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Gallen had hidden in his room for the past 3 to 4 days. He did not want to leave, he did not want to stay. He did not know what he wanted, he only knew he was scared. After what he had saw, after seeing Cody, Tommy, and finally......the squid man....it was becoming harder to believe this island was some "normal" research lab....if such things ever really existed. He prayed that this was all a bad dream, or some crazy joke. He rubbed the spot where he had received his first injection, the skin was hot. He wanted his sister...he wanted his friends.

Two days earlier he found traces of something livening in his room, only to discover some how his cat, Drake, had stole away in one of his bags. The small orange tabby was about the only comfort Gall had. His hair was a mess, his clothes disheveled.

He sat in the corner with a blanket wrapped around him, Drake in his lap as Gallen stared off into space. Over and over it played….the meeting with the squid man...the ink...the incoherent words...him trying to eat his...his... Then the words, the old man Richard had said…the same words Cody had said and Tommy.

Gallen looked at his fingers. He had been trying to call the labs but had no luck, either he was too upset to work the communication device in his room, or was no one was answering.

As he sat there a mess, he suddenly heard someone stir down below...was it his sister?. Though frightened to venture out, Gallen gathered his strength and slowly moved to the door. One barefoot in front of the other. He slowly unlocked the door and opened it. He peeked out only to see the darkness of evening, the area illuminated by the few florescent street like lamps. He then walked out, Drake behind him as he ventured down the stairs form his second level duplex.

Bare feet touching the moist earth, Gallen turned around to see the room under his was dark and no sign of anyone around. “Must have been my imagination.” He turned around to bee greeted by drake at his feet, rubbing up to him and purring. “yhea little buddy I know, this place is creepy. Lucky you, you did not meat the creepy people here yet.” He knelt down to pick up Drake when he heard the tap, shuffle coming form the woods. His heart started to beta hard, his mouth went dry, Oh no could it be…..another one. Gallen started to go white with fear.

Pound…Pound…Pound…went his heart as he looked behind him from his crouched position. He could hear the shuffle-tap moving closer. His heart pounded harder. He stared out into the darkness. Drake purred and meowed as he rubbed against Gallen’s knee, he seemed not scared, yet Gallen was. “who…who is there? If your here to try and eat me or my cat….I…I know kung fu.” Great gall way to strike fear into them, you go Neo he though as he started to stager to his feet, knees shaking.

Vegetarian? Well that is good, he thought to himself. Gallen stood there though still posed to fight, he started to make out the slight shadow of the person. He watched the shadow intently, his body shaking. “o..o…ok, but mind you I am ready to take you out if you try anything.” He started to back up pushing drake back, only to see drake leap over his foot and run up to the man in the shadows and start to purr and rub against his ankle. “Drake!!!”

Gallen’s eyes bugged a bit as the deer man stepped into the light. He was even more changed then any the others Gallen had seen, except for the squid man. In a way he looked noble and beautiful like any deer, yet out of place standing on hind legs and in a human shape. Gallen noted the cane and malformed leg. Yet his green eyes met the deer mans and he could see what the man said was true. Gallen sighed in relief, yet was still a little shaky. Once more he was before another animal/human hybrid.

“Nahh Drake should be fine. And no worry I won’t fight you. I..I..I just am sort of shaken up form all this…and from something I had to meet a few nights back.” He lowered his eyes as he felt a shiver run up his spine when eth thought of the squid man came to him.

Drake purred and rubbed against the deer mans hoof and ankle, it seemed Drake was unfazed by the anthro. “Well if drake is fine with you, I guess your not dangerous…”

Gallen watched the deer man lean down and scratches Drake. Drake purred and soon rested on his tummy enjoying eth scratch. “I see, I only have meet two people who sort of look like animals and….well I prefer not to talk about him..her..it..” Gallen looked up and smiled weakly as he started to walk toward Ian. :so you where once ..er.. human?” Gallen still had trouble swallowing this idea, that people working here where turning folks into animals. He rubbed his arm again where the shot had been administered.

“Long? Hehehehe, I am not here to stay, I came to see my sister who works in the Labs, then I am heading home.” Gallen was still in denial. He could not except he was here to stay. He felt bad for the deer man. “but why, why are they doing this? I mean did you volunteer? Are you another person with an illness, like that Cody kid?”

"transition? Trapped? But. but my sister, she works for Feral, she is here. she has to be, she never do this to me." Gallen sounded desperate, the fear crept back up, he did not want to be here, stuck in this nightmare. "What? They are going to change me too, into what. a slug...a rat...maybe a cat." he pointed to Drake who was pawing happily at a few blades of grass next to Ian’s hoof. "It is lie, come on, none of this is real...it has to be a bad dream." his eyes were distant, he was on the line between sanity and madness, as his body went limp and he shuffled backwards a bit, a tear running down his cheek. "No, all you are telling stories. The squid guy was some kind of..of..guy in a costume yhea. The dolphin boy…make up…." Gallen did not want to except it. He was not being rude or mean, was ….was just…scared.