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Chapter 2: The procedure
Chiomi's eyes fluttered open. "Ugh..." he muttered. "What happened?" He was now staring at the ceiling of what looked like a hospital room. When his vison adjusted, he was immediately met by a few pairs of serious looking eyes. "Wha-!" Chiomi yelped until a soft hand caressed his forehead. "Relax." A female voice said to him. Chiomi glanced towards the voice and found a woman with short, spiky maroon hair. "You're ok." she said, her surgical mask twitching slightly as she smiled.
Chiomi looked around. There were a few other surgeons joining her. But they were different. They had animal-like features. The one surgeon that had his hand on Chiomi's to keep him from freaking out, had a reptile tail and another standing nearby with a rather cold look had a sparrow's tail and feathers extending from his arms. "Sorry, if Sparrow was rough." the woman said. "I told him specificlly not to shoot you." With that last sentence, she turned to glare at Sparrow, who only turned away. Chiomi only stared at them for a second before the genetic tuberculosis kicked in again, forcing him to cough up blood all down the front of his white button-up shirt.
"Whoa." the woman said, backing up slightly. "How long've you had that?" With a cough, Chiomi whimpered, "A-All my life since I was born." "Well, here's a perk." the woman smirked, giving Chiomi a thumbs up. "You can count on good ol' Glinda to take care of that!" Chiomi's eyes widened. "Glinda!?" he gasped. "The Witch of the North!?" "Yep!" Glinda said proudly with a confident nod. "And don't worry. You'll be asleep the whole time. This won't hurt a bit...I think." Chiomi didn't trust that last part one bit.
"Ok, Charlie, bring him in." Glinda said, gesturing to one of the distant surgeons. He nodded and left the room. When he returned, Chiomi could hardly beleive it. They brought in a live, fully grown lion. They let the big cat stand close to Chiomi's hand that reached to it and stroked its mane. "Are you being held here against your will, too?" he asked the lion with a joking smirk. "Me too. I feel your pain." He probably shouldn't have said that. Immediately after saying that, Sparrow walked up to the lion, pressed a cocked handgun to its temple and pulled the trigger. As the surgeons gathered around the now dead big cat, Chiomi stammered, "T-Though not that kind of pain."
Glinda joined the group, gripping a bone saw in her hand. She handed it to a surgeon that placed it to the side of the lions head and began to saw into its head. Chiomi turned his head away, grimacing. After about 5 minutes, Chiomi turned back around when he heard Glinda gasp, "Oh, look at that!" Glinda was holding the lions brain high, her plastic gloves covered with its blood. "It's so beautiful!" Chiomi tried to piece together what they were going to do, but found himself just after he asked the question to the group of surgeons. They stared at him with some slight panic written on their faces. Glinda decided to be the brave one and cleared her throat. "Um...you see, the North is researching something that we at first didn't think was possible: chimeras. We hand pick our subjects and, other than that tuberculosis you got there, you're the current good choice."
"WHAT!?" Chiomi screeched. "Me!? A chimera!? But why?" "It's nothing personal!" Glinda smiled. "You just have the right amount of strength and agility to take on something like this!" Chiomi sighed, "Ok, how're you gonna do that?" "We usually do this by merging your brain with the lion's by means of sawing into your skull." Here Chiomi was so shocked that he couldn't even speak. "But, you'll be ok. Every other subject survived this. Only one person died and he was old anyways." She didn't wait for Chiomi's reaction. "Iggy, give him the anesthetic, Sparrow, get him on the life support system." Iggy and Sparrow nodded and did their jobs.
Chiomi was still stammering in shock. "It's ok." Iggy (Iguana) told him. He was holding a bottle of pink fluid, almost looking exactly like Pepto Bismol, while Sparrow used doctor-like precison to insert the needles into his arms and nose that linked to the life support system. "Like Glinda said, you'll be asleep the whole time. Here, drink this." He held a small cup of the fluid to Chiomi's mouth that drunk it willingly. "And if it makes you feel better..." Iggy smiled, holding Chiomi's relaxing hand. As Chiomi's eyes heavied and fell into a deep sleep, Iggy finished his sentence, "I'll stay here and give you my moral support."
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And thus, we have Tail! xd That poor, poor big kitty. Makes me cry. cry ...kinda. sweatdrop Anyways, enjoys!