THE WHITEST OF THEM ALL
A White Arcanine Story CHAPTER 3- First Attempt

I woke up to a searing pain in my head, and an aching hind leg. Opening my blue eyes, I realised that I was still in my pokemon form. From a short distance away, I heard a mature, slightly snakeish voice talks to me as I struggled to get up and figure out where I was. "Careful, there dear. You had a broken leg when you came in." the voice said, with a tinge of sympathy. "Get.in?" I said, wincing from a sharp pain searing up my leg. "Yes, dear. Into the lab."

Lab? I was in a lab? The elders had talked about these things. They had told us that if we ever were caught and taken to an 'experimental laboratory', then, even if you got out, never to come back to the village, for the protection of the rest of us. "No." was all that I said, hanging my head in grief, a few tears rolling down my silken fur, ignoring the white walls filled with flashing buttons.

"Come now dear. It'll be okay." the elderly Seviper trailed off as two scientists came into the room. "But just look at the results! This is far beyond what we expect." The other interrupted the first man. "Look! Its awake." "So it is."

One of the men walked up to me, while the other pressed a few buttons on the wall. The energy barrier that had enclosed me disappeared, and I was free to stand to my full height. Stretching out slightly, and flexing 3 out of 4 of my feet, favouring my broken leg, I bared my teeth slightly, just enough to let them know I was not to be taken lightly, I stood my ground.

"Easy there, big fella," the first man said to me, drawing dangerously, for him, close. "We don't want to. harm you." I bared my large white canind teeth fully, and allowed a low, barely audible growl to escape my throat.

As the man backed off, the door opened, and the man I had seen inside the window, in the same building as the one I suspected I was in, entered, the Mightyena at his side. "so, this is the creature?" the man said, his voice hard and filled with impatience. While he was talking, the Mightyena padded quietly over, and looked at me. "Welcome to hell," he said, glancing at his master. "Population - you and whoever else he" the Mightyena glanced, slightly guiltily, over at his master again, "whoever else he can get. Your only chance of staying alive is getting out of here." He said, his voice low, before padding back to the side of his master.

Looking at the Mightyena, who ignored me, I slowly drew a breath of air, and expelled it. On my next intake of air, I drew in more that I would have usually, and allowed my hackles to slowly rise. Lowering my head slightly, I roared a challenge and threw my head up simultaneously.

I charged the humans, who scrambled to get away. Missing, I slid around on the smooth floor, leapt and swiped at the buttons at the wall, in the hopes of getting the Seviper out as well. Instead, I ended up cutting the power. In the darkness, with the faint glow of the energy barrier of the Sevipers' cage, I heard a faint beeping. "get backup - NOW!" the voice ordered.

I bellowed again, and managed to grab one of the scientists in my open jaws. "AAAAAA-" the scream was cut short as I shook the suddenly limp body, hearing a crack. Throwing the body aside, I was temporarily blinded while trying to find the other two humans and the Mightyena.

We all cringed in the sudden bright light, as the doors were threw open, and two vapoureon and three Flareon leapt onto me, effectively stopping my movements with a barrage of Fire blasts, and Bubblebeams.

My body searing with burns and frostbite, I lay, motionless, on the ground, with the five eons standing over me, in case I tried to move again. "It took you damnwell long enough!" the man raged at the other humans that must have been the eons' trainers. "That. Freak. could have killed me! Its already killed one! Send it to the chamber!" he roared, stalking out of the room, the dark dog at his side.

"Right, you heard the boss." One of the new humans said. The flareon and vapoureon can escort it and . you, to the chamber." Wincing as a new surge of pain streamed through my body, especially in my hurt leg, when I was finally lifted and moved to the new room.

Bellowing in pain as I was cuffed to the wall, and put in a sealed chamber, I remained defiant.

I stood on my hind legs for four gruelling years, my hatred building with every day.

Well, watcha think? I'm starting on the next chapter as soon as I save this one, so it should be up soon. (