Specimen 54559

Chapter 2

  I have been alive in this retched world since the year 2018, which was sixty-five years ago. Our creators had designed us to live forever. I'd say that whatever they did to prevent us from aging has worked so far. I still look seventeen, that's how they wanted me to be forever, in top condition. Every one of us starts off as a donated embryo; we are then grown in a test tube and are 'born' at the desired age. I was the first ever human-hybrid to survive the process. Then came along Specimen 52766, my best friend whom I had named Jason. He too had wings but had two bull horns penetrating the skin of his forehead instead of having a tail like mine. Jason was made to be taller than I, he at five feet and eight inches, which I find unfair that he must be four inches taller.

  Jason was made two months after I was. After him came more and more creations like us, having different appendages or skin, but they all had wings. In 2019, the first Werewolf had survived, receiving the name Specimen 62666, or Namon. He is a large black male that works on the Police Force and has no hair growing on his head, leaving him completely bald. In his Werewolf form he is rather large and is as black as a shadow being casted on moonless night, if that is even remotely possible. Namon was the only one of his kind until about year later Matty was created. Matty's wolf is not quite as large as Namon's but it is still fairly big, his head reaching to my shoulders, and has the same reddish-brown fur as his hair.

  Other specimens had come and gone through the years. Some were either transferred to new areas or were killed when fighting in the war. In 2028 the very first Mermaid was created, Specimen 22634, Candi. Sadly, she was not what the Creators had hoped for. Candi's skin was a dark grey and her tail was a greyish blue that had become tattered and molted. Her hands, webbed between the boney fingers and tipped with black talons. Her teeth were razor sharp and in rows like that of a shark's, and she had no hair, leaving the top of her head cracked and tearing apart, strands of skin hanging on by small slivers. Candi was deemed unstable and is held in a tank at the research facility where all the specimens in this section live at, including me.

  Ariel, Specimen 27435, another Mermaid, was successfully made two years later, with no deformities, after many other failed attempts before her. She slightly resembles that of the 'original' Ariel from that very old movie, The Little Mermaid. That Ariel was very stupid and was extremely foolish, I hope that our Ariel does not end up being like her. None the less she was a very big success for the Scientist. Galen was another rather large success on their part in 2032, being the first human to be fused with an ape. Galen, Specimen 42536, looks like that of a Neanderthal with his large, protruding forehead, his burly arms, overly hairy body, and his incapability to speak, not including his occasional grunts. The only use that they could find for him was to protect Anya, the Head Scientist at our facility, she was one of the original people to come with the idea of creating human hybrids.

  The only twin specimens, 35338 and 35382, Fleet and Fleta, were made together in 2046. The two are the only twins to survive together and to be crossed with the same species of animal. They were not, however, the first of their kind but are by far the best at what all Spider-hybrids do in their field of work. The two have never left each other's side, as far as I know, since they had become what they are now. Fleet and Fleta love to terrify just about everyone, along with the other Spider-hybrids, with their pinchers that grow out from their bottom jaw, tearing back and stretching out the skin, and with their four, oversized black spider legs coming from their backs, looking as if they were to grab them and drag them back into Hell and to Death himself.

  Specimen 78466, Quinn, and Specimen 67466, Orion, are both the 'youngest' of their species. Quinn is a Werecat from 2048, she being the last because the species seemed to be repopulating faster than originally thought they would. Her Mountain Lion form has always been so beautiful to look at, it being so wonderfully made. Orion, yes like the belt as seen in the night sky, is another Werewolf that is golden and has a black stripe on his hip resembling a belt while in his wolf form. He was made in 2062, being the last because there were already so many Werewolves that they were no longer in high demand for the workforce.

  One of the newest specimens is Specimen 82526, Talan. He was made only about four years ago in 2079. Talan was originally a very gentle black male, a scientist that worked at our facility in the region. He was always so kind to us, always smiling and laughing and being just a great person, befriending all the mutations that he came to meet. But now he is covered in rough, green scales from head to toe and has sharp, yellow-stained teeth and deadly sharp claws and a tail growing out from behind him. They show the Nile crocodile genes that he was forcibly fused with. Talan is very strong and very tall at six feet and ten inches and is now the Government's main weapon of mass destruction, being the first to be controlled by the Scientist from safe distances. That is why he must be the first of many to go.