ok so here it is chapter six!, I hope you guys like it!. Lots of answers and doubts will be given in this chapter!. anyway please read, enjoy and review!. so I can know if you guys like this new series of mine.
"trial" that word echoed through everyone's head as the creature stopped talking, panic made it self present in the courtroom when the humans knew they would have to give explanations to those who kept them in captivity like animals and killed a man in cold blood. The hits, cuts and severe injuries the prisoners carried were already burning in their skins at the thought of what would those monster wants from them and worst how would they take it. The urge to flea was too much for some who in vane, like horses fought against their chains and captors, only to be violently restrained exactly like animals. The pleas, screams and shouts didn't make themselves to be waited for as most of the captives begged for their soon liberation, tears in their eyes and shaking hands in crannied and bruised skin, made no effect in their captors as a countercharge of shouts and curses was directed at them.
"I SAY WE JUST BOIL THEM ALIVE!" shouted a young female with platinum blond hair and pale skin from one of the thrones. "please!, please! have mercy I didn't do anything!" begged a man no older then 22 who was shaking in his chains.
"YOU DAMN BASTARDS!" shouted the male with auburn hair that a lot of the humans recognized earlier as their fellow cellmate's executioner
"what trial are they talking about?! I didn't do crap!" said Amelia panicking and struggling to look at her friends. "I didn't do anything to these monster I swear!" said Madeline with tears in her eyes and Michelle was already sobbing. "please I wanna go home!" she cried and Elizaveta kept struggling against the chains "this is a mistake! you have to let us go!" she demanded while the room kept been filled with shouts.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" yelled the blond male with blue eyes. "now we are going to start form the begging and respect the procedure of how this is done!, both prisoners and accusers will keep quiet unless they are spoken to! one person at the time!" he said firmly and the room went quiet awaiting for the next words to be spoken.
"now I am only going to say this once!...do you know who we are?" he asked sternly and everyone shook their heads confused.
"nn-no mister we haven't seen your kind in our life!" said most of the humans with shaky voice and other humans joined in giving the same type of answers however before the noise could get out of hand the male raised his hand to signal them for silence.
"so you don't know why are you here" he said and everyone in the group shook their heads while repeating no over and over.
"it has to be a misunderstanding sir!" said a woman while the other interrupted him "I didn't do anything!" said the other shaking and before a curtain of begs could be raised the male opened his palm again to keep quiet. Some of the people were getting more and more nervous, they started to shake and sweat from fear as the others hoped that the situation was just a simple misunderstanding and that it would end with their return to their home.
"really?" asked the male with a frown on his face and slithered from his spot and towards the group, he positioned himself right in front of them and flickered his tongue in a hiss.
"are you sure none of you has at least an idea of why are you here?" he asked with venom in his voice and again everyone nodded while some of them gulped. The girls braced themselves shaking at the sight of the obviously pissed male.
"you filthy little liars!" he said and out of nowhere he tugged on some of the chains. a group of three man and two woman were dragged in front of the main desk, all of them were shaking and gulping while the blond male glared daggers at them.
"now lets try this one more time" he said and headed to one of the corners of the room, an old black leather whip was resting in one of the corners. "and this time lets see if you can answer with the truth" he said and slithered back to the front of the small selected group.
"do you know who we are?" he asked and one of the woman started to cry while the other curled up in of the men gulped and nodded "yes...you are nagas" he said and the blond nodded with a semi satisfied expression on his face. The rest of the humans watched scared, no one dared to intervene between that semi man and those people in a room full of creatures that they now knew as nagas.
"good now do you know why are you here?" he asked and the same man gulped while looking down. "I swear this is all a mistake mister! surely we can-" "ANSWER THE QUESTION!" the male said loudy while using the whip against the man's back. The sound was sharp and quick yet loud enough to make the humans cringe and whimper, even some of the other creatures showed themselves uncomfortable at the scene.
"because we were the heads of the mochi project!" one of the other man said while covering his head scared, he looked very tall with pale skin and lanky figure, his hair was gray showing the effects of the time passing and he had a pair of dark eyes, his skin was victim of the mistreats of their captors as it shown several cuts and bruises.
The girls looked at each other confused as well as the rest of the humans, they all kept in silence while trying to resolve on what was happening and who were those men and more importantly how do they came along in all this mess.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" a male yelled at the man from his spot on the desk. "YOU DESERVE TO DIE!" a female added with some of the other nagas who stated to yell and hiss at the men for the confession, some of the females cried while glaring furiously. The man curled up with the rest of his small group as they all starred at the creatures in the courtroom. The rest of the humans watched in utter confusion and fear how they barracked at the small group of men as if they were delinquents of a crime against them, like bearers of a horrible plague.
"QUIET!" said the same male said, making the room go quiet, however the deadly glares penetrated the room. "I don't think your mates here are understanding what the mochi project is!, come on tell them!, tell them why are they all here! tell them why are we sentencing you today!" he said with venom in his voice, it was starting to get obvious that he was restraining himself from attacking that man as he hissed and bared his teeth at the humans, showing off some sharp fangs dripping a strange black liquid.
"I..well we.." the man said and the beast grabbed him form the chain and made him go to the center of the room. "now speak " said the tall man form the desk with a childlike innocent voice "tell us all why are you here otherwise we will make you talk da?" the male said with a sweet poisonous smile on his face.
"I...my name is doctor Sodman and I was once a very good scientist, a biologist to be specific, I have studied all kind of wildlife in the course of the years. I had a passion about small reptiles like lizards, snakes and other small creatures, I was happy with my job as a research biologist, I even had my own projects. However it all changed when a fellow of mine a scientist, Doctor Crofit informed of something interesting. A new phenomenon never seen before, situated in the middle of the mountains where no human machine could access. My friend told me he was going to investigate it to see what it was about and wanted my help, I was interested when he described me the project so I agreed." he said looking down for a moment. "for months we investigated the place looking for the kind of creature that could have inhabited that place"
(flashback)
"doctor Soldman!" a man called his attention, he was short with gray hair and tanned skin, with brown eyes "doctor the rains are coming I think we should start to head back now, otherwise the rain won't allow us to get down form this mountains" he said. Doctor Soldman sighed, he was a tall pale man with black hair and green eyes, pretty lanky yet not completely thin with a determined expression on his face.
"how much longer do we have until it starts to rain?" he asked and the man looked at his watch. "about an hour doctor and it will probably take at least half of hour to pack everything" he said and Soldman sighed
"fine we will return here tomorrow as soon as it stops raining" he said and started to pack. The whole group of people near the hole gathered up their stuff to return, one bye one they started to get in the trucks that brought them to that place in the mountains. Soldman on his part headed to a small hill situated some meters ahead, once there he could see a small cavern. Nothing special just small cavern created bye the movement of the earthquakes of the region, his real interest was what was inside. The hole was at least three meter tall and two meters large, it had a downhill interior which allowed him to see a little inside, a trail of yellowing liquid covered a big part of his surface and covered it in a putrid smell. Soldman covered his nose and started to plant a small artifact in one of the rocks in the beginning of that strange hole, next to some rocks and inside of the hole. Coldman took a sample with a small brush and placed it on a jar, passing the brush near some of the rocks he found something interesting on the floor a few green scales resting on the ground, wet from the liquid and blood stained.
"Soldman we have to go" said a man at the entrance of the cavern, he was medium sized with black hair and green eyes and white skin. Soldman turned at him "Crofit, I just want to plant the last camera in here, we don't know when we will be able to return besides I wanted to take an extra sample just in case, I found more scales for the lab" he said and finished installing the small device on the ground before getting up.
"What kind of reptile do you think could inhabitant this type of conditions?" he asked. "I don't know but whatever it is my friend, if we find it we could make one of the biggest discoveries in zoology from our time" Crofit said and Soldman shrugged
"that we won't know until we find it either way lets go" he said and both men went out of the cavern and towards the trucks, leaving the mountain while the rain was coming.
"when I started my investigation I didn't know what I was going to find, much less that it would take us a whole year to find it but when I did it changed my life completely"
Soldman was standing outside of the truck with his eyes widely open. His colleagues started to put on their protection gloves and masks and started to surround the perimeter. The transparent liquid that once reached until the beginning of the cave was now coming out from the Hole and even the cavern, it ventured downhill towards the open hill and further. Soldman grabbed a tranquilizing gun and run downhill with his camera.
"everyone careful!, remember we don't know what it is but we don't want to kill it!" he said and followed the men as they descended from the hill and down the road. They started going down through a side of the hill, it was steed hill full of rocks and mud where not many plants grew, the trail of the slimy substance was running downhill where a strong smell was filling the air. It smelt like rotting flesh from some kind of animal however they didn't see many animals near, only the rocks and mud. They kept going for at least 300 meters more when suddenly a whistle caught his attention.
"DOCTOR YOU BETTER COME AND CHECK THIS!" one of the men said heading towards a small clearing in the hill, it was a lake surrounded bye rocks and a small waterfall. Above them the pray birds flied in circles shoed bye the men as they got into the water towards the new discovery. A very large corpse belonging to a woman was laying at the edge of the lake. She was very tall with white skin and brown hair, She was taller then any woman they have every seen, at least twice their size with a round swollen belly and monstrous features, green scales covered a big, thick appendix that replaced what her legs and feet should have been and large claws emerged from her finger instead of nails. Blood was dripping from her skull as well as several cuts and bruises. The pray birds dived in form time to time to steal a piece of her flesh and tear it apart for a morsel while the group present tried to understand what was that vision in front of them.
"WHAT IS THIS THING?!" asked one of the men and Soldman stared wide eyed for a moment "I guess its a woman..looks like an hybrid of some sorts that dragged herself here" he said and Crofit took a moment to recompose himself. "put her in one of the trucks!, if she is already dead we can at least make an autopsy" he said and with a moment of hesitation the man started to drag the corpse out of its resting place.
"When I first saw hat first female I thought I hadn't seen everything yet, I couldn't help but start to wonder what was that humanoid creature we were carrying like a dead animal, if there was more like her and how did they occupied this planet without us knowing. Sense the female was the first of a possible new spices we called her Eva and prepared everything for her autopsy, however nothing prepared me for what would happen next"
Soldman was at the lab with the corpse attached to the operation table, Crofit insisted on been present for the procedure when they would reveal the females anatomy. Next to the biologist a doctor was pressent to ensure proper human anatomy knowledge.
"ok Eva, lets see what you got" said Crofit and opened the females chest with a scalpel, the cut went right from the middle of the chest and down towards her torso and tail.
"this is amazing" said Soldman as he starred at the organs in front of him. "a normal pair of human longs inside of a ribcage" he said as he kept examining Eva's body "yet her bones are degenerated, a long spine that replaces the leg bones and goes through the pelvis" he said and and the doctor present nodded.
"her inner organs are just compressed inside of this appendix...her bladder, her female reproductive organs and even some muscle tissue I had never seen before all compressed there surrounded bye snake like bones" he said and Coldman nodded
"these are snake bones with no doubt, never seen some so big but the form and structure its recognizable" he said as they tore the rib cage to take a look at the heart. Once the ribcage was opened the room felt quiet when realized this one was still beating.
"she is alive?!" said Crofit and the doctor face palmed "she must have been in a coma!" he sad and Sodlman started to grab the needle to sew her back in "but she didn't have any pulse!" he said and poked her uterus to reveal the truth discovery, this one moved.
"something is moving inside of her" he said and Croft grabbed a pair of scissors "that lump must be some sort of offspring move away!" he said and proceeded to open the organ while been careful not to touch the lump with the scissors. After Croffit was done he dropped the scissors to the ground and moved away. The two men looked at each other for a moment before taking a peck.
"are...are those eggs?" Asked Croffit and Soldman shook his head as he opened the uterus wider and pointed a lump at the inside. "no those are her offspring" he said and the room grew quiet as the tree teacup sized mochies moved slightly with their eyes closed in their deceased mother's womb.
(end of flashback)
The humans grew pale at the man's confession, in their lives they would have guessed that those small and helpless creatures were these monsters offspring and now they were all here to pay for some sort of crime committed against them. Amelia looked horrified at the rest of the girls, they pretty much knew bye now what was the meaning of this trail. While thye grew quiet a curtain of yells and insults raised once more in the room, female yelled while crying and sobbing and male had to be restricted by other males, to prevent them from doing anything drastic. The males present int he main desk glared at the man like they were in front of the black pest itself.
"god it can't be" said Elizaveta and Madeline stammered still trying to absorb everything.
"that's why I am here, all those mochies...those living creatures that probably all of us here had were well-"
"OUR CHILDREN YOU MONSTER!" yelled a woman tearing up, a male hugged her to his chest while the female sobbed and glared at the man.
"Oh but that's not the rest of the story isn't it?!" yelled a male angered, he was tall with pale skin, blond hair and green eye, he had very thick black eyebrows that highlighted him form other males. Soldman gulped and shook his head.
"no its not" he said and looked down "I swear when I first discovered nagas I thought I was witnessing something unique, a new miracle, a new wonder in nature's arsenal! but I guess we went too far. I wanted to study them, to know what they were and how they worked, to understand such complex creatures that humanity had overlooked" he said and bit his lip "but I guess we weren't ready to deal with it" he said.
"no you weren't!" said the male with emerald eyes and blond hair and thick eyebrows. "you handed over your moral and our kind in exchange of money" he said glaring at the man.
(flashback)
"A year had passed since Eva came to the lab, her body laying opened in a tank of the lab for doctors and professionals to look up while her offspring knew what a mother was, only through a glass tank and an artificial feeding machine that kept us alive. The first one who revealed them the transition from mochi to humanoid snake person, was the first one to be studied to know his development. A glass tank and improvised nest were his home and scientist the only family he knew, the doctors worked closely to him in hopes of getting to know his full capacity."
"Soldman!, look at this!, in the newspaper!" Croffit said and Soldman looked at it, on the page there was a picture of the holes in the mountains and what seemed to be the exact same trial of liquid.
"fuck! how did this happen?" Soldman asked and Crofit huffed "how do you think?! we went there to make an investigation! we left with our discovery but never published anything! people its getting suspicious! they are going over these mountains to see if they can discover what we already know!" he said slamming his hands on the table.
"Its been a year!, we just got to know how their body works!, we still have to study their whole life spam! we can't just reveal them to the world!" Soldman said and Crofit sighed and looked at him.
"If they find out about what we have here we are screwed!, can't you see what we are dealing with?! if someone else's finds out of what we are doing they publish it first, if they do we loose our investors! and worst we could get shoot down!" said Crofit
"Look the public fears the unknown!, these new spices could lead to a massive paranoia about this new beasts!, we don't even know where they live or what their behavior is!, we can't expose them to the world without that knowledge otherwise society will go into chaos!" he said and sighed "look" he said and pointed to my small prison. Inside we were now as big as a an adult cat, our once soft and white skin had turned yellow and hard, even showing signs of cracking up like an egg.
"These are the mochies we rescued form their mother's womb now take a look at them" Soldman said and Croffit nodded. "yea but those are two..the other has grown already come and see this" he said and advanced towards another room in the lab. Inside there was a glass window that allowed to see a small toddler inside. he didn't have legs or hips but his mother's reptile tail. He was currently playing with a small ball in an improvised nest made of plastic and fabric that served as a crib, as scientists outside of the room monitored his progress.
"He was just like those two and look at him now and we don't know how long he will keep growing!" Soldman said "we barely know them! we can't just reveal them to the world! if the public finds out about snake people it would be a social revolution!, imagine what the government would do to us if they know we have humanoid creatures in this lab?! we could loose our investigation!, we can't let them know about them until we get to know them personally and not only their life spam but their society and rules! we need to go and study them in the wild just to start!, this could take at least three more years!" he said
"then lets just reveal the mochies!, we don't have to say they are snake people's offspring!, we will say they are a new spices!, the government wouldn't shut down a new animal spices!" he said
"yea but that's impossible there is no way to prevent their development" he said and Crofit took out the needled and jar. "not anymore before this research I was making a special study about animal anatomy, a gland to be exact the pituitary gland I trust you know it" he said and Soldman nodded "yes is the gland responsible of the growth and development in living beings like animals and people why?" he asked and Crofit opened the suitcase revealing a syringe and a metal sealed container.
"well I have been doing some research on it and guess what? with the right inhibitors, we discovered that this gland can stop some of her functions, including growth. Imagine been able to make the wish of most people to come true. a house pet that never grows up!, we tried it in an amount of dogs and cats and it worked through their whole life spam afterwards!, I showed this to some investors and they looked very excited about it but then this whole project came along and you know the rest" he said grinning.
"Well that's amazing!, a new tool into genetical manipulation!, if you publish that you will go to history my friend not to mention gain some time for us to keep studying these creatures!" he said and Crofit smiled
"well sadly no, when some people found out about my project of genetical manipulation, animal rights organizations went into a fit and started a voicot so I want to expand this project...Imagine if instead of a never aging cat or dog people could have a small cute sized new spices" he said and Soldman blinked.
"So let me see if I get this right you want to pass these mochies as a harmless miniature sized creature and sell them?...Crofit I think that will keep the media out but what if someone finds more of these creatures? and they show them developing? we could go to jail for it... and the government would kill us...besides you want to experiment on an unknown spices " he said and Crofit smiled.
"Well about that..apparently this new trails have been appearing more regularly, I believe wherever these creatures live, they go near the surface of these mountains...imagine if we could go and investigate them?, just like you wanted!, imagine if you Doctor Soldman was the first on revealing their behavior, their social rules!, you could be a hero for connecting two worlds together! he said and Soldman sighed "well that sounds good..but I am not sure if I am ready for a project of this magnitude, we can barely keep up with these four specimens on this lab" he said and Croffit grinned and shown him a check.
"Well that's why I am here!, lets go over there, study these creatures and let me take a few...samples to say it some way...I will use them for my project and all I want in exchange is for you to keep quiet about their origin and full development. You get to finish your research and investigate this new beings while I get to make a profit in the market, I will even tell you discovered the mochies!" he said and Soldman bit his lip.
"Look this is dangerous, I mean discovering a new rase is one thing but sell them?! what if it gets out of control? these are humanoid creatures!" he said.
"Think about it!, how can these little ones get out of control, once they reach three months and get stuck in that stage!, they wouldn't know, they would be like puppies, mindless and primitive puppies. besides you said it otherwise you won't be able to keep with the research! and sooner or later these creatures will be discovered! maybe someone already has one of these at a fair somewhere!. So much for all the hard work we have been doing for science!. A new whole world ahead of us! and you deny it because of some small amount of specimens!. Tell me how many animals did you dissect to be able to study on the university?, those were specimens too!" he said
"UUhmm I am not sure Crofit, the idea sounds unstable" said Soldman and stared at the tank where the two mochies were looking at his guest curiously. "Let me think about it" he said.
"the next month we parted back to the mountains, with Crofit's money we were able to travel inside of the hole and look for more of these creatures, we came back with three adult corpses and six mochies. As soon as we came back we started on the project and investors came like mops to the light. None of them knew about what mochies truly were, I kept quiet so I could study nagas completely or at least that's what I kept telling my self"
(end of flashback)
everyone in the room gasped, The girls got stunned in their place as everything they heard was still trying to be absorbed. The shouts came back once again only this time they weren't alone. A strong feeling of guilt grew over the room when the humans started to tear up and cry, understanding not to only that they were probably dead sentenced but also that there was a good reason for it.
"I didn't know I swear!" cried Michelle with her face on her hands and Amelia nodded. Even with the fear increasing in the group, they were able to understand what happened for them to be here, and now they felt as if they ripped a child from his mother's arms. The courtroom called to silence once again and one of the males went down from the main desk, only to stop right in front of the selected humans.
"what you did to our kind was chicken-ship" said the male, he had sky blue eyes and blond hair with a cowlick. "fortunately your greed also blinded your facade" he said and sighed.
(flashback)
"I still remember when we first arrived to that place, ripped form our mother's arms. Hungry, cold and scared. Our temporary homes were nothing but silver tanks with glass walls providing a roof for us. nothing but white and silver wherever we looked. Man and women in white coats would come everyday with bowl, filled with nothing but lettuce leafs to keep us from getting strong. We were scared and confused we didn't know what they wanted form us but when the white coats came one day after months holding the shiny syringes, we just knew we weren't going to return home anymore"
The Mochies curled up together in the glass tank inside of the lab. The place was filled with different glasses and cages with Mochies inside of them, each container had a little more then a food bowl, a few blankets and a water holder and a lamp. The creatures inside of the tanks barely moved as they shaken and drank some water. Around them the scientists in white coats thrown empty packages to the trashcans and started to turn off the lights.
"alright that's the last one" a man said injecting a small mochi before cleaning the wound and placing it in the tank. "better leave this place closed for the night, we will leave them for observation" the man said and a woman nodded while helping others to put everything away, once they left a small young man came in with a bucket and a mop. He had golden hair with dark blue eyes and with pale skin, he was very short and looked like a teen that was barely starting to blossom into manhood. He started to get everything ready to clean when he noticed the glass tanks. They were locked with the mochies inside looking miserable. Most of them were quiet while looking at each other with pitiful faces, some of them even curled up together to embrace themselves. The tanks were full of fecal material and urine for the day, that was apparently not clean yet. However signs of "do not touch" were placed on the tanks so cleaning them was off limits.
"poor guys" the man said and looked into his pocket, he had a piece of candy bar with him, chocolate made him feel better sometimes. He glanced at a corner where a small mochi was shaking and gently opened the lid lid poking his hand inside.
"Here little one, cheer up" he said and was about to drop it inside when suddenly a voice echoed. " RAVIS NO!" The young man turned to see a scientist glaring at him and taking the chocolate away. "These creatures can not eat human food!" he said and Ravis gulped.
"But I have given them before" he said and the doctor took away the chocolate, "we gave them special shots today!, they can't eat these anymore! we could fire you for this!, now get out and go clean the hall" the man said and the young man nodded. "Yes mister I am sorry, I just wanted to cheer it up, it looked miserable" he said and the man scoffed.
"These are animals! like rats or lizards, they are not sad just tired, we will feed them their special food on morning" he said and both men headed out while the mochi stared at the scene that took place in front of him.
"They day they gave us the shots, we were no longer intelligent for them nor we knew why would they inject us, but deep down we knew we were still people and I suspected that whatever they did, it had something todo with their alimentation, forbidden for us. None of us ever suspected what would our final stay would be but eventually the day came. Dozens of big armed cases with wheels arrived at our prison and we were placed in boxes and delivered to them. no one of us had reached the transformation stage in months which worried us. Helpless we were taken to pet shops around the world and sold, once bought we had life sentence. O
ur masters in lack of their so called responsibilities barely fed us or allowed us near the sunlight, trapped in cages or glass tanks we were forced to parade around to impress other humans and serve as little more then amusement pieces. Some of us managed to escape the properties a few times but in the end we were always bought again. However after years of having access to what they call human food, things started to change"
(end of flashback)
"apparently the chemicals, the toxins inserted in most vegetables and meats processed bye human industries created a leverage effect on the gland that you tried to inhibit. almost made it up for the things we had to go through in the hands of you selfish vane creatures" the naga finished and shook his head in anger.
"what your kind did to us was unforgivable and now every single one of you will get what you deserve"