No matter what I did, or how I did it, they never let go of the stupid leash! Not even stomping on their feet with all my might works! They just glare at me with their cold eyes and go back to looking down the hall. Heck, at this point I would rather be back at the orphanage with Miss Grundy and her constant cleaning then be here!
Growling under my breath for the umpteenth time I jump at the man not holding the leash in an attempt to take him down. Not being able to claw them like I use to make it harder to frighten them and this stupidly tight muzzle didn't help either. Sadly my attack plan didn't quite work out. Leash man tugged on it hard and left me sprawled out on the cold white floor. The breath was knocked out of my lungs, and as if that wasn't bad enough, I landed on my tail as well. Intense pain shot through my lower back and I yelped.
Rolling onto my stomach I brought my new tail around to examine it. It was bushy and a little longer than my arm; the fur was soft and a dull orange color with a darker underside and a white tip about the length of my hand. I reach up my hand and brush it against one of my ears, letting the silkiness of it soothe me; I knew what they looked like. Almost bat like and we're the same color orange as my tail, but instead of a white tip, they were deep black.
My human ears don't work anymore, but my hearing was now much better. I could hear one of the watches worn by almost every scientist from 40 yards away without trying, I could also block out the sounds just as easily. My sense of smell had also gotten better, allowing me to pick out certain people's sent from a ways away. And right now I smelt that no good doctor....Doctor Mikeles I think is what he said his name was.
And just like that, with my enhanced vision, I saw him walking towards us down the impossibly long hallway. I jump to my feet, startling the two guards leaning against the wall. They hiss under their breath and look at me as if waiting for me to do something, and boy was I tempted to. But what could I do if I couldn't bite or scratch them? Not much I can tell you that!
They both looked at me in tense silence for the next two minutes that it took for Doctor Mikeles to reach us. He looked worn out and rather weary, but he still had on a smile that reached his dull blue eyes. "Hello again, 082a." He said the assigned name as if it were my actual name, as if my real name didn't matter anymore.
"My name is Max! Not that weird ID!!" I yowl at him, spitting like a cat through the vile muzzle and into his face for good measure.
He turned away from me and began talking to the guards. I didn't bother to pay attention to the conversation. Two cheers for selective hearing everybody! Before I knew it I was being dragged down the corridor in the opposite direction that I usually went. I struggle to gain my footing and not get completely dragged. But I admit, going in the opposite direction; this peaked my curiosity, so much so that I could feel my ears perk.
However, that didn't stop me from dragging my feet after a few seconds and doing my absolute best to make them work to move me forward. The two obviously strong men—I mean if they were hired to hold me back then they had to be, even then, they struggled to move forward. With my feet being bare it gave me extra leverage and friction that their boots didn't allow. Even though the boots looked good, the traction was slippery—I would know since I've knocked them down enough times.
We passed room after room, going through a single metal door before finally reaching our destination. The room was huge, like two football fields long, just like what I watched on the crappy black and white TV in the orphanage on weekends, with high ceilings decorated with metal support beams in the center of the large room. There were assortments of climbing walls and hoops strung in the air; as if they were planning on making bird hybrids. But what I spotted on the far wall was vines; millions of vines woven together to make a wall. Other plants were also positioned in the room in various places, I even spotted several trucks lining the other wall in perfect rows. Cars ranging from a small yellow bug to a large red semi truck that resembled one I had seen on a show once quite well.
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I was so busy looking around that if not for my enhanced hearing I wouldn't have known someone had entered the room. I snapped my head over to where a large man was entering through a door on the other side of the room, and by large I mean large!! He was easily 6 feet tall and then some, with bulging muscles that were easily noticeable under his tightly fitting dark grey polo. He wore black cargo pants like army men wore in movies, and they were tucked into shiny black military boots. I recognized him in an instant. It was none other than Mister Hales.
Growling I sneer at him as he approaches with his usual saunter. His heavy boots slamming loudly onto the dirt floor. Then I noticed something peculiar. As he walked towards me on the dirt floor, behind him lush green grass sprouted up before withering and dying after he got too far away from it. For a flickering second I thought it was him, then I saw the girl.
She was shorter than him and much younger, in her late teens though that much I could tell. She wore a white tank top and shorts, her bare feet didn't make a sound on the grass that sprouted up under them. She was wearing some sort of flower crown in her hair that seemed unusual against her white clothes and skin. As I examined her for any possible threat I was shocked as I began to notice the smaller details about her that got easier to see as the two grew closer. I flinched at the lack of expression on her face and in her abnormal purple eyes. She looked dead, and if it weren't for the way her eyes scanned me I would think she hadn't seen me at all. Her mouth was set in a firm line, but she didn't seem to be angry. Such a neutral look on someone who should be angry and yelling that they are stuck here! She also wasn't wearing a collar or being led by a leash, she just followed Mister Hales as if trained like a dog.
Maybe it's just because I'm younger, or the fox DNA was making my brain over analyze situations and seem smarter than I actually am...but she smelled wrong. Like all of the natural beauty of the world was condensed into one smell. That's what she smelled like, but even then her smell wasn't intoxicating or overpowering.
They stopped in front of us, the girl in front of me and the two guards with Mister Hales standing stiffly in front of Doctor Mikeles. "Mister Grel, hand the leash over to 001p please." The mad scientist motioned, and I couldn't help but smile internally. I didn't want to hurt this girl, she seemed nice...maybe, but she was much skinnier and had less muscle than the two guards. She had twig-like arms, but they did have some muscles, she was also more petty and frail looking. My internal smile slipped as I mauled over the facts; she had a label like they gave me, she might be another hybrid. But I heard that I was the only successful animal hybrid....
The smirk came back, gracing my face for all to see. No matter, if two fully grown men could barely hold onto my leash then this girl surely couldn't! "Are you sure sir?" I turned to look up at guard number two, who was staring at the girl in apprehension and then back down to me. His face twisted in concern after seeing the mad gleam in my eyes and the twisted clown smile on my lips that must have been seen past the muzzle that rested over my nose and around my human ears.
"Ah, yes I'm sure 001p will be able to handle him." Doctor Mikeles smiled at 001p; who I was beginning to think was a robot. She had barely even blinked since coming in here.
The leash swapped hands, her arm moving fluidly and her long thin fingers wrapping loosely around the black leather. I spring away from her—turning so that my back faced her, but was shocked to no end when I was jerked back. Choking as the collar around my neck pressed painfully against my throat. I flail wildly with a wail of distress before crashing heavily to the ground. I lay there groaning before peering up at her past my ginger hair, miffed as she stood above me regally. She hadn't moved an inch nor tugged back on the leash, it was still held loosely in her right hand as she held it in front of her.
