L H A { 1 - 3 }
Pain and cold was about all I felt now. My mind was still hazy but slowly I had begun to overcome the mental block that had been placed over me, enough of my mental abilities were free enough for me to sense that the wolf who had been in the tube next to me was now gone. I opened my eyes and stared into the darkness. Everything was quiet. It had been quiet for as long as I could remember.
Long ago I had stopped questioning why and just wondered when. The liquid had started to lose its green color some time ago and had started to turn more of a black color. The temperature in my tube was almost freezing cold. I had managed to remain sane during my time in the tube by letting my mind get lost in the dreams. Every chance I got I would try to force myself to sleep, with the dreams came a welcome peace that blocked the pain until I managed to return to reality and saw that it had just been a dream.
I blew out a few bubbles as I floated there and took stock of my situation. Something had happened shortly after I had been put into the tube. What it was I didn't know but it had caused several tremors in the room I had become unwilling tenant to. When the tremors subsided the scientists left. A while afterwords I had watched as they closed the door and welded it shut. They had left me and the wolf alone. I still didn't know what they had been trying to do but it aparently wasn't important enough to let me out or take me along.
I blew out more bubbles as I closed my eyes again and tried once again to reach out with my mind. I felt nothing. No thoughts or pain. Just the cold darkness around me. I began to wonder if they would come back but I knew deep down that they wouldn't. I was probably just going to sit in the tank until I died, or the machines failed which seemed to be happening since the taste of the liquid around me had begun to taste stale and feel a bit heavy.
I went over the last word in my mind, heavy. I was heavier. Even with the liquid around me suspending me above the ground I could feel the change in my weight. Since losing the light I had begun to rely on my other senses and considering taste didn't help in this situation I began to rely on my hearing and touch. I began to fought at the mental restraint again. Remaining still as long as I had was beginning to put a bit of insanity into my mind.
I wanted to move. I wanted to breath air. I wanted to do something, anything. This tube had been my home for who knew how long and I wanted out. Bit by bit I had tugged at the mental restraint and over time it had weakened. With its increasing weakness I gained the ability to move some parts of my body a little. Where i was near statuesque when I first awoke in the tube I could now move my arms and hands as well as my neck and toes.
I had been shocked when I first looked at myself and saw that I had been changing. I no longer had human anything, although the appearances were close, I was now more animal then human. After seeing that the realization had dawned on me that I had been used for a experiment I hadn't expected. The surprise and shock from learning of this had caused me to do something similar to a faint. The thought of me actually fainting had been highly embarrassing. The act had always been considered girly and being what I was and what I was becoming I knew that girly didn't fit me in any way, shape or form.
I had become muscular in my tranformation. I wasn't body builder muscular but I was at that point where I would have probably turned a few heads if I were still human. The nails on my feet and hands had hardened and grown to resemble the claws of a canine while the bones in what bits of my body I could see had shifted and changed to make me appear similar to a werewolf from the old fairy tale stories that survived the war. I couldn't see my face but I knew that it had changed to resemble that of a wolf, it had just been a hunch but considered how much I had already changed I knew that the possibility was there.
Despite the fact that I was pretty much all wolf now I still retained my human self. I hoped I did anyway. I knew there was the possibility that I had been drugged for testing and that I might now still be in the same lab I had awoken to with the same scientists scurrying about taking readings from the machines. Anything was possible now and I knew that. I waited to awake from the dream, hoping that things would be over soon. For a while it felt as if I could feel time passing me by and for a brief while I felt like I could feel myself aging, becoming more mature.
I had pushed the thought from my mind when it had entered the first few times but now I began to wonder if maybe I should pay more attention to the feeling. I had joined the military shortly after I turned eighteen. I wondered if I was still eighteen. I tilted my head to the side quizzically before finally shrugging. I just needed to wait. TIme would give me the answers I wanted but deep down I wanted to continue fighting against the restraints that kept me here and the more I thought about it the more I began to feel the thoughts of being outside resurface.
I felt a long sigh escape from my body, causing a line of bubbles to burst from my mouth and nose. I was beginning to get impatient but for now I just wanted to meditate. Since the dreams weren't working as much anymore I was beginning to think that meditation would help pass the time. Without even bothering to debate the thought I shut my eyes tightly and cleared my mind, allowing peace to permeate my body. For a brief moment I thought I felt energy coursing through my body but the feeling vanished as quickly as it appeared.
What felt like a eternity passed before I finally stirred from my long meditation. I had felt and sensed something different about the room I was in. When I tried to open my eyes I was forced to keep them closed lest I become blind from the light that shined through the liquid I floated in. My eyes didn't adjust like I had wanted and that left me seeing only blurs. I heard voices echoing through the fluid and felt a few vibrations as a knock rang around me. I had know way of answering but a few quick voices told me that I had no reason to show that I was alive, those in the room seemed to know I was there.
I closed my eyes and waited with anticipation. Maybe I was finally getting out. If that was true than I couldn't wait to finally have the ground beneath my feet and feel the wind against my sk....I dropped the sentance there before chuckling to myself in my mind. Fur. I had fur now. Guess it would be a interesting first time outside of this tube. I continued to wait as I perked my ears and strained to listen to the conversations around me.
Even without my mental abilities I could feel the eyes on me. That was enough to let me know that I was definatly getting out. After all, how could something that caught so much attention be left to rot? I moved a bit and thought I heard a gasp. The voices stopped and I moved again, this time my head. After a few moments I heard a female voice break the silence "Get it out of there!" Once again I began to anticipate finally getting out of the tube and soon the anticipation turned to excitment.
I knew about animals from the textbooks I had read in school. I had never seen one but the senses of a canine were highly talked about. Something about being ten times better then a humans. I wanted to test that for myself. Maybe that was another reason the scientists had put me in here in the first place. To see what happened or maybe to quench some curiosity. I shook the thought from my mind as I heard a loud thump echo around me. After the fifth thump I heard a crack then a crash. I couldnt react in any way other then to let my body go with the flow.
The water rushed passed me and the unmistakeable sound of a scream echoed through the water before my body moved then slammed against the hard ground beneath me. I groaned and began to cough. It didn't take long for the cough to turn into a gag then the gag into vomit. I felt as if I was going to drown and for a few seconds I thought I would but shortly after the thought crossed my mind the vomiting stopped and I was left there on the floor shivering.
It was cold. I had closed my eyes in hopes of stopping the pain that I knew was to come from hitting the ground. For now I kept my eyes closed, waiting for the pain to subside. I couldn't sense the minds of those around me but I could still hear them and feel them when they touched me. I welcomed the warmth that came but found the words that followed the warmth impossible to understand.
My ears caught the sound of another gasp, after the gasp I could feel the creatures moving away from me. Something was wrong and considering how quickly they had moved, I knew the problem was with me. I felt a whimper come from somewhere in my throat. It was a sound I hadn't made before but it was easy to interpret. I once again heard the voice from before and was surprised that I still understood her. She was telling everyone to clear the room.
Something was definatly wrong. I opened my eyes in time to see a feline tail vanish through a hole in the door. A few moments later and the sound of feet against the floor vanished. I was alone, at least I thought I was. For once I felt something before I sensed it. A hard kick to the side. I felt my body move because of the sheer force behind the kick. Now I knew that something was definatly wrong. I growled in the direction that the kick had come from and tried my best to stand but I still couldnt move as I wanted, the mental lock was still in place. I snarled and tried to thrash about.
It didn't take long for me to get exhausted. I was beginning to feel extreme hunger on top of a extreme thirst. I was confused. I let out another growl as I lay there against the machine I had been kicked into. It was soon after that I heard the females voice, "They killed her just to make some abomination like you?!" I blinked. Abomination? Killed who? I felt another hard kick to my body that forced a yip out of my mouth "You deserve all this and more beast! We saved you and this is the thanks we get?! SHE HAD A DAUGHTER!!"
Once the females words had stopped echoing through the room I felt something hard crash against my skull. I felt myself black out a bit. This hadn't been the outcome I had hoped for and I damn well didn't want to die here. I needed to do something. Anything. I searched my mind for strength. My mental abilities were there somewhere. I could feel it. They were out of reach though. I tried to move my body but only managed to twitch my toes and fingers.
The situation was bad. I knew that. I needed to move. I needed to find that survival instinct that had taken over once before. I wanted to live. I closed my eyes and concentrated as hard as I could. I kept telling myself over and over that I wanted to live. I could hear the female yelling something but I didn't have the time to listen to her. I needed my concentration. I felt something hit my neck. Instantly I received a shock in my body that felt as if I was being brought to life. The survival instinct I had been looking for worked it's way to the surface forcing me to take a back seat. I watched as my eyes opened and my jaw opened wide in a feral snarl. The sound and act scared me and it seemed the sentiment appeared to be mirrored on the females face and body.
I dropped to all fours, feeling my bones groan in resentment. My body continued to move anyway. For some reason I didn't view the female as a enemy. She seemed to just be there. Maybe it was something wrong with my conditioning. I felt my head shake as I closed in on the female. This was just a scare tactic. I wanted to immobolize the female with fear so that I could get away and for now it seemed to be working. I listened as words began to come from my mouth in a low, deep, and broken stream "N..ot...my...fa..ult..le...av..e...me a...lone...orrr....die." I was a bit surprised. It had hurt to speak but at the same time the words that came out were close to forgivness? If I was in control I would have killed the female for what she did but it seemed that my mental conditioning had decided.
I moved closer to her untill my now reopened maw was a inch from her face, the remainder of the fluid from my tube dripping onto the female as I stared into her eyes. I gave her a mischievous grin that bared all my sharp teeth at her and was nearly laughing in my mind when I smelled urine. I scoffed at the female before moving away from her and heading towards the hole in the doors. I wanted out. That's all i and my mind wanted right now. I padded slowly towards the door and listened to the sound of sobbing behind me. I didn't care. She earned what happened.
Something about the way the female cried seemed familiar to me but at the moment the reason escaped me. I shook the thought from my head as I got close to one of the machines near the door. Once I was close enough to it I slowly pulled myself up onto two feet. I had wanted to stand like a normal person, not crawl on all fours like a animal. Even if I wasn't human anymore I still had my pride. I waited until i was steady enough to walk, my legs popping and groaning in protest the longer I walked.
I ignored the pain. I still just wanted out. I leaned my body against the wall as I walked. I didn't know how far out was but I knew that if I followed the scents I would eventually find my way out, I didn't think the base could be too big. It was supposedly a secret base so it couldn't be that big. I was walking for what seemed like hours before I finally came to some light. I walked towards it and was nearly blinded when I walked through the hole in the door and into something I had never expected to see.
The sounds were deafening. The smells overwhelming. I propped myself against the side of the door as I waited patiently for my eyes to adjust. I heard voices and even felt stares. What caught me off guard was the sounds of a city. The sounds similar to the city I had grown up in. I watched as a few blurs came into view then was shocked to see a building in front of me built across what appeared to be a road.
It wasn't what I had expected but then again it wasn't unwelcome. I watched those that walked by. Animals. Female mostly. I saw a male here or there but it was generally just females. Questions swam through my mind as I took in the sights around. I made a kind of erf sound as I suddenly heard a voice through all the sounds around me "Stop him! He's a dangerous weapon!!" It felt as if my heart had stopped. Dangerous weapon? That was the first time I had been called that. I turned my head in the direction of the voice and watched as those around me scattered, some screaming, others just casually trying to get away as quick as possible.
I made yet another erf sound as I watched two large forms coming in my direction. they were quick and fairly big. probably taller then me. I heard one of them yell "Stay where you are!!" before both females came to a stop a few feet away. Primitive guns drawn and pointing straight at me. I forgot everything else for now and just fell backwards landing on my rump. If this was a dream, it was the weirdest dream I had ever had. I looked up at the two females who now towered over me. What now? was all I thought as they stood there watching me, one looking at the other before looking at something behind me. I tilted my head back and saw a brief glimpse of that feline I had left behind me before I saw stars and felt a sharp pain go through my head, the word "Bitch!" echoing through my mind as everything swam in darkness.