{"id":164,"date":"2013-12-20T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:33:20","slug":"testing-grounds-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Testing Grounds – Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Set in a near-future science-fiction story, a doctor makes a breakthrough in gene therapy that has world-changing applications. \u00a0Away from prying eyes, he tests his discovery on an unsuspecting young woman and documents her changes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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May 23rd, 2057 11:24 am PST<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Like a spy cloaked against its enemies, three small spiked shapes danced unnoticed by the neighboring cells floating in the culture dish.\u00a0 Dimmed light from the monitor lit Dr. Campbell’s face while he watched the movement of the magnified sample.\u00a0 Computers hummed in the darkened room, providing power to the algorithms that automatically tracked and recorded the specimens.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell cleared his throat before speaking.\u00a0 “Allie, begin recording.\u00a0 Adenovirus infection test number 689.\u00a0 This sample is from batch 23-A and I’ve recoded to hopefully prevent the previous disruptions of the cell wall.\u00a0 I’ve introduced the virus into the sample of cells and am- hang on, here we go.\u00a0 Allie, mark affected displayed cell as a-1, please.\u00a0 ”<\/p>\n

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One of the spiked viruses attached itself to a cell and Dr. Campbell watched quietly as the tiny structure decomposed after delivering its payload.\u00a0 Mentally, Dr. Campbell counted slowly while watching the larger cell.\u00a0 When he passed ten seconds, he smiled; when he reached thirty, the normally restrained man felt like laughing.<\/p>\n

“Allie?”\u00a0 The doctor said out loud.<\/p>\n

A soft feminine voice purred in response.\u00a0 “Yes, Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

“Status on a-1, please?”<\/p>\n

The small array of computers silently ran a series of tests while he waited.\u00a0 Once completed, the AI gave its report.\u00a0 “A-1 shows the modification as described in your test case scenario, Dr. Campbell.”<\/p>\n

“Beautiful,” the man whispered.\u00a0 “Now…\u00a0 Allie, I need an assistant.\u00a0 Please create a listing for me.\u00a0 Maximum of $5000 for the budget and I want precedence given to the local university listings.\u00a0 Male or female between 18 and 25 with some experience in biology but nothing beyond either simple interest in the subject or high school classes required.\u00a0 Give the advertisement a seven day lifetime.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, doctor.\u00a0 The postings have been created and I’ve debited your account for $4503.\u00a0 Shall I keep you notified of potential applicants?”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell tapped his nose in thought.\u00a0 “A daily reminder is fine, Allie.”\u00a0 On the screen, only one adenovirus was left and he watched it attach to another cell.\u00a0 “I need a cryo injection on the samples.\u00a0 And disposal.\u00a0 Have my car ready and notify my office that I’m on my way.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, doctor,” Allie responded.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell stood and knuckled his back.\u00a0 “And, Allie, once the samples are disposed, please roll back to the save point created at 7:00 am this morning.\u00a0 That includes all data.”<\/p>\n

A faint hiss announced the destruction of the samples currently on display.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell watched as the small tray was carefully lifted by a delicate metal arm.\u00a0 Five seconds later, a cheerful ‘ding!’ sounded over the room’s speakers.<\/p>\n

“Good morning, Dr. Campbell,” Allie announced.<\/p>\n

Following routine, the man answered.\u00a0 “Good morning, Allie.”<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell, you’ve received two emails regarding applications for an assistant’s position.\u00a0 I’ve located advertisements listed in eleven different resources on the Internet.\u00a0 Would you like a summary of the applicants and their qualifications?”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell could almost hear the frustrated surprise in Allie’s voice; a frustration that could never exist in her electronic brain.<\/p>\n

“Not at the moment, Allie.\u00a0 Please set up a daily notification at 5 pm.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, doctor,” the voice replied.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

The young woman in front of the large glass desk fidgeted nervously and Dr. Campbell watched while she did.\u00a0 The girl alternated between biting her lip, rubbing her hands and setting her hands on her lap.\u00a0 Her eyes strayed to the large animal sitting alertly at the side of Dr. Campbell’s desk.\u00a0 She was an average looking girl with a small chin and a slightly pointed nose.\u00a0 Her blond hair was held back in a ponytail and her hazel eyes darted nervously around the room.\u00a0 Without makeup or revealing clothes, she’d fade into any crowd; neither pretty nor ugly.<\/p>\n

“So,” Dr. Campbell said.\u00a0 The young woman jerked minutely, bringing her eyes back to the man.\u00a0 “Trisha, isn’t it?\u00a0 What do you know about our company?”<\/p>\n

Trisha swallowed and then bit her lip again before answering.\u00a0 “There’s not much I could find, actually.\u00a0 Umm.\u00a0 You, well, your company, Alpha Gen, I mean, works with animals-”<\/p>\n

“Wolves,” Dr. Campbell interrupted.<\/p>\n

“Y-yes,” Trisha continued.\u00a0 “Wolves.\u00a0 You work with wolves.\u00a0 And, umm, gene therapy.\u00a0 So, not much?\u00a0 The search bots all came up with the nearly the exact same mission statement.\u00a0 It was, umm, sparse.\u00a0 No history of the company, no products, no list of employees or anything.”<\/p>\n

“And?\u00a0 What do you think we do?”<\/p>\n

The young woman fumbled at her fingers in her lap and then glanced at the wolf again.\u00a0 “I- I think you modify the wolves in some way.\u00a0 Probably government work.\u00a0 Maybe stronger?\u00a0 Faster?\u00a0 More loyal?\u00a0 For the police and such?”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell stared at the woman and she wondered if she’d made a mistake by asking a question.\u00a0 “You are basically correct in your assumptions.\u00a0 I founded this company with Dr. Schneider and we’ve done an immense amount of work with the canine genome and are pioneers in identifying key aspects of the genetic code and either encouraging or discouraging certain aspects of the genetic code.\u00a0 All according to our client’s specifications.\u00a0 As you’ve said: strength, speed, loyalty, obedience, fearlessness, aggression and more.\u00a0 We were the first to fully sequence and understand the common wolf genome and we’ve only grown our understanding from there.”<\/p>\n

The silence stretched between the two as Trisha wondered if she was supposed to say something.\u00a0 Again, Dr. Campbell allowed the woman to squirm uncomfortably.\u00a0 He’d always been fascinated by the little tics and mannerisms people displayed under pressure.\u00a0 Even more, he enjoyed having power over people.\u00a0 As with the animals, asserting control needed to be done quickly and firmly.\u00a0 A gentle ping signaled an incoming secure, bringing Dr. Campbell out of his reverie.\u00a0 The almost invisible, razor-thin bone conducting speakers near his ears relayed Allie’s voice to him without letting the young woman know anything was happening.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell,” the AI said.\u00a0 “I’ve completed my initial research.\u00a0 Trisha Renee Adams.\u00a0 Born August 3rd, 2038 at Mercy Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.\u00a0 Her parents both died in a car accident when she was five years old.\u00a0 The incident was blamed on the flaws in the third generation of fully auto-piloted vehicles.\u00a0 She lived in foster care from that point on.\u00a0 Her psychological profile shows her as insecure, submissive and easily adaptable.\u00a0 She was raped four years ago by her foster father but, when questioned by police, she dropped the charges.\u00a0 Further investigation on my part shows a link between the father, Terence McMillan, and the local precinct.\u00a0 Nothing was filed but they moved her to keep suspicion from developing.\u00a0 The University of Washington was her first and only choice of college.\u00a0 Rental agreement records show she moved here from New York one week ago.”<\/p>\n

“Do you like animals, Ms. Adams?”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell asked.<\/p>\n

Trisha’s face positively glowed as she answered.\u00a0 “Yes!\u00a0 I love animals!\u00a0 Especially dogs.\u00a0 My family, well the family I lived with when I was ten, had a husky and I spent all my time with her.\u00a0 I’m actually starting at UW for veterinary medicine next quarter.\u00a0 I’d love a chance to work with dogs… I mean wolves while going to school.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell smiled.\u00a0 “Well, Ms. Adams, I do believe you’ll get your chance.\u00a0 The job is yours if you want it.”<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

August 9th, 2057 6:17 pm PST<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The contoured black chair creaked as Dr. Campbell leaned back, massaging his temples.\u00a0 “Allie, prep another sample.\u00a0 Rotate to batch 83-d and mix when ready.\u00a0 I want solution number six standing by in aerosol form this time.”<\/p>\n

Allie responded immediately.\u00a0 “Yes, doctor.\u00a0 Estimated completion time in two minutes, thirty-three seconds.”<\/p>\n

Machinery moved, whirring and hissing as samples were destroyed, removed and exchanged. \u00a0So close,<\/i> he thought.\u00a0 Twenty-three years of work and I’m finally so close.\u00a0 The affected cells respond to the virus and the code is stable.\u00a0 Why won’t it activate?\u00a0 What am I missing?<\/i><\/p>\n

Allie’s soothing voice filled the room.\u00a0 “Doctor, the solutions are ready.”<\/p>\n

Still with his eyes closed, Dr. Campbell answered.\u00a0 “When the payloads are all delivered, activate the aerosol.”\u00a0 Barely twenty seconds later, the older man heard a faint hiss as the solution was released into the enclosed area containing the culture dish.\u00a0 After a few minutes, Dr. Campbell leaned forward to look at his display.\u00a0 His eyes widened in shock.\u00a0 “Allie! Replay from the beginning!”<\/p>\n

The doctor’s display reset itself and he watched as the viruses delivered their tailored payload.\u00a0 The time at the bottom-right of the display flickered as milliseconds passed.\u00a0 After seventy-four seconds, the cells began dividing at a frenetic pace until the fluid in the dish was entirely drained.<\/p>\n

Swallowing to clear a suddenly dry throat, Dr. Campbell stared at his screen.\u00a0 “Allie, what is the status of the cells?”<\/p>\n

It took nearly a full minute for the powerful AI to respond.\u00a0 “All cells carry the modified genes, Dr. Campbell.”<\/p>\n

“Oh my god.\u00a0 Allie!\u00a0 I did it!\u00a0 This-\u00a0 I did it, Allie!”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell stood from his chair.\u00a0 “Allie, warm up the back areas and wake up the rats.\u00a0 Start the bacteria working on more of solution six.\u00a0 I’ll need at least five gallons of it.”<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Trisha sighed.\u00a0 Two weeks since my birthday<\/i>, she thought.\u00a0 And I still haven’t worked up the nerve to talk to anyone.\u00a0 So, here I sit doing paperwork.\u00a0 They promised animals!\u00a0 Although… wolves?\u00a0 I’ve never done anything with wolves before.<\/i><\/p>\n

Glancing at the corner of her monitor, Trisha noted the time and then rubbed her eyes.\u00a0 “Cecilia?”\u00a0 Trisha called out.<\/p>\n

“Yes, Trisha?”\u00a0 Alpha Gen’s AI answered.<\/p>\n

“Could you please have a public car called for me?\u00a0 I’m going back to my apartment.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Trisha.\u00a0 Transit responds with an arrival time of 4 minutes, 24 seconds.\u00a0 I’ve informed your apartment AI of your arrival in approximately 12 minutes.\u00a0 Have a pleasant evening, Ms. Adams.”<\/p>\n

“Thank you, Cecilia,” Trisha said.\u00a0 The young woman collected her bag as she left her desk.\u00a0 Cameras with an array of sensing equipment worked to track her progress.\u00a0 Soft overhead lights silently powered down as she left various areas of the empty office.\u00a0 Trisha stepped outside to wait for her car.\u00a0 Bicycles raced past in their designated lanes while public and private cars wove around each other.\u00a0 Trisha stepped to the curb and watched the flow of traffic while she waited.\u00a0 Seattle was slower than back home but she preferred it here.\u00a0 Less people, less in-your-face noise and activity.\u00a0 She’d often felt like she’d had no room to breathe on the east coast and escaping here seemed like the best option.<\/p>\n

A small red and white car separated from the stream of traffic.\u00a0 She watched as it gently and noiselessly parked next to her.\u00a0 She was used to the color pattern of the public cars by now but the image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. left no doubt.\u00a0 The small, smooth oblong shaped car dinged cheerfully as she approached and the front of the car pushed up and forward, exposing the single cushioned seat within.\u00a0 Trisha carefully arranged herself and the car closed around her with a faint hiss.\u00a0 The five point restraint system settled solidly around Trisha and she closed her eyes against the feeling.<\/p>\n

“Breathe deeply,” she reminded herself.\u00a0 “Slow and steady, in and out.\u00a0 Slow and steady.\u00a0 Slow and steady.\u00a0 You’re okay.\u00a0 You’re okay.”\u00a0 She felt her heart racing as the car pulled away from the curb to insert itself into the flow of traffic.\u00a0 Seven years ago, a foster family decided that they would physically restrain her when they felt like she’d misbehaved.\u00a0 For two years she’d lived them, screaming and crying for hours when they left her tied up all night.\u00a0 Even now she still panicked from something as simple as a car restraint system.<\/p>\n

A soft female voice spoke over the car’s audio system.\u00a0 “Welcome to King county public transportation with partial funding from Google.\u00a0 Please, visit their website for more information.”\u00a0 The limited intelligence of the cloud based AI paused as it looked up her information.\u00a0 “Trisha Adams, would you like to view top news stories listed as relevant based on-”<\/p>\n

“Yes,” Trisha hissed through her teeth.\u00a0 “Anything to distract me.”<\/p>\n

Unseen to her closed eyes, a small video appeared on an overlay of the front window.\u00a0 A male voice, not human, spoke over the muted roar of a large crowd.\u00a0 “Protestors and human rights activists clashed with Russian police this morning over recent remarks made by Russian president, Alexander Putin.”<\/p>\n

The seasoned voice of the simulated news host was replaced by a dour, heavily accented voice.\u00a0 Trisha couldn’t understand Russian but the English translation followed the speech.\u00a0 “Homosexuality is an aberration of society.\u00a0 I will round up all suspected homosexuals and-”<\/p>\n

Trisha waved her hand to the right and the news feed vanished.\u00a0 Maybe not anything<\/b>,<\/i> she thought.\u00a0 The rest of the ride was nearly silent and the young woman focused on her breathing.\u00a0 She’d often wondered why the car ride itself didn’t bother her but she thought that perhaps she was too young to remember anything about the crash that took her parents.<\/p>\n

Her car announced her arrival and Trisha eagerly exited when it opened for her.\u00a0 She hurried through the front door of her apartment complex and then up the two flights of stairs to her room.\u00a0 The door registered her arrival and opened automatically for her.\u00a0 She pulled it shut and then lay back, nearly gasping in relief.\u00a0 She could still hear the sounds of people outside but they were outside<\/i><\/b> and she was home and safe and by herself.<\/p>\n

“House,” Trisha said (she always renamed her shared apartment AIs to ‘House’).\u00a0 “It’s too bright in here.”\u00a0 The windows darkened and the overhead lights dimmed slightly in response to the command.\u00a0 Trisha made her way to the small bathroom just inside the door.\u00a0 With deft, practiced moves, she removed the small amount of makeup she used.\u00a0 Mostly to hide her nearly constant fatigue; sleep never came easily to her.<\/p>\n

After a quick look in her small closet, Trisha grabbed her favorite pair of cotton pants.\u00a0 Rummaging further, she found an oversized black shirt and then quickly changed out of her work clothes.<\/p>\n

“Rocket ship jammies?\u00a0\u00a0 Check,” she said to herself.\u00a0 “Old tattered comfy shirt?\u00a0 Double double check.\u00a0 Now where the hell did I put my tablet?\u00a0 Ah!”\u00a0 Trisha pulled her tablet from under a stack of papers and then settled in under her blankets on the narrow bed she used.\u00a0 Detaching the small stylus from the device, the young woman resumed her calculus coursework with a sigh.<\/p>\n

Two hours later as the sun finally set, Trisha received a small message notification on her tablet.\u00a0 The message was from Cecilia at Alpha Gen: Ms. Adams, tomorrow you will be working with Dr. Thompson and her training group.\u00a0 Please arrive on time at 7 am.<\/i>\u00a0 Trisha smiled.\u00a0 Dr. Sheila Thompson worked directly with the animals.\u00a0 She’d seen a few more of the wolves by now but she’d not yet had the chance to interact with them.\u00a0 It’d taken a bit of time but she’d overcome her fears after watching the large animals calmly walk around the facility.\u00a0 Never once did one of the animals step out of line or misbehave.\u00a0 She was fascinated.\u00a0 They were larger than wolves she’d seen on video and they walked with a majestic, sure purpose.\u00a0 None of them were on leashes but when a command was given, they acted immediately as if that was what they’d intended to do all along.<\/p>\n

The night passed as it almost always did and Trisha eventually settled into troubled sleep.\u00a0 She tossed and turned, muttering under her breath, fragments of old conversations becoming vocalized.\u00a0 Begging to be let out, for someone to untie her.\u00a0 Whimpering quietly, she woke as soon as the apartment AI slowly turned on the overhead lights to a comfortable morning level.\u00a0 At the same time, it picked a random selection of her favorite Chopin and gradually increased the volume.\u00a0 Trisha sighed and swung her legs over the edge of the bed as the windows lightened to let in a fraction of natural light.<\/p>\n

“At least,” she grumbled.\u00a0 “At least I get to finally see the animals today.”<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell sat nervously at his desk.\u00a0 It was an odd sensation for him and one not felt since completing his final thesis.\u00a0 With a glance at the time (6:58 am) he stood and made his way to the front.\u00a0 Allie whispered in his ear as Trisha’s public car pulled to the front and he forced himself to walk nonchalantly past the car.\u00a0 The young woman seemed taken aback when she stepped out of the small vehicle.<\/p>\n

“D… Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Good morning,” Trisha stammered.<\/p>\n

“Ah, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 Good morning.\u00a0 I was on my way to the coffee shop when I got a call from Dr. Schneider.\u00a0 Dr. Thompson was called away for a customer meeting and I’m told you were meeting with her today.\u00a0 I’m sure I can find a few things for you to do around the office in her absence.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, that’s… oh.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Sure, that’d be great.”<\/p>\n

The older man sighed sympathetically.\u00a0 “I’d forgotten that you’ve been waiting to work with our wolves.\u00a0 It is perhaps against procedure but, if you like, you could visit my home.\u00a0 I have two of our wolves as guards while they wait for placement.”<\/p>\n

Trisha considered her options.\u00a0 She had no classes today so she could either spend an entire day staring at the screen or she could go out for some fresh air and actually see what the wolves were capable of doing.\u00a0 All she knew about them was from a much sanitized presentation and the various bits of whispered gossip around the office and she was dying to learn more.\u00a0 The only problem she had was Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 He was remote and rarely around but, when he was, she felt nervous.\u00a0 Something about him set her nerves on edge.\u00a0 However, he hadn’t mistreated her so…<\/p>\n

“I’d love to,” she told him.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell felt a nervous tension leave his shoulders.\u00a0 “Wonderful.\u00a0 Why don’t you buy yourself a coffee and I’ll bring my car around and meet you when you’re finished.\u00a0 I’ll be just a moment.”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell watched Trisha walk away.\u00a0 “Cecilia?”\u00a0 He said out loud.<\/p>\n

The Alpha Gen AI answered over the man’s private headphones.\u00a0 “Yes, Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

The man talked as he walked towards the company’s small parking garage.\u00a0 “Trisha Adams just met me outside and informed me that she’s leaving her position.\u00a0 Could you please make an advertisement for a replacement and inform Dr. Thompson?\u00a0 Also, please have my car meet me at the parking entrance.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Trisha Adams’ access rights are now revoked and I’ve updated our records.\u00a0 Will you be in the office later today?\u00a0 I cannot seem to find a record of your events.”<\/p>\n

“No,” he told the computer.\u00a0 “I have a potential meeting with the Seattle police department in one hour.\u00a0 Non-official and it may be canceled.\u00a0 If so, I may come back to the office or just take a day to myself and shop.\u00a0 I do have my sabbatical coming up so I may just prepare for that, instead.\u00a0 Allie will inform you of any changes.”<\/p>\n

“Very good, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Good luck on your meeting, sir.”<\/p>\n

The parking garage gate opened and Dr. Campbell’s black sedan drove through the opening.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell walked over to the driver’s side and the door popped open for him.\u00a0 Taking the manual controls, he turned onto the street and drove the short distance to the small coffee shop three blocks from his building.\u00a0 Trisha was waiting near the curb with a small iced coffee drink.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell slowed to a stop and the passenger door opened.\u00a0 The young woman settled into the leather seat and then buckled herself.<\/p>\n

“Are you ready?” Dr. Campbell asked.<\/p>\n

“Yes, sir!”<\/p>\n

With a small smile, Dr. Campbell accelerated away and into traffic.\u00a0 “Glad to hear it,” he told her.\u00a0 “Very glad.”<\/p>\n

“I’m surprised,” Trisha said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell glanced to the side.\u00a0 “At what?”<\/p>\n

“Well, that you’re driving.\u00a0 I thought, well, no offense but I thought with a man of your stature, you’d rather let the car drive.”<\/p>\n

“Ah,” the man said.\u00a0 “No.\u00a0 I like to drive, actually.\u00a0 When the auto systems take over, you’re just a passenger and there’s no control.\u00a0 There’s no variance.\u00a0 The car takes exactly the most efficient path and adjusts itself to ensure the rest of the traffic also moves efficiently.\u00a0 When I’m driving, the other cars move around me.\u00a0 I pick the path and direction and how fast I want to go.”<\/p>\n

“So you like the control, then?”<\/p>\n

Again the man glanced sideways.\u00a0 “Yes.\u00a0 Yes, I suppose that’s true.”<\/p>\n

The rest of the car ride was in silence as they sped along the interstate.\u00a0 Trisha watched as massive concrete highways turned to tree lined single lane roads.\u00a0 Houses stretched further and further apart as they drove deeper into the countryside until, finally, the doctor turned onto a tiny dirt road.\u00a0 Large brick walls were partially hidden behind trees and bushes and the automated gate blocking their entrance seemed to be made of solid metal.\u00a0 The doors swung open to welcome the car.<\/p>\n

Just inside the gate was a massive red wolf.\u00a0 Calm and serene, it watched the car pass.<\/p>\n

“That,” Dr. Campbell said.\u00a0 “Is Rex.\u00a0 I’ve had him for a year now.”<\/p>\n

The wolf’s head turned as the car passed.\u00a0 “You said there were two of them?”\u00a0 Trisha asked.<\/p>\n

“Yes.\u00a0 Umbra will be stalking us.\u00a0 He always does.\u00a0 Rex is there to let us know we’re seen while Umbra follows, hidden.\u00a0 They will both follow us but Rex will always be visible.\u00a0 He seems to enjoy it – making himself known.”\u00a0 Rex frightened her immediately.\u00a0 His eyes were hard and when the car had passed, the wolf simply stood and trotted alongside the vehicle.\u00a0 The car rolled to a stop in front of a palatial three story house.\u00a0 “Stay in the car for a moment.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell opened his door and stepped out.\u00a0 He held his hand flat down and said in a clear voice, “I’m fine.”\u00a0 Rex sat back once again.\u00a0 “All right, Ms. Adams, you may come out. \u00a0Please come here to my side.”<\/p>\n

Trisha slowly eased herself out, her eyes warily on the large wolf.\u00a0 Stepping around the front of the car, she went to Dr. Campbell’s side.\u00a0 Rex was even larger now that she stood in front of him.\u00a0 The male seemed taller than any Great Dane she’d seen (the largest dog breed she’d seen in person) and far more muscular.\u00a0 Rex’s ears stood tall and alert.<\/p>\n

“Rex,” Dr. Campbell said.\u00a0 “She’s a friend.\u00a0 A guest.”\u00a0 The man laid a hand on Trisha’s arm while she spoke.\u00a0 “Now, Trisha, keep your eyes on his and give him your hand.\u00a0 He had your scent when we pulled in but it’s symbolic.\u00a0 Just keep your eyes on his while you do it.”<\/p>\n

Trisha nervously held out her hand.\u00a0 The wolf had beautiful eyes; golden with small shards of green.\u00a0 She found herself caught in his gaze as she reached.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell touched her arm again.\u00a0 “That’s fine,” he told her.\u00a0 “It’s just a gesture.\u00a0 He’s not actually going to sniff at your hand.\u00a0 We can go now, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 I’ll give you a small tour of the house and then you can spend some time with them.”<\/p>\n

Once inside, Trisha became lost as Dr. Campbell rattled off one piece of architecture after another.\u00a0 Paintings and statues and rugs covered the entire house but all she could think about were the wolf’s eyes.\u00a0 They seemed almost human to her.<\/p>\n

“Ah,” Dr. Campbell exclaimed.\u00a0 “I nearly forgot.\u00a0 If you’re going to be working with the wolves I’ll need to give you a little inoculation.\u00a0 It’s a simple precaution that we do for all of the handlers.\u00a0 I myself received the same one.”<\/p>\n

“Inoculation against what?”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell shrugged.\u00a0 “One of the enhancements in the wolves is a mild paralytic agent in their saliva.\u00a0 We’ve seen that repeated intramuscular injections of the agent is able to cause tissue deterioration.\u00a0 Of course, that was after hundreds of doses but why take the risk?\u00a0 Make yourself at home while I find my kit.\u00a0 There’s still a bit more to show of the house.”<\/p>\n

Trisha looked around the large kitchen after Dr. Campbell walked away.\u00a0 Everything was spotless and she envied him for the amount of space he had.\u00a0 A large kitchen island dominated the center of the area.\u00a0 Stainless steel pots and pans hung from the ceiling above the island.\u00a0 Glass jars full of pasta and flour and dried fruits and vegetables covered a large area of counter space.\u00a0 Trisha was examining a delicate helical sculpture at the center of the island when Dr. Campbell walked back in.<\/p>\n

“Now,” he said.\u00a0 You’ll want to sit for this.\u00a0 There may be a brief period of nausea and sweating after the injection but only for a moment and then it will pass.\u00a0 Roll up your left sleeve a little please.”<\/p>\n

Trisha sat and braced herself.\u00a0 The needle stung going in but the pain was engulfed in sudden warmth.\u00a0 Spreading from the point of injection, the heat moved throughout her body.\u00a0 Beads of sweat broke out all over and she almost wished she’d taken a change of clothes.\u00a0 When the warmth spread to her head, the world spun around her.\u00a0 Everything seemed upside down and wrong and then she felt a cool sensation on her cheek.\u00a0 Trisha shuddered and then realized she had her head down on the tile of the kitchen island.\u00a0 When she tried to move, the room spun dangerously again.<\/p>\n

“Is it bad?”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell asked.<\/p>\n

“It’s… it’s…” Trisha’s tongue felt weird in her mouth and she had to force herself to close her eyes so she wouldn’t throw up.\u00a0 “Don’t you remember yours?”<\/p>\n

“It’s… different for everyone.\u00a0 What does it feel like to you?”<\/p>\n

“My tongue feels odd and thick.\u00a0 Everything is too hot.\u00a0 I’m sweating so much and if I move, I think I’m going to throw up.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Wait, I think it’s better.”\u00a0 Trisha gently moved and, when the world stayed in one place, she sighed in relief.\u00a0 “Yeah.\u00a0 Way better.\u00a0 Holy crap, that sucked.\u00a0 And I think I need a towel.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell smiled.\u00a0 “I brought one just in case.\u00a0 Now, I’ll show you my testing grounds.\u00a0 Follow me.\u00a0 I’m quite proud of it as I designed it myself.\u00a0 Down the stairs right here.”\u00a0 The man pointed to an open doorway set in a smooth white wall.\u00a0 A stairway led down and out of her sight.<\/p>\n

The narrow stairs frightened Trisha but the stairs and basement area were well lit so she just focused on Dr. Campbell until they reached the bottom.\u00a0 The floors were smooth grey concrete and the ceiling was at least ten feet high.\u00a0 The lights above were set into the ceiling behind a thick clear pane of glass or something like it.<\/p>\n

“The first stop is the observation room.\u00a0 Follow along, Ms. Adams.”\u00a0 Trisha stepped into the small, dark room and then shivered.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell continued.\u00a0 “I have my own house AI and it is completely separate from the rest of the world, if I choose for it to be.\u00a0 I’ve forked the Open AI source and made some of my own patches to the system.\u00a0 Allie does a phenomenal job managing everything for me.”<\/p>\n

A huge window looked into an even larger room.\u00a0 A single chair faced the other room, set before a dark control panel.\u00a0 The room was otherwise bare.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell touched the control panel and it immediately came to life.\u00a0 Graphs and virtual gauges covered the screen.\u00a0 “I have control of everything in the adjacent room from here.”<\/p>\n

“What do you do down here?”\u00a0 Trisha asked.<\/p>\n

“Everything.\u00a0 The test room is a mixture of steel and concrete walls and that window is Tri-Tetra Glass.\u00a0 Unbreakable by anything other than an artillery round.\u00a0 I can disperse chemicals to test various effects on the wolves and we do psychological and aggressive physical testing from time to time as well.\u00a0 Shall we?”<\/p>\n

Trisha frowned as she followed the doctor to the door leading to the next room.\u00a0 “Is it humane?”<\/p>\n

“Well,” the doctor said.\u00a0 “As humane as possible.\u00a0 We’ve never had a death among the wolves and we have to have some way of testing our methods.\u00a0 It is no worse than testing outside or actually using the wolves under combat conditions.\u00a0 The difference here is that they’re in a room and no one is shooting at them.\u00a0 They walk out alive and unharmed and prepared for their service.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell led Trisha into a small area between the observation room and testing room.\u00a0 He closed a thin door and Trisha felt a moment of panic as she stood in the small space.\u00a0 She jerked when a sharp buzzing sounded.\u00a0 The room flashed deep blue and then the door leading to the testing room opened automatically.\u00a0 This secondary door was at least a foot thick and both looked like the same material as the window.<\/p>\n

They both stepped into a large, very well lit area.\u00a0 The floor was a slightly spongy black material while the rest of the room was a smooth, somewhat reflective white. \u00a0The wall with the window was off-color compared to the rest of the room and completely opaque from this side.\u00a0 Below that, was a large rectangular silver area on the wall.\u00a0 Looking up, Trisha saw the same recessed lights as earlier. \u00a0Interspersed among the lights were small black holes.<\/p>\n

“Now-”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell began.<\/p>\n

The house AI’s voice spoke clearly from hidden speakers.\u00a0 “Dr. Campbell, you have an urgent call waiting for you.”<\/p>\n

“Oh… all right.\u00a0 Will you excuse me, Ms. Adams?\u00a0 I’ll take care of this and be right back.”<\/p>\n

“Sure.”\u00a0 Trisha ran her hand along the smooth wall.\u00a0 No joints,<\/i> she thought to herself.\u00a0 I wonder how much it cost to print this whole room?\u00a0 I can’t-<\/i> The young woman jumped when the door leading out of the room clicked shut.\u00a0 “H- hey!”\u00a0 She yelled.\u00a0 The tiny room turned blue and then Dr. Campbell stepped into the control room.<\/p>\n

Trisha strode over to the door.\u00a0 “Hey!\u00a0 You closed the-”\u00a0 Oh, right.\u00a0 He probably can’t hear me and the door has to close to let him out.\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 Jesus, that scared the crap out of me.\u00a0 <\/i>Still, Trisha felt her heart pounding loudly in her ears.\u00a0 The room smelled like chemicals with an undercurrent of something else.\u00a0 Her mind conjured fears of entrapment – being stuck beneath the ground, forgotten by everyone.<\/p>\n

“Trisha,” Dr. Campbell’s voice rang out through the speakers.\u00a0 “I’m afraid I’ve lied to you.”<\/p>\n

“Wha… wha… what do you mean?”\u00a0 Trisha looked around wildly.\u00a0 “Hey!\u00a0 What do you mean?”<\/p>\n

“I’ve planned this from the beginning, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 Months ago.\u00a0 All of that planning to lead you here now.”<\/p>\n

Trisha hammered on the door and then watched in horror as the surface faded to the same off-white color on the other wall.\u00a0 The door didn’t even vibrate under her blows.\u00a0 “Hey!\u00a0 Stop fucking around!”<\/p>\n

“The shot I gave you earlier was no inoculation, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 And I’m afraid I lied there as well – you’re the first human to receive it.\u00a0 Decades of my own personal research all in one shot.\u00a0 I’m not afraid to admit that I wasn’t exactly sure whether you would survive it.\u00a0 But, here you are.”<\/p>\n

“This… this isn’t funny.\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 Haze the new person.\u00a0 Scare her a little.\u00a0 Now open the door, doctor.”\u00a0 Trisha looked around for the camera before remembering the window.\u00a0 She couldn’t remember where the console was so she just stood in the middle of the large area.\u00a0 She felt cold sweat along her hairline and in her armpits.\u00a0 She tried smiling but the muscles in her face couldn’t seem to hold.\u00a0 “Doctor, I get it.\u00a0 Open the door, now.\u00a0 Please?\u00a0 Please, doctor?\u00a0 Please open the door.”<\/p>\n

“Ms. Adams, in the brief time we’ve known each other, you should know I don’t ‘joke around’.\u00a0 Now-”<\/p>\n

“YOU FUCKER!”\u00a0 Trisha screamed.\u00a0 Again, she slammed her fist against the wall and, again, she felt nothing give or move in return.\u00a0 “YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!\u00a0 THEY’LL FIND YOU AND ARREST YOUR SORRY ASS!”<\/p>\n

“Ms. Adams, please, calm yourself.\u00a0 I’m afraid you quit your position at Alpha Gen and there is a video recording of you talking to me outside the building this morning and then walking away.\u00a0 Nobody is coming for you.\u00a0 Nobody will know what happened.\u00a0 You have no parents or family or friends.\u00a0 Now, please, calm down.\u00a0 It’s important that you remain-”<\/p>\n

Trisha screamed, spit flying from her mouth as she slammed her hands on the wall.\u00a0 She felt the pain in her hands but she didn’t care.\u00a0 She screamed over and over until she could no longer breathe.\u00a0 And then, finally, she laid her head against the smooth surface and gasped for air as tears rolled down her face.\u00a0 “Please… please, doctor.\u00a0 Don’t do this.”<\/p>\n

“Ms. Adams, I already have.\u00a0 There is no going back at this point.”<\/p>\n

Face hot from tears and frustration and anger and exertion, Trisha whispered again.\u00a0 “Please.”<\/p>\n

“The next part is important,” the doctor continued.\u00a0 The silver area in front of her slowly flipped open to reveal a black tray.\u00a0 On top of the tray was what looked like a large white brick, nearly double the size of a loaf of bread.\u00a0 “In two minutes, I will release a gas.\u00a0 This will trigger the genetic mutations I introduced through the injection.\u00a0 I don’t know what will happen exactly after this.\u00a0 However, it is important to remember one thing through the pain and confusion:\u00a0 you will need to eat something.\u00a0 Your cells will be dividing at a monstrous rate and you’ll need to sustain them.\u00a0 On the tray before you is a homemade nutritional substance.\u00a0 It is nearly 60,000 calories and you may need the entire thing.\u00a0 It doesn’t have the best taste but it is vital to remember it.\u00a0 One minute left.”<\/p>\n

“No,” Trisha moaned.\u00a0 “No, no, no.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Please, doctor.”<\/p>\n

“Thirty seconds, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 Please remember the food.\u00a0 Despite what you think, I wish you the best.\u00a0 I’ll be monitoring everything from here.”<\/p>\n

Trisha sank to her knees.\u00a0 “Why?”\u00a0 She asked.\u00a0 “Why?”\u00a0 She looked at her hands as they lie against her legs.\u00a0 Everything was blurry through her tears.\u00a0 With her heart raging in her ears, Trisha missed the gentle hiss as gas was released from the overhead system.<\/p>\n

Time slowed as the seconds ticked mercilessly passed.\u00a0 At fourteen seconds, she felt a sharp pain where Dr. Campbell had injected her earlier.\u00a0 Trisha looked dumbly over at her arm and saw how her skin was red and puffed out around the area.\u00a0 Trisha’s shock slowly faded as she watched reddish hairs push through the skin of her upper arm.\u00a0 She could feel them moving through the flesh and it was not an unpleasant feeling.\u00a0 The hairs grew longer and longer until she had an irregular patch of fur covering the injection site.\u00a0 Trisha carefully touched the fur.\u00a0 She could feel the ends of the fur lightly tugging at the skin of her arm.\u00a0 Soft, <\/i>she thought.\u00a0 Like real fur.\u00a0 Is that it?\u00a0 That’s not so-<\/i><\/p>\n

A sudden immense cramp radiated down from her arm to her fingers and Trisha’s arm convulsed from it.\u00a0 The young woman grabbed her arm as it took on a life of its own.\u00a0 She could feel things moving inside of her arm and it made the small hairs on the back of her neck stand at attention.\u00a0 An intense headache bloomed behind Trisha’s temples and she felt her heart stop.\u00a0 Gasping and in a panic, the young woman beat at her chest with her one good arm.\u00a0 There was a kind of pressure deep in her chest – an aching pressure that made it hard for her to breathe.\u00a0 Suddenly, her heart began beating again and it was a loud drum in her arms.\u00a0 Blood sprayed from her mouth as an odd cough was forced from her lips.<\/p>\n

Trisha’s heart was a suddenly enormous beast deep within her chest.\u00a0 A wild creature straining against the small cage containing it.\u00a0 Blood soared through her veins as her headache flared.\u00a0 Everything seemed too bright and too slow and Trisha felt the urge to move.\u00a0 To run.\u00a0 To do something.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 A deep flush broke out over her entire body and she felt her clothes become soaked.<\/p>\n

“I can’t… I can’t… Oh Jesus!”\u00a0 Trisha screamed.\u00a0 Her left arm had settled at some point and she stared at it.\u00a0 Hard ridges outlined solid muscles giving her an incredible definition.\u00a0 She made a fist and tensed and watched as her bicep and forearm bulged, straining against her light skin.\u00a0 Thick veins lined her arm and the patch of fur was darkened from her sweat.<\/p>\n

The young woman leaned forward on her hands, panting from exertion.\u00a0 Sweat soaked blond hair hung heavily down around her head and drops of the salty liquid dripped from her nose.\u00a0 Trisha breathed shallow and quickly over and over and, before she realized it, she was panting.\u00a0 Even worse, it seemed to help with the heat and she couldn’t stop it from happening.\u00a0 Small tugs at the skin of her left arm brought her attention back to it.\u00a0 More hairs pushed out through her hardened skin.\u00a0 Down the length of her arm to the tips of her fingers she watched her fur come out.\u00a0 Whether a side effect of the injection or from whatever was happening with her heart, time was slow for her.\u00a0 She could see her skin opening to allow the hair to grow out.\u00a0 Tiny little mouths spewing hair from her arm.\u00a0 As she leaned on her hands, she noticed her left arm was several inches longer than her right.<\/p>\n

Trisha grit her teeth, lips pulling back and the skin of her nose furrowing as a small growl rumbled deep within her body.\u00a0 Her right arm ached and she knew what was about to happen.\u00a0 Veins filled to near-bursting with insane pressure stood out but then twisted as her muscles shifted, breaking and growing over and over again.\u00a0 The ache turned to stabbing pain as bones grew faster than her muscles and tendons.\u00a0 This time she could see the arm growing longer.\u00a0 She could feel the nausea-inducing way the bones ground against each other as they lengthened.\u00a0 Trisha gripped at the floor and the bicep in her right arm flared, tensing painfully against her still-shifting insides.\u00a0 The woman felt the creeping, itching, almost tickling sensation of her fur coming out along her left shoulder.\u00a0 It was moving along to her right side but, before it could reach her right shoulder, her right arm fairly erupted with thick, shaggy fur.\u00a0 She moaned at the sensation.\u00a0 The feeling was almost orgasmic – like an insane itch finally scratched.<\/p>\n

The heat inside her body was worse now and she was sweating even more.\u00a0 Trisha wrinkled her nose and an odd chuffing sound escaped her lips.\u00a0 The smell of wet dog filled the room.\u00a0 She felt fur creeping up her right arm and it met the fur from her left side near the right side of her neck.\u00a0 And then she couldn’t take it anymore.\u00a0 She was soaking wet and the heat was intolerable.\u00a0 Trisha gnashed her teeth and grabbed at the neck of her shirt.\u00a0 She expected resistance and so was thrown off-center when her new muscles tore the shirt as if it were toilet paper.\u00a0 The shirt landed wetly to her side and the sudden release and cool air felt good against her mostly naked skin.\u00a0 Her nipples felt sore and hard against her wet bra.\u00a0 She wanted to take it off but she knew Dr. Campbell was watching.<\/p>\n

Hunger.<\/p>\n

Sudden hunger hit her with unexpected force.\u00a0 Although it seemed like the transformation had stopped, she felt something at the core of her being.\u00a0 It almost felt as if her body didn’t fit properly anymore.\u00a0 Her skin felt wrong.\u00a0 But, beyond that, hunger.\u00a0 Again, she grit her teeth and her lips pulled back.\u00a0 Trisha sniffed at the air and groaned when she smelled the food on the black tray.<\/p>\n

The food Dr. Campbell left for her.\u00a0 “F… fuck… you…” Trisha said out loud.\u00a0 She refused.\u00a0 She saw the block of nutrients and refused.\u00a0 Eating it meant giving in.\u00a0 Eating that food meant the doctor won and she refused to let him have that victory.\u00a0 Blood trailed down the corner of Trisha’s mouth and pink bubbles oozed with it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her chest hurt worse than she wanted to admit.\u00a0 Her panting was ragged and it hurt every time she breathed in.\u00a0 Trisha sniffed at the air again and another small growled rumbled in the back of her throat.\u00a0 She’d never been so hungry in her life.\u00a0 Blood dripped to the ground from her chin.<\/p>\n

Trisha crawled on her hands and knees to the tray of food.\u00a0 The smell was bland but she didn’t care.\u00a0 Drool pooled in the corner of her mouth and mixed with the taste of blood.\u00a0 I just… Just one bite,<\/i> she told herself. Just one bite and that’ll help.\u00a0 Oh god.\u00a0 Just… just one…<\/i> Trisha went to her knees and stared at the food.\u00a0 It was solid white and smelled like barely anything at all.\u00a0 A sharp pang tugged at her stomach and Trisha felt her ribcage crack.\u00a0 She wheezed and a large bubble of blood formed around her lips.\u00a0 Just…<\/i><\/p>\n

Abandoning all manners, Trisha shoved her face into the block of food.\u00a0 It tasted like semi-solid chalk and she wanted to gag but she couldn’t stop eating it.\u00a0 She growled and gripped at the ends of the food as if it would escape from her.\u00a0 She tore chunks out of it and barely stopped to chew.<\/p>\n

The food fueled her transformation.\u00a0 Starved cells suddenly came to life and her changes renewed.\u00a0 Trisha barely noticed when the pressure in her chest lessened.\u00a0 Such was her hunger that the pain of her chest expanding to contain her enlarged heart barely even registered.\u00a0 Dense muscles grew around her expanding ribcage.\u00a0 The bra covering her modest breasts strained over her larger upper body.\u00a0 The small metal clasps at the end of the bra straps bent and then simply fell apart and the bra landed in her lap.\u00a0 Trisha’s breasts were slick with sweat and her nipples appeared swollen, red and erect.\u00a0 She did pause her feast when her spine pressed against the fur growing along her back.\u00a0 Her spine stretched her skin as muscles pushed and moved to accommodate her new girth.\u00a0 New nerve endings snaked their way down and around and she felt something small wriggling at the base of her spine.<\/p>\n

A large chunk of food landed on the floor.\u00a0 Trisha snarled at it and bent low.\u00a0 Canine teeth scratched against the surrounding teeth as they pushed further from her gums.\u00a0 Pieces of her blond hair fell to the ground around her as her tongue lashed out for the food.\u00a0 Long and wider than it should be, her tongue touched the food and she pulled it into her mouth.\u00a0 Bending even lower, she lapped at the crumbs, rumbling in pleasure as she ate.\u00a0 Trisha sat up and rolled her shoulders, feeling the skin shifting beneath thick, wet fur.\u00a0 Her muscles pulled at bones and she felt her shoulder temporarily dislocate as her back continued to expand.\u00a0 The band of her pants pushed down to allow for a new growth – a thick stubby tail pushed the fabric aside as it slowly formed.\u00a0 Skin and bone and nerves attached themselves to her spine and continued to push out.<\/p>\n

All she knew was the hunger and the pain behind her eyes.\u00a0 The block of food was half gone and Trisha continued to eat.\u00a0 The skin of her breasts stretched and pulled her nipples down and to the side as they grew.\u00a0 New lobules grew within her breasts and they became engorged and heavy and full.\u00a0 Her areola increased in size and Trisha moaned between bites.\u00a0 She wanted to rub at her chest, to massage the ache away but she couldn’t stop eating.\u00a0 Even when her stomach muscles cramped, she kept taking bites out of the tasteless food.\u00a0 The skin along Trisha’s stomach tightened as she widened.\u00a0 Rows of hard muscles formed the typical six pack of a season athlete and sharp, defined lines pointed from her sides directly to the mound above her vagina.\u00a0 Small, light red hairs grew down from her belly button in a line to her smooth vagina.<\/p>\n

Trisha’s tail swayed behind her and she could feel the muscles working in her lower back.\u00a0 But, her hunger distracted her.\u00a0 The food was almost gone and she was still hungry.\u00a0 Unseen to her, the skin along Trisha’s nose darkened to a deep black and then the color fled down to her lips.\u00a0 Inch by inch her lips darkened to the same color as her nose and the itching within Trisha’s gums intensified.<\/p>\n

The flesh of her hips dug hard into her blue jeans and Trisha grunted in pain.\u00a0 Fabric strained and stretched as the woman’s hips flared.\u00a0 It hurt but she was almost done eating and refused to do anything about her clothing.\u00a0 The skin of her nearly flat ass strained and stretched as muscles furiously developed, readying her body for the powerful leg muscles she’d soon develop.\u00a0 Trisha’s modified cells were telling her body that she was built for running and it was forcing those changes on her along with everything else.\u00a0 The fabric around her crotch tore first and Trisha sighed in relief.\u00a0 Her ass cheeks continued to push against the jeans as they grew and the rip widened, spreading behind her as the jeans separated in two.\u00a0 Her soaked black panties were pulled tight between her pussy lips.<\/p>\n

Trisha leaned in to the empty tray and her long, flat wolf tongue lapped at the left over bits of food.\u00a0 She held herself over the tray and her swollen, sweaty breasts pressed against the cool metal.\u00a0 Once the crumbs were cleaned up, Trisha looked around the floor.\u00a0 Falling to her hands and knees, she pressed her pebbled, black nose to the ground, sniffing for errant pieces of the nutrient block.\u00a0 Her tail, now two feet long and thick with fur was held high above her torn pants.\u00a0 With her ass raised, she was exposing herself to the observation room.\u00a0 Her straining panties did nothing to hide her swollen pussy lips from view but all Trisha cared about was finding more food.\u00a0 The ground was littered with her blond hair and she barely noticed when she accidentally ate pieces of her hair in her search for food.\u00a0 The fur from her back slowly grew up her bare neck while she crawled along the floor.<\/p>\n

A small tear in the top of her jeans announced the expanding muscles of her thigh.\u00a0 Trisha stretched her leg out behind her and her calf muscle flexed.\u00a0 The back of her jeans ripped as it tried to contain her growth.\u00a0 Her other leg followed and she growled in frustration.\u00a0 Can’t… food… where… food…<\/i> She thought, fumbling at the words.\u00a0 Her right foot hurt.\u00a0 She was used to the pain now – her thoughts were more animalistic and it was easier to ignore certain things but her foot still hurt.\u00a0 She looked behind and watched as a sharp point cut through the front of her left shoe.\u00a0 She felt something happen to her toes and more sharp black points opened her shoe.\u00a0 The bones of her feet pushed at her flesh and her feet nearly exploded out of the shoe.\u00a0 Her left pinky toe pulled back as her foot elongated and widened.<\/p>\n

Trisha felt fur growing on her legs. \u00a0With an almost tickling feeling, fur sprouted from her thighs and lower legs, sliding against the fabric of her blue jeans.\u00a0 Thick reddish fur pushed through the various tears in her jeans.\u00a0 The clothing bothered her but she couldn’t think of how to get it off.\u00a0 Pressure in her right foot made her smile.\u00a0 The wolf had asserted dominance and she was pleased to finish her true form.\u00a0 A song was being sung deep in her body.\u00a0 A song of what she should be.\u00a0 What was right.\u00a0 Her frail human body wasn’t right.\u00a0 It wasn’t right to not have a tail.\u00a0 To not have claws to tear.<\/p>\n

To not have teeth to kill.<\/p>\n

Trisha’s jaw cracked and she howled in real pain.\u00a0 Thick black wolf-like lips expanded and she spit broken, bloody teeth from her expanding muzzle.\u00a0 She wanted to growl and bite and howl at the same time.\u00a0 New teeth pushed through her gum line, some in existing holes left by old teeth and some cutting new holes.\u00a0 She spat blood again and again as her muzzle filled out and then she howled even louder when it finished.\u00a0 Her breathing was harsher, deeper now and she licked the blood from her lips with her long tongue.<\/p>\n

The world was awash with new colors and heightened contrasts and Trisha looked out into the world with eyes the color of molten gold.\u00a0 Fur continued to creep up along her scalp and down her naked muzzle.\u00a0 Atop her head, the fur grew inches longer than the rest, as if a mockery of human hair.\u00a0 Through the thicker fur, her ears expanded.\u00a0 Whistling sounds crashed with other, nearly inaudible sounds as her ears grew longer and wider until they ended in a sharp, furry point above her head.<\/p>\n

More tears opened in Trisha’s blue jeans as her legs thickened.\u00a0 She clearly heard the faint snap of her panties as they finally gave in to her expanded figure.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her jeans hung on to her legs but her crotch was completely bare to the world.\u00a0 Trisha stood on wobbly legs and then looked down.\u00a0 Her feet were now thick paws.\u00a0 Her toes were bunched and oddly shortened in proportion to her feet.\u00a0 Deadly black claws tipped each toe, even her old pinky toe, which was now high on her foot.\u00a0 Trisha’s tail wagged behind her.\u00a0 Thick and red and bushy with fur.\u00a0 Her headache faded but her thoughts were still slow.\u00a0 Trisha cupped her large breasts, feeling their new heft.\u00a0 She could see fur creeping along her sides from her back.\u00a0 Reddish with black strands.\u00a0 Trisha’s fingers were shortened like her toes when compared to the size of her hands.\u00a0 She hadn’t noticed when her fingernails had fallen off but she did bite back a snarl as skin split open at the tips of her fingers.\u00a0 Her body’s cells asked the question and her body answered:\u00a0 what kind of a wolf doesn’t have any claws?<\/i>\u00a0 Hardened black shapes came through the wounds on her fingers.<\/p>\n

The palms of her hands – paws now – darkened into a rich black color.\u00a0 Trisha touched the bottom of the paw with one of her new claws and she felt the thicker skin.\u00a0 Now the fur from her sides continued down to meet the fur on her thighs.\u00a0 Trisha’s pussy disappeared behind a tuft of red fur.\u00a0 White hairs mixed with red as a line of fur sprouted between her breasts.\u00a0 A curious sensation made her look at her lower belly.\u00a0 More and more white hairs pushed through the skin of her belly but she caught a glimpse of her skin bubbling as tiny nipples appeared.\u00a0 Six nipples appeared in rows down her stomach.\u00a0 Small at first, they expanded until they matched the size of the nipples on her engorged breasts.\u00a0 She touched one and felt it harden under her attention.\u00a0 Below the skin of her stomach, new ducts and tissues developed until her new nipples were properly wired.\u00a0\u00a0 The white fur on her belly moved as the lower breasts grew slowly into small a-cup sizes.\u00a0 How can you feed your pups if you don’t have enough nipples?<\/i>\u00a0 Her body asked.<\/p>\n

And then, it was done.<\/p>\n

Trisha stood a little over seven feet tall on her new paws.\u00a0 Red and black fur lined her body but her stomach was nearly all white.\u00a0 Her nipples and the bottom of her hands and feet were the only part of her that was left uncovered.\u00a0 \u00a0She ran her hands (paws, <\/i>her body told her) along the length of herself and she felt the dense muscles beneath the mat of fur.\u00a0 Her jeans clung to her massive legs in tatters.<\/p>\n

I’m… wolf?\u00a0 I’m… done?\u00a0 <\/i>Trisha grit her fangs and her ears and tail twitched in frustration.\u00a0 I… remember.\u00a0 I’m… Trisha.\u00a0 Smart.\u00a0 Doctor.\u00a0 Doctor.\u00a0 Campbell.<\/i>\u00a0 Trisha looked up to the off-white color of the wall.\u00a0 There.\u00a0 He there.<\/i><\/p>\n

She roared and it was a thundering mix of a growling wolf and the roar of a lion.\u00a0 Above ground, Rex and Umbra stood on all fours and howled in return.\u00a0 Trisha heard their answer.\u00a0 She spread her arms, bared her claws and opened her mouth to show her fangs.\u00a0 It was hard to think.\u00a0 She was angry and, on some level, she knew she should be but she also couldn’t turn it off.\u00a0 She couldn’t make herself be reasonable and think of her situation.\u00a0 All she knew was fighting.\u00a0 Fighting and anger and killing.\u00a0 Doctor,<\/i> her mind thought.\u00a0 Doctor fault.<\/i><\/p>\n

Trisha launched herself at the window.\u00a0 Her clawed feet dug into the softer floor and she slammed hard against the wall.\u00a0 She felt it shake against her impact.\u00a0 Again and again she hit the wall and her muscles bunched and moved under her command.\u00a0 Striking and pounding.\u00a0 She snarled and roared and slammed until she thought she might hurt herself.\u00a0 And still the anger remained.<\/p>\n

When gas was released overhead, Trisha’s sensitive ears clearly caught the hiss of the release.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 No again.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 No.<\/i>\u00a0 Trisha ran on all fours, slamming into the far corner.\u00a0 She hunkered down with her tail wrapped down and up between her thighs.\u00a0 She stared at the ceiling in challenge, growling and growling and…<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell watched as the young woman fell to the ground.\u00a0 Not a woman any longer,<\/i> he thought.\u00a0 He held back his excitement as he watched her prone body.\u00a0 “Allie?\u00a0 Can you give me a summary?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Campbell,” the AI replied.\u00a0 “The registered weight in the room reflect a delta of 166.468 kilograms following completion of the modification.\u00a0 Scans show a height increase of 73 centimeters to the top of the scalp.\u00a0 Analysis of muscular detail gives an estimated 5,600 psi of bite force.\u00a0 The subject’s resting body temperature is 39.38 degrees Celsius.\u00a0 Stress sensors in the wall measured an average of 38,000 newtons of force with a high point of 51,000 newtons.\u00a0 All are within safety standards published by the manufacturer. ”<\/p>\n

“Incredible,” Dr. Campbell muttered.\u00a0 “But, too much.\u00a0 Allie, adjust the coding and update the records.\u00a0 I want a 25% reduction in muscle mass for future subjects.”\u00a0 The doctor watched Trisha as she lie sleeping on the ground.\u00a0 “Administer the counter, please.\u00a0 How long will she remain asleep?”\u00a0 The doctor asked.<\/p>\n

“At her current weight, the subject will be awake in 22 hours, 9 minutes, Dr. Campbell.”<\/p>\n

In the other room, the fur retreated from Trisha’s body.\u00a0 Piece by piece, the woman regained her humanity while she slept.<\/p>\n

“Correction, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Accounting for the effects of the counter, the subject will awaken in 25 hours, 32 minutes.”<\/p>\n

Trisha Adams lay naked and asleep in the corner.\u00a0 Her legs were slightly hidden by the ruined fabric of her jeans.\u00a0 She was human but much larger than when she arrived this morning.\u00a0 Blond hair slowly pushed from her naked scalp as her human side reasserted itself.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell felt himself grew hard while watching her.\u00a0 Her breasts were easily twice as large as before and he could clearly see every single line on her now muscular body.\u00a0 How delicious it will be to break her.<\/i><\/p>\n

“Allie, when I’m upstairs, I want you to reset to the save point created at 6:30 am this morning.\u00a0 Also, I want the basement completely segregated from your sensors.\u00a0 Recording is to continue to the encrypted archives.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Campbell,” Allie replied.<\/p>\n

The doctor gave one last look at Trisha before leaving the room.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Early the next morning, Dr. Campbell touched the blank interface on the wall of his kitchen.\u00a0 Once the code was properly entered on a completely blank interface, lines appeared on the otherwise smooth surface.\u00a0 The entrance to the basement opened and he made his way downstairs.<\/p>\n

“Allie?”\u00a0 The doctor asked.<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Campbell?\u00a0 I cannot seem to find your location.”<\/p>\n

“Allie, create a save point.\u00a0 Once done, you may open your sensors to the basement again.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell stepped into the small observation room.\u00a0 Trisha was seated with her back to the corner.\u00a0 Her eyes were closed and she appeared to be sleeping.\u00a0 She wore the tatters of her jeans and shirt in makeshift clothes to hide her nakedness and the doctor frowned at this.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell, I’ve detected and created an interface with the observation room.\u00a0 Who is the subject under observation, please?\u00a0 I show no records of her.”<\/p>\n

The doctor smiled.\u00a0 “Alpha, Allie.\u00a0 The subject is Alpha.\u00a0 May she be the birth of many more Greek letters.”\u00a0 The old man laughed at his humor and then pressed a small icon on the control panel.\u00a0 “Trisha?\u00a0 Trisha, can you hear me?”<\/p>\n

Trisha’s eyes snapped open and she looked up.\u00a0 “Doctor?\u00a0 Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

The doctor’s voice surrounded Trisha.\u00a0 “Yes.\u00a0 I’m surprised you’re awake.\u00a0 We underestimated the time.\u00a0 Are you hungry?”<\/p>\n

Trisha bit her lip.\u00a0 “Doctor… please let me go.\u00a0 I’ve… I won’t tell anyone.\u00a0 I’ll just go away and I won’t tell anyone.\u00a0 I swear.\u00a0 I swear on my life.\u00a0 Please just let me go.”<\/p>\n

“Are you hungry, Trisha?”\u00a0 The doctor’s voice sounded sterner this time.<\/p>\n

“Please, doctor.\u00a0 Please, let me go.”\u00a0 Trisha could feel tears welling at the corner of her eyes and she hid her face away.<\/p>\n

“One thing you must learn, Ms. Adams,” the doctor told her.\u00a0 “I am in control here.\u00a0 Not you.\u00a0 I’m asking you a question and you must answer.\u00a0 Are you hungry?”<\/p>\n

Trisha hiccupped as she cried.\u00a0 “Please, doctor.”<\/p>\n

The silver area opened to expose the black tray from yesterday.\u00a0 A part of Trisha’s mind leapt at the idea of food and then wanted to wail when she saw it was empty.\u00a0 She was absolutely starving.<\/p>\n

“Your first lesson, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 You listen and respond immediately or you will be punished.\u00a0 The first thing I will take away is your clothing.\u00a0 If you want to eat, you will deposit all of the remains of your clothing on the tray.\u00a0 Only then will I feed you.”<\/p>\n

Trisha sniffled as the tears fell freely.\u00a0 “Please, doctor,” she repeated.\u00a0 “Please.”<\/p>\n

Two hours passed before the hunger became too much for her to withstand. \u00a0Trisha Adams bawled as she walked to the wall in front of her.\u00a0 “Please,” she begged, one last time.\u00a0 “Please.”\u00a0 With no answer, she stripped.\u00a0 She peeled the makeshift pants from her lower body and then removed the simple strip of cloth covering half of her oversized breasts.\u00a0 She gathered her old shoes and other pieces of clothing and then put everything on the tray.\u00a0 She kneeled, covering her nakedness with her arms and hands as she cried.\u00a0 The tray vanished behind the wall and Trisha waited.\u00a0 After a few minutes, panic replaced her tears.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell?”\u00a0 Trisha asked.\u00a0 “Dr. Campbell?\u00a0 You said there would be food.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

“Stand and uncover yourself, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 You lost a piece of yourself more important than your clothing when you stood defiant earlier.\u00a0 Men and women wear clothing and now you do not.\u00a0 You’re nothing more than an animal and animals are not ashamed of their nakedness.\u00a0 Now stand and beg for your food.”<\/p>\n

Trisha’s cheeks turned bright red with shame.\u00a0 “Oh god.\u00a0 Oh god, please, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Please don’t do this.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 Please don’t.”\u00a0 There was no answer.\u00a0 Trisha winced as a knife-like pain stabbed her gut.\u00a0 “Oh.\u00a0 Oh god.”\u00a0 She stood and removed her hands and waited, shifting her weight.\u00a0 “Please, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 I’m so hungry.\u00a0 Please.”<\/p>\n

Slowly, the off-white paneling turned to gray and then silver.\u00a0 It was a reflective material and she could see herself.\u00a0 Her naked self.\u00a0 Shame burned hot in her cheeks as she looked in the mirror.\u00a0 Begging for food.\u00a0 She was heavily muscled and, if she were alone, she might touch her breasts just to see if they were real.\u00a0 She could feel how big they were but seeing herself now – seeing what she looked like with these firm large breasts made it all the more real.\u00a0 A thick tangle of blond pubic hair covered her vagina and a line of fine red hair trailed up to her belly button.\u00a0 Another pain in her gut made her wince.\u00a0 In the corner of her eyes, she saw a small collection of teeth.\u00a0 Human teeth.\u00a0 From yesterday before her change.\u00a0 She looked back to the mirror.\u00a0 Back at her tired, hazel eyes.<\/p>\n

When the black tray reappeared, Trisha thought she could jump for joy.\u00a0 Her happiness was deflated when she saw a much smaller version of the food from last night.\u00a0 She almost spoke out but her stomach clenched again.\u00a0 If I ask for real food, he might take it away.\u00a0 I have to eat.\u00a0 I have to, <\/i>she told herself.\u00a0 Trisha knelt and took a piece of the food.\u00a0 It was as she vaguely remembered – tasteless.\u00a0 Still, she hurriedly ate and the entire thing was gone in minutes.\u00a0 The tray vanished back into the wall.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell, what-”\u00a0 Trisha began.\u00a0 She stopped when she heard the faint hiss of a released gas.\u00a0 Immediately, she dropped to the ground, growling but she stopped when she realized what she was doing.\u00a0 “Dr. Campbell!\u00a0 Dr. Campbell!\u00a0 Please!\u00a0 What are-”<\/p>\n

It happened again.\u00a0 Faster now.\u00a0 An intense headache settled behind her eyes and white hairs sprouted from her belly.\u00a0 The ends of her fingers split and her fingernails fell apart as black claws pushed through her skin.\u00a0 The tips of her ears elongated to points and then her ears continued to grow, pushing up and away as strands of her blond hair fell out.\u00a0 Trisha gagged and then swallowed, tasting blood.\u00a0 She swallowed again and her mouth was full of blood and her four canine teeth.\u00a0 Trisha’s jaw cracked as her nose blackened to that of a wolf.\u00a0 She screamed in pain, beating at the ground while her back convulsed, muscles stretching her back.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell’s voice sounded smug and too-loud to her new ears.\u00a0 “We are testing something different today, Ms. Adams.\u00a0 Today we find out if the effects are permanent or if they fade away naturally.”<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell!”\u00a0 Trisha’s voice was deep and throaty.\u00a0 “Please dooo–ooooowwwwllll!”\u00a0 Trisha howled in pain as the bare skin of her tail rubbed between her expanding ass cheeks.\u00a0 Fur grew out in patches along her body and she fell to her side in pain.\u00a0 Have to… have to remember… Trisha…\u00a0 I Trisha.\u00a0 I’m.\u00a0 I’m <\/b>Trisha.\u00a0 Trisha.\u00a0 Oh god.\u00a0 It hurts!\u00a0 That… that fucking asshole!\u00a0 I’ll fucking kill him!\u00a0 I’ll tear his fucking heart out and drink his fucking goddamned blood!\u00a0 I’ll… I… GOD!<\/i><\/p>\n

Trisha howled on her hands and knees, head back and her eyes closed.\u00a0 I… Trisha.\u00a0 Fucker!\u00a0 Kill him!<\/i>\u00a0 Anger took hold again, riding her body.\u00a0 She looked and saw herself in the mirror.\u00a0 Slightly bent.\u00a0 Huge.\u00a0 Covered in red and white fur with small traces of black mixed in.\u00a0 Eight nipples lined her chest from her top breasts to the three sets of smaller breasts below that.\u00a0 Her tail wagged slowly behind her.\u00a0 Her tail.\u00a0 Trisha howled again and then she leapt at the mirrored surface.\u00a0 She raked down the wall and her deadly claws failed to find purchase as they skittered uselessly.\u00a0 Growling, Trisha walked to the back of the room, hunched down and then ran on hands and feet, roaring until she was five feet from the wall.\u00a0 She jumped, soaring through the air, turning at the last moment to let her massive shoulder crash against wall.\u00a0 She felt it vibrate and shake and her ears twitched at a tiny metallic sound near the roof but nothing else happened.<\/p>\n

Stupid.\u00a0 So stupid.\u00a0 I stupid.\u00a0 Won’t work.\u00a0 Won’t.\u00a0 Work.\u00a0 <\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Trisha prowled the room on her hands and feet, tail swishing angrily behind her.\u00a0 Kill him.\u00a0 I kill him.<\/i><\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 The last strike registered 83,000 newtons of force.\u00a0 A sensor at the top of the wall reports a small hairline fracture but the material has already patched the gap.”<\/p>\n

“It’s hardly believable, Allie,” the doctor said.\u00a0 “Are you certain?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 I have 23 independent sensors confirming the data.”<\/p>\n

The doctor leaned back in his chair as he watched Trisha walk about the room.\u00a0 Interesting that she chooses to go on hand and feet.\u00a0 I wonder how much of her human side is left, mentally?\u00a0 Still, what an incredible body.<\/i>\u00a0 “Allie, I’ll need the data from lab 2.\u00a0 I may need to work the figures a little more.\u00a0 That amount of force is more excessive than I considered.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell sketched figures and equations as he worked.\u00a0 Allie modeled the theoretical proteins and ran tests in virtual space.\u00a0 He’d found that she had a 75% accuracy rate compared to what actually happened in his lab and the virtual space saved time while mid-development.\u00a0 When Dr. Campbell realized Trisha wasn’t moving, he looked up.\u00a0 The woman was in the same corner as this morning but lying on her side with her head on her crossed wrists.\u00a0 Her legs were splayed out behind her and her tail lay limp against her furry thigh.\u00a0 Her large upper breasts pressed together beneath her but she seemed unashamed of them.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell noted the time and bent back to his work.<\/p>\n

Hours later, howling made him look up.\u00a0 Trisha was reverting.\u00a0 She was clawing ribbons out of the ground with her hands while her jaw shortened.\u00a0 Human cells fought with heavily modified wolf cells: Of course I shouldn’t have a muzzle, <\/i>her body tiredly explained.\u00a0 Fur receded and the doctor assumed the cells were cannibalized by the process, giving her the fuel her body needed to change.\u00a0 Howls turned to screams and eventually Trisha lay naked on the ground.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell checked the clock again.\u00a0 11 hours, 24 minutes,<\/i> he noted with a yawn.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Trisha felt the coolness of the black flooring as she lie panting on the ground.\u00a0 She trembled with the memory of both changes.\u00a0 The pain of them.\u00a0 What they did to her mentally.\u00a0 The anger.\u00a0 Everything felt so different when she changed.\u00a0 She couldn’t think straight and she just wanted to rage and break things.\u00a0 Everything felt off and put her on the edge.\u00a0 A gurgle in her stomach made her groan.\u00a0 Trisha pushed herself up.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

The doctor’s voice answered after a moment of hesitation.\u00a0 “Yes?”<\/p>\n

“I… I have to go to the bathroom.”\u00a0 Trisha said, her face red with embarrassment.<\/p>\n

“I see.\u00a0 And? Ah, yes.\u00a0 There is a hole in the middle of the room.\u00a0 The ground is slanted and all waste material is funneled through there.”<\/p>\n

“But-”<\/p>\n

“Ms. Adams, I refuse to have a conversation with you sitting in the corner.\u00a0 Come to the window.”<\/p>\n

Trisha stood and walked.\u00a0 She still felt awkward in this newer body.\u00a0 She felt far heavier yet lighter than on her feet than before her change.\u00a0 She’d expected her larger breasts to play hell with her back or balance but she barely felt their extra weight.\u00a0 Muscles shifted along her body as she walked.<\/p>\n

“Doctor, I-”\u00a0 Trisha stopped and stared.\u00a0 Below her breasts were six more nipples, each as large as the nipples atop her upper breasts.\u00a0 “No,” she whispered.\u00a0 “Oh no.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell, I… Doctor… something is wrong.\u00a0 Why do I still have these?\u00a0 Why?”\u00a0 The nipples were surrounded by small, round, darkened areola.\u00a0 Trisha touched the last nipple on the right and felt how sore the skin was there.\u00a0 The skin itself was softer than her stomach but otherwise the nipples lay flat on her hard belly.\u00a0 The little nipple twisted, tightening as it hardened and she bit her lip.\u00a0 It felt as sensitive as her original nipples.\u00a0 Trisha looked up.\u00a0 Golden eyes stared back at her and, now that she looked around the room, colors seemed slightly off.\u00a0 Enhanced in some ways, lesser in others.<\/p>\n

“I see them, Ms. Adams,” Dr. Campbell answered.\u00a0 “I suspect it’s a compromise by your system.\u00a0 An unexpected side effect.\u00a0 Allie reports they are more than simply decoration; they’re entirely functional and capable of producing milk.\u00a0 It’s fascinating, really.”<\/p>\n

“Fasc… ‘Fascinating’?!\u00a0 ‘Fascinating’?!”\u00a0 Trisha screamed.\u00a0 The young woman was suddenly furious.\u00a0 Echoes of the wolf tingled along her nerves.\u00a0 “‘Fascinating’, you prick?!\u00a0 This is my body!\u00a0 How fucking dare you?!\u00a0 How fucking dare you, you dickless asshole!\u00a0 Come in here and I’ll show you what’s fascinating when I rip your goddamn spine out of your back!\u00a0 You fucking hear me?!”<\/p>\n

Silence answered Trisha as she panted.\u00a0 Seconds turned to minutes and then finally Dr. Campbell answered.\u00a0 “It seems you need another exercise in humility.\u00a0 You are no longer Trisha Adams.\u00a0 You’re Alpha.\u00a0 The start of a line of obedient, tailor-made soldiers.\u00a0 You lose your name as you lose more of your identity.\u00a0 You will learn to respect me.”<\/p>\n

Trisha growled low in her throat.\u00a0 “I know who the fuck I am.\u00a0 Fuck you.\u00a0 I’ll-”\u00a0 The small door on the corner of the wall opened and Rex stepped through as the door closed behind him.\u00a0 Trisha immediately crouched, eyeing the large wolf warily.\u00a0 “What is this?\u00a0 What’s he doing here?”\u00a0 His red fur looks like mine.\u00a0 <\/i>Trisha grit her teeth.\u00a0 Like the wolf.\u00a0 Like her fur.\u00a0 When I change.\u00a0 Goddammit.<\/i><\/p>\n

Rex stared at Trisha and then sat back on his haunches.<\/p>\n

“One of the first things we studied when we worked with the wolves and their DNA was reproduction.\u00a0 What better way to quickly breed animals if we controlled their reproductive cycle.”\u00a0 The doctor paused and, when he spoke again there was a kind of maniacal glee in his voice.\u00a0 “I can force your estrus phase, Alpha.”<\/p>\n

“N… You’re out of your fucking mind,” Trisha said.\u00a0 Her eyes never left the male’s eyes.<\/p>\n

“Yes, actually, I can,” Dr. Campbell told her.\u00a0 “I’ve tagged Rex with a chemical agent.\u00a0 I expect you’ll start to feel the effects soon.\u00a0 Of course, I have no idea if this will force the release of eggs or whether Rex can actually make you pregnant if you were currently fertile, but you’ll at least learn a lesson here and now:\u00a0 you’re not in control of your body.\u00a0 I am.”<\/p>\n

Trisha backed slowly away from the male wolf.\u00a0 “Of course he couldn’t get me pregnant,” she said.\u00a0 “He’s a wolf.”<\/p>\n

“And so, Alpha,” Dr. Campbell said.\u00a0 “Are you.”<\/p>\n

Trisha felt all eight of her nipples suddenly and painfully harden.\u00a0 She moaned and fell to one knee.\u00a0 A bright red flush crept up between her large chest, around her neck and to her cheeks but it wasn’t the blush of shame.\u00a0 Trisha gasped and began panting.\u00a0 Deep inside, she felt muscles loosen as she grew wet.\u00a0 Not a simple feeling of sexual attraction; her pussy became flooded and she closed her eyes against the intense heat she felt.\u00a0 “This,” she panted.\u00a0 “This is impossible.”\u00a0 Her traitorous left hand strayed to her pussy but Trisha made a fist and growled.\u00a0 “No!\u00a0 Fuck you!\u00a0 F-\u00a0 Oh god.”<\/p>\n

She was burning.\u00a0 Her entire pussy burned with need.\u00a0 Looking down, she saw her vulva was swollen and red.\u00a0 Her outer lips looked angry and full and puffy and she’d never seen them like that.\u00a0 Her inner pussy lips were slick with her juices and they nearly glimmered in the overhead light.\u00a0 She could smell herself and it made her even more turned on.\u00a0 Her clit was exposed to the air and she wanted desperately to touch it.\u00a0 To lick it.\u00a0 To rub it and make the burning stop.\u00a0 She needed to cum.\u00a0 She had to orgasm.\u00a0 Trisha fell to her hands and lifted her ass in the air.\u00a0 Her pussy lips came wetly apart as her ass cheeks spread and Trisha groaned in need.\u00a0 She felt juices trailing down her thighs.\u00a0 “I… I won’t…”\u00a0 she moaned.<\/p>\n

“The lordosis reflex.\u00a0 Alpha, you’re full of surprises.\u00a0 I knew this would affect you but the extent of the modifications is incredible.\u00a0 I wonder how long you can hold out?”<\/p>\n

“Fu… fu…”\u00a0 Trisha panted.\u00a0 Her ass was still raised.\u00a0 She knew she should get up but she felt so good where she was.\u00a0 It felt natural and amazing.\u00a0 Trisha reached under herself and pinched at a smaller nipple.\u00a0 Behind her, Rex growled.\u00a0 She looked back and saw the male’s thick red cock bulging out of its sheath.\u00a0 It looked huge and red and smooth and delicious.\u00a0 She could smell it.\u00a0 She swore she could smell him somehow and she’d never wanted anything or anyone more in her entire life.\u00a0 Her head buzzed with static and she tasted her own drool.\u00a0 She was still on her forearms, large, muscular ass raised high, spreading her scent.\u00a0 “Rex,” she gasped.\u00a0 “Rex.\u00a0 Oh god.\u00a0 Rex.\u00a0 Come here.”<\/p>\n

The wolf stood and walked to her and she wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.\u00a0 The large animal sniffed at her ass and Trisha shivered.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 No, this isn’t right.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Please, god, no.\u00a0 Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus.\u00a0 Maybe he’ll use his tongue.\u00a0 Maybe he’ll lick me.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Oh, please.<\/i>\u00a0 Rex sat again and Trisha wanted to cry in frustration.\u00a0 His penis was still out and she saw the bulge of his knot.\u00a0 He was just a few feet away. Just… Just… Trisha went to the large wolf.\u00a0 Crawled to him, hips swaying seductively as wolf instincts sang through her body.\u00a0 And then the wolf’s penis was there and nothing else mattered to Trisha and her burning, aching pussy.<\/p>\n

The young woman bent to Rex’s red cock and took him in her mouth.\u00a0 Rex chuffed and licked her back while she sucked on his oddly smooth member.\u00a0 She rubbed at herself and it drove her mad. Every single part of her pussy was intensely aroused.\u00a0 Every single piece felt like her exposed clit.\u00a0 She shuddered from the barest touch.\u00a0 Rex grew harder under her attentions and she moaned when he nipped at her back.\u00a0 It wouldn’t be so bad, would it?\u00a0 <\/i>She wondered.\u00a0 It looks like a cock.\u00a0 It looks like a man’s cock.\u00a0 It’s just… it’s different.\u00a0 But not that different.\u00a0 I could just… I should….<\/i><\/p>\n

Rex stood and Trisha tried to follow his movement.\u00a0 She cried out and then her back arched, exposing her pussy again.\u00a0 Rex trotted around to her back and Trisha closed her eyes.\u00a0 She imagined a man behind her.\u00a0 A normal man with a normal cock.\u00a0 Hairy chest.\u00a0 A nice beard.\u00a0 Strong hands.\u00a0 Thick, red penis bobbing, waiting for her.\u00a0 Claws digging into her hips as he grabbed her.\u00a0 Long tongue licking his lips.\u00a0 Hand on the base of his cock, pulling the sheath back to expose his knot .\u00a0 Growling through sharp teeth as he kneels behind me.\u00a0 My tail against his chest as-<\/p>\n

Trisha felt Rex’s hot cock against her ass and all thoughts flew out of her mind.\u00a0 She frantically grabbed at him, ignoring his growls as she guided him to her wetness.\u00a0 “FUCK!\u00a0 YES!\u00a0 OH FUCKING\u00a0 YES!\u00a0 JESUS!”\u00a0 Trisha felt Rex’s rough padding and claws on her back as he opened his hips to pound into her.\u00a0 He felt incredible in her; the best she’d ever had in her limited experience with men.\u00a0 He hit all the right places and she pushed roughly back against him.\u00a0 “Fuck me!\u00a0 Fuck me, you fucking-\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 Oh god!\u00a0 Mount me! \u00a0Fuck me!\u00a0 Fucking stick that fucking knot inside-”\u00a0 Trisha pushed back hard and her swollen pussy took the wolf’s entire knot.\u00a0 She threw her head back in a soundless howl and the wolf started making smaller movements deep inside of her.\u00a0 Her upper body flared in a flush as a sudden unexpected orgasm rocked through her – a lightning strike down her spine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trisha tried to talk but couldn’t.\u00a0 Rex continued to pound into her and Trisha mindless rocked her hips back, greedily taking every inch of him.\u00a0 The knot at the base of his cock was driving her wild and she wanted more.<\/p>\n

“FUUUUUCK!”\u00a0 Trisha screamed as an even larger orgasm stormed through her body.\u00a0 Rex’s knot found a place on her clit and she screamed in pleasure.\u00a0 “Bite me!\u00a0 Bite my neck!\u00a0 Mount me!\u00a0 Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck ohhhhhh-!”\u00a0 Rex swelled and Trisha felt his hot cum drill into her.\u00a0 It filled her and she howled as another massive orgasm rolled through her.\u00a0 Too much!\u00a0 Too much!\u00a0 I… I…<\/i> Smaller firecracker orgasms dropped Trisha to her stomach and she shook.\u00a0 Rex was a heavy, furry, warm weight above her as her eyes rolled back into her head.<\/p>\n

The world went black and silent.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Trisha woke in pain.\u00a0 Her whole body ached.\u00a0 She looked around the room and found herself back in the corner she’d taken to calling home.\u00a0 She lifted her head and sniffed.\u00a0 Rex,<\/i> a piece of her brain told her.\u00a0 She closed her eyes and took his scent in deeply.\u00a0 When she opened them, she found herself looking directly at the area where he’d mounted her.\u00a0 Where she’d offered herself to him.\u00a0 She smelled him and the scent of his dried cum.\u00a0 But, she also smelled him on her.\u00a0 In her.\u00a0 Trisha groaned and sat up.\u00a0 The six new nipples still lined her stomach and they lay lazy and flat.\u00a0 She touched one and sighed at the feeling.<\/p>\n

Raising her head again, Trisha sniffed.\u00a0 No Dr. Campbell,<\/i> she thought.\u00a0 Must be night time.\u00a0 I hope he fucking dies in his sleep.<\/i>\u00a0 Satisfied that she was alone, Trisha bent to explore herself more but then she stopped.\u00a0 She had no fingernails.\u00a0 In the middle of every single one of her finger tips was a small, black, slightly curved claw.\u00a0 The top of the claw bulged out above the fingertip as if the tops were replacements for her fingernails.\u00a0 She touched and pulled at one of them and felt how it was connected to the last finger bone.<\/p>\n

“Well, shit,” she said.\u00a0 And then, she immediately explored her mouth.\u00a0 Her canine teeth were fangs.\u00a0 They felt almost twice as long as they normally were and incredibly sharp.\u00a0 The young woman stood and walked to the mirror to look for other changes.\u00a0 Her eyes were still golden and, yes, her canines were proper canine teeth now.\u00a0 The nipples looked the same as last time.\u00a0 Other than the fingers, everything else looked the same.\u00a0 Well, and the large amount of pubic hair she had.\u00a0 She’d always kept herself shaved before.\u00a0 Trisha looked down.\u00a0 Her feet had the same claws as her hands but larger.\u00a0 She could feel them touch and dig into the floor now that she noticed them.\u00a0 What else happ-<\/i><\/p>\n

“Oh no.\u00a0 I remember.\u00a0 I changed again.\u00a0 He made it happen after Rex mounted me and I changed.\u00a0 What… I can’t remember anything else.\u00a0 What happened?\u00a0 Goddammit.”\u00a0 Trisha sniffed again and walked to the center of the room.\u00a0 Sure enough, a hole lay in the middle of the room, nearly hidden among the black padding.\u00a0 She knelt above it and pissed while trying to remember what she’d done.\u00a0 Bits and pieces came to her.\u00a0 She remembered the arousal fading and Rex slipping out of her.\u00a0 The anger… trying to break the wall down again and then passing out.<\/p>\n

Finishing her business, Trisha stood and made a slow circuit of the room.\u00a0 It was perfect and seamless.\u00a0 She might have had a chance if it’d been handmade but since it’d been printed, there seemed to be no weak joints.\u00a0 Trisha huffed and then went to her corner.\u00a0 She sat crossed legged with her head back and her eyes closed.<\/p>\n

Deep within her body, she felt the wolf.\u00a0 In small ways.\u00a0 When she thought of the doctor, she wasn’t scared.\u00a0 She was angry.\u00a0 She wanted to fight.\u00a0 Trisha ran through things she dealt with her entire life and it all felt different.\u00a0 She no longer felt anxiety when she thought of being around other people; she felt aggressive.\u00a0 When she pictured herself walking through a crowd, it wasn’t the meek little Trisha.\u00a0 She pictured herself stalking through, waiting for someone to try something.\u00a0 Where before she was ashamed of her naked body, she now could care less.\u00a0 She felt warm and comfortable.\u00a0 Who cares who saw her? What would they do?\u00a0 Stare?\u00a0 Try to rape her?\u00a0 Let them fucking try now.\u00a0 The doctor in his safe little room could look all he wanted.\u00a0 For her to hide herself away was to be ashamed and scared and she wasn’t prey.\u00a0 She wasn’t the one running.\u00a0 She understood why Rex stood in the open now.<\/p>\n

Rex,<\/i> she thought.\u00a0 She saw his red cock in her memory.\u00a0 She remembered herself on her hands and knees and she pictured herself changed. \u00a0Behind her, Rex was changed, too.\u00a0 Her mind compromised between her human form and his fully wolf form and she saw him half-human, entering her, mating with her.\u00a0 Trisha gasped as all of her nipples tightened.\u00a0 She could smell her wetness.\u00a0 In her mind, she was on her back now and Rex had his hand on her throat and his sharp teeth around her nipple.\u00a0 His rough tongue lashing at her, wetting her fur as she moaned, trying to form words to beg him to fuck her.\u00a0 And then grabbing his arm and pulling, turning him over onto his back.\u00a0 Snapping at him with a jaw full of death.\u00a0 Sliding back and feeling his massive red cock beneath her.\u00a0 Rubbing herself along his length as his claws held onto her hips.\u00a0 He was huge in her daydream.\u00a0 Finally, she reached down as she moved forward, lying on his furry chest.\u00a0 All eight breasts rubbing in his fur, mixing with his sweat and scent as she pressed the tip of his pointed cock against her aching, sopping wet cunt.\u00a0 And then pushing back, impaling herself on him, feeling his knot and then slamming down until her mate was knotted with her.\u00a0 Howling with-<\/p>\n

Trisha shrieked in pleasure as the electrical storm in her lower belly exploded.\u00a0 Three of her semi-clawed fingers were deep in her pussy and she was massaging her upper breast with her free hand.\u00a0 She jerked and then lost control of her legs, arching her back as she shook.\u00a0 “Rex,” she gasped.\u00a0 He was still fucking her.\u00a0 Growling in her ear and she loved every fucking minute of it.\u00a0 The more she was forced to change, the more she started enjoying the pain and that bled into her imagination.\u00a0 Another orgasm came hard and fast as she pictured them both, half changed and fighting, biting, clawing and rutting like wild crazed beasts.<\/p>\n

More orgasms followed and sometimes Rex was a full wolf.\u00a0 And, once, she was a full wolf.\u00a0 She could feel it.\u00a0 She could clearly see herself on all fours as a wolf and it felt like freedom.\u00a0 Her mate mounted her in that form and it brought a different kind of orgasm.\u00a0 Slower and more gentle than the others.\u00a0 Rex’s leftover scent made her image of him that much clearer.<\/p>\n

Eventually, exhaustion took hold.\u00a0 Settling on her side, Trisha sniffed a bit at the floor, luxuriating in the smell of Rex’s scent and her own cum.\u00a0 Finally, she lie on her back and fell asleep.\u00a0 No nightmares haunted the she-wolf while she slept.\u00a0 Nothing in her past could terrify her any longer.\u00a0 Not with the wolf guiding her.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell settled into his chair with a cup of coffee and looked through the window.\u00a0 Asleep, I see.\u00a0 Exhausted from everything that happened with Rex and afterwards.<\/i>\u00a0 Using the console, he magnified to note the change in her hands and feet.\u00a0 He moved the view slowly up her body.\u00a0 She was on her back – a significant change from her falling asleep hunched over, hiding herself.\u00a0 One leg was propped up at an angle and he rubbed himself slowly as he stared at her vagina.\u00a0 Watching Rex mount her yesterday was far more erotic than he’d expected.\u00a0 The way she offered herself… the way she gave herself completely and unabashedly…\u00a0 Further up he went.\u00a0 Her lower sets of breasts still were flat on her stomach.\u00a0 No further growths there.\u00a0 Her upper breasts hung slightly to her sides and he stared again.\u00a0 I wonder, do all her nipples feel the same?<\/i><\/p>\n

The camera paused at her open mouth.\u00a0 A line of drool ran down her cheek and he could see her enlarged canine teeth.\u00a0 Another interesting change but not quite unexpected with everything else<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“Allie, please set a save point.\u00a0 You may open your sensors to the basement once you’re finished.”<\/p>\n

“Good morning, Dr. Campbell. I’ve detected and created an interface with the observation room.\u00a0 Who is the subject under observation, please?\u00a0 I show no records of her.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell sighed.\u00a0 “The subject Is Alpha, Allie.”\u00a0 The doctor reached for the microphone icon.<\/p>\n

“I can smell you in there, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 And hear you.\u00a0 The faint little buzzing of your voice.”<\/p>\n

The doctor jumped as Trisha’s voice came in through the speaker.\u00a0 He hadn’t noticed when she sat up but she now sat with her back against the wall and her right leg pulled up to her chest.\u00a0 Her golden eyes stared nearly straight at him and the effect was unnerving.<\/p>\n

“Buzz, buzz, buzz,” Trisha continued.\u00a0 And then, in a false cartoon voice, “I’m Dr. Campbell and I can do whatever I want.”\u00a0 The young woman sneered at him.<\/p>\n

“How dare-!”<\/p>\n

“What is it today, doctor?\u00a0 Sex with an elephant?\u00a0 To see if I can take it?\u00a0 Maybe turn me into a mouse?”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell sat back.\u00a0 Who is this young woman?\u00a0 <\/i>He felt fear grip at him.\u00a0 On screen, Trisha sniffed the air and grinned.\u00a0 How dare she treat me like this?<\/i><\/p>\n

“No.\u00a0 Not a mouse, Alpha.\u00a0 Why don’t we see if some starvation clears your head a little.\u00a0 I’ll be back tomorrow.”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell stood.\u00a0 “Allie, when I’m upstairs-”<\/p>\n

Trisha interrupted with a lazy smile.\u00a0 “You don’t know what it’s like, do you, doctor?\u00a0 All of this.”\u00a0 Trisha raised her arms and her breasts lifted slightly.\u00a0 “What did you use before me, doctor?\u00a0 Did you even test it on something live?\u00a0 Not humans, you said.\u00a0 Not something that can think and feel.\u00a0 She’s in me, doctor.\u00a0 The wolf.\u00a0 No, I’m not crazy, if that’s what you’re thinking.\u00a0 I’m not talking about spiritual mumbo-jumbo.\u00a0 Whatever you did to my cells – whatever science stuff you did, it’s a part of me.\u00a0 She’s a part of me.\u00a0 And she’s proud, doctor.\u00a0 So proud.\u00a0 You think it’ll break me if you send Rex in to fuck me?\u00a0 You think that’ll shame me now?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 We’ve been talking, her and I.\u00a0 I’d welcome it.\u00a0 Send him without making me go into heat and I’ll ride his fucking cock until he fills me up.\u00a0 And then,” Trisha paused.\u00a0 Her tongue made a slow, lazy circuit of her mouth as her lips pulled back to show off her fangs.\u00a0 “And then I’ll lick him clean.\u00a0 You can watch.\u00a0 You can sit in your little booth and jack off while he mounts me.\u00a0 Because, doctor.\u00a0 I am<\/b> a fucking animal.\u00a0 And I’m fine with that.\u00a0 Meek little Trisha has grown up.\u00a0 My heart roars in my chest and I feel the strength in my hands.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell finished his instructions to Allie and left.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

The next morning, Dr. Campbell watched as Trisha relieved herself in the middle of the room.\u00a0 She was grinning again and he was coming to hate that tooth-filled grin.\u00a0 When the woman sat back in her corner, he spoke to her.\u00a0 “Are you ready to eat yet, Alpha?\u00a0 Is your head clear?”<\/p>\n

Trisha stared at the window with her legs folded.\u00a0 Her eyes were slightly darkened but she was still smiling.\u00a0 “My head has been clear.\u00a0 You going to feed me?”<\/p>\n

“Crawl to me like you crawled to Rex.\u00a0 I’ll feed you then.”<\/p>\n

Trisha laughed and her voice was deep and rough.\u00a0 “Then I suggest you turn around and try again tomorrow, doctor.”\u00a0 The young woman reached a hand between her thighs.\u00a0 Her grin widened even further as she slowly rubbed herself.\u00a0 With her other hand, she pinched a lower nipple, twisting slightly while biting her lip.\u00a0 “Or stay and watch.\u00a0 I can still remember the way Rex’s cock tested in my mouth, doctor.\u00a0 How smooth it was.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ll ever go back to human cock now.\u00a0 Mmmm,” Trisha moaned, her head back.\u00a0 She spread her legs open as she rubbed.\u00a0 Her hairy pussy was wet with her juices and she stopped briefly to lick her fingers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell watched, transfixed by the image.\u00a0 The young woman’s muscles stood out as she rubbed.<\/p>\n

“Oh, fuck.\u00a0 Fuck it feels good.\u00a0 Whatever else you did, I think you got the pussy right because, shit.\u00a0 I could do this for hours, doctor.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Shit!”\u00a0 Trisha’s hips bucked as she came.\u00a0 The young woman wiggled her wide hips slowly.\u00a0 “Good bye, doctor.\u00a0 Thanks for watching.”<\/p>\n

Trisha’s grin haunted him the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

It took a day and a half more for Trisha to crawl.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell spent the entire next day monitoring her and when she finally collapsed in pain, he again told her the rules.\u00a0 She crawled, head down, groaning in pain the entire way.\u00a0 As she sat on her knees, head bowed, Dr. Campbell released the gas.<\/p>\n

Trisha looked up and he could see the pain in her eyes.\u00a0 “You said-”<\/p>\n

“I make the rules, Alpha.\u00a0 I control you and you don’t forget that.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 I control when you change and when you come back.\u00a0 I control everything.”<\/p>\n

The young woman growled and went to her hands and knees as she anticipated the transformation.\u00a0 “Bring it on,” she said.\u00a0 Although she howled and screamed through the changes, Dr. Campbell couldn’t wonder if it was less than before.\u00a0 Can she get used to the pain?\u00a0 Does she build up a tolerance for it or is it just less painful the more it happens?\u00a0 <\/i>When she finished, Trisha leaned forward on her hands and knees.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell tapped his lip while he thought.\u00a0 Every time before, she’s gone mad and tried to break her way out.\u00a0 Now what is she doing?\u00a0 Is<\/b> she more in touch with the wolf part of her?\u00a0 Or, is she just exhausted from not eating?<\/i><\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell called out.\u00a0 “Alpha, can you hear me?”\u00a0 Trisha looked up in response.\u00a0 “Stand up, Alpha.”\u00a0 And, she stood.\u00a0 “Good, very good,” he told her.\u00a0 “Now I’ll feed you.”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell sent the nutritional block and watched as she tore into it.\u00a0 She looked fearsome and was exactly what he needed.\u00a0 Only, perhaps she was too much.\u00a0 Too fierce.\u00a0 Too independent.\u00a0 Too strong.<\/p>\n

He left her in her wolf state while he modified the original code.\u00a0 Markers identifying loyalty and muscle growth and intelligence were all altered in turn as he tweaked his formula.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell was so caught in his work that he didn’t notice when Trisha had turned back.\u00a0 Only eight hours had passed and so he assumed she’d been too weak to hold the form.\u00a0 Now she lay on her back again.\u00a0 Sleeping as if she didn’t have a care in the world.<\/p>\n

The next time, she again refused to crawl.\u00a0 This time it took almost three days for her to come to him.\u00a0 And then two days the time after that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One day.\u00a0 And then, finally, half a day.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Morning dawned somewhere far overhead and Dr. Campbell yawned in his chair.\u00a0 Trisha sat against the wall with her legs out in front of her and her head bowed.\u00a0 He watched her as he always did, tracing an imaginary finger along her body.\u00a0 At night, in the sanctuary of his own room, he masturbated.\u00a0 Not at the thought of fucking the woman, no.\u00a0 He masturbated at the pure thrill of making this Amazonian beauty crawl to him.\u00a0 Begging him.\u00a0 Mewling and begging\u00a0 because he told her to do it.\u00a0 Naked and beautiful and compliant.\u00a0 Molded.<\/p>\n

“Alpha?”\u00a0 Dr. Campbell asked.<\/p>\n

Without looking up, the young woman answered immediately.\u00a0 “Yes, Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

“Are you hungry?”\u00a0 It was almost a ritual now and the older man enjoyed it immensely.\u00a0 No fanged grins or disobedience.<\/p>\n

“Always, Dr. Campbell.”<\/p>\n

“Then crawl to me.\u00a0 And beg.”<\/p>\n

Without hesitation, the young woman went to her hands and knees.\u00a0 She crawled and her hips swayed as rock hard muscles shifted in her back.\u00a0 Stopping in front of the silver tray, Trisha kneeled and bowed her head.\u00a0 “Please, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 Please feed me.”<\/p>\n

“Alpha?\u00a0 Are you human?”<\/p>\n

“No, Dr. Campbell.”<\/p>\n

“Do you deserve the same rights as humans?”<\/p>\n

“No, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 I’m an animal.\u00a0 I have no rights.”<\/p>\n

“That’s right, isn’t it, Alpha?\u00a0 Whatever I want you to do, you do, isn’t that right?”<\/p>\n

Trisha hung her head lower.\u00a0 “Yes, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 I just want to please you.”\u00a0 When her food came, the woman tore into it like the animal she claimed to be.\u00a0 As she had when she first changed, she went to hands and knees, sniffing for crumbs to lick.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell felt the thrill of the moment.\u00a0 Watching her submit, watching her do as she was told drove him wild.\u00a0 She crawled around in front of him, flashing her vagina without a care as she fed.\u00a0 The older man cleared his throat and leaned forward.\u00a0 “Alpha?”<\/p>\n

Trisha stopped immediately.\u00a0 “Yes, Dr. Campbell?”<\/p>\n

The man paused, considering.\u00a0 With his hands off of the microphone icon, he called out.\u00a0 “Allie?\u00a0 Close off all sensors from the basement and sandbox yourself until I tell you otherwise.\u00a0 Once finished, roll back to the save point created earlier this morning.”\u00a0 Pressing the icon again, the man continued.\u00a0 “Lie on your back, Alpha.”<\/p>\n

The young woman, her back to the mirror, fell to her side and then rolled to her back.\u00a0 Trisha placed her arms to her sides and spread her legs open with her knees bent.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell stood from his chair.\u00a0 His hardness pressed against his pants and he stroked himself as he watched the screen.\u00a0 He hesitated briefly and then walked to the small, thin door between the two rooms.\u00a0 His heart raced as the blue light flared.\u00a0 With a gently push, the larger door automatically opened.<\/p>\n

Trisha lay in the exact same place he left her.\u00a0 The room smelled of chemicals and sweat and sex.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell removed his shoes and socks.\u00a0 He watched Trisha while he unbuttoned his shirt and, when she didn’t move, he pulled his shirt off.\u00a0 He could feel his heart racing.\u00a0 The thrill of having tamed this creature pulsed through him.\u00a0 His pants and undershirt fell to the ground around his feet.\u00a0 The air was pleasantly warm and his erection throbbed in front of him.<\/p>\n

“Can you smell me, Alpha?”\u00a0 The old man, asked.<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Campbell,” came the answer.<\/p>\n

“Do you want me, Alpha?”<\/p>\n

“I want whatever you want, Dr. Campbell.”<\/p>\n

He went to her and he kneeled between her legs, triumphant.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell reached out carefully to touch Trisha’s leg.\u00a0 He could feel her increased heat from an inch away.\u00a0 Slowly, watching her reaction, the man ran his hand from her thigh to the tangle of blond hair around her vagina.\u00a0 From here he could see the red hairs mixed in with the blond and those red hairs traced up to her belly button.\u00a0 A mix of the wolf and woman, <\/i>he thought.\u00a0 Above her belly button was the first set of Trisha’s nipples and Dr. Campbell’s hand touched the small circle of areola surrounding one of them.\u00a0 The skin was softer than the taut skin of her athletic body; traces of the wolf’s breasts just waiting to develop.<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell bent to Trisha’s lower nipple and, with a delicate gesture, he gently licked at it.\u00a0 Trisha shifted below him but otherwise made no move.\u00a0 Emboldened, the man sucked her nipple fully into his mouth and he felt it harden under his attentions.\u00a0 Around and around he worked his tongue over the fat nipple and Trisha moved above him.\u00a0 Her curious partial claws dug into the floor as she restrained herself from moving from her spot.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell reached up to pinch another nipple and then he simply ran his hand up and down Trisha’s flat stomach.\u00a0\u00a0 Muscle alternated with softer wolf nipples as he stroked her belly.\u00a0 Trisha gasped and the man smiled around the wet nipple in his mouth.<\/p>\n

Moving down, the man kissed the soft hair of Trisha’s mound.\u00a0 And then, further to her vagina.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell placed his thumbs against her inner lips and pulled, opening her.\u00a0 She smelled sweet and he could see the shiny wetness deep within her pink hole.\u00a0 “I thought about using the chemical agent I used with Rex,” the doctor told her.\u00a0 “But, why?\u00a0 When you’ve been beaten because of your base needs.\u00a0 Your hunger.\u00a0 You’re more an animal than I expected.”<\/p>\n

She tasted as sweet as she looked and Dr. Campbell pressed his face between her lips.\u00a0 His hand found her lower nipple and he pinched, pulling and twisting at it.\u00a0 The man pushed back the skin covering her clit, exposing it and he nibbled at it gently.\u00a0 Trisha moved above him and he increased his effort, swirling his tongue against her.\u00a0 The soft flesh of her lower stomach was smooth in his hands and he cupped the little breast, his finger playing through the soft hair around it.\u00a0 Massaging her breast, he moaned and then reached back to touch his hard cock.<\/p>\n

A thought tugged at Dr. Campbell’s mind and he stopped.\u00a0 The small breast…<\/i>\u00a0 He looked up.\u00a0 Trisha had propped herself up and was staring at the man with her intense golden eyes.\u00a0 The lowest set of Trisha’s nipples sat atop small a-cup breasts and were surrounded by white fur.\u00a0 The man tried to pull away in a panic but Trisha’s hand magically appeared on the back of his neck and he couldn’t move.\u00a0 She pushed him back down to her wet cunt.<\/p>\n

With a growling deep voice, Trisha spoke from above him.\u00a0 “Please don’t stop, Dr. Campbell.\u00a0 You’re doing a passable job at it.\u00a0 I thought I’d at least get a chance to get off a bit before I go.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Campbell struggled but the woman’s strength was enormous.\u00a0 Eyes wild with fear, he tried to push away from her.\u00a0 With a sigh, Trisha rotated her hand until she held the doctor’s throat.\u00a0 She stood in a fluid motion and Dr. Campbell came effortlessly with her.\u00a0 The doctor struck at the arm holding him and Trisha laughed.\u00a0 “Oh, doctor.\u00a0 I thought it would take longer.\u00a0 I thought I’d have to crawl for you more before you gave in.\u00a0 Although, wouldn’t it have been just my luck if you were gay?\u00a0 Or asexual?”<\/p>\n

“H… h… h…” Dr. Campbell wheezed.<\/p>\n

Soft white fur crept up Trisha’s chest, surrounding her eight breasts.\u00a0 Red and black hairs sprouted from her arm and shoulder and Dr. Campbell gasped weakly when he felt her hand moving on his throat.\u00a0 Sharp points pressed his skin and then moved slowly across his flesh as the woman’s claws grew in fully.<\/p>\n

“How?\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 How am I changing without your little gas?\u00a0 I… unnnhh… Fuck.\u00a0 I told you, doctor.\u00a0 The… fuuuck.\u00a0 That stings<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 The wolf and I have been talking.\u00a0 I don’t… unnh… I have control now and I’m starting to enjoy it, doctor.\u00a0 Except-” Trisha grunted and shook her head.\u00a0 Blond hair slipped to the ground and Dr. Campbell could hear bones cracking in her face.\u00a0 “Except, this part still fucking hurts.”\u00a0 Trisha’s mouth was suddenly full of blood.\u00a0 She turned her head and spat; blood and teeth hit the ground with a sickening splat.\u00a0 Further her face pushed out and, as it did, the skin of her lips and nose went from soft pink to gray to black.\u00a0 Her breath felt like an inferno on his face and a small detached part of him wondered what her body temperature was right now.\u00a0 She spoke and her voice was halting, broken and rough – nearly incomprehensible.\u00a0 A few words made sense:\u00a0 “… left…door…open…”<\/p>\n

Throughout the pain of her face pushing out into a muzzle, Trisha’s hand never wavered on the doctor’s throat.\u00a0 He tried speaking but only a small whistling noise escaped his throat.\u00a0 Trisha leaned in and he felt her cold nose against his jawbone as she sniffed at him.\u00a0 From where she held him he could see her naked, sweating back.\u00a0 Her ass spread larger and muscles pulled at her spine as they made room for her new form.\u00a0 The bones of her spine flared out in a wave and then bulged at a point just above her sweat-soaked ass.\u00a0 The cells in her coccyx divided at an incredible rate in an effort to fix what they saw as a mistake:\u00a0 We are no tail-less monkey.\u00a0 We are a wolf.\u00a0 <\/i>Trisha sighed and moaned as skin slid against skin, moments before red fur sprouted from her thighs and ass.<\/p>\n

When she first picked him up, Dr. Campbell’s toes touched the ground; now they hung completely off of the floor.\u00a0 Little fireworks exploded in his field of vision.\u00a0 Ever rational, Dr. Campbell found himself contemplating his end.\u00a0 There are many, many worse ways to go than to suffocate,<\/i> he thought.\u00a0 He wanted to struggle but his body didn’t want to move any more.\u00a0 Blackness appeared at the edge of his vision and Dr. Campbell estimated thirty seconds before he lost consciousness.\u00a0 But then, miraculously, Trisha dropped him.<\/p>\n

The old man fell on his ass, gasping for air.\u00a0 His mind raced as he held his hands to his aching throat.\u00a0 If he could talk, he could get Allie to-\u00a0 The doctor felt pain in his throat.\u00a0 Why am I looking at the ceiling?<\/i> He wondered.\u00a0 Why does my hand and throat hurt like-<\/i>\u00a0 The old man gagged when he saw the ruin of his left hand.\u00a0 Half of the hand was missing and he could feel blood gushing out of his throat.\u00a0 Trisha stood above him and her beautiful white furry stomach was tinged with dark red.\u00a0 Her long tongue worked around her thick black lips as she cleaned blood from her muzzle.\u00a0 He hadn’t seen her move.<\/p>\n

Pain came to the doctor.\u00a0 Real, physical pain and he tried to scream.\u00a0 Bubbles formed in the large hole where his throat used to be.\u00a0 Trisha looked down at the doctor and then turned.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell turned to look at her, lips moving as he tried to plead with her.\u00a0 To make it stop.\u00a0 Trisha’s proud tail lay quietly against her ass and she walked out of the doctor’s eyesight, towards her corner.\u00a0 Dr. Campbell wanted to turn to follow her but his body wasn’t working.\u00a0 He stared, screaming in his head as his life ran out of him.\u00a0 The last thing he saw was Trisha barreling through the open door, running on all fours with her tail streaming behind her.\u00a0 Her sleek muscles rippled in concert and then, he saw no more.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Trisha stood in her corner.\u00a0 Home,<\/i> she thought with a smile.\u00a0 The door at the other end of the room was open but the outer door was closed.\u00a0 She dropped to her hands, feeling all eight of her breasts sway beneath her.\u00a0 Crouching slightly, she dug her claws deep into the ground.\u00a0 And then, she pushed and she was away.\u00a0 Trisha tucked her head slightly before she hit the outer door and it shattered on impact.\u00a0 She rolled and came up in a wary crouch.\u00a0 The control room was empty and quiet but her ears twitched as she listened.\u00a0 Silence welcomed her.<\/p>\n

Slowly, the young woman padded out of the room and up the small stairs.\u00a0 Once in the kitchen, she paused again.\u00a0 Now what?<\/i> She asked herself.\u00a0 Ah.\u00a0 Here.<\/i> \u00a0Trisha closed the door leading downstairs and it sealed itself, lines vanishing into a smooth, featureless surface.\u00a0 Scents flooded her and she drooled at the smell of real meat.\u00a0 The doctor fed his wolves well and Trisha was no different; she left the kitchen feeling better than she had since she’d arrived.<\/p>\n

Trisha made her way through the large house carefully.\u00a0 She knew they would look for the doctor when he didn’t show up for work and the less she left behind, the better.\u00a0 With luck, they’d never find the door to the basement.<\/p>\n

When she reached the living room, she smiled.\u00a0 Rex was waiting for her outside.<\/p>\n

She could smell the male wolf’s scent and it excited her.\u00a0 She’d actually worried a little that she’d killed him when they forced her to change after they fucked.\u00a0 It took three tries for her to work the doorknob properly but she finally did and then made her way outside.\u00a0 Rex sat at the end of the driveway, watching her.\u00a0 Trisha felt her nipples ache at the sight of him.\u00a0 The young woman sniffed the air cautiously.\u00a0 Nobody was nearby so she stepped out.\u00a0 Nobody except Rex and- the young woman turned to the left and her golden eyes caught the deep black of Umbra’s coat.<\/p>\n

Trisha walked to Rex and Umbra came from the shadows to stand beside his brother.\u00a0 She stood, facing the pair of them.\u00a0 Finally, Rex came to her.\u00a0 The large male butted his head against her leg and then walked around her to sit where he’d started.\u00a0 Umbra stood and followed the same ritual.\u00a0 He was smaller than Rex but more sleek and younger.\u00a0 Trisha went to her hands and knees before the two male wolves.\u00a0 She walked to them on all fours and they all rubbed furry cheeks in greeting, chuffing as they said hello.<\/p>\n

Standing, the young woman looked to the distance and her gold eyes spotted the towering skyscrapers of the city.\u00a0 Do I go back?\u00a0 I’ll need to change if I do.\u00a0 Can I fit in anymore?<\/i>\u00a0 She looked down.\u00a0 Rex and Umbra sat at either side of her.\u00a0 Waiting.\u00a0 Trisha turned the possibilities over in her mind until, finally, a decision was made.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Inside the house, Allie answered an incoming voice-only call.\u00a0 “Good afternoon.\u00a0 This is Dr. Campbell’s artificial intelligence, Allie.\u00a0 I am in offline mode and, thus, my capabilities are limited at the moment.”<\/p>\n

“Hello,” the caller said.\u00a0 “Is Dr. Campbell there?”<\/p>\n

“In offline mode, I have no access to my sensors or other resources.\u00a0 However, if I have answered the call then it leads me to believe that Dr. Campbell is unavailable.\u00a0 Shall I take a message for him?”<\/p>\n

The caller paused.\u00a0 Finally, “Yes.\u00a0 This is Dr. Martinez at Madigan, returning his call.\u00a0 I’ve been in touch with Dr. Campbell about his project.\u00a0 He’s promised me an in-person demonstration and I will definitely be there on Friday per his invitation.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Dr. Martinez.\u00a0 I will notify Dr. Campbell as soon as he checks in.\u00a0 Have a pleasant day, sir.”<\/p>\n

The call disconnected and Allie slept.\u00a0 And, so, when the small bio-electric tags within Rex and Umbra passed the boundary of the property, nobody was watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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