The Lab's After Effects

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Amara looked from Dane to Kiba, creeping up silently behind him.

Kiba glared at both Hanna and Axel. "A twit? Really? Do you know what a twit is?"
Axel started to laugh. "Yeah. A twit is a pregnant goldfish!"
The cat-experiment growled at the wolf-thing. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip your pelt off, mutt."
Axel frowned and focused his gaze at Kiba's aggressive face. "Because your girlfriend is about to rip your pelt off."

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Kiba ignored Hanna's remark and turned around slowly. Looming over him was Amara, and it didn't look like she was very pleased. Then he looked up and spotted Dane. His gaze went back to Amara.

"Pervert!" Amara growled. She raised a clawed hand and in a heartbeat, she gave Kiba a thwack to the arm.

Kiba lost his balance easily after being taken by surprise. "What was that for?"
Immedietly, the two began to fight. Vocally, of course, as Kiba wouldn't dare raise a tail at Amara.

Axel padded over to Hanna as if nothing was happening. "Of course, Kiba would be the girl. Look, its a cat fight over there!" He began to laugh hysterically at his horrible joke. Kiba was part cat, after all. Why not take advantage. A chilling growl came from behind the bundle of experiments. Axel whipped around, only to see a nearby bush waving and rustling, and not from any breeze present. Even Kiba and Amara stopped to take a glance.
"Ooh, is a little mutt afraid of a bush?" Kiba taunted.
"Its not that, I think I saw something."
Amara blinked. "There's nothing there," she explained.
"No no no, something else."
Amara blinked again. "Do you think its you-know-who?"
It was Kiba's turn to interfere. "What? The Hikensha Wa Hōki?"

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The three of them stared at Hanna. "You don't know who Hikensha Wa Hōki is?" Axel questioned with wide eyes.
"It's one of the very first experiments. It was once a girl like us, Hanna. Until she offered to help out her father with his work." Amara's voice was quiet, her mind filling with memories.
Seeing that neither of his 'friends' were going to speak for a moment (Amara from sadness and Axel from being Axel), Kiba took over. "Hikensha Wa Hōki, like Amara said, was originally called Rao, but when she changed, the machinery kinda..." he paused, searching for words. "screwed up. But she's not exactly like us."
By this time, Axel stopped being a derp. "Because of the faulty mechanics, she was mixed with two animals, instead of one. Thus, she is much stronger than any of us. The scientists locked her away, chained her even, but not many other experiments have heard since. Some say Rao is just a story, to scare everyone else. I don't believe it though." leaning forward, he added, "I personally believe she's out there right now. I think she got out in the fire."

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Silence echoed around the basketball court's perimeter. Until, of course, Kiba started to laugh as he approached Hanna. "You don't believe that nonsense, do you?"

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"It is true! Kiba just doesn't believe it is. My kin saw it with their own eyes." Axel's voice faded into silence in the last sentence.

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Kiba laughed again. "You guys are insane." the bushes rustled again and Axel stiffened and tasted the air.
"I smell... I don't even know what it is. Like iron and smoke. And something else." He looked from Amara to Dane then to Hanna, purposely forgetting Kiba. "You guys scent it?"

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"Maybe we better keep an eye out, just in case." Axel's tail was flailing in the air; a combination of excitement and nervousness.
Kiba snorted. "Yeah, you keep an eye out. I, for one, don't need some crappy rumor to freak me out." he arched his back with pride and turned to Amara, who was staring at him blankly. "Why don't you come with me, Ammy? We can show these wackos that the stories are fake." he inched closer to her, but Amara stepped away.
"Don't call me Ammy, jerk. And I'm not going anywhere, with or without you."
That was enough to make Kiba's tail stiff in annoyance. "If all you dumbasses find yourselves dead, it's not my fault." with that, he began to walk away.
"Kiba? Where are you going? Come back!" Axel shouted at his friend.
Kiba waved his hand without looking back. "No way in hell. I'm gonna show you that you have no sanity left!"
Axel growled. "I'm not asking again. Get back here, you mangy cat!"
This time, Kiba ignored him completely and began to walk faster until he was out of sight.
Axel's fur bristled. "That son of a... I hate him sometimes!"

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Amara nodded at Hanna. "Damn right," her gaze fell back onto Axel. "And what did you say about me being his girlfriend?" She growled at him.

"Uh... Nothing!"

"Good." She flicked her ear scornfully.

OOC: Rao's first post! :P
Also, Rao can willingly switch between her humane form and feral form.

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"Don't you dare start that with me!" Amara whipped around at Hanna. "You remind me more of a hyena than a cheetah, fool. I'll marry my first scalpel before him!"

Kiba snorted as he walked to... Well, he had no idea. He knew that this Rao chick was a phoney. All stories are. "Heck, where the hell am I?" several small buildings were scattered around, so were people. He immediately dodged into a nearby bush, well aware that he'd be screwed if he were to be caught.

Amber eyes fell on a young boy playing with a large dog in what looked like a yard. She blinked and stuck her head out of the shadows, revealing a black furred wolf-thing. The dog flinched and whined, and ran away immediately afterwards. The boy, utterly confused, turned around, and couldn't move. He was face-to-face with a large black canine. He took a small step back as the creature stepped forward. It growled at him, then howled, throwing it's head into the air. That's when it snapped at him. The boy screamed, and shot away like a mouse. The wolf-creature, who had a decent amount of attention now focused on it, darted forward, weaving and snapping at people and obstacles in it's path.
"What in the name of-" a woman's voice was cut off as the black creature launched itself at her, it's long claws unsheathed, knocking her over. It continued to do so to plenty of others, even children. The noise was horrible; both growls and screams were to be heard.

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Amara's dark glare vanished when her new instincts called her. The black ears on top of her head twitched and pricked, her gaze falling down the path that Kiba had left on. "I heard a howl." Naturally, she ran as fast as she could towards the sound, temporarily forgetting about the others.

"I heard it too," Axel looked at Dane and Hanna. "We should go." he too ran behind Amara.