Chapter 1…

In a lab somewhere in Mt. Chimney…

3 years before present time…

I had woken up since that horrible day that my house been set aflame by the weird men. I looked around, and saw that I was in a glass cylinder, that had a meter diameter. It was ten feet tall, and I was in some kind of green liquid with a breathing apparatus strapped to my head. I moved to the glass wall with great ease. I saw two scientists taking noted on their clipboards. I strained to see what they were writing about, but soon figured out that I was the only thing in the room besides them.

I was now a test subject.

They looked from their notes and gaped as I stared at them. One had left his previous spot and pressed a button in the wall. They spoke into an intercom, and almost immediately, a man walked in. He looked at me with a cold stare. I shrunk back into the green liquid, to where I could not see them. I then heard a voice in my tube.

"Hello, Test Subject 001. What's your name?" The voice asked. I crept back to the wall and saw the man speaking into a phone connected to my cylinder. I cocked my head to the side and thought for a second. Then, looking at the man, I answered him.

"It's Yaru." I looked back at him as he nodded.

"Well, Yaru. What do you think? I made this tube for you, and any other subjects. I hope you enjoy it at Lab 004, or Delta." He said.

"Lab Delta? That's where I am? What are you talking about, other subjects?" I spoke into the apparatus. He chuckled and replied with a smile.

"That's what you'll find out in due time. And don't worry about time or meals. It's been a year before we put you in a chemical-induced coma, and the liquid you see around you absorbs into your skin, giving you the nutrients you need. Oh, and one last thing…" He looked at me softly, but coldly.

"We'll be watching your progress… You'll be the first subject in the way of many. I hope that, with you, you'll have many others like you soon…" He finished by hanging up the phone, and my eyes followed him to when he went through the door. I looked back at the scientists, one of whom picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

"Your Yaru, right? That's your name? You remember it?" He asked. I nodded and he looked back at the other scientist, who left the room.

"I'm Yekutso, nice to meet you, Yaru. How are you feeling today?" He asked politely.

"I'm feeling pretty good. What's this green stuff? It feels like water, but it is much easier to move around in." I answered.

"That's what we call our 'Bioquid'. It's actually a liquid that supplies your nutritional needs as well as maintain you, keeping you in a good homeostasis." He replied.

"Homeostasis… What's that?"

"It's how your body regulates itself. It's like when you're hot, you sweat to cool down. We thought you wouldn't stabilize for a little bit, but you did after the change." He spoke.

"Aweso… Wait a second… 'Change'? What change?" I ask while I swim up to the top of the tank to inspect the topmost surface.

"Well… come down here and I'll show you." He instructed. I obeyed by pressing myself against the closest area to Yekutso. He pulled out a mirror and faced it toward me. I gasped in shock. I had ears. I don't just mean, like, human ears. I had fox ears. I touched the black hairs on them, and noticed that my hair had changed, too. The front of my hair had changed color, to a white color, which two groups of strands moved down to my jaw line. And the white followed back, but only in a thin line. The line stretched far back, about at least a foot and a half. The black portion of my hair had stayed the same, though. Only the white portion had and ears had changed.

"And that's not all, Yaru." He said,"You also have a tail. Do you want to see it…?"He asked into the phone.

"Uhh… No sir… I…I'm good. Do you have anything to watch around here…?" I answered, feeling around in the Bioquid for my tail. I found it after a second or two, and saw that it was as long as my arm. I wagged it a little, and I actually moved around in the cylinder.

"Yes, we have a TV over here, just for you!" He added, "The remote's at the bottom of the tank. You should find it after a little bit." He instructed. I followed them by going down to the bottom of the cylinder and searched with my hands. After a minute I found a cord, which I grabbed and pulled toward me. I soon had the remote in my grasp, and went to the area closest to the TV and pressed the on button. It turned on, and I could hear the show in my tank.

"What's the Pokémon training channel?" I ask.

"It's channel 32, though nothing is on it right now. I do know that there is a music channel. Its number 45, I think." He replied. I pressed the buttons and I soon heard a song play in my tank.

"Ahh… That's a good song. I think that's… Becoming The Bull…" He sighed. I shrunk back in my tube and sat down on the bottom, listening to the Heavy Metal.

"Well, Yaru, I must go. I have to write down and record all this data. I'll see you tomorrow!" He looked at me as he hung up the phone, grabbed his clipboard, and walked out of the only door. I looked out the cylinder as he left, and then closed my eyes to listen to the song more closely…

Come on!

Grab the bull by the horns the old addage goes.
Nobody tells you where to go from here.
Seems like fate's pulling you.
Decisions have to be made.
The the best path is the hardest earned.

Back and forth the struggle consumes us all.
Trying to keep a level head.
In the most unsettling of times.
Today I become the bull.

There is so much at stake.
I stumble, I lose my place.
Pride and arrogance surrounded by sin.
Destiny takes its hold.
Fight it or let it go.
But I choose how today will end.

Back and forth the struggle consumes us all.
Trying to keep a level head.
In the most unsettling of times.
Today I become the bull.[x2]

This walk can get lonely.
I lose myself inside my head.
No one can touch you when you're outside staring in.
Remove myself from this rat race.

Back and forth the struggle consumes us all.
Trying to keep a level head.
In the most unsettling of times.
Today I become the bull. [x5]

I rewind it and record the music. Listening to the music over and over again as I close my eyes and slowly fall asleep…

Writer's Notes: What did you guys think? Good? Bad? Ok-ish? Whatever you think, review!!! Thank you!

Sorry that this story is slightly smaller than the Prologue, but I'll make it up to you next chapter!

~Untouched Forever