-What am I?-
Am I human? No. I don't know what I am. I'm not a demon, at least that's what they told me, the people who take care of me. One day I came into this world. It was like I was just born. Apparently, I was. Although, I already knew how to walk, talk, eat, and do my business. When I was created I was in something called a GCE, Genetic Change Experiment. It was a giant tube looking thing, except it was made of glass and metal. When I was being created in it, I was practically floating. There was this watery purple substance put in it. Also, there was a tube attached to my belly button so i could be fed. At age ten, I was taken out of the GCE. As soon as I cam out many tests were taken. I was taught the way of humans. How they don't know about mutants like me.
When all the testing and stuff was done, four years had passed. They lead me to a door with the name "Candy" on it. For a moment, I thought the room was going to be filled with candy.
"Your name is Candy. So don't forget that, okay?" I am told by a lady.
I stand corrected. The lady opens the door and the only things I see are a bed, a dresser with a mirror hovering over it, and a nightstand with a lamp on it. There's another door at the far corner.
"That door back there is a bathroom. There is just a toilet, shower, and sink." the lady says.
She closes the door to the bedroom and leads me down the hall. We arrive in a dining room filled with picnic tables. The lady gestures to all the picnic tables.
"This is where you'll be eating breakfast, lunch and dinner." she announces.
She points to an empty rectangle space in the wall.
"That's where you'll be recieving your meals."
It's already past sunset and I am lead outside. It's very beautiful for such a place. I look around and see lucious trees, colorful flowers and medium-cut green grass.
"It's beautiful." I tell the lady.
"Indeed. You'll be spending lots of time out here, but only at night." she replies.
"Night? How come?" I question.
"To test your feline abilities." she answers.
"Feline abilities?" I ask, shocked and confused.
"Correct. You are part cat. Panther to be exact. From midnight to sunup, you have ears and a tail." she explains.
"Wait. When I transform, I won't be nude will I?" I worriedly ask.
"No, be wearing whatever you had on before." she reassures me.
"Thank goodness." I say in relief.
I preview the wonderful sight of nature once more. I notice that it's midnight. So many questions hit me, but I don't ask. I just walk further into the meadow of flowers. The next thing I know, I'm being lifted up and a baby blue light surrounds me. All of a sudden I feel ears twitching and a tail swooshing around behind me. But there's more to it, my eyesight has changed and so has my other senses.
I look around and I can see so much more than before. I just notice that I'm hungry. The cat side of me kicks in and I start sniffing around. I see a mouse scurry by. On my hands and feet, I run to catch the mouse. Like a cat, I pounce on it and eat the mouse. When I turn around to face the lady I was speaking with earlier, I see that she is writing down something. I run over as curious as can be.
"Watcha writing?" I ask.
She's startled yet not surprised.
"I'm writing down information" she answers.
"About what?" I say.
"How you're responding to everything." she replies. "Come here for a second, I need to test eyesight, hearing and muscle tone." she continues as she points to the ground in front of her with a pen.
"Okay." I say as I obbey.
She snaps her fingers in front of my ears as they twitch here and there.
"Hearing is normal." she applies as she jots something down. "Can you move your ears for me?"
I do as commanded and she writes more information down. She walks behind me and my ears instinctively face backwards. She notices and smiles.
"Move your tail around." she commands.
I do as told. It's fun so I continue. I can hear her laugh, which makes me laugh. Right there, I know. She will become someone I can trust. She walks back around in front of me.
"Smile." she says while holding up a camera.
I smile and as my lips slowly move over my teeth, that's when I notice I have fangs. I wince and immediately touch them with my fingers.
"You didn't mention I had fangs." I signify.
"I didn't even know that. You were just supposed to have: cat ears, cat tail, and cat senses." she states. Her tone of voice concerns me.
"It's not bad, is it?" I question.
"Not to me, but the scientists who created you will be intrigued." she remarks.
She starts to guide me to a door leading inside. I want to stay out here more. It's so marvilous with its various colors compared to the metal, dull facility.
"What time is it?" I implore.
"2:36am. Why?" she asks.
"We have about three hours. Can we at least stay longer." I beg.
"Okay, but if your fangs go away, you're my number one witness, okay?" she states.
"Promise!" I say with excitement.
"Cross your heart, hope to die?" she insists.
"What?" I question.
"Nevermind. You'll learn about it when you're fifteen." she answers.
"How old am I now?" I provoke.
"Fourteen." she replies.
"Mehh... I have to wait one year?! Can't you just tell me now? I mean, it's not like we're rushed." I insist and smile.
"Fine." she says.
"Yay!" I excitedly shout.
"Okay. So, thatsaying is just something that humans say. Sort of like promising or pinky swaring." she explains.
"How interesting. I can't wait to learn more of this topic." I declare.
"Now then, stand on this stump." she orders.
I obbey and jump onto the stump.
"See that platform up there?"she asks.
"Yea, the one with the purple flag?" I answer.
It's night, yet I can still see color. Can panthers actually do that? I hope so. I don't want another mix up with my abilities.
"Did you just say purple?" she questions with surprise.
"Maybe." I uncertainly say.
"Seriously? You're doing that now?" she says with a smile.
"Is it bad? 'Cause I don't want to leave here for a while." I imply.
"Well, it's not bad. It's just unusual. But we don't have to leave just yet. We still have an hour and a half." she insists.
"Awsome! I just love being out here!" I scream.
"Now, from here, jump up to that platform." she says as she points to the platform with the purple flag.
"But it's so far." I worry.
"Trust me, you can jump further than that." she assures me.
"If you say so." I say, getting ready to jump as I can.
I take a deep breath and leap towards the platform. It feels like I'm flying. Before I know it, my feet swiftly land on the platform. It felt so bissful, I want to jump even more. So I run and glide to a tree far away. I leap again in the air and out of nowhere something forces me back and I hit the floor. I try to leap again and something stops me... again. It's as if there's a forcefield. I want an answer, so I soar back to the lady. Just now, I notice that I don't even know her name.
"Hey, we've been getting along this whole time, yet I don't even know you're name." I signify.
"It's Lucey." she answers.
Simple. Yet pure. It fits her. Does my name suit me? It sounds like nice, sweet, and unique. I certainly am unique. What about nice and sweet? I wonder.
"Am I nice and sweet?" I randomly ask.
"You're nice for sure and you're as sweet as candy." she says with a smile.
The name does fit me. I'm glad so I grin. Just now, I realize that I forgot to ask about that forcefield-like mystery from earlier.
"Can you follow me?" I ask as I walk towards where I was forcefully stopped.
"Sure." she nonshalantly says.
I lead her to where I was stopped mysteriously. When we get there, I here a buzzing. I didn't notice that before. That must mean it's electrified. I pick up a rock about the sixe of a baseball.
"Watch." I tell Lucey.
She just stands there waiting for what happens next. I throw the rock in the direction of the mysterious field. The rock is deflected and flies straight back to me. I react quickly by swiftly shifting my head to the right. Epic Matrix. I spin around to face Lucey only to find her writing something down again. I fill with anger.
"Was this a test? What is that? Am I caged in here?"I interrogate.
"No. Forcefield. No." she answers.
" I was right, that is a forcefield, but why?
"Why is there a forcefield if there's nothing deadly to cage?" I question.
"There are certainly deadly creatures to cage. Of course, you're not as deadly as the others." she explains.
"Others? They're others like me? Are they half human? Will I ever meet them? Will I ever be able to meet humans outside of this facility?" I curiously interrogate.
"Yes. Some. Yes. Depends," she answers. "and stop asking me so many questions."
"Okay, sorry. It's just I'm so different." I say.
"It's okay, you'll get used to it." she assures me.
She walks back to the entrance of this extraordinary meadow. Not wanting anything else to do with the forcefield, I prance through the trees to follow her. When I reach the entrance, I see that she is already there. That sort of surprises me, but I don't bother asking for I've already asked a lot of questions. There's a giant clock above the door. How didn't I see that before? Oh well, it doesn't really matter. Then I notice that it's 4:57am. I immediately remember about how I promised to be Lucay's number one witness about my fangs.
"Weren't we going to show my creatorsabout my fangs?" I remind Lucey.
"Indeed, and about your colored night vision. Thank you for reminding me." she thanks.
I follow her in the buildning and we half walk, half run to a lab. She creeks the door open and find all three of my creators working on an experiment. They look up and notice that we've entered.
"What is the meaning of your presence?" one of them ask.
"There's some things you must know about Ca- er, I mean experiment two-four-oh. she has more abilities than programmed." she interprets.
Programmed? So I'm not even an organism, I'm a robot? No, that can't be. How would they be able to extract or inject DNA if I'm a robot. I mustn't be a robot. I hope not. I want to be part human, that way I'm somehow not different. I just shake the thought out of my head. My fluffy ears shift around as I do so.
My thoughts go back to extract and inject. I hate needles, just thinking about them makes me pin my ears back in hatred. One of the scientists summon me into another room to do some testing. The first thing I see is a dentist chair. I flip out. My tail starts to constantly swish around and my ears are cautiously pinned back. If anything suddenly happens, I know for sure, I'm ready. He notices that I'm very much worried.
"Don't worry you're not going to have any teeth pulled out. You don't even have to deal with needles." he guarantees.
It's like he read my mind. I wonder... no, probably not. There's no way these scientists have made a person telepathic. Or have they? Again, I just shake my head to rid of the idea.
"Please, take a seat." he commands.
I do as he asks. I'm still cautiously moving my ears, twitching at every little sound I hear. I look around and see a light turned off that's hanging over the very chair I'm sitting in. He slides the light over and points it in the direction of my mouth. As soon as he turns it on, my eyes painfully start burning. I react by closing my eyes, turning to my side, and covering my face with my arms.
He gets surprised and immediately shuts the light off. He comforts me and tells me that the light's off now. I open my eyes and lay back on my side. He goes to a cabinet in the room and pulls out a pair of glasses.
"Put these on." he orders and hands me the glasses.
I put them on and get ready for the pain to sear through my eyes again. He turns the light back on. The glasses don't work. This time, I make a combined cry and meow. I also hide my face under my arms again. My cry makes it sound like a cat was stepped on. As I moved, my tail whipped around in anger, knocking a tray full of dentist equipment onto the floor.
The next thing I know, two buff men walk in and strap me to the dentist chair. This makes me very pissed off. My tail is thrashing around. I f anyone where to get hit by it, they could possibly get bruised. The two men leave the room and the scientist takes off my glasses. He sets them back in the cabinet.
"I didn't want to do this..." he says while picking up a needle and walking towards me. He squirts a llittle out to make sure it works. That's when I totally freak out. I try as hard as I can to get out of the straps. It's no use.
"It'll only hurt a bit. It's going to put you to sleep for a while so I can check out your teeth, okay?" he tries to comfort me.
I'm still freaking out. He's right about to puncture my skin with the needle when my anger crosses the line. Somehow, I get stronger and break free of my straps. When I look at my arms, I notice that I've outrageously changed. I don't have human arms anymore. I now have huge, fluffy arms with paws instead of hands and at the tips are tremendously sharp claws. I seem to still be transforming. I look at a window and see that in my reflection I don't even look lika human at all. I've mutated into an oversized panther yet I still stand like a human.
The scientist trying to put me to sleep gets enormously scared so he attempts to sneak behind me and inject the sirem into me. I see him in the reflection of the window and I react by turning around quickly and smacking him. He flies across the room and hits the wall. The massive amount of strength from my blow makes him fly through the wall.
The other scientists waiting in the other room, including Lucey, stare through the hole in the wall... to find me. The giant panther. One of the scientistsrush to a wall and press a big red button. Alarms everywhere start going off. The loud sirens hurt my ears so I put my... paws over my ears and back up at the same time. I accidently break through the wall. I turn around to find the beautiful meadow I was recently in. I instantly run to freedom. I hear a buzzing again and that's when I remember about the electrifying forcefield. But I don't react in time, I ram right into the forcefield.
I am forced back. The electrical current isn't as strong as it was before. Earnestly wanting to escape, I get the stupid idea to try to push through. I lean up against the forcefield and get mildly shocked. I push harder and harder on the forcefield. It doesn't budge.
A whole lot of security gaurds surround me. A couple step out in front with tranquilizer guns. Right when the men are about to shoot, Lucey runs out in front. I trust her so I'm relieved.
"Wait!" she yells at the men. She turns around to face me."Candy, can you lift me up real quick?" asked Lucey.
She is the only friend I have here. She actually gets me. She's not afraid of my given cat abilities like most would be. I respect that. I spread my paw out on the ground so Lucey can step onto it. She smiles at me and stands on my paw. I lift her up so she is visible to all the gaurds. She presses a button on her watch and the time is projected on a giant blue screen.
"Don't put her out! It's almost 5:30! She will transform back to normal!" Lucey explains.
"She killed Dr. Lowell!" yelled one of the gaurds.
I killed someone? I didn't intend to kill him, he was going to put me out. He promised that he wasn't going to use a needle. He broke that promise.
"She was defending herself! Twice, she was flashed by the dentist light that burned her over-sensative make things worse, Dr. Lowell had to bring out the needle. Candy may be a giant panther, but she's stil a fourteen-year-old girl who's afraid of needles!" Lucey clarifies.
Her projected clock beeps, for it's 5:30am. I put her on the ground. A baby blue light appears and envelopes me. I lose my paws, claws, and fur. My great size also decreases. I get kind of sad when my ears and tail disappear. The blue light fades and only leaves a black-haired, dark blue-eyed, fourteen-year-old girl.
As soon as I see Lucey, I run to her and hug her tightly. Before I realize it, I'm crying.
"I didn't want to hurt anyone!" I scream.
"Shh... It's okay. I'm right here." she voices as she rubs my back to comfort me.
I'm still hugging her and crying when I'm taken away. We have to be pried apart. Niether of us wanted to be seperated. She's the one and only person in the world that i know and trust, for now. I realize she cares for me just like a daughter because as I look at her, I see that she is crying and trying to fight her way free from the gaurds' grip. She fights like a mother would for her daughter. Then the thought comes to me.
What if she is my mother?