In the year 2065, a 2km long meteor hit the planet. Humanity adapted to the impact and persevered in life for another 10 years. Everything was all fine until all the animals and people that lived near Ground Zero experienced the worst feeling they will ever have. It was instant decay. Their bodies decayed over 3 hours. Skin falling off, bones cracking, organs dropping on the ground. The meteor came from interstellar space. It brought something with it. Humanity has been calling these things; Titans, Giants, Monsters, Kaiju, Abominations... but to us? We call them kin. We are humans with alien DNA embedded in us.
6 purple-eyed children that somehow survived the anomaly that happened near Ground Zero were taken in by Dr. Eugene. Ever since that day, Dr. Eugene has been experimenting and searching for answers to why microorganisms from that meteor grew into large man-eating monsters. Perhaps they bonded with the animals and humans they came in contact with? Perhaps they found a way to change us. Dr. Eugene wanted to grab a hold of these anomalies. 12 days after the Instant Decay Incident, he was able to obtain a carcass of a monster that was recently killed. He took 10 blood samples from the carcass. He intended to mix monster blood with human blood. They called him a madman.
May 20, 2082. 12 years after Earth was struck.
"23 already?" I ask myself as I mark another day on my calendar. I sigh in disbelief and walk to my bathroom. My siblings and I were born in the same week, all a day apart. I'm Robin. The youngest daughter. I have 4 older brothers and 1 older sister.
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"Greetings, Master Robin." Ah, the AI I installed in my bathroom. Dad was surprised when I made it. Well, we call him Dad but he isn't our father. We aren't even full-blooded siblings. We were all adopted by him.
After doing my daily routine, I head out of my room and go to the cafeteria. We have been living inside a bunker ever since 2075. There I meet my siblings already having their breakfast.
"Good morning, Robin." Evan; the youngest son, greets me while scratching his eyes. "Gabriel and Joaquin are making a ruckus this early?" He continued. So that was the noise I heard earlier. It was Gabriel and Joaquin making a fuss about breakfast again. They're dead if they got caught by Fatima fighting.
"Hey, it's 8 in the morning. Will you shut up and eat the food I made or will I need to force it again?" Fatima came out of the kitchen to warn them. She's the eldest out of all of us. She's pretty intimidating too. Gabriel and Joaquin quiet down immediately. Evan and I sat down and prepared to eat.
"Thanks for the meal."
"Hey, Robin. Happy birthday." They all greeted me with smiles. We started eating our breakfast. During the meal, I soon realized that one of us was not there. "Where's Niko?" I asked.
"He has been doing tests with Dad. It's been like that for a week now." Joaquin explained. It's surprising for Joaquin to take notice of such things as he is either in the training room or outside the bunker.
"I wonder what it's all about." I thought to myself.
"It's about my DNA. My inhuman blood is acting up." Niko answered standing under the kitchen doorway. He answered it as if he can read my mind.
Inhuman blood. That's right. We are the purple-eyed children that Dr. Eugene took in all those years ago. The same children that Dr. Eugene tested the blood samples on.
We. Are. Monsters.