…Tala's POV…
"… I spent most of my time as a human though sometimes I would wake during the night to find myself a wolf.
Though this was mainly during the full moon, that's when Bryan found out. One morning I woke up as a wolf with Bryan sitting on the floor just staring at me in disbelief. And what fun I had trying to explain what happened to him, I had to transform back into my human form in front of him and back again until he was willing to believe me. I made him promise not to tell the others and when I began to gain more control of my transformations Bryan and I would sneak out of the apartment disappearing into the largest Russian library we could find. We looked through nearly all the genetic books, books of human evolution and everything else we could think of that might explain why I was like this. However all we could come up with were a few mythical stories of ancient times which were no more than books for children.
A few weeks later it was Bryan's 16th and that night I woke to find him, a silver wolf sitting at the base of my bed, it was that night that he told me about his dreams of me running across the snow covered Russian plains. He hadn't been to keen on the transformation and was easily angered by it but I took it upon myself to help him through it. I was ecstatic, so happy that there was someone I could share this experience with. Until he got used to the transformations I kept him in my room telling the others he was sick, they left him alone as they usually would have and I kept working but disappearing as soon as it got dark. I was afraid of Bryan doing something stupid; wolves did have powerful jaws and sharp fangs.
One night when he had convinced me he was fine with it I took him out onto the plain and we ran like you saw in you dreams. It was even better with Bryan than it had been on my own that's when I discovered exactly how fast I was.We'd race each other, or just chase each other,for the sake of the speed, the freedom; the fun we'd been banned from at the abbey.
It wasn't long for us to realize that it was just to much of a coincidence that we were both creatures, half bred humans that even the most advanced science books hadn't heard of. One night we broke into the Abbey, everything was still as it was butpolice guards and police tape was everywhere, but that stuff was only made to stop humans, us, we were better, we were wolves. We found your grandfathers old study most things were still there, the police were taking their time to carefully sift through and file away all of this. I would transform and Bryan would keep look out as a wolfas I took all the records involving our team and us and then we slipped out of the office and down towards the labs; I knew the way all to well.
There were even more guards down there but they were scared off by the thought that the sudden movement of our shadows, the soft sound of our paws on the stone floor, could mean ghosts or something stupid like that. We examined the main computers down there and copied everything to disk unable to find a printer due to the noise, the light given off by the computer screen would be hard enough to deal with. After we found everything we though we could he got out of there as fast as we could and headed back to our apartment. It was decided that the next night we'd sort through everything back at the library in the city centre; it was always open late at night for those nocturnal people with nothing better to do.
The next night we hid our selves in a back corner that provided us withour own computer, away from the others who dwelled around the library. There I sorted through the information Biovolt had stored on us on their computers in the lab while Bryan flipped through all the paper files we had stolen. It was I who found it, found what we had been searching for this whole time. When we had been younger, much younger we had been part of an experiment involving the combination of wolf DNA with that of a humans. Boris and your Grandfather wanted the keen hearing, sight, smell and quick reaction time of the wolf, at any cost as I found out as I read further.
We hadn't been the first, you, I and the reminder of the Demolition Boys; there had been many other failed attempts. Two of the originals died after the insertion of the wolf DNA, four others became humans trapped in a wolves body, they were taken out into the wilderness and shot, though there were also two cases when the DNA worked yet the transformation to a wolfstill remined andit was the hosts this time that were said to have beenfaulty. One couldn't handle it and died from shock, the other was shot while trying to massacre the scientists who made him.
I looked over the list of names used for the experiments, there were a lot of names and I could only assume that their bodies rejected the DNA. I found my name, Spencer's, Bryan's, Ian's and then yours, that was when I decided that I had to find you. I told Bryan and we decided to first deal with the others; your birthday wasn't for sometime but I still left them each night, first to return the files and then to try and track your location.
I was usually gone all night, and working all day, I hardly saw any of the others, though they understood, they knew I was searching for you but at the time they didn't know why. I was gone days on end and wasn't seen until the night of Spencer's 16th; I came back for that...