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In an effort to develop Suto's character before I enter him into rp I'm going to start a rp here. If you would like to have a character that is already submitted be an assistant or a worker in Suto's Lab let me know and I can see what I can do. If you would like to play just your run of the mill NPC lab tech let me know as well <3. Really this is more for character development and it is very possible this story may eventually cross with the main one 8D

Suto made his way through the labyrinth of hallways and down another level. There in front of him stretched a long corridor filled with more hallways and rooms. His destination was close, however, as he took the first hallway on the right and entered the first room to the left. The door made a click as it locked behind him and Suto found himself staring down a teenage boy.

The lad had been strapped to a table that had been set in an almost vertical angle. His black hair was strewn about and the bright lights above reflected off of the blue scales that lined his jaw and ran down his arms. “So, how are we doing today?” Suto smiled in a slightly friendly manner as he set his medical bag down beside the table the boy was strapped to. After a few moments of getting no reply Suto glanced back at the boy. The teen had a stern look on his face, glaring at the doctor before him. His will had yet to be broken. Suto smiled. “Excellent.”

Searching through his bag Suto produced a syringe and took a small sample of blood. It was a procedure he had started from the beginning, always good to see the before and after. Taking off the needle and throwing it away, Suto capped off the syringe and placed it back in his bag. From there he drew out another syringe with a vial looking green liquid within it.

“Today will be the first step in your gene splicing journey, Taka.”

“My name isn’t Taka, you jerk off. Its Anthony!”

A sadistic grin started to worm its way across Suto’s face, “Your name was Anthony, back in the real world.” Suto got close to the boy the light reflecting off his glasses making his eyes impossible to see. “But that place no longer exists to you. Just this one, and here you are named Taka.”

The boy let out a threatening hiss baring his elongated fangs that no doubt held venom in them. He was about to make an attempt to strike at the doctor but there was a pain in his arm that drew his attention away from his task. Suto had rammed the needle into his arm and injected the liquid before pulling away to see the results. In horror the boy watched as the effects started to set in and the skin around the area of the injection site began to turn black and creep up his arm.

Letting out a scream of pain, Taka tried to pull away from his changing arm as the once blue scales grew larger and more prominent. Claws began to extend from his fingertips as the flesh began to twist and distort growing in size. The sound of the bones within his arm started to crack and bulge in places as they too tried to keep up with the transformation.

“What have you done to me?!” Taka demanded. By this time the transformation was creeping up his shoulder and scale like feathers were jutting out of his jaw line and creeping up around the left side of his face. His reptilian left eye took on a more golden color but remained nearly the same.

“Its not every day I test dragon DNA on someone. You should feel honored. Most of the subjects don’t take the transformation well and die from it. I’ve only had on person survive so far but I’m hoping today will make two.”

As the transformation over took exactly half of the boy’s body he began to writhe in pain, thrashing on the table pulling on his restraints. Suto watched in a calm manner, unconcerned that the boy may in fact get free. Successfully the boy managed to pull his left arm free and reached out toward Suto with the intent to rip him to pieces but once he was only inches away his eyes went blank and his arm fell limp and lifeless next to him. His heart had failed. With a sigh, Suto drew out another syringe and took another sample of blood and gathered up his things and headed back to the door. A beep sounded and the door unlocked allowing him to exit.

“Sir?” It was the mousy haired man again.

“Another failure. Throw him in the incinerator.” Suto said calmly before heading back upstairs.

Kaine had been curled into a ball in front of his blast furnace for a few days. His body was telling him to hibernate. His blood was telling him to sleep for a few years. Ignoring his bodily urges, he sluggishly got to his feet and dressed himself in his uniform. He had sewn leather straps into it to make it look like a straight jacket. "I'm a regular Susie Home-maker heart !" He said to himself. He beamed with pride in the mirror, His cold black eyes suddenly betraying a bit of warmth. He wrapped his black leathery wings about himself like a cloak, and twirled his special scarf around his neck and face with a fluid motion. Kaine despised the cold, and activated a few of the heat runes woven into his scarf as he thought about the ill effects chilly air had on him.

He had brought a bit of a snack with him on the way down towards Suto's lab. It was a bit of meat from the calf of a human, still on the bone. He gnawed on it absently in between dictations to his new assistant, who was trying to avoid the traffic of people, keep pace, and scribble in a note pad at the same time. Some of his assistant's scrawlings were concerned with Kaine's stocks, but most had to do with keeping the facility running. Supplies, business projects, labor, and maintenance were just a few of the topics. And that was just during the span of one small hallway.

It was easy to get lost here, and Kaine was constantly finding himself traversing the same ground he had covered only moments before. Finding Suto was easy, however. Once you learned Flopsy's smell, you could follow it for miles. He handed his assistant the leftover meat and dismissed him once he had entered the room that contained Suto.

He hadn't been sent for in some time. He wondered if he had offended Suto recently, though he felt incapable of doing such a thing. After all, Suto's word was law; it was such a pleasure to serve.

Kaine reached his master's desk shortly after the inhuman Lucas had left. He clicked his heels, then he kneeled. It was instinctive. His body did it without any conscious choice. It made the hair on his neck bristle. "Reporting, sire." The words purred out of his mouth with vigor, as if he lived to say them.

Kaine would have tittered at Suto's question, had it been asked by anyone else. Instead, his body remained motionless, his face staring at the ground. He couldn't have moved if he wanted to (not that he did), unless Suto allowed him to. The was swift death. He was hell incarnate, but he had a very tight leash.

"I'm here to update you on the current status of the facility." Kaine began. "Everything is in nominal shape, save for one thing. The DNA of the dragon you've been cloning for your experiments is, well...." He broke off to think of the exact phrase the technician had said. "No longer viable for use due to cellular degeneration." He said, slightly tilting his head to the side. He felt good that he remembered it verbatim, but grimaced when remembered what the dragon looked like. It didn't have the intelligence to wipe the drool off of its own chin. It was a jellied husk. "This suggests that another costly expedition into the Bad Lands is needed." He finished with a hiccup. He sighed slightly. He had either been cooped up in his room, or fine-tuning the fixes for the day-to-day worries for the past few days. He fidgeted in his position, trying to convey that he needed something to do... something other than squeezing extra pennies out of an already extremely lucrative business.

Kaine followed alongside Suto as he talked, drinking in every word. He was happy just to have a task assigned to him, but when he mentioned the name 'Yuval', he perked up a bit. The man's demeanor had always had a strange effect on Kaine, which only made him want to mess with him all the more. He grinned wolfishly, hoping their paths would cross. When Suto had finished, Kaine nodded his assent and bowed. "It is, as always, a pleasure to serve. If you will permit me a few days for preparation and recon before I leave, it would be appreciated. I'd rather-much not run into this without being ready to the fullest." He said in a tone that sounded as if he were asking a great deal from Suto with just this simple request. What have you done to me? He asked inside his head. He was almost afraid to know.

Kaine allowed himself an unseen smile behind his scarf when Suto made his last comment.

"Your word is law, sir." He said before taking his leave.

When he left the room, Kaine found his assistant standing outside holding the meat he had given him by the end of the bone at arm's length. He leaned over and chomped down on the meat, taking the morsel out of the young man's hand. Fighting to keep from uttering an exclaimation, the assistant clapped a hand over his mouth. Kaine just stood there watching him while chewing on his snack. When the boy recovered, Kaine motioned for him to follow.

"I need you to procure a few items for me. I will need six adult human jaw bones with all of their teeth intact, a sternum from a female giant, two human skulls, and all of the vials of my blood not marked for testing." Kaine said as he weaved his way through the scuttling technicians, moving towards his workshop. "I will also need you to bring me the caretaker that dealt with the missing subject the most, and I also need them by tommorow." He stopped in front of the door to his destination. "If you have any problems, I will be at the Aviary for the next few hours. After that, I'll be here." He motioned using his arm in a sweeping gesture before glaring at his assistant. "Get busy."

Abandoning the young man, Kaine began the journey to the roof where the Aviary and its denizens waited.

By the time that Matthew caught up with Kaine, he was standing outside of the Aviary, his hand poised on the door to open it. He paused just before swinging open the metal slab.

"Yes, what do you want?" Kaine said.

He didn't even wait for the man to reply. Kaine pulled his scarf away from his mouth, and spun on his heels to face the rotund man. He gave a grin that flashed all of his jagged teeth. "You came at a wonderful time. I had asked my personal assistant to fetch the attendant that worked with the missing specimen the most. Seeing as how he has so many other things to get and I'm already here at the Aviary, if you brought him to me now that would cut the prep time significantly." Kaine said in quickly in one breath. He clapped his hands twice and made a shooing motion.

The metal slab that served as a door gave a rusty creak as he pushed it open. He walked along the cages that contained all of the birds. They were chirping and squeeking their territorial cries as he passed. He took his time, intent on drinking in all of the bright colors the birds had on their plumage.

Kaine stopped in front of the cages he had come here for. There were at least two dozen black forms contained within. They peered at him with the beady eyes contained in their pitch black silhouettes. The conspiracy of ravens was in the cage to his left, while the murder of crows was to his right. He crooned over them, while he waited for the squat little man to return.