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((Seven is my favorite number. So maybe something involving seven, if not just seven. ))

Sko opened her eyes to a new setting. She felt the smooth metal underneath her and she could see lines in front of her. Her eyes began to focus as she became more aware. Not lines, but bars. bars of a cage. Why am I caged? She thought. It made no sense. Why would she be in a cage? She sat up and listened. She could hear things above her. Things like her.

She put her face between two bars and looked out. Nothing. Just an empty room. She heard the steady heartbeats of the occupied cages, and one, very faint, and very fast. She wondered if the heart belonged to someone very small, or if they were dying. She curled up in a corner of the cage and wondered what the point of being in a cage was.

Then she heard the screaming.

She sat bolt upright and looked out of her cage again. The sound was distant, but distinct. Agonizing. She covered her sensitive ears and tried to shut out the madness. The scream was penetrating every fiber of her being. What's going on?!

LovetoCauseMayhem

((Wait for Rei's rper to post?

And Kaye? Wtf? I thought you had quit Gaia.))

((*Is not remembered*))

((My character is very disoriented from being in a coma for so long, and is unaware of the location of her cell or what is going on there. Also, a friend of mine had read my post when he was at my house and asked if it might be possible for him to come in as one of the "dead" siblings. He is a very talented writer and would post often, much like myself and Kaye))

"What.... What's going on?" Sko asked, frightened. It didn't used to be like this. She remembered the needles, Hiccadu, but not this. Not the screams of terror and agony.

She watched the scientist circle her cage. He looked bemused, unaffected by the unending screaming. She could see him clearly now, in the almost complete darkness. Jaguar.... My sister blood. She thought. until now, her traits hadn't been as obvious. Her attributes from her animal brethren not apparent. She wondered what else about her fellow animals would surface.

"Now, now." the scientist said, still smiling. "Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Answer the question."

Sko began to be afraid of this man in the white coat. What was going on? "I slept like I would never wake up. My dreams were confusing and I remembered things that happened when my brothers and I were small. Before they died." She said slowly. Still confused. She heard someone stir to see what was going on.

The scientist smiled at her smugly and wrote something on a clipboard. It had a small icon on it, cow spots and the word Butcher on it. Why would he have a clipboard from a butcher? This was a high tech laboratory, not a house for cows waiting to die.

She watched him scribble in silence for what seemed like forever, the screaming had stopped, but she wasn't sure if that was a good sign.

((And Miinefield, of course razz

I think your post is alright, but we're trying to keep John alive for now XD

And... I'll send some PMs out lol))

John looked to see Upsilon standing in the arena and he too, clambered out, wondering what this was all about.

Until he heard the speakers blare. His face paled, and he tried to quell the shaking in his limbs. Kill him? He had fought so hard for himself and his kin, protected them as best as he could, sacrificed friends and put his own life on the line for freedom, for this?! And he didn't even want to kill Upsilon! This was a fellow Chimera, even if John had only been told horror stories about him.

His snake eyes narrowed out of pure instinct, his fangs extended and began to build up a supply poison. The feathers on his wings stretched, acting like the hair on the back of his neck that prickled upward as well. "I don't want to fight you," he said, feeling adrenaline pumping through his veins in spite of it.

Unfortunately, he doubted Upsilon was taught much English. Maybe he could have picked it up from the scientists, like many of the Chimerae John knew. Maybe.

Maybe not.

((The goal is to give him as many scars as Upsilon can without killing him. Feel free to autohit if you wish ;D))

(( waiting for a reply from "Yani" to make my next post

((It's 2:00 in the morning here lol what time is it for you?))

Sko stared back at Yani. His eyes were cold and detatched and his lips were pursed in discontent. She wondered why he looked at her that way, but finally he stopped. He nodded to himself slowly and strode off.

Sko watched him go and felt a sudden chill. Some thing bad would happen soon, and she wasn't prepared for it.

She sat for a few minutes, looking at her hands and daydreaming about the outside world. Yani entered the room briskly and handed her a bottle of coke. She looked at it, then him, then her cage. If it was poisoned, maybe it didn't matter.

She took the coke, smiled, and downed it all in one chug. It burned her throat and she smiled at the bubbles in her throat. She handed it back to him and smiled again. Nothing was happening! He had been kind to her. Maybe he likes me she thought.

Then the world started tilting and she found herself tilting with it until she was on the floor and her eyelids were heavy. Maybe he likes me[i] I must be stupid [i/] She thought, as she blacked out.