Fran grumbled to herself as she made her way back to her lab, the small box in her mouth, 'Who does he think he is? To order me around like that….He's the high chief, that's who he is….At least he gives me free reign when I do experiments, unlike that old coot,'
The doors made way for her as she entered the lab, the doors swishing slowly to a close behind her. Haru was still wiggling in her seat, trying to get free, but the bounds were still holding on tight. Fran ignored her for now as she made her way around the lab, looking for the items she needed. She placed the small box on the counter before continuing.
'The hypnosis liquid is still there…..where are my googles? Wait, here there are,' Fran put on a pair of white goggles that rest on the top of her head, 'now where oh where is my little variables are?' Fran sniffed another cabinet before opening it. Inside was many different colored bottles, some glowed while some sparkled. Using her nose, she moved some around, trying to find a certain vial, 'UGH, it's in the far back! Who's the idiot to put that there?! ….ah waits…that was me,'
Fran stepped back, grabbing a nearby bench, she placed in front of the cabinet and stood on it with her hind legs, 'Ah, now I can reach it,' she took out a light purple vial that had a gray print picture of a wolf's head with an X behind it, 'This isn't poison, is it?' Fran sniffed a few times, 'nope.'
Fran stepped back and brought the purple vial to the lab table closet to Haru where the other vial lay, 'Now, I need my time delay stuff,' Fran went to the other equipment, bringing back something that look like a microscope, but bigger, and another bottle filled with a murky white substance. Fran decided it was time for her to switch out of her paws and into the hands for this part of her experiment.
Haru watched the scientist at work as she dropped 7 drops of the white substance into the purple vial, shook it, and placed it on a small panel on the microscope. Fran walked over to Haru, placing a pair of goggles over her eyes before positioning hers over her own eyes, "Don't want us going blind now," she chuckled as she walked back.
"ALRIGHT! HERE WE GO!" Fran exclaimed as she pressed a small button and a white light blinded the room. Haru squeezed her eyes close, trying to shield whatever light that was able to make its way through the darkened goggles.
The light soon ebbed away and Haru had to blink a few times before getting her eyes readjusted to the dim light. The goggles soon disappeared from her face as Fran quickly took them off and threw them in a nearby bucket. Haru eyed the vial, its liquid now swirled with many colors, making it a rainbow.
"See how many colors there are?" Fran asked. Haru nodded, counting at least 5 colors, "That's your timer, you got 7 hours,"
"7 hours for what?" Haru trembled as Fran mouth split into a toothy grin.
"You will see," then Fran sighed, "Too bad I can't see it happening…now let's get this started…oh wait…" Fran went over, grabbing another syringe and the small box that Haru eyed warily, "Do you wear earrings?"
Haru didn't answer.
"Oh well, you do now,"
Fran strode forward, placing a cool metal hand on Haru's right ear. A flicker of pain ran through her ear, "Ow!"
"Oh hush! You'll feel more pain then this later,"
"What?!" Fran didn't reply, but instead admired her work on Haru's ear. A small little square of metal was pinned through her ear. Turning back, she grabbed the empty syringe and took a small amount of the rainbow liquid. The strange substance swirled within the container of the syringe.
"Now don't move AT ALL! Otherwise I'll damage your heart," Fran instructed.
"M-m-m-m-my heart?! But I thought you said temple!" Haru bit back from screaming those words. Fran rolled her eyes.
"Humans are such wusses. This," she waved the rainbowed syringe, "affects the body, not mind, now no more questions!" Fran snapped.
"Ah…"
Fran went straight ahead, pushing the needle straight into Haru's heart. She slowly pushed the end till all of the rainbowed liquid disappeared. Pulling the needle out with a satisfied grin, Fran threw the syringe into the same bucket she threw the goggles in.
Haru waited for something to happened, but nothing did.
"I told you it will happen in 7 hours," Fran threw he metal hands in the air, "Don't you ever listen?" Fran calmed down, excitement now bubbling in her as she grabbed the other syringe, already filled with the black liquid, "First, I realized, I need to ask you some questions,"
"Like…?"
"Like how much do you remember of your friends, the Cat Bureau?" an image of the dapper cat flashed through her mind.
"You mean Baron?" she said a bit too earnestly.
Fran eyed her, "Do you like this Baron?"
A blush came upon Haru's face, "What? No! Besides….The Cat bureau also consists of Muta and Toto," Haru slammed her mouth shut when she realized she was talking too much.
"Hmm interesting," She grinned, she steadied the needle at her temple, "Let's see how well this works," Haru felt nothing as Fran pushed the needle into her brain and pushing the black liquid in. Only when it was taken out when Haru's vision exploded into varying colors.
The lab started to glow in color, the tables started to float and drift into the air. Dancing cats appeared through the door, some were with the circus, doing their entertainment everywhere they walked. Baron appeared, but his suit was bright green. Toto was in the air, his feathers were blue and he flew in circles. Muta appeared in a giant bubble, his fur was bright yellow and his regular brown spot was orange.
Haru giggled at the sight, forgetting where she truly was.
Fran stood to the side as Haru's eyes glazed over and her head lolled around to the best it can against her bounds. Fran clicked on a pen, writing down Haru's reaction. She waited a few more seconds, watching as Haru's eyes became white, she then stood in front of Haru.
In the midst of the colored daze, a brown wolf's head appeared right in front of the Baron and the rest. Haru frowned.
'Haruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Haruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu'
'Listen to me…You will forget where the wolf clan lays,' there was a popping sound as something disappeared in Haru's vision.
'You got out of the Cat Kingdom by yourself,' there was another popping noise.
'Forgot the Baron, Muta, Toto. Forget about the Cat Bureau, forget your love,' the colored images of Baron, Muta and Toto disappeared, leaving empty spaces as the popping noise came again.
'If you ever hear the word Hypnosis while being talked about you, you will deny it,' this time a swooshing noise came.
'And if anyone asks about me, Fran, say I am the most brilliant scientist you ever met and defend that theory,' another swooshing noise.
'Am I forgetting anything?' the wolf head muttered to herself, before mentally shrugging, 'now fall. Fall deep into slumber, till someone wakes you'
The colored haze started to dim.
Fran watched to the side as Haru's eyes slowly closed and fell to sleep. Grabbing her pen and clipboard, she wrote a few more things on it before barking an order for a servant to take Haru back to her cell.
Baron and Muta stared at the Cat King, "What do you mean you know?"
"there have," Lune said, a bit uncertainty, "been rumors about a wolf clan, south of the capitol of the Dog Kingdom, where a Wolf chief has been planning to overthrow the Dog King and to invade our kingdom,"
"When did this rumor start?"
"Well…we found a wolf spy inside our borders,"
"How does a WOLF spy even cross the borders without knowing there's a freaking dog inside your kingdom?!" Muta exclaimed.
Lune smiled sheepishly, "He had used magic to turn himself into a cat,"
"Figures," Muta grumbled.
"We soon caught him after realizing he has been leaking information over the border, we were able to get him before he sent out the info of where our main entrance is," Lune explained.
"Ah, you mean the cat paw lake?" Baron inquired.
"Yes," Lune sighed.
"But what does that have to do with Chicky?"
"I believe it because she is the only human in a long time to enter our borders through the main entrance and that they might think she knows where it is, but in truth, she fell off with Muta here and landed a bit ways off from the castle,"
"I remember that," Muta grumbled, "Over the stupid weight limit,"
"We have to get to her," Baron said, "Before anything bad happens,"
Lune shook his head, "We can't just march into their lands without telling the Dog King first,"
"Surely you can send a message to him," Baron inquired.
"I can, but it will take a week before ever reaching him,"
AN: Its amazing how much one can get done when one is in the back of her mom's work waiting a couple for my time to go to work, and there is no internet :P I've already started on the next chapter ^^
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