Richard Adams's Story

Richard was floating peacefully on his water tank, almost completely asleep. On the right of the cell, his bed lay there, completely unused, for he preferred to sleep on his water tank. Next to the bed was a set of chains, used as much as the bed was, which was none. He had his eyes closed, since he found staring at the ceiling to be boring and pointless. He wondered if he could get a bigger tank, one which allowed him to swim, maybe he could ask to be moved to the swimming pool. That would be a much better place to live.

Outside of his cell, two guards were preparing to enter. One of them was waiting for the other one, a new guard, to open the door. The one waiting was distracted by the conflict going on the other cells. When the new guy finally got the door open, the other guard was too distracted to notice. He entered, leaving the other behind. "Oh, look at him, sleeping like nothing is happening." Said the new guard with a mocking voice, and prepared his shock stick, not realizing Richard wasn't in chains. "Time to wake up." He said, as he put the electric stick on the water. "What are you...Wait! No!" Said the other guard, who realized what the new guy was going to do.

Richard felt the electricity pass through his body. The pain made him sit up suddenly, and wake up completely. He looked at the guard, and rage and pain filled him. Following his instincts , he jumped at the guard. His sharp teeth already out, and his jaw open bigger than any person could. He bit the shoulder and neck of the guard, and teared a big chunk of flesh. The guard fell to the floor, grabbing the wound, and making a bloddy mess on the cell. "Oh shit!" Said the other guard, who readied his shock stick.

Richard rubbed his eyes. "Chill James, I'm already woken." He said, grabbing a towel and cleaning the blood from his chin and mouth. He spat all the flesh that was stuck in his teeth before he retracted them, you could never know where these guards have been. "Chill? You just killed him!" James said, never understood how Richard was allowed to be without chains. "I was sleeping, and the guy shocked me, what do you expect?" He said, going into the changer and putting on one of his suits. "What is it that you want anyways?" James said. "They are going to give you cake. What the hell do you think?! You are getting tested again."

Richard moved around the dead body, and out of the cell. "Testing again? I got injecte with whatever crap you guys used yesterday." Richard made a face. "You guys even shocked the crap out of me." James looked at him. "Thats because you tore one of the doctors head of with one bite, and then you mutilated two guards." Richard shrugged "He kept poking me with the damn needle." James was getting angry. "Thats what the test consists of jackass." Richard looked at him and said "And the guard kept calling me a jackass" and flashed him a smile full of sharp teeth. James went paled, and wished for the fifth time that day that they could actually get guns rather than these silly shock sticks. "How the hell are you unchained?!". Richard said "I can be very persuasive when I want." He then asked, "Where are we going?". James relaxed a little. "Outside, where the pool is. You are going to fight someone on your element. They want to test the winner of a fight against you on water." "Oh, what do I get if I win?". James opened the double doors that led outside and said. "Nothing." he then shoved Richard out. "Woah, careful with the suit. Its expensive."

Richard stepped outside and looked at the pool. He wanted to jump right in, after changing from his suit of course, he could never ruin a suit like this one. He then looked at the two girls that were on the other side of the place. "Those must be the ones that are gonna fight" he thought. Judging by her tail, one of them must be from some kind of tiger breed. He couldn't say much for the other, since there were no special traits. He walked closer to them, he wanted to see the fight better. "So, one is a tiger I guess, and the other one is?" He asked James, who had followed him. "A dog." Richard nodded. "And the point of making a dog breed and a tiger breed is...?" James blew air out of his mouth, annoyed. "I don't know, and frankly, I don't care. Just wait until the fight ends, and then fight whoever wins. Its not that hard to follow those instructions. Even for you."

Jon awaken in his cell with a headache in his thick Russian accent he swore "That was a bitch I wonder what is going to happen next." He sat back in his cell trying to cool down through the icy metal he looked around his cage and saw the damage he had done he smiled "It look's like a nice job compared to the amount of time they gave me." He gave a sigh he still felt a little stir crazy he really didn't like being kept inside a cage for very long because he liked being active. A guard tapped on the front of his cage "You ready?" Jon nodded he didn't ask questions only moved place to place waiting for his chance to run. Jon was led next to another half breed. He stood next to what smelled like a shark Jon looked out the window to see to females fighting Is this what they want? Jon shifted uncomfortable in his restraints.

Flying backwards with impact, Kara was able to do a flip in the air, landing on her feet, to make the impact less. Obviously, it had been painful, but not too bad. It could have been worse. She sighed, glancing at the tiger girl, speaking in a voice loud enough for only her to hear. "Funny. I'd think you'd realize that if you win this, you have to swim." She nodded her chin towards the pool. She charged at the girl, but kept her mind on not actually fighting, and bent down, dropping her shoulder and lifting the girl up, making it look like she was eventually going to smash her down, after running a few yards, she put her down, but fast and with a slight drop, making it look from far that she had smashed her.

Kara didn't know why the girl even cared. This was a fight set up by the very men who had ruined their life. And she would do anything to mess up the results. She watched the girl, pretending for the time to be out of breath, when actually that almost never happened. Please have some sense in you... she thought.

Richard looked at the pool. Oh, how he loved this pool. It was 50 meters of length, and ten of with, which wasn't bad, but the good part was its depth. The pool was 20 meters deep, which as far as he was aware, he was the only on who could hold his breath long enough to reach the bottom, and wasn't bothered by the pressure cause by such depth in water. He wanted to jump, but didn't want to ruin his suit, so he just waited for the fight to end.

Talking about the fight. He spun around, and saw that the two girls had stopped fighting, and were being leashed. One was even slapped. He walked to their direction, and when he was close enough for them to hear him easily, he said. "Well, it seems you two screwed up. which kinda sucks, because it means that there will be no water fight." He hoped there was, maybe they will be made to fight again, until someone wins. "You know, if you weren't so stubborn, you could have a much easier life. I'm talking from experience here."

Tigress's face was red where the man had slapped her. He jaw was clenched tightly, and he breathing was heavy. In other words, she was on the verge of being pissed. Her pupils were shrinking to slits. She knew she was going to lose her temper. Her breathing was growing deeper and heavier, and growling instinctively came from her vocal chords. The blood pounding in her ears were starting to over power her hearing altogether. She could barely hear what Kara said, though she did catch her name. She was couldn't hear the shark man at all.

"I... don't know. I can't... I need to..." Her voice was forced and she was breathing in gasps. She bagan leaning forward with little effort, and the metal pole groaned with strain. The pole itself was... stretching... until it snapped altogother. With a snarl of defince, she lurched forward as the pole was no longer attached to the collar. She stood up, and all her pupils were no longer circular, they were slits. Her head turned towards the entrance of the arena where she saw the guard. Tigress was on him so fast that if you blinked, it would've looked like she teleported. With one stretch of her arm, her claws sliced easily through his entire throat, and he dropped down on the ground. He was still breathing, and you could hear him gurgling his own blood until he went silent. Tigress stood over him, still breathing as if she ran a marathon. Her eyes were shut, and her pupils slowly grew back to a circular shape.

"Dagg," Kara said, watching Tigress in action. It was weird, but she herself never really lost control like that, getting insane animal urges. It rarely happened, and Kara honestly couldn't remember the last time it had. But seeing Tigress lose control, and give into the animal urges, was pretty cool. Unhooking her leash, she called out, "Impresive." She walked over, picking up the food that the man had dropped and started scarfing it down, then walking over to the pool. Looking the man over, she was surprised to realize she actually recognized him.

"Well duh it'd be easier, but considering I used to be a homesick temperamental 6 year old, this is easy." By now, Kara was bouncing on her toes, all of her energy rushing back to her, as she chucked the now empty metal tray on the ground. "Plus, from what the doctors say about you, you have quite the temper." She said, snapping her teeth together in a biting motion, while looking up at him. "And screwing up, implies that it was an accident, and we didn't mean to do it. But we did."

She shrugged slowly, her mood now hyper and needy to move around, but she knew it was rude to leave in the middle of a conversation, so she stayed still, glancing at Tigress.

Jon saw this from where he was standing through the window he smiled It seems like I should help. he pulled against his arm restraints from before they stretched but didn't snap he yelled out in Russian "God damn these restraints!" he saw some guards running down to try and to handle the other half breeds. In his restraints he ran right into the group of guard knocking them all over and running out to meet the Tiger, Dog, and Shark nodding to them without saying a word. He looked uncomfortable with his hands bound with large cuffs, and his collar on. Taking a deep breath he started to pull at his arm restraints again.

Richard saw Tigress go berserk on the guard, and though, "Or you could do that." He then looked at Kara, who was talking at him. "Well duh it'd be easier, but considering I used to be a homesick temperamental 6 year old, this is easy." She said, bouncing on her feet. "Plus, from what the doctors say about you, you have quite the temper." She said and bit her teeth. Richard gave her a full teethed smile and said. "More than temper, it is hunger. Unlike popular belief, it is not cannibalism when you are not entirely human." This only happened when he was not feed for a long time, or when he got bored of the food, which was quite a few times. Guards tended to be very nervous when they brought him food.

"And screwing up, implies that it was an accident, and we didn't mean to do it. But we did." She continued. "Oh, excuse my ignorance, but was getting leashed and slapped part of the plan?" He answered back. Annoyed that he wouldn't be able to go to the pool.

Kara shrugged, bouncing on her toes yet again. "Worse things have happened." She said, glancing at the pool and walking closer to it. "Wow do you get to go in here a lot?" She asked, her eyes lighting up at the sparkling water. She hadn't swum in a long time, since a few years back where they tried a test, and almost drowned her. But that didn't matter, because before that had happened she had loved to swim.

And she basically still did. She looked from the water to the man, yet again remembering she didn't know him. "I'm Kara by the way," her voice was light, as she turned back to look at Tigress again, bouncing more on her toes. She was nearly becoming anxious, and she knew there were guards on the way, she could hear them. But she didn't know how to get rid of the energy. So she stood there, and waited for a reply.

"I'm Kara by the way," Said Kara. Richard nodded and said ."I'm Richard." He saw Tigress come closer and glare at him. "I think I got the message across on the fact that I shouldn't be treated that way again." Richard shrugged and said "Well, I don't think they care if they lose a few guards, as long as the troublemakers are kept in place, and they might not just use shock sticks next time." He saw her getting ready and say "Well, I don't know about you two, but I'm not going to go down without a fight at least. Its pretty inevitable that we are going to lose, but, I'm going to tell them that I'm not their preppy little kitten they can train and dress up," Richard raised his hands and said. "Hey, don't shove me into your trouble. I didn't do anything, so the guards will be coming for you two, and I will be chilling and watching the show."

The door opened and a dozen guards entered the area. Most of them had rifles with them, and a few had handguns. "No one move!" Said one of them, and they all aimed their rifles at them. "Oh, this is a mistake." Said Richard, and pointed at Kara and Tigress. "You see, THEY made the mess. I was just watching." He took a step sideways to show that he didn't want any trouble. "Hey you, don't mo..." Started saying one, but another guard interrupted. "Just leave him, he's not in the fray. We'll take care of him later." Richard stepped away, and waved at Kara and Tigress sarcastically. "Have fun." He said, and stood there watching.

Kara watched, surprised at both Tigress and Richard. Tigress was so willing to risk her own life, simply to show the men who owned her that they didn't, well for lack of better phrasing, own her. And Richard was so easy to push away two other people who were going through exactly what he was. When the guards came through, guns pointed at the two, Kara was more than surprised to see a man who she didn't know appear out of no where. But what was crazier, was seeing him knock out one guard, then swing him around to hit the others.

The man looked at them, speaking about leaving. She instantly bit her lip, slightly confused. Could they even do that? Was it possible? She looked at Tigress quickly, then to the other man Richard, but before she was able to speak, another half breed appeared, and quickly tore appart the guards around her. As she waited impatiently for help, Kara went over and released her shackles, stepping away and looking at the group.

These were all strangers, and though they were each alike, she didn't trust any of them. At all. She backed up a pace or too, confusion striken on her face like when a dog is faced with too large of a group, or people it doesn't know. She didn't know what to do. She couldn't process. She backed up a bit more, her energy level getting higher and tried to stand still and see how the other three would react to the man.

Tae-Hyun paced back and forth in his cell. He knew something big was going down in the arena. He could hear the fighting and smell the blood. His guard stood in front of his cell, unflinching and unfazed. The idiot probably didn't even know yet. At that moment, the alarm was raised and the corridor begin flashing with bright red lights. The guard quickly took off, probably trying to assist his fellow guards. Tae-Hyun siezed this opportune moment. With all eyes focused on the arena, this gave him the perfect chance to escape. With surprising strength, he took hold of his leash and tore it in half.

His cell was foolishly made with bars. You would think that they would have foreseen his easy escape. He went through the bars from the side. The were a little to close together, making it slightly more difficult, but no less doable. He slipped through the bars, landing lightly on the other side. As he crossed the threshold into another corridor, a guard jumped out at him startling him and making his tail frizz up. With a quick motion, Tae-Hyun jumped onto the guard's back and swiftly snapped his neck.

He really needed to escape while the time was right, but his curiousty at what was happening at the arena overpowered his common sense. He turned left at the next waypoint and arrived at the arena. All the other half-breeds that he knew of was there, including Panthera who he had never personally liked. She was too bloodthirsty in his opinion. He didn't see much use for words at present and gave a simple short wave to those around him.

Panthera

she smiled at Tigresses response "still sour as ever i see" her chains were soon slashed to pieces. Panthera stretched her whole spine popped taking off the blindfold her stunning green eyes looked them over. her lip curled slughtly at the sight of the dog halfbreed "lead us away my dear cousin if you know how to take us out" her voice dripped with sarcasm. Panthera looked at the newcomer Ty her head nodded slightly to acknowledge his present "so do you have an idea of who else we shall take with us im sure we will meet more guards and as much as id hate to say this but we wont be enough to hold them back if they all atack us at once" her tail swished behind with impatience.

Richard followed as Tigress and the rest left the place. He knew that if they all left, and he was the only present when more guards came, they would find an excuse to blame him. He didn't want to be here when the rest found the mess they left behind, well ok, he did want to see their reactions to the carnage, but he still followed them. On the way, they found another breed, this one didn't talk much, but he seemed to want to leave with them.

They kept going, until Tigress made them stop to rescue someone Panthera. As far as he could tell, they didn't like each other, but for some reason Tigress still saved her. "Why hello cuz. Its not a pleasure to see you. However, I am ever so slightly humane. So I'm not going to leave you here to be tortured to death." Said her when she freed her. Richard almost laughed. Humane? She didn't look so humane when she was slaughtering the guards. "So" interrupted Richard. "Are we going to leave? Or do you want to rescue more people? Because time is wasting, and the bigger the group, the easier we will be spotted once we leave." He wanted t leave the place, without taking the entire place with them.

Jon remained silent for the most part he didn't mind being led he knew more trouble was up ahead so with much effort he grew his head into a bear shape and his canines became longer and sharper. He followed with haste and when Tigress was talking to another cat he went around looking for a distraction when he found a large blue button and he pressed it then the cages to every half-breed opened causing a large commotion. He smiled at this he turned to his group "This way its harder for them to catch us." he then grew somber. We will escape while others will die or be recaptured. He waited for the rest off the group to get ready to move again.

Kara nodded to Tigress as she began to pull her, watching the elegance the cat-breed moved with. She litterally moves like-, Kara's thoughts were cut off by a stomach buckling siren, loud enough, though not high enough to physically cause her pain. She recognized each hall they passed, having one of the requirements for her cooperation being that she could explore whatever parts she wanted. During the time it took them to get down the hall, they had acquired two new companions, a Panther-breed and the Cat-breed.

And they think I smell, she thought, waving to both the new comers, then glancing between the group. They were quite the motley crew, a bunch of scientific impossibilities, all joining up to leave the institute. Though, Kara knew there were more of them, that there were more they didn't have with them. You can't save all the freaks, she thought to herself, taking a breath, then flinching at the footsteps she heard coming from down the hall.

"Hate to interrupt the welcoming party, but theres guards coming from that way," she said, pointing infront of them. "And I happen to know theres an exit two halls' deep into this way," she finished, pointing to their right.

Panthera

she watched Tigress take out the guards with ease and so very much wanted to join but by then they were all either dead or knocked out. Panthera crouched besides the rather mutilated remains of one of the guards picking at the body as if she were expecting it to come back to life. "you couldn't have saved at least one for me Tigress and in such an ugly manner to" making a disappointed face.

she watched as almost immediately the other half-breeds were let out thanks to the bear-man, and of course most of the half-breeds ran rampant, one of them even made the mistake of attacking her but he soon learned his lesson clutching his throat while he drowned in his own blood.

"well if your going to have our tail then I shall help as well haven't had much fun where they kept me" she said quietly more to herself than anyone else. they continued on their way lead by Kara the dog half-breed 'ugh disgusting to be lead by such a foul creature' she thought to herself and knew that once they got out of her it would take all of them to keep her from killing the mutt. Panthera's tail swished behind her impatiently her ears pricked forwards at the faint sound of footsteps "ugh they never learn do they cousin, well it looks like were going to have to take these guards out as well" she counted about 16 different footsteps and smiled "seems to be about sixteen guards lets say we split it no?" looking over her shoulder at Tigress.

Kara just watched Tigress attack the guards, not expecting her to want anyone's help. After they were surrounded by the bloody, dead bodies, the other girl, the panther one, complained that she didn't get to help. It's gross, she thought, though not saying anything. It seems they've all forgotten that we are part human still.

She nodded at Tigress's directions, starting to get slightly annoyed from being commanded. She started trotting down the hallway, remember the direction to go. And a right here, she thought, turning. She was halfway down the hallway when she saw a room labeled Lab. Kara kicked the door in in a split second decision, entering the room and already knowing where the file cabinet with her name on it was. She grabbed a box, about the size of a shoe box, off the top, running out of the room, and continuing down the hall.

Taking another right, Kara's walking slowed, the exit coming into her vision. She took a deep breath, pointing to it. "There it is," she said, letting the others go out ahead of her.

Richard watched as Tigress massacred the guards. They must have been running out of guards at this point, but no, they kept coming and were as easily dispatched. He was hungry, he hadn't eating in a day, so he grabbed one of the dead guards and munched a chunk off, enough to last him until he finds another prey. They continued until they found the exit, not before Kara went into the lab and grabbed a box which most likely contained documents about her and other useless crap.

When they went out of the door, the first thing he saw, was water. Lots and lots of water, and on the distance, he could see land with tall buildings. He looked around, and he still saw water. They were on an island. They never saw where they were located, since every time they were sent out, they were put a bag on they head and then went to what he presumed was a heli-pad. He finished eating the guard, and almost wiped the blood from his mouth, but caught himself. He looked at the others and said, "Well, I hope you guys like to swim, because we have a long way ahead of us." There were no boats that he could see, they must keep those inside, he thought.