Unseen Worlds: SciFi Challenges

Claws not Hands

I was dreaming about school. I woke up disoriented.  My room was dark... too dark.  Where was my alarm clock, with the glowing red digits?  I reached for my bedside table.  Nothing.

Now I was freaking out.  What's more, my hands felt weird.  I flexed them, made fists.  No, these weren't my hands.  They weren't hands at all.

Then, lights.  The room was sterile, white.  Nothing in it but me.  Only it wasn't me.  I was covered in scales, claws for hands.  The door opened and something came in. It looked like me.

"Are you ok?" It asked.  It wasn't English.  But still I understood.

"Where am I?  What am I?"

"You don't remember?  We transferred the human's consciousness into you. You are cryxin."

"No, that's not right.  I'm me."

"The human is gone... we killed him after we transferred memories.  I guess something went wrong.  They'll have to erase him from your memory matrix so you can come back.  Don't worry, we'll fix this soon."

 She turned to leave, but I pounced.  I used my hands -my claws- to rip out her throat.  These things had killed me.  I wasn't going to let them destroy all that was left.