Subject 181: Alcina D
Characteristics:
44, female, noble descendent
Not from village
Hereditary blood disease
Results: Very high affinity. No loss of cognition. Arbitrarily able to control body transformation. Applied cognition control procedure.
Sent for observation.-----------------------------------------------------------
Subject 181 has been coming along nicely. She has grown to about 9 foot now and is outgrowing her chambers. I might move her into the castle, it is hers by birthright and she certainly won't even think of leaving due to the cognition control procedure. Though first I needed to do more tests. "Mother Miranda." She greeted politely, bowing her head as a form of respect. "I need you to try and cut through this." I commanded, skipping the greetings and instead getting straight down to business. She seemed a bit disgruntled at that, but didn't complain. Effortlessly unsheathing her claws she sliced through the silver bar as if it were butter. I jotted some notes down and asked without looking up from the clipboard, "And how is your regeneration coming along?" "Good. Any external wound can be healed in seconds!" She boasted, the beginnings of a grin starting to form on her face. I had been wanting to try something for ages, but I wasn't sure if she was safe for letting outside before. I was now. "Follow me." I said, abruptly turning around and walking out of her chambers. She did as I commanded, but had to almost completely double over just to get through the doorway. Some good exercise I suppose. I made her stand outside in the glaring hot summer sun for a while. I knew her blood condition had meant direct contact with sunlight would cause discomfort, but I wanted to know if it still would. The cadou may have completely cured that aspect. It didn't. The sunlight actually leaves physical burns on her if she stays out for too long. Interesting... Especially since her instant regeneration didn't heal them, maybe it didn't work on burns. I'd have to conduct more experiments to confirm that. I let her back inside and left her alone for a while, but told my 'helpers' not to let her have the usual raw, bloody meat that she usually had and instead give her vegetables or something. You see Subject 181 asked for such meat 12 hours after the implantation. She feared that something bad would happen if she didn't eat bloody meat. I wanted to see if those fears were correct. Would the lack of blood weaken her? Or would nothing change? I had to know.
∆ 4 hours later ∆
I heard a deafening scream of pain coming from the 'holding area' and instantly rushed down to see what it was. Subject 181 had began to mutate uncontrollably; Large, pale wings and a scaly tail shot out of her body as she continued to shriek in agony. In a matter of minutes she had grown into a humongous, white dragon with a wide, gaping maw filled with razor-sharp teeth. Walls buckled out and collapsed as her form was way too large to fit inside the small room she was in. "Blood! I need blood!" She wailed. Her voice sounded significantly different to how it was before, less refined and more crazy; As if the change of form had impacted her sanity quite a bit. This was definitely something I needed to write down. Spreading her wings she took flight, crashing through into the church and out of the church roof, no doubt looking for some 'poor, unfortunate' mortal to feast on. She found one quite quickly and grabbed it up with her talons, flew high in the air before dropping the mortal and racing down after it; Snapping it up in her jaws just before it hit the ground. She had style, I'd give her that. I managed to prevent her from eating anyone else until she calmed down and transformed back. She was disgusted by what she became, apologizing profusely for being so 'unladylike'. I just laughed.
(Cliffhanger! Dun dun duuunnnn!)
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