Saint-Bridgit School for Mutants

[Tsemara]

The air was thick with smoke, making it hard to see. However, unlike humans, felines did not need to rely exclusively on their eyesight to hunt. The smoke though thick, was not enough to mask all the scents around her. There were people nearby. And some of them did not belong to her. She wrinkled her muzzle and crouched. On all fours, she moved, gliding along the floor. Growling, she went after the closest stranger she laid her eyes on. The item in the figures hand made a sharp noise before she knocked them over.

The more human part of Jordan’s brain figured that it was some type of sedative meant to bring them down. But she didn’t feel anything. Adrenaline, fear, and pent up instinct drove her now. She had read in one of the books she had borrowed from the lab, that it took far more drugs to bring down a feral puma than it took to knock out a captive born one. She never knew which DNA she had in her system. She had never gotten to the point where they had to use drugs to restrain her before. But she figured she would find out which one she was made of soon enough.

The human wore some kind of armor, making it hard for her fangs to penetrate. The human flailed and hit her with their weapon. His arm made a strange cracking sound as she closed her jaws down on it. His cry was answered by more sharp sounds and a scream that made both the human and beast part of her stop in their tracks. The humans took that opportunity to knock the hybrid off her prey. She lay on her side, reeling from the otherworldly sounds. The unearthly howl that came from Lynx’s mouth was full with incredible emotions that it affected the puma as well. Now she was driven by another emotion. Anger. One of hers was in pain.

With a beastly scream the feline woman launched herself, again at her assailants. She slammed into one of the standing figures, claws and fangs bared. Jordan felt a strange pinch in her side. She paid it no mind until her body was assaulted by an electrical current. She shrieked and dropped like a stone. Then, the crossbreed began to convulse. She had no control over her person, even after the current stopped battering her system. Twitching, she had no choice but to watch and listen to what was going on around her, and think angry thoughts at the armored humans.

[Mystal LaRose]

Sayso smelled the smoke he followed the smell of smoke and the sounds of battle which he could now hear his wings unfolded and brushed against the walls on either side of him.

He shook his head, ruffled his features making a few loose one fall to the ground and continued forward the farther he went the thicker the smoke became making it harder from him to pick out every detail due the fact that it was stinging his eyes. He crept along the hallway felling for a door that he could sense more than see the felling of being near his own kind was stronger now he knew he was close to the problem. He found the door opened inside he heard humans... the steps of someone wearing boots and the felling of other shapeshifter practically screamed from the room.

He slipped inside flapping his wings and hoping the ceiling was a bit higher than the one in the hallways. He slammed into some guy or it could have been a lady he made a odd face and touched the ceiling with his fingertips he silently cursed to himself because the ceiling wasn't all that high. His wings sent out a breeze slightly clearing the smokey room. he dropped down on another human like figure making sure his talons didn't kill them. He carefully stepped backwards his foot hitting some still form on the ground. He looked behind him the figure of a twelve year old was directly behind him he could fell that she wasn't human.

Don't hurt the others just the humans a voice whispered in his head he smiled slightly. Stepping over the still young girl.

[Maeve]

((*cough cough* So, as discussed in the OOC thread, I'll be making a little thing to make us jump all in a wonderful place called the "Future", so that we can go on and all... Just act as if you wake up in a small room and get checked by some doctors (feel free to use our NPCs).))

~ The capture squad easily made its way through the hall and emptied room, soon finding the escaped mutants. Using their non-lethal weapons, they managed to neutralize all the kids and brought them back to the school underground labs, where they would be checked and examined before getting reintroduced in the school. All kids were put in individual room, a small space with only an old hospital bed and a door as only decor. ~

[Tsemara]

Trapped. Get out. Trapped. Leave. Escape. Trapped. Get out. Trapped.

Jordan paced about her little cell nervously. Through her scrambled thoughts, she pondered her predicament. Periodically she would leap at the imposing door. Pouncing at the steel doors had proved fruitless, as had slamming up against it and kicking at it. But the need to be out was too great not to try. There were balding patches on her forearms and paw-like hands where she had over groomed them in attempts to keep herself occupied. The bed frame, though metal was in ruins. The mattress was serviceable enough, if one ignored the slash marks that scored its covering. The blankets were little more than shreds, piled on top of the mattress. Her fur provided enough warmth in the little prison that held her.

While still unable to move, she had been muzzled and restrained. The doctors were not willing to risk an overdose of sedatives. By the time the mutants were all neutralized, Jordan had taken six times more doses of diazepam than she should have, but never felt the effects. Feral blood. By all accounts she should either be in a coma or unable to think, much less move. But still she paced. Still the mutant slammed against the unforgiving door, in hopes that it would eventually open.

Trapped. Get out. Escape. Run. Hide. Trapped.

Since the capture in the basement tomb, the hybrid had been on edge. There was never a moment, even with mind numbing drugs, when the crossbreed had the opportunity to calm down enough to revert back to her human-like form. Her clothes hung in tatters around her lanky frame, unable to cope with her inhuman movements. Likely they would cover little if and when she returned to her furless shape.

The large men that handled Lynx also placed Jordan in this miserable place. A scientist, or was it a doctor(?), accompanied by the large men had asked numerous questions. Most of them never received an answer. She was incapable of clear and coherent speech. When the white robed man realized this he arranged for other tests to be run.

Trapped.

[Maeve]

((Yay! I'm alive again!))

Lei woke up in a small cell-like room. A bare lightbulb, high above her head, was the only source of light. It took her some time to understand where she was, her head still shaky from the past events. After what appeared like ten minutes or so, she decided to sit up to get a clearer view of her new space. Doing so, she realized her clothes had been changed for a simple white cotton shirt and pants, much like hospital dress. She looked around her, wondering where Illya was, but the bear was nowhere to be found. Apparently, the people who had placed her here and changed her had also taken Illya.

Tears started to form in the little girl's eyes as she realized her closest friend was gone. And soon her thoughts passed from the bear to the other girls. Lei could only vaguely remember getting down to the lab's basement, but everything after that was still quite blurry, too much for her to have any idea of what had happened. She rubbed her eyes, drying her tears partially, and walked to the large metal door. She reached her hand to open it, but as she had thought, the door was locked. She turned and rested her back against it, tears flowing on her cheeks more than ever.

After a long long time of crying, Lei heard what appeared to be a pouncing against a wall or door nearby. She stopped crying and put her ear against the door, wondering if she could hear anything. Apparently, there was a very fine gap between the door and floor, allowing some of the noises around to enter. Deep inside, Lei hoped that what she was hearing was one of the other girls trying to escape, or at least make her presence known. She got down close to the ground and said "Hey there" with a small voice, hoping someone would answer.

[Tsemara]

Jordan stopped her frantic actions. Tongue lolling from her maw, she panted from exhaustion. Her shoulders were bruised and sore from the repeated battering. Her head hurt from the whine of electricity, the smell of chemicals and the unnatural lighting. Her bestial instincts were screaming at her to escape. She wanted to cry out, too. She nearly did until she heard something. Something outside her cell caused her ears to twitch.

So distracted with her own plight, she nearly thought that she had imagined the small sound. But the voice was not one of hers. It was too young to be her human psyche. And it seemed to timid to be her feline temperment.“Mmrrrrr???” The hybrid sniffed around the base of her door, but could not get any scent besides chemicals and sterilized floors. Even flemming the puma cross-breed could not get a hint as to what or who might have made the call. She yowled the names of the others, in hopes that one of them might have made the call, in hopes that they might hear her in return.

“Mmerrony? Rrrynkss? Rrrei? Reeve? Anyrrrone?” Jordan had an overwhelming urge to launce herself at the door again. The mutant managed to restrain herself, though her hackles were raised from the effort to stay still. She didn’t want to miss out on an answer by creating a din. Tail twitching, she waited, hoping for a response.

[Mystal LaRose]

Sayso woke up jumping to his feet he didn't remember anything sense the moment he went half hawk he looked around the small cell he was in angered the hawk in him it was use to such small spaces. He paced the room hitting the walls looking for a weak point his thought turned to the people he had been trying to help what had happened to them.
Calm think clearly, don't panic... where am I? he took slow easy breathes walking to the door of the small cell being in here meant he had been caught, by whom though? It also meant they knew about him now his advantage of surprise was gone.
He heard names and although his name wasn't one of them he didn't expect it to be heck he would be surprised if the other mutants even knew he existed.

"HEY!" He called out loudly kneeling beside his door. His voice was clearly different from the girls in being male. He pounded on the door even though he knew it wouldn't break not even if he went half would he be able to break it.

"ARE YOU OKAY?!" He called out again waiting for a reply.

[Maeve]

Lei thought she had heard something, but it was too rough for understand if it was anything else than a roar. She regretted for a moment not having the keen senses of her feline friends. Though, before she had the time to do anything, the sound of a voice, clearly male that time, brought her back to reality.

"Yeah, I'm alright, I think," Lei answered. "And you?"

[Mystal LaRose]

"Oh I'm fine!" Sayso called faintly hearing a female slightly childish voice he laid on the floor of the cell getting as close to the small break as he could. The floor was cold under his thin t-shirt he shivered ignoring the chill and concentrating on hearing things outside his cell. he rubbed his arms trying to warm them wondering what else he should say.

[Maeve]

"Good," Lei said, disappointed that it wasn't the voice of someone she knew, but at the same time relieved of not being alone. "Who are you?" she asked, a bunch of question rushing through her mind at the same time.

[Mystal LaRose]

"My name is Sayso, but I like you to call me Sin!" He thought for a moment debating over if he should tell her how/why he was here.
"Who are you?!" His thought swung to his mother he wondered if she was angry at him for running off.

[Maeve]

"My name is Lei," she answered, trying to remember if she knew anyone by that name. "nice to meet you, Sin. Though I guess it could have been in a better situation..."

Shivering from the contact of the cold floor, she got up and went to the bed. She picked up the only blanket it had and put it on the floor close to the door, making a little mattress for her to lay on.

"Anyone else is here?" she asked, wondering what had happened with the other girls.

[Tsemara]

Jordan crouched by the door, listening. It seemed that Lei was alive, making the hybrid feel only marginally better about things. And this new voice was interesting. Sin had either been here longer than the girls had been, or he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

With her limited vocal options, the puma woman remained quiet during the exchange of words. Even if she had something to contribute to the conversation, the chances of being understood were slim. Just my luck, she made a agitated sound deep in her chest.

When Lei asked if there was anyone else, Jordan opened her jaws. No sound came out. What could she say? Hey, this is Jordan! would be a bugger to understand. "I'mm heeerrre!"

[SasorizaKitty]

Lynx awoke to the distant sound of voices. Her red gold eyes opened as she sat up. Unlike the others, she wasn't even granted much of a cell...just a small cage. She had awoken in this cage many many times before...but that didn't make the old panic cease to rise in her chest. She swallowed a couple of times, her mouth very dry, as her pointed ears twitched this way and that. Yes, there is was again. Voices. She couldn't make them out, but they were there. Probably near the opposite end of the hall.

Lynx sat back in the small cage, careful not to touch the sides as she recalled back into memory what exactly had happened. The strange building. That basement. They were attacked. And she...she had been taken out before she could even scratch one of them. And her friends? Her friends, who she had let down, let suffer, let be captured and now punished? What of them? How could she have been so foolish? They should have left when they had the chance. Taken off further into the forest, found shelter somewhere safe, somewhere outside the confines of this "school." But it was too late for wishing.

From her chest, a mournful sound bubbled up and she opened her mouth to release the sound, giving a lonesome cry that echoed down the halls. It sounded much like a lioness searching for her cubs. Lowering her head to her knees, she curled her tail around herself and debated what to do.

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[MelancholyMelody~]

{{OH HAI GUIZ. Hey, hey Sasooooo, would you mind if I use Dr. Jones and Reeves, like, more than just basic things, for like, being the main people involved with Melody as well? 'Cause it'd be quicker/easier/less complicated (and also allows me to not come up with new people and such lol), so we don't have too many insane evil doctor scientist peoples roaming aboot. I ask because I don't want to be all up in your grill, dawg.
Also I didn't mention Sayso since I didn't think Jones would bring it up to Melody, or the other girls that don't know about him yet.}}

There was a soft thumping sound inside Melody's head. Her eyes opened ever so slightly, only to close again less than a second later. She continued this process a few times before she was finally able to keep them open for any more than a few seconds. As things came into focus the thumping noise faded. She'd been hearing her heartbeat inside her head.

She lifted a shaky hand and held her forehead. Her hand felt different, and when she looked to it she wasn't wearing what she'd left the school in, but instead a very plain outfit made up of trousers and a shirt. She looked like she was dressed up like a mental patient or something.

Her hearing and sight were still muffled and blurry. She blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes, trying desperately to see where she was. Her memories started to return to her, and then she realised she was locked up...somewhere, in some small cell-like room.

She jumped suddenly at the sound of some animalistic howling. But it sounded more like a cat that a canine. "Lynx! Jordan?" She could hear soft talking from outside. She stood, swaying a little before falling back onto her rear on the edge of the bed. She was still too shaky on her feet to stand right now.

She willed herself to shift but couldn't do it. Whether this was because of the smoke before that had disabled her powers still affected her or just because she was tired and feeling ill she couldn't tell.

Then the sound of a large, metal door opening came from down the hallway. It closed with a heavy slam and footsteps echoed down the corridor. "Quiet children!" Came a voice that seemed familiar. "But who?" The girl was caused to jump again when something sounded from her own door. She looked up to see a little part of it had been moved to one side, like something in a prison. She could tell from the way the light played upon it that there was obviously a sheet of thick glass stopping her from having any way to hurt those on the other side.

A pair of brown eyes hidden behind large glasses appeared in the hole. "Doctor...Jones!" it suddenly occurred to her whose voice it had been. "Well, well, well... Melody. Feeling better? Good," he spoke before she could. He tutted. "Only one day here and you've already misbehaved yourself. Such a shame. You finally got a chance at living outside of a laboratory and you blew it straight away." His eyes narrowed in a sinister manner. "You won't be getting another chance too soon. So it looks like you'll be staying down here a while. Don't worry, you won't be the only one, though. We expect this sort of thing from at least one of your little friends..."

Melody's eyes widened a little, thinking of the excuse they'd sworn to uphold. Should she tell him now, or wait until later? She didn't want to at all, but she'd given her word. She wasn't about to break a promise to the only friends she'd ever really had.

"Ah, yes," he'd obviously thought her change in expression had meant something else. "Lynx. She won't be let out for some time until we can rehabilitate her."

"You mean drug her," she thought to herself with disgust.

"Jordan, well, it can't be helped. She doesn't like being cooped up, so it's natural for her to join in on some attempt to "escape", but Lei and Eve?" He turned his head a little, addressing the other girls too. "We expected better. But we assume such well-behaved girls were tricked or threatened into doing such a thing. But you..." He turned back to look at Melody through the small glass pane in the door.

"You're a different story. Supposed well behaved, yet at the first chance you get you try to escape?" He tutted again. "Such a shame," he repeated. There was a pause, and then he spoke again in a different, more flat and matter-of-fact tone. "Bring her out." What was visible of his face disappeared from the gap and it slid closed once again.

Panic crept over her and she stood, pulling away and pressing her back against the wall. She tried desperately to shift into something, anything, but it was still no use, she couldn't change. The door swung open, blocked by the three big, lumbering men known as Mr. X, Y and Z. Two of them piled into the room and came over to Melody, who immediately began to try and fight them, but obviously to no avail. Without her powers she wasn't very physically strong at all, she was even slightly underweight which didn't help. That didn't mean she wouldn't try though.

Despite her best efforts the two men easily restrained her, placing cuffs on her wrists and ankles that kept them locked to one another. She started to scream as one of them then lifted her up with ease and carried her out of her cell, the other two remaining at her sides just in case.

"No!" she shrieked, her voice becoming harsh and raspy the way it does when one screams in absolute desperation. She didn't know exactly what went on with Lynx and these doctors, but she knew it wasn't good, and the fear that she'd be next was growing bigger and bigger inside her; she could shift into anything, they might even be able to manipulate it with drugs if they had something to disable her abilities. Would they do the same things to her as Lynx? What about the other girls? Jordan at least was surely done for, even if Lei and Eve were let go after blaming Lynx for forcing them. She was sure they wouldn't believe Jordan if she told this lie. And now she was sure they wouldn't believe her, either.

"No! No! NO! LET ME GO! LET ME GOOO! SOMEBODY HEEELLPP MEEEEEE!!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, thrashing around so much in the large man's arms that he struggled to keep a hold on her and the other two stepped in, all trying to pin her down. She continued to scream, though it was no longer in the form of words.

"Melody!" Doctor Jones voice cut through her screaming and she stopped, afraid of what he might do. He'd stopped from where he'd been walking ahead of the three guards. "I don't want to have to sedate you, but if you don't stop misbehaving I will have no choice. Now, be quiet!" he spat the two words, glancing over his shoulder to her, and she allowed her body to become limp and remained silent, the tears that had formed in her eyes beginning to escape from the corners and run down her cheeks.