madfire's request.