Project Raven: Identification Required
#5 of Project Raven
The continuation of Project Raven. It seems that safe haven is upon our heroes as is their escape, but nothing is ever what it seems...
Project Raven - Identification Required
Blackness surrounded Hale as he felt his body floating as though in a pool of water that he could breathe in. He wasn't sure how he had gotten there, nor how long he had been suspended in the strange place. Part of him wondered if it was merely a dream, while another part was certain that he had somehow gotten converted and still another if he had actually died. Either way as he continued to idly float through space he found a strange peace to it, as though he didn't have a care in the world...
As Hale started to become more and more aware the darkness began to brighten, turning to a misty grey. "Ah, here comes another one." He heard a voice say, small yet at the same time with a powerful aire to it. "Wait a second... this one isn't converted."
"Impossible." A second voice scoffed, just as powerful sounding but with an arrogant tone to it. The mists quickly evaporated and he found himself inside a room filled with monitors, the same room he had seen earlier when he had first woken up from his attack. The two figures were there too, except that their shapes were far more detailed than before. Their forms were still mere shadow though, even as they approached them and scanned him over with glowing eyes.
"Well would you look at that." The bigger, dragon-shaped shadow said, Hale able to see a thin smile on the shadow's muzzle. "They somehow managed to halt the rubberization process... though it looks like they couldn't stop the link from forming."
"Yes, he has been somewhat transformed." The smaller, bird sized shadow said as it sat on a railing just above him. "But with the link to us and his personality still intact perhaps he could be of great use to us..."
"I suppose it would be nice to finally put an end to our little... disagreement once and for all." The dragon replied before it turned its head towards him. "But do you think that he could even make it to where we are though? He's kind of... puny."
"He will come." The bird shadow said before he turned to Hale as well. "After all, you wouldn't want this entire island to remain the brood of rubber monsters, do you?"
A sudden bump jostled Hale to his senses as he gripped onto the seat he had been laying on. He saw that the rain had almost completely stopped aside from a light misting, though more lightning flashed in the distance to signal another round of storms as the vehicle he was in continued to drive towards the huge skyscraper that dominated the small peninsula of the island. It appeared that they had managed to outrace the rubbery infection, the people that they saw still outside were relatively normal looking and unchanged. He could tell they were definitely in the upscale part of the resort, even the bungalows were twice as big as the one that he had stayed at.
"Welcome back to the world of the living." Bryan said as he noticed the arctic wolf stirring, the Tasmanian Tiger still snoring loudly next to him. "Just in time too, there's some sort of security check around the building. The scientist snake says that it shouldn't be a problem to get through, but we all need to be awake just in case."
After rousing Loki from his slumber as well they all watched as they approached the gate that barred them from entrance to the Rockpoint Hotel. "Sorry sir, no visitors at this time." The armored red dragon said once their vehicle had been stopped, looking into the passenger side window. "We're under lockdown until... uh..." his words failed him for a moment as he saw Bryan, Loki, and Hale dressed in their scalesuits and holding strange weapons while Yauchi sat there and waved at him.
"I'm Dr. Marcovi of Sibergon Labs." The snakeman said as he showed the guard his identification. "I think you'll find that my entourage and I are cleared to enter this building, Mr..."
"Skize." The dragon replied as he took the ID card. "Sibergon Labs, I thought they had all been evacuated already. If you'll all just step out of the car I'll have my supervisor run this through, and then we can talk about letting you inside the building."
Hale and the others quietly filed out of the car as they watched the guard go inside the perimeter, the light drizzle of rain rolling of their scalesuits and keeping their bodies amazingly dry. "Kind of makes you feel inferior, doesn't it?" Loki commented to Hale as they looked up at the skyscraper. "These people probably have more money then we'll ever make in a lifetime and they're treated differently for it. They get all these security measures while those monsters run rampant in the streets, taking our friends..."
Hale nodded silently, though he could feel a ball of sadness begin to crawl up his throat. While he had tried not to think about it, he knew that Archer and Slyph were out there somewhere, either hiding in fear or already taken by those creatures. He hadn't seen hair or hide of them since they had started running, and with no one behind them trying to escape he could only assume the worst. Bryan had said nothing about it, but every time they managed to make eye contact he could see the same sadness that he felt within himself.
The arctic wolf's reverie was suddenly broken as everyone looked up the hill, hearing the screeching of tires. Suddenly one of the hotel vans flew over the road, hitting the pavement with a flurry of sparks. Everyone began to back up inside the perimeter of the fence, watching as the out of control van swerved back and forth towards them...
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Slyph turned off the windshield wipers as yet another bout of rain passed, looking over at their newest passenger. "So you didn't let those things... touch you or anything, right?" The leopard asked. "I know we creamed the wolf before he managed to get his tentacles into you, but that doesn't mean..."
"I'm fine." Lark said as he looked out the window. "I'm Lark, by the way. Officer Lark."
"Well I already told you I'm Slyph." The leopard introduced. "The dragon behind us is named Sean, the vixen next to him is Liara, and the cheetah triplets in back are Larry, Curly, and Moe."
"Very funny." The cheetah on the left spoke up. "That's Artie, this is Jamie, and I'm Kyle."
Lark sighed and looked out the window. "So where are we going?" He asked.
"Rockpoint Tower." Slyph replied as he kept his eyes on the road. "It's the most luxurious hotel on the island, which means it's also probably has the best security. We're going to hunker down in there until whatever the hell is going on is resolved."
Lark merely nodded and continued to watch the resort that he had been responsible for protecting streaked past him in a blur. No matter how hard he tried he couldn't get the images out of his fellow officers being turned into monsters out of his mind. They were his friends and he just ran for it instead of trying to help them. He winced as he heard their screams turn into lustful moans in his mind, almost as if he was right there next to them once more as they returned.
"Holy shit!" Lark's body suddenly jerked over as one of the cheetah triplets screamed out. The dragon had up to that point been rubbing his belly, letting out a slight groan every so often and complaining about how his stomach had felt weird. It wasn't until he let out a loud gargling noise that everyone quickly became concerned. Sean's head tilted back as his jaw unhinged, his eyes squeezed tightly shut as inch after inch of the thick green rubber tentacle began to split down the middle.
Slyph veered the van to the side as he ducked his head down while one of the appendages ripped the back of his headrest off. "Get him out of the van!" The leopard screamed as he tried to regain control of the vehicle. "Push him out the door!"
"He's blocking the door!" One of the cheetah triplets shouted back as they cowered beneath their seat. Liara screamed as she clawed at her seatbelt as the tentacles stopped their aimless destruction and began to point back towards the hysterical vixen. At the same time more green fluid began to pour out around the lips and out of his nose and ears, coating his face scales and covering them into a nearly featureless draconic mask.
All three of the cheetahs began to pound on the glass of the back window as the tentacles wrapped around the vixen, slithering through her fur as the dragon was quickly encased in a wave of liquid rubber. The green material didn't stop at the dragon's body though, as the rubber sealed to his body like a second skin the onslaught flowed over his tentacles as well and onto the vixen's form. The tentacles that had bound her arms and legs together left as the rubber took its place, leaving only one that had snaked its way into her pants and pressed just underneath her tailhole. As the vixen was completely cocooned in rubber the newly freed tentacles turned their sights towards the cheetahs as the glass behind them began to crack under their assault.
"Hold on!" Slyph suddenly yelled as he punched the accelerator, launching the van over the hill. Metal screeched against the pavement and pressed everyone against the sides of the vehicle, including the two monsters. In front of them they were tantalizingly close to their target, the Rockpoint Hotel less than a hundred yards away from them. But before Slyph could stabilize the vehicle it tipped heavily to the left as they all heard the loud bang of the tire exploding. Everyone grabbed onto whatever they could as the leopard gripped the steering wheel and wrenched it back, his target right in front of them as he and Officer Lark squeezed their eyes shut and braced themselves.
The concrete barrier they smashed into exploded as the front end of the van was instantly crushed. Every window shattered from the sheer force as all the passengers were flung forward, only to be stopped by their seatbelts. The only one who had not been buckled in was the rubber dragon, who flew passed the two felines and the shattered windshield while leaving a trail of green rubber in his wake from his trailing tentacles. Slyph and Lark looked at each other as they slowly sat back up, then at the prone creature just outside the van.
"Is everyone alright?" Lark asked as he turned his head behind him. The cheetah triplets muttered they were ok, though they weren't sure for how long as the bottom of the van began to pool with green liquid rubber that oozed from the hole in the cocoon. "You three stay there; I'll get the door open for you."
"Hurry up please." Jamie said as they noticed the rubber encased vixen begin to move, her face and hands pushing out against the rubber as it grew tight against her transformed body. The now clearly male fox writhed in pleasure as tentacles snaked around underneath the thin layer of rubber that separated it from them. As the slick appendages began to slide out the van door opened, the leopards ushering them out as quickly as possible.
"Ow!" Kyle yelled suddenly as he staggered out of the van, nearly falling on top of Lark as he caught him and asked if he was ok. "I'm alright, just stepped on a shard of glass. I can get it out, just help my brothers!" Lark nodded and helped Slyph get the other two out, the third cheetah jumping and tumbling onto the ground as he narrowly avoided one of the tentacles wrapping around his leg.
Once the last one passed through the door they slammed the door shut, and then backed away as the newly spawned creature inside began to bang against the metal. "Run for it!" They heard from the fence that surrounded the hotel, security waving them over. Many of the guards were shouting to fall back, running towards the hotel as the five felines made a break for the fence. As they reached the midway point the rubberized dragon had already gotten back on his feet, all its tentacles writhing in the air as it bounded after them like a hungry animal. Despite their training as police officers the cheetah triplets had sprinted passed them, reaching the abandoned gates and the safety of the hotel before them. Slyph's heart pounded in his chest as nothing stood between them and the monster anymore, which gained on them with every step.
The doors were opened for them and they leapt inside, the three scale suited men slamming the door shut behind them. As they locked the door and braced against it the dragon smashed into thick glass, everyone there bracing against the door as it continued to try and reach their uninfected bodies. Thick viscous rubber smeared against the glass as his body pressed against the door, more than one officer looking away as he pressed his foot and a half long, rubber coated cock against it. When it couldn't breach the opening after a minute it stopped, the tentacles slowly sliding back into his body until what looked like a well-muscled, rubber-suited dragon stood patiently at the door.
"The glass is laced with a special metal that's not found anywhere else and has a natural positive charge running through it." Dr. Marcovi explained. "This building could withstand a nuclear bomb if it needed too."
"I'll take your word for it." Lark replied as he rested his head on the cool glass, turning slightly to look at Slyph. "You alright?"
The other leopard nodded, rubbing his arms in both anxious fear and from the hotel's air conditioned atmosphere. He still was clad only in the speedo he had worn earlier and his fur was soaked to the bone; Lark quickly stripped off his jacket and put it around Slyph's shoulders to keep him from shivering. There was a moment when their eyes met, able to feel the other's breath as Lark paused. Once they realized what they were doing they both quickly averted their eyes, Slyph thanking him for the jacket before his mouth suddenly went wide in amazement. "Hale? Bryan?"
The two canines quickly turned around when they heard their names called, both their eyes lighting up as they bounded towards their friend. "Slyph!" The arctic wolf cried out as they hugged, tears of joy gathering near his eyes. "Oh man, I didn't think we were going to see you again. Is Archer with you?"
There was a momentary pause as Slyph looked down from his two friends. He had asked around himself if anyone had seen Archer, and finally it was the dragon that had just tried to infect him that said he saw him at a party where the outbreak seemed to originate. Another survivor that had been caught just before they stole the van said that he remembered that a fox was one of the first that had been converting others at that same party, and Slyph was smart enough to put two and two together. When he relayed that information to the two they just stood there, both of them feeling a deep sadness welling up in the pit of their stomachs from their fallen friend.
"It's my fault." Hale said bitterly as he sat down in one of the lobby chairs. "Archer was alone with that infected scientist and I was the one who brought him in. It should be me out there, not him..."
"It's not your fault; you were only trying to do what was right." Bryan retorted as he sat down next to the wolf and put an arm around his shoulders. "No one on this planet could have anticipated this." For a few minutes they just sat there as the security detail tried to make sense of all the chaos. The entire building had been put into lockdown; those few survivors who had managed to make it from the other side of the island were being given empty rooms in order to sleep and freshen up. As everyone was led to their respective rooms Dr. Marcovi slithered up to them, with Loki and the dragon security guard from earlier right behind them.
"We've finally been given clearance to the top floor." The naga muttered as he motioned for them to follow. "Let us hurry and get off this forsaken island while we still can." Their entire group immediately got up and went to the elevators, with Dr. Marcovi leading them. The elevator doors were made of a brass so polished they could easily see their reflections in it, which showed them their fatigue as clearly as they felt it. They didn't have to wait long until the doors slid open and they all piled in to see what fate awaited them on the top.
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"These rooms are awesome!" Jamie exclaimed as he ran around the room, his brother Kyle lying under the covers in bed while flipping through the channels on the television as their other brother Artie took a shower in the master bathroom. "It's too bad that it took a horrific mass gimpsuit infection to get into one of these."
"Well we're still together, that's what counts." Kyle replied. "I told you that we weren't going to get separated no matter what as long as we looked out for one another. Now we reached safe haven as a family still."
Jamie's smile fell a little and he hugged the bathrobe he had changed into tighter on his body. "Yeah, I guess we did. Lost a lot of friends tonight though..." The energetic tone had ebbed out of the room as both cheetahs looked down, the adrenaline that had been coursing through the body fading from their systems. "But hey, brothers forever, right? Maybe when all this is over they'll give us vouchers to stay at a hotel like this for real, you know, for all the pain and suffering and such."
"Don't know about that, these rooms are probably a thousand a night." Kyle replied with a small chuckle as his brother tried to lighten the mood once more. "As soon as we get done cleaning up we'll explore the place and try and find something to eat. I can't wait to see what sort of attractions the rich have for themselves."
Jamie nodded and bounded back into the bed, lying next to his brother and putting an arm over Kyle's chest. Kyle took a free hand and ran it through the other cheetah's hair as he continued to run through the huge number of channels they had. He knew they were all tired from their ordeals, they had all been through a terrible night and they finally had a chance to rest. As he felt his brother's hot breath against his neck he started to drift off, the remote falling to the side as his eyes started to droop...
"Kyle?" He heard suddenly, bringing him quickly back to the realm of consciousness.
"What is it?" Kyle asked as he yawned and rubbed his eyes.
"Um... well..." There was a tone of embarrassed nervousness in his brother's tone as he could feel his weight shift against him. "It's just... I can feel you pressing against my back."
Kyle could feel his own embarrassment rise as he realized that he had a sizable erection and quickly turned away. He had never had anything like that happen to him before when he was around either brother and it wasn't the first time they had all slept in the same bed. There were several times where they had kissed, but it was either to rile up someone that one of them wanted to bed or they were drunk and someone had dared them. For some reason guys loved the whole twin aspect, though for the life of him he couldn't understand why...
"Sorry about that." Kyle apologized before he turned back towards Jamie once more. "I guess with all the stress finally subsiding my body is just confused."
"Oh, ok." Jamie replied with a small smile. "Hey Kyle, I know this might be the wrong time but I've always been curious... do you find me attractive?"
"What?" Kyle asked in surprise.
"Well it's just that when we were with the rest of the group and were describing our perfect men, when it came to your description you wanted something that sounded a lot like us." Jamie explained as he bit his lip. "The lithe build, feline, great flexibility..."
Kyle moaned slightly as his brother described his perfect idea of a male, suddenly covering his mouth as he realized what he just did. He had no idea what was wrong with his body or why it was reacting so, but as Jamie laughed at his embarrassment he could feel his arousal growing with each second. It wasn't a subconscious hard-on anymore; he was getting turned on by his brother. A low growl escaped his throat as he leaned forward, Jamie's grin disappearing as he saw his brother eye him up with a hungry look in his eye. He was just about to ask him what was wrong when he leaned forward and kissed him deeply. Jamie was too shocked by the actions of the other amorous male to do anything, his head pressed into the soft pillow as Kyle slowly slid on top of him.
Once Jamie's mouth no longer had the other cheetah's tongue in it he took a deep breath. "You're breaking one of our rules you know." He managed to get out before once more their lips locked together. They had always agreed that they would never ever have sex with one another, even when they were double-teaming some guy that wanted to do twins, just so it would never get awkward between them. But none of that seemed to matter as Kyle slid his hands inside his robe, revealing his tight muscles as his chest heaved up and down.
"Artie will be done with his shower soon." Jamie said nervously as his naked body was exposed, and despite his protests his own six inches had begun to harden. Kyle just continued to kiss and lick down his body, causing the other cheetah to groan and writhe under his ministrations. Any thoughts about how wrong it was quickly flew out the window as he felt his brother's hot breath against his sensitive shaft, looking down at him as he grabbed it with one hand and licked it with the tip of his tongue. "K-Kyle..."
The covers slid off the bed as Kyle rubbed his hands down Jamie's inner thighs, his head slowly lowering down over his cock as his tongue continued to swirl around it. He gripped the sheets, unable to do anything but mewl and moan as he watched his brother pleasure him. But as Kyle's head bobbed up and down his eyes were drawn past that to his bandaged foot. It had begun to lose its fur, the skin underneath a golden sheen as what looked like bloated veins had crawled all the way up to his side and began to branch out through his abs and back.
"You're infected!" Jamie shouted, but before he could properly scream for help Kyle's tail extended unnaturally long and wrapped around his neck. It curled around his throat twice before the tip slithered up and shoved itself into his mouth to gag him. In one quick motion his brother had grabbed his wrists as well while his weight on his legs effectively pinned him to the bed as he continued to suck. He could see flecks of gold start to form on the red flesh of his cock, Kyle's drool turning from a thin clear fluid to a thick, viscous gold that leaked down his shaft and onto his groin. The young cheetah tried to resist, tried to struggle out of his infected brother's grasp, but with each passing second the undeniable pleasure began to override his fear.
As the golden rubber soaked in through his cock he looked down at his brother once more, who stared up at him with gold-veined eyes. There was a look in his eyes as he hilted him, passed the look of animalistic hunger. It was sadness, and though it was quickly fading from him Jamie knew that his brother was regretting what he was doing to him. With his mouth gagged all he could do was try to mentally tell him that it was alright and that it wasn't his fault, and then ceased his struggles to accept his fate. He was almost immediately rewarded with a body-shaking burst of pleasure, the tail in his throat wiggling around in his mouth as it began to taste of rubber. The pleasurable assault in his mouth and on his cock continued and his hips began to buck up, jamming his meat into the flexible throat of his captor.
It wasn't long after Jamie's submission he surrendered his load as well, moaning into the tail gag as he shot his seat straight down Kyle's throat. When he was finished cumming his brother slowly pulled off, his lips dragging up the now-golden flesh before slipping off the tip and letting the semi-hard cock bob in the air. By now the golden rubber had assimilated the entirety of his leg and side, the golden veins moving across his upper chest and shoulders before he flipped his brother over onto his stomach. Jamie whimpered into the gag as he felt the fur around his groin disappear, covered by the slowly spreading golden rubber.
Jamie could feel the vibrations of Kyle's purring on his back as he felt something press against his backside, spreading his taut buttcheeks as he arched into it. There was no fear now, the rubber coursing through his system already corrupting his thoughts. Before he merely accepted becoming one of those creatures, but now he wanted nothing more than for his brother to spear his insides with his huge cock and speed up his transformation so they could be the same once more. He didn't have to wait long; his hands digging into the mattress as the head popped passed his anal ring. It was definitely bigger than his now, though as his own rubber-coated cock was sandwiched between his abs and the bed he could feel it begin to inflate with muscle.
As the foot-long length disappeared into his backside Jamie could feel his insides altering, the cock inside him dribbling it's transformative pre into him and making his fleshy tunnel far more accommodating. His brother's rubbery chest pushed into his back, the dominant cheetah letting go of his wrists and wrapping his arms around him. All Jamie could do was pant into the rubber tail gag in his mouth as he could feel his own body begin to alter, the rubber accelerating over his flesh as his chest began to swell. As Kyle rolled his hips to slide his cock in and out of his tailhole the movement of his upper body ceased, merely holding him in place as he pounded into him.
Jamie gasped as he felt his brother push deeper into him than anyone ever had before as he golden rubber began to leak from his mouth, drooling down his brother's tail. He was so lost in the pleasure of the thick cock inside him he failed to notice as the rubber on his body began to merge with his brother's, knitting together until the seam of their two bodies pressed together disappeared completely. The same happened with their entwined legs, the rubber coming together and the merged mass redistributing until it formed a pair of massive digigrade legs. Jamie could feel his head begin to be pulled backwards as his brother's arms sank into his chest while his own ballooned with muscle. Soon even their wild humping ceased, the bottom cheetah moaning into the gag with ecstasy as he felt the cock in his body push forward until it bulged out his groin. He turned their conjoined bodies and watched as the lump formed next to his own member before a second cock pushed through, identical to his own as they both were painfully erect.
The tail that had kept him quiet for so long finally slid out of Jamie's muzzle as the golden rubber began to leak out of his ears and nose, his brother's doing the same as their mouths were open in a silent scream of pleasure. Their shoulders reconfigured to their new duel-headed configuration as the rubber continued to flow out of them until it coated their faces completely, forming into a cheetah patterned gold and black mask with a silver visor covering their eyes. As the new creature grew acclimated to his body the two heads turned towards the shower, where the steady stream of water suddenly turned off...
Artie sighed as he shut off the water to the huge waterfall-inspired shower he had been in for the last half hour, his fur dripping wet as he held his face in his hands. The memories of the night had been eating away at him ever since they got to the hotel, feeling survivor's guilt and from the horror of seeing his friends turned into monsters. While he knew that they were safe now he couldn't help but still be terrified for both him and his brothers.
He began to run one of the hotel's fluffy towels through his fur when he heard the sound of the door open. "Sorry for the wait, it's your-" he started to say before he turned around, his mouth dropping open at what he saw. The two-headed rubber cheetah was easily over seven feet tall, thickly muscled with two cocks pointing straight at him. His bottom lip quivered slightly as the creature approached him, its two tails writhing behind it. In a last ditch effort he tried to run, but his foot slipped on the wet porcelain and he fell into the bathtub on his back.
As Artie scrambled onto all fours the creature pounced, the still-untainted cheetah yelling as his former brother's pinned him to tub floor. The rubber pressed against his back exploded into several tentacles that immediately began to cover his body, cocooning him against the monster's chest as they wrapped around his body and legs. His screams were quickly silenced by a thick hand against his mouth as it pressed his head back, which had started to shift backwards as his body began to shrink into the huge form behind him. The only things that weren't covered in tentacles were his arms and cock, but as he squirmed against his bonds they began to shift as well.
The two headed cheetah moaned, their masks splitting and allowing their foot-long gold tongues to slide out past their lips. Artie felt his entire body go numb as the other two heads stretched their necks and began to lick his face, one of them slipping into his mouth as the other licked his ear. His arms were quickly coated with gold and black patterned rubber as they slid into place underneath the first pair, the mass from the rest of his body forming a second set of pecs and flowing into the appendages until they were nearly identical to the first pair. His cock did the same, nestling itself besides the other two as it grew to nearly a foot of rubber-covered length.
With his body completely assimilated the rubber began to slide up his neck as the two other heads coated his head with golden saliva. Artie could feel the tongue in his ear slide all the way into his skull, leaking the rubber to convert him fully into the fold. Soon a third tongue, his tongue, slid out and twined with the one in his mouth, the rubber on his face joining together until three identical heads were making out with one another. Once the three merged brothers were sufficiently reprogrammed their attentions turned outwards. They could sense the unconverted, their noses sniffing the air as their three tails whipped around behind them. The massive three headed beast ripped down the door of their hotel room, their rubber cocks dripping and ready as it hunted for prey...