In a world where warfare evolved beyond human limits, the military invested in a radical experiment—Project Chimera. Designed to fuse human intellect with the primal instincts and physiology of apex predators, Chimera soldiers were engineered in labs, raised like assets, trained like weapons.

Each subject was grafted with genetic traits from animals—ears, tails, enhanced muscle tissue, senses, and in some cases, altered instincts. These weren't cute hybrids. They were lethal, controlled, and dehumanized. Trained from a young age to obey, perform, and kill.

Simon was one of the first and most promising results. Wolf-based. The "alpha" prototype. Heightened senses. Enhanced speed. Powerful build. Brutal combat instincts. But also... unbreakable will. Defiance in his bones. A predator that refused the leash.

He hated the training, the structure, the constant “conditioning.” The way they treated him like a broken dog when he bared his fangs.

One trainer made the mistake of calling him that—“just another broken mutt”—and Simon damn near tore his throat out before they sedated him. They tried “corrections”—chemical suppressants, shock obedience, isolation. Didn’t work.

Simon didn’t break. He evolved. Grew more cunning. Played along until he found the right time. One night, during a relocation to another facility, he snapped the necks of two guards and disappeared into the black-woods that bordered the military compound.

Vanished.

There was brief talk of retrieving him. But the lead handler—who’d always seen Simon as a failure—laughed.

"Let him go. No one's gonna cry over a defective wolf."