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Ch .2 The future of Mankind, animals?

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"Sorry about the light, I'll give you four sometime to adjust to... well I think I'll let you figure out what you're adjusting to." The voice echoed through the lab.

It took a bit for my eyes to adjust, all I could see now was the fluffy outline of an animal about the size of a dog sitting upright and looking at me.

"Why does it have to be so bright?" The figure spoke with the voice of the girl who couldn't remember her name. It couldn't be... Could it?

"Holy crap!" The guy on the ground shot up. "Talking animals! But... How?" He started mumbling to himself again.

"Wait if you two look like that then what do I look like?" I tried desperately to look all over myself to get a good idea but all I figured out is that I was covered almost entirely in black fur. My toes or the claw part of my paw... I don't know what you call it but that was white. The only other thing I saw would be blue lines across my arms and legs and of course I had a big fluffy tail.

"Oh my god! You guys look so cute! I love the look of anthros." The girl said jumping up. She didn't seem to mind that we were all half human half animal freaks. I guess that's what an anthro is.

The guy in the corner snapped his fingers. "I've figured it out! It seems we had an ancient dna pattern that causes the bearer to turn anthropomorphic, the injection we were given must have forced the change. A side effect of the injection must have been memory loss and drowsiness. Which is why we can't remember how or why we're here and how we fell asleep. At least that's what I believe to have happened." We looked at him in shock.

"Are you some kind of genius?" I yelled at him. Everything he said, it seemed so far fetched but the more I think about it the more it seems true.

"No, I just happen to work a lot with creating theories about this kind of thing." I feel like that's scientists talk for I'm smarter then you could even hope to be

"It kinda sounds like you read too much fan-fiction" the girl cut in. I smiled but stayed quiet for a while longer.

"And what did you say your name was?" I asked him.

"It's tsume. My name is tsume." He stood tall and confident. I'm sure he would have been very good looking before... This. He would have been basically everything I've ever wanted to be.

"Have your eyes adjusted yet?" The voice from the speaker made me jump. "Shocking isn't it. Seeing each other for the first time. Akuma with dna from the extinct Jin fox. They were considered to be evil and spawn of the devil so they were hunted to extinction. It was considered sin to eat any animal the was with the devil so burning them was their only option but hey people gonna do some crazy things right? Anyway... Next we have the brilliant tsume, who has the dna of a common grey wolf. Not as interesting but very powerful, and from what info I've been given he's smart too. He'll make a great scientist one day.

"Um, I am great scientist. Thank you very much." Tsume replied to the speaker.

"Third up is Elena, she will have the dna of a deer... No special type of deer it just says a deer."

"That could be me." The girl said. "But do I look like a deer to you?" She didn't look very much like a deer but I guess if you squinted you could see it. Sort of.

"Ok then. Lastly we have Titania our own little... Uh dragon? You don't see that every day. Good thing I know lots about dragons because I've read every book I could find that tells of them."

"Could they have been fiction?" I thought aloud.

"Oh more fan-fiction." The girl giggled. I'm 23 and she looked no I let then I am but the way she acted see seemed like she was 14. Could this process have effected my age? What if my life span is now that of a fox? No, I can't think like that.

"Millions of years ago every dragon that had ever walked the land we know as Atlow has been extinct or so most people thought. It just so happens I have what I believe to be dragon egg, I has amazing patterns that I would thought impossible for an egg and it is as solid as iron, and it's totally not a chunk of rock I painted. That would be crazy." He put stress in his voice when he said the word crazy and I was starting to think there was no disease we're just in a crazy guys basement drug lab.

"When it hatches it will grow into a creature about the size of a horse that will be covered in a colourful fur like scale that can harden on impact." He had no idea how stupid he sounded right now. Dragons were pre-historic. They died with the dinosaurs, but I guess if I could be from an extinct fox then she could be an extinct reptile.

"I hope that clears up any questions you had about what you are. Next is the tests I will have my automated assistant Bruce guide you to testing, you will be given an hour before testing. You may not hear from me again so good luck." Not hearing from him. What does he mean by that? What kind of testing would we be going through? A million other questions raced through my head but the one on top was who is this mystery girl?

"So he said there are two girls Titania, and Elena. So which one are you? And where's the other one?" I asked her hoping she might remember something useful, if anything at all.

"I'm I don't think I look like a dragon so I guess I'm Elena." That made sense I guess. Something behind her made a whoosh as it appears. A thin surface with bones dividing each of the limbs into 3 sections. They were what you would expect to see on a pterodactyl. They were wings. They were the wings of a dragon. She was a dragon.

"I guess that makes you Titania. You have just made all my childhood dreams come true by the way" she laughed when I said that. It was nice to see her smile.

"I guess so." she replied. It must have been great to remember something so important.

"You say you can't remember anything right Titania?" Tsume asked

"Yah, that's right." She said shyly.

"I think I can make something to help with that." He said excitedly.

"I hate to crush your dream here but how are you going to do that?" I asked

"Um I may have done some work on an experimental memory loss drug. It should have you remember something you've forgotten. It's supposed to help people with amnesia. I can remember everything that goes in it. I think." His voice trailed off. What a comforting thought. I always hated people who are saying something to make me feel better then they say I think. It makes me feel worse. Plus the fact he said experimental.

"Where are you going to find stuff to do that?" She asked.

"We're in a Laboratory, I'm sure there's something in here." He walked off to find something for his... I think I'll start calling it helping juice.

I was here with a girl who can't remember anything about herself in a place I've never been before. It's just the most wonderful feeling of hopelessness but I just can't sit here and wait an hour. I've got to do something.

"So if we're stuck here for an hour we might as well take a look around." I said standing up. She reached her arms up and I pulled her up to me.

"I think he's making some of this stuff up." She said vaguely.

"Who, Tsume or that guy on the speaker?" I questioned.

"Both." She giggled "it's just that I don't believe all of it. How would Tsume be able to explain exactly what happened, and be able to create something to restore my memory? It's too much for one person." I decided not to answer because I was thankful for what he was able to do.

We passed many different testing tables some with broken restraints, some with a permanent red splatter on them.

"It's so weird." She said as we walked

"What do you mean?" I asked

"All of it, the tail, the fur. What shape is my face even in a triangle?"

"It kinda looks like a triangle mixed with a cone. I guess." I assumed she was talking about the muzzle.

"That's a thought, I guess..." She looked away for a moment before returning he gaze back at me. "What do I look like?"

I thought about it for a second. A voice in my head was just screaming about it being a trap. I was told never to answer that. It always ends badly.

"You look." I paused.

"I just want to know what I look like, not if you think I look good." She said smiling.

"Sorry I just don't know how to explain it."

"Well you look at me and you say what you see." She said it but that I'm scared she's not going to like what I say.

"Okay, but please don't get angry if you don't like it."

"I promise I won't." She put one... Uh claw on her heart and one in the air when she said that.

"To start off you have a coat of what looks like light grey fur, your hands are like claws, your feet are more paw like then I would have thought for a dragon, you have an interesting tail." I didn't want to tell her that it was the only part with real colour. It stood out, it was different.

"What does it look like?" She asked impatiently.

"It's uh, multicoloured." I said vaguely.

"And..." She said growing more impatient by the second.

"It's black at the tip then it turns red, then a dark shade blue, then bright green, then it turns back to black and slowly fades into the colour of the rest of your fur." She turned at stared at me.

"Now was that so hard?" Her voice now soft and forgiving. She didn't totally hate it. Actually it sounds like she enjoyed being an animal.

"Oh yah, one last thing. Your wings are pure black and you have triangles running down your back and tail that are the same colour." Now that I think of it there's no way she looks like a deer.

"Triangles?" She look confused.

"Yah like a dinosaur. You know they stick out of you." I hoped she knew what I meant.

"Oh... Um okay then." She sounded surprised when she spoke.

We walked around for a few minutes looking around for anything of interest. We didn't really find anything.

"What do you think happened to the fourth person?" She asked worried.

"Oh you mean Elena. I'm sure she's somewhere safe." Even I didn't believe myself. When we were told that we could have died from the injection, it worried me, what if she did die? What if we're the only people, Er I mean animals, I mean... You know what I mean. Who had survived. What if we're the only people in Atlow? I had to calm down. I don't want to scare her.

"You think?" She looked up at me hopefully.

"I'm sure of it." As soon as I said it I looked away. I didn't want her to see me sweat from nervousness. Do I sweat now or would I pant? Ether way it could make her uneasy.

The lab we were in looked like it was sectioned off. One part had a bunch of half built robots. Another had a bunch of test tubes with different liquids in them. (Tsume was running around in there. Studying each liquid for a moment then moving on.) another section had a bunch of computer screens and one of them was on.

"Hey Titania see that, wanna go check it out?" I asked before running in anyway. The one screen that was on was the biggest. It had to have been half the size of a movie theatre screen. On it was what looked like someone's screen saver. Just moving lights to keep the screen from burning.

I looked for a mouse or mouse pad but all I found were two different wires. One was connected to a power outlet. The other lead off into a dark part of the lab. I followed it as best as I could when I heard Titania shout out.

"Wait up I can help!" It made me stop.

"Really how?"

"Dragons can breath fire right. So why don't I try that?" I didn't see anything wrong with that.

"And burn the whole place down." Tsume walked up behind us. "I couldn't find anything and I saw you running here, what's up akuma?"

"Nothing I just wanted to follow this wire to what it connects to. It could be important." I tried to make it seem very important.

"It's probably just connecting to a computer elsewhere." He had no clue what kind of idea he just gave me.

"That's exactly why I want to follow it. We could be going to a computer in information or files or something that could explain why where here. We could search it for something useful." His face lit up as soon as I said that.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" He ran off into the darkness.

"Get back here! You have no idea what's out there!" I yelled out to him.

"Sure we know the cable is out here so pick it up and follow it." I need to stop forgetting that he's the smart one.

"Sounds okay I guess but what if there's something else out there?" Titania asked quietly.

"If something out in the darkness was going to get us then it would have done that when we were passed out. Now let's go." His foot steps trailed off.

"After you." I said holding my hand towards the darkness.

"Not on your life." She said back. Guess being scared means you can't be polite. The nerve of some people.

We walked off into the darkness and followed the cable. The future of man kind. Turned into animals and put back in the dark. Some future this is.