Living With Two Bodies

Living Within Two Bodies - Taken

Living Within Two Bodies- Chapter Two.

Taken

It felt like I was in a trance...a bit like a dream. I couldn't really tell what was happening; my eyesight was hazy due to a bright white light blurring my vision. Dark figures surrounded me; I found it hard to think. Why wasn't I at home? I knew I was somewhere totally different. I think I was laying on a table...it felt hard and cold, like an autopsy table. Eww. A form of realization seemed to strike me... but I was still not able to think straight. I tried to sit up; however, something stopped me, and held me down. Then I was plunged into total darkness again, unable to stop myself from falling asleep.

I don't know how long I had been unconscious for. Maybe a few seconds, maybe a day, maybe a week. All I knew was that I wasn't in the same place as before. I was shaking, I didn't know if it was from cold or fear. Had I been kidnapped? When I came round completely, I saw that I had been transported to some kind of cell... or cage. It was small and musty in here; I could smell the mould on the ceiling. Wait. I could smell mould? That was weird. I looked around. There wasn't a lot in here. A sink, toilet, and a mirror. Nothing else. How...convenient. Where the hell was I?! And why was this happening to me? Was I in a prison? Something told me no. I felt that something was wrong with my body, different, my eyesight seemed to be a lot better, colours more vivid, lines more and details sharp and my hands...I looked at them intently, and gasped. Claws. Or at the very least something very much like claws. My fingernails had grown to a disproportionate size and sharpened to a point. It was unnatural, and uncomfortable. I wondered for a moment if I had been abducted by aliens. The thought made me shiver. I remembered back to earlier, when I was lying on an autopsy table, and stifled a scream. It became more prominent that my accusation was probably correct. That was always the way people who had supposedly been taken by extra terrestrial life explained their encounters. My shaking became uncontrollable, now that I had guessed at what was happening.

  The front of the cell I was in was protected by bars, I couldn't escape this nightmare. Jumping to my feet, I ran over to the mirror that was hanging on the wall. My face hadn't changed, except for the fact that my irises had become slits. I felt myself realizing that I had become more....cat-like. I even had a black tail to prove it! I wasn't even sure if it was day or night, my vision would stay the same, and I knew that cats were able to see in the dark. This was amazing, yet terrifying. I thought that maybe I had a lot more abilities that I didn't know about, so I began to experiment. Starting from the back of my cage, I ran up to the bars and jumped, clinging to the iron with my claws. I was definitely a lot more agile and strong. It was still unnerving, this whole occurrence, it blew my mind. I found that I was more balanced; I used to be a really gawky person. There were no words that could even come close to it. I wasn't sure what I should do. There didn't seem to be anything I could do anyway, so I sat back down and curled up in a foetal position, hugging my knees and shutting my eyes tightly. And I started to think. My family; I would never see them again, or my friends. I missed them all so much, my mother especially. I had no-one to talk to, no-one to share this terrible, deep pain with. Mia and Alyssa, always there to give advice when I needed it; always there to help me when I was upset. I let the tears roll out and stain my face, there was nothing left inside. No particular reason to live.

   I don't know how long I lay there; timing each breath I took, losing myself, I forgot who I was, it was effortless trying to figure out what I was now. My whole life seemed to have been a waste, what was the point? Where was I? And more importantly, why? I began to feel curious. Perhaps I could get out of here, or try to find out what was going on. I just about managed to push my head through the bars; and looked around. It seemed as though I was in a long corridor, and, now that I listened carefully, I didn't think I was alone. There seemed to be more cages on either side of my cell, from them whimpers, snores and the sound of people crying came. They were obviously human, even I knew that. Were all these people like me? I wondered if they had been changed, given cat-like abilities.