Chapter 1 Rez
I awake to a pounding inside my head and white light blinding my eyes. Faces blur in and out of focus and I blink to clear all traces of sleep. Finally one of the indistinct faces notices my awakening and points it out to others. A deep, slightly muffled voice addresses me from the left.
"The operation is over, Rezeri. We're just going to run a few basic tests."
I slowly sit up and take in my surroundings; a plain white operating theatre with reflective silver walls, half of people's faces and sharp tools on tables. A woman injects a flowing orange liquid into my left shoulder. The effect is instant. An itching in my back consumes me and I feel something stretching and growing out of my spine and lower tailbone. Unquenchable anger fills my mind and my eyes clench shut. When I open them again, my vision is 20x sharper and I feel a thirst for killing. I finally get the courage to look at my reflection in a floor-to-ceiling mirror off to the side. I stare at myself in the mirror. I am as pale as porcelain with green, cat-like eyes, a long thin braid with a mop of unruly black hair on top. I wear a torn black leather vest and tight black jeans with cargo boots that come halfway up my calf. Out of my back and tailbone has grown huge black scaly wings and a long sweeping tail. I feel the rage boiling up inside me. Why am I like this? Who had the right to do this to me? I lashed out at the nearest possible object, which happened to be the scientist in charge. He doubles over in pain and I fly through a wall and into the corridor outside. Some instinct inside me seems to know where to go, so I follow it and end up in what looks like a storeroom for different serums. I don't want to stay like this so I grab the serum labelled '5 hour serum' and inject in the same place I was injected earlier. Only then do I read the label on the back.
'For operation Rezeri. Turns subject back into experimental form every five hours. No cure for this serum.'
Suddenly I double over again and suddenly everything goes black. When I come back around, I'm back to my usual self and still in the storeroom. 10 minutes have passed according to the clock. I have nearly 5 hours to get out of here. I get up and exit the room swiftly. There's only one other room in the hall, the armoury and tech centre. I enter, hoping to find something useful. I grab an energy blaster, a laptop of some sort, a couple of blankets and what looks like a portable map. I stuff it all in a grey duffle bag. Then I flee the scene.