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Viscus Morbus: The Trap

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Viscus Morbus: The Trap
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Aaron


Memorial Hospital, Colorado
2/18/13 11:36 PM.


I decided to fly back to the hospital, I had left my laptop behind and I was afraid they would use it to track down everyone. I had hidden it before they had gotten in the room and I hoped that they hadn't looked around. When I got to the hospital, I saw that they had abandoned the room and left. I flew up to the window that I had shattered and landed. Shifting to Feral form, I followed what parts of the path I could remember. After a few minutes, I managed to find the room, I snuck up to the door and sniffed the air, I couldn't smell anything beyond the remains of the gunpowder that had been used against me. Smiling, I walked through the hallway back to the room, I peeked in and didn't see anyone. I went in and shifted back to normal. Walking up to the bed, I bent down and saw my laptop exactly where I had left it. I reached for it, but stopped. Something didn't seem right, I looked all over the laptop, but couldn't find anything. Feeling defeated, I closed my eyes wishing that I had better night vision. weirdly though as I focused on the wish, I suddenly pictured a raccoon with all of my features, the markings and everything. I opened my eyes to find that I had powerful night vision, I looked over myself and saw that I had taken the form of a raccoon. I still had my wings and everything else, my three tails though had all shifted to raccoon tails. "i thought I could only change between normal and feral, what other abilities do I have" I thought to myself.

I decided to try and push my shape-shifting ability a bit further. I closed my eyes and pictured my new form only I'm standing on two legs. I feel my body shift a bit and when I open my eyes I still look like a raccoon but I have hands and I'm standing on two legs. Grinning I think to myself "what else can I shift to". I decide to try it out later and look over my laptop with my improved night vision. I still dont find anything and I go to reach for it when the light from another room across from the window turns on, the extra light boosts my vision even further and reveals a thin wire hooked to my laptop. "thank you whoever turned on the light" I said in a whisper and followed the wire, it led to what appeared to be an alarm box. upon closer inspection, I saw that there was a bit of C4 attached to it. They had booby-trapped my laptop. "you bastards". I said, I cut the wire as best I could and grabbed my laptop. I knew I wouldn't have cut it well enough to stop the alarm, only the C4 wouldn't have triggered so I had to get out of there quick.

I ran out of the room not even caring about being quiet, I knew that if they had rigged my laptop, they would have people waiting for me to trip it should the C4 not do it's job. I made a beeline for the same window that I had used. I rounded a corner only to come face to face with a line of officer's. I looked back to find that there were more of them and they were blocking my path. "hi everyone" I said, trying to be civil. I could tell that none of them wanted to try anything against me for fear of retaliation and, likely, infection. I scanned the area looking for something when I see a door next to me, it's locked but there's enough of a gap under the door for a small creature to fit through. I turned towards the door slowly, fearing that if I moved too fast they would open fire. I shut my eyes and pictured a rat, hoping that the change would be quick enough to avoid being plugged with ammo as it occurred. My hope was well placed, they opened fire but I was too small by the time the first bullet went off. I ran for the door and squeezed myself underneath. On the other side was a room with several windows, I shifted back to my regular form and ran to the window, they were locked, I picked up a nearby tray table and threw it against the window, shattering it. I hopped up on the windowsill, despite the other experiences with flight, I was still a bit freaked. I heard the door being rammed and knew that if I didn't jump now, I would be screwed. I leaped from the windowsill and spread my wings catching the air and flew away from the building.

I flew for what felt like hours before I reached a train station, I landed on the outskirts of the station and waited for a train to pull up. While waiting, I thought about everything that was happening. I looked through the window of the station and saw that they were tuned in to a news station, I snuck up to the window and put my ear on it. My improved hearing definitely helped, I could hear every word. The news cast said "no one is entirely sure where this virus came from, only that it is causing flu-like symptoms, many are calling it the "second swine flu" and without a cure, many can only hope that they don't catch it. I am here with an official of the CDC, here to shed light on this disease, sir, what can you tell us" I wasn't surprised that they were keeping a lid on the transformation, there are only a few people I know who would enjoy that kind of thing. I kept listening in, "well from what we can tell, there are mainly flu like symptoms surfacing from this disease, we have had reports of people slipping into comas among other things, we wont go into detail on these other symptoms just yet and as far as we know, these are untrue claims, likely from people who want to stir trouble". I refused to listen to anymore, those idiots were trying to cover things up, I knew full well that the coma, and others, were true. I saw that the train had pulled up while I had been listening, fortunately it didn't look like the conductor had seen me. I ran up to the train and grabbed onto one of the side cars, I opened the door and climbed inside, it was a storage car with mostly luggage littering the inside, plenty of places to hide. I found a good spot and got myself inside. The train began to move and I decided to try and get some sleep. I lay back in my spot, shut my eyes and fell asleep.
Part 3 of my Viscus Morbus story, for the :icondreamers-of-tf:, if your interested in joining, please visit the group page and let us know, also, i will be going through and changing the other entries to include dates and times
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JBMdreams's avatar
Yeah, I like how we both have newscasts in ours. It makes the world so much more surreal.