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 Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:28 pm
Rex held Amaya tight in his arms, gingerly wiping a tear from her eye. "Here, let's start over!" he said, keeping his arm around her shoulder, but openeing up to Zach. "This is Amaya. Amaya, this is Zachary." He said, motioning to the person when he said their name. Speaking still sounded a little twisted with Rex's new canines, but he ignored them and continued to speak as usual.
He turned to Amaya, the image from his dream coming back to him once more. The strong creature... now that he thought about the little that he remembered, it did make sense. He repeated her words, "A lion? ..Wow." He was in shock. The whole time he was thinking too bad about the situation. He deeply thought he was going to change into something much worse, like a toad or some ugly bug. But a lion? Suddenly he was even more excited about his change than before.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:08 pm
Zach stopped walking backwards. He put a a hand up to wave, fingers slowly curling back down as he pulled back. She looked offended by his practically unsaid sentence, to the point of tears. Again, he felt like running. What could he say to her that wouldn't make her feel worse? Rex seemed more in charge of the situation, so perhaps he could sort things out.
Cautiously he moved back closer to their group, overhearing the animal they presumed Rex had become. Yes, Rex's tail did have the telltale appearance of a lion's tuft. The guy was downright ecstatic. Zach frowned.
"So, Amaya," he started. He didn't want to look Amaya in the eye, he felt guilty. He'd have to keep the conversation off of her... appearance. "How long have you been here?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:11 pm
The lizard girl shifted in the arm still around her, staying close to Rex since she felt safe, comfortable... and accepted depite her horrid apperance by him. Green eyes stayed on the ground as the sun started to rise over the trees and buildings, illuminating her scales and warming them up.
She didn't meet Zach's eyes either, her tail giving a twitch behind her. "I... uh..." How long had she been here? It took her a moment to think. "... Seven months, I think." Wow, it had been that long?
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:20 pm
Rex smiled, glad he'd semi-mediated the situation as he kept Amaya close to him. He watched the sunrise as well, this was the first time that he'd seen it since he'd come to the island. And boy, was it beautiful.
Happy that Zach didn't flat out leave when he addressed him, he nodded to the man, telling him to come back and be a part of the conversation. "Seven months? Wow, that's quite some time." It was good to get off the subject of Amaya change in a negative way. She was still the same Amaya he'd met on the beach that fateful morning.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:38 pm
The sunrise announced the break of another day on this trap of an island. Zach looked away from the bright light. He couldn't get over Amaya's obvious swishing tail. Every transformed individual he met was a scare. Would it ever end...
He came a little closer, unsure of himself. The number was shocking. This island experiement had been active for at least seven months! He shivered. Oh dear, Amaya probably thought it was because of her. His right hand, still bleeding a little, immediately gripped his left shoulder. A nervous habit. He was definitely nervous. It felt awful, but at the same time, it felt natural.
He glanced over at the mountain. "So no one's escaped, huh?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:42 pm
"Yeah..." Amaya looked up at Rex with a tiny smile. "It's okay though. Aside from the... changing. I don't mind it here." She had nothing left to loose when she came here anyway.
"Escaped?" Green eyes drifted up to Zach, oblivious of his missing limb. Missing something like that was the least of her concerns. "Not that I know of. There were a handful of people already here when I was brought here. None of them mentioned escape..." She trailed off for a moment, looking down. The poor guy would probably never get off... just like Rex and Avery. "The entire island is bugged with cameras and microphones. Not to mention Moreau can put us to sleep with a single word." It was like being a trapped animal... literally.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:01 pm
"Gosh, I'm sorry about the bleeding thing." He blushed, taking his arm away from Amaya and gesturing to let him see the punctures. "Maybe we should get these cleaned up. I mean.. I've got my duplex right here" Plus he wanted to see how different he was, touching his new fangs lightly.
Escape? The thought percolated in his head. Would the escape with Amaya still work? Thankfully his mind was preoccupied with worrying about the harm he'd caused Zach, "gosh I'm so sorry sorry sorry.." He mumbled under his breath."
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:24 pm
The changing... wow. He wasn't happy he'd seen Rex transform, but there was no more proof necessary. There was no act. There wasn't a hope left to cling to there.
He listened to Amaya's words, nodding. He just wanted to be sure... he was pretty much asking everyone these days. He was addicted to hope, it seemed. His eyes grew wide at the mention of the cameras and microphones, though. NO. Just... no. Impossi- well, not impossible. On this island, nothing was impossible, unfortunately. The limits of science had been bent, broken, and replaced with something entirely different. The magic word issue he'd heard about, but he was still skeptical of it... not that there was a reason to be skeptical any more.
He politely turned down Rex's offer. "No, no, I'll be fine. Really." The bleeding had slowed to a slight trickle, though there was a reddish tinge to his skin around the punctures. He held up his hand to let Rex look, though. Maybe the damage he had done would open the lion-man's eyes to the negative side of the transformation.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:27 pm
The iguana girl hadn't noticed Zach's hand bleeding until Rex mentioned it. Blinking, she looked down at the blood and wondered how the lion had possibly hurt him. Claws, probably. "Yeah, you should go wash it off... I think every duplex has bandaids and stuff." She said timidly.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:33 pm
Awen stormed up to the duplex and was going to slip the note under Rex's door but paused. Amaya Zach and Rex were all outside. She took a deep breath and kept walking forward. She seemed angry, the usually greyish toned skin was a little red. She paused before Rex and handed him a note which read: Quote: It's time. I'm not waiting anymore. Once I'm gone please tell everybody. Especially Chubbs and Jamal.... I'm heading off the beach by the beach bar, just to give you an indication. Bye Rex, Awen P.S. Wish me luck.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:58 pm
"Mmm.." Rex groaned, examining the damage he'd done. "Yeah, I can't leave this alone. Let me get some neosporen and bandaids." He turned to run into his duplex really quickly but was intercepted by an infuriated Awen. "Awen.." He said, but before he could say any more a note was crammed in his hand. He looked up, making sure that the others couldn't see.
He read it quickly, though he knew what it said before she gave it to him. She's leaving... Rex looked at the girl, storming into the sunrise. He wanted to follow her SO BADLY, but he knew this was something that she had to do for herself. He'd had similar moments, there was somethings that you had to do on your own. "Bye Awen..." he whispered. His eyes welled up, but he had to stay strong. Wiping them from his face he clenched the note tight in his fist since his boxers didn't have any pockets. "So!" Rex sniffed, trying not to cry, "Lets go inside." He turned quickly, trying to hide his tears until he knew that Awen had time to swim off.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:10 pm
Zach couldn't really reject the help from Rex and Amaya at this point. He glanced around a lot. Cameras... everywhere? Oh man, if he hadn't been insane earlier... he couldn't see any cameras for sure, and didn't want to feel more like an idiot searching for them, so he followed Rex.
Awen looked pissed. He didn't say anything to her, fearing the possibility of a vicious temper. Her note saddened Rex, however. Zach's mind raced. What could she be doing?
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:12 pm
"A-!" The girl smile but then it faded just as quick when Awen simply handed something to Rex and turned back around. "-wen..." She stared in shock, wanting to go after her and see what was wrong. Green eyes glanced at the note handed to Rex... she knew what the manta was going to do. Amaya watched as Awen stormed off. Stay safe, Awen... Slowly she followed the two into Rex's duplex, a strange swaying swagger in her step due to her tail.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:34 pm
He walked into his duplex with his back turned to the others before they could say anything else, wiping the last tears from his eyes. "Just make yourselves at home!" Rex called over his shoulder.
He headed straight into the bathroom, but became distracted. Something else looked at him from the mirror in the bathroom. He leaned over the sink, looking closer at the changed reflection. Those vicious canines were now his. The dark lines around his eyes? His. The newly formed beard and thicker chest hair? His. He looked at his hands below. The dark callouses created pads, it was hard for him to close his hand completely. And the blood that encrusted his fingertips stained the claws where his fingernails once were.
"Uhh.. Bandages!" Rex's Reflection got him distracted, but he opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out a few big band-aids, the neosporen, and a medical wipe, then came into the main room. "Ready?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:45 pm
Zach stood awkwardly near the door. One of the reasons he prided himself on not getting injured all the time was saving himself the pain of rubbing alcohol and other disinfectants. Cuts were categorized with shots as things he truly hated, though they were all unavoidable. He was a little glad he'd been so out of it when he'd been cut, or he would probably have yelled. He didn't want to embarass himself in front of these people.
"Hardly," he admitted. The hand did hurt a hell of a lot; he couldn't scratch at the cuts. He took a few more steps in, careful to avoid Amaya's tail as it moved around the floor.
Silently, Zach cursed disease in general, and held his hand out to Rex again to let him take care of it. He was the one with all the supplies. Please, please, please don't sting as bad as I think it will.
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