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I hope this fic doesn't get boring. ... Have anyone figured out the plot?
Angelic Layer 38.
Hermione was very anxious. She had was sitting on her bed, staring at the jar she took earlier from Severus's private potion ingredients cupboard.
A strange thing was floating in an old yellowish solution. Hermione remembered how scared she had been when she had seen it for the first time. She had almost screamed as she had seen it from the corner of her eye when she snatched bloomsnake's skin in her Second Year.
But now she had read books, and new that this strange monkey looking thing was very valuable.
It was truly gross. Hermione sniffed at the thought of touching that slimy thing.
The form was monkey like (it actually more looked like a human baby), but the skin was white and thick, not much different from the substance that covered larvae. The eyes were huge and slightly blue.
Hermione took out several small vials filled with pills. She took from each vial two pills and dropped into a hot coffee mug. She jarred the vitamin and caffeine pills in the coffee until they were completely molten. She closed her eyes and quickly swallowed the whole mixture.
It tasted disgusting, but it was the only way to Hermione to be awake and alert after a long school day. Hermione attached her long hair carefully and took out a middle sized cauldron from her bathroom.
The substance in the cauldron was pale, slightly greyish white. Hermione took out from under her bed the cage filled with the disgusting rats she made her tests on.
The rats squandered miserably in the cage where they were kept. They fought each other, they did every thing, which wasn't much, to avoid the girl's little hand in the cage.
Her hand settled on one fat male and took it out. The rat trembled in her hands. Hermione patted it soothingly.
"- Don't worry, you won't feel anything; you might save the rest of your comrades."
Hermione caressed the rat once again. She put him another cage. A much bigger one. It was big enough to fit a very large dog. There was a cup filled with food in one corner. The fruits were big and juicy. The cherries were the size of a fist. The oranges the size of a beach ball. The apples the size of a basket ball.
Hermione watched the rat eat greedily the fruits.
"- Now, rat, whilst we wait for your metabolism to kick in, I shall do the dirty job right away."
Hermione put on a pair of thin plastic gloves and started opening the jar carefully.
The stank of the alcohol went straight to her brain, and Hermione felt giddy.
"- Let's see if this works. I hope it does. Let hope so."
The girl took out the thing from the jar and put it carefully on her study desk. A plastic wrapper protected the wood from any corrosion. She took out an ice-cream scooper and introduced it carefully in the monkey's eye socket.
With a twist of her wrist, the eye popped out easily. It hand from the eye socket, nerve system still attached to the head. She carefully cut it with her knife and set the eye quickly into a black painted box. She did the same process with the other eye.
The rat had doubled in size. It grew so alarmingly fast, that Hermione wondered where she had made a mistake.
Nonetheless, she stirred the potion as she started to warm it. The potion looked like glue and Hermione was tempted to stick her hands in it, but didn't. She took out a little bowl instead and dipped it carefully into the potion and then took it out, carefully avoiding the sticky liquid. It smelled strangely good, a bit like synthetic vanilla.
She extinguished all the lights in the room and opened the black box and let the eyeballs roll on the table. They were exactly like they would be; light hadn't had enough time to damage them.
Hermione chopped them blindly in the darkness, barely seeing anything and made her way to the table she left the smaller bowl on, her wings enveloping her as a shield to prevent her to walk into something.
The girl let the pieces fall in the bowl, and as soon she had stirred the potion enough to be sure that the eyes were soaked in it, she waved her wand and there was light again.
The potion was now a very light blue, with swirls of red in it. It smelled like alcoholic vanilla liquor. Hermione seemed pleased with the result and turned her head to see what happened to the rat.
She soon hoped that she wouldn't have done. It was dead, its stomach had surely exploded because of the fruits. It was still living, it's long, naked, snake like tail still twitching.
"- Well, it didn't go exactly like planned, but I have the thing I needed, so it was a success after all."
She cut the tail and quickly let it fall in the cauldron. The liquid twitched and turned due to the still living tail. Hermione took it quickly away from the cauldron and carefully sticked it to the side of her left wing.
The two meter long tail stopped moving uncontrollably and twisted itself around the bony structure.
Hermione felt the change; it wasn't painful, it was just strange. She felt the tail enveloping the outside bone of her wing.
Slowly, Hermione turned around and watched herself in a mirror.
Her lips formed a smile as she saw her left wing twitch slightly, casting shadows in the room.