Chapter 10: Strange Awakening

A train…it must have come and broken my bones into tiny pieces, cause at the moment that's exactly how I felt. Even through all the pain I could feel the cold cement under me and smell fresh meat being prepared somewhere close, but my stomach couldn't handle that and I threw up with my eyes still kept closed...I was afraid to see what was coming from my stomach. Suddenly I realized that my body was human, it seemed a little strange to be happy that was human. As I laid there I sensed I was in a familiar place, and it wasn't Genomex.

"Adam?" I spoke, but my own voice sounded low in tone and foreign to my ears.

A man came into the room just then; my nose detected a younger scent with a hint of lemon scented shampoo.

"He's resting, you gave him quite the fight when he brought you here," the man said to me sitting down.

"Who…are you?" I groaned and leaned up against a wall and started to open my eyes. That's when I noticed I was in a cell, in what looked like a basement.

"Brennan Mulwray, I work with Adam…he's already told me about you. He saved you back there from Genomex. Also he said you might not remember what happened."

My eyes watched as he talked; my mind struggled to pay attention to him and not the pain of my twisted stomach and sore arms and legs.

"Brennan…can you…tell me what happened?" My question made him relax back into his chair.

"Sure…Well you see, Jesse had been going through files on the mutant database and Adam had him running checks on mutants. These checks consist of missing reports, police reports and looking for suspicious activity. It appears a friend of yours reported you missing a few days ago, so your name came up on the list. Adam took a real interest in your case and neglected to tell us why at first. But Jesse found your complete file and it showed that there was a team before us, Mutant X 1.0? And you were one of them." He paused a moment then continued, "When Adam discovered Genomex had you I thought he was going to flip out. He wanted to get you out of there as soon as possible and he did. While Eckhart's men were busy being attacked by wild wolves after they shot the alpha, he carried you away. With a healing pen he started to heal your wounds so you'd make it back to Sanctuary. Using the large scanner he was able to heal the rest just fine. Then Emma was able to get inside your head and discover a trigger that allowed you changed back into a human form; Adam said any longer and you would have been stuck as a wolf."

I found myself feeling my neck were that wolf had me in his jaws. I couldn't believe it was all healed, like magic.

"But once you had recovered your mind was still confused as to what species you were...man or wolf. You attacked Adam as he was running some tests, luckily I had walked by and Adam told me to sedate you. You got him pretty good on the shoulder. Adam has been up for days, which is why he's resting now with the help of a blast from Emma."

"Wow…" was all I could really think of to say. "Who's Jesse? And Emma? They live here to?" I was a bit confused as to why these other people were staying with Adam.

Brennan gave a small laugh, "yeah…I guess I should have explained that too. We are a part of what you could call Adam's second shot of making a Mutant X team. There is Jesse, he's a molecular, Emma a psionic, Shalimar a feral, like yourself but feline and I'm an elemental." Brennan created a tesla coil to show off.

"Nice," I tried to smile back to him and let out a heavy sigh, "How much longer you think I have to stay in here?"

Brennan just shrugged, "I have no idea, I think only Adam knows that answer, sorry. Actually…" he checked his watched, "I'm going to tell him you're up." Brennan had gotten up and went out sliding doors that lead to stairs.

When he had left I whined in pain and slid back down on the ground to curl up, it seemed to hurt less when I had done that. I hoped that Adam was going to tell me how he could reverse this….I didn't want animal inside my head like this.