HER EYES CHANGE AND SO DOES SHE

Chapter 17; "Look at my teeth!"

        It has been days of sitting and rotting in this cage. I would get food breaks with a glass of water once a day. Kranng bots come by and examine me and then they drag me in a room to do tests on my strength, agility, stamina, and flexibility. They put me through tests that I feel depleted everyday they begin.

        I've felt hunger scratch at me as I sit and wait for my next meal and I feel dehydration claw at my throat as I savor the water I am given. I stay quiet and I have quit yelling when I found it got me no where. I beginning thinking Tsukiko was dead and no one would come to my rescue.

        Now I was being walked to the training. My hair in a greasy matted bun and my eyes puffed and red from non-stop crying. My lips cracked from the small lapse of dehydration and my skin has paled almost ghostly. My eyes haven't reached color since I last saw the turtles. My clothes were now made by the Kranng. It was a tight pair of white paints and a tight white long sleeved shirt that clung to my weak body. The shoes were white tennis shoes that matched the white socks that held my feet.

        I entered the room and began what they wanted to see. I stretched and then hopped on the high tech tred mill as they controlled the speed behind a wall and a window with note pads. I ran at a slow speed at first and as soon as it picked up my new found cat instincts were in gear. I ran fast now. It showed a speed of fifteen miles per hour on my tracker.

       "The thing known as a human is showing the thing called progress." a Kranng robot said from behind a window.

        They pushed me for an hour until I finally collapsed against a wall. I learned the first day the punishment to not listening. I was taken to a room and I got an injection of a horrid liquid that caused me to feel my bones break. It killed me the whole night so now I listened.

        Now as I lay against the wall I clutch my stomach in pain and breath heavily. I was ordered up and told to do a handstand. I was so terribly exhausted. They pushed me further each day at such a fast rate that my body couldn't keep up.

        Before I could stand the doors in there examination room flew open and I saw four green beings that gave me a spark of hope. I shakily stood up and watched as they beat the Kranng. The first to see me was Raphael. His face drained of color and I am guessing it was for my appearance. He burst into the room and still looked startled. My eyes had a spark of color as he came in.

        He shook his head and ran over to me as the others fought off the robots.

        "We need to find Tsukiko," I said weakly, seeing as I hadn't talked in a few days.

        "Where is she?" he asked as he picked me up in a bridal way form. He ran out of the rooms as the brothers fought. I think they got the last one down because they ran after us.

        "I heard her call my name the first day I was here. She sounded down here." I said meakly pointing a head.

        "Tsukiko!" Raphael gruffly yelled.

        "Raphael!" a close female voice yelled. He stopped in front of a room and I saw Tsukiko for the first time after the mutation.

        She had short black hair that curled around her face. She had ears, a tail, and whiskers as I did only her tail and ears were fluffy and black. She wore the same white outfit as I only her slightly tanner skin made it look better. Then she had the same eyes as me only her blue was where my green was and vise versa. She looked to be a few months or possibly a year younger. Her body was small and fit like mine but she was slightly taller by an inch.