Echolocation Chapter three; Is This an Insane Asylum or an Army?

The lights turned on, and for the briefest moment I saw a raccoon, a wolf, and a cat as black as night. The wolf, I realized, was the werewolf. You could tell by the way it transformed; with a flash of light while you could see the bones and muscle re-shaping themselves on the other two. The raccoon reshaped into a pale girl with black hair, kind of like snow white, only prettier (and not as skinny). The cat reformed into a teenage cowboy with stubble. And the werewolf turned into a young man with blonde hair, green eyes, and was dressed in the usual jeans and a T-shirt. My wings shrank back into my back. Thus bringing attention to my bat-like appearance. Then the girl started running throughout the room screaming "Vampire! Vampire!" The cowboy said in a southern accent "She ain't no Vamp, I don't see no teeth!" And then my fangs shrank back into my mouth and that was received by a bought of screaming from two mutants. Then the wolf-guy stared at a sheet of paper and stifled a laugh. He said in a quite convincing voice; "She isn't a vampire, she is a mutation of the classic Pteropodidae, Megabat. They stared at him blankly. He gestures as if we should know "The common fruit bat." They trusted him enough to leave me, uneasily, but they did.

I was quite impressed, even I didn't know that. Then he gestured for me. I came up to him and he showed me a sheet of paper. Duh, he had gotten every single detail about what to expect. I stifled a laugh. It even had all the scientific names for my mutation on it. He held out his hand for me to shake.

"Hi I'm Fang"

I shook his hand, he seemed nice enough. I stuttered when I said my name like I always do when I meet someone during the day.

"N-N-N-Nocta"

He cocked his head.

"Now that's odd, on the papers it says that your name is Ranel, Nocta"

Now I giggled.

"That's how the government does things silly"

"So, Ranel is your last name?"

"Yep, fitting too because if you put it together is makes the likes of Nocturnal."

Now he was the one who chortled.

"Well Nocta, welcome to the army"

As he waved away his hand I saw two mutants, playing Poker on a communicator, gambling over other peoples secrets.

"Hello" I said waving to the two, the coon-girl screamed.

"What's wrong?" I said running to her.

She screamed again.

"Ye s'prised 'er, when she feels an emoti'n, it is ec'entuated about a million times what you or I feel."

I patted her on the back, she laughed like a madwoman now. I guess I will have to get used to it, but for now I don't think anyone will mind if I'm a little apprehensive. As soon as my escort left the room, the lights were turned off, and the only light was produced by the transformation of Fang. Then My wings grew, and the raccoon explained that her name was Zora, and that when the lights were off, they played a game in which you tried to escape capture by Fang, now I knew why there were so many handholds in the wall, it was so that everyone could climb away. Fang lunged for me and I flew away just in time. I found it quite funny when he jumped up and missed my foot by mere inches, so I pretty much teased him. This went on for hours, I could hear the others in the background yawning because his focus was on me. Then I realized something: he was testing my talent. I grew tired of my toes being an inch from a wolf's mouth. So I flew up to the ledge, and right before I drifted off to sleep, the lights were turned on.

Slightly annoyed, I raised my head, food had been passed under the doorway. A whole bowl of oranges were provided for me. I took it without a word. I also found that a hammock had been put up right next to the ceiling for me. A shiver passed down my spine as I remembered my first experience with a hammock. I had fallen out onto pavement, and busted my chin open. This was before they had developed the ray-heal, so I had eight stitches. The scar remained. I shrank back onto the ledge. While Zora took her place in a tree, and Fang resting at it's feet. The cat; Bandit gestured toward the ledge and said "I'm sorry, b't I need ma ba'ed." I flew away. I asked Zora for a branch of her tree for the night, she agreed, eyeing my hammock. I perched on the branch, then slipped, and I was up-side-down. The position made me sleep like a stone, and I never fell.