First months

Now that I have explained my current situation, let me tell my story from the beginning. Let me tell you how my story started, why I am how I am, and where I am from.

I was born about five years ago. It happened in a zoo somewhere. I have not located my birthplace yet, but the first weeks of my life I was as happy as can be. I had two brothers and three sisters. My mother was a beautiful leopard. She was very protective over us, but still very caring and loving. My memories about this time are hazy, but I remember the warmth and the love.

When I started realizing things more, I knew I was different. For starters, all my siblings and my mother were spotted. They had yellow coats with black spots. I am completely black. I didn't know if my coloring is the reason or what, but I am very different from an average leopard. And people coming to see the cute cubs in the zoo noticed it too.

I can remember how on one night we heard noises coming from the place where we got our food. Mother got us to go to safety, inside the den. She stayed at the door of the den and tried to protect us. I heard her growling, hissing, warning the people that came in. They didn't care. We heard a noise, and suddenly mother stopped. She fell down. The people that came in dragged her out and started reaching for us. I was in the back; all my siblings were in front of me. We watched in horror when people dragged everyone out, one by one. I was the last one in. I curled up and hissed. They didn't care. I scratched and bit, but they dragged me out too. I saw my mother lying there, motionless. My siblings were there too, next to mother. They were horrified. I was too. The person holding me grabbed me by the neck, showed me to others, and stuffed me in a small cage. I screamed, but in vain.

After being separated from my mother and siblings my life was weird. I was brought to some apparently wealthy and powerful person. He kept me in a cage, fed me and took care of me. My life seemed to have changed to this. I was some kind of pet.

This went on for a few months. I started realizing more and more about myself. I saw things the person taking care of me apparently didn't  I saw this bluish world co-existing with the physical world. The bluish world had different patterns, and it wasn't still at all times. I saw people surrounded by light-blue auras. I also saw strange shaped auras flying around every once in a while. They didn't exist in the physical world. The people walking around didn't see the auras.

A few times some auras came into my cage. I warned them to not to come any closer, but they didn't listen. I attacked one of them, and the aura disappeared. After that the auras stayed further away.

I started getting used to this life. I started understanding what people spoke. They spoke English. I started realizing that my life was going to be like this forever. I wasn't very happy with it. The cage I was kept in was a bit small. I could walk around and stretch my muscles, but the problem was that I couldn't run. The cage in the zoo was at least ten times bigger than the one I was living in.

I was unhappy with my life. I had grown a lot since I was in the zoo. I was stronger and faster. It didn't matter. I listened carefully; I understood people and knew what they were planning. They rarely talked about me. I was a pet, or more like a decoration. A status-symbol. I still knew I was different from other living things, but I didn't yet know how different.

Introduction

Introduction

Let me introduce myself at first. Nowadays I go by the name Bitch. It’s a long story, how I have gotten in this point in my life that I want to share it to the world. I don’t expect people to understand my life or change it. I don’t want any pity because of what I am or what I have experienced. I’m happy with myself. I will seek revenge on those who have done me wrong, but it’s another story. Maybe I’ll get to that later.

Maybe I should start from present day introduction first.

I live in Seattle, and I am a shadowrunner. For those who do not know what a shadowrunner is, a short version. I do the dirty work of better people. For example the most previous job I was on was to steal a house of a known artist. He lived in a boat on the docks of Seattle, doing a job there. We didn't know why the boat needed to be stolen, but we don’t need reasons. Money is big enough reason to do it.

My house is located in the Redmond Barrens. It’s basically a wasteland. No common people live there. Only paranormal critters, lowlifes and runners.

I share a house with a quite powerful shaman, Shrew  She got her name from how she was found. I believe it was a troll named Liu who pulled her up from a  recently-dug grave. I don’t know the details. She has amnesia, she doesn't remember anything from her past life. It was a pain to find out what she knew, but now that she knows what she can do, she’s quite the shaman.

We don’t get along at all times. I don’t like her ally spirit. It’s a human-sized walking flame. And it’s personality is very, very annoying. I have threatened to do harm to this creature several times, but normally it keeps out of reach.

Even though we have our differences she is somewhat comforting to keep around. We are impulsive and always ready for a job, the more dangerous the better. Oh, and I almost forgot. Even though she is a human, so small that I could fit her in my back pocket, she bears some resemblance to elves. Apparently she has had her ears surgically altered to look like elf-ears.

I have other team-mates as well, and I know I can trust them, not completely, but still I trust them not to shoot me in the back. The team-mates I have right now are Nerdy, he’s a stuttering small man, who constantly talks about his mother. He knows his way around computers, but in a combat situation he’s useless. Physically strongest and biggest is a troll named Bobby. He’s not the one to pull Shrew out of her grave, but he’s still fine. He’s the one to carry wounded friends out from the field. Morgan is kinda strange one. I don’t know what she is, or what she does. She glows in Astral Space like me, but she is not magical. She has lots of contacts, and just recently she pulled all of us out from a crappy situation with loads of firepower. I’ll get to that later. And then there is Jinx, and I don’t quite know what he does either. He seems to know a bit of magic, apparently he is some sort of a mage or an adept. I don’t care. He’s ok, but I wouldn’t trust him completely. He usually knows his stuff.

The most important thing to know about my present life is that I’m a leader of one group within humanis policlub. I lead one of the smaller groups. It was a weird story how I got there, being what I am, but anyway, I have underlings. I try to spend lots of time with them so that I can stay there as a leader. My jobs take me away, sometimes for weeks, so it has affected my underlings. Now there is Billy who tries to take the leadership from me. I know that, and I’m going to take care of it. I’ll tell about that later.