(A/N: -squeaks- Wow! Reviews! Thanks to all my trusty minions- erm, readers. Here is the next installment of Morbid's Random Idea Fic!)
It was deathly silent. Raven looked around as best she could, though her view was a bit limited seeing as she was tied to a chair with rings of orange energy. She had tried her powers and they were utterly useless. There were a number of glass tanks lining the walls, each with species of animal freaks within. All were seemingly alseep, the horrific mutants still and silent.
Some were filled with water, housing aquatic atrocities. A giant spitting cobra lay curled at the botton of one tank, its sinuous body melting smoothly into a pointed shark's tail. Its neck had short gill slits down both sides. A crocodile rested atop an artificial rock, its elongated snout placed atop its smooth tiger's paws, like a reptillian cat in slumber. It shared its tank with three electric eels, whose coyote's paws and lungs allowed them to traverse land. One tank housed an orca whale, floating silently, its spider's legs dangling in the water. Two smaller dolphins floated beside it, each outfitted with horse's legs for swift travel on both land and in water.
Raven shivered, and turned to the aviary.
A lion with eagle wings and talons lay in a small enclave: a medival gryphon come to life. A mountain lion with huge, glittering hornet wings slept beside it, its dangerous stinger glaringly obvious with the distinctive coloring. A hyena pack with the pure wings of snowy owls slumbered atop an artificial cliff: even in sleep they retained their unnerving grins. Bat-winged wolves, more of the kind she had encountered with the other Titans, rested in a defensive circle. The final horror was a large raven with the paws and skinny tail of a rat, the only animal still awake. It scuttled back and forth, pacing and staring at Raven from its cage.
Behind her was surely the land creatures' tanks and, more importantly, the door. A mechanical whirring caught Raven's attention: a ratchet-like sound coming from behind her. A white wolf padded into veiw, though it was both more and less than a simple wolf. Her left front leg and right back leg was entirely mechanical: a nightmarish blur of cogs, gears and cables, all connected to the animal's flesh. Her right eye was a green, glowing screen, a yellow slash down the middle that resembled a cat's pupil. Numbers and unreadable words scrolled across the screen, and the wolf's natural, left eye narrowed. Her ears twitched, and only then did Raven notice her left ear was little more than a steel model, flexible thanks to the microscopic cables in the animal's skull.
The wolf growled and lowered her head, her mecha eye glowing a deep red.