A beat up old 2004 Mustang sputtered to a stop right below the Greinspring bridge in Portland, Oregon. The figure behind the wheel shut off the lights before stepping out of the car and slamming the door behind him. A nearby street light illuminated his odd features and gave him a ghostly look. His eyes had no pupils and were a milky white which contrasted greatly with his yellowish green/gray skin tone and his bald head. His entire body was hairless due to his anaconda DNA. When he was born he was considered a huge success at Manticore until the scientists realized that they could incorporate animal DNA without physical traits showing through.
The man licked at his lips and let out a soft hiss through his sharp jagged teeth as he waited impatiently. Suddenly a black figure fell from the bridge and crashed silently into the ground just feet from him. He stood up slowly and limped towards the car. He wore a hooded trench coat that swept about him even without any wind blowing. The moon rose up just behind him giving his hood a deep empty look that caused the other man to smile showing off his crude teeth. The cloaked figure removed the hood to reveal a man with an ashen skin tone and deep black eyes with a small sliver of white surrounding the enlarged pupils. He smiled almost charmingly as his limp disappeared and he reached the driver of the car.
"Well?" the driver asked in a raspy and forced voice.
"They are done. They now belong to the Portland P.D.," the ashen man spoke calmly as he rubbed his shin before climbing into the passenger side of the car. The driver quickly got in, started the car, and pulled away.
"That wasn't..... the plan Kleer...... Do not fool...... with us......" the driver breathed out in a hiss like voice.
"Do not start preaching to me Cond. The more dead Manticore people they find, the more questions they're left with. Those two will be sent back to Renfro and she will deal with them," Kleer stated in a cool voice that commanded superiority.
Cond licked at his teeth causing small cuts on his tongue. He licked up the small amount of blood that started to climb the cracks in his teeth. "You should learn....... this not about you....... This bout all...... We are united now......."
Kleer shook his head and his pupils shrank slightly revealing more white around them. He felt his leg again and could tell from experience that his leg was nearly healed from the fall off the bridge. Luckily it hadn't been a bad break so it healed quickly. Kleer had been one of the early prototypes with shark DNA and while it gave him the "advantages" of narcoleptic insomnia and large surges in adrenaline it also made him prone to breaks and fractures from his softened bones. A side effect from the shark DNA created an over abundance of cartilage which his body reacted to by using in the creation of his bone structure. While a shark lives in the water and therefore has no impact on its bones, it was a much different story for Kleer. The only comfort was that his body quickly rebuilt the cartilage and a clean fracture was completely mended in a matter of minutes while a jagged break only took a few days.
The car drove for several miles before pulling into an old steel mill where several of the escaped anomalies had been hiding since the break from Manticore. Cond flashed the headlights through the cracks of a large door which was quickly slid opened by a menacing looking creature who was covered in scales and with unusual bone structures jutting out on his head and face. As they passed through Kleer nodded at the scaled creature-human hybrid who shut the door behind them and walked after the car.
The man licked at his lips and let out a soft hiss through his sharp jagged teeth as he waited impatiently. Suddenly a black figure fell from the bridge and crashed silently into the ground just feet from him. He stood up slowly and limped towards the car. He wore a hooded trench coat that swept about him even without any wind blowing. The moon rose up just behind him giving his hood a deep empty look that caused the other man to smile showing off his crude teeth. The cloaked figure removed the hood to reveal a man with an ashen skin tone and deep black eyes with a small sliver of white surrounding the enlarged pupils. He smiled almost charmingly as his limp disappeared and he reached the driver of the car.
"Well?" the driver asked in a raspy and forced voice.
"They are done. They now belong to the Portland P.D.," the ashen man spoke calmly as he rubbed his shin before climbing into the passenger side of the car. The driver quickly got in, started the car, and pulled away.
"That wasn't..... the plan Kleer...... Do not fool...... with us......" the driver breathed out in a hiss like voice.
"Do not start preaching to me Cond. The more dead Manticore people they find, the more questions they're left with. Those two will be sent back to Renfro and she will deal with them," Kleer stated in a cool voice that commanded superiority.
Cond licked at his teeth causing small cuts on his tongue. He licked up the small amount of blood that started to climb the cracks in his teeth. "You should learn....... this not about you....... This bout all...... We are united now......."
Kleer shook his head and his pupils shrank slightly revealing more white around them. He felt his leg again and could tell from experience that his leg was nearly healed from the fall off the bridge. Luckily it hadn't been a bad break so it healed quickly. Kleer had been one of the early prototypes with shark DNA and while it gave him the "advantages" of narcoleptic insomnia and large surges in adrenaline it also made him prone to breaks and fractures from his softened bones. A side effect from the shark DNA created an over abundance of cartilage which his body reacted to by using in the creation of his bone structure. While a shark lives in the water and therefore has no impact on its bones, it was a much different story for Kleer. The only comfort was that his body quickly rebuilt the cartilage and a clean fracture was completely mended in a matter of minutes while a jagged break only took a few days.
The car drove for several miles before pulling into an old steel mill where several of the escaped anomalies had been hiding since the break from Manticore. Cond flashed the headlights through the cracks of a large door which was quickly slid opened by a menacing looking creature who was covered in scales and with unusual bone structures jutting out on his head and face. As they passed through Kleer nodded at the scaled creature-human hybrid who shut the door behind them and walked after the car.
