Miss.Ecofreak: and here's yet another update on my very first fic

Zakura: yes...

Miss.Ecofreak: just be that way. First I want to thank everyone (in other words Dark Mar) for their wonderful review(s) I'm so glad you liked it:)

This chapter might not be one of my best, I just wrote it because I wanted to update it now! So... here's another chapter.

CHAPTER 28

TETRA'S NIGHTMARE

Tetra

I don't know for how long we had been sitting there doing nothing.

I was scared, I admit that.

Never in my life had I been caught doing something wrong, and I knew what the baron does to spies.

After a couple of hours (though it felt like days) we heard voices outside.

"How could he escape? Those locks were the strongest metal we have! It's made for holding metalheads!" I recognised the voice as Erol.

"You saw it!" another guard said, "The chains looked like they had been ripped apart! As if some kind of monster broke them"
"So the experiment worked after all" Erol muttered to the wall, out loud he said: "Let's question the girl now, perhaps she knows something about this"
Suddenly the door opened and Erol came in, followed by another guard I didn't know.

"Back so soon?" Cornelius snarled.

"I didn't come to see you little brother, bring me the traitor" Erol said and the guard grabbed my arm.

"Don't tell him anything!" Tanya yelled as I was dragged out of the cell.

The guards dragged me up the stairs to the torture chamber; in the middle of the room was a large machine with some kind of gun pointed towards a chair.

I had a bad feeling about what that gun was doing, and my paranoia didn't improve as I noticed a purple liquid on the floor.

"Do you like it?" Erol asked as he noticed my frightened look, "It was supposed to help us create the perfect warrior for the war against the metalheads. It's a dark-eco beam, unfortunately most of our test subjects died before we were able to use them"

"You're a monster!" I yelled.

"I'm not as much of a monster as what's now loose in the streets" Erol said, "Our last test subject escaped only minutes after you were captured, and I suppose you have nothing to do about it?"
"No" I said quickly, it seemed like the little ottsel actually succeeded saving his friend.

"Are you sure about that?" Erol asked, "Because if you're lying perhaps you want to try out this little toy?" he pointed towards the eco beam.

Don't tell him anything, I said to myself, don't tell them a word!

"Fine, you be that way" Erol said, "Get some new chains!"

I felt like crying, tell them everything. But it knew it was pointless, he would probably give me a treatment as punishment later anyways.

Some other guards came and removed the broken chains from the chair and replaced them with new ones.

Next they tied me on to the chair and got the machine ready.

"This might hurt, a lot" Erol said, "Or maybe you're lucky and you die immediately, but usually it takes a couple of hours".

I didn't even get time to complain before I felt tons of dark eco flowing through my body.

It felt like I was dying, but then the machine stopped almost as instantly as it had started.

"One second's treatment. How did you like it?" Erol asked.

I wanted to say something but the pain was still present, so all I managed to do was growl at him.

"Painful huh?" Erol asked, "We hear that a lot. We take a break now, dead elves can't tell on their buddies"
I was thrown back into the cell, literally.

"Tetra, are you okay?" Shara asked.

"No" I moaned, "I hurt in body parts I didn't know I had. Aw, now my ears itch as well"
"Uhm, Tetra? What happened to you?" Shara asked again.

"What do you mean? I'm not changed" I said.

"Check out your ears" Cornelius said.

I just looked at him in confusion at first, then I bent my ear so I would be able to look at it (Zakura: there are advantages of having long ears)

That's when I realised what had caused the itch; my ears were covered by red and brown fur!
I looked down at my hands as well; they had brown fur on them too.

"What's happening to me?" I said.

"What did happen to you?" Cornelius asked.

"Well, Erol put on this machine full of Dark eco" I said.

"Of course, it's like what Daxter told me" Shara said, "He told me once he fell into a hole of Dark eco, that's what made him an ottsel".

"So you think I'm going to turn out like him?" I asked.

"Maybe not, your tail is a lot bushier" Cornelius said.

I looked behind me; sure enough a small bushy tail was sticking out of my pants, I noticed I was getting shorter too.

"Can't anyone stop this?" I cried and grabbed the tail, as if I could pull it out or something.

"I'm afraid not, I've read something about Dark eco once and as long as it doesn't kill anyone the changes are irreversible" Tanya said.

I was about to say a word I shouldn't be saying in front of kids when suddenly the transformation speed up.

Before I knew it I was even smaller than Daxter, I crawled out of my now over-sized clothes and looked up into three very surprised faces.

I looked down at my new body.

My feet were like brown rabbit feet but my hands looked like the front legs of a chinchilla.

The tail was now as long as my body, it looked like the tail of a squirrel or a chinchilla and was mostly brown with a red tip.

My ears had turned into rabbit ears, with the same colour as the tail.

"Please tell me this is a nightmare" I said.

"Look on the bright side, you do not look like Daxter" Cornelius said, "You're part rabbit part chinchilla, a chinbit!"

"Well I don't want to be an ottsel or a chinbit!" I complained, "I want to be a completely normal elf!"

"And I thought this would be an easy mission" Tanya sighed.

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