By: Mary Guillen
Prologue
A dark gloomy night on Rockfort Island. Deep in the bowels of this base, a T-virus experiment was underway. On the table lie a small 12-year old girl tied tightly to the structure. Struggling against her binds, she begged and pleaded for them to let her go.
"Please….please don't do this to me! Please don't hurt me!" she cried over and over again. "Why me? What did I do?" she would ask occasionally between frightened sobs without an answer.
On her forearm were three scratch marks apparently made by a cat. The scratch had become reddened with infection but the scientists didn't make a dire note of it.
Four figures stand beyond the glass of the experiment room waiting to press the button that would automatically inject the girl with the experimental virus. It would be the first test on a young female aged 11-15 with a rare blood-type. Two of the four figures seemed to be arguing, but the button had still been pressed.
The automated syringe drove deep into the girl's neck delivering over 1,000,000 mg of T-virus into her blood stream. This amount was more than any of the other experiments ever performed. After about 5 seconds the girl's body began to lurch and quake. Her body had started to reform, however, she wasn't turning into a zombie. Her fingers were fattening, even growing furry, making her hands into what looked like cat's paws. The same on the balls of her feet, only her ankles remained the same shape. Her ears moved to the top of her head and became rounded like lion's ears that stuck out from her hair. Coming out from underneath her body slinked a long brown tail; at the end of it grew a separate smaller "mouth" similar to a Venus flytrap.
Her nose and mouth were the last to form. She screamed and yelped in shear pain as her face and jaw line reformed into literally a lion's mouth. Her screams turned into painful roars as bones melted into its new shape. When it was all over, the girl fainted.
They all stood mouth agape. The four people performing this experiment had never seen anything like this; the young girl's hands and feet became paws and her nose and mouth formed into a lion's jaw complete with ears and an odd tail. The rest of her body seemed fine and retained the same shape.
They stood by to see if this creature would rise from the table. After about five minutes, her eyes opened and she came into consciousness. Her eyes still retained their human appearance. They watched as she looked around the room, still appearing frightened, to their surprise.
"Please….Please let me go…" she managed to say…in perfect English….
Everyone in the room stood even more dumbfounded than before, she was still sane. Unlike their other experiments that turned into mindless flesh-eating monsters, her human mind remained intact and still fully functional as they saw she remembered where she was. The scientists watching wanted to come into the room to see this marvel of the Umbrella corporation up-close, but were quickly stopped when she ripped her hands and feet from the bindings with ease. She was loose in the room; surely to strike havoc on anyone who might be dumb enough to venture inside.
A portal opened in an unseen corner of the room. A tranquilizer dart stuck the new creature in the neck causing her to fall to her knees. Another would send her, yet again, into unconsciousness. Scientists quickly attained all her stats and recorded everything on this remarkable bio-weapon, the ones responsible couldn't wait to test this creature out on her strength and abilities.
A series of tests immediately ensued, testing her on her vitals. The most interesting of the tests required her to test her brain functions. Amazingly she still had memory on everything she ever learned, people she ever knew and places she's ever been. Her vitals even tested her to be perfectly human, though she clearly wasn't. Except for her weight; she used to weigh 82 lbs at 4'11", she now weighed only 4 lbs.
These tests really turned the tables when she proved to have super strength, able to punch through reinforced steel walls without much effort. She was lightning quick and incredibly strong. They even tested her against other bio-weapon experiments, including prototypes of the "tyrant" and "nemisis" which she defeated with great ease. Her limbs regenerated if they were blown off, she had the ability to produce deadly venom from her teeth, claws, and from the extra growth on her tail, the fur on her ears could produce powerful volts of electricity in the event that something would try to attack her head, and could emit high pitched super sonic sounds that couldn't be heard to the human ear, but to anything with a keen sense of hearing would be harmful.
This was the most perfect bio-weapon Umbrella had ever created! The only thing they failed to take note of…was that she had free will…
On the day which was supposed to be her birthday, this creature…now named "leo sapien" managed to escape by killing the sleeping guards that were keeping watch on her overnight. She hadn't been discovered missing until the next morning, but by then she had already snuck on to a transport helicopter back to the states.
After 6 months of grueling imprisonment and ruthless testing, she escaped the dreadful Rockfort Island…
I will not serve the sick bastards who turned me into this monster. I may be a kid, but I know I deserve more than this!
And so begins the story of Ferrin Copperfield…