Hello There. My name is Sumo. Me and my siblings were born in some sort of Lab, where strange people in coats would come feed us twice a day, and check in on us every friday.
We are puppies, well, sorta. We were born as puppies, but we had this chemical injected into our veins that made us almost as smart as humans, giving us the ability to speak. They call it project D.T.H. I don’t know what it stands for, but it makes it so we can learn the way humans do.
On fridays, they try and get us to learn some english, But I’ve only learned how to say my siblings names, and how to say “stop.” I’m supposed to say stop really loud if something the white coats do hurt. I don’t have to say it often, but it comes in handy.
My siblings are Clementine, Venom, Jaxson Jr, Summer, Voltsie, Autumn, October, and Snickers, And they are like me! Though, Autumn can’t seem to speak. The white coats said that the injection worked, but her voice box is damaged. She can’t bark, or make much noise in general, But i love her anyway.
The Lab is huge, and has lots of people and other dogs to play with! Our mom Arya stays with The white coat with glasses, who smiles and pets me anytime i come over. My mom gets happy when we come over, but she doesn’t really like to play.
Our older Brother Jaxson Is from our moms first litter, and he loves to play chase with us. He Stays with the White coat with the short brownish hair and a clipboard. Anytime He says something Jaxson will translate it for us, since he knows English completely. According to Jaxson, the white coat he's withs name is Corey, but people call him Professor R. Professor R gives us treats and he smells like dogs, so i like him.
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I struggle to push pass my siblings as i try to get to the door, where The White coat with short dark hair and brown eyes is entering for his normal friday check up on us. I bark happily, and tug on his pant leg to show him that i want to play, but he just laughs.
“Settle down there pups.” He says and points to the ground, which i learned ment we have to sit. I plop my butt on the ground, and so do my siblings. He seems happy because of that. “Great job! Good puppies.” He says, and takes out a piece of paper.
“My name is Doctor Schaffer. Can you say that? Shay-fer.” He says, and i know he wants us to say something, but i don’t understand what Shay-fer means. He repeats himself, saying “shay-fer” again, slower this time. My sister Clementine repeats him. “Shay-fer.” She says. The man beams happily and gives her a treat. I want a treat to! Clementine got a treat by saying that weird word, so if i say it too i ought to get a treat. Im not very good with the “sh” sound, but i will try my hardest this time. I try and say ‘Shay-fer’, but i end up saying “say-fer.” I was worried i got it wrong and the man will be upset, but he smiles anyway and gives me a treat. Jaxson Jr tried to snatch it from me, but i grabbed it immediately and started eating it. It was the same kind of treats Dr corey would give us, which are by far my favorite. My siblings all start to get the jist and say the strange word, all except Autumn. I feel bad for Autumn, it’s not her fault she can’t say it. Autumn lowers her head as if she were disappointed, and the man sighed. He pulled out a weird glowly rectangle shaped object, and puts it to his ear.
“Should i put Autumn in a different room then the others? She should work on something else until she is big enough for surgery.” He pauses. “Alright, thanks.” he puts the object in his pocket, and stands up. Me and my siblings got excited, and tried to climb on his leg. I thought he wanted to play, but he picks up Autumn instead and leaves the room. Summer starts to whine, and claws at the door. They are always with each other, Jaxson jokes that they are the goldie twins, since they almost look exactly alike. They both have a small white mark on their foreheads, and light brown fur. It makes it kind of hard for the white coats to tell them apart, so they normally make us tell them who is who. They will say “Autumn” to one of us, and we will have to put our paw on Autumn’s back and repeat “Autumn” back to them.
I have light brown fur with white on my stomach, paws, and a bit on my neck, and a black mark under my nose.
Venom is completely black, which is how he got his name.
Jaxson Jr looks exactly like Jaxson, Black with a white stomach, paws, and a white mark on his forehead like autumn and Summer
Clementine's fur is a complete golden like color, lighter than the light brown fur i have. She has no white marks.
Snickers has chocolate brown fur with no white marks
Voltsie also has chocolate brown fur, but his snout is black
October has light brown fur, with a big patch of white over her eyes and paws. Jaxson told me that the white coats said she is the prettiest of the females, and could probably get adopted easily if the experiment goes wrong.
I don’t know what that means, but Jaxson said it wasn’t a bad thing, so i’m not worried.
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