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        It's dark. It's always dark. And cold too. I felt so numb. unreal. But what do I know? I've never seen what anything is like outside of this room. There used to be more like me here. Oh well, but now there's not. I'm the last one. Now I sit here and wait....and wait....and wait ......and wait.....and wait......and wait. That's what my life was about. Waiting. That's the best part of my life. The waiting. The actual point in my existence is a type of hypocritical torture that I have become accustomed to. The pain isn't a problem otherwise. The injections are tolerable, the side effects are tests of my will and fortitude. The surgeries bring me to my breaking point. But I'm alive. I am much stronger than the others. They were all emotional messes. They couldn't build a tolerance to this life as I could. So they didn't survive. Most died from not being able to handle the experiments. The other few committed suicide. Most people in my place wouldn't be able to keep this feat of inner strength. I'm not sure how I keep it. There is one thing I like. Some times when the scientist were on their lunch break, I could hear a pleasant soothing voice speaking at a high volume. His voice was deep and gruffy. The way he spoke changed in intervals to different tones. It was beautiful. My heart followed his words as he told them in the beats as I heard it. They were laying the song again. I crawled over to the wall and pressed my head against the material to here him. My heart beats slowed to his tempo.

I see trees of green, red roses, too,

I see them bloom, for me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,

Are also on the faces of people going by.

I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"

They're really sayin', "I love you."

I hear babies cryin'. I watch them grow.

They'll learn much more than I'll ever know

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself

What a wonderful world

    That was the end. It would be a while before I heard it again. I loved to listen to it. I imagine all of these things he sings about that I've never seen. I always hoped that one day I'll see all of those things. But, sadly, that isn't the truth of what's going to happen. I'm either going to die when I can't take it anymore, or I'll be the finally product of their experiments and be marketed. And there's always the off-chance that I'll be kidnapped and sold on the black market. I never really thought about what will happen to me if they finish, this is just what I hear when the scientists don't think that I'm listening, or that I'm not smart enough to understand.

    The lights flashed the room to life. I could see my room clearly. Plain white. Bright, plain, white. There was nothing in my room excepts a leading turn into a bathroom they were gracious enough to install into this room a few years ago. I looked to my side to see a large mirror. It's a one-sided mirror, so that scientist could watch my reactions to their products. I looked over at my own reflection in the mirror. I was never vain, I had nothing to take pride in, but sometimes I go weeks without looking in it, and seeing my own face is a shock. Its like seeing a stranger. I look different every time looked in. I scanned over my face. This woman, she looked cold, hardened. I could see sadness hidden in her eyes. She was broken. I looked down to the rest of my body. I was bare, my skin was bruised and scarred. The animal I was engineered with was lion. A very rare breed of lions. they had pure white fur, and grew at a longer rate. I looked down to my hands. They were disgusting. I hated my hands. They were big, white, bulbous paws. my feet were the same also. My tail was elegant and long. My ears resembled the tiger as well. Thy were fluffy and white. I could take pride in them. My body though, was thin and gaunt. I didn't get feed much. Next to the mirror was the pure white door, with no keyhole or knob. It haunted me every time I looked at it. It scared me so much and I never understood why.

" Good morning Surrogate 26." That was my name. The only name I've been given since my first memories.

" Surrogate 26, today you will be examined by our doctor to check on your development."

    I am Surrogate 26, the only surviving surrogate left. I am one of the Beastmen government's very secret experiments. I was a test subject so they could create women that could bare children. Their race wasn't fertile, they had to be built. They keep me locked in a dark room for years because of the pheromones that were built in my with the uterus and ovaries that were implanted so many years ago. The researchers told me I was too tempting to Beastmen. If I were introduced into their environment, I would give men a new sensation of desire that the public would not be able to handle.
    And its not like I didn't know that. They literally had to put an electric collar on him because a while ago upon examining my body, his began wandering until her fully attacked me. No, I was not raped, the guards came in to stop him, at any rate. The feeling of him touching me was disgusting and it only reminded me that if I survive, that's what my life would be heading towards. Today, I still didn't trust this doctor. I bared my claws and fangs to him if his hands wander to far again. I don't know why they just don't hire anew doctor. Maybe it's because the same actions would have repeated anyway. Thank god though, physicals usually took all day for me. Today would be painless.
    The rest of the day was dedicated to this.

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    I sat in the corner, I fell into a fetal position, drifting to sleep.

"*ALERT: INTRUDER ALERT....ALERT: INTRUDER ALRET...*"

    An intruder? In the lab? I should be scared, but I wasn't. I was very excited. Excited that something different was going to happen. Excited that one of my fantasies of freedom may to come true. I looked over to the mirror, then...that haunting door. Someone was violently knocking on it, trying to beat it down. I stepped back a little, letting my claws reveal themselves out of fear. That door finally broke. Some shadowy figure came into the doorway. He was holding some cylindrical object that projected a small area of light. I finally found my voice to speak up.

"H-hey! Who are you!?" The light immediately gleamed over me.
"Holy Crap, someone's in here!" I must have surprised him. He jumped.
    He moved the gleaming light into a neutral area so that we would both be able to see each other. he had very bold pointed glasses He didn't have any animal markings or body parts. He had no claws, wings, fur ,fangs. He had nothing. he looked like....a naked ape? I examined his face closer, his cheeks seem to be red. He finally spoke upon examining one another.

"Damn baby, nice body." he shamelessly examined my bare body. Why though?

"What are you?" I asked.

"What do you mean, babe?"

"You don't have any animal markings or features. You don't look like a beastman." he laughed.

"Doll, that's because I'm human." Human?

"Human? What is Human?"

"You really don't know?" I shook my head. I could hear distant cries and foot steps.

"Well, gotta bounce, baby."

"You're leaving?" The idea seemed so foreign to me.

"Well, yeah they are after me." He turned his back towards me.

    This was my chance, but I felt frozen. I was so scared with the 'what if's clouding my mind. Before I knew, I heard his quickened footsteps becoming distant.

"NOOOO!" I got on all fours and sprinted after him. I was much faster than he was. I was able to catch him and tackle him down.

"Damn.....didn't think you'd miss me this much, doll face." His throat sounded strain.

"Take me with you! I can't take it anymore! I want to be free!" He was about to say something, but a closer examination upon my body silenced him. He noticed all of my bruises and scars.

"O-Okay. You got it baby. Here," he handed me his large jacket.

"You're gonna want a little coverage for the outside world." I didn't question I slipped it on and followed him. I ran on two legs because he wasn't as fast as I was.

    There were some guards ahead. The man quickly grabbed me by my waist and pulled me behind a corner. He handed me some piece of metal.

"What is it?" I whispered.

"It's a gun. Do you have any idea how to fight with it?" I shook my head. He looked down examining my paws.

"Eh, you don't have enough fingers anyway, if you have any I mean." He put a hand on my shoulder.

"Shh. Stay here." I listened. He went out to confront the guards. I covered my ears. The loud shooting noise boomed enough to hurt my ears. It happened several more times until I saw the blue haired man again.

"Okay, let's go." He lead me by the corpses and further down the halls.

     We went up a staircase too a higher level. I had to hide every time guard approached. I was worried that the man could be hurt or even killed. My first human with my ticket out of here, and everything gets struck down. I wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do at this point. We eventually go to an opening. We could see the outside from here.
    I stood in awe. Is that what the sky looked like? It was beautiful! And the clouds were so large and fluffy-looking. I couldn't move. I wanted to stay in the spot I was in so that I could watch the sky a bit longer. The man directed ,my eyes downward towards the ground. There was a large, no, giant metal person standing on the ground. The face of him stood open to us. It looked like one could control it from the inside.

"Okay baby, here is our stop." the man spoke up.

"On the count of three, we jump." He instructed me.

"What!?"

"One..."

"I don't think-"

"Two..."

"Wait-"

"THREE!" He pushed me out along with him towards the giant...thing.

    I screamed at the top of my lungs. This was..... exhilarating! I've never had such a feeling of euphoria before! We were closing in on the face The man took my hand and tugged me towards him. He landed in his seat, while I occupied his lap. The man closed the face, then it started moving! This was so amazing! Then...the body changed it shaped into some smaller form of transportation. I have no idea what's happening or what any of this is.

    We were a good distance away from the lab. The whole building, in fact. I looked outside. It was so amazing. I dreamed of this moment happening. All I could think was...what a wonderful world.
    The man broke my daydreaming.

"So doll, I never got your name. They call me the great Kamina." Kamina, what an odd-sounding name. What do I tell him my name is?

"Um, well I don't really have a name. All I am called is Surrogate 26."

"What, so you, like, were never named anything real?"

"I guess not."

"What exactly were you before?"

"I was one of their lab experiments. The 26th one. All of the other surrogates were women, we were designed to evolve sexual reproduction. Beastmen aren't born, they were created from both human and animal. Their reproductive organs were, more or less, identifying ornaments. All Surrogates were implanted with the complete inner female reproductive system during adolescence. We are constantly having surgeries and experimental injections and shots. I'm the last one left alive. I don't remember childhood. My memory was only present when I was five. I just know that I must've been there my whole life. They kept us locked in a room our whole lives. My sisters have either died from how painful the tests were, or they killed themselves. Thank you for taking me. You have no idea how long I fantasied about what it would be like if I got rescued and got to tee the outside. This is honestly a dream come true. Look! I'm smiling! I don't think I've ever really done that before! I'm so happy!" I didn't realize it, but around the end of my story, I was bouncing on his lap out of joy. His face was beet-red though. He cleared is throat, trying to hide the fact that he was embarrassed. It might be because I am naked. I don't understand why it makes him so uncomfortable. I never wore clothes before, and none of the scientists seemed to mind. he spoke up.

"Well, I'm glad you're so happy, but that's a pretty rough life you got there. No even name? Hmm. I guess I'll have to think of a nickname for you. let's see....how about Lily?"

"Lily?"

"Yeah. you're cute like a flower and since you're a tiger beastman I figured tiger lily?"

"What's a lily?"

"Man, you really don't know anything. It's a type of flower." Hmmm, Lily didn't sound too bad. I like it better than Surrogate 26. I agreed.

"Okay, Lily then." I smiled.

"Okay Lily, I'll take you back to our hideout. So you could meet everyone. I think you'll support our side of the fight."

"What fight?"

"You'll see."

    I new part of my life is about to start. A life of freedom.

Yes, I think to myself

What a wonderful world