Snippet #1879543

At the moment Yuan was fast asleep. His family had always commented on how heavily he slept, that they wouldn’t be surprised if he slept through an earthquake one day. Not that there were many earthquakes around their place which Yuan liked to point out to them but the general understanding was there. Yuan was a heavy sleeper. He liked to say it was because he was so active during the day that by the time night came he was so exhausted that he just collapsed and slept all his worries away. He had six younger sisters. That was enough to tire any boy out. He had always preferred the night time to day time. Night was when he got to be alone, to gather up his thoughts and either draw or write whichever he felt like doing. It was his own personal time after the hardships of running around after his family during the day. Not that he complained. They didn’t have his father to fall back on anymore and since he was now the only male of the family then it was only fair for him to be looking after them. This was why, despite the fact that he had been through such a horrible event, had strange animal DNA injected into him and was now locked up god knows where, he slept like a baby, until the flickering of the cell light began to eat away at the calming darkness that surrounded his mind, his dream land flickering before fading away completely.

“April is that you?” he muttered sleepily as he pulled his tired form up, rubbing at his eyes slightly as his mind slowly began to catch on to the fact that this cold and dingy cell was not the warm comfortable bedroom in which he had fallen to sleep. Suddenly his eyes snapped wide awake as he stared across at the metal door with the slot in the middle, breathing coming hard and fast as he tried not to panic. Where was he? How the heck did he get here...and why was he here even? And just why was the flickering light proving to be annoying him more than the fact that he’d apparently been kidnapped? Alright then Yuan. What the hell have you gotten yourself into this time? He was trying to stay calm and for the short while that he sat staring at the door as he allowed his tired mind to kick into action, he was reasonably calm. Dark eyes scanned the small area, looking for and failing to find a possible way to escape, tail twitching in annoyance.
Wait what tail? TAIL!?. Yes, there it was, sticking out a hole that had been cut into the plain white pants that he wore and it was very much attached to himself as he found when he tugged on it painfully, trying to convince himself that he was either still dreaming or this was some type of sick joke. How... how could he have a tail? Now he was panicking. He leapt to his feet, well more like crouched up more, tugging off the pants and pulling hard on the tail, only stopping as a creepy ass voice broke through the deathly silence.

"Hello my specimens" . Yuan blinked, pausing on his tugging and glancing up towards the light as though that was the source of the light, letting off a short scream as the action caused his hair to fall in front of his eyes. His pure blonde, almost while locks...where now a light auburn red colour. “W...what the fu...” he whispered weakly, glancing back up as the voice broke through his thoughts once more, "Let me explain where you currently reside at, you're in a prison for your existence, you're an abomination that must be studied for the greater good.”. So... he was in a cell then, and by the sounds of things there was more than himself here. He had to agree though he was an abomination, at least he was now. He had a tail that wouldn’t come off, had sudden red hair and... He didn’t want to think about the fact his hearing seemed far more sensitive than usual or that his ears... they seemed to have gone someplace... No no Yuan focus on the tail. Let’s not freak out any more than is needed. "You'll reside here for the rest of your life. Escape and other dreams are unfathomable you're mine now."

And with those last few words panic stuck him again. The rest of his life? They had to be kidding right? This was all some kind of sick and twisted joke or nightmare. Soon he’d wake up to the sound of April and Jennifer in the kitchen fighting over the last of the cereal, his mother on the phone trying to sort out an unpaid bill while Chloe and Jessie worked on getting everyone out in time for the school run...How could he possibly accept never seeing their faces again?

What had happened...what...? He blinked, feeling tears falling as the situation slowly began to sink in, began to become real. The coldness that clung to his skin was hard to ignore, the painful throb on his backside reminded him of the extra body part he seemed to have grown, his hair hung over his eyes, shining red against the flickering light which almost seemed to mock him as he let the tears fall. With a shaking hand he reached slowly up and brushed the top of his head, breaking out into soft sobs as he felt the triangular shaped ears that lay low against the side of his head as more crying broke free.

None of this made any sense! How...how could this sort of thing be real? Why would anyone go out of their way to kidnap people and turn them into...well whatever the hell it was that he was now? What was he? Could be even be called human anymore? He seemed to be what his sister described as a Neko or something though his tail was not that for a cat, that much he was sure of though the thought did little to ease his mind. He sat, hugging into his knees and trying not to cry too loudly for the sounds where loud to his sensitive new ears. He wondered how the others were coping and just how many there would be and if he would ever get to meet any of them. He also wondered how long it would take before he went insane.