Ok here is another one. I hope this will appeal to you all better. Basically, I added another mutate. Also I'm giving the other mutates names. I hope that you will like and enjoy. Also I want to thank kittylov who is beta for this story.
I do not own Gargoyles or make any money off of my stories. If I did, then I wouldn't have to work.
Warning: There is some graphic scenes. Mostly some gore and blood.
XXX The Other One: The Beginning XXX
A figure dressed in white was bent over a table. The lights were off and the only light came from a high voltage blue light. A rap on the door caused the figure to jump then curse. "What?" the figure snapped.
"Uh, Dr. Vinson? The man that wanted to talk to you is here." came the voice from outside.
"Ah shit. Alright, give me a minute." She capped the blood sample that she was working on. Placing it in a cooler, she turned the light off and flicked the regular switch on, blinking at the bright light, then she walked to the door and opened it.
Standing in the darker hallway, was a medium sized man, with reddish brown hair and a sly look. "Hello, Dr. Vinson. May I come in?" he had a cocky British accent.
"Be my guest. This is actually a bad time doctor…" she trailed off. The visitor had never given his name, only saying that he was a geneticist.
"Anton Sevarius. And I do apologize for the timing but I am actually looking for blood samples of some animals…"
"And you are hoping to get them off of me. Sorry but no. I didn't recognize the face but I do know the name. I know of your tampering. I'm a veterinarian, not a supplier of animal blood for your twisted into your little experiments. So Dr…" she opened the door, "I'd like if you'd leave."
The man glared hatefully at her then a mask slipped into place. "As you wish…" he slipped out the door without another word.
Jacqueline sighed and pulled her thick glasses off. She didn't turn as she heard the door open back up. "Hello Mike."
"How do you know it's me?" a boyish voice asked.
"One, you are my assistant, and two, you are such a brown noser and nosey that I knew that you wouldn't be far. So," she turned around pushing the glasses back on her nose, "did it come in?"
"Yes." the short chubby boy held up a small cooler. He went to hand it to her but it slipped out of his hands.
"Watch it!" Jacqueline shrieked as she dived for it. She landed hard on her knees, letting out a grunt as she caught it. She held the red and blue cooler close.
"What is it?" Mike asked as she set it on the table. Jacqueline opened the cooler and took out a tube of red blood.
"It is from Sabu." she put it back and pulled out some forms and papers. "Sabu is a large Uncia uncia."
"What?" Jacqueline normally would've sighed but she went on, "A Himalayan Snow Leopard. This is the blood sample from a 90 pound female. The largest ever in captivity or the wild. This sample came from Lansing's Potter Park Zoo in Michigan. They have been trying to find out why she keeps miscarrying. I asked for a blood sample to see if it is in her blood." she finished the papers and sat down at her desk. "Also the Snow Leopard is my favorite. Now, it is getting rather late. I don't need any more help here tonight." she turned to her computer.
Mike sighed. He knew there was no use arguing. So placing the blood in the fridge, he bid good night and left.
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Jacqueline turned away from the files on her computer. She pushed her short black hair out of her pale blue eyes and pulled out the blood sample. Just then the door burst open. She had no time to cry out or scream. Huge men stormed in. She stood and backed to the corner. She picked up a thick glass bottle and held it on hand like a bat. If any of them said anything she didn't hear it. When they came at her she clunked two with the bottle before she was hit with a dart. Her eyes began to blur over as she sunk to her knees still clutching the blood sample. Laying on the floor, she couldn't see, but still could hear.
"So, what is it that he wants?" one voice said.
"I can't remember all the names, so…just take everything." another said. "What about her?"
"Take her, the doc wants her as well…."
After that she faded out.
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Jacqueline let out a moan and sat up. Everything was still blurry. Her hands flew to her face. Her glasses was gone. Patting around in her pockets she found them. Placing them on her face everything became clear. Her jaw dropped as she took in her surroundings. She was in a glass tank that had a pane of glass in the front and a white wall behind her. She stood up and looked out at the sheen behind the glass. All she could make of it was that it was some lab.
A whimper behind her caused her to spin. In a corner between a thin narrow bed and the wall was a small shape. Jacqueline walked over and saw that it was a young girl. Her long wavy blond hair was tangled and hung over her face. Jacqueline kneeled down and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's going to be alright."
The girl looked up, big blue eyes stared at her. "No, it's not. I've been here for two days. He's not going to let us go." she whispered.
"Who?"
"I don't know his name…."
"What's yours?" Jacqueline asked.
"Maggie. Maggie Reed, I'm from Ohio." She let out a shuttering breath.
"Well Maggie, my name is Dr. Jacqueline Vinson. I'm a veterinarian at the New York City Zoo." she held out her hand, "Come, let's get you up off this cold floor."
Maggie took her hand and she stood up but let out a gasp as the lights brightened. Jacqueline turned around and let out a curse. "You!"
Sevarius was standing at the window. He let out a small laugh. "Of course. You should know that I always get my way. But now Dr, your knowledge of animals can make my work so much easier."
"And just what are you planning to do? Change us into animals?"Jacqueline said sarcastically.
Sevarius just smiled and nodded, "In a way."
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They had been the glass room for a week. All the girl did was sleep or cry. At the most Jacqueline had guessed about her was that she was still a child, probably no older then sixteen or seventeen and had run away looking for fame and was kidnapped or lured.
Jacqueline spent most of her time studying the files from behind the glass. Sevarius had turned the computer toward her so that she could see the files. It was at the end of the first week that she saw what he had done and was planning to use on them.
Derek Maza
Pteropus vampyrus Electrophorus electricus Panthera pardus
She read on the files saying the dosage that had been used in combining the DNA of the animal strains. She read on finding out that there was others besides she and Maggie.
John Vicar
Pteropus vampyrus Electrophorus electricus Puma concolor
Arthur Fredrick
Pteropus vampyrus Electrophorus electricus Panthera tigris
Maggie Reed
Pteropus vampyrus Electrophorus electricus Panthera leo
There was another file but it was hidden and she knew that it was hers. Her eyes narrowed when she thought on it. He had stolen the blood samples and had her kidnapped all because she wouldn't give him the samples. Her blue eyes went back to the monitor. So somehow he has combined a fish a bat and big cat DNA strands into one mutate strand.
She read the names. Large Flying Fox, an electric eel and big cats, a lion, tiger, leopard, and a cougar.
She sighed and sat down on the floor. She glared at the people that began to file into the room. She couldn't hear what they were saying but she knew that today was the day.
Sevarius saw that she was watching them and went over to the glass panel and pressed the intercom button. "So, my dear Doctor, you know about the files and of what we are going to do. From one doctor to the other, I wanted you to know. You are a genius in the animal kingdom and I would have rather you had joined me on this, but such is the world. In a way after this and IF it works, you'll have no choice but to work with me on creating others maybe even better." He turned to the other people in the room. "You four, inject the two male subjects and for God sake give the injections to the right person."
Jacqueline turned to Maggie. She had stood up and was backed in the corner. Jacqueline walked over to her and whispered to her. "Now's our chance. Fight. Don't make it easy." They turned to the door that open. Four burly men walked in. Two had large syringes that were filled with a black liquid. They advanced. Both Maggie and Jacqueline rushed at them surprising the four men. Jacqueline hit one with her shoulder and Maggie scratched and clawed her way to the door. She was almost out when an arm back handed her and she fell and went sliding over the floor. One of the men grabbed her and held her biting, screaming and sobbing form in a giant bear hug.
Sevarius walked in. "Tisk tisk," he said as he shook his head, "I can't have you running away after all my hard work."
Jacqueline broke away and grabbed one of the syringes and ran at him intent on stabbing him in the heart with it. She was upon him when he reached out himself and grabbed her wrist and pried the glass syringe out of her hand. Jacqueline snarled and slapped him in the face.
Everyone froze.
He stood there stunned but then a crazy sinister smile crossed his face. He shoved her back and one of the men and she was wrapped in a bear hug like Maggie. Her arms were pinned to her sides. She heard Maggie shriek in pain. She turned her head and saw that one of the men hand injected the black liquid into Maggie's neck.Jacqueline turned her head back to Sevarius. He held the syringe that he had wrenched out of her hand.
"Now, now, Dr. Vinson, I'm hurt. I worked real hard on yours. In fact, I used the sample that even unconscious you wouldn't let go of."
She spat in his face. "I swear, I will find a way to get you. You will pay."
He wiped the slime off and shook his head. "Don't make promises you can't keep."
"I'll keep this one…" She let out a gasp of pain as he slid the large needle into her neck. She then knew why Maggie had screamed and was still screaming. The black liquid was like fire in her veins.
He pulled the needle out. "Let her go. This may be nasty and we better move out of the way." The man let go of both Jacqueline and Maggie.
They slid to the floor. She barely could make out their blurry forms as her eyes clouded over. She crawled to Maggie and held2 0the girl tight as Maggie screamed. Jacqueline hadn't screamed yet but she was letting out whimpers as the fire in her veins grew. She looked down at Maggie's skin as she had felt her skin turn softer then it should be. She ignored the feeling of nausea as she looked closer at her skin. The pale skin was actually bubbling up and popping. Jacqueline dropped her arm and looked at her own.
It was beginning to do the same thing. She bared her teeth and staggered to her feet. She walked over to the glass wall and saw Sevarius watching with interest and actual shock. She slammed her fists against the glass wall and the now delicate skin broke and blood spattered over the glass. "I'll get you for this! If it is the last thing I do I will get you!" Her words then faded to a scream as pain over took her.
Maggie's scream was cut off as blood spilled from her lips. Jacqueline herself felt blood beginning to spill over her own lips. She watched with blurry eyes as the red goo splashed over the white floors and walls. Her belly felt as if she had eaten broken glass. She fell to a fetal position and let loose more blood, this time it had bits of flesh in it.
She screamed and choked on the blood. Her eyes burned as they oozed and twisted and she screamed again as she felt her teeth fall out. Her fingers grew painful as well as her shoulder blades and her spine. It felt as if the bones was being pulled out. The pain then subsided and she breathed one last time and then everything went dark.
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She woke up itchy.
Opening her eyes her first sight was blurry and red. She crawled around and found her glasses. Before she placed them on her face she rubbed her eyes, then placing them on her face she saw that the world became even blurrier. She pulled them back off and looked around. Everything was clearer. In fact after she had rubbed her eyes she saw that she now had perfect vision. And it was then she wished she didn't. Blood and bits of skin and hair and other things that she couldn't even name in the red and black mess. She noticed a figure laying on it's side.
She clawed though the muck and shook the form. The figure was dressed in Maggie's dress, but instead of skin under Jacqueline's hands there was fur. Fur that was matted with blood. In fact now that she thought about it, Maggie's body had taken a different form. She had wet crinkled leathery wings and a lion like tail that trailed behind her. Leaving her, Jacqueline stood up shakily and walked over to the blood spattered glass wall. All she saw was her face, but that was enough. Her head was rounded and flatted out, also now sporting small ears and a distinctive heavy brow. She couldn't tell what color fur she had, but the shape and build was unmistaken to her. "Sabu." she whispered. Her voice was the same if not hoarser.
Sevarius appeared in front of her. "Well," his voice came over the intercom, "I must say it worked out fine, if not a little messy." Suddenly water poured down into the room. Maggie woke up and let out a choking scream when she saw Jacqueline then she looked down at herself. She then went wild, banging and running into the walls. Jacqueline ran to her to help calm her down, but it didn't help. Suddenly the door opened and two men came in possibly with the idea to sedate her. But Maggie had other ideas. Her new found strength knocked them out of the way and she bolted out the door. Jacqueline soon followed.
They paused outside the glass cage and Jacqueline slammed the door closed, locking the two men in. she then took a second and looked around. It looked like a standard lab, but in the cage next to theirs were two other people that had been turned as well. One was a tiger and the other was possibly a cougar.
Jacqueline shoved Maggie to a door. There was a shout. She turned back. The cougar-like one had shouted. "I'll be back with help." she yelled, with that and guilt eating at her she followed Maggie. She kept shoving her into corners. Finally after awhile they came to another door. It lead to a dead end.
Maggie had woken up from her crazed spout. She turned to Jacqueline. "What do we do now?" her voice like Jacqueline's was raw.
"We…fly."
"What?" Maggie looked horrified.
"We fly. We are parts of animals. Eel, lion, in your case, and bat. You have wings and they look portioned right." Jacqueline thought on the wings that had sprouted from her own shoulder blades. They opened easily and without another thought began to flap. She rose a little and grabbed around of the fence that surrounded them and pushed herself higher into the air.
Maggie swallowed and did the same. Together they took off into the air, but only after fifteen minutes both were tired. They landed in an alley. They sank to their knees and panted. "Ok. We are out and need to find someone to help. I think I know of someone. I'm going to go get him. I want you to stay here."
"No!" Maggie grabbed her arm, her now claws digging in.
"Ow! Maggie watch the claws!"
She loosed her grip, "Please don't leave me!"
"Maggie, I'm sorry, but you are too weak, and I can barely fly myself. I'll be back." she spread her wings when Maggie grabbed one. "What happens if they catch me?"
"I'll know were they take you. I'll get help and then find a way to change us back." with that Jacqueline took back off into the air and that was the last time she saw Maggie for a long time.
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