I don't own Monster Rancher or any of its characters. The character changes are of my own idea, I do use various books and animes ideas in this story, I don't own those either. This takes place after season two and I wrote this before I saw season 3.

P.S. - Reupdated this story so the grammer, spell, etc. would be better. I also took out some of the heavier details that did not need to be present.

Trials of Friendship and the Darkness of Secrets

By RipItUpGenki

Beast Soldier?

Somewhere deep in the damp, musty forests of North Korea a painful, yet weak cry erupts from a broken down building. In this raged, old shelter Korean soldiers and scientists kept POWs. Despite the buildings gruesome exterior the facilities inside are state of the art. One of the POWs was a 19 years old man named Genki. At that very moment a soldier was torturing him. Genki was clamped down to a metal table in a damp, cold room, after he had been stripped, and was currently being interrogated. The soldier felt no compassion for him and slashed his prisoner with a bowie knife pulling it along Genki's chest and face slowly cutting him, over and over. When this failed to get him any information he slashed Genki across his right eye. Blood leaked out of the newly made wound into his eye, but he didn't answer the soldier still. After 3 hours the soldier gave up and threw Genki back into his cell.

His cell was a small 6ft by 8ft room. The bars were rusting and the walls were covered in mildew and mold, from the damp and cold conditions. They gave him a single blanket, a small cot on the floor, and a large can to do his business in. They gave him food every 2 days and one glass of water a day. Genki wrapped the blanket around himself, shivering even with its warmth. He grew weaker everyday he remained their prisoner, in fact by this time his bones showed. What am I going to do now? he thought, No one knows where we are. I can't escape being this weak. I don't think I'll ever see the light of day again. I'm going to die here in this dungeon of sorts alone, cold, afraid, and hungry. Holly I wish I could see you one last time to tell you what I should have years ago. That I love you, and to say good bye. A single tear dropped to the ground. Genki lay down and tried to sleep. He finally succeeded after what seemed like hours.

The next morning he was woke up by a soldier hitting him in the face and dragging him to a room down the hall. They tied him on a chair and put his feet in some boiling hot water. "Now, let's see how long you can with stand electrical shock, shall we?" the soldier commented, smirking. He touched the cattle prod to the water. Genki's body filled with pain as the electricity surged through him. The soldier let off and asked him a question. Genki didn't respond, so he touched the water again and held it there longer. When he still wouldn't answer after five tries the soldier said, "I guess you need more convincing." He threw some hot water all over Genki, burning him slightly. He put the cattle prod on Genki's stomach and asked the question again. Genki clamped his jaw shut and wouldn't answer. The soldier in turn pressed the button and sent electricity coursing though him again. He let off and asked again, still no answer. He asked once more with out success and pushed the button again. This time Genki cried out, the pain had become too much. Even after this he wouldn't answer. The soldier, growing tired of his silence, grabbed a hot pan of wax off the stove. He asked again, when no answer came he poured the wax on Genki. Genki cried out and a few tears rolled down his face. The soldiers took shifts torturing and interrogating him. They made sure he received no food and no sleep during these 2 weeks of hell. They gave him water every 3 days and constantly caused him pain. After the 2 weeks were over they tossed an unconscious Genki in to his cell. The scientists had been talking during Genki's glimpse of hell and decided to use him for an experiment in 2 days. They thought that he'd be the best candidate because of the underlying power inside him, so they started preparations for that day.

2 days later…

Two soldiers came and got Genki early in the morning. They clamped him down to a table and left. Within minutes of their departure a scientist came in. He explained why Genki was there and added, "Since we've completed the serum. I'll test it on you, so as not to waste one of our own soldiers." He first collected a blood sample from him. After he was done he took a skeletal scan of Genki. Finally, he took a syringe and pierced Genki's neck and injected the serum, it was like the fires of hell running through his veins. His body went into convulsions, but the scientist quickly injected him with the second serum. When the scientist did this, the pain just increased ten fold and he passed out from the agony.

3 days later…

Genki awoke chained in the middle of a room, he heard a man come in. As the man began to use a bullwhip on his back, something inside Genki snapped, with a roar his body began to change. His bones cracked and reformed, his muscles bulged, burning and shifting under his skin as his blood began to boil and his hands and feet changed into paws. His spine stretched out giving him a heavy tail while his chest grew broad and wide. When his body finally stopped shifting, he was a beast soldier. He looked much like a lion on two legs; his body was covered in thick, reddish-brown fur and his hair grew into a bushy, black mane, and two curved, twisted horns extended out of his head. His hands where covered in fur except the pads and they had sharp claws extending out on his furry fingers. His legs bowed back and he stood on two widely spread paws that looked much like his hands. He had a thick, black, bushy tail and his brown clear eyes had turned a brilliant green, and had lost their clarity. In place of the clarity was anger and hatred.

When Genki realized what had happened he asked in a low, ruff voice, "What have you done to me?"

"We have turned you into a beast soldier, specifically a Kareen or skin shifter" Raymond replied, "When you Shift, you are stronger and faster, your senses are keener, and you have some powers as well since this form has unlocked your hidden power for you. You'll also have a blood and sex lust."

"Why did you do this?" Genki asked narrowing his green eyes.

"Because we could, and it will win us the war. Soldiers created for nothing more than fighting." Raymond answered.

"You won't live to see that!" Genki commented as fury filled his eyes. With that he broke the chains that had held him captive before as if they were made of paper and in a blind rage ripped everyone apart that was in the building. Then he demolished the building with a powerful energy blast. After he calmed down he realized what he had done. He ran into the woods and curled up inside a tree, in fear of his newly given abilities.

The next morning he learned how to change back to his original form and stole some clothes from a near by village. He managed to find his squadron as they passed through the village. He got a new uniform and after telling his superiors what he had learn and what he was now. They decided on a volunteer only basis to make beast soldiers too. The Alpha squadron volunteered and Genki supervised the transformation of humans into beast soldiers. During the war Genki ended up under the command of General Blazer. The General ordered all males slaughtered in the 25 villages they came too and black mailed his troops into raping the females for their pleasure. Genki told Blazer's superiors and Blazer was shot for war crimes, blackmail, and treason.

After the war…

Genki returned home to his girlfriend Christina, whom he loved very much. To his surprise she had bore their son in his absence. When he returned home the military had already informed her of his new ability. She asked him if it was true, when he responded yes then she asked him to show her. He transformed for her and she unfortunately freaked out. He quickly transformed back and told her he was still the same person. She on the other hand didn't see it that way and told him to leave her son and her alone. Broken hearted Genki left and went back to his home in Arizona. During the next few years he would find it very difficult to deal with his blood and sex lust. Many unsolved crimes occurred around his home city mysteriously after he returned.