Laboratory of Demons

Chapter 1

What is this?

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Toboe: Hello my duckies. This is the revised 1st chapter of Laboratory of Demons. When I got to chapter 3 I looked back and though 'I don't like this piece of work.' So I'm rewriting it cause the writer should like her own work right. Any was if you read this chapter before January 17 2007 you might want to reread it. So far nothing really bid has change but expect the next 2 chapters to go into complete opposite directions. Those will be posted A.S.A.P and I will put something in the disclaimer about them being revised if you have any doubts. Loves! Oh and I don't own the Wolf's Rain cast but I do own my own crew!

Where was she? Moaning she pulled sore paws closer to her body. She was so tired. She opened her golden eyes but they did little to penetrate the darkness. Her head lay slumped on the ground but she knew she didn't have the strength to try to lift it. She whimpered as she lay on the hard metal ground. Different images were racing through her head. Fighting. Screams. The spray of blood. Darkness, moonlight, then darkness once more. She twitched and pulled those sore legs under her and tried to stand. Stumbling she leaned against the wall. It was cool, hard immovable steel. Her skinny lupine body quaked with the effort as she fought to remain propped on the wall. Even the attempt to scratch her blood caked head was too much of an effort.

"Reavan?"

It took the wolf a few minutes to realize who that was and a weak wavering voice that replied.

"Mika?"

Slowly she her brain rose out of the heavy fog that suffocated it. Reaven, her friend who had been injured. Reavan, who she had been supporting when the darkness had mysteriously claimed her. The large dark brown wolf with the black tint, who always had the fire of battle burning in her deep emerald eyes and a slashing scar on her stomach. Memoriess creeped back. She remembered the illusion of a tall, thin 14 year old, wearing black baggy pant with a zipper on the bottom left hand corner and lots of pockets. But those combat boots left no prints, but the imprint of paws.

" Kawa?"

She knew that voice. An image dredged out of the back of her head. Apale grey she wolf with the bullet hole in one ear snarling at a strange wolf. A wolf that always was ready to defend her friends and territory with no concern for her own well being. The wolf who had left her brother behind, fighting for their escape, so she could help Reavan stumble up the rocky path.

"What… I'm here"

Her voice sounded week and groggy even to her. Her ears perked as she heard Roukan, the huge muscular black and gray wolf with all the scars across his legs face and everywhere else giving him a demonic appearance. Surprisingly when he took a human illusion he was scar free. She could easily remember his 17 year old illusion with an obsession for silver necklaces and sunglasses with the dark silver hair, black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans quite easily. Everything was coming back to her, making her snarl as she relized what had happened.

"Blue" came a miserable whisper next to her.

With that croak she jumped in fright. That was Hige! But the cubby yellow brown wolf with the red amber eyes was with the others fighting. What was he doing here? Still though she took a small delight that she could easily recal his illusion of a cubby human illusion with a yellow hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and black collar.

But then douts raced in her heads. For a minute she wasn't sure if she was thinking clear. Everything was so muddled. For that matter she wasn't even sure who she was at this moment. She did know what she looked like thought. An almost fox like wolf with a red pelt and a black nape, feet and tail tip. Searching her skull she started remembering othter things, like her human illusion of a short human, with red hair and blue eyes. Even the words coming out of her friends mouth was hard to understand at first. It sounded… thick. Then she remembered everything. Coming with her brother to the super huge pack in the forest, almost all the pack getting killed, meeting a new pack, a group of Paradise hunters, fighting as the soldiers came back.

She was an animal that was said to have be gone for two hundred years. while beautiful and mysterious wolves were terrifying and cruel like any predator and that had lent to their 'extinction.' No matter how hard her ancestors had fought, their true forms were frowned upon, hunted, and killed. They had adapted though, like any creature must. Now wolves intermingled through humans. They, through a force of wills, had merely helped the humans see what they truly wanted to see. A human is fully capable of convincing that what they say wasn't true and all the wolves did was help to solidify that belief. Only people of strong wills and other wolves could see her true form, and normal humans just saw what they wanted to. A human.

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Kiba shook his large, snowy white head as he ran. The wind had picked up, sending dirt into the air and tugging on tails and ears of the five wolves trailing him as they ran across the barren earth. His huge body was covered with the purest white fur coat, dirtied now though by dirt, sweat, and blood. A little behind him ran Kuni the leader of half the pack of wolves that followed him. Her creamy white coat with a strange red honey tint around her eyes jaws and legs was covered in dirt sweat and blood too, giving her usually immaculacy clean coat a grimy look. Tsume and Klaue stalked in the middle, their bodies, about the same size running next to each other. Tsume's grey fur was spiked with sweat with a nasty cross shaped scar covering his chest while Klaue's dark oaken brown coat was tainted with all the impurities in the others with his black nape, paws, and tail almost undistinguishable. Trailing the others was Toboe, the pup was a runt with light brown fur with, you could almost say a red tint. Next to her ran Jess, another female wolf but grayish white with a black blue tint covering her whole body making her look like the summer night. They were no less dirty then the others and, if anything, they had more sweat drenching their small bodies as they fought to keep up.

The five of them were searching. If you asked them for what, they would reply their friends who had gone missing after a fierce battle for territory, in which four of their packs had died. After that, they realized the others were missing and had to swore to find them and after that Paradise. But deep in their hearts they knew that wasn't true. They were searching for Paradise now. They couldn't help it. They had to, for the call was so urgent, so desperate. In the truth they had no idea where the others were even heading while at least they had the flowers to follow for Paradise. Yet still somehow they knew they would meet the others on the way. After all, Paradise calls all wolves and was the best chance to find them.

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"Chi!"

Kawa sat with a start her voice spiked with fear and worry. She had suddenly realized what had been bothering her.

"Where's Chi!" The other wolves murmured words but none said anything reassuring.

"Maybe he was left behind by the people and the others picked him up" Mika said, trying to sound confident but her voice was strained. They had all come to love the little fox whelp that Kawa had found.

Kawa knew she was trying to comfort her. She slumped to the floor. What if… no she couldn't think of her baby fox… dead. With his pudgy little round body and paws and a tail that seemed too big for such a body and his little mouth with pink gums and small silver teeth, it seemed impossible that he was gone.

So stunned was she that she almost missed the exchange of words given by a soldier to Mika but her keen ears were not kind enough to ignore the taunt as he came to check on them.

"What is the 'Laboratory'?" she said voicing every ones thoughts. Troubled thoughts. What could go on in this 'Laboratory' that made even humans afraid.

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Kris growled and shifted. Now matter how hard she tried she could never find a good position on this hard floor. It was cold steel and the constant vibrations were making her airsick. Her honey colored body flipped to the other side with an angry grunt. A red brown hawk opened one fierce yellow gold eye and glared at her. He and she had stolen upon this noble airship when they saw their friends taken on to the vessel in huge metal cages.

"Yousa shifty shift and growly growl will not hurrizes up biggsahuntship. Can't a not Krisawolf nota senses wesa gozing downs?"

As always it took a few minutes for her to understand his odd way of speech. She knew that if he wasn't Kawa's baby and such a valuable asset to the pack he would have been gone a long time ago. Shaking her honey colored head she fought the earge to mortally woand him.

"Do you mean we are almost there?"

"Yessa so getsa readys. Is a said that's."

She swallowed hard. Almost there. But what would they find?

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