Chapter 2: Chapter 1: Great Discovery
Chapter TextWhat had disturbed the creature in the crystal had been a team of humans that had discovered the crystal in a place that was called the Northern Crater which was a frozen wasteland with huge mountains and a gigantic hole in the planet which form the Northern Crater itself, it was in this gigantic crater that the crystal was found. As soon as the scientists that were studying the crystal figure out what it was and what was inside said crystal they would be returning to the crater to do a few more searches to see what else could be found there to study and experiment on with. The whole excavation was funded by Shinra Electric Power Company which was ran by a man simply called President Shinra. The lead scientist was an old man name Farimis Gast and another scientist simply called Professor Hojo. These two scientists had one other with them named Lucrecia Crescent who had been the student of the famed Grimoire Valentine, a well known scientist whom had died during an experiment carried out by Mrs. Crescent herself. Both her and Grimoire's project where shut down and the funding stopped putting Mrs. Crescent under the guidance of Gast and Hojo.
"This structure is simply amazing!" said Professor Gast, "Whatever it's made from it's extremely strong, it's already broken all of our drills."
"Yes it is. Prof. Gast." said the hunched man next to the old man named Gast.
"What should we test this crystal for?" asked Gast.
"Well I would like to find out what exactly our scanners picked up on." said Professor Hojo, the hunched man that was standing next to Gast.
"Well we should move it to Lab 1 then if we want to get a few solid readings on it." said Gast.
"How though it took nearly forty men just to transfer to this Lab from the trucks." said Hojo.
"Maybe we don't have to move the crystal but the equipment instead." said Gast looking down at the creepy scientist.
"Well alright then." said Hojo before turning to yell at Gast's assistant to fetch the equipment they needed to start studying the crystal and it's mysteries within. "Mrs. Crescent, would you go get the EMG and the other portable equipment from Lab 1!" he barked to the timid girl who was staring at the shinning crystal before her.
"Oh.. Um.. Alright." the girl named Mrs. Crescent stuttered out before hurrying off to get the supplies needed, but before she got far all three scientists heard a loud snap and crack coming off of the crystal. They turned back toward the crystal only to be blasted back a few feet, shrapnel flying at them from the crystal breaking from the inside along with a puke green liquid gushing out of the huge hole that the crystal now had. The puke green liquid continued to spread outward and was followed by a huge creature which had never before been seen. Fully stretched out of course the creature wasn't standing up but if it ever did, it would reach a height of about eight feet fully standing. The creature was mostly covered in a thick, black as night fur that was slicked down due to the liquid, the fur appeared to be rough to the touch but most likely was soft although none of the people in the room wanted to go and touch the creature just yet. From it's wolf like head were two large horns that jutted up and out a few feet above the wild mane of fur that tuffed outwards from the back of the head, down the creature's back where sharp, curved spine like protrusions which ended at the base of a long whip like tail that was headed by a long, curve bone like blade. The creatures back legs were dragon like in appearance with scales going down from the inner thighs to the creature's ankles. It's arms were long and thickly muscled and also covered in both fur and scales, and so was it's chest area which by the look of things indicated that this creature was female as it had two bumps that were exactly where a human female's breasts would be, only covered in shiny, hard looking black scales. The creature's head and face looked like a wolf's with a long canine muzzle and large dog like furred ears. The creature's eyes however where what the three had all their focus on, they were a stark blood red that glowed in the bright light of Lab 2, the pupils where slit and small due to the intense light of the room and they were focused on the three scientists in front of the creature, that was however before the creature's eyes rolled up in the back of it's head and passing out.
"Um.. Well looks like we've figured out what was in that crystal." said a stunned Gast who turned to Hojo.
"We can still study it's crystal while it's passed out." said Hojo who was still focused on the crystal.
"How though, the creature's right in front of it!" said an astonished Gast.
"We move the thing out of the way, of course!" shot back Hojo pissed off at the idiot he had to work with.
"What if it wakes up?" asked the terrified girl.
"Hopefully it won't walk up, then idiot girl!" spat back Hojo.
"Hojo, don't call my assistant an idiot, she has a name please use it." said Gast turning to Hojo with an angry expression on his face.
"Fine! Lucrecia! Are you happy now, Gast!" shouted Hojo at Gast still utterly pissed off that no experiments had been started yet and hating that President had assigned him to work with these two idiots.
"Yes now let's get started on moving the creature out of the way of the crystal so we can start scanning it." said Gast exasperated at having to deal with creepy Hojo.
"You over there, move this thing out of the way!" commanded Hojo to one of his assistants that had been watching the whole confrontation between their employers with disgust.
Three assistants came up to slowly and carefully move the creature from in front of the crystal to it's left side. They had to go slowly because every movement caused the creature to grumble in protest. After a hour of them moving slowly and carefully they finally got the creature far enough from the crystal that their employers could start working on the crystal without having to watch their steps.
As soon as the creature was out of the way another assistant brought up the equipment from Lab 1 to Lucrecia, Gast, & Hojo for their use. Even after five hours straight of scanning and a few heated arguments between Gast and Hojo they still knew barely anything about the crystal, only that it omitted a strange energy field that was coming off of the still unconscious creature not to far away. It wasn't until Gast's and Hojo's seventh argument about what to do with the crystal that they finally noticed that the creature was awake and staring at them looking confused as hell about them. Both Gast and Hojo forgot all about following protocol when dealing with foreign specimens that they moved toward the creature intending to see if could answer their questions about the crystal in which it came from. Lucrecia could see the creature's confusion and stayed back a little when her superiors started crowding the poor thing. She then knew that something would go very wrong very quickly and tried to tell both Gast and Hojo to back away from the thing. Her words went unanswered when suddenly the creature made a most horrendous screeching noise and made a swipe at the two scientists in front of it. The two were lucky to have moved away from the creature fast enough because where they had just been standing where the creature's huge, sharp, curved claws now stuck in floor. The creature removed it's claws from the floor leaving five extremely deep gouges in the floor that had a lime green liquid pooling in the bottom of the gouges which made a hissing sound as the floor was eaten away by the acidic like substance. Lucrecia's heart jumped up into her throat at the thought that those gouges could have been her superiors just moments before they had moved. This action and the damage the creature caused made the two scientists' guards, a group of seven men wearing blue suits that were known as The Turks, to jump to attention and surround the creature that was still hissing and looking around at the fast moving guards wildly. One of the Turks moved in front of the two stunned scientists and raised his gun and aimed at the creature. The Turk than took a shot to the creature's left shoulder enraging it to the point where it's eyes went completely red. The creature lunged forward, opening it's wolf like muzzle and bringing it's claws to the front of it's body before using it's legs like spring boards, shooting toward the Turk with it's jaw wide open. It's clawed hands moving toward the Turk slinking it's claws in the man's shoulders and turning it's head slightly sideways brought it's powerful looking jaws down upon the man's jugular spraying the creature with the man's blood and soaking the mane of fur and the face and chest of the creature in blood. The creature however was not satisfied with just ripping the man's throat out and took things further by ripping the man's head right off with it's jaws still attached to the Turk's neck all the while slashing those acid covered claws down the man's chest to his thighs, slicing clean through his breast and stomach area and spilling his guts all over the floor and spilling even more blood upon the creature. Just as quickly as the man was brutally killed was it over, the creature throwing down the body and passing out a third time.
The time the creature was unconscious was short lived though with it almost immediately afterwards waking up, this time with it's eyes back to their normal red with pupils which had disappeared when it had become enraged. The creature blinked a few times before looking at the body of the Turk and then it's claws before moving toward the body making a soft keening sound, everyone was on alert weary of what the creature would do. To Gast's surprise the creature started licking the wounds it had made clean, it's saliva slowly closing the wounds and causing them to disappear. The creature went so far as to even reattach the Turk's decapitated head and slowly started pushing the body with it's own head toward him and the other two near him. This motion of moving forward caused the other Turks still nearby to raise their guns, the creature took notice of this and started keening again looking at the Turks and their guns shuddering in fear of the weapons.
"Put your guns down, there's no need for them now!" I shouted out to the guards.
"But sir what if it attacks again?" asked one of the Turks.
"It won't. Can't you see it's regretful of it's actions, the creature is paying it's respects to your fallen comrade." he replied back.
"But sir…" started the Turk once again before I cut him off.
"No buts that was an order follow it!" I said angry before turning my attention back to the creature. I noticed that Lucrecia had fallen to her knees in fright as the creature had gotten closer to us with the body still being pushed forward.
The creature noticed Lucrecia falling to her knees and took an interest in her completely forgetting about the body it had been pushing earlier. It started moving towards her going as slowly as it could. I could tell that the thing didn't want to scare her anymore than it already had. The creature then did something no one had been expecting, it started licking Lucrecia's tears from her face and cooing at her looking to all the world like it was trying to comfort her and stop her from crying. Lucrecia did eventually stop crying which stopped the creature licking her tears, only for the creature to move onto nuzzling her hair with its muzzle as if it was combing her hair or grooming her like some species of monkeys and wolves do. However the creature also moved it's arms so the limbs where wrapped around Lucrecia's stomach area, to me it looked like the creature was almost hugging her while grooming her and purring and cooing at her. The guards were still weary of the creature and were afraid to move or do anything lest the creature react badly and harm their charge. Both myself and Hojo started moving slowly toward the creature so it wouldn't react badly to us.
We got as close to it as we could before it noticed us and started hissing a warning, that was until Lucrecia turned to face the creature and bring it's attention back toward her. She slowly started talking to it in a soft tone to get the creature to understand that we did not want to harm it but study it. It seemed like the creature was understanding her as it stopped growling and allowed us to get ever closer to it. Soon we were crouched down next to where Lucrecia was. I lifted my hand so it could smell me. The creature looked at me curiously before slowly moving it's snout to sniff my hand before rubbing it's head against my palm in acceptance. However when Hojo tried this the creature nearly bit his hand off indicating that it did not like his scent. Luckily enough he didn't lose his hand and the rest of the day was mostly spent letting the creature get used to us and it's new surroundings.
It was torture, the creature got into everything, smelling and licking everything it came across. It even sniffed all of the guards making sure to stay well clear of the sides they had their guns on. We noticed that it continued to make many sounds as it explored the entire mansion, it's grounds, and laboratories. We found out that when it was sad or sorry it would keen softly, when it was happy or found something it liked it would croon and purr, if it was upset or angry it would growl and hiss, if it smelled food it would yip and yap to be feed, and boy did it eat a lot, if it started becoming tired it would make squeak like sounds and start circling in an area it liked before pawing at the ground and slumping down to stretch out and sleep. The creature didn't sleep for very long though, the longest was two hours before it was back up and wagging it's whip like tail wanting to explore something new or even something it had already seen. Rarely did the creature walk on two legs but when it did it was taller than all of us, reaching a height of a solid eight feet tall. It mostly trailed after Lucrecia though, following her around everywhere and yipping and yapping at her making what appeared to me conversation even though we couldn't understand it and it couldn't understand us, at least I think it can't, that will have to be something we test it on.
It had been nine hours since the creature came out of the crystal and we still didn't know what it was nor what the crystal was. The creature was finally showing it's exhaustion and started squeaking like crazy. We found one of the big storage rooms that had a camera inside that was mostly empty as we had just moved into the mansion only a week ago. It was decided that this would be the creature's 'room' until we could figure out what the creature needed and where to put it. Lucrecia and a few of my other assistants when to get something for it to sleep on and when they came back with their arms loaded down with blankets and pillows the creature took them right off of them going to immediately set up what looked to be some sort of nest before snuggling down and falling asleep on us.
"Well this certainly has been an interesting day." I said.
"Yes it certainly has. I hope we learn more about this creature. I want to be able to start some experiments on it." said Hojo a bit distracted with the thoughts of what he could do to the creature.
"I'm certainly interested as to why it likes me." said Lucrecia, curious as to why the creature had followed her around all day.
"Well it's late and I think we should take a page out of the creature's book and get some sleep. After being well rested we can start some tests on the creature to see exactly what it is and what it's capable of." I said before turning around to head off to bed.
"Yes you're right, running around all day after that creature was tiring." said Hojo before he too turned around to head to bed.
"I think I'm going to stay here a bit longer before I get some sleep." said Lucrecia.
"Alright, be careful though. We don't know what mood the creature will be in if it's awoken." I said to her before leaving with Hojo.
"Goodnight." Lucrecia said before turning back to the room and heading inside to study the creature some more.
Alright here's chapter 1. I'll tell you all right now, my writing style is much different than Structure's and this story will be written in an odd way at the beginning at least. Right now what I'll be doing with the story is continue to switch from the creature's perspective to Gast's, Hojo's or Lucrecia's perspective or from a third person view. I know this can be confusing most of the time, but you will notice that right now the creature's POV is much different than Gast's POV. The creature has been sealed away and asleep inside the crystal for 2000 years and has lost most of the human knowledge it once had, it will be slowly relearning human things and speech but until then it will continue to call the humans beings and referring to things with the mindset of a dog or wolf would or other animal.
Please leave comments, I want to know what you all think of this story.-Spice!
Notes: I'm just starting this story, it's been in my head for a few weeks. I apologize for all the spelling and errors, I'm not that great at writing on my own, I'm great at editing others' stories that I like and that need help in spelling and grammer but when it's my own work, well like I said I'm not that good at it. This is a project I'm going to do on my own for now, until I can meet up with Structure again and get some help. Hopefully my past tense- present tense mix ups aren't that bad. I'll sometimes start writing in past tense then write a word that's supposed to be in present tense, normally I'm not that bad but it's hard for me to spot them in my own work without someone spotting them for me. I hope you all like this and wish for me to continue with it. Please comment, Kudos, Hit, and Bookmark. I want your input on the story.