((Not much has happened ^^ It just looks like alot because we made some long posts :3

Basically in Sector one, Sammy is being tormented (possibly unintentionally) by some of the female scientists, so Rena snuck out to see what was going on, she's in Sammy's cell at the moment.

In Sector Two, Nash is reprimanding a gaurd for taunting Katy and Williams is looking for Auna and Miranda at the same time, both of which are lurking in that sector, if I remember correctly. Tess is contemplating their lives, I think, thats what she appears to be doing. Air was exploring the Lab and just returned to her cell.

In Crimson Sector, Aitren and Nertia are being their normal weird selves, and I don't know what everybody else is doing.

As for the lab as a whole, the doors to the excersize room opened, so their free to go in there, while their gone, Peter will be bringing by their food.

Outside Mari, Astrik, and Vinna are just hanging around being bored and chatting. They're part of an isolated experiment on how the shifters will react and develop in a "civilized" setting.

Did I miss anyone?))

"Mmph, just training, right Rikki?" Vinna had been struggling to keep her morph in check since day one, luckily Nash, aitren, Nertia, and Astrik had immediatly seen the problem and rushed to help. It made her slightly uncomfortable to be away from the main group in this small "house", but Mari was good company, and she still had Astrik, her original room mate, who helped her keep up with her black leopard self. Luckily, Williams hadn't felt the need to give her more then one animal, and hadn't added more DNA to her bloodstream, or else she may have lost control a long time ago.

Astrik nodded her agreement, "Just training." Whic was all it would ever be to people who didn't know of her problems and didn't look closely enough to wonder why Vinna always had ears and a tail. the albino's red eyes blinked as she leaned in to examine the phone, her eyesight wasn't the best, but her gl*censored*es had broekn her first week at the Lab, "Nope, Vin?"

"Nuh-uh." Vinna agreed, scooting backwards untill her back rested against the wall. "So, what happened."

"You know, in real life, not in whatever horro movies you've been watching." Astrik grinned, shifting wqiuckly into a huge, exteremely pale python and curling into a neat coil, a good one to two feet of her tail hanging off of the tattered sheets.

(Uh... I'm just going to improvise from that and create some sort of post.  I'll edit in a moment.)

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Shay had fallen asleep.  But now, her eyes flickered open.  Looking around, she wondered where she was.  Her past events were all a blur.  Rubbing her head, she noticed it had throbbed.  Probably from resting her head on the cement wall of this cell.  Wait.. cell?  Where was home?  Her soft, comfy, bed, and her parents?  What about her TV and computer?  Friends?  School?  Where had it all gone?

Groaning, she rubbed her eyes to focus her vision.  Cement walls surrounded her.  Bor-ing!  Why wasn't it her pretty light blue walls that were at home?  Suddenly, everything came back to her.  The kidnapping, the pain, the experimentation, the pain, the fight, the cells, the pain, the animals, the pain... Oh, did she mention the pain?  And perhaps the excruciating PAIN?!

Urghh.  She touched her head again.  It was because of the fight against the scientists that she had gotten a nasty whack to the head, which had caused some pain.  Oh, yeah - that word again.  Shay felt like thrashing something against a wall and almost killing it.

But that wasn't going to happen.  She morphed into a wolf, and growled lowly.  Padding around her cell, she slammed herself against a wall.  "Break!  Break, you freakin' wall!" she shouted.  HA.  As if the wall would break.  Exhausted, she heaved herself into a corner, her body aching.  It was a stupid, pitiful attempt.  And it had led to nowhere.  She growled, still a wolf.  Her white pelt was dimmed a light gray-ish color from the light of the cell - and it was because there wasn't much.

Sighing, Shay knew she would never escape.  She'd just live a horrible life in confinement.

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Dylan huffed.  He knew there was no way out of this place.  But his petty sister always had this... this.. What was it?  Oh, yeah - "hopes."  Faith crawled over to her brother.  "I know we'll get out," she said.  "Some day, some time, I just know we will!"

"Stop hoping.  Stop being so.. joyful," Dylan said annoyedly.  Faith just poked him.  "Come on. Stop being that way." she said.

"Being what way?" Dylan spoke angrily.

"You know," Faith said.  "All cold."

"Whatever." Dylan turned away from his sister.  She was just too cheery.  Always on the bright side, never looking on the down side.  He despised that about her.  But she was his sister.... So he'd always sacrifice himself for her.  They loved each other.  Although Dylan didn't always show it.

But you don't have to show love for it to be real.  Faith was his sister, so of course he'd love her, and everybody should know that the love was there, for they were family.

"Dylan.." Faith said.  She stuck out her tongue at him when he had his back turned to her.  Dylan sort of noticed, but he didn't say anything about it.  Trying to cheer up her brother, the girl went to her cat form and padded up to Dylan.

Purring, she rubbed herself against Dylan.  "Don't do that," he said.  "Do what?" Faith innocently replied.  "Turn into an animal and try to make me happy," Dylan explained.

"But it's working, isn't it?" Faith said with a cat-like smile.

Dylan muttered something, then he said, "Mmmmm yeah..."  He patted his sister on the head.  She could really be an animal when she wanted to be - and that was in the literal sense.  Knowing he was defeated, he let himself be in defeat.

Faith, in the meanwhile, was happy for being petted.  She was also happy she had won over her brother - at least for now.  He wouldn't stay this way for long.

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Mari's stomach grumbled before she could answer. "Oh great, nice timing." she said patting it. She looked back up at Astrik and Vinna, "You guys in the mood for tacos?" They just stared back at her and she took that as a yes. Walking into their minnie kitchen, Mari opened the refrigerator and pulled out corn shell tortillas, groud beef, cheese, salsa, all the good stuff. Laying it out on the table and grabbing three large plates she quickly whipped up the tacos and stuck them in the microwave. While they heated, she took cups out of the cabinet and brought out some wine, tea packets, and soda. "Take your pick." she threw over her shoulder as she went back to get the tacos. Putting them on the table, she sighed. "Next time guys, please take me with you. Horror films are great and all but, nothing compared to the real thing." They all started laughing.

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(Hope you don't mind, but I made a new character, Austin, I still have Tess though, I have 2 characters now.)

Tess changed into a hawk, she started flying around. She was looking for an entrance she'd be able to get out of here with. She found some, but they weren't what she was looking for, they were too hard to get past, she'd seen others try, and not succeed. Sad days for everyone. Instead of attempting to escape, and cause trouble she changed back into human and began going back to work. She should try and visit other sectors, see what they're like. If she can, could she? Maybe talk to others, and conjure up a plan to escape, it might work, maybe.

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Austin could hear people waking up, and silently muttering to themselves about escaping. He, too wished he could escape, he had tried once. But had ended up getting hurt. He changed into a frog, then thought he could sneak out, because he was so small. Wrong. It just meant that people would step on him, after getting stepped on 2-3 times, he morphed back to human, and tried to calm his screaming wounds. He was in pain, whenever he thought back to that story, a pang of sorrow crept through him. Why couldn't he be normal again? Sure, it's fun being a shape-shifter, but if it means you have to be stuck in whatever this place is, no thank you. He could do without. He does't even have any friends here. Austin made a mental note to make at least one friend today at the crimson sector. He rubbed his eyes and began to come fully in focus, not tired. He sat up in  his cot he slept on, he rubbed his hand along it's hard, uncomfortable surface, he missed his memory foam mattress he had at home, why? Why him? Why does his life bring bad luck? Ever since he turned 15 bad luck had thrown themselves at him.

He headed into his station at the crimson sector not many people were there yet. Would he be able to get away with going back to his cot for a little while, maybe the whole day? He could morph into a frog, so no one would see that he wasn't there. Also, he didn't have a room mate, so he'd have the  day to himself. Think any one would notice? He has no friends, no one would care that much about him, right?

((Fullmoon, need some help? Aitren'll be happy to talk with anyone, if you can understand her (; ))

Aitren poked her roommate in the arm, "Race ya!" she called, shifting into an arctic hare and darting through the door, into the next cell, and through the others, often p*censored*ing by other experiments who hadn't moved out yet and receiving a mix of black stares, annoyed glances, and happy "hello"s. The excersize room had flourescant lights in the cieling, which a few of the smaller bird shifts hid on the rim of the hanging containers that held the lights. They ussually were able to avoid testing for a while. Aitren was pretty sure she didn't have any tests planned, since she had a particularly painful one a few days ago that her feet were still recovering from. This was probably the only room in the crimson sector that wasn't tinged red, well, except for a few suspicscious looking stains, but it was best to just ignore those.

Shifting human, she pulled her navy cloack around her body, putting the hood over her silvery blue hair, and retreated into a corner near one of three doors, one of two they could enter and exit from (the other was purely for scientists and was often monitored by either several gaurds, or by one, very nerve racking gaurd), to wait for Nertia to arrive so she could scare her. It was pretty fun.

((Thanks Shao ^^ Okay Murr, I'll send you one too, though I could just tell you at school, yes? I'll post real quick, sorry for not being able to get on in a while))

"Oh yes, it's worse than a horror show out there." Astrik laughed, shifting human to pick up a taco. Vinna, meanwhile, had already started eating a taco and did her best to keep from spraying it out of her mouth when she tried to laugh. Quickly swallowing she joined them, grabbing a soda. She was vaugly aware of the camera in the corner following her hadn as she pulled it back with the slightly dented can, but was well accustomed to it by now, her life was a bunch of cameras, gaurds, and experimentations that were ussully painful.

"Just some fighting moves, lots of defense for me," Vinna grinned, holding up a scratched arm, "Miss "no sunlight" here is a pretty good opponant in the dark." Astrik hopped to her feet, flashing a mischevious grin at Vinna,

"Why thank you Vin! Tomorrow I'm scheduled for testing or something, so expect a knock at the door... or a forced entry... sometime early." Vinna stuck her tounge out and took a long drink of soda as their roommate continued, "You guys can probably tag along if you'd like."

"Yea might as well Astrik, I got nothing better to do." groaned Mari. "Besides I'm supposed to go there tomorrow, something about a new simulator they want to try blah blah blah..." she trailed off and grabbed a taco, shoving it down her throat. Now Mari may be a p*censored*able cook, but she still has terrible table manners. Pouring herself a gl*censored* of wine she looked at Vinna. 

"You coming too kid?" she said jokingly. "We'd love to have ya!" Mari then walked over to the loveseat and laid down. She was tired, but there was something nagging at her mind, something she'd forgotten.

"Hey Astrik?" Mari whispered, "Can you come here please? I have something I need to discuss with you." 

Vinna grinned, "Wouldn't miss it." She pushed herself to her feet and wandered into the kitchen putting the remainder of her soda into the mini-fridge and finishing off her taco. "Well ya'll, I'm-" she was intreupted by her own yawning, "Mmph, I'm turning in for the night. Er, morning... whatever..." she mumbled, rolling onto the queen bed and pulling the thin sheet around her. Astrik yawned in return,

"Good thing I don't like to be too warm, I'd feel freezing all night with her hogging the blanket." This, of course, was meaningless rambling, since the blankets in the main complex were so thin it wasn't worth having them. Vinna harrumphed in return and turned toward the wall, her back to Mari and Astrik. Within moments she was snoring softly. Astrik was about to curl up on the other side of the mattress when Mari caleld her over. Astrik glanced hesitantly at the camera and hurried over,

"Of course, whatcha need?" she leaned on the arm rest, scars standing out on her pale arm, and pushing her hair behind her ear with her other hand.