The Animal Within

"Are you sure Laura?"
"Yes. Yes I am."
"The serum can't be stopped once it's in the blood stream, so are you sure?"
"Dad, stop kidding around."

She smiled sweetly at him and he gave a half-smile back, but she could tell he was crying inside.
"Injecting needle now sir."

The needle looked like a knife and it felt like she was cut deep inside.

"The..-The t-he ppaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnnnn!!! ARAGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Laura screamed.
That was all she could remember.

This is the story of Laura's tranformation into what she always wanted to be: An animal.

Chapter 1-Eyes of the tiger
"Ugnnn...wha?" Laura awoke to find herself in a small lavish green room covered in a jungle print.

<Any changes?> She stared at her hands and legs. <Nope...dad really is crazy...>

"Good Morin' sunshine!" It was dad.
She gave him the 'Nothing Happened you stupid idiot' stare.
He smiled, drunk his coffee in his special 'Coffee makes the world go aound' mug and then said "Look in the water. You'll see."
She picked herself up and started to explore the jungle. <I wanted to be a tiger, not some lonely teenager.>
It was so fake. Fake trees, fake plants, fake print. <And fake serum...> She then came to a pathetic-looking waterfall.

"Dad, I don't see anything!" She yelled, washing her face at the same time.
"Look at your reflection..."
"WHO IS THAT?" She screamed.
"Recognise that face?" He chuckled. "It's you."
"But...I'm all hairy and my eyes... My EYES!" Laura quivered. "Is this what I will turn into?"

She stared at her eyes. <Kinda cool actually. Maybe even hypnotic...> Her thoughts were soon interrupted by him.
"Well, you'll get more agile, maybe lose those body parts of yours and you'll get some new ones..."

<Well, maybe this is a strength after all.>