In a dingy cave a dripping sound awoke a young man who had fallen unconscious, how he ended up here he could not remember and every time he did it was like he caught a whiff of a succulent meal but when he followed it only led him down the wrong path until he lost it all together, frustrating him to no end.
As he got up feeling around for the rocks to make sure he didn't slip on the slimy rocks, he could work out he was in a cave. But where this cave might be he couldn't tell as he could barely make out his own hand in the suffocating darkness. A darkness so abnormal it was thick and lingered in the air. The hair on the back of his neck stood up as he realized how lost he was and the looming feeling of being watched in the darkness only making this more intense. So much so he had to hold his body to stop it from shaking.
He finally got his body to move forward under his own will, taking care not to slip on any of the rocks as he could feel how sharp the stalagmites were. As he could not see he could only rely on tough as the dripping in the cave and the dead silence didn't help his situation. There was a small breeze following through the cave igniting his hope for freedom.
After slowly walking for who knows how long, he could finally see the darkness receding and light became present in the cave. Nonetheless as he got closer his hopes were dashed as he found it to be an intensely lit lab that was in ruin. Moving closer, he realized the body which was strewn about, trailing blood all over the place. The once clean white panels now caked in dry blood drying them a dark red closer to black as if the blood had gone off.
His one hope dashed, he prepared for the worst as he moved closer but as soon as he could smell the blood and rotten guts along with the bodies leaking caused him to vomit. He continued to vomit until he was hunched over in pain dry retching with nothing in his stomach anymore. He walked ahead trying to avoid eye contact with the dead people, however much their eyes seemed to follow him.
Walking closer to a computer that he found on, he stepped over two researchers, one looked like the classic nerd with big glasses and everything and the second was a small female that had a look of terror on her face that would make any man have nightmares. Observing their clothes, it was a white lab coat but there was a weird symbol on the breast side pocket over the heart it showed a circle or at least he thought it was a circle until he got closer and realised it was a snake biting its own tail. When he reached the computer, he was relieved that it was unlocked, however from the bloody fingerprints it did not look so enticing now. Knowing it was his best and only shot at finding anything out without randomly wondering through doors as there were three of them but he could not tell which was the way out and which was a dead-end or heaven forbid running into the people who had done this as the wall that he had come in through looked like it had been blown up from the inside.
Turning back to the computer, when he hit enter the screen changed from pure white to black with green writing like a classic 80"s era hacking scene.
[ system ouroboros online]
{ unknown user detected }
[ override procedures now in effect]
when the system had run, suddenly a video popped up on the screen of the lady scientist that was now dead laying on the floor, in it she was hunched over the computer looking dishevelled and distraught.
"Whoever is watching this I do not know how you got here or how you came to where you are but I am sorry" she paused after looking as if she regretted her whole life up until this point and needed a minute before she could continue.
" If you are from the program I regret to inform you of its failure, however, its more likely you are the ones attacking us right now which means I am more than likely dead, none the less it's important what I have to say so I hope you listen to this warning. The stones are not to be trifled with they are dangerous beyond belief"
Soon the video transitioned into an experiment log with a man strapped into the table and tools that can only be described as torture devices were around. The ladies voice came on over what sounded like an intercom but unlike before it was calm, too calm.
"This is experiment 26 code-named the devouring stone, the previous attempts to induce evolution by using the stone were limited as it was believed as the code suggests, that whatever gets ingested by the participant will be incorporated into the host DNA. How it does this is unknown however we have discovered that by directly cutting open the stomach with the host of the stone still conscious the materials can be directly placed into the stomach of the host and the process can be observed directly as the stone alters the host so no known technique will allow the process to be observed. No painkillers will be involved in this experiment. Start the experiment" as soon as she said these words the young man regretted watching as the man in white cut open the stomach as the man strapped into the table let out a blood-curdling scream. If the young man had not already heaved up everything in his stomach he would have done so again. This cruel "experiment" as they called it horrified him, but before he could look away the cut was done as it seemed the man in white had done this motion thousands of times by how fluid it was. Soon the man in white was stuffing what looked like a whole cat inside the poor man's stomach. It was so strange that he looked closer trying to find out what it was and not vomit at the same time but curiosity drove him to look and he found it was in fact a whole dead cat being put inside his stomach.
When the man in white was done the man convulsed as a red light shone and the cat turned into liquid blood and flesh moving towards a stone that glowed red that was inside the man's stomach.
At this moment the ladies voice came back on " as can be seen the host must devour all aspects of the creature in question to gain full effects otherwise only partial augmentation of genes and structures will occur"
This accompanied a scream from the man as his body shone red and fur started to grow out from his body as well as ears, all the while the cut in his stomach closed up.