"They're treating us like dogs." "Are you kidding?, Dogs get treated better."AnnieRainMATURE

[AnyaSeverinLione]

Anya wasn't entirely sure how she got in this mess.


Of course, she remembered signing up for the genetics testing, but the way it was advertised made it sound like she'd just be giving a lot of blood - which, really, what was the harm if it benefited others in the long run? What if her blood cured cancer or something? That was what she was thinking when she signed up.


Nothing could have prepared her for this.


She huddled in her little encampment, shivering, freezing. The light sundress she had worn for her first "appointment" was soaked through and through with water, just like her hair, which was dark and stringy, plastered to her pale face. Green eyes sweeping the rough terrain she pressed her back tighter against the rough and prickly bark of the tree she sat against, feeling the warm tears roll down her face.


It had started off simple enough. She walked into the official looking clinic with her hair slicked back in a smooth ponytail, and they led her to a blood drawing office. She had chatted with the technician and waited while they toted her blood away.

And then it happened.

Blackness.


All consuming, never ending blackness. She was out for maybe thirty seconds and found her hands and feet tied and a large wad of fabric had been shoved in her mouth.


When she woke up she saw more tubes running out of her arms, some pumping out blood, some pumping in another viscous liquid she had never seen. She writhed. She moaned. She twisted and told them in hurt - like her inside were being morphed. But they never stopped. She had a feeling they never would.


After a few moments of crying, she realized that one of the places where they had stuck her was still bleeding. She pulled the hem of her dress up and ripped it with her teeth, tying it softly around the spot before curling back up again, too scared to sleep, too tired to stay awake, caught somewhere between consciousness and dreams.


Which meant she never even saw it when the others approached.

[Rain]

"..."

But a few bubbles atop the water gave away his presence, his body still, but tense, ready to spring. The third eyelids that covered his eyes beneath the water helped increase his sight in the murky water, able to peer up at his next stupid victim.
He told them, right? Come to his water, they were his lunch. Then again, it was a stupid herbivore mix, what better would they know? Creeping closer, there were no ripples in the water as he moved, webbed hands pressing against the soft bottom of the miniature man made watering hole. Closer... closer... Come on, do something stupid. Verdi's hungry...
After a long, drawn out moment, the person-esque person crouched, and put a hand into the water.
Hah.

Big mistake.

Verdi moved like lightning, the claws tipping each finger digging into its arm, dragging his victim into biting range, the predator sinking his teeth into his victim's neck before it could get out a good few wails, which were now being gargled and cut off with blood as Verdi dragged the human looking person into the water, a moment of silence veiling the place, before it burst back into life, a flurry of limbs and water, Verdi's thick, powerful tail lashed against the water, sturdy limbs gripped onto his victim tightly with both claws and fangs as the water started to turn red, Verdi forcing his victim into a death roll. It was only when there was a sickening snap of neck bones snapping did the commotion end, Verdi and his victim sinking to the bottom of his pool to savor the first bite.

Clink.

"Mmm...?" The sound was curious, the sound of the door to his small, forcibly shared home door opening. Peeking out from under the water, mud brown eyes watched as they dragged a newcomer in. Hm... Ah, well. Verdi snickered, diving under and grabbing his meal, surfacing and dragging it up to the shore and up to his favorite, flat large river rock, his favorite spot to bask in the fake sunlight. Dragging himself and the corpse up to his rock, his messy, soggy brown hair came down almost in tendrils, almost giving him the look of a monster from the abyss. Watching Anya, he snorted, and began his meal.

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"Finally, you're awake." Verdi commented, his voice low and gravelly sounding. Pulling himself up into a sitting position, the man eyed Anya. He was fairly big, almost overweight looking, as well, but proportioned in a somewhat appealing manner, and would look like he'd be the star quarterback of a high school football team or something with his muscle and board shoulders and strong form. Well, if not for the his pale, off white front, and the leathery scales that covered his body, ridges running down his body to his thick, massive tail. He curled in his clawed, webbed toes, and stared at Anya as she tore her dress, flesh and fat stuck between his teeth, some of the sharp teeth jutting out of his mouth.
"You know, you might as well take the whole thing off. It's not gonna survive the transformation and the time you're here, anyway." Verdi remarked simply with a laugh, tearing off one of the arms off his prey, still very human looking, save for the way the fingers were joined, like cloven hooves. Drawing the carcass up closer, the entrails spilled out onto his lap and all over his stone, as he tore into the limb, grunting and snorting and gnawing like an animal, before turning his attention back to her, watching as she drifted in and out of sleep and semi-consciousness.
"Ah, just tested ya, huh? Oh well. Might wanna sober up now, I don't know how much this'll keep me full." Verdi warned, flashing her a toothy grin, waving the half devoured limb at her before going to finishing it off, tossing the bones against the glass, the next door place darkened, however the shrieking, delighted laughter from within seemed to obviously show someone, something, was in there.

[AnyaSeverinLione]

Anya watched the carnage with with wide eyes. She'd never seen something so horrible in her entire life. She had watched the boy crouch by the edge of the water, desperate to quench his thirst and she had see the large eyes only a second before he was dragged into the abyss. She didn't have time to shout to warn him.


Her stomach churned as she saw the half crocodile man's teeth, jutting out of mouth, tearing into the flesh. She heard the squelching sound as flesh was ripped from bone, the water turning into a light pink color.


She covered her heard and tried to hide, but the sound still reached her.


Crunch. Rip. Tear.


She gasped as he hailed her, not even expecting the man to be able to speak, much less so eloquently. "I-I'm n-n-not taking my d-dress off." She managed to stammer to him. Her voice was hoarse from all the tubes that had been shoved down her throat in the last twenty four hours.


She kept her eyes closed as she heard him continue on his meal, letting out a wail of fear as he hailed her. "Please, don't...Please, don't hurt me. I've been hurt enough today!" She cried, scrambling towards the tree and attempting to hist herself up it, only succeeding in scratching her arms and legs worse than they were before.


She was going to die here.


She knew it.

[Rain]

"Oh, that's what she said." Verdi quickly retorted, gesturing behind him to the bald, bare, half vulture looking human, currently gnawing the flesh off of one of the fresher bones Verdi tossed into his pile, her nest filled with collected twigs, down, and sure enough, shreds of more than one pair of clothes. "Oh, and so did she!" Verdi added with a laugh, gesturing to his pile of half-morphed bones, most of them still identifiably human.

"You basically just trotted into the half-human, half-animal, all unnatural nudist camp, sister." The crocodilian man replied, tearing another big chunk of flesh and fat off of the limb before chucking it into the bone pile, looking over there as if expecting any of the hyena-hybrids or the vulture babe to swoop down and steal the next possible meal.
"Oh, African savannah styled, even." Verdi added, tearing off the next uneaten limb, and bringing it close, crushing the jointed bone and effectively severing the limb from the half-devoured body. Grabbing the half chewed off head of the humerus, Verdi used it and the wrist of the dead man to effectively tear a chunk of meat out, snapping it up like he hadn't eaten in ages. Using the wrist, Verdi gestured with the partially eaten body part to the whitened area right by there.

"Our next door neighbor's the Arctic Zone, seeing as most none of us would have no way in hell of surviving in there very long, or vice versa, and that guy over there," Verdi swung part of his meal in the other direction to the darkened area, earning a twisted shriek from whatever as inside as some blood from the corpse was flung from the limb onto the powerful glass, splattering against his wall, "S'name is Nox. Psuedo Nox, apparently. Don't talk to him. Trust me."

"WHYYYYYYYYYYY?" said Nox shrieked/whined from the other side, shuffling around in his cell, but still out of sight, "I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE TELLING JOKES! LEMME TELL HER ONE! LEMMELEMMELEMME!"

"Shaddup, Nox! No one wants to hear your damn jokes!" Verdi snapped back quickly, earning uproarious, high-pitched laughter from Nox. Verdi shook his head, and angrily tore into his second lunch. Listening to her pleas, Verdi rolled his eyes, and flashed her a glare.
"If you keep pleadin' like that, or end up anything like him," cue dirty glare towards Nox's cell, "I'll do worse than just eat you, lemme tell you that right now." Snorting, he went back to his meal, tearing out another chunk of meat and swallowing it nearly whole, before looking back to Anya, wiping the blood and stray smudges of fat off of his face.
"Now, look here, sweetcakes. No one here's very nice, so you should learn to deal. Big rule here is you LISTEN to the big bad predators. Don't, and..." Verdi smirked, and waved the limb at her, and winked, "Heh, well, let's just say I can't wait to have you for dinner."

"Oh, and another rule..." Verdi tossed the half eaten limb into his special mini-lake of water, before ripping off the legs, tossing another into his water before starting on another one of the legs, "Go near my water at your own risk, and don't touch my food 'til I'm done, got it? Also, again, I suggest you take off that dress before Shrieky over there notices a newbie has something on her that she could add to her nest." Verdi added, gesturing to the vulture woman again before promptly tossing the leg into the water, and promptly beginning to devour the heart and some of the liver raw.

"'Ere you go, by the way, part o' my favorite. First scrap of food you'll get for free in the next twenty four hours, or until the Boss man gets 'ere." Verdi add, ripping off a lobe of the liver and tossing it to Anya, before going back to devouring his delicious organs of choice.

[AnyaSeverinLione]

The piece of liver landed beside her with a small splat and that was just enough to make her to lean over and throw up. She held her stomach as she heaved up her lunch, coughing and interrupting it with sobs of fear.


What the hell WAS this place?


"What happened to you? D-Did they d-do this to you? What do you mean...morphing?" She added, curling her knees to her chest to try and keep herself as far away from this monster's water as possible. She jumped as she heard the shriek from the other side of the glass, whimpering a bit.


"Who is he? What is he...What are you people, what are they going to do to me?" She couldn't quell her sobs, yelping as the blood splattered over her face. She spit a bit out of her mouth and tried to wipe herself off as best she could, though mostly she just smeared it around.


She looked like something out of a Charles Manson house. Her hair was slowly turning from black to a deep, burgundy red color and, really, hanging onto her dress was just pride. It was far too scraggly and messy to really be doing her much cover, revealing the underwear underneath. It wasn't an all together bad sight. She was thin - looked like she may have been a dancer - but a little short, no taller than five two.


"Isn't there anyway out of here?"

[Rain]

Verdi couldn't help himself, and laughed when she started vomiting, his laugh rough and similar to the sound of two heavy rocks rubbing against each other, but deeper in tone. More blood and bits of fat and gristle and flesh and pieces of organs flew from his face he was laughing so hard, and when he finally calmed down, he wiped off his face.
"Oh, don't worry, sweet cheeks, you'll get used to it." Verdi replied, a smug smirk on his face. Peeling off the outer membrane of the heart like a banana peel and tossing it aside, he waited until she got enough of her marbles together to start talking again, probably the usual questions from the newbies. Listening to her suspected questions, he chewed on the thick walled heart like an apple, tearing off the veins with a sickening noise before slurping them up like noodles, tearing off the rubbery bits of the major arteries with a snapping noise, spitting it out like watermelon seeds before digging into the good stuff on the inside. Sighing, Verdi shook his head, and licked his chops before beginning.

"No babe, I just popped outta my mom's vagina like this, and applied for a job as the cannibal freakshow for their circus freak exhibit." Slamming the more than halfway eaten heart down, is flew off in chunks, going in all directions, the rest ground into a paste beneath his hand.
"Of course they did this to me, ya dumb broad! Why the hell else would I look like this?!" He snapped, earning more cackling from Nox.
"Also, you know, 'morph'? As in, 'change into something else'?" Looking to the squished heart on the palm of his hand, Verdi gave a sorrowful sigh. Oh dear, he should learn not to take his anger out on his food. Wiping the paste off on his belly, he grabbed the stomach, and tore the fat off of it.
"Mm, fresh bacon!" he cackled, before ripping into it, watching as she cowered away from his water. Verdi gave a smirk in satisfaction as the newcomer did. Well, at least she caught on fast to some things, at least.

"I just told you, it's Nox, aka, Big Time Failure. Just don't talk to him." Verdi replied, rolling his eyes as she asked about the Boss men and him and the others like himself.
"We're a real life nudist furry camp, of course." Verdi replied, caustic sarcasm dripping heavily in his voice, biting into the fat and ripping off another chunk, swallowing it whole before replying to the next thing with the same tone.
"And they're going to tie you up and take turns gang raping you. Why else would they pick up such a delicious little morsel, hm? Just for run-of-the-mill 'Genetics Testing'?" Verdi jeered, moving closer to the edge of his sunning rock, letting his fat tail fall into the cool water with a 'plop'.
"Look, babycakes, I'm telling you, just ditch the clothes, they're useless here, as is any notions of pride, or being human. Hell, looks like you're changing already!" the hyrbid man pointed out with a sneer, pointing to her locks of hair, which appeared to be changing color as they spoke.
"Besides, from the looks of things, you got a nice figure. No need to hide a nine outta ten around a buncha five's and four's." Verdi added with a teasing wink, balling up the rest of the fat and stuffing it into his mouth, chewing the ball o' animal fat contentedly.

[AnyaSeverinLione]

She turned her head gently to look at Verdi, only to vomit again as she saw him smash the heart into a little paste. "You're a monster...I have to get out of here." She whispered, standing up and looking around.


She made her way carefully along the edge of the enclosure, crying out in fear as her toes brushed the fetid water. She turned around and pressed against the glass wall where the one called Nox was hiding. "Please, tell me, there's some way out of here!"


Looking towards the door, she could just imagine it. She could imagine the men bursting in. She could imagine them running up to her and grabbing her, forcing her down to the ground. Her dress ripped, one man holding her hands down, two others holding her feet out.


She shuddered with revulsion, crouching to the ground and holding her head. "I'm going to lose my mind." She whispered, listening to the squelch, smash and goop of the heart in his powerful jaws and imagined her body would sound something like that as it was defiled and disgraced, the men ignoring her pain for their pleasure.

"Oh, thank you for the compliment." She hissed at him, the first emotion other than fear sliding into her voice. "When will I start...t-turning?" She whispered, standing up on shaking knees, and looking over her arms and legs as if thinking they'd start sprouting scales, reaching up to see if maybe horns had popped out.

[Rain]

"No, I believe that the people who've done this are, and whatever demon that possessed you to something this stupid are monsters." Verdi retorted back, his reply as quick as it was cold, glaring and mocking a lunge into the water when she touched the very bank of his water. His nose was definitely not enjoying the acrid smell of all of her vomit. Bleh, and he didn't think she could puke more? Yellow belly.


"There is." Verdi said, pointing to the pile of bones and remains, "You join those guys." Blinking, Verdi focused, and narrowed his eyes, before shaking his head and sighing.

Just then, the high pitched squeaking of a Crayola marker on the glass sounded, followed by partially subdued, but barely contained snickers and equally high pitched giggling. Suddenly, with a solid 'thunk', a body hit the wall, and grinning, a broad, fanged grin at Anya, was some sort of abomination of science. His eyes were wild, and he looked like a little child given a large dose of caffeine, and tinged yellow and brown. His unkempt hair went in every which way, a rustic orange that trailed all the way down to his back, where it turned into a puffy rusty orange tail tipped in black, and it twitched and moved in a spastic manner. Unlike the many in the area Anya was in, at least Psuedo Nox was partially clothed, tattered and ugly mint green scrub pants hiding whatever lurked beneath, an unbuttoned and torn up straight jacket hanging from his shoulders, revealing his flat, scrawny bare chest, pale and covered in a thin layer of off white fur, a large 'Y' shaped scar starting from his shoulders, meeting at his sternum, and traveling down, farther than what his pants revealed being the most noticeable thing. Oh, and the fact his nipples appeared to be flat out missing was fairly odd, too.
"HI!" He yelled, shrieking in delight like a little school, a blue marker in hand, uncapped.
"I'M NOX! NICE TO MEET YOU! I MADE YOU LOOK FUNNY!" Nox said, before giving an eerie giggle that would remind one of their cheap, broken VCR player fastforwarding something. Verdi rolled his eyes, and shook his head, tossing the intestines into the pile of bones and remains, as well as the bladder. Bleh, those were no fun. He went back to the pancreas, chewing on it while he watched Nox. And, sure enough, there were two crudely drawn rabbit ears where Anya's head had been, the source of Nox's insane laughter.
"I'MA CLEAN IT FOR YOU! WHAT'S YOUR NAME? DO THE MASTERS KNOW YOU'RE HERE? DO YOU LIKE MARKERS? YOU LIKE JOKES? OOH! I LOOOOOOOOOOVE JOKES! LEMME TELL YA ONE-"

"Nox, leave 'er alone! I don't want to hear your goddamn rambling." Verdi snapped, Nox simply beginning to laugh hysterically.
"That is Nox." Verdi said to Anya, pointing a claw at Nox, who was currently licking the rabbit ears he drew off of the glass.
"There's a reason we don't like conversing with him. And that is why."
"AT LEAST SANTA CLAUS LOVES ME!" Nox replied, making a funny face at Verdi.
"Santa's not real!" Verdi replied, a smirk going over his face as Nox suddenly calmed down, a sudden silence over him.
"S... Santa's not...?" The experiment looked hurt to say the least, before looking around. "Who... who told you that?"

"She did." Verdi said with a devious smile, pointing casually to Anya. Suddenly, Nox turned to her, his pupils dilating.
"You said... Santa's... not... REAL?!" he said between wheezes, before basically tackling the glass wall, black claws matching the black fur that trailed up his arms and legs like gloves and boots dragging down the glass.
"LIAR! I'M GOING TO FUCKING SLAUGHTER YOU!" he shrieked, relentlessly pounding on the glass to get to Anya, but the glass held strong, but it was obvious what Nox's intentions were if he could have gotten through.
"I'M GOING TO SHOVE ALL OF YOUR GUTS DOWN YOUR THROAT AND RIP OFF YOUR SCALP AND WEAR IT WHILE I STAB YOU DO DEATH WITH YOUR OWN FUCKIN' RIB BONES FOR LYING ABOUT SANTA, YOU BITCH! I'LL-" the failed experiment went on, hissing and snarling and shrieking and raving, pounding on the glass and scraping it as if that was all it would take to get to Anya and complete his rather graphic plans for what he had in mind to do to her, teeth bared as he spoke, drool oozing from his mouth, as well as what looked like a bit of foam.

"Nox, Nox! Relax!" Verdi said, nearly unable to contain his laughter. Nox did, however, stop, and give Verdi a whine, pointing to Anya with one of his markers.
"B-But she said Santa wasn't reaaaaaaaal!" he whined, pointed ears twitching.
"I know, Nox. But it was a joke! Just a silly, silly, joke." Verdi cooly said between snickers. Nox blinked, staring at them blankly.
"...Oh." Nox said, before falling to the ground, shrieking and roaring in a fit of laughter, kicking against the glass, his tail looking like it was having a seizure.
"AHAHAHAHA! YOU'RE FUNNY, LADY! I LIKE YOU! WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS, BEST FRIENDS! WE'LL DRAW WITH MY MARKERS, AND PLAY JOKES, AND TELL JOKES, AND WE'LL BE BESTEST FRIENDS!" Nox wailed, that unnaturally happy look back onto his face, and he was once again pressed against the glass, giving Anya his freakishly wide grin.

"No, she has to go. She's turnin'." Verdi said, giving Anya a gesture that if she didn't want to go through that again, she better back away.
"AWWW! WELL, ENJOY THE PAIN, OKAY, MA'AM? THEN YOU'LL BE LIKE ME!" Nox replied with a delighted grin, waving to her before taking his marker, scuttling back into the darkness of his cell.

"On the bright side, if you do lose your mind, you get to share a room with him." Verdi replied with obvious sarcasm, gesturing to the darkened cell where Nox's giggles still reverberated around.
"No problem, babe." Verdi retorted, finishing the pancreas and ripping out one of the kidneys, chewing on it as Anya spoke.
"Well, by the changing color of your hair, I'd say, oh, now?" Verdi replied with a half mouth full of organ meats, before stuffing the other kidney into his mouth, ureters and all.

[AnyaSeverinLione]

Anya jumped back from the loud outburst of maniacal laughter. "What did they do to you..." She pressed a hand to the glass before shrieking as he launched at the glass.

She watched the glass shiver and saw the crude drawing, beginning to run backwards as he ranted and raved. Was he really getting that upset because she had said Santa wasn't real? What was WRONG with him?

"Y-Yes thanks..." She whispered as he told her he liked her, looking down at her hair. "That's not morphing, that's b-b-blood..." She stammered, gasping as he slid away. She had backed away too far, however, and dropped backwards into the water.

Flailing madly she kicked and bucked herself to the surface, swimming as fast as she could to the edge, all the blood washed out of her hair to show it back to it's natural color. Weird, they'd usually started transforming by now - the drugs didn't take very long to kick in. The rest of them had started turning within hours. Felt their bones shifting, stretching, their skin ripping and tearing, like being pulled apart at the very seams.


Just as she thought she might have the tiniest bit of reprieve she was swooped upon.


Alice's wings spread almost twelve feet wide and made it easy for her to fly. With only two sweeps of her wings she had crossed the small biosphere her newly formed beak easily penetrating her side with the sharp tip, ripping the dress from the scared girl. She held the dress in her beak and flew back to her perch, snickering. "Look at her. They should turn her into a wee little mousy!" She squawked, a slightly British accent to her words. "The ickle bitty baby is so frightened!" She cackled.


Anya shouted with fear, flinging herself away from the girl, crying out as she landed back at the tree she started on. She curled into a little ball, her bra and underwear already covered in filth, curling up in a tight a ball as she could to hide herself.


"Verdi, Verdi, Verdi, what are we gonna do with the ickle sweetie?" She shouted with a laugh.

[Rain]

"Hell, coulda fooled me." Verdi shrugged, snickering as he added, "Then again, I probably thought I was just smelling the blood from that period you seem to be on." with a snarky grin, before glaring, narrowing his eyes as she fell into his pool. In a flash, the body was abandoned for the chase of fresher food, Verdi landing in the water with a splash and bolting over to her, snapping at her and just barely missing. Giving her a dirty look, Verdi watched her from his small kingdom, slowly submerging under the water, and reappearing by the sunning rock, clambering back onto it and moodily taking a large chomp out of his victim's back, snapping it up before heaving the mostly devoured carcass by the pile of bones, the newer bones already snatched by the other carcass eating beasts in the room.

"Outta my water! Use the waterfall or somethin' if you wanna get soaked!" Verdi snapped moodily. However, his mood was almost immediately brightened when Alice came and retrieved her prize.
"Hah! Told ya they wouldn't last long!" Verdi cackled, nearly rolling around in laughter, his dangling tail splashing the water as he did, clapping his webbed hands together in amusement.

"Aw, c'mon, Alice. A mouse is too tiny a snack for me!" Verdi replied, cracking up with laughter, his sides busting, obviously not really caring about the newest member to the group's feelings about being stripped to just the undergarments.

"Ah, my sides are KILLING me! I haven't laughed like that in ages, it feels like!" Verdi chuckled, rubbing his sides, knowing it was probably against his full stomach to be laughing to hard. Rising atop his stone, Verdi stretched his limbs, much like a diver preparing to dive into the water, before looking to Anya, looking at her little curled up ball.

"Hey, Alice, ya missed some!" Verdi said, pointing the clothes still on Anya, grinning up to his leftover eating friend, "Oh, and put 'em next to my shorts, I'm sure you still have them up there somewhere!" Verdi teased playfully, folding his arms across his chest, before looking to Anya, blowing some of his always wet hair out of his hair.
"Look sweetcakes, why not just toss the clothes? Honestly, after they pumped ya, modesty sorta flies out the window." Verdi advised, tapping a webbed foot, looking Anya up and down, before flashing a dirty grin, "What, think we're gonna 'take advantage' of your situation or something?" he taunted, before something suddenly hit him.

"Well, good golly, Alice! I nearly forgot!" looking to Alice with a mischievous grin and a heavy hint of sarcasm in his tone, it was obvious the cranky, dirty cannibal croc was up to something. "We haven't even gotten to introduce ourselves to the fresh meat!" he said, somewhat snapping his fingers, before looking to Alice, "How could we be such bad hosts? We should do something... nice to make up it, hm?" Verdi suggested.

[AnyaSeverinLione]

As she barely escaped being snapped at from the alligator man she climbed up the tree slightly, sitting on the lowest branch. "I don't think wanting to maintain a sliver of dignity is hardly something to be laughed at!" Anya shouted angrily.


Alice fluttered her wings with a smirk, going to land down in front of the girl. Standing erect she looked close to something like an angel of death, or maybe a demon. "I had dignity once, girl." She whispered, walking closer to Anya, smirking as the new girl tried to wiggle away.


"I had a pretty dress like that one, and pretty hair. I came here for 'new make up testing.' That's what they told me." With a flap of her great rings she pushed herself into the air. She leaned her beak towards the girl, landing on the branch she was hiding on, her large beak close enough to touch Anya's nose.

"When I came here it was sunny. They took me to the room and drew my blood and all was well. Then they led me to the back. You're lucky, they stripped me there, they didn't wait until I got here." She leaned in and snapped the bra off the poor, frightened girl, smirking at her bare chest. "They stripped me naked and tied me to the board. They shoved needles into me and used a gynecological device that looked like it was from medieval times. They said it was to register my pain tolerance."


Anya looked revolted at the thought but Alice kept going. "Once they figured out my tolerance they began injecting me. I was awake for the entire process. I felt myself began to change. I thought I was going to be ripped in half and burned at the stake. You know what you've got to look forward to?" She leaned down and snapped her underwear off as well, shoving her off of the branch with a nasty crunching sound. She crouched down over top of the girl, bracing her talons against her neck to keep her there. "If you don't morph fast enough they'll start surgery. If you're real lucky they might just do some neural modifications as well as physical. That's what happened to dear Nox over there. But, who knows, Verdi might be right." Her face split into a smile and she left four long gouges down the girl's body.


"You're awful pretty. Maybe they just got you to play with."

[Rain]

Verdi watched as Alice got close, and felt a smile creep up onto his face. Oh, this was gonna be good...

"Sports Therapy!" Verdi said, raising his hand when Alice gave her reason for coming, offering up his reason. His grin widened. The look of horror and shock on that girl's face... oh, it was just too much!
"Aw, Alice, you got the board, too?" Verdi asked, beginning his stretch routine again, grinning up at the vulture and the woman, "Aw, me too. Never knew we had so much in common. I got the board, but not the gynecological stuff, for obvious reasons." Verdi added with a short laugh, gesturing to his sex organs, before stretching his arms behind his back, listening to his knuckles crack.
"They waterboarded me instead. 'Resistance to water currents' or some crap like that." The crocodile/man hybrid whistled when Alice snapped off the bra, of course, being the obnoxious undertones to her dreadful speech.

"Ooh, that's gotta hurt!" Verdi hissed, watching as Anya hit the ground, cringing slightly, before shrugging. Hey, better than falling in his water. Speaking of... Verdi slid into the cool water, and gave a sigh of utter bliss. Floating up to the top, Verdi swam near the more rocky edge of the banks, leaning against the smoother rocks like he was in a bathtub, watching Alice show Anya what for.
"Oh Alice, don't forget the vivisections! Nox got one of those bad boys, too!" Verdi added, making the 'Y' shape over his chest, "You know, the one where they dissect ya alive? I hear ol' Nox didn't get enough anesthesia and woke up smack in the middle of surgery!" Verdi was quick to add, getting excited with just how well Alice spooked the kid. Oh, he could just smell the fear from here! If he was just a bit faster on land like he used to be, though...

"We could always both be right, Alice. Never know what those sex-depraved scientists would fuck!" Verdi said, cackling and clapping his hands, reaching under the water and pulling out a waterlogged arm, taking a bite, enjoying the flavor with the fear and terror that seasoned the air.
"Damn, sweetcheeks! That blood's smellin' gooooooood!" Verdi called, eying the bleeding gouges, grinning at Alice, before looking to Anya, "Why don't you come over here and I can fix that up real quickly?"

[AnyaSeverinLione]

Alice snorted as she commented, standing up after she had scratched the girl. "I think they brought her here as a sex toy. She's not even changing." Alice said, eying her curiously. She took a deep breath and sighed, "She smells pretty good." She flapped her wings and hovered over top of Verdi. "Verdi, maybe you could get yours." She laughed. "You haven't gotten any since you got here."


She gasped as she remembered the vivisections. "Oh that's right, I got one of those too!" She spread her arms out, the stitches still fresh in hers. It started at each shoulder to form a Y and brought it back in, down to her belly button. She flicked her wings in agitation as the door opened, however, screeching in protest.


The scientist rushed in, converging on their newest experiment, four of them at once. They picked her up and nodded a bit, seeming totally unsurprised by her lack of clothes. "I see they got to you. Let's see how Verdi reacts." One of the scientists said, grabbing Anya by the hair and pulling her to her feet, dragging her towards the alligator man. "Verdi! Did you do these gouges?"


"No sir, that was me." Alice said sarcastically, sitting up in her nest, crouched down low with one hand between each foot.


The scientist nodded and yanked the girl back down, measuring her, poking her, some just copping a feel or two. "She's not transforming as rapidly as possible."


"Should we perform the vivisection?"


"Maybe, we'll have to ask the doctor."


"Hey, she's better looking than Alice at least." One of the smirked, earning an angry squawk from Alice. "I'll claw your eyes out you nasty bastards."

The scientist snorted and made a crude hip thrusting motion at her. "Don't be jealous, Alice." They yanked Anya -who was, at this point, sobbing harder than she ever had before, gasping in deep lungfuls of air, almost unable to stand as her knees were shaking so bad - up to her feet and pressed her stomach to the tree. "Hmm a few broken bones as well. Hey, you're right, Stephen, she is a pretty young thing. I'm glad she's not transforming. I wonder why, though."


Anya finally just gave up and fell to the floor as they shoved her down, one of them, holding thier knee on her back, ripping out a large chunk of hair. The other jerked her broken arm straight and began to draw some more blood.


Finally, the abuse was over and the men stomped out, leaving her lying on the edge of Verdi's pond - naked, beaten and trembling.


"Pathetic." Alice mumbled.

[Rain]

"You know, that doesn't sound like too bad of a suggestion!" Verdi agreed, looking up to Alice, probably one of the few here he never got the craving to eat. "Only problem is, she might go and drown on me just when my libido starts getting up!" he added, laughing at the thought. Well, then again, hey, fresh meal! Sex and a dinner, what could be better?

"Uh-oh, Boss man's here early." Verdi commented, sliding a bit lower into the water, only his eyes visible beneath the murky water. Tucking his limbs against his body, Verdi used his powerful tail to propel himself closer to the shore when they started dragging the bleeding woman to his water.
"Think I could've just done that? You know I'm rarely one to leave my surviving victims with all limbs intact." Verdi hissed, sliding up to the shore, giving the group threatening glares. Whitecoats or not, Verdi didn't care. Get too close, you might lose a hand or worse. Simple as that.

"At least Alice could probably score more than you in bed." Verdi retorted quickly, smirking at the group, before looking back to Alice with a toothy grin.
"If ya do claw out their eyes, would ya mind shoving 'em into the water while you're at it? I'll let you keep the eyes and split the organs with ya 50/50." Verdi offered, chuckling as his did.

"Damn, you guys obviously forgot the rules of First Aid, didn't ya?" Verdi commented, watching as her broken arm was yanked straight. With a sigh, Verdi shook his head, partially submerging again, the scent of blood on his shores was tantalizing. TOO tantalizing.
"You got that right." Verdi agreed with Alice, but, seeing as he was partially submerged, his voice was mumbled, muffled by bubbles. With a grunt, Verdi slid up to the shore of his bank, and grabbed up Anya, dragging her into the water, half debating on killing her. And, hey, while he was pondering at crimes sure to put him for an eternity in Hell...
"RAPIN' TIME!" Verdi yelled, cackling after he did, kicking the water up so it went splashing all over the shores, washing off some of the blood. Looking to Alice, he flashed her a dirty grin, letting her know he wasn't actually going to do it and was just messing with the poor kid... for now.
"What do you think, Alice?" he asked, floating atop the water, hands firmly gripping Anya her her arms, his tail lazily swishing back and forth, paddling him over to his carrion-eating friend, "I mean, in this hellhole, it'd be a mercy killing." Verdi added, looking to the bleeding woman, licking his lips and running his tongue over his teeth, more than tempted to just dig into that spot where some of her hair was torn out, seeing as it was just open and red and so tasty looking.
"It'd be sorta a pity, though, I guess," Sliding up to his small rocky section, he settled against the rocks, idly running a clawed hand through her hair, just barely enough to keep from cutting into her scalp, "I mean, I haven't eaten anything this pretty since that one ditzy lab assistant, and she totally had it coming."

[AnyaSeverinLione]

Anya gagged and sputtered as she was dragged under the water, coughing up some water as it spewed out of her nose and mouth. She was still trembling - it felt like the tremors would never stop - as she looked up into Verdi's face, watched him lick his lips. "You're right...It w-would be a mercy killing...This place is worse than hell...I don't know you lived so long in it..."

She closed her eyes, even staring death straight in the face. Se didn't want to see it coming. She had seen it coming far too often...


"Anya get away from there!"

"But daddy you're in trouble!"

"I said move! Move, dammit!"

"No! Daddy let me help!"

The little girl couldn't have been more than five, watching as her father was dragged into a kneeling position. The tall man was wearing a black mask over his face and slid a burlap sack over the face of her father, who continued to scream through the bag. "RUN ANYA!"

"Shut up." The man with the mask growled, smashing her father's head against the edge of the fireplace, making him moan with pain.

"Just for what you did, we're going to make your little girl watch." Said the masked man's accomplice who walked over to Anya, picking her up. Using one hand to hold her in a headlock and the other to press her against his body, he watched his partner work.

"She...she didn't do anything...Let her go, don't hurt her..." Her father's muffled voice.

"She's going to suffer for what you did, Senator."

"I didn't mean to hurt anyone!"

"You sent twenty people to die, based on the evidence of a cop you knew was dirty! Don't give me that!"

"Let my daddy go!" Her little teeth bit into the man's hand and he growled, jerking her tighter and nearly snapping her neck in the process. "SHUT UP AND WATCH YOUR FATHER DIE." Snarled the man.

"Let go her go! Let her go, I'll do anything!" He pleaded.

The man pulled out a gun that was shiny even in the moonlight. "Perhaps you should've let our families go." He raised the gun and shot him in the back of the head, watching as the body slumped to the side.

Anya was shoved to the floor, a boot driven into her side as she was kicked across, closer to her dad. "Hope you know how to work the phone, little one." He said cruelly, turning around and walking out.

She had been so helpless.


She opened her eyes and looked up at Verdi's face, her lip trembling. He was stronger and faster, for sure...Was there anything she could do but beg? Was she always going to be so helpless? "Don't..." She whispered gently, reaching up to place a hand on either side of his face. "You were human once too, you know...Don't you remember what it's like to be scared?"


Alice gave a loud cackle of laughter, "Lookit the itty bitty scardy kitty! Verdi I think she's taken a liking to you!" She swooped down and snapped dangerously close to Anya's nose, just to make her shriek with fear, laughing again.

Alice wasn't ever that scared.


That's what got her here in the first place.