Falling

Chapter 12

I woke up feeling like I was being hung by my wrists. I groggily looked around trying to see through my blurry vision. I could faintly make out a figure clad in a black and white. Its red eyes stood out and I blinked. I don't remember what happened. Last thing I recalled was...Well, never mind that. Seems they didn't temper with my memory yet...

As my vision cleared, I tried to back up only to feel the tug of something on my wrists. Growling, I glared at the vampire in front of me. Drake. What does he want now? Then I spotted something in his hand. It looked like a needle. I immediately began to squirm. No, he won't be taking my blood today!

As he neared me with the needle, I growled and lunged at him regardless of the chains. He yelled in shock as my teeth dug into his right hand. His blood tasted disgusting, like tasting battery acid. It was dreadful and I instantly hated that I followed my first instinct instead of thinking. Letting go, I spat out his blood and growled at him threateningly as he glared at me.

"Bite me again and the person in the cage next to yours, dies... Sort of like how your dear father died..." Drake chuckled.

Anger swelled inside of me as I lunged at him again. I made sure to get in his face growling angrily. Drake's crimson eyes reflected my face, shocking me. I looked like I was a wild beast in a human body. My lips were curled up to my gums, showing off my white teeth. My nose was scrunched up as if I had smelled some sort of terrible scent. My eyebrows were furrowed, and my green eyes weren't showing the look of a human being. It showed one that belonged to a tiger. There was a small bit of fear built into my angry glare and I backed away from Drake's face.

"What do you want with me?" I asked him warily.

"Well, you see, you're incomplete. All of you are incomplete. Each one of you don't change at will without pain in your bodies. I guess I'm here to fix you first. Trace died thanks to your little pet wolf, and she left me in charge of fixing you and the other experiments." He said as he sat down the needle on a small metal table near the front of the cage.

"So, we change with some pain? So what? It reminds me just how much I am not who I was ever meant to be. I rather be able to tell when I am going to turn into my tiger form than never knowing." I grumbled warily.

I still couldn't trust this vampire. He did turn me into this, and he has kidnapped me, what, three times now? Every time he has kidnapped me, I had to be subjected to pain and fear without getting the option to be allowed to be free. Every time, I was stuck in a cage without the privilege to leave and be free. All I wanted was the choice to leave or stay; the choice to get experimented on or not. Trace and Drake treated me and the other Tiger-humans as if we were some sort of rapid animals that were there for their own amusements. We were people with lives and they tore it away from us! Everything we cared for and loved they stole from us. Now we were alone and had nothing but each other left.

I could feel tears swelling in my eyes as I realized just how much they took from me. They killed my father, stripped me of being a normal human being, forced me and my mom to not be able to see each other, lied to me, and used me to experiment on more people. Now they wanted to take more from me. What next? My sight? My hearing? Oh, what about the one thing that keeps be sane, my humanity? Would they really be that cruel as to steal everything I have left?

"Don't cry, April. I'm going to give you a lovely gift. I'm not taking from you; I'm giving you something. Something that would change the course of history, the ability to not have painful changes!" He laughed in that insane way.

He has got to be kidding me. What if it went wrong? What if I died in the process? How will I ever see my mother again? How will I manage to tell Zack all I ever wanted to say to him? What about my species? How would they survive if I died? I had to be there for them! I know I left Luke in charge, but honestly, I thought I would have escaped by now. I thought by now, I'd be with the others and helping them adjust to their new lives. Not trapped here still being experimented upon!