Author's Note: Yee! Got reviews :) And even from Tiger5913!! I haven't stopped reading your fics, I still love 'em! (see my Favourite Stories and Authors) The things is, fics have been slow in the Bloody Roar section so I never really came back here to read fics anymore. School will be ending next week so I have a lot of free time, and decided to start on this fanfic which I have been thinking about for a long time. So anyway, thanks to NeoDragonZero and Tiger5913 for your reviews :)
P.S Tiger5913, just what is a Mary Sue @_@?
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The girl woke to the strong stench of burning flesh and chemical flames. Her eyes sprang open, bright gold with raptor pupils. She sat up into a crouch and peered in desperation at the fiery chaos around her. Frightened, she was an animal in a wildfire. Only danger and heat surrounded her as she scuttled back and forth in a bid to find some, some escape!
"Aaaa..."
The girl turned swiftly, her claws were poised and her fangs bared for what creature made that sound. Alas, all she saw was a young man, injured and broken beneath a large beam. She had failed to notice him before, her sense of smell was clouded by the smoke around them.
She sniffed him derisively, inspected the beam and snuffed as she processed her thoughts in her part beast mind. Then, she realised, that she herself had his scent. On her body and she murmured on why. She remembered faintly, through painful memories, of her few aware times within that glass prison. And of the excruciating pain when electricity was sent through the liquid around her, attracted straight to her fingers with their metal rings. And of the many jabs from electronic appendages within the prison, how her body was forced to change, often painful, often long. How her there were implantations on her neck. She felt along her neck, feeling the hair or fur that grew so long there. All her memories, were filled with pain, and horror. Somewhere in her mind, she had no doubt she was human once, but she had no recollection of when that was.
None.
But now, she was free. Free to roam, to stand once more. To breathe pure air, even if it was clouded by burning ash. But why? How?
Strange, how the most recent happenings seemed to slip her mind. She thought hard and remembered how she woke up to see the beast atop her. And how she attacked it, but was dispatched of later by a swing and crash. Where was the beast now? A faint replica of his scent came from the man, a bit different, but nonetheless similar.
Gingerly, she picked up an arm and saw, wounds from her attack. She once again snuffed, so this was her rescuer, or assailant...
She paced around the beam, the danger of the situation momentarily leaving her mind as she comtemplated on this man, who was also a beast...why did that sound so familiar?
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"She's a most interesting experiment...but why such a young girl?"
"Beast transformation comes about with puberty, gentlemen. Not to mention, she's a pretty thing to see everyday, hm? Makes me feel all tingling, especially dow-"
"Dr Busuzima, we are here to inspect the extent of the research, NOT to listen to your sexual fantasies,"
"Ah yes, too bad that! As you can see, the DNA splicing has been a most delightful success! Note that her skin has started to become scale-like! That's the most recent transformation and so, isn't very complete yet. HOWEVER! We are pleased to inform you she is accepting all the...'rogue DNA' and the cell's are mutiplying generously!"
"This had better not be another 'Uriko', Busuzima..."
"Ha ha! No worries gentlemen! None...at...all..."
"What's with all this attention, some new guinea pig to toy with and all the boys want to play..."
"Ah! Shenlong, sir!"
"Well? What's with this girl?"
"An artificial zoanthrope like this is hard to make, you see,"
"Not to mention barbaric..."
"What was that, Stephan old boy? Surely, you're not getting a soft...heart now, are ye? Stopping the splicing now will do no good too, hm? Sure, she'll be alive but have reversed bones and failing organs. Maybe a few seizures and vomiting and hermoraging thrown in to our little mix. But oh! She'll be free, and happy while she slowly dies! How delightful!"
"Shut up Busuzima,"
"Hmph! I was serious about that, you know! Anyway, gentlemen, as you see, we are about to inject the bat DNA now! And of course, our daily shock therapy,"
"I understand the bat wings, however, why the electricity?"
"Well, my fine sir, heh heh, we can't expect ALL the cells to jolt awake when she goes through puberty, can we? No no! Absolutely not, never! In your own best interests, for the sake of ensuring quality goods, we are throwing in our patented electrical 'bath' sessions for free! To give that little boost on those cells!"
"Won't she get damaged?"
"Nah! She's been here for over a year and she doesn't look worse for wear! Don't worry, gentlemen! If this dragon fails to hatch, fry it, and get another batch..."
"Busuzima, I'm starting to wonder which of you is the beast, she or you..."
"BOSS! You're just as bad as Stephan, no fun whatsoever!"
Kris shook her head. She hated them, those voices. Voices had to come from somewhere, she knew, and when she found that one, maybe even the other one as well, she'll hunt them, kill them, make them hurt...
"YRAWR!" she yelped as a huge surge of flames burst from the elevator door towards them, the heat blast pushing back towards the beam. The flash fire dissipated but the flames returned a split second later, with terrifying groans, boulders of concrete crumbled from the ceiling.
The beam Xan was under caught fire and he awoke blurly, coughed and hacked and tried to pull away with all his might. But he collasped again, looking up with his face dark with soot, he saw the questioning and desperate face of the girl.
'She doesn't...know...what to do...and I don't...either...' he thought, reaching out with one of his hands to grasp the girls arm.
"UNH!" she tried to pull away in surprised and lept back. only to jump into encroaching flames.
"Girl...try to...I don't know, just get out..."
Xan fainted again and the girl stared at the hand around her small arm, feeling through her sensitive skin the failing pulse of this man whom she didn't know.
"Die..."
She thought she felt this before, a long time ago. She forgot when, or what it was, but she remembered something else.
She felt sad. Sad, whatever it was, it wasn't nice. She felt...not good. But what was it? That memory, that feeling? Why couldn't she remembered? What was she? She felt like she used to be like this man, no, she knew she was, is, was like this man. Like him, human, weak and...not like her. Died, all the humans around her...died.
"Nome...no..." it was the first word she had said since her imprisonment, and the last word she said before she was taken away.
"Nome...home, I want to stay home, I don't want to go!" she cried.
The building above started to fall in upon itself, dust and small pieces of metal roof fell through, down to where she and Xan lay.
"I don't want to die!" she roared, her face was slashed and burned by cinders and sharp metal pieces that fluttered down, a calm wind before the storm.
"I want to hunt! I want to fight! I want to kill!" she started to salivate, it wasn't by intention, it was just like that. Her body was responding to something. Her pupils became slits and dilated open and then shrunk again alternately. Her mane flew about, energy was building inside her and her ears pricked. She stood up on her two legs, but as if she wasn't accustomed to it, she stood as if on platforms, or stilts. Her back arched and the nobs begin to throb, and seemed to grow biggger.
"I...I...wa...wa..wra...RWAR!"
A huge metal siding came tumbling down through the levels, hitting one side first...
"Rrr..." she looked up, her mane flew around her like tendrils.
It hit the other level...
Her mouth opened in a full frontal snarl, her large canine teeth dripping red from being pressed into her lower gums...
It came down to their level, right atop of Xan and the girl.
"AAAAAAAAWAAARRR!" she roared, suddenly surrounded by a powerful aura, it burst from her and dented the metal siding into a harmless ball, the flames were quenched around her as powerful gusts of wind blew away from her.
Her mane flew around her, trickling down her back, along her spine. Her back arched tightly, her feet choked the ground, her arms fell to the ground, the metal rings pressing into them more painfully then ever before, her mouth locked open, dripping, her eyes stretched open by an unseen force, sweat flowed about her body like a waterfall, from the heat around her, and the heat within her.
The transformation was not instantneous, it was slow and painful. Her nose and mouth lengthened, the jaws were pulled long, the skin was taut over the oversized fangs that had replaced her human teeth. The teeth were so large, that they hung out of the jaw. Her nostrils were pushed to the sides, became holes of dark abysses that breathed in great amounts of air at a breath. A horn pushed itself out on top of her mawl, it was nestled between the two nostrils and would have shone bright white, if not for the tendrils of blood and flesh on it from being freshly borned.
Her eyes were pushed to an odd angle between in front and to the side, they increased in size and replaced her more human-like eyes with full raptor eyes, transparent as if newly hatched. Her ears were forced atop her head and spread like fans, with some fur touching the top and along the back of it, blending in with the fully fledged scales that armoured her skin. Goat-like horns pulled themselves from her skull, through the flesh, skin to the outside. Like her horn, the antlers had small pieces of flesh hanging from them.
Her lower jaw was rounded with extra skin, very much like a chameleon's. The neck was bullish, thick and packed with power. It was a foot long and was graced with a black mane around the base of the neck. Her scaled head blended into the black fur and hair as the head became neck.
Her shoulders were pulled wide, and thick with muscle and thick bone. Her arms were as thick and long as logs, scaled, with full taloned claws at the end, the metal rings pressed deeply into the them, making them bleed. Thin, extra bone with skin stretched over them pulled from the main trunk of the arm and spread out wide. Leathery skin grew from them, spreading across them like a canvas, connecting back to the side of her body, becoming huge pair of wing-like structures.
Her chest had become heavily muscled and wide, armoured by a thick hide and carapace. Her back was slight arched, spikes grew from the nobs before, piercing through her back like spires. Her spine lengthened as well, pulling apart from the body and growing thick and strewn with muscle. The same combination of scale and carapace and fur covered it as it thrashed about on its own accord, knocking away whole concrete blocks with ease.
Her thighs thickened and moved to become more at the side of the body, They became like those of a dinosaur, bent from her sudden great weight. Her feet more than doubled in size, the toes spread out and the talons left marks on the concrete floor.
Standing tall and overwhelming, the creature breathed in torrents of air at a breath and let loose with earthshaking roar. It was part screech, part roar and the beast repeated it over and over again. It's skin was colourless, transparent. It flickered from sight to camouflaged, reflecting the crimson flames around it. It screeched as the heat bombarded its new, fresh body, scorching the hardening scales and fur red. Only its black mane was spared.
It hutched around clumsily, unused and misproportioned limbs were to account for it. It's oversized teeth hurt its own jaw and it growled and snarled in frustration. A rumbling form deep within its stomach made it even more unruly. As a burst of methane was produced out of its mouth, it open its jaws and the friction between its large teeth set off a spark.
A wave of flame surged forth, adding to the hell around it. But its flame took away oxygen and the surrounding flames were a moment quenched. Its mouth did not hurt, the insides were protected with heavy hide and armour. It sniffed the fresher air and noticed a new smell. It looked down from its tremendous height and spotted another creature, underneath a fallen debri.
Recollection brought the girl back from her rage, if only a bit. She snarled and swung at the beam with her whiplash tail, knocking it into the hungry flames.
She allowed her mish mash of instincts to take over. One of the beasts that gave her wings made her spread them wide, despite the fear of the fire and sharp objects around them of tearing them to shreds. She pounded the wings, bringing a small cyclone of wind forth, pushing the flames back and pushing her upwards. She pounded harder, manuevering purely from instinct and chance. With a foot, she picked up Xan in her long talons and brought her wings forward, beating the painful air around her and angling up. Faster and faster she flapped, gaining great speed as she burst through the levels of torture of the building. Her scales were completely burned red, only her underbelly was pearly white. Even her eyes were not spared, they were deep crimson.
"SCRAAAAAAAW!" she screamed, as her nose picked up the scent of fresh air above.
Making her body as streamlined as possible, she forced her wings to beat harder until she saw the quiet night sky above.
With the burning of the inferno around her, the dragon burst out of the building in a shower of burning debri and and painful cries, her wings spread wide and to grace the cool wind above.