Seven years ago, known as Sonya then, Akito had been anything but a normal pre-teen even then. She had often been silent and never really bothered with anyone unless they were friends or family. She rarely got into any fights with anyone, and trusted no one but family or friends. The part of her non-normal pre-teen life was that she had an unnatural attraction to the dark, preferably when the moon was visible. It didn't matter if it was full or not; only a small sliver visible contented her as she would walk around at night. A favorite thing of hers while walking around was to scare people out of their minds with weird animal noises that sounded nothing like a human but the real thing. At these times she would pretend she was a character from a fantasy book, movie, or game. After all, they weren't real... Right?
In one night, everything changed dramatically for Sonya... and her view of life.
In a few months she would have been 13, a true teenager. This was the time they decided to take her and to condemn her to a life of Hell.
She was just getting back from one of her nightly strolls about the neighborhood when a scream penetrated her victorious thoughts on scaring a few people from a nearby abandoned mall parking lot. Her mother's scream. Not even bothering to open the gate, Sonya had cleared the four foot fence surrounding her house and raced inside the house through the back door. A weak cry came from upstairs, and Sonya bolted up the stairs without much thought to her own safety. When she finally reached her parents' room, she stopped dead in her tracks in shock.
The door was wide open, revealing three masked burly men and a whole lot of blood. What had stopped her dead was that the blood staining the carpet, bed, and a bit of the walls was her parents' recently slain bodies.
The man closest to the door suddenly found himself being attacked. Surprisingly, a swift kick to the groin put him out of the fight almost immediately. However, the other two were warned, and within seconds had her under control by knocking her out. Soon after, the three men took her to and through the Shin-Ra building and entered Deepground, with the means of getting extra pay at having brought another guinea pig.
From that moment on for six long years, Akito remained in Deepground to be experimented on with doses of Jenova cells. During these six long years is when Sonya, now known as Akito because of the name change the mad scientist who experimented on her gave her, began to distrust everyone except for a trainer named Seth. It was Seth who helped her to open up a little. To her, he was the only friend in that hated place she considered Hell.
It was Akito's sixth year when the results of the experimentations finally kicked in and took effect. She had just got done with an advanced training session with Seth when she felt the first slice of pain to transforming. Thinking that she was merely sick, Akito went to her room and went to lay down for a few when pain seized her completely and she fell, writhing, to the floor. The first change took about twenty minutes to complete a transformation of utter, painful hell that was worse beyond the experiments themselves.
Through the pain, Akito could feel her body going through the change. The bone structure of her human self seemed to melt and reform. The spine, leg and arm bones elongated so that if she were to stand up on all fours, Akito would stand at 7' 3" easily. Her skull and jaw stretched to that of a muzzle. Tendons, muscle, and skin stretched to keep the new bone structure covered as it grew. Deadly sharp fangs and claws sprouted from humanoid teeth and nails. A four in a half foot length of spine pushed its way from the tight curl of the human tail bone, instantly being covered with thick muscle and skin.
As her skull changed shape, her view as a human vanished to be replaced with a very keen predatory sense of hearing, smell, touch, and sight. Her eyes turned from an amber to a pitch black with a steel colored band marking where the pupil was. Within the last minute of the transformation process, short, velvet-like blood red fur spread across Akito's new body. For a few more minutes she lay panting, the pain finally receding from her body.
After the minutes passed, she got to her feet a bit shakily and noticed that she felt quite at home walking around on all fours. She looked over her own shoulder to glance at the whip-like tail and the blood red color of her fur. Akito walked over to the mirror hanging on the wall above her dresser on the far side of her medium-sized room. She had to bend her head down low to see her reflection in the mirror.
Looking into the mirror, Akito jumped back, stumbling onto her bed in the process from startling herself by her own reflection. She went back to the mirror cautiously, hardly believing what she was seeing.
In the mirror, her steel banded black eyes stared back at her. Not even an inch of all her teeth were covered by her top lip, and when she lifted the little bit of flesh covering the roots of her teeth a devil-looking dog creature seemed to snarl at her worse than when the flesh covered the teeth roots. While growling at her own reflection, Akito noticed the single silver loop in her left tattered looking ear. For some reason it held a significance, but Akito couldn't guess what that significance was.
The Beast's mind suddenly flared without warning, taking over Akito's mind. It wanted revenge. And it wanted out of its cage to freedom. The Beast focused its thoughts on the three men who had murdered her family. Akito tried to control the Beast, but it moved her new found body without her consent, ripped the door off its hinges a little too easily than Akito had hoped, and loped down the hall to the main lab where Akito knew where the three men would be.
The creature hesitated at the many censored door to the lab and then it shredded through it with little difficulty with its nails and teeth. The next couple of minutes were jumbled and confused as the Beast took total control over Akito and annihilated every living thing in the lab, including the three men who captured Akito in the beginning. Computers and tanks were smashed, wires ripped apart, bodies spilled blood rapidly, and shots from the DG soldiers who appeared to stop the Beast. This only succeeded in enraging it further, destroying the lab door completely as it lunged through the door again to decimate some very unfortunate soldiers on the other side.
The Beast ran towards Deepground's only entrance and exit, destroying everything in its path. This was the creature's plan of escape to get its host to the surface to survive.
And it succeeded in executing that plan.
Even to this day, Akito can not call up those last moments of memory. The only thing she remembered is waking up in a side street of Midgar in her human form.
