Prologue
Keira was strapped to a steel table in an empty room with white walls and a steel ceiling. She didn't bother to scream or struggle. He voice was still sore from last time and her muscles ached from previous tests. She just laid there and stared at the ceiling and tapped on the table.
She heard the click of the metal door behind her and then the heavy footsteps of a scientist. She could also hear the squeaky wheels of a tray table. She took a deep breath. She was used to the injections and chemicals. Sometimes they were painful but she had gotten used to the rest.
"Hello, Keira." He said in a happy voice that made her cringe, "Today we are going to use 5 injections and a new test that we have approved and tested before." He sounded like a teacher reading the schedule for the day. She didn't answer and didn't even glance at him. She could hear him fiddling about with the needles.
She felt the needle pierce her arm and she had to bite back a scream. It was a painful one. He pulled the needle out and moved onto the next, not even asking if it hurt or if she was alright. They never did. Four injections later and she was already worn out.
"On to the new test," He left the room and seconds later came in with a large grey machine with lots of bright buttons and a small screen, "This is filled with a new chemical that has been found recently. It is said to create…" She didn't bother to listen to the rest. She didn't want to know what it would do to her. She didn't even want to be her but her good for nothing husband was promised that Keira would be made beautiful and confident.
He only married Keira for sex but he soon found that she wasn't as beautiful as he first thought and she wasn't confident enough for his liking.
They accomplished his request a year ago. Now she was beautiful they wanted to make her into a monster. They promised the government that they would create a deadly weapon for the wars. They decided to use Keira since her husband had forgotten all about her and gone off with some other woman.
The scientist strapped black clamps on her forearms, shins, thighs and her head. Without warning six needles from each clamp shot into her skin; even her forehead was pierced. She screamed and writhed in pain as a bright green liquid seeped through tubes between the clamps and the machine.
She felt dizzy and nauseous to go along with the excruciating pain crawling through her body like a snake. When the pain subsided the needles slipped out and the scientist removed the clamps. Keira was shivering and twitching.
She felt the straps on her body lift off of her but she didn't react. In fact she couldn't. It was like she was paralyzed. She heard the door click shut and she finally swung her legs off the side and sat there. She stared at the wall.
Suddenly, a searing pain formed in her skull and she held her head in her hands. "It's working." She could hear thousands of voices from outside of the room. She scrunched her face up and tried to block them out. Her hair fell over her face.
It wasn't its natural black colour… it was green. The same green as the liquid. Her eyes widened and she grabbed locks of it. She stood up and looked at her arms. They were normal. Sighing she sat back down but not on her backside. She sat down on something long and moving. She stood back up and looked behind her. A long, scaled lizard tail protruded from where her spine should end.
She started hyperventilating and she felt a wave of tears coming. What had they done to her!? She felt anger replace her shock. It bubbled and simmered inside of her like a volcano and it awakened the anger towards her mother and everything else that ruined her life. They all suddenly erupted at once and she screamed.
She felt her body expanding. Her clothes ripped as she got twice as tall and big as she was before. Her bare skin rippled into green scales all over her body. Her breasts shrunk into her chest so she was like a man. Her screams turned into roars and hisses as her nails moulded with her finger tips and eventually turned into long, black claws.
Her hair hardened into scales and her hair was like silk. Her feet snapped into a new position. She was standing on the balls of her feet and her toes turned into long claws. Her face elongated into razor toothed jaws with slits for the nostrils. Her eyes changed from silver to green with a black slit down the center.
With one last ear-splitting roar she looked around the room. She flicked her tongue out of her mouth and tasted the air. Her vision was all greens and blacks so it was hard to tell what was what. Suddenly something red and yellow stepped into view. It resembled a human figure and in its center was a red splotch that seemed to beat. A heart.
She had the desire to tear this person to shreds but she stayed put. "Keira," She noticed it as the scientists voice, "We have accomplished what we set out to do and you will do as I say." She narrowed her eyes at him and showed no sign of listening.
"If you don't listen to me then I shall have no option but to force you into it."
"No…" She said in a raspy, masculine voice that sounded like sandpaper. So she could speak, that's new.
"No?" He said as if he couldn't believe he was hearing it, "Then there's no use in keeping you." He reached to one side and grabbed something that in Keira's eyes looked like a black blob.
"We may just have to find a new subject that can co-operate with my demands." She heard the click of a gun being readied and once again anger sizzled inside of her. They were NOT going to shoot her after what she's been through!
Before he could pull the trigger he was slammed into the wall with a clawed hand that was the size of his whole chest. He looked up into Keiras eyes. They scared him to death and she was twice his height now. She lifted her right hand and slashed his chest open. She held him in the air as all his blood poured out onto the ground.
She threw his body onto the table. Numerous gun shots from behind her caught her attention. Soldiers were firing bullets at her but her tough scales protected her. She snickered and growled at them. They continued to shoot her but moved out of the way when she came barrelling towards them. She crashed through the wall.
She looked around. She hadn't left that room in two years. The corridor was dark but she could taste the fresh air. She looked to the right and a woman stood there. She had pure panic written on her face. Keira could only see her heat and didn't see that it was a woman or that it was another prisoner at the lab.
She thought it was another scientist. That's why she ripped the woman to shreds. After she was done she licked the blood from her scales and continued to follow the strong taste/scent of fresh air. She walked down corridors and crashed through many doors and walls until she smashed through the exit.
She looked around and everything was bright. Just as she had remembered it to be. Despite the fact it was all green and blacks she still saw the trees and the benches. A pond was in the center of a huge park where dogs and children played. Their heart beats enticed her but she refrained from killing them.
A scream broke the moment of freedom. She looked at a woman holding her five year old son and twelve year old daughter close to her. One more scream and the whole park looked at Keira.
Chaos ensued. She watched as the children cried, the teenagers took photos and the adults gathered everything and ran away. She heard a thundering noise above her. She looked up and a black thing in the sky resembled a helicopter. Oh, no…
She started running into the city she had grown up in. New York. She could hear everything around her: the screams, the cars crashing or screeching to a stop, the helicopters above her and even gunshots. She towered over the fleeing citizens and managed not to kill any.
She looked at one of the helicopters and immediately looked away. A net was thrown from the sky and fell over her. She struggled but weights held her to the ground. She roared and hissed as the F.B.I surrounded her and aimed their guns at her.
One man, not in the black uniform, stood in front of her. "You were supposed to be for the better good of America but it seems you'd rather cause havoc." His voice was snobby and a little nasal.
"Not havoc… escape…" She found it hard to talk as a lizard but she managed to choke out a few words.
"Oh, so you speak?" He raised his eyebrows, "You would have been very helpful, but alas it seems we need to choose our subjects a little better."
She growled at him but stopped when he aimed a handgun as her forehead. She snarled at him and he seemed unfazed. "You are no longer in our service, goodbye." He pulled the trigger and the bullet killed her.
The pain only lasted a second and it disappeared as quickly as it came. She felt like she was floating on air. All her worries or fear vanished but so did her heart beat. Soon she was consumed by the darkness and she prayed that she may never wake up.
This is my first LOTR fan fiction. Please review. No flames though. Oh, and this is an 11th walker book.