The Loud Awakening

Chapter 7: Human, No More

Me: Oh, look at all of these views! You like me! You really, really like me!

Inner Me: Good lord, dude! You're getting cringey, stop it!

That Engineer: While you are re-reading, here's a clue: Dr. Singed is a reference to a character from a popular computer game. I even gave a dead giveaway when I first talked about his appearance. I'm surprised none of you guys got it yet.

Gamelover41592: Pffffft, you thought that was torture? Bro, I haven't even gotten to the fucked up part yet! XD

DreadedCandiru2: Replace soldier with knight and you're right on the money. Also, Pyro will be a lump of coal compared to what Lynn is gonna be. As for the weird Lana/Terra Orb matching, I based it around, not on the color scheme, but on Lana's love of all things dirt. And since we already have enough blues to go around with the Arcane and Ocean Orbs, I thought changing things up would be a good idea.

364wii: Duh. Everyone knows that. Well, everyone except Tetherby.

TheFreezerStreets: Epic things come to those who wait. There will be fight scenes, but I still want to tell a story. Patience, dear reader.

Keeper of Worlds: Nice observation, though the Wood element is absent in this story. However, that's not to say it won't show up somewhere else….or someone else.

Now onto the story!

I own The Loud Awakening. Not The Loud House.


"Mmm...mmmmrrrugh…", stirred Lincoln as he awoke from his dreamless slumber. As he stared into the large ceiling light, he thought of how strange is was to have a light fixture this big in his room.

Then he remembered…

He wasn't in his room.

Eyes widening as recent memories began flooding through his mind, Lincoln shot upright and frantically took in his new surroundings. Currently, he was lying on a small bed in the center of what appeared to be a large glass dome. Outside the dome, he saw scientists going about their duties on computers and other machines, so he assumed he was in another lab.

"What has happened to me?", Lincoln said to himself, standing up from the bed and looking at his hands as he recalled the last thing he saw before waking up. Then he blinked and raised an eyebrow as he heard himself. His voice sounded different. He still sounded like his eleven year old self, yet, at the same time, he sounded more...old-fashioned. Very old fashioned. Ye Olde, even.

"You have become one with the Light Orb, young man."

The eleven year old did a rapid 180 and saw Dr. Singed, outside of the dome and standing with a clipboard in his hands.

"What?", Lincoln spoke, narrowing his eyes in confusion and anger as he made his way around the bed and toward Singed. "What dost thou mean? What hath thou done to me!?" Again, Lincoln was rather stumped by his new line of speech. Why was he talking like this?

"Hmmm, intriguing. Your speech pattern has changed to a more archaic version.", commented the head scientist, ignoring the question as he jotted down on his clipboard. "Tell me, were you speaking this way before or after the Light Orb merged with you?"

"Thou will hear naught a word from me until thou answer my question! Now, what hath thou done to me!?", demanded the snow-haired boy, unaware that his eyes and clenched fists started glowing light gold.

'Ahhh, his new powers are already showing up. Seems to react depending on his emotional state. Will have to look further into that later.', Dr. Singed thought before replying. "As I said before, the Light Orb has merged with you. Look at your hands and see for yourself."

The eleven year did, indeed, turned to his hands and was startled to see them glowing.

"Wha-...You…..How did…", the boy stammered as he tried to wrapped his head around on what was happening to him.

"The glow can also be seen in your eyes, as well", the head scientist continued, uncaring of Lincoln's plight. "I must say, your harmonization was quite the eye-opening spectacle. Though, compared to your siblings, it was relatively tame."

Upon hearing that statement, Lincoln quickly shot his gaze back to the bald man.

His sisters...

"What happened to them!?", yelled Lincoln, slamming his glowing palms against the thick glass of his domed prison in desperation and concern . "Tell me! Please tell me their alright!"

"Calm down, young man. I assure you, your sisters are in good health…"

Lincoln closed eyes as he breathed a sigh of relief.

"...to a degree."

Those words caused the boy's heart to lurch as his eyes cracked open again.

"You see, my dear boy…", Dr. Singed explained as he pulled out a small remote from his coat pocket and pressing a button. "Your sisters' harmonization was radically different from yours."

Hearing a quiet hiss behind him, Lincoln turned around to see a hatch opening from the ceiling and a mechanical arm holding a T.V screen being lowered in front of him as Singed continued to speak.

"The difference is due to one critical aspect…."

As he watched the screen come to life, Lincoln felt a icy lump of dread formed at the bottom of his stomach.

It told him how he was not going to enjoy what he was about to see.

"Unlike you, their physical appearance changed."

Appearing on the screen was a slightly discolored image of a laboratory that looked almost exactly like the one Lincoln found himself in. Centered at the top of the screen was a title that read, 'Sector: Zeta'. As he watched the scientists going about their work, he assumed he was watching through a security camera. And like the lab he awoke in, this one had a large heat-tempered glass dome in the center of the room as well.

However, what caught Lincoln's full attention was the occupant in said dome. Just as he tried to get a better look, the screen switched to a different camera, this time showing the occupant at a better angle for Lincoln to see.

Lincoln's eyes widened and his pupils shrank as he audibly gasped.

It was Lynn. Sitting in a tight fetal ball, her face hidden from sight.

Naked….and on fire.

"MY GOD, NO! LYNN!", Lincoln screamed, horrified as he rushed up and put his glowing hands on the monitor, wishing with all of his being that he could go through the screen so he could save his beloved older sister. With tears filling and falling from his eyes, Lincoln whipped his head back toward Dr. Singed. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"

"Me? Nothing.", the bald man casually replied. "And before you accuse me any further, I suggest you give your sister another look."

As much as the image of Lynn burning pained him, Lincoln did, indeed, turned his attention back toward the monitor. There, as he stared into the screen, he finally noticed.

The flames, even though they were engulfing Lynn, didn't seem to cause her any harm. In fact, from what Lincoln could observe, her skin was without a single trace of a burn. And that's not all all he observed. Her arms and legs, from her hands and feet all the way up to her shoulders and upper thighs, were covered by what appeared to be red…..reptilian scales? Her hands and feet ended with, not fingernails, but sharp-looking claws. Giving a glance toward her head, the boy saw oddly shaped scaly fins where Lynn's ears were supposed to be. Finally, Lincoln moved his gaze toward the jock's lower back, only to find a long lizard-like tail sprouting out from where her tailbone is, just above the crack of her butt. From the stump to the tip, fire traced along the top part of the tail, yet, again, the flames seemed to do no harm to her.

"Wha…..Lynn, what on earth…?", Lincoln muttered, spooked and very much confused from what he was seeing.

"Her new physical appearance is a direct result of her merging with the Ember Orb.", Dr. Singed explained before pressing another button on the remote. "And she is not the only one."

Lynn's image shrunk and was put into a corner of the monitor before eight other images began popping up on the screen.

And each image only deepened Lincoln's shock and horror.

In the image that read 'Sector: Omega', he witnessed a very changed, and equally naked, Lori being held in her large glass dome, only this one was reinforced with thick titanium bars. The eldest Loud, like Lynn, had reptilian scales that covered all of her arms and legs, as well as having odd fins in place for ears and a tail. However, that's where the similarities ended. The first notably difference was, while Lynn's scales were red, Lori's was sky blue. Her scaly hands and feet were large and came with sharp claws that looking like they could slash and rip through solid stone and steel. Her tail was also larger, a bit thicker and ended with curved and serrated tip. Lori also now had a pair slender sky blue horns hat poked out of her blonde hair. Finally, sprouting out from her back were two large scaly wings. Currently, Lori had chains that were shackled to her neck, wrists, ankles and tail, keeping her in place as she bitterly tried to break free of her bindings, all while showing her now razor sharp teeth and her blue reptilian slit eyes as she cried.

In the 'Sector: Gamma' camera, the lab was slightly different. Instead of there being a large glass dome like Lincoln's, there was a huge aquarium-like tanker that was filled with water. It was here, floating through the water as if she were in space, where Lincoln saw an unconscious Leni, who thankfully still had her clothes on. Like Lynn and Lori, she too had limb-covering scales. However, Leni's were aquamarine in color and looked more sleek and streamlined, more suited for an aquatic fish than a terrestrial lizard. Her slender arms and hands, albeit covered in scales, were largely untouched and still looked human. The same couldn't be said for her lower extremities, sadly. While her legs were relatively human, her feet had transformed into sleek flippers. Like Lynn and Lori, she also had a tail, this one long, slender and ending with a large flipper. She now had elf-like ears and four aquamarine horns sprouting out of the top and sides of her head.

The 'Sector: Beta' image showed clothed Luna sitting with her head between her legs in a corner of her domed cell. From what Lincoln could see, she had brown fur covering her arms and legs, brown weasel-like ears coming out of the top of her head and a long bushy tail coming from her lower back. Something the eleven year old also noticed was the fact that he could small purple electrical sparks coming off of various parts of her body. He had no clue as to what was causing her to do that.

'Sector: Kappa' revealed a lab that, like Leni's, had a different holding cell. This one was a glass dome, only larger and with drastically more vertical space, similar to a aviary. Here, the boy saw his comedic sister Luan trying and failing to get used to her new form, which consisted of having large yellow feathered wings for arms, elfin ears, bird-like legs and feet with sharp talons. From the look of hopeless defeat and tears that fell down her face, she wasn't going to get over this anytime soon.

In the camera showing 'Sector: Delta', however…

"What...what be this before my eyes?", Lincoln hesitantly asked Dr. Singed without turning around, very unsure as to what what he was looking at completely afraid as to which of his sisters was in this particular cell. Said cell was, again, a glass dome. Only this one held a sheer black void that was impossible to see through.

"Ah, Sector Delta. I believe one of your younger sisters resides in that cell. Lucy, to be specific.", answered the head scientist. "It would seem she has still yet to recover from the shock of seeing her new appearance. From what I have gathered, as soon as she woke up and saw what she had become, she screamed and released a torrent of black mist from her body that became the dark void that you see now. So far, none of our advanced optics can see through it. Infrared, x-ray, thermal, everything yet we still see nothing. A complete cut-off area devoid of light and sight. Quite impressive for her to do that when she had just recently harmonized with the Nerg Orb."

Lincoln, however, had tuned Singed out as he stared into the void that was Lucy's holding cell, filled with worry and concern. What could Lucy possibly look like now if it warranted this kind of reaction? He didn't know….and it irked him to no end not knowing, along with not being there to comfort his little goth of a sister.

The images showing both 'Sector: Theta' and 'Sector: Iota' were similar, with Lana and Lola both being held domed cells, both unconscious and lying curled up in their respective beds. However, as was always the case, the twins were always different from each other. This time, it was more so physically. Both had blonde fur covering their arms and legs, which ended with with fur-covered hands and feet with odd little pads on them. However, that's where the similarities end. Lola's fur looked more sleek and soft. The blonde ears on the top of her head were cat-like in appearance and two long slender tails could be seen coming out from her lower back. Lana's fur, on the other hand, was rougher and more unkempt, giving her a wild look. Her ears, while similar to her twin, were more pointed and she had long bushy tail sprouting out of her lower back as well. Similar to what he saw with Luna, Lincoln could see a small patches of ice forming around Lola while the ground around Lana seemed to be vibrating. Again, he had no answer as to how the twins were doing that.

Lastly, in the image that read 'Sector: Lambda', Lincoln surveyed one of his youngest sisters as she laid motionless on the bed of her holding cell. Out of all of his sisters he had seen so far, Lisa looked the most normal. No scales, no fur, no feathers, no fins, no tail, no weird ears or oddly placed ears, none of those aspects showed on Lisa's body.

She looked completely human….

….until he saw her half-lidded eyes.

Her brown eyes were replaced by solid green with no pupils. Even stranger was that her eyes were glowing. First they would dim, then brighten, dim again and then brighten again. Somewhat akin to how a electronic device would act if it was on standby. Also, it may have been the camera tricking his eyes, but Lincoln swore it looked as if Lisa's brown hair was made from stainless steel from the way the light was shining off of it.

Tears silently streamed down Lincoln's face as he watched his captive sisters, hoping and wishing that all of this was a nightmare and that he would wake up and find himself back home in his bed. Yet, despite his efforts, he was forced to accept that this hellhole that he and his sisters were in was all too real. The boy slowly drew his gaze away from the monitor and look down to his glowing hands, watching his tears fall into his palms.

"What...hath thou done?", Lincoln choked out, falling to his knees as he was racked with despair. "What...hath thou made us…..become!?"

As the young boy wept into his hands, Singed simply and coldly gave his reply.

"Not human."


Author's Notes: There! It's finished! God, this was a pain to get out of me! For the longest time, I was stuck and had writer's block for nearly 3 WEEKS! Honestly, I felt that I could've added more, but I didn't want run the risk of having another writer's block and having to go through December with only 1 chapter to show for it.

Anyway, there you have it. The Loud Siblings have obtained their Orbs and aren't exactly thrilled about it, the girls especially.

Any of you care to take a guess as to what the girls are now? Excluding Lucy, since her new appearance is, for now, a mystery. A mystery that I know and you will have to read on if you want to find out. XP

As always, let me know what you think of my story with a review. I'm thinking of doing something different next chapter. A time skip, possibly….maybe.

Catch ya later! Happy Holidays and have a Merry Christmas, everyone!