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 Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:37 pm
Daniel jumped back, the hairs on the back of his neck bristled up. He let out a soft sigh as he rubbed his chest, calming down his fast-paced heartbeat. "Heh..." He chuckled somewhat, he looked between Adriel and Lamen for a moment before he served himself some food and sat down one one side of the couch.
Adriel stood there for a couple of minutes, looking about, a nagging feeling on the back of his head. He write it off as the feeling of being back where he had been somewhat held against his will, trying to shake the feeling away, he serve himself some food, thought a much smaller portion then Daniel's before he sat one a couch-chair.
"Lamen, I am not one to just dance around the bush, what is it that you need from me?" He kept his voice friendly, thought his purple eyes didn't reflect it.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:28 pm
Well, there it was, the question. She knew that she couldn't really put it off forever. She swallowed- this was no casual secret that she was about to reveal.
"Hmm... Daniel, I see you're interested in Soar. He seemed comfortable with bringing you here, so feel free to go visit him upstairs at any time- making friends should be easy. You'd be surprised how many questions spring up when he's watching TV."
Hopefully, that would give she and Dr.Hart some time to discuss. The girl shot Lock a meaningful look- no doubt he would understand that it would be bad if anyone were to overhear. Unless, of course, he wanted Daniel to stay.
Meanwhile, Donut had taken to making suspicious rattling noises from the other side of the entrance door, no doubt in an attempt to spook the visitors. Lamen didn't even notice- she was used to it.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:43 pm
The older man smiled, crooking an eyebrow up. "Daniel, if you would please give us some privacy?"
Daniel blinked a couple of times. "Is this about one of your habits?"
"Something like that, I suppose."
The photographer shrugged. "Very well."
"No listening in..."
"Aye, aye captain." Daniel grinned as he mockingly salute. He took his plate towards the stairs, then stop. "Umm..."
"Soar."
"Right!" He disappeared up the stairs.
Adriel held his hand up in a 'don't speak' and listen to the steps. "...." He let it drop once the steps stop. ".....Go on."
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Daniel looked around the upstairs, wondering exactly what Lamen was going to talk to about with Adriel. He tried no to think about it, not wanting his curiosity to get the best of him as he follow the sound of the tv. "Soar?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:02 pm
Lock caught on, asking his friend for leave. That was helpful.
"...Thank you." She began after Daniel's footsteps had stopped (and she had swallowed a piece of pancake), letting her voice remain articulate and slow so that everything would be crystal clear.
"I'm sorry I had to ask you to come all the way here again- and once again, I seem to stall answers unintentionally. Well, it's a bad habit that will have to change, but this concerns you in a very... delicate fashion. I apologize about all of this, really... it might come as a big shock to you, for it's truly no laughing matter. As a matter of fact, I've found the reason behind your affliction- your craving for human blood. ..."
"Let's just say that it began with our little meeting there in the caves. You are conscious that you have a high resistance to mental attacks, right? Soar has informed me that you have a barrier around your mind preventing psychics from penetrating it. However, you don't seem to show any other psychic traits... hmm. Well, that aside, I noticed a few other things and became suspicious of a certain affliction you might have had. When I looked into it further, I found out that I was right." She took a deep breath, putting down her plate. Hopefully, with Daniel here, Lock would refrain from a violent reaction, but... if it were her, she knew that the news wouldn't be any less than the biggest shock of her lifetime. In a ways, finding out about Dr.Hart's genetic oddities had been the biggest shock of her own. Such experiments were highly unlikely to exist, let alone succeed- and for it to be something so cruel...
"I won't hide the truth; remember when you were asleep? I took the liberty of collecting a few strands of hair from you. These are the results of my tests, which I have kept in purely digital format on my personal omnidex. Nobody can access them but me, and this is the only copy."
On that note, Lamen did something on her handheld all-in-one device, which began to project a karyotype of genes and then a list of abnormal gene sequences, where they were from and where they were inserted.
She knew he probably wouldn't know what's so special about this project, but she wanted his reaction before breaking the news. Perhaps he already knew. Perhaps he didn't want to know.
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Upstairs, Soar was sitting cross-legged in front of a wide-screen TV, staring blankly at the colorful images with a remote in his humanoid hand. One could not tell whether he was enjoying himself, but he didn't seem to notice the human coming up. He was intensely focused upon the show- it was George Gulpin's Cooking Show. Who knows why a pokemon without a mouth would be so interested in food.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:32 pm
Daniel sat down by the legendary pokemon and began eating quietly, deciding to watch with him then to interrupt.
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Adriel looked calm as he listen to her, he was aware of his own mental shield, quiet capable of using it to his own advantage from time to time, but never really seeing the need. He gave a light nod to her and continue to listen. At the mention of the taken hairs, he could only think 'well...what an invasion of my persona', but nothing else. Then his purple eyes fell upon the projection of the DNA sequence, an eyebrow arched at it as his mind tried to make head and tail from all this, then it started to don on him.
"You are not saying this is MY DNA sequence....are you?" His voice remind calm and devoid of any anger, but his face no longer held any smiles. This was one sick joke if it happen to be one. "This is ridicules."
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:22 pm
Lamen nodded, an equally disbelieving look on her face. So he didn't know. "According to what I found in your genes... 22% of your DNA is comprised of recombinant pokemon DNA. 5% Alakazam, which would explain your psychic ability, 4% Golbat, which would explain your blood craving, and 13% of a yet unpublished but undeniably pokemon DNA. Whoever did this to you was a sick, sick person- but it's the truth, and I can prove everything in as much detail as you request." She was amazed- the skill of the perpetrator was admirable, of course, but definitely not whatever sick mind that person had.
"Do you know who did this, Dr.Hart? It's definitely a crime, not to mention the cause of some of your problems. I don't doubt it's caused a lot of pain. ...I'm sorry. Telling you this..."
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As the sound of someone eating besides him gradually registered with the Deoxys, his eyes shifted slowwwly to the side- and there was Daniel. Soar tilted his head, finally distracted from the TV show, and handed the human the controller.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:53 pm
Daniel shook his head and smile, giving the remote back to the pokemon. "Its okay, I'll watch whatever you want, I am not picky about TV. Barely ever watch it."
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Adriel rested his head into his hands, his eyes seemed eerily calm, he looked like someone just contemplating and when he close his eyes and hide them behind the hands, he looked like he was just resting his eyes after a long day. Inside his head, well it was a different story.
His senses seem numb as he heard nothing when his glass of water on the coffee table began to shake lightly, crack after crack started appearing in the glass, the lights began to flicker. When the glass was no long see through but a strange white and silver color form all the shatters and the water began to finally leak out, the glass collapsed into a pile of glass dust, the water spilling, just as the lights flicker once before the all electricity was cut off.
In the dark, Lamen felt several of the furniture move then everything became still....for a moment at least.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:14 pm
Soaringedge paused, bemused for a second- if he didn't like TV, why didn't he say so? <##Play.<>G-a-m-e of Ch-e-ss<>?> The Deoxys sent, getting up when suddenly, the ground began to shake with an air of aggression, causing the pokemon's eyes to flash an angered white...
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Lamen thought it was going surprisingly well- that he hadn't reacted badly. She would usually expect an angry outburst or something of the like. Perhaps he had his doubts already, and she was only confirming them- or that's what she thought before things began to shake.
"Dr.Hart?" She asked tentatively, beginning to feel the danger of this man's power if he were to direct it towards her- her nerves stood on end, protesting to the psychic pressure Lock was exerting on his surroundings. She didn't dare to make any unnecessary movements, so she remained seated- if Soaringedge sensed something wrong, he could teleport them immediately. The lights finally went out. Lamen closed her eyes and waited, expecting to hear a voice, but she heard none- only the strange absence of humming devices that surrounded her every day life. Even her pokedex screen had gone out completely.
Blunt footsteps came down slowly while Lamen's eyes adjusted to the light now returning- Soar, the Deoxys, had descended the stairs, his core crystal glowing with displeasure. He lifted an arm, fingers crackling with electricity- and shot lightning at the wall, letting electricity course through the entire house in one wide bright sweep of crackling noise and light- upstairs, one could hear the TV come back on, and the lights flickered back.
Lamen was standing, as she had thought him about to attack Dr.Hart. She sighed. "Thank you, Soar. Daniel... I'm afraid to touch him." She admitted, referring to Hart's immobile figure. "Can you do something? Please?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:22 pm
Daniel shivered from where he was standing, he had ran down the stairs when he saw the lights flicker, but he didn't dare enter the room. His warm eyes flicker up to Lamen and then to his brother, who just stay so still he would had thought it was a well crafted statue, had it not been for the pale tones of skin.
The photographer wasn't sure what he felt himself, he kind of wanted to slap Lamen and demand what she did, he was also concern about his brother, but worse of all, he was afraid of him at the moment, a feeling that made his stomach churn with self-disgust. Walking over to the still figure, he took a deep breath as his movements were as calm as he could manage them. His hands slowly came to rest on both board shoulders clad in the white fabric Adriel was so found of. He never knew what kind it was, but it felt almost like velvet and at the same time it didn't. He suppose the strangest of it was something the white-haired man could be familiar with.
Through it, he felt nothing. Slowly he pressed back until Dr. Hart was resting back against his seat, his arms fell like the ones of lifeless doll, but his head remind erect. Daniel let himself shudder as the purple eyes stare in trance. "Adriel...." He said quietly."You are going into shock...Adriel, I need you to come back....." Daniel manage a small smile. "And don't break the windows this time, this isn't our house."
He waited, but the look didn't disappeared, the man didn't seem aware that anyone was there. Daniel looked over his shoulder at Lamen, unable to do anything but think her at fault. "You are lucky this man has taught me to keep my temper, or I don't know what I would do to you..." He hissed lightly. "I haven't seen him like this since he had a bad reaction to his medicine after the coma. We don't even have an alakazam or even my abra...and no, your deoxyz won't work."
Turning back to his brother, he pressed him firmly against the chair and took a deep breath. Rising back, he let his hands away from Adriel, who remind seating up.
"Attention!" He spoke in a voice a general would use to give orders. Purple eyes snapped to attention, but held the same look.
"Disarm!"
The tension that had been buzzing in the room suddenly dropped and Adriel fainted. Daniel turned around, grabbed the glass of water that hadn't been turned to fine dust and threw the water at his brother's face.
Adriel's eyes snapped open, looking around wildly but his body didn't move. Closing them again, he reopen them and rose to his feet, only to sway, and with a gentle push from Daniel's hand, he was back in his seat, looking dizzy. "Augh....my head is killing me.....did anyone got the number of the truck that hit me?"
"I think it was 14A4 or was it 256L53, no it was definitely 4HE343." Daniel said without humor in his voice, he turn about to face Lamen. "Explain what the hell did you do to him."
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:46 pm
Soar laid a few of his still-charged fingers upon Lamen's shoulders in an attempt to comfort her as she buried her face into her hands. What have I done? I should have found someone else to tell him, maybe someone close. Maybe they'll have known how to present it. How does one tell people these things, anyways? Now he might never properly recover... and here I was, thinking I could help him. An inexperienced person, help a dangerous man? Getting both parties hurt instead is hardly surprising.
A concerned voice poked tentatively into her thoughts, accompanied by a few static shocks- which got her to focus again. She lifted her head, only to see Donut's incredulous face hovering before hers. The silver Haunter had appeared equally concerned for perhaps a fraction of a second before he broke into a hysterical laughter, zooming around the room again.
"HAUNTHAUNTHAUNTHAUNThaunthaunthauuunt!" He declared the situation fixed when Lamen dared a small smirk, though she quickly returned to those before her, observing the... odd steps through which Daniel managed to bring Dr.Hart back. She was surprised and impressed- and most of all relieved that he had recovered.
Though she didn't get to say so before the other man had asked her of what happened. "...Sorry about what happened." She managed to say in vague reply, sincere as it was.
She couldn't exactly tell him about the DNA tampering, could she?
It was Lock's secret unless he himself meant to divulge it.
She looked into Lock's eyes, as if asking for permission- but doubted he had fully returned to reality yet.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:12 pm
Daniel was about to snap at her to look at him and speak when he felt a hand grabbed the collar of his shirt, he suddenly was bent so he was at eye level with the still sitting Adriel. Eyes lock for a moment and Daniel was released, muttering under his breath, he took seat on the couch next to his brother's chair.
Dr. Hart, resting his head into his hands as he hand down before, but this time his fingers were lace into his hair and rubbing circles against his scalp in key points to relieve his headache. One hand stop, he made a signal to Lamen to explain with it, before it went back to its position.
Daniel looked at Lamen expectantly.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:15 pm
Lamen was surprised that Lock trusted Daniel enough for him to know this... or was it just ignorance? For his own good, he shouldn't spread this knowledge amongst even his close ones. She acquiesced, though on a condition.
"This is shocking information regarding the nature of a certain problem Dr.Hart has. If this knowledge were to spread unnecessarily, it would guarantee that he can never live a private life ever again, let alone a comfortable one, unless he enjoys being put on display or confined by some illegal facility or other. It doesn't matter if this is something you think someone close should know- it doesn't matter if you trust them- try not to tell this to anyone, alright? And it's not only about you. Since this knowledge might actually be something someone fishy has tried to hide, my own life might be in danger if it was let out that I know about it as well."
She paused, not making her gaze any less heavy as she looked back at Lock. She didn't seem in the least amused. "I'll say this again- though it's probably not much less shocking, so please stay calm as much as you can.
Some twisted people have messed with your genome. 5% Alakazam, 4% Golbat and 13% of an unpublished pokemon DNA have been added to your own, which causes certain problems like craving for blood and irregular psychic ability. ...Any questions?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:45 pm
The healer remind calm, keeping his fingers moving against his skull.
Daniel's eyes widen just slightly, but not for what Lamen might think, he looked around the room then at Adriel. ".....Well..lights flickering and some furnature movement...at least you took it better this time."
The white haired man's head snapped up, he regretted doing that immediately. "Augh, what the hell do you mean?!"
"Well...technically this is the second time you been told....last time you were ten...and tried to kill the person informing you." Daniel gave a weak smile. "And then you erased your own memory of the whole event..."
"So you knew....."
"Yes..?" Nervous smile from Dan.
".....How long have you known..."
"A couple of years, I overheard Santiago and Sensei talking about an operation for you, for a while I thought it was another one to try to take the bullet from your chest, but as they went on that the last doctor said that it wouldn't work, that such split should had done when you were in the womb...well...it took me a while to make them tell me what the hell they were talking about. That's when they told me about the other incident you had when you were told and told me no to tell you."
"Operation...?" Adriel leaned back on his seat, looking highly confuse, betrayed and angered. He tried to recall but nothing went throught, he finally gave up. "....My medicine?"
"All custom made by Santiago's family doctor, specially made for you and only you."
He rose to his feet and grabbed his little brother by the shoulders, pinning him against the couch's back. "Exactly what does each pill do?"
Daniel gave another nervous smile. "The blue, red, and yellow ones are chemical balancers, so you are kept..well..sane...the white one, you know what it does, its for emergencies when you feel really unstable. The green one helps your digestive system with whatever you eat...."
"And the black one I been taking since I was thirteen?" He hissed lowly.
The teenager blushed. "So you don't go in heat...."
Adriel's jaw dropped a little and he backed away, sitting down. "Is that why the pokemon..." Daniel nodded and the healer shivered. "Friendly aura my arse..." The man muttered and the teenager let himself chuckle just slightly.
"Yeah, you laugh, you are not the one getting both gender of pokemon knocking you over every time you forget to take some stupid medicine."
"I..heheh....sorry...haheheh"
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:18 pm
She paled when it was said that Lock had killed someone the last time they had told him. Thank goodness he was in better mental health now than then! Lamen' more serious train of thought was kind of veered off course when the whole pheromones/hormones problem was revealed on Lock's part, and the humorous events that had caused. She was forced to hide a wry smile with her hand.
But apparently, others knew. And Daniel was one of them [a relief- she didn't need to worry about Lock losing a friend and blaming it on her.]
Lamen coughed a ha-hmn in an effort to get back to business.
"Sorry to interrupt your... recollections..." Lamen had to hide a smile again, but it was pretty obvious she thought it equally hilarious.
"But these Santiago and Sensei people, have they ever done anything else to you than issue regular medecine? If they are the ones responsible for your condition, or if they know more than I do, which is pretty obvious as they have already created medicines for your use...
Actually, before we continue, I'll tell you a little about myself. Daniel most kindly spilled all your beans just now, so it wouldn't be fair to keep you wondering why I'm getting myself involved in this mess- um- if you let me.
Basically, I have a reasonable amount of resources, and am a trainee in the field of genetics myself. I was supposed to have recently entered a certain university overseas- where I'm from, actually- but after finding out about your problem, I was convinced that I would remain here for my studies. Recommendations from my previous jobs got me entered in a research programme that would allow me to stay here and use all of the labs and equipment from the university's associates on Zatao, provided I work for them full-time. It all comes to the fact that all of these resources are now at -your- disposal."
She smiled openly. "What do you think of letting a young genius help?"
Soar then honked loudly, reminding Lamen to add: "Oh, and Soar wishes to help too, of course."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:28 pm
Adriel looked over to her with a crooked eyebrow, knowing very well she wanted to laugh. Both his eyebrows arched at the mention that either Santiago or Sensei could be the ones responsible for this. At that, he wanted to laugh, but remind completely calm and serious, letting her continue speaking.
The purple eyes of the healer went to his little brother for a moment, who seemed impressed for the most part.
Daniel was the first to speak. "....I don't intend to put down your help, but, what would you be helping with?"
Adriel tilted his head, quiet interested in this answer as well. "As for Santiago and Sensei Ugami, neither of them can be responsible for this.....Sensei's lucario found me one night, half way frozen."
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