The creature had a humanoid shape, but it, wasn't quite human.
It had very dark brown scales, 5 inch long claws that began at the last knuckle of the fingers, legs that were hocked at the ankles, stood on its toes, 5 very sharp toe claws, including one 6 inch sickle-claw on the big-toe, the prehensile scaly tail, and it had a Raptor's visage. Muzzle and all.
It start at me with curiosity, and I did the same.
Why does this thing exist?
I set my gun down slowly, and approached it.
I let it sniff my hand before it let me lay my hand on it, or more accurately her, the hips were wider than they would be on a male.
I could feel each individual smooth scale.
I then noticed a collar on her.
EVR-1-16-20-15-18-F. I put my mind to work. Experiment VelociRAPTOR F. Maybe the F meant this was the 6th experiment.
Can you talk?
'T-Talk?'
So she can.
You understand me?
'Understand.'
Her speech is poor, she must've missed the developmental stage. Language is predominately determined by if they learn it at the proper time. In this case she probably missed that stage so her language is hindered greatly.
Are you alone?
'Alone.'
How long have you been here?
'Long time.'
If I ever meet one of those geneticists, I will personally shove my size 12 foot so far up their ass it'll kick their head that they shoved up there.
Come on, let's get you out of here.
'Okay!'
We walked back to my room, her claws clicking on the metal floor.
Here. Sleep here while I find out more about you.
'EVR like you!'
She's gonna need a new name.
I head back to the lab, searching for clues on her existence, but this time, I feel comfortable turning the light on.
I walk around until I find a computer. I turn it on.
'InGen'
4 icons pop up. EVR-1-16-20-15-18s, Military Funding, Training EVRs, and Geneticts.
I click on EVR-1-16-20-15-18s.
'Experiment VelociRAPTORs. *Nailed it* These are humanoid creatures that have Velociraptor features. Created by filling in a few of the missing DNA strands with human DNA instead of frog DNA, we create a creature that the uneducated masses would call an Anthro. These creatures age about as fast as humans, so they take longer than expected to mature, but they are no less dangerous, in fact, they are more dangerous. They have human intelligence. EVR-A, showed an IQ of 96, a mere 4 points less than the adult average, at age 16, before he passed away from complications with his genetic coding. They show human behavior as they grow up, going through the Terrible Twos, Teenage Rebellion, etc, but they also show the aggressive Velociraptor traits under certain circumstances, as 2 of our interns found out when feeding EVR-D, which led to his liquidation. More details on this event in the Military Funding document.'
I clicked on Military Funding next.
'Upon the prospect of being able to input various animal traits into our Dinosaurs, the Military contacted us about possibly using a Velociraptor with human intelligence that could command and lead a squad of Velociraptors into battle. We originally refused, but upon a funding of $500,000,000, we simply couldn't refuse. So we began working on putting human DNA into our Raptor embryos. Initial tests were promising and in just a few months, the first EVR hatched from an egg. The growth rate was slow, and since we predicted that it would be a trial and error experiment, we created 6 total EVRs at the same time. EVRs 1, 2, 3, and 5 all died of complications at some point in their first 17 years of life. EVR-4, is a lot more messy. Two of our Interns volunteered to feed EVR-4 at one point, and we're very careless. They got too close too fast and EVR-4 lashed out. Both interns died of grevious claw and bite wounds. EVR-4 was liquidated the next day humanely through lethal injection. EVR-6 is still doing well, but time is running out, we need to train her, she was the only female, before our deadline expires. See 'Training EVRs.'
Ok.
'The EVRs prove, somewhat difficult to train. I use the word train reluctantly, because these animals, although mostly Raptor, are in many ways, human, and train seems like a very degrading word, but I digress. The training of EVRs is very complex as we have to find each individual way to train them based on their reactions in a certain area. Eating is one thing, as we want the EVRs to eat like a normal human, but EVR-2 ate with a knife and fork since he was 4, while EVR-6 still uses only her teeth and claws after 10 years. We have to use different methods for each EVR even if on the same subject. The cause seems to be that despite our input of human DNA into the same codes in all 6 EVRs, the codes appear to have changed themselves. See 'Genetics'.'
Last one.
What popped up was a pictures of 6 DNA strands labeled EVR-1, through EVR-6.
Each one had distinct differences.
The Raptor DNA was marked in red, while human DNA was blue, and in particular, EVR-6, the only one still alive it seems, had a perfect balance of Raptor and human. The DNA seemed in perfect harmony.
Harmony? Hmm.
