A/N Ver 1.1:

"Speech"

Thoughts

"Supernatural Speech" - When certain supernatural creatures shift sometimes their voice changes (deeper/higher/growlish/Echoish/Ect)

Chapter 3

It had been four days since my little 'induction' with Jade, I found out that each room has its own cool little enchantment on it which turns it into your 'dream bedroom'. I turned half of mine into a jungle/forest by mistake but decided to leave it as it reminded me of all the times mother would take me and Leon into the woods far behind our house to play and shift whenever we wanted. There's a large oak tree in the far back corner with one large and one small, long, sturdy branch that can be used for sitting on. The smaller one has a hanging chair attached to it. The carpet was a nice cream colour that merged into grass the closer you got to the tree. I had a King sized bed with silk and cotton bedding. The ceiling was plain white during the day with a normal light in a lamp shade but at night the ceiling would change to a pitch black night sky with millions of stars as if you were in the middle of nowhere camping outside. All the desks, shelves, and doors were made out of dark oak wood. The walk in closet was made up of long, thick, branches where I could hang my stuff up or use as shelves. The in suite bathroom was kind of normal. It had a waterfall shower stall that was surrounded by rocks and pebbles that stopped the water from splashing onto the granite floor, the bath was like a cross between an indoor swimming pool and one of those lakes you see on the outside of those nice Japanese temple hut buildings. It had a lower platform then a line of stepping stones in the middle to get to the other side where there was sink, cabinet and wardrobe for towels and stuff I'm guessing.

Overall my room is pretty cool. Ocelia didn't want us starting classes yet so we've been in Professor Raptor's lab over on the far side of the school. Hunter, as the professor prefers us to call him, seems to know a lot about 'my kind'. Apparently there are two versions, Werepyres and Lycanpyres. One can only fully shift during a full moon whilst the other is able to shift whenever they want. Although he gave us the proper term we still call ourselves Vampwolves (I think it sounds cooler) which does sometimes get on his team's nerve but he just tells them to let us have our fun.

So far he's told us stuff we already knew like the fact that we required more protein than any of the Lycanthrope species; that we heal at a faster rate than both Lycanthropes and Vampires alike, and how vervain, silver, wolfsbane and all the other deadly or funky stuff doesn't affect us as much or it just affected us differently. Leon was starting to get annoyed and I frankly was just bored. I wanted to get out of the lab and explore the castle even more but the other scientists wouldn't let me, "Just a few more tests," was the answer I'd always get when I asked why, so eventually I gave up and sat in the corner of the lab playing with one of the experiments. I didn't know what it was but it kinda looked cute, like a cross between a bat and some sort of reptile with an eagle head. I kept calling it Fluffy cause all of the fur it had, especially around its neck. It would always give me a look as if it really disliked the name and thought I was odd but would still keep me company anyway. I wanted to ask the staff what it was and if it was just like a supernatural dog or if it was as smart as us but didn't wanna get in trouble for meddling with it.

After a week and a half of various tests and examinations, Hunter finally got all the info he needed for Ocelia. We were currently in part of his more open lab area going through our final test before we'd be allowed to interact with the other students and join class. Ocelia explained that both Lycans, Werewolves, and Vampires have 3 forms: human, secondary, and primary, whereas Dhampires only had human and secondary and the Werewolves couldn't control their primary.

"Are you two ready?" Hunter asked, I was currently on a small platform hooked up to a few monitors.

"Do I have to wear these stupid suction cup thingies? Their irritating." I kept scratching at them, hoping they'd pop off.

"These 'suction cup thingies' are what we use to monitor your brain waves, heart beat and make sure you aren't over exerting you're body," one of the male scientists, a British vampire who looked about eleven, explained

"Well they're freakin' irritating." I heard Leon complain from the platform on the other side of the room. I had to look down to conceal my laugh. Whilst they were really annoying, I only had three of them on my head and one per hand. Leon had four on his face, going along his arm from his hand to his shoulder and down to his stomach. I'm quite sure he had more on his back

"Well Lycanpyre, the faster we get this done the faster you can get them off so if you stop bitchin' we can start." I raised my head and looked over to the scientist that spoke. He was a human shape shifter so I couldn't tell how old he really was. He currently had silver hair that had been tied back into a neat pony tail and a pair of glasses on giving him that evil scientist look. I don't know why, but he and Leon really disliked each other (although maybe it could have been because he bit him after he tried to take a temperature reading when Leon was in Skin Walker form).

"Hey, Dr Frankenstein, how's your arm?" Leon asked tilting his head and playing innocent

"You think you're really funny don't you?"

"Whatever do you mean?"

"You know, I think I have a few more tests I want to run…" Before he could finish his sentence Leon let out a small growl. I watched as his hands started to grow furry and slightly grey as his nails turned black and grew into long claws. I looked up to his face to see his ears had grown out, looking like daggers on the side of his head. He'd grown a slight beard as well as his incisor teeth growing out and his nose looked squashed and slightly wrinkled. I saw something flicking back and forth and noticed he'd grown a long shaggy tail too. If I didn't know any better I would've thought he was a long-eared Lycan.

"Good enough for you?" His voice sounded deeper and more ... growlish, kind of like how Jade's did.

Jade.

Oh how I'd love to fully shift and kick her ass, she thinks she's this almighty Alpha, ruler of seniors. I'd like to see her take me on in Pyre form. I'm sure she'd shit her fur.

I don't know how long I was out of it picturing me kicking her ass but I felt a slight jolt, zapping me back to reality and causing me to let out a high pitched yelp. I saw Dr Kithambo near the controls, rolling his eyes and shaking his head whilst Leon raised his eyebrow, giving me an amused look, I'm guessing, from the face I made.

"Was that really necessary?" The shock really did hurt but I wasn't gonna let him have the satisfaction of knowing it did.

"Well if you weren't ignoring us in la la land, I wouldn't have had to. Now, are you ready?!"

I didn't answer straight away, watching Leon pick up his stuff and leave to go into the other room with Hunter as well as trying to clear my head in preparation. Obviously that was the wrong answer 'cause I felt about 50 Volts being sent through me. I growled and looked over at him to see him staring back at me trying to hide his smirk. Oh he was fucking enjoying this and that was pissing me off.

"Are you ready?!" His hand hovered over one of the keys, the one I'm guessing controlled the shocks. I looked him in the eyes and let out a long growl, daring him to do it again. I could feel my hands change and the nails growing out but I wasn't bothered. I was too busy staring down the scientist to concentrate on controlling my shifting. I watched the doc's eyes flick to my hands and back up to mine before he smirked and pushed the button then held it down.

I dropped to my hands and knees, feeling every volt go through me over and over again. After about four minutes I couldn't take it. I swear I could smell my fur burning. I used my now clawed, furry hand to rip the wires from my face, which thankfully wasn't hairy/furry like Leon's was, and the ones from my clawed hands before rolling over onto my back and staring at the ceiling. There was a small zap and a sudden explosion right by my ears. After a second they were currently wringing and my tail kept twitching every few seconds.

I felt a pair of footsteps rushing over in my direction before I saw Professor Raptor. He bent down beside me, trying to talk to me. I saw his mouth moving but couldn't make out the words he was saying or hear him over the ringing. He then pulled a torch from his shirt pocket and started to flash it into my left and right eye. I blinked a few times before trying to roll over onto my side but I felt two hands return me to my back. I looked up the see the professor now shouting at who I'm guessing was Kithambo. As he continued the ringing started to subside and I could make out some of the conversation.

"Why would ….. That was stupid ….. Overloaded her nerves!" Hunter was yelling, his face turning slightly red or as red as his bronze skin would let him.

"Testing a theory…. She challenged me …. Showing her whose boss," was Kithambo's reply. I growled and rolled over onto my back to look him dead in the eyes again. I was about to jump through the glass window and rip his throat out when I heard a very loud, very high pitched whistle. I raised my hands to my ears, trying to block out the sound, but to no avail. As soon as the ear piercing sound started it stopped. I looked up at Hunter to see his light blue eyes staring back at me full of worry and concern.

"Are you okay? You went from kill mode to fetal position in a matter of seconds."

"Didn't you hear it?" Surely he did

"Hear what?"

"That annoying whistle."

He shook his head, before stroking his stubble and then walked out of the chamber we were in. I followed him out and into the other lab, noticing Kithambo was nowhere to be seen. I saw the scientists trying to capture 'Fluffy' who was jumping around the room making paperwork fly all around the place. I watched as they tried to corner him on the other side of a room. When they were just about to grab it, it let out a small screech, making all its fur stand on end as well as the spikes on its tail. It brought its tail forward and all the scientist brought their hands up to cover their faces. As they did, it quickly ran through a gap in between them and hid underneath some of the overturned tables.

I sat on the floor where I was and crossed my legs before clicking my teeth together twice and letting out a low long whistle. Fluffy's ears flicked over in my direction before his head turned to follow. He ran over in my direction and sat in my lap. My hand went to the mane of fluff around his neck and began scratching, like a cat would enjoy. It closed its eyes and a few seconds later began letting out a deep rumbling noise I could only assume was purring. I looked up to see Hunter and the other scientists giving me questioning looks and I lowered my head and blushed. One of the scientists, a woman, was the first to break the silence.

"She was up on the computer desk sir. One of the scientists blew a small object and then she went crazy. Whilst we were trying to calm her down he sneaked off with Kithambo. About a minute later you came in," she explained.

"So he's gone?" Hunter questioned.

"Yes."

"Did he take anything with him?"

"We only saw him take his briefcase but so far nothing seems to be amiss."

"Alright." He looked back over to me to see I was still stroking 'Fluffy. "I see she likes you." I looked up at him with a smile and watched as he bent until he was almost at my level before taking his hand and stroking Fluffy too.

"What is she? I always wanted to ask but I didn't wanna get in trouble for tampering with something if I wasn't allowed to play with her."

"Well." Hunter sat down next to me. "About twelve years ago, the principle had a problem with students disappearing during classes or during the middle of the night. She tried having some of the teachers patrol the school at night but there was still rogue students running around after hours which was dangerous considering some were werewolves." He then looked up as if reliving a flashback. "Kithambo came up with the idea of having some sort of guard dog to be put on the premises in order to stop the runaways. We'd been working with wolf and vampire DNA for a long time now and one day Kithambo added an unknown DNA factor he refused to tell anyone about. We guessed it was some type of lizard and predatory bird that result in her, a Nargacuga, as he called them." I looked over at 'Fluffy' who was now asleep in my lap and smiled. "I had convinced him to make miniature versions of them to patrol the inside of the castle as well as watch over the students on the floors." He stood up and fixed his clothes before he walked over to help the other scientists who had been cleaning up the mess 'Fluffy' had made. I tapped the cute little Nargacuga a few times to wake her up before I began to stand up myself. She climbed up my leg and along my side until she was sitting on both my shoulders. I reached up and tapped her beak which resulted in her nipping my ear. I started following Professor Raptor around the room as he picked up scattered work sheets and tried to put them in order.

"After successfully shrinking them to about the size of a full grown Rottweiler, and bred them, we decided to shrink 'em to the size of a Maine Coon cat, which as you can see was also successful, and bred them too. We currently have a total of 72 Nargacugas from big to small." He pointed at Fluffy's tail. "Each one of their tails are capable of firing projectiles that have a poison in which will either knock you out, or in the smaller ones, cause paralysis." I looked up at Fluffy to see her wink at me and then saw a projectile fly towards one of the scientist who instantly fell to the ground paralysed. "They are also very smart with their own personalities just like you and I. As you can see, Imulgia (ee-mul-ge-ah) here, can be a bit practical."

I looked back at Imulgia. "Imulgia, huh? I'm still gonna call you Fluffy." I began scratching underneath her head before I tapped the back of it, signalling for her to get down. I watched as she disappeared behind one of the big machines in the lab before turning back to the Professor. "I read in the rule book that when students go out they have to take a Narga with them. Could I take Fluffy?"

He looked at me with a smile. "I'm afraid not. 'Fluffy', as you call her, must remain in the lab, but I'm sure you'll get along fine with your house Narga." He read over a few papers before nodding to himself.

"Well Victoria, looks like we've got everything we and Mrs Ocelia need. You're free to start going to your lessons. Just try not to draw too much attention to yourself."

I felt a smile spread across my face, and before I knew it, I was hugging Hunter like there was no tomorrow. I could finally join the other students.