Project Origin
"Please take me back!" Again the same shrill voice rang clear in the air. The air was humid, thick and smelt of illegal cigarettes and alcohol. The smell was ripping savagely at Apollo's sensitive nose and he was constantly being jolted up and down and shifting from left to right. The jolts were not normal though – they were the kind of jolts you felt if you were on vacation is some dodgy RV or campervan and you got stuck in pot holes on those unknown, unnamed country roads.
He slid to the right and felt his head smash against something which roused him from his self conscious state. He felt the blood drain from his head and slowly adjusted his eyes to see a blurred vision of a little girl in a blue outfit.
"Puppy?" The girl crawled towards him, clearly unstable herself as she slid rapidly. She helped him onto his feet. He recognised the girl as the absent-minded professor's daughter. What was her name again?
"Jessie!" he barked forgetting he couldn't talk.
"Shut up you little brat and shut that mutt up too!" A man, complete with one of said illegal cigarettes in his mouth growls as he puts his head through a small hatch. "Otherwise, it's shooting time" The man produced a small pistol from his pocket. The little girl screamed in fear and wrapped her tiny fingers over Apollo's nose.
"…Ugh my head." The sound was a silent grumble.
"Klavier!" Apollo squirmed and fell from the girl's grip. He ran to the source of the noise. A black cat box was strapped to a large wooden seat (or at least it looked like one).
"Herr Puppy?" The cat yelled.
"Be quiet." Apollo scolded quietly. He was lifted from the floor by another jolt. Klavier was lifted so high he slammed his head into the cat box roof. "Are you alright dude?"
"What do you think?" Klavier hissed. "Where are we anyhow?"
"I don't know…" Apollo felt himself slide back into the little girl's arms again.
He felt himself gripped by the sensitive fur on the back of his neck as he suddenly ground to a halt. The young girl was tugged by the collar of her blue jacket beside him. The sun beamed and heated him in just the few seconds he was outdoors – he wasn't in England now that was for sure. He looked back at where he had been, a jet black van with the words 'Los Angeles U.S.A.' I'm back home?
The darkness soon engulfed him again. A black void swallowed him and his capturers as they descended further and further underground.
The sounds of many distressed voices invaded all of the trio's ears but to the confused little girl they all sounded like the cries emitted by animals. To Apollo and Klavier they were the kind of call they could answer. The underground was a dank holding pen like a pound and Apollo felt a sinking feeling in his stomach. I was rescued from a pound…just to be put back in one. He couldn't get a good enough look at his attacker, yet they didn't look anything like an animal rescue team Apollo knew.
The girl and him were thrown into a rather effective (and primitive) jail cell consisting of steel bars dug deep into the underground cavern. They were about a floor beneath the city as they could still see a grate where the tiniest amount of light could still flood through.
"Help me" The cry was heard across the shadow ridden path way between him and the other wall.
"Who are you?" Apollo howled. Klavier was tossed into a small hatch to an even tinier cage inside the one Apollo was in. A man approached Apollo with a clamp of some kind and he snarled as he arched his back to warn the black clad figure. "The Vampires!" Apollo suddenly felt realisation hit him like a bullet train.
"Nighty night!" Apollo suddenly fell to the floor.
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"What are we going to do?" Ema screamed in despair. She, Ryker, Lana, Mr Wright and the kids had searched practically the whole of the city with no sign of the boys. Her pager for work suddenly rang in her pocket.
Ema Skye must return to Los Angeles immediately.
There was no name for who it was from and – although she smelt a trap – it was for work and she had no choice but comply.
"Adam I have to return to the U.S. right now." She didn't know what was to happen when she got there.
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"Hey Apollo wake up" A soft coo roused him. "Come on wake up." The cooing got closer to his ear. "I said wake up!" The coo was deafening as he woke with a beak in his ear.
"Who are you?" The puppy jumped in shock, the clamp had been used to chain his paw to the floor and Klavier and Jessie were still fast off. "Are they ok?"
"Yes they're fine. You were given sedative." The small 'winged vermin' as the animal's kind was commonly referred to (A pigeon) cooed. "My name is Olivia Harvey, like you I'm a victim of the Vampires' experiment."
"How did you know my name was Apollo?"
"You took a folder that had information in about all of the Vampires' experiments in, Yes?" Apollo nodded. "I read the names from that, I broke free a long time ago and have been touring around the city since, watching over my little sisters."
"What city?" Klavier stirred and stood, unstably on his kitten legs.
"You don't know where you live?" The birds eyes widened in shock. "This is Los Angeles dummy!"
"How did we get back home from England?" Apollo growled as he felt pain in his paw.
"Puppy!" The little girl cried groggily running towards the pigeon and puppy.
"Do you still have the list of experiments?" Olivia asked sticking her head into the puppy's pocket.
"List?" Klavier looked at Apollo in that confused face.
"Klavier there was a list in that folder, there was roughly 50 names on it. I didn't tell you because the top three names were an A Tiala, D Crescend and K Gavin. An eagle, snake and panther." Apollo sighed solemnly. "I'm so sorry…"
"My Bruder!" Klavier cried.
"There are 56 names exactly." The bird cut into the conversation. "The cures in this building too but none of us can get it. We're not tall enough or able to get past the guards to get to it."
"Do you perhaps know why I can change?"
"Yes, you're allergic to Anthisimine, the main ingredient in the medicines mixed with the blood we're injected with. If you were to drink the cure there is a small chance that after a small period of time you will pass out or have an allergic reaction." The bird cooed. "I'm a human doctor by the way. All you have to do is keep calm I believe, that's the rumours among the guards."
"Alright let's try it." Apollo took a deep breath, closed his eyes and emptied his thoughts. He felt that pain that he got whenever he changed. He tried not to open his eyes as the blood drained from his mind. He shook himself and stood, ripping the chain from the floor as he stood in his proud werewolf form.
"Mr Apollo?" Ryker's young daughter fell towards him, landing in his arms.
"Jessie are you alright?" The wolf asked.
"I want my papa. Where are we?" The little girl cried, finding comfort in the potentially deadly form of Apollo.
"We're in my home, Los Angeles in America." Apollo pushed his claw into his pocket. "Olivia!" He threw the paper at the bird.
"Thank you Mr Justice." She looked at the bars of the cage. "Now all we need is the keys to the cages, to get out here and get the cure, preferably without running into the boss man and those three people you mentioned earlier. They are crazed, seriously."
"Then I'm gonna do the first bit." Apollo grabbed two of the bars on the cell. He pulled as hard as he could and managed to pull them apart to make a big enough gap to get through. He managed to pull a gap in the bars by Klavier too. "Olivia, stay here with Jessie. Klavier and I will take a look around." Klavier felt that rush again and leapt forward as a tiger.
"Let's rock Herr Forehead!"
Apollo and Klavier made a good double team when it came to distracting the guards. Klavier would act as the decoy and Apollo would fight them down. They managed to get to ground level. The room was black with dirt and grime as Apollo lit the only room the pair hadn't been in. Apollo coughed as he scanned the room.
"Hey Apollo, what's this?" Klavier looked at the dust coated board. "Project Prudence…" Apollo fell back in shock at the photos pinned to the wall; he recognised the leftmost one as Pru the Junkyard dog.
"That's Pru!" Apollo barked. "This paper says she was the original project and the boss' wife." He grabbed the paper and stuffed it deep into his pocket.
"Who's Pru?"
"It doesn't matter. Let's get that cure before the boss comes here." They turned the tables over, rummaged through cabinets and eventually found the large glass vial referred to in the documents on the pin board.
"We're going to get everybody out of here!" Apollo barked triumphantly as he scanned the cages throughout the room. Each person introduced themselves and Apollo realised the diversity. All of the animals were fairly small, all 50 of the animals – including Olivia. There were falcons, parrots, hamsters and one poor soul even got turned into a goldfish. The only names not ticked were the top three as they were nowhere to be seen. They were – after all – the boss' pets.
The light blinded all of the animals as they stepped into the day.
"I know where we are!" Apollo lifted Jessie into his arms. "I know somewhere where we can lay low for a while too!" He called to the gathering behind him. "To the Junk Yard!" He howled. Where I can get my answers before curing everyone…
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"Ema Skye. You are being arrested under the suspicion of the murder of Klavier Gavin and Apollo Justice." There was a police officer there at the doors of the plane.
"What?" Everyone around her roared.
"Ema would never kill Klavier and wouldn't even HURT Apollo!" Lana growled.
"Then where are they?" The officer asked, shutting them up. Ema, who believed strongly that it was her fault this ever happened to Apollo stood and allowed the officer to put the cuffs on her. She sighed heavily and tears began to stream from her eyes as she was escorted of the plane followed by her family. It's all my fault. If I had met him outside the courthouse early that day then this wouldn't happen. She wasn't even sure if Apollo was still alive. She was just believing in miracles now.
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