Blood Tracks
#1 of Blood Tracks
Blood tracks.
Computer entries of the experiment process on subject 7 written by the deceased former director of the genetic division of world security. This is the entries detailing the horrific experiments that turned a 17 year old into the most dangerous threat to the Risen Empire of Atheistic Sight Over Nonexistence or REASON as it was called by most, since the emergence of the sub-humans half a millennium ago.
Entry 1
The test subject has been obtained at great risk, she is the result a a human breeding with a sub-human, the lord will not forgive the sin of degrading the superior species that is man. Her age is approximately 17 years old, her body has already finished it's growth period from what we can tell, her body obviously develops faster than a full blood of either species.
Entry 26
The test subject woke today, obviously the drugs we have been giving her aren't strong enough. That or she is building an immunity to them.
Entry 47
The genetic enhancement is stable, the base signature is varying between human and sub-human but that is to be expected, she was different from the start. The progress we have made in modifying her into a sub-human weapon of mass destruction is immense, her healing is increasing daily, heart rate is unstable being unable to decide weather to just die and let the magic sustain her or force the magic out and sustain her all itself, we will work on that more at a later date.
Entry 59
Today we finished changing her body, now we must find a way to control her mind. Her violent tendencies were extremely high when we first brought her in and from this they will have been increased. If we were to simply wake her without a proper procedure I am not sure that we would be able to restrain her again.
Entry 61
We successfully kept her in check to train her to hunt the sub-humans today. Starting from today she will learn all the reasons why she should never betray REASON and why she will destroy the sub-humans.
Entry 68
Today she was taken to the firing range for the first time and is proficient with all hand guns of any size, all shotguns, any semi-auto capable rifle, any on full auto and she simply held it in place and kept the trigger pulled, reloaded and did it again, she destroyed the target, but she also used 12 clips before we stopped her, none were hurt substantially. She proved highly effective at using long range weapons, we placed her on top of a tower and told her to shoot the target, she placed a bullet dead center at 3 miles, a feat that is near impossible, and did so without a scope.
Entry 74
This will be my last entry, something went wrong today, we took her to be trained in hand to hand and she defeated all 7 instructors in 10 seconds before she held her skull and screamed, she began crying blood and then killed all the guards. She is slowly making her way through the base and killing all in her path, she is also doing something strange to those she is killing, she is drinking their blood. The more she does this the less the bullets seem to effect her.
After this the base was found by the so called sub-humans and raided, but the room the computer these files were found on was completely devoid of air when found, as if she had somehow taken it all with her along with the blood and body of the scientist that wrote these entries.
Watching over the beings walking into the base I recognized the sub-groups that they were separated into. There was a fox, a bear, a reptile of some kind, and several Coyotes. Dropping the body of the scientist who had called himself Ryan Sumner I felt his memories flowing in me after I drained him of blood. I saw everything they had done to me, the parts of me that they had removed. I had been a Jaguar half-breed before they turned me into this. He didn't know my name so neither did I, my memories were gone. Deciding to find out what those who were raiding the base knew I dropped off the cliff in front of me and landed 40 feet straight down.
Walking up to the fox I said "Which of you is in charge." while pointing a gun at his knee.
Turning to face me and seeing the gun he hesitated but then he saw the anxious movement of my tail and my second set of ears moving around on my head. Speaking he said "The bear is, I'll radio him to come out."
"Good, do so." I said while holstering the gun quickly. Watching his eyes I saw he couldn't track my movements.
"Hey Yogi, we have a problem out here, why don't you come check it out."
From the radio we both heard "Yeah, I'll get out there in a minute."
Looking the Fox over I saw he held himself well, he wasn't a recruit, he was a veteran who didn't scare easily, but he also was tense, nervous, he didn't know how to react to me. After waiting I heard a slight pounding as the bear came out.
"So whats the prob..." he trailed off as he saw me, his eyes immediately took in the blood on my clothes. "Yeah, this would be a problem."
"What do you know of this facility." I asked him while preparing to blow his foot off if he lied, I remembered my interrogation training well.
"Our leader wanted us to take it out because they are experimenting to create the perfect soldier to wipe us out." he responded without hesitating, not a lie.
"How did you know it was here." I asked while listening to the sounds coming from the facility and hearing footsteps growing closer.
"He tracked them take a young hybrid here, that was over 2 months ago, they picked this location because it has heavy sandstorms so you can't access it for long periods of time."
Hearing the footsteps stop at just inside the doorway I asked "Why can't I remember anything."
Looking me straight in the eyes he said "I don't know." no hesitation, no flicker of movement to notify that he was making up a lie, he genuinely didn't know.
Feeling my only hope come crashing down I collapsed on my knees and held my face, I could feel tears coming and I just started crying right there while the others came out of the base and pointed their guns at me. I didn't care, it didn't matter, if I died here I would at least know that whatever reason REASON had taken me for it wouldn't come to fruition. But the bear walked up to me, picked me up, and put me in the vehicle they had come in, they had already taken what little data was useful.
Looking in at the young woman sleeping restlessly in the recovery room I couldn't help but feel more hatred for REASON. They had taken her, experimented on her, destroyed her memories, and turned her into a killing machine, all of this before she even had the chance to finish school.
"Sir," a young tiger said while coming in the room behind me.
"Yes?"
"It appears that her old long term memory was destroyed, it has since regrown, but the cells aren't constructed normally, her regeneration saved her and destroyed her."
"Explain."
"They put in a cancer, her body put it into remission but we are unsure if she will ever remember her old memories."
Turning around I said "Contact Yari, tell her that this old jaguar has a score to settle, the so called lord of their world will pay for this, even if he can't be killed, he can most certainly feel pain for the rest of eternity."
Sitting up I looked around and didn't recognize where I was, my first fear was that I had been taken by the scientists again before I remembered I had eaten them. Hearing the door open I looked and saw a young tiger who said "Oh, you're awake, how do you feel, I'm here to try and help you, my name is Erik, is something wrong?" he asked when he saw the way I was sitting and looking at him.
Holding a hand up to the side of my head I said "I don't know, I suggest though that from now on you make sure not to be in the room when I wake up, I wanted to tear the door down because I thought I had been captured again."
Laughing he said "I'm sure you're fine, and I don't think you could..." his sentence was cut off as he saw me go from sitting to standing in a blur and then be standing mere inches in front of him from the five feet in front of him where I had been only a second before.
Stammering he said "W-we-well may-maybe you can." getting a grip he said "Let's check your body, there were strange readings while you were asleep."
"I may not have my memories but if you think I'm going to strip for you then we will have an Erik shaped hole in the wall very quickly."
"No, the room is constantly scanning you to make sure you're healthy and stable, it ignores me so as not to corrupt the data, it's better if you're awake for the scan." he said while pulling up a screen on the monitor in front of him. Looking it over he said "Strange, it's registering you as human, Animilian AKA furry, and unknown all simultaneously."
At this point I felt something strange and the world seemed to get bigger, and less colorful. Yelling I tried to say "What just happened!" but couldn't make the sounds right.
Hearing the sounds Erik looked around and finally saw me saying "Oh dear, this is not good." he crouched down near me and said "You're the size of a jaguar kitten."
Glaring at him I jumped up on the bed and failed to mime beating the crap out of him, only succeeding in falling into his lap.
"Well kitten, it would seem that you are currently stuck in this form, not everyone of our world can even turn into their, ahem, 'chibi' forms."
Both our ears turned towards the door upon hearing a noise on the other side. Opening the door a Jaguar walked in who said "Where did she go?"
Recognition flashing through his face Erik said "Sir! Um, well..."
"Don't tell me you lost her!" he said while moving towards us.
Looking up at him I saw anger and worry on his face, followed by surprise, looking at me he said "Her chibi form, I'm surprised she can still do that with all that she had done to her."
Glaring at him I jumped an fell short of landing on his leg. Noticing the door was still open I leaped forward and stumbled over my own paws, rolling forward between his legs before I found my footing and took off. Running through the door I saw a lot of other sub-humans, furries I corrected myself, the amount of them surprised me. Running down the hall there were foxes and bears and tigers and lizards and panthers and so many others.
Stooping down in front of me another hybrid like I apparently used to be with red ears and a long rust red tail said "Calm down kitten," while grabbing me in a way that I couldn't bite him, which I tried to do. "Do you not know how to turn back yet?" he asked while scratching behind my ears in a very enjoyable way.
Coming up behind me, in front of the unknown hybrid, was the Jaguar who had walked in, he said "Thanks Ray," Looking at me he said "We aren't trying to hurt you, focus on standing on two legs."
Hopping out of Ray's arms I did as he said and felt the change. As I was standing up Erik ran up and put a blanket around me. Seeing him do this I realized I was naked and grabbed the blanket closer around me. "Does this always happen?"
From behind me Ray laughed and said "Not for full-bloods, they can keep tight clothes when they change, hybrids like us shift out of the clothes."
Turning to look at him I said "You seem familiar."
Putting his hand on my shoulder the jaguar said "Do you remember something?"
Shaking my head I said "No, just, something about his manner seems familiar."
"Well come back to the room, you can put your clothes back on. You need a name, we know what your old one was, but you deserve a choice since you can make one."
Following him I thought about it and realized I didn't have anything except what they had called me at the old facility or whatever, subject 7. Seven, Sevei, works for me. Getting back to the room they turned around and I proceeded to push them entirely out of the room before putting my clothes on.
Turning to me Ray asked "You haven't told her you're her dad yet I take it."
"Do you honestly think that would help at all, I was always her commanding officer to her before I was her dad, she was our best at weapons, she could use any with ease, it was her choice to infiltrate that school, something must have have gone wrong of course, someone must have seen her tail and ears, she was always good at hiding those but even she couldn't do it for more than 12 hours at a time."
"You still shouldn't have let her do that, the news had a field day with bashing us when the police got to her, and consequentially died."
"She never was good with people touching her, you of course were always an exception, but I saw that you were still being careful of her earlier."
"Her kitten form always had all of her strength, what if it still does is my worry."
Walking to the door I opened it and said "Sevei, call me Sevei."
Looking at her the jaguar said "Good to meet you Sevei, my name is Garm Urai, and you met Ray Barui."
Hearing their names I felt another pang of memory, but I didn't know what it was, their names just seemed familiar. Shaking my head I said to them "What now?"
Speaking first Garm said "Now, now we find out what training you have." while gesturing for me to follow.
Following him I saw we were heading into a more militarized area, walking through several sets of doors we arrived at an outside firing range. Looking down it I saw several furs firing at targets down the range. Following Garm still I saw him grab a soldier and tell him several things before the soldier walked away and we continued to the very end of the range. Carrying several guns the soldier came back and set them on a table that another soldier brought.
"I want you to pick up each of the guns and shoot the target."
Doing as he asked I picked up two of the pistols and shot down the range before dropping them and grabbing a bolt action rifle and shooting it down the range before dropping that as well and grabbing an assault rifle shooting a single bullet, hitting the switch for semi auto and firing a 3 round burst and then switching to full auto and shooting the entire clip without the gun moving. Grabbing the shotgun I pumped it and fired, noticing on it's way out that it was a solid slug. Grabbing the .50 cal sniper rifle I leveled it and fired with minimal kick. Dropping that I turned and said "Who wants to check my shots?"
Signaling one of the soldiers Garm said "I'm not surprised, you seem to have retained all of your martial and firearms training from before they took you. It would only have hindered them if they had erased that as well." Hearing the radio click he grabbed his and said "Well, how is it?"
Over the radio the soldier said "Sir, there is only one bullet hole, it's dead in the center of the target."
At this even Garm looked surprised, he radioed back with "Are you sure?"
"Come over here yourself sir, the bullets are all in the same spot as well."
"No, come back, I need you to put back these guns, we have other things we need to do." he said while beginning to walk away.
Following him I said "You knew me before this." It wasn't a question, there was no doubt, he knew who I was, he knew exactly what I had been capable of, and he wanted to know how dangerous I was to him.
"Yes, I was your commanding officer."
"Then who am I?"
Stopping and standing against a wall he said "Who are you, Verei, that's who your are, who were you, that, you need to find out within yourself."
Feeling angry I aimed a punch just to the left of his head and buried my hand in the cement wall.
Continuing walking I followed behind him and tried to remember.