I might get over RM300 for this Chinese New Year. Just saying, but it might be true. I hadn't gone into my stack of red packets yet, but I know there's a ton of money there. If I had enough and my mum and school gives permission, I'm gonna invade Minecon this year. (Which might never be possible)

This chapter seemed pretty long to me. I wrote some of this at school, so the storyline might be a bit rushing because I have to hide this document from the teacher. I was supposed to make a PowerPoint and should be searching information for it xD

Jerome POV

Lachlan and Vikk are sent in with three kids with dragon wings after one of those meals.

"Lachy!" Preston called as he struggled to untie Lachlan. "How are you guys awake?"

"We didn't get shot by a dart or whatsoever," He replied. "But we're no better that you guys,"

"Aquarius!" Metro gave Aquarius a bear hug as soon as he's untied. "I missed you!"

Aquarius ruffled Metro's hair, grinning. "It's just been a week or so, dude. That wasn't long,"

While the two half-dragons are talking, Lachlan and Vikk told their part of the story. Now it's only the two that hadn't transformed. All of us are curious about how they'll look when the changing take place.

"#Vikklan, dudes," Aquarius said. That mere statement made Preston grin. Rob then tried making them lean closer to each other.

"Ohhhhh," Rex turned away, which make all of us laugh. We'd come to know that he can't stand those kind of gestures. He can't even stand looking at people who are leaning very close to each other. Aquarius said that he had to work on putting up with that if he had to stay with us for a while. Whatever that means.

We introduced ourselves, since Isaac knew absolutely nothing about us and we knew absolutely nothing about him and the kids. All the kids claimed that they're 'big fans of hours' except for Aquarius, who said that 'I take all of you as friends, and will get you out of any mess, or die trying,'. I didn't mind whatever she said, but that bugs me. She seemed to know a lot about us, but she doesn't show it.

Lachlan and Vikk passed out suddenly while we're talking. Bodil and Zek caught them just before their head hit the ground. "It's starting," Preston said, leaning over them. "Strange. I was kind of excited,"

Strange things happened. Both of their ears moved upwards, morphing into pointed ears in the process. Blood red fur covered the whole ear until we were looking at cat people. Rob later commented that it would look cuter if they are actually girls. And he got a slap from the girls. Aquarius' slap landed on his head while the other two's missed.

Fox-like tails grew, becoming as furry as their ears. The fur color is also blood red, which gives me the creeps. It looks like they've dunked their ears and tail in blood. After that, nothing seemed to be changing, so we waited for them to wake up. A few times we have to stop Rob, Ashley and Rex from playing with their ears and tail. They must like kawaii things.

Lachlan groaned and blinked his eyes a few times, like he's adjusting to the light. When he finally stopped blinking, we tried taking a close look at him. It probably made him uncomfortable.

"What is it?" His gaze landed on every one of us, and when he looked into my eyes, I had to bit my lip to hold back a yelp of surprise. He has irises the color of blood, and has slitted eyes. When he yawned, I saw fangs like tigers and lions. Simply put, he's half a predator mob now. The question is: which one?

Vikk had the same features as Lachlan, and they are surprised when they looked at each other. Neonz was trying to bit back laughter, but gave in when Preston and Rob both laughed. I'd admit that the looks on their face were priceless.

Aquarius finally told us why she stayed at the side of the dome all day.

She found out that her claws can slice through glass like diamonds do, so she made a hole big enough to let the sound from the outside pass through. Through that, she knew all of the scientists' plans.

They planned to run tests on us to see if we belong to any existing species, then they'll predict which climate we could possibly survive in. Basically, they took us as creatures with a human like appearance. I dare say that they would put us as relatives of apes instead of another type of human.

Ty suggested that we should escape the dome as fast as possible, but Aquarius stopped him. Her reason is that the scientists would recapture them, and nowhere is safe for them. Her strategy for now is to act neutral and let those scientists do whatever tests they wanted. She had a plan ready for our escape; one that would leave the scientists scattered and needed time to regroup.

Seriously. She thought she's a strategist?

Vikkstar POV

Just a while ago, the scientists did something stupid. They chucked a guy that looks like a trainee into the dome just to check if we'll attack it. The guy stayed as far as he could from us, and when Lachy tried to get close to him and calm him down, Aquarius stopped him.

"It always happens in movies," She explained. "When we get closer to him, he'd think that we're going to attack him. You can calm him down from here. Just keep a distance from him,"

Her theory proved to be correct. Lachy calmed the guy down, who introduced himself as Albert, or Alby. After making sure that we won't harm him, he joined us.

"I thought you guys would just growl at me and eat me," Alby laughed. "Those scientists think all of you are wild creature. They don't know anything about you guys!"

"They'd never look at us up close, or talked to us," Simon said. "I bet they thought they're right all the time,"

"I kind of want to know about this place," Neonz gestured at the dome. "From all I know, this is a place for researching about new species," Alby nodded at that. "And they used brute force to acquire whatever they wanted,"

Alby's eyes widened. "Hell, no!" He yelled. "What makes you think that?"

"Ask everyone here," Neonz shrugged. "All of us are captured by muscular men that look like they're from the militaries,"

"From the military...?" Alby muttered to himself for a while, then snapped up. "Yes, I know these military guys, but they are not our people. They are part of someone's company who discovered you,"

Everyone trained their eyes on Aquarius and Ty. "I thought you guys are already in hiding when you transformed?" Rex asked.

"Wait, what transform?" Alby cut in. "You mean you guys wasn't like this before?"

"Shut up, kid," Rob snapped. He'd gotten the whole story from the others, who are captured earlier than he is. Then he turned back to the two dragons. "Spill the beans, you two,"

"I never got out of my house," Ty said, glancing at Aquarius. Her face wore a sour expression. "You can ask Adam, he knows," He looked like he is facing judgement that was a matter of life and death. "Before he arrived at my place, I had all the windows shut and the curtains drawn. No one could have seen me,"

"Aquarius?" Rob turned to the girl, whose expression hadn't softened. "Did you let anyone see you?"

"Its impossible going hidden in public," She said. "But don't worry; I swear no one saw..." Her voice trailed off, like she remembered something. "No, wait. Maybe one of those travelers at the airport saw me. But that doesn't make sense, right? How did that company manage to find each and every one of us accurately?"

"Maybe because they saw us?" Baki suggested. "I did go out the day I was caught,"

"What about those before you?" Aquarius shot him a look. It wasn't aggressive, but Baki flinched. "We all heard their story. They are all home when they're captured,"

"Like I said, they can detect the frequency we emitted," Neonz cut in. "That's why they can find us,"

"But nothing like us had appeared in this world throughout the history, right?" Aquarius is rushing out words now. "How did they build a machine that detects our frequency before even knowing about us? Even if they detect us by chance, how did they link it to us?"

Everyone grew quiet. That's a question that none of them had ever thought about. It had been in my head before, but I never voice it out. Partly because I'm lazy, party because I hadn't have a chance to do so.

"Uhm, guys?" Alby became impatient of our silence. "Can you please tell me what's going on? This is all confusing!"

"We don't really trust you now," Ian shrugged. "But we will answer your question. No, we weren't like this before. It just happened a few days ago-"

"23rd of May, to be exact," Aquarius cut in.

"-23rd of May," Ian corrected. "Then each pair or trio of us transformed each day until a few days ago,"

"You mean these two-" Alby pointed at Duncan and Adam. "-transformed on the same day?"

"Yeah," Ian nodded. He was about to say more, but Aquarius stopped him.

"Information exchange," She said. "We told you about us, now you tell us about your boss or whatever. First, what's the name of the company that is hunting us?"

"I don't know," Alby admitted. "None of us know. One of the representatives came to see my boss one day to talk about you guys. He said he knew about some exotic creatures that he'll send forth if we agreed not to let them escape. Of course, my bosses agreed. They are always looking for new types of creatures,"

"What is that representative's appearance?" I asked.

Alby tilted his head, thinking. "I think he's taller than the guy right there," He pointed at Lachlan. "I can't see his face, since he's wearing a mask. He also wears a lot of clothes that I think he would pass out from heat,"

"What does his mask look like?" Hakime asked.

"Looks like a charred black skull. It looked almost real,"

We looked at each other, puzzled. Who would wear a real black skull for a mask? Aquarius seemed to know who the guy was, but she said nothing.