Sanura, The Lab Rat

It was horrible. Sanura woke to find herself chained to a post. She was lying on her stomach, large metal cuffs around her limbs and around her neck. Groaning, Sanura tried to get to her paws, but was in great pain. Her moist azure oculars briefly scanned the room she was in. It was dark, cold, damp and there were a few drops of blood that surounded the cub. No. Sanura was a cub no longer. She had been imprisoned here for a few months, and was now about seven months old.

Although she was a little larger, Sanura was still the same. However, she was growing bitter because she hadn't been outside since her capture. She felt she should do something. The young lioness snarled and attempted to chew away the restraints, but it was futile. How could this be happening to her? How did she so suddenly become a lab rat for the students? Whatever the reason was, Sanura wasn't about to go along with these plans any longer.

Just then, Sanura's harks perked at the sound of the door. Somebody was unlocking it. The vigilant Sanura grinned, just waiting for one of those annoying lads to burst through the door. As the doors came open, Akira and Akili entered, holding something in their hands. Sanura's hypnotic eyes widened in fear. She knew what was about to happen. She was about to be put under the knife again, and she had sensed it was going to be big. The lads had been making notes about her, writing things down, so it must be big.

Before the lioness could even retaliate, she felt the dart in her side and which was beginning to inject the general anaesthetic. Sanura begun to slowly fall unconscious. She allowed the humans to take her again. But surely she would escape their clutches, just not now. Just not this time. Nor this day, this week, even this year.

About ten minutes later, all three lads crowded around a metal table, looking Sanura over before they started. Elewa, who was the one going to perform the operation, stood ready with a small knife in his hand. The three students had invented some sort of formular that could possibly alter how much of the brain was used. In other words, they believed it could make someone, even an animal, more intelligent. The test begun...

Elewa slid his free hand beneath the lioness's neck, whilst he tried to locate where to inject the substance. There was a vein that carried blood to the brain, and it would soon carry the possibly poisonous liquid. The thick needle was then jabbed into the side of the neck, and Elewa slowly begun to release the emerald coloured liquid. But suddenly, Sanura's eyes sprung open and she begun to pant rapidly. Her ebony talons quickly unsheathed and the other two students took retreating steps. Elewa stood motionless, shocked because the lioness was awake.

Was it the formular that brought Sanura awake? Or didn't the students give her enough anaesthetic? Within seconds, Sanura swung her larger paws at Elewa, effortlessly knocking him to the floor. Groaning and growling, the lioness rose to her paws and turned to shoot a deathly glare at Elewa, who was lying on his back. However, there was something different. Sanura's once gentle azure orbs were there no longer. No, they were now a demonic magenta hue which seemed to tell Elewa what was about to happen.

Sanura leapt from the table and her forepaws slammed onto the lad's chest, the weight almost squashing him to death. With one swift movement of her cranium, Sanura soon had the lad's throat in her powerful jowls. It made the other two want to regurgitate, but instead they ran for the door. Panting, with a maw dripping with crimson blood, Sanura turned to the two retreating students and soon launched herself at them. Her large claws hooked onto Akira's back, causing him to fall awkwardly and, unfortunately, break his neck against the floor.

Now, there was one human left. Sanura was about to annihilate the students for what they've done, and she admitted that it felt great. The remaining student, Akili, opened the door and begun to scream as he sprinted down the coridoor, but the lioness was too fast for him. Sanura slid before Akili and growled viciously, her maw still stained with saliva and blood whilst the injection was still in her neck. Akili laughed nervously, trying to convince the lioness that he wouldn't hurt her, and slowly removed the vaccination item. However, Sanura was determined to finish what she had started. Her jowls opened and quickly clamped on the lad's leg, knocking him over, and then she begun to feed...

TO BE CONTINUED