Chapter 6
~Training~ The next day the 5 teens were herded into the bio-dome’ like training facility and left there for forced training. "What do they expect us to do?" asked B-Chan, she sounded scared. Seeing the jungle expanse around them she figured anything could happen.
"Who knows." mewed Zhisi shaking her head, her short brown hair slightly covering her bright blue eyes as she lowered her head. "I mean they've never done this before."
"What!" shouted Torimaru. He didn't like bad news and his new soft silver wings ruffled with his fear and anger.
"We are the animit..." said Peromaru, beginning to walk deeper into the forested bio-dome, as if he were in some form of trance. His large blue eyes looked as if they were fixated on a point on the horizon that no one else could see.
"We had better follow Peromaru to make sure he doesn’t get himself hurt,” said Suchi, as she started tailing him.
"That's a good idea,” said Zhisi, beginning to follow her lead. The rest of the group then followed suit and dashed after Peromaru.
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"They’re on the move," Thought Sgt. Amuro as he watched the monitors, on which he saw everything going on inside the bio-dome training area. "They’re heading towards area 2," Amuro pushed the button that activated the training simulator. "We'll see if you have what it takes..."
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Flashback
"You really want to go home don't you?" asked Amuro, sweaty and out of breath.
"Yes...I'll do anything to go home!" said a crying Suchi, not once glancing into her assailant’s emerald green eyes.
"I promise I'll get you and your friends out of here," said Amuro, wiping away one of Suchi's tears and gingerly kissing her on the forehead. "Just meet me after the lab monkeys send you to training." Amuro then kissed Suchi one last time, cleaned up his office, and called the interns to pick her up.
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Zhisi screamed ducking and rolling out of the way of an onslaught of arrows that hurtled towards her, keeping her ears folded back and her tail down she experienced a new feeling of agility. "What the fuck is going on here?!" she yelled after her close call.
"Um..." mumbled Suchi. Trying to think of a way to make her statement pleasant, "Maybe this is the training Sgt. Amuro told me about." was the only thing she could come up with.
"If that’s true," Torimaru twittered, with a fiery look in his leafy green eyes "Then we have to keep our guard up."
"Yeah," Suchi whispered to her friends, "that and we have to meet Sgt. Amuro afterwards for something important."
Another stream of arrows came screaming towards the group from some unknown origin. Zhisi pounced on the dazed and unguarded Peromaru protecting him from the oncoming fire. Torimaru jumped and dodged as if he were flying. His silver feathers ruffled in the breeze, and his waist length blond hair was parted five times by arrows just missing his skin and head. Suchi and B-Chan danced around the projectiles like mice on the offence, B-Chan kept her long ears to her back as she moved around so as not to get an unwanted piercing.
When the coast was clear they all were tired and somewhat disoriented by their new skills, that and the smell of blood. "Zhisi." said Peromaru, fear laced his voice, and a tear ran down his cheek as he saw it dripping down her sides, his chest was cold with her blood.
Peromaru laid her down on the ground and tried to extract the arrows. "This is bull shit," said Suchi rushing over to her injured friend.
Part 2
~The Power of five~
"Is Z-San going to be alright?" asked Suchi feeling helpless. She glanced over at B-Chan, who was sobbing furiously over her fallen lover.
"That should have been me,” said Torimaru. Weeping the bird-boy laced his fingers through the wounded kittens soft brown hair. "Perochan, we have to get her some help."
"She'll be fine," said Peromaru softly, as he finished pulling the arrows from the shoulders and back of his fallen friend, though blood only poured faster from the wounds. "Trust me." He said taking Zhisi into his arms. Peromaru then began to glow a vibrant green.
"Perochan!" exclaimed Torimaru, backing up as the green light engulfed both Peromaru and Zhisi; the energy from Peromaru had begun to heal Zhisi. "What incredible power!" said Torimaru as he shielded his eyes from the luminescence that was Peromaru?
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"003 has discovered his true potential,” thought Sgt. Amuro as he viewed the monitors. "The healer has awakened!" he was trying to think of a more military way of saying it. Amuro then noticed that the scientists were too good in programming the dog-boy, because he evolved too early.
003 was programmed to respond to self-sacrifice, knowing this Amuro then replayed the scene where 001 shielded 003. To further study the teens.
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Another throng of arrows came flying out of nowhere, aimed straight at Zhisi and Peromaru. "Look out!" Shouted B-Chan, afraid that she'd lose not only her lover but a friend as well. She dashed forward reaching out an arm attempting to come between the arrows and her friends, but coming short. Amazingly a blast of bubbles materialized from her fingers and created a foam’ like wall that the arrows got lodged inside of, stopping them where they were. "Uh...wha..." squeaked B-Chan.
Torimaru and Suchi cracked up when they saw this "Bubble bunny!" Torimaru screamed in laughter.
"Good one!" squealed Suchi slapping Torimaru's back. The two of them fell to the ground in sidesplitting laughter.
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"002's true nature has awakened as well," hummed Amuro to himself. "It doesn’t seem like an accepted trait among the others though." Although he was concerned he continued there training.
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"Bubble bunny?! B-Chan asked glaring at her friends. By this time Zhisi was fully healed and heard the statement.
"Ungh..." Zhisi moaned, gaining her feet. "What happened?" A stray bubble landed on Zhisi's nose, settled for a moment and popped, causing her to blink multiple times in response.
"Z-San!" cried B-Chan lunging at her lover. "You're alright!" They embraced each other lovingly, surprising their friends.
"Gee...Wow." stammered Torimaru, his bright green eyes wide in wonder, as Suchi giggled nervously at seeing Zhisi kissing B-Chan so deeply and passionately.
Barking was heard off in the distance and suddenly a group of Doberman pinchers bounded at the romantic scene, attracted by the cloud of pheromones Zhisi and B-Chan had generated. Squealing, Suchi hid behind Torimaru's large silver wings as the barking dogs came closer. "Go away!" Torimaru shouted, his arms held out straight and his wings fanned out to guard his friend. A dog lunged at Torimaru and was struck by a bolt of electricity fired from Torimaru's chest. "Uh..." he gasped, as he realized what he'd done.
Turning around he noticed Suchi was backing away from him. "Suchi...I didn't know I could..." Torimaru pleaded with her, when a dog that saw an opening and had leapt over him suddenly interrupting him. The starved creature lunged at Suchi who screamed, but not just a scream a sonic blast sending the dog flying.
"What the hell..." started Zhisi, covering her large feline ears.
"Damn! That’s loud!" B-Chan cursed, unable to cover her long bunny’ like ears during the deafening assault.
"What are we becoming?" asked Torimaru, still trying to make the ringing stop in his almost normal but still elfish looking ears. All the others stared at him as they pondered their fuzzy ears and tails as all they saw before them was an angel. "What!" Torimaru was confused now. "Do I have something on my face?"
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By this time Amuro was absorbed in watching the evolution process of the teens, and was almost ready to declare the training session over. Then he realized he didn't see 001's potential element so he continued to watch and wait.
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"We were, are, and always will be animit,” said Peromaru, with soft assurance.
"Animit?" asked Zhisi, she was confused and knew for a fact that an animit-human was a type of animal human hybrid.
"I like it!" said Suchi affirmatively. Then another dog lunged at B-Chan, which she dodged easily.
Zhisi hissed at the dog for it's attempt, and it spontaneously burst into flames. Upon seeing this, her friends started backing away from her not wanting to be set aflame.
"Hey..." mewed Zhisi "I...I didn’t...That was..." she had no way to get back their trust.
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Amuro opened the doors to the bio-dome training facility and entered to summon the genetically enhanced and newly evolved teens to a meeting.
~From the mind of Peromaru~
Fighting, Growing, Evolving
our powers are strong.
We are no longer human
End of chapter 6
Peace be with you
~sakurachi24 (aka. Jessie Denaro)
