The room was lit with florescent lights, eliminating two individuals in the room. One was a young red deer, his youthful disposition giving away the fact that he was barely an adult fresh out of high school. Louis sat in a large chair one leg crossed over the other as he looked down at the hose attached to his arm by a sterilized needle.
Louis had led his group of lions known in the blackmarket as a shishigumi to investigate a strange series of corpses found through the black market.
Normally someone winding up dead in the underbelly of animal society isn't that strange given how some carnivores had little to no control on their instincts to eat meat, and with many willing to pay through the nose it wasn't surprising that the black market had come to be.
The strange thing about this case however was the state the bodies were found in. All the body had been essentially mummified, with no signs of bite or claw marks on any of them.
The only noticeable damage had been a series of needle marks on the bodies which hadn't been much to go on.
Thankfully however the shishigumi where a resourceful group and had been able to pinpoint a specific area where all the victim had been spotted before they ended up ad they did.
The most likely suspect had been another lion surprisingly, and from what his own lion had shown Louis, the lion had been a bit of a crackpot scientist with dubious research at best. The image they had gotten of him had shown a lion easily in his forties and seemed to not have been in the best of health if the info they had gotten was anything to go by.
The lion was said to be suffering from a host of different issues from some kind of breathing issue, and what looked like an onset of mange, causing his fur to fall out being the most obvious thing they had come across from other back alley doctors.
The lion who greeted the group when they had raided his workshop was anything but what Louis's info had stated.
He was covered in snow white fur, not a hair out of place, and no patchy pelt could be seen on his lean and cut body. The Lion had to easily be in his mid twenties at worst, and was surprised to find the The shishigumi and their current boss knocking down his door.
Louis had thought that he was more than likely the scientist soon or an assistant, but to his and his followers' surprise the lion introduced himself as the researcher they were looking for.
"Well that's not something I was expecting, what brings the oh so famous shishigumi, and even their prestigious young leader knocking at my door," he said, acting as if he didn't have almost a dozen weapons pointed at him.
"Cut the crap, the head scientist, where is he," Louis replied curtly.
"Why're you looking at him," the lion lazily smiled, hand raised up calmly as if he had nothing to fear in the world.
"Uh, sure we know the guy running this place had a foot in the grave if his records we dug up where anything to go by. You expect us to believe that you're him, no way in hell kid," Free said among his favorite gun right at the lion's forehead.
"Oh i can understand your doubts my friends, but please before you go and stain my lab coat, let me prove it to you i have video evidence, if you allow me,"
The lion said happily, smiling without a care in the world.
The lions were obviously hesitant to follow this guy at all but Louis could feel it in his gut that this might not be a bad opportunity.
From there they followed Sam warning him if he tried anything that he would be left full of holes. Sam simply nodded and began to lead them further into the building. Along the way Sam began to explain what he had done here, and how he had not only fixed his conditions but also as an unintended side effect restored himself to a more youthful state.
“To give the rundown I simply was trying to fix my poor health, my plan simply to use a combination of healthy cells to replace my faulty cells, and through a mix of different methods to incorporate healthy genetic materials to replace faults in my own,” Sam explained as he lead the ground down a hallway before making a stop at an unmarked door.
“And well, the next part might be easier explained if i show you,” the pale lion said as he unlocked the door, and opened to reveal a series of monitors rigged up to a computer, the shelves filled with various binders and documents.
“Essentially the process was ab it more potent than expected, and thank Rex, i thought to test it before actually trying it on myself, some of the earliest subjects couldn't quote handle but well I've worked out the bugs, and managed to actually keep some of the more potent aspect without the side effects,” Sam said as he pulled on of the files from the wall and slipped a disk out of its cover.
The video that played next showed the lion they had originally been looking for turn on the camera before moving to the table. He then went and stuck himself with a tube attached by a needle as he narrated what he was doing, the dare, and the experiment number, saying he thought he had reached a good point to test the process on himself. The tube was attached to a machine, which had another tube attached to a looking lion, probably not much older than Louis himself.
The process began and Louis and the all looked on in a range of horror and morbid fascination as the younger lion began thrashing as a red liquid was drawn from his arm put into the machine, and transferred to the doctor in the video.
The doctor described a sudden sense of euphoria as the process began, and the lion that was being drawn from thrashed more violently. The video progressed as the watched the lion that was being extracted from began to shrivel up and as Sam's past self began to change, the raspy breathing he had in the video gradually recovered and became steady, as his pelt which had once been patchy began to grow back in and healthier sheen to it.
The final few minutes watched as the young ‘doner’ quickly began to his fur fell out, hisnskin becoming wrinkled and the muscle he had shrunk and disappeared, only for D
Sam began to gain muscle mass though nowhere near what his victim once had, and his wrinkled and tired face began to gain a more youthful look to it as the few wrinkles he had tightened and disappeared. It wasn't long after the video ended as he got up and looked over himself before happily jogging to the camera saying that this has been a huge success.
Most of the shishigumi looked horrified by what they had just seen, but Louis, Louis saw a major opportunity.
“Well can't say i was expecting that honestly, but i won't lie my interest has been peaked,” Louis stated as he placed his gun away.
“Sir please don't tell me you’re thinking what i think you're thinking,” Ibuki said as his eyes widened.
“Possibly it just depends on what our good doctor here said to what I'm about to offer him,” Louis said as he approached the white lion.
“You let me try the process on the receiving end and if I like the results you can come work for me, we'll set you up with a lab and equipment, the best money can buy,” Louis stated plainly as he looked up at Sam who had a surprised look on his face.
“Well now with such a generous offer who could refuse,” Sam replied with a broad grin on his face.
Now back at the present Louis craned his neck over the back of the chair to see the tiger who had been knocked out and strapped to the table.
The tiger was probably only a little bit older than Bill had been when Louis had left Cherryton Academy, probably putting him in his early twenties at best.
The tiger was rather robust, a healthy coat of fur, with stripes that highlighted his bulky physique. Whether due to an active lifestyle, or from a “healthy” diet of meat, Louis didn't care, he just cared about what was about to happen to himself.
“Alright then sir, i'm about to turn on the machine, last chance to back out,” Sam said as he walked into the room Ibuki followed close behind him. Louis had explained that if Sam tried anything Ibuki was to stop him through any means necessary.
“I've come this far, no point in backing out now,” Louis said as he stared straight into Sam's eyes, the lion smiling as he understood what the deer was planning.
“Sir i still think this is a bad idea,” Ibuki said as he had a large hand resting on the handle of his favorite pistol.
“ I understand where you're coming from Ibuki, but if this work we may have a new venture on our hands, do you know the number of animals that would look to get their lives back, not to mention the added benefits,” Louis said his eyes unintentionally tracing over Ibuki's muscular physique.
Louis had tried to shoehorn his way into the shishigumi, by eating meat, which had only led to him losing weight and getting sick, not that any of the lions would ever bring it up.
“Okay then just so you understand one the machine gets turned on you and the subject is going to be injected with different formulas. The subject is meant to loosen up the donor's genetic material and make it easier to remove your formula will make it easier for your body to incorporate it, without the risk of any rejections occurring from incompatible genetic materials. I will however warn you that up until now I've kept subjects within the same genus, if not the same species. No telling how much this may affect you,” Sam said, doing little to ease Ibuki's worries.
“Well I've gambled my life more than once now, what's one more,” Louis said as he sat back in the chair watching as Sam finished preparing the machine. Sam had explained the basics as simply as he could but given the heavy talk about genetics that Louis wasn't familiar with he only got the bare basics down.
“Alright then sir, we are now beginning the process. You'll feel some discomfort at first but that is par for the course for a first timer,” Sam said as finished adjusting several valves and switched before heading to a panel on the back of the machine.
Louis could hear Sam typing on a keypad before the machine slowly began to hum to life. Louis watched as
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