by AlbionWalker » Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:40 am
I yawn, looking at my notes again. The breakthrough had been incredible, but it had come at the price of weeks worth of of long hours of research. As I packed up my gear to go home, finally having a chance to sleep, my heavy hand slides across my workspace, rattling a rack of test tubes. As my eyes widen, two vials, one containing the distilled enzyme and another containing a genetic sample from a werewolf, roll over my bench and crash to the floor in a plume of DNA-altering aerosol. I gasp in shock, then swear as I feel the particulate matter settling on my tongue and realize that I had become my next test subject. Thinking quickly, I look over my vials, the idea reaching my fatigue-addled mind that two samples from monstergirls capable of 'turning' humans might cancel out. After a brief search, I find what I'm looking for, a sample of vampire DNA. Wasting no time, I down the vial's contents, and take another deep breath, waiting for something to happen.
One minute passes, then two. I smile, thinking that my plan had worked, but as a start to relax a sudden heat hits my body. I groan as I realize that this is the first stage of a lycanthropic transformation. Soon enough I also feel the telltale pins and needles in my arms, legs, ears, and rear. As soon as I feel the tingle, though, a wave of cold washes over me. As I look at my hand, expecting to see fur grow, I realize that my skin has taken a pale tint as well. Mind racing, I come to the conclusion that the genes, instead of cancelling one another out, had somehow combined and were making me into a genetic chimera. I don't have long to process this thought as the changes suddenly hit in earnest. I fall to my knees, then curl up on the floor as I feel my heart stop. The pins and needs become pain as new claws and fur shred my shoes and pants, a new tail destroying what was left of my belt and waistband on my pants. My head pounds as my teeth sharpen into short fangs, extend reflexively, then retract again, while my ears migrate to the top of my head. After a moment, when I realize the changes have stabilized, I shakily get to my feet and call to my assistant, "Alexa! Add to my notes that Chimerism is a possibility!" I swallow, then in the next breath my senses explode. I can hear Alexa, a young 20-something intern from the local university, sense her heartbeat, and taste her scent. Overwhelmed by the sensation, and a new burning desire to spread my 'gift' I follow with, "Also, could you come here a moment please? I need you!"