|| Animal DNA || <<Semi-literate - literate only >>

[Dragoness]

Lumi watched Doctor Kelly. He was the best of all of them, the only one she didn't always feel like biting. He seemed to be a bit more understanding. She tapped the floor with he tail thoughtfully. He didn't come back here often.

[Zwei]

(I play piano too. My favorite type of songs to play are usually classical, quiet, and elegant music. <3)

The return of Sophie's presence snapped Rollo out of her thoughts. She gave a small grunt of displeasure; she was just about to doze off again. But Dr. Kelly was there, too, and this made Rollo a bit surprised. She hadn't seen him since her interview, a little over a week ago. But something told her that Fabian had also been at her transformation, three days and one night ago. But Rollo had been too busy seething in pain to realize his presence then. Blinking at the red and green lights that appeared when Dr. Kelly opened Sophie's cage, Rollo put her hand above her eyes to avoid the sudden light. She never was the early bird type, and her bear DNA didn't help at all with that case, but whatever small amount of light she could get now was taken in greedily. The last time she was in broad daylight was when they were walking her to her new 'home', if it even qualified as a room.

[XxBlueEyedBrunettexX]

Cleo Mae Knights
A tall, slim, young lady was sitting her her lonesome cell. 'Listening' to the conversations happening around her. Her dark, mahogany colord eyes glowing brightly in the dim light of her cell. Her black velvety wings wrapped tightly around her, giving her tiny body, a bigger appearence than what she really was.

A soft sigh escaped her clenched teeth as she saw Fabian 'escort'in Sophie. She watched him with an intent gaze, a sly grin dancing playfully on her tender lips. Thoughts bounding though her head, thoughts that wouldnt benifit Fabian. Even though she had only been here a few months, she knew who was who and knew all the secrets of this place. That was problily because of her DNA mix, seeing how Ravens knew everyhting, and told everything, and everything else that had to do with 'gossip' Slowly she stood up and made her way to the front of her cage, placing a small hand on the see-through plastic or galss stuff that caged her in. Slowly she let her wings unravel to almost there full lenth in her cage, giving her a large appearnce over almost every one in that room.

It had only been a few weeks since the last group of 'oddballs' as she called them set of for there last mission, and she knew that a new mission would be coming up son, and she was bound and determined to go on this mission this time. Her gaze rested on Fabian and Sophie for a few short seconds before she spoke out, above all the other conversations. She had always been the bold one, but this was even taking a leap for her. I mean Fabian was the one with the scalple right. "Fabian..." She said, with a small chirp. "Can i assume that a mission will be coming up soon." She smirked, as she took a long look at her handsome velvety black feathers. She then let her gaze fall back onto Fabian. "Correct me if I am wrong." She smiled playfully at him, letting out another soft chirp.

((Uuuk, such a horid first post!))

[Dragoness]

Lumi stood stood up again, ears flicking to catch all the little noises that flew around the building. The other hybrids such as her self shifted about in there cages and spoke to one and other softly. Tails flicked and eyes flashed but she ignored them, ignored them all. Here thoughts were moving again, shifting. Lumi took a deep breath, the scents of the scared, the bitter, and the lost met her nose. 'Such a place of despair.' She thought almost sulkily. 'What have we done to get here? We were all sold? Were some of us stolen?' Lumi wasn't exactly the most sympathetic person alive but her thoughts went out to those trapped here with her. They were all in the same boat. That wasn't about to change. Lumi lashed her tail again, it looked like a ghost in the low light. Silver and indistinct. 'We could change that. We could get out, make a life for our selves far away where we could defend our selves and be free. No more cages, no more experiments.' Lumi's heart ached with primal desire. She wanted to be free. To see the sun again. The stars. She stopped moving and sat on her bed, a single tear ran down her cheek before she bit back her emotions and buried them. 'I have to try.' She thought fiercely. 'Wishes and dreams won't set us free.' She snarled lowly, wishing for all the world snow leopards could roar. Then she could make them hear. Her fellow hybrids were strong. She shook her head again. No, they wouldn't help. She would have to get out, alone. Just to prove that you could. Then maybe some would smarten up. She'd have to plan. Lumi curled around her self and lay down with her face hidden in the fur of her tail. Dozing thoughtfully. 'Maybe, just maybe..' she thought to her self before her mind retreated into the blissful escape that was sleep.

[grim.]

Ω Hyland Joel Blade Ω

Grainy, light golden eyes flicked back and forth between the cells. Black pupils slittled slightly, protesting the lights from Sophie's cell. A low gutteral hissing sounded from his throat and his tounge ran over small, sharp teeth. Hyland listened the every conversation circulating the room, trying not to drift off into the sleep that seemed to become to him. He'd been here for two days and it was a living, hell. He'd been awake for both days and nights, and was struggling not to fall asleep.

His dim eyes trailed lazily after Sophie and Fabian as she was led back to her cell. He lay sprawled on the floor, absorbing the small amount of heat that wafted off of it. His cell was heated, he was part saltwater crocodile, which in turn made him cold-blooded. His cell had to be heated. The bed? He'd crawled underneath it two days ago when he was brought in and he hadn't moved since. Food lay uneaten where the scientists[?] had dropped it.

He scratched absently at a small bump on his collarbone. He knew they had implanted something under his skin, he just didn't know what or why. It bugged him, making his flesh itchy and sore. His scratching had caused the skin to redden and in some places, bleed. He sighed and curled into the tight ball on his side, staring at the cell across from him. He knew it held another like himself, part snake. Though he didn't know what kind, nor did he care.

His eyes fluttered shut and he jerked his head back, wincing as the bones in his neck let out a loud, prosestant cracking sound at the sudden movement. He withdrew his hand from his neck, trying to ignore the urge to claw at the bump on his collarbone. He was still awaiting his first test, but he doubted he would do it. He would refuse and simply hope he got shot.

Hyland would've killed himself hours ago if he could reach his throat with his mouth. He could of course, nor could he find a sharp object to impale himself upon. His spirt didn't need anymore crushing. It had been crushed years ago after his three best friends were killed in a car accident and he himself had been put in a coma.

Without thinking his hand resumed clawing at his neck and he did not realize it until the tangy scent of blood retched his nostrils. He stared blankly at his neck but did not stop scratching. An odd sort of calmness calm over him and his eyes fluttered closed again, his back pressed against the wall, wedged between the wall, the floor, and the bottom of the bed. The only way to reach him was the same way he had gotten under the bed. Crawling.

[Bah. I'm only a semi-lit myself. Hope my first post was alright. I'm half-asleep at the moment and this came off the top of my head.]

[Zwei]

(Don't worry about it, I'm also semi-lit, on the edge to becoming literate. I can write literate posts, they just take forever. >.>)

Rollo hadn't realized before how much she relied on sight, as the light from Sophie's cell, however dim, aloud her to see lots of mutated people. Let's see... Crocodile, Raven, Mamba... She counted mentally to herself how many people she had missed. Rollo knew that if she were to survive this dreadful place, she needed all her senses reliable. Especially her sense of smell. Rollo knew very well that
if her sense of smell were to be weak, some one might as well come over and stab her in the back right then and there. Everything that Rollo could see was tainted an ugly yellow green, more of a puckish color, because of the old dusty light bulbs that probably hadn't been changed since the 1990's.

Rolling to the farthest side of the bed, a thick mat of dust rose into the air, causing her to sneeze. Rollo had expected her usual high-pitch girly sneeze, but a rough, croaky, loud noise surprised her. Uck. I sound like a man. Rollo thought to herself, disgusted.
Giving herself a quick pad-down to get all the dust off of her, Rollo closed her eyes, hoping to get one last bit of sleep before morning came. She was not looking forward to more poking and prodding in the lab(?).

[Mystic Starsong]

Suki stayed silent as the rhino-frog-girl was escorted back to her cage. Her tail flicked from side to side as she realized it was the head doctor, Fabian, who had brought her back. She sighed quietly, all the different things the girl could have done to escape running through her head, the things she would have done rather than be led back to a cage like an animal. She'd seen the head doctor a couple times when she was down in the main lab, but he seemed to prefer letting the other scientists deal with the training of newbies like herself.
She twitched as she heard a low growl soming from the snowleopard-girl's cage. Seemed someone wasn't happy with their current position as an experiment. Suki wished she could do the same thing, but she didn't want to be considered a trouble maker on her first day out among the others, especially in front of the doc.

[lycr]

Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement,
that now
And again now, and now, and now

Asha's eyes flitted up to where a low snarl came from. Sensing alot of emotions from that direction, Asha suddenly felt sympathetic for the occupant, along with a twinge of annoyance.

She got taken away from her life, and now has to live in this place as a lab rat. She has a perfect right to be upset. She misses her home. We all do, and wishing for it is just going to waste up brain cells.

Why can't people learn to accept things?

Then, realizing that there was a bit of emotion that just scented anxious and...hopeful. Putting two and two together, Asha now realized Lumi's yearning for escape, and was suddenly reminded of her own dreams and hopes in the first 1-2 months she had gotten here, that just got cruelly shredded by the machines out here. In a few seconds, Asha quickly rehearsed something out to say to Lumi to try and console her and make her happier, but when she did, she realized that Lumi's heartbeat slowed, and there wasn't as much warmth rediating from her. She had fallen asleep.

Asha truly hoped that Lumi would be happier when she wakes up.

[Dragoness]

(I'm normal much more literate then this, but I've been struggling recently.)

Lumi twitched in her sleep. Her mind had taken her to her old home when she was about five. She was in the picture perfect suburban yard on the picture perfect swing set looking like a perfect little girl in her pink sundress and hat. She'd loved that dress, it had always made her feel pretty. She sat there swinging, pretending she was a little dove flying high above all the clouds, free to do what ever, be what ever, she liked. She was laughing so freely as her mind spread her little dove wings. There were planes and sparkling oceans and all these lovely things! She'd laughed and laughed. Eyes alight as she swung. as she watched and airplane in her minds eye. It was so huge! and there was a little girl in it waving to her! Lumi the dove waved back, the girl was surely off on some great adventure in a far away land with her loving parents. The plan passed by.
Leaving Lumi to fly alone.

She'd opened her eyes then, sad that the plane in her mind had gone by and left her alone. Free form her imagination Lumi noticed she was swinging very high. And, with the logic of a five year old's cartoon fed mind, she figured that if she jump off the swing she'd go soaring right onto the roof! What fun! Lumi determinedly gripped the swing and started to swing faster and higher, when she thought she had enough speed she let go and threw her self forward. She flew for a moment but her sun dress had gotten caught on the swing and it yanked her down, smashing five year old Lumi in the grass face first. She cried out, so hurt and confused. Not understanding what had made her fall. And her pretty sun dress was all ripped! She bawled as her mother came out the sliding glass door and jogged over to her. Her mothers face was contorted with anger. "Lumi!" she yelled "Why would you do something like that! You've ripped your dress!" Lumi's mother ignored her daughter's cuts and scarps and picked her up roughly, hauling her in side. Where her father was waiting. Lumi was still crying, now so scared of her parents reaction as much as of the fall and the pain. Her father yelled "Lumi why would you upset your mother like that! Ripping your dress and jumping off a swing! What's wrong with you?! You even ruined your hat!" Lumi cried louder now. She just wanted to get away, to nut be yelled at anymore. But instead her father grabbed her arm and dragged her up to her room. "I'll teach you young lady!" He said as he hauled her.
And her did, he made her pay for what she'd done.
Afterwords he closed the door to her room and left her sobbing in the dark with the window closed and blinds down. She was hunger but she knew if she went down her father would punish her again. So she curled up hungry and scared and sore and cried the night through.

Lumi snapped awake with a choked snarl of fear and pain. That was so long ago but the memory still hurt. She crawled off her bed and curled in the corner of her cage with tears dripping from her eyes. hugging her tail like she would have the stuffed horse she'd had as a child. She rocked there, trying to chase away the memory.

[galaxyglitch]

((Your posts are wonderful, Dragoness. What do you think about making the font a bit smaller? That way, you don't stretch out the page so much.))