Porta entered chamber four with care. The chamber had some portal walls with an Aperture Science High Energy Pellet Catcher in the center of the room, though no spawner. The catcher was encased in an orange field except the top, where it was blocked by an emancipation grid. Aside from that, Porta was in a room with the exit door and encased in some grating with a small hole in one side that lead to a portal wall. There were also green fields that she recognized as Aperture Science Timed High Energy Pellet Detectors. She'd need more than one portal set to perform this one.
"This next lesson will require an advanced version of your portal breath. Go into the room under here and and absorb all the Element Crystals in it." GLaDOS said as panels moved away to reveal a staircase into a small room filled with the light-blue crystals mentioned.
Porta walked in and did as told, mostly because she didn't feel that these crystals would be something GLaDOS would give her for no reason. After a while, she had finished and decided to look at the artwork all over the walls. Most of it was the usual Companion Cube drawings that she had seen several times as well as the saying that all subjects knew. There were also warnings about GLaDOS and a few other things. After examining the Rattman's work, Porta left and the stair's closed.
"Now then to transfer the additional power, just imagine directing it to that specific attack. Once you're finished, then set up a pair of portals and then imagine switching to a different link and set up another pair." GLaDOS said.
Porta closed her eyes and did as said, once she began, she didn't stop, not until she was out of the energy she was using. With that done, she followed the second part of the instructions and set up a pair of portals that would cause the energy pellet to go through one of the timed detectors, she then imagined changing her link and fired two more portals to go through the first detector and then the second. This continued for several minutes until she had it all set up.
"Now then, absorb some Mana Crystals and then imagine forming a sphere of pure elemental energy and release it. A fair warning, this attack will continually drain your mana until you either run out or release your hold on it, at which point it'll become unstable and bounce everywhere for a bit before disappearing." with those instructions, several Mana Crystals rose from the ground and Porta absorbed some. She then followed GLaDOS' instructions and fired a High Energy Pellet into one of her portals, at which point she had to be careful when moving because of the large amount of focus she was having to put forth to keep the nearly twenty portals opened as well as the HEP. Porta did make sure that she always had a paw on at least two Mana Crystals though, GLaDOS hadn't been lying, the HEP took a ton of energy to maintain.
Once she was finished and walked into the elevator for her next chamber, she laid down. Porta was actually shocked though when the next chamber turned out to be a relaxation vault with a large nest in the center.
"The scientists that originally tested dragons found that their bodies were immune to the adrenaline vapor used to keep subjects awake so they designed the tracks to have a break area every few chambers." GLaDOS said, it was then that Porta realized how quiet and obedient she had been, this would not do.
"What exactly is with you today? You've been simply too kind, where's the neurotoxin vents or the turrets? So far, the only dangerous things I've encountered are parts or abilities from my own body." Porta said in a hissing voice.
"If you must know, I'm using old chambers and just updating their design to match modern Aperture." GLaDOS sounded angry.
"Whatever, oh and GLaDOS." she took flight and hovered close to a camera with pure hatred in her slitted eyes, "I haven't forgotten my plans and I will ensure that, when I take you down, it is as slow and painful as possible. I will ensure that you, the Central AI, suffer just as much as the rest of us subjects, I will rip you apart too, something you can thank yourself for allowing me to d-" Porta cried out in pain as electricity shot through her system and she dropped to the floor, panting. She glared hatefully at the camera that seemed to glow and angry red now.
"How dare you speak that way to me. You're my pet now and I will not allow you to speak in such a way!" GLaDOS seemed to growl.
"So that's it huh. That's why you've left me alive, because I'll suffer more as your pet than as a corpse." Porta let out a slight chuckle, "I'll tell you now master… Letting me live will be the biggest mistake of your life, after all, this pet bites and she bites hard." Porta finished with a dark growl that turned into a yelp when she was shocked again, she had expected that for mocking GLaDOS and she couldn't be happier.
With that done, and her hatred for GLaDOS reaffirmed, Porta laid down in the nest to sleep, however, this was cut off by her stomach growling.
"ah yes, it's feeding time." GLaDOS said mockingly as a human test subject was dropped into the chamber.
Porta's instincts took over at that moment and she lunged, sinking her teeth into the human's neck and snapping it before eating it, bone and all. She was shocked at what she did. Porta laid back down in her nest and just stared at the blood stain, where the human had been, for several minutes before falling asleep.
Once she had awoken, Porta stood up and headed into the elevator to the next test. As she was on her way, Porta sat down, curling her tail around her right fore-paw, and thought about the day before while silently watching the light reflect off her red and blue scales.
"I was looking through the reasons for draconic testing to be stopped, you know one of the top reasons? It was found that, do to similarities in scent and general stature, humans were often used as a snack. You should be lucky that I did this to you then, because I had intended to start the project back up, so now you'll be the one killing the humans instead of the dragons killing you. Hmm, I just realized something, you're more like Aperture Equipment now in that you kill humans." GLaDOS said sadistically.
Porta did her best to ignore the sadistic AI as the elevator stopped and she examined the chamber before her. This chamber would require her to set portals in the right places and start flying through them while pressing several timed buttons and, from the look of it, she'd need to glide to the exit. With this decided, she stepped forward to begin, that's when she noticed the malfunctioning panel and started for the room beyond.
"Where are you going pet?" GLaDOS asked darkly.
"Shock me if you want, I'm going to see what that Rattman Den has to offer." Porta said before dashing behind the panel, yelping when she was shocked again.
The room smelled of fresh paint, which was still dripping on the walls. Inside was a single large mural depicted an odd scenario. The room depicted looked to be the Central AI chamber, in the center was a large mechanical purple dragon glaring down at five others. One of the other dragons looked to be her, the next was a white dragon, next to the white dragon was a purple one and a black one. Finely, off to the side; and apparently hiding while typing on something; was a small black,silver, and yellow dragon hatchling with the stripes and marks of an Aperture dragon. The picture was still wet, meaning it had been recently painted. Above each dragon was a number written in a familiar font. Above her was '7295', above the white dragon was '4836', above the purple dragon with her and the others was '768', above the black dragon was '765', and above the large dragon in the center was '863'. The font was that of the test subject IDs.
With this gathered and memorized. Porta left and began her test, setting up a total of eight portals and dropping down into one before pressing the buttons as she passed them. Finally, she glided into the exit and stepped into the elevator for the next chamber.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed. So next chapter will include the strongest attack dragons can do as well as some plot development and a new character. If I remember.