Told you I would update soon! I just need to update more often, and we're good! So like I said last chapter, this will be the story of two days ago, so it'll be mostly in flashback. It's the story of the Science Lab experiments, and then we'll go to another flashback, this one of John's, as to why he was in the hospital, and maybe a clue to what he does which ties in with the hospital!

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(flashback) No POV

It was Tuesday. Zach woke up in the hospital yesterday, and the doctors had found the problem. Now everybody except for Zach (who was healing) was back in school, and Mikkie, Eiko, and Scribble were in their first period, Biology, when Scribble gasped.

"Oh. My. Gosh!" Mikkie and Eiko looked at Scribble strangely. "Do you know what today is?! It's experimentation day in the lab!"

"But, Scribble, you're not even part of the lab group." Eiko told her.

"So? My best friends are, and I always visit you guys after school when you're in the lab, so that makes me an honorary member! Besides, you're only in there on Tuesdays and Thursdays anyways, right?"

"Actually, I'm pretty sure that's not how it –"

"Oh, pish-posh, sure it is." Scribble waved it off.

"Oh, so you're British now?" Mikkie asked.

"No, I'm just saying that I'm excited for you guys! Can I come and watch? I'm gonna come and watch." Scribble said with an air of finality.

"Well, it's at lunch this time, not after school, so we'll see, okay?" Mikkie asked. Scribble squealed.

"This is gonna be so much fun!" Mikkie and Eiko just looked at each other, thinking, Oh boy…

It was lunchtime, and the three girls grabbed their lunch trays and made their way over to the 'Science Lab' as the Biology room was called when the science nerds were in there.

"Okay, Scribble, if you're in here, then you have to wear the safety goggles this time, okay? These past few weeks we've been just getting ready, so you've been okay not wearing them, but now that we're actually doing the experiment, you need to wear the goggles. No questions." Scribble nodded and put them on excitedly. She seemed even more excited than Mikkie and Eiko were. Eiko giggled when Scribble put on the goggles because it made her eyes grow a little. Mikkie and Eiko both put on their goggles, and smiled when they saw each other's eyes grow some too.

"Ready?" Mikkie asked.

"Ready." Eiko took in a deep breath, and walked up to the grey kitten they had on the table. She took a blood sample from the kitten, and a blood sample from herself. There were other lab students in there as well as Mikkie and Eiko, and were helping prep Eiko and the kitten. Eiko handed the blood samples to one of them, and he took them to a microscope to examine them, while Mikkie and the others prepped.

Eiko was put into one glass chamber, and the kitten in the other. The guy with the blood samples same up to the chambers, and punched in information onto a keypad. For the past couple of weeks, the lab students had done many test experiments on combining two species, all in preparation for this moment. Eiko had volunteered to be the one for the official experiment, and promised (and signed a paper!) to not get mad if it went wrong, even though she had practiced and prepped for so long.

"If you have any issues, or want to back out, now is the time to do it. Once it's started, there's no going back. Are you ready?" Mikkie asked. She was the leader of the experiment, and went through a lot of trouble for getting legal permissions for human experimentation. Eiko nodded.

'No going back.' Eiko thought, and took in a deep breath, letting it out slowly, making sure to keep herself from getting too excited or frightened.

"Okay then. Experiment starts now." Mikkie spoke into a voice recorder. "We have started our experiment 'if humans and cats can be one'. Emma Collins has stepped into a glass chamber, and the kitten has been put into the other one. We are going to see if it is possible to mix two species into a compatible form. We have done many test runs on different species', and now it is time for the moment of truth." She nodded to another lab person.

And the fun began.

A bright light lit up the chamber, and the kitten could be heard yowling, along with a spike in the heartbeat of both Eiko and the kitten. The kitten's heartbeat stopped, along with the yowling. Scribble's gasp was heard.

Eiko's heartbeat stopped.

Everything was silent, but then the 'beep, beep' picked up again as the bright light went away. Everybody breathed in relief.

"Eiko, are you okay?" Mikkie came and knocked on the glass. The chamber opened with a gust of smoke, and Eiko stumbled out, coughing. Mikkie helped steady her, until she could stand. Eiko opened her eyes, and everyone gasped. Eiko's eyes were yellow, her hair was light grey, and she had cat ears instead of human ears. Her hands had claws on them, and her skin was a very light grey – it looked almost white. Everything else about her was normal.

Scribble ran up and nearly squeezed the life out of Eiko.

"You nearly scared me to death! Don't ever do that again!" Eiko just chuckled.

"I won't. I promise."

"Experiment 'if human and cats can be one' is a success. We have a perfect result." Mikkie spoke into the voice recorder. She walked away, to her area of the lab, to finish up the recording, and to work on another experiment that she had been working on for weeks as well. Nobody really knew what it was; they just knew that Mikkie was keeping it to herself, and wouldn't show anybody until it was finished.

"Sooooo… how do you feel?" Scribble asked Eiko. "Do you feel any different? I mean – well, of course you would feel different. You literally just mixed with a cat! But how do you feel?"

"I feel… fine, I guess. Nothing really out of the ordinary – except for my ears. They feel weird. And my fingernails, too! They feel really long, like I need to clip them down. A lot. Although, now that I think about it, everything sorta has this… yellow glow about it. It's sorta like how an Eclipse is. There's the sun covered by the moon, so the moon has this glow around it."

"Ohhh, okay! I get it! Wow, this is so cool. I'm BFF's with a werecat! You can go fight crimes now! Maybe have this cool cat costume, some weapon that's a cat pun… oh! I got it! Your nickname could be a cat pun! Like… Purrincess Kitty! Or Ali Cat! Or, or, or Clawdia! Hmm… maybe Hello Kitty? The Hisstory Professor! Whispurr! Yeah! How do you like the name 'Whispurr'? Huh? Eiko?" Eiko stared at Mikkie's desk, watching Mikkie work on her experiment.

Mikkie never had a chance.

Eiko could see the stuff in the sealed jar start to glow before anybody else, thanks to her cat eyes, but it wasn't enough time to get the full warning out before it exploded. Eiko's eyes widened as she cried out to Mikkie, "Watch out! It's gonna explo –"

BOOM! Pieces of jar and goop went everywhere. Luckily everybody got enough of the message to duck, so the jar pieces didn't hit them. They were only covered in goop. Eiko used her claws to tear the goop off her body. It literally clung to them. The green and pink slime was no match for her new claws, and she got out in a hurry.

Seeing that everybody else was alright, and were only covered in goop, Eiko went and looked around for Mikkie. She saw her laying on the ground, goop on her body, and glass shards all over her. There was blood running down the side of her face from a cut. She groaned, trying to get up.

"Mikkie? What happened? What is this goop? Why were you working on something that could explode on you like that?"

"Eiko? Oh gosh, now I've got a giant headache. This 'goop' is a mixture of different animals. I just got some blood samples and DNA samples from these different animals and mixed them together. Don't worry, I got permission to do it. I was trying to make the ultimate creation. It was gonna be a mix of all these animals, and I was gonna see how compatible the samples were with each other. I guess this answers my question." Mikkie sighed, looking at the goop everywhere.

"Just what were you thinking?! You could've been killed, and then it would've been on our heads, and I would've lost one of my best friends and –"

"But the important thing is that I wasn't killed, and I'm still here. Don't worry, I knew what the possibilities were. That's why I had a specially-made jar. Did you notice how nobody was hurt? It was just the goop that landed on them, and no jar pieces in it. I did that on purpose. Most of it angled upwards. But some of it still landed on me. I… didn't want anybody to get hurt." Mikkie smiled sheepishly at Eiko. Eiko just sighed, and helped Mikkie up.

"Well, you're cleaning this up."

"Gee, ya think? I would've never guessed."

"Oh, and you have fangs."

"Wait, really? Are you serious? Well, this room isn't getting cleaned up by itself, so I better get started. Can you get everybody out of the goop? Your claws are better suited for it than my fingernails, and I am not using my fangs. That would be disgusting. Yuck." Mikkie said as she got to work cleaning up the shards and goop while Eiko got everybody out of the goop.

(end flashback)

Mikkie POV

"And that's what happened two days ago! That's the 'Science Lab experiments' that they were talking about!" Scribble finished with her story. "Oh, by the way… John, how did you end up in the hospital anyways? I know you were talking with Zach in the hospital, though I have no idea how…" Scribble looked expectantly at John Wolf. He chuckled nervously, and rubbed the back of his neck.

"It's a bit of a story, so are you willing to use up the rest of your lunch hour to hear it?"

"Psshhhh, did you not hear the story I just told? Besides, we eat while the story is told. Sooo… what're you waiting for? Let's hear it! I am particularly excited for it!" Of course Scribble would be excited for the story.

"Okay, so it goes like this: It was five months ago…"

(flashback) No POV

John was walking down the streets of the city at night, walking his dog, when he saw some commotion in an alleyway. He hid against the wall of a building, before peeking his head down the alleyway. He didn't see anything at first, but knew he had heard something going on. Peering into the darkness in the back of the alleyway, he saw some people. They were talking to each other, trading some stuff back and forth, whispering, occasionally punching each other until one gave up and gave them some more stuff.

John walked down the alleyway, staying close to the walls, trying to see just what exactly was going on, his dog trailing behind him, staying silent. As he got closer, he could hear what was being said.

"Yeah, that's the stuff. Gimme it, and you'll get your money right after."

"No way dude! Gimme the money first, and then you'll get the stuff."

"What, you don't trust me?" The first Goon grabbed the front of Goon 2's shirt, bringing him closer. "I take that very offensive. Now, where's the stuff."

"I – it's right here man. Just don't kill me man!" Goon #2 was shoved to the ground.

"I'll think about it. Here's your money." Goon #1 tossed a bag of money to Goon #2, who took it, and started counting the money.

"Hey, man, this isn't all the money. You ripped me off, man!"

"Oh, did I? Well, that's you're loss. Finish him, boys." Goon #1's "bodyguards" came forward with bats, and were about to take care of Goon #2. There were other people there too, but just looked down at Goon #2 and ignored him, as if it happened every day. Goon #1 was about to leave, but then John stepped in.

"Is something wrong here, boys?" he cracked his knuckles, and craned his neck to the side, making it crack as well. He grinned at Goon #1.

"This ain't none of your business, and if you walk away now, and don't say anything, I'll pretend this little encounter didn't happen." Goon #1 negotiated, or tried to, with John.

"Actually, it is my business, seeing as how you're disturbing the peace, and putting a man's life on the line."

"What are you, the cops? I don't think so. Forget that wimp, boys, and get this guy. Teach him a little bit of what it means to mess with the Feral Beasts!" His bodyguards came at John, but his dog came from behind him and attacked the closest one to him.

John's dog was a dark grey Dire Wolf almost as tall as John, and didn't like anybody threatening his owner. While the second bodyguard was distracted at seeing his buddy being attacked by a wolf, John disarmed the guy and took the bat, knocking the guy out. Using his new "weapon", John took out all the rest of the random people in the alleyway who were part of the dealings. He turned around in time to give a hard elbow to Goon #1, and then suckerpunched the guy. John looked at Goon #2 trying to get away, and whistled. The wolf went and attacked Goon #2, knocking him down to the ground.

John walked to Goon #2 on the ground, crouching down so he could look him in the eye. "Now, how much did he pay you for the stuff?"

"U-uh, thousand bucks, man. Please don't let your dog kill me, man!" John did a low whistle.

"Wow. I don't even want to know what the agreed number was."

"Fifteen hundred." Goon #1 was standing and held a gun pointed at John. "But, no one's gonna ever know that, 'cause you won't be around to tell them."

And he pulled the trigger.

(end flashback)

Mikkie POV

"Sooo… you're basically an assassin?" Scribble asked. We all just smiled, shaking our heads at Scribbles antics.

"Yes, of course I'm an assassin." John said, the sarcasm very evident in his voice. Scribble still just gasped.

"How did she get assassin out of that?" Eiko wondered aloud.

"Because only assassins would be able to tell when a drug deal was going on and be able to stop it. And I knew it! I totally called it!" She exclaimed, rather loudly. A bunch of other tables turned to look at us. We apologized for Scribble, and they turned away. "Oh, and if I were you, I wouldn't show anybody the revolver in your jacket!" Scribble stage-whispered to John. We all looked at her, eyebrows raised. "Don't look! He'll shoot you if you do!" She waved her hands, trying to keep everybody from looking, even though we weren't gonna. John just sat there, with a strange look on his face. "Oh, and don't worry. Only the most elite can get the drop on an assassin. But I won't say anything, promise!"

"Yeah… right. I'll… keep that in mind." He shook his head and rolled his eyes as the bell rang for sixth hour.

"So that's why I couldn't see you in the hospital." She mumbled to herself. Only Eiko and I could hear her, though. We both snorted and walked to our next classes.

I hope this was an okay explanation for what happened! I think it was pretty cool, not gonna lie. Next chapter we'll "officially" meet John's wolf. Also, look forward to some action, and a TIME SKIP. So, just as an fyi.

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