What I have decided to do with this story is to keep it going with little samples for characters each week. Every Friday, I will look at the reviews that have been sent in and pick two characters out of those. I can keep that going for a month or so, and then start the main story after Christmas vacay.

The little story samples will be kind of back story or just some tidbits about the character. This character is one of my own creation and will be in the story.

Kai-

"Rosie, did you hear that?"

"What?" the little girl asked, looking up briefly from her sand castle.

Maybe it was nothing, Kai thought to herself, If it's the butchers they won't attack me with Rosie here. She's just a human.

Kai looked down at her best friend playing in the sand. Usually, a 6 year old wouldn't make the best friend for a thirteen year old, but Rosie was special, and so was Kai. Ever since that day when Kai came up out of the water for the first time… the day she realized that life wasn't all about running away from hungry butchers, and the day that Ariel became Rosie's favorite Disney princess.

They understood each other in a way that is pretty much unexplainable- Kai, a mutant freak with no family, no life, and barely scrounging to survive, and Rosie, the only daughter from the wealthiest family on the beach who was completely ignored by her parents and longed for a family other than her baby dolls, which she loved dearly.

Kai loved Rosie, but was uncomfortable with the closeness. She wouldn't be able to stand it if she somehow went sharky and hurt Rosie.

"Kai, you worry too much." Rosie fingered her sea shell necklace around her neck, "There's tons of weird noises around here. Thanks for the necklace, by the way. It's really pretty."

Kai was about to say that it was no big deal, when she heard the noise again, a faint rustling in the undergrowth, a small splash in the water, and the breathing.

Butchers had a lot of things wrong with them, but their breathing was the worst. Apparently, when you mix crocodile and human DNA, you get an obedient killing machine with super heightened senses, amazing strength, ungodly speed, and asthma. Not really asthma, but breathing issues. It was just the position of the lungs in their bodies or something. But their breathing was always cold and raspy and terrible, like nails on a chalkboard.

They came out of the trees and the water, walking, crawling and swimming over to Kai and Rosie, who was wearing a look so full of fear that it would haunt Kai forever.

And then Kai smelled it, the blood. Her vision went red and her transformation begun. The teeth were always the most painful part, growing in row after row and tearing Kai's mouth up in the process, adding the scent of her own blood to the blood lust that was already consuming her.

There was only one thought that made it through Kai's possessed mind- Get out of there, you might hurt Rosie! Lead them in the water and finish them off where you have the advantage!

Kai's vision went clear again and she examined her surroundings. The butchers were still closing in, and the blood was coming from the wounds on their backs. They were from a knife, maybe a whip? A new wave of the smell washed over her and she forced herself to dive into the water. Kai swam about 10 feet and hid behind a rock to make sure that they were following her. They weren't.

Kai watched helplessly as they grabbed Rosie, pricked her with a tranquilizer dart, and ran away with a limp little girl draped over a scaly back.

Something drifted down from the surface to Kai's rock. It was Rosie's sea shell necklace. Kai caught it and clutched it in a fist. She didn't know why they had taken Rosie at all, but they were going to pay, somehow, they were definitely going to pay.

But she couldn't go by herself and she couldn't call the police in case they found out that she was a mutant and put her in a zoo or something. Maybe they wouldn't though, a lot of people already knew about mutants because of that Fang guy on TV, the bird kid that was working with the CSM to save the world. He had a blog or something because he was looking for other mutants like him.

Hey, wait a minute!

So that's kind of what it's going to be like for all the characters I pick. About that, great job people! The ideas I've gotten were really great. I would like to keep it at just one extra species in the DNA, I don't want to write about human/hippo/alligator/tiger thing okay? Keep it simple, like Kai is human and great white shark. And another thing, all of the characters don't have to be bird people, I would actually prefer that they weren't (just for variety's sake). Send in your character's please! Sorry about the bogus info questions. That was a little bit of a copy and paste mishap- just fill in as much info as you can.