"GRRRAAHHH!!!" Came a shout of rage from the taller beast.
"Not this time Bub!" A gruff voice replied from a smaller beast.

Logan aka Wolverine crouched low. His 5'3 well built frame rocked slightly on his heels. Black hair that naturally slicks back into two tuff like badger ears above his own ears, was ruffled and snow covered. His ripped yellow spandex uniform splattered with blood and snow rippled slightly as Logan's body already started to heal itself.
His combatant this time was his age old enemy and once friend, Sabretooth. He was the exact opposite to Wolverine.

6'6 bulky well built frame. Long wild blond hair with crazy amber eyes. Claw like nails and over sized K9's. Sabretooth is just as bloodthirsty as animal, with wolf and cat like capabilities. One thing that separated the two. Sabretooth was pure hatred. Cunning and a homicidal maniac that never could be trusted.

Snikt Snikt The sound of adamantium claws coming out from between Wolverine's knuckles.

A large bear like shadow moved in the forest thicket.

The familiar scent filled Wolverine's nostrils.

"What's a matter Wolverine?" Sabretooth aka Victor Creed sneered. " Still holding on to old grudges?" With out
waiting for a reply the large beast leapt forward becoming airborne heading right for ...

"RRRAHHHH!!!" A massive Roar erupted from the smaller mutant's feral mouth.

Wolverine leapt at Sabretooth. The metal claws raked against Sabretooth's chest, in return Sabretooth slashed at Wolverines lower back, catching Wolverine's calves.

The two tumbled over a snow cover log and landed in a bloody heap on the edge of a minuet clearing. Their wounds already starting to heal.

"Not this time bub." Wolverine snapped back spinning and lunging at Sabretooth.

Sabretooth met the lunge with one of his own. The two body slammed together.

Blood split long ago had driven these two to release their animal bindings currently one year ago. Neither one noticed the twigs snapping behind them or caught the scent of armed men. If so, they ignored it.

Wolverine went down, He rolled on his back just in time to be leapt upon by his foe.

"Play times over little man" The massive mutant growled as he locked his clawed hands around the smaller
beasts wrists.

Wolverine roared n' snarled as he was pinned.

Sabretooth leaned down on top of his victim.

Wolverine growled as he felt the sickening hot animal breath beating against his neck.
Sabretooth's chest heaved as he panted heavily.

"Any last words?" Sabretooth sneered sensing the kill so close to its end.

"Get it over with.... Creed" Wolverine growled as he struggled uselessly.

" Fine by me runt" Sabretooth growled with an insane smile piercing his sweaty face his lips curled back
exposing his fangs more. The homicidal maniac had Wolverine's throat within his jaws.
Sabretooth snarled as he lets his fangs slowly sink into Wolverine's throat flesh. Blood poured from the wounds.

A branch snapped followed by three sharp POP POP POP's.

Sabretooth's jaw opened fully, releasing his victims throat, a cry of shock and pain flew from his mouth.

POP POP two than four more darts following that contacted with Sabretooth's hide joining the previous three.
The massive beast twitched and fell over off of Wolverine and onto the his side in the snow.

 Wolverine looked up in astonishment as his mind raced.
Before Wolverine could sit up, six darts buried them selves in his arm. Blackness flowed instantly.
 
 

Dear Diary:

 This is my last entry to you. I am leaving my beloved northern Canadian home. Don't worry my diary. I shall return.  I love my parents and my friends far too much to stay away for too long.
 Where am I going? I can here you ask even though you are only a small book.
 I applied to several jobs as I already explained back in your pages.  I got accepted to the new soon to be zoo. It's just outside of New York.
 Fear not I have a safe way to get there.  An employee named Janet Greenworthski is picking me up on her way back from receiving an exotic Tiger from Northern Meat Packers in Ontario.
 This is something I have always wanted.
 I leave you and your many pages here at home.
 Take care dear diary.
 I love you as I love my family and friends here on and around my Canadian farm.

The small build 5'3 female worked sorting out pills and medications. Placing them in separate marked pails. Her long brown hair flared wildly each time she walked under a powerful heat vent above in the ceiling.
She paused as she finished putting the last pill bottle away. She gazed at the reflective metal surface that acted like a mirror.  Fair skin and blue eyes smiled back at her as she attempted to fixed her short bangs and long twisted curls.

 A tall lean dark teenage girl walked into the pharmacy room. Her tight short curly black afro hair and brown eyes gave way to a disappointed pout.
"Aren't you done YET?" The exaggerated Jamaican accented voice spoke in rough english.

"Hu?" The blue eyed girl turned around not fully pulled from her drifting thoughts.

"Are you done?" The dark skinned girl repeated to her inch and a quarter smaller partner.

"Uh, yeah" The blue eyed, brown hair female said picking up some pails and handing them to the other girl.
She picked up the rest as they headed out the door.

"I don't know what to do with you, Missy. Your always in your own little world." The taller girl started.

"Hmmm?" Missy hummed uninterested as she stopped in front of a coolers door.

"What are you thinking about?" She questioned Missy putting the pails down and opening the door.

"Oh, Just that is been a over a week and I haven't phoned my mom.  I miss the Farm so much. Do you miss your family Natalie?" Missy replied with a question of her own.

"No" Natalie said harshly digging into a container of entrails and hamburger.

Missy sighed as she filled her pails. The two headed towards their sector. BIG CATS was marked on a door the two walked through.

"Who gets Widower?" Natalie asked as they started down a gray hall way.

"You do, I have Sleek and Ruckas before going to the ocelots and cougars. " Missy replied.

"Wonderful" Natalie muttered dryly.

The two parted walking down separate corridors heading for the Zoo's hungry residences.
Missy walked up to the Lion's pen.
 

The large male lion huffed when he saw the new employee of the starting up zoo. He laid on a cement imitation of a rock pad, located at the side of his pen. His tail swayed back and forth dangling off the ledge of his cement rock pad.  The sadness of one in mourning could be detected in the lions big eyes.
 

Missy opened a feeding slot and let the crushed meat and medication mixed with warm milk fall into the lion, known as Ruckas,  feeding troft.
She stood there looking at the sweet yellow furred cat with a big brown mane around its head.

Behind her a tall man with black hair and receding hairline approached. He stopped standing inches behind the young girl.

"He misses Kitshue." The smooth voiced bisness man said in a strange accented english.

"The lioness doing any better?" Missy asked not bothering to turn around and face her employer.

"Worse" The voice sighed slightly.

Missy turned around to face the Zoo's Manager. She noted his pin stripped suit was unusually crinkled.
"He's lonely.." Missy commented looking for away to get around him.

"Everyone needs someone Missy." The Manager said as he stepped away from her letting the teen pass him.

Ruckas watched as The man followed the female away from the door.
 

The two entered the Tigers feeding enclosure. Sleek, the large orange and black tiger warily watched as a new employee and his abuser entered the feeding station for his pen.

 The Mangers looked longingly, undressing the teen before him with his eyes. A small bulge proceeded in the front of his pants
"Everyone needs a little pussy in their life Missy. No matter what kind of breed." The man said to the 20 year younger female.

The young girl didn't turn around although it puzzled her greatly. The zoo had about two hours before it opened.

His hand reached out and took away the last feeding bucket from her hand. He set it down off to the side.

Missy turned around.
"Hey I need that." She complained to her boss.

"I need something else bitch." He snapped, slapping the young fair skinned female across the face.
She fell to the floor. He didn't stop there.

Before Missy had the chance to react he was upon her. Pulling at her clothes, undoing the front of his jeans.
Missy cried out but she did not scream. She would not give her attacker the satisfaction of hearing her scream. He tore in and out of her. She moaned but felt no pleasure, nor any serious pain due to her losing her virginity foolishly only weeks maybe months before. It was one of her on the side flings. What this monster was doing was nothing. It was over quickly. Missy sat up as the weight lessened on her.
She looked at her boss. Practically hissing at him, hot tears fell down her cheeks.

The tiger regard the incident with cool orangeish amber eyes as he stood crouched low in a small kiddie pool. He was edgy whenever his abuser was near.  Sleek watched as the abuser opened the door above the small girl. Sleek bolted for the Abusers throat. He didn't want to harms the female, but his animal instincts told him to kill the one who beats him.

The Manager saw the big cat coming for him. Grabbing the girl below him by the hair he tossed her into the big cats path. Missy was caught in the cross fire.  Sleek charged roaring , slashing and biting. The girl fell.

Sleeks Abuser slammed the door and it locked as the bit cat ripped into the flesh of the 120 pound female. Waiting a minute the Manger started to shout out for help.

The spilt blood forced Sleek onward in the attack.

Missy's cried echoed throughout the complex.

 As security guards and medics rushed to aid her, Sleek was pushed back by stun prods and tranquilizer darts.
Missy was rescued.

Missy slipped into conscience on the infirmary table.
"Kill the lioness. and rip her hide off. DO NOT damage it." The managers familiar voice rang out.
Missy slipped back into her comatose state.
 

Ruckas paced inside his cage. Cement rocks made a perch for him to sit upon as a cement slab acted like a nice dry pad to sleep on. Three feet of harsh gravel over cement made up the floor. Chain link fence surrounded him on two walls making an L shape. The rear and the right side. The front of the cage held a large plate glass picture window.  The last wall where the cement slab was glued against held a small rectangle window for kids to see his fur. All in all the cage was 100 square feet.  A worn path walked the edges of the walls.  A few shrubs covered the far back right corner of the cage. Other than that few strands of grass grew in the middle of the cage. Chew toys and a log that acted like a scratching post  scattered among the grass was the only thing in the cage with the pacing male lion.
Ruckas gave short low mournful roars. He was calling for his mate, who fell ill months before.
 
 

Has it been days? Months? maybe years?
She didn't know.
Missy awoke. She laid on her side with tubes from her wrists and nose, leading to various medical machines.
Her whole body itched, but she couldn't scratch herself, she was strapped down to the table.
Her eyes misted over due to some of the drugs being pumped into her that aslo made her mind foggy. She heard voices clearly, somewhere....,

Outside the Medical room door.
Two people talked. Both dressed as MD's. white coat and all.

....."We removed her skin, taking the epidermal with it as well. The fur has already been bonded with her." One voice spoke very professionally.

"Her hair?" A familiar voice of the Manager asked the doctor.

"What we didn't scalp, will eventually grow out. We made accommodation for such an event."
Both voices were low.

Missy wondered if she actually recognized the voices or if it was just the drugs.

"..What about her jaw and teeth?" The Manager asked the MD.

"Mind you, she wasn't the perfect specimen, however she will do." The doctor answered.

"Will do? She better have to do. We can't afford to buy another lioness! This Zoo needs that Female lioness! There just isn't a budget to pay for 8 more animals nor the building additions. These girls are our only chance."

"I understand that sir. But you must understand, this is difficult enough...."

"Breed Female humans that have been  cut up and bonded with feline tissues with wild animals is preposterous!" A third female voice entered the conversation.

Has she been there the whole time silent? Or did you just walk up to the men? Missy didn't know as she listened fighting back the drugs.

"Preposterous, but NOT impossible" The doctor replied.

"What keeps the girls from talking?" The manager demanded.

"We ripped out most of the girls voice box's. Others we just adapted it to a cats voice box and in some cases we only cut the wires." The doctor said coolly.

"Can they breed?" The female asked.

"Lilly, they can breed, but not with the big cats." The doctor managed to say.

"The one in there, will she be able to?...." The Manager asked.

"There? With humans not cats. The one over there who Widower mauled. She has been internally altered. She will be able to be bread with cats, not humans." The doctor informed them.

"How so?" Lilly the female inquired.

"Her whole uterus, cervix and such has been removed and replaced with that of a panthers."  The doctor replied.

"Your are twisted, Essex."  Lilly snapped.

"Maybe, but these abomination will see this zoo through." The Manager confirmed. Then added with a sneer. "So doc. When Can  * I * Fuck these girls like animals?"

"Not till after the males gotten used to them. IF they breed with a human first the male cats just may kill them." Essex reasoned.

Missy shuddered remembering the moments just before Sleek attacked her.

"I can wait." The Manager muttered.

"Sicko's" Lilly mused.

"Its all good." Essex sneered.

"How many do you have on this project?" Lilly inquired.

"Eight" Doctor Essex replied.

"All employees." The Manager inputted.

"Their brains?" Lilly asked.

"Altered. Some severely some mildly." Essex said pausing. "Ever seen the movie Hannibal?"

"Don't bring that up Essex." The Manager warned.

"Brains...." Lilly mused.

The three of them laughed.

Missy couldn't believe her ears... SHE was an experiment. A HUMAN experiment!!

"We will work with them to alter their memories. Wont be too hard. The Canadian government managed to do it once... I am sure us Americans, or whatever, will be able to with much more efficiency." Essex snickered.

"On Humans?" Lilly asked.

"Worked on a few Mutants I know, why not a humans?" Essex reasoned.

"Muties, Humans all the same" Muttered the Manager..........

Missy passed out. her last thought rang in her ears.  -What are Muties?-
 
 

Wolverine woke up. His healing factor only allowed him half an hour sleep. When he awoke Sabretooth was gone.
"What was the number of that buss?" Wolverine grunted as he stood up in the snow. The disoriented man took a deep breath. Inhaling , sniffing the air.
"A zoo?" Wolverine growled as he recognized the scents of several exotic animals. He looked around at the foot prints in the snow.
"Why would a zoo want Sabretooth?" He mused to himself.
"A Circus I can see... freak show could always use a killer. But a ZOO?" This puzzled Wolverine. As he groggily trudged through the snow making his way to a vehicle he parked someplace.

The new female lioness huddled in the corner of her shared pen. The shrubbery hid her well from the publics prying eyes.

Ruckas, a few hundred pound male lion, her new cell mate. Hand raised by humans just kept his big eyes on the unwilling abomination of this past mate.
 
 
 

Logan stared up the steps to the Xavier Institution.

"WOLVERINE!!" Came an excited childish girl's scream.

Logan grunted as he saw the excited teenager running full tilt towards him.

"Wolverine!" She called again almost on top of him this time.

"Good to see you too kid." Logan grinned as he hugged the youngster in her mid teen who wrapped her arms around him in an admiring embrace hug.

"What's all the fuss now Kitty ?" Logan asked as he let the girl go.

"Cyclopes is taking me to the new zoo." Kitty Pryde smiled.

Just then Scott Summer, his girlfriend Jean, and Rouge walked out of the double wooden doors of the school.
Kitty  turned around releasing her grip around Logan.

"Can Wolvie come too?" She asked in an all but pleading voice.

 Even with the red reflector shades on, Logan caught the dislike in Scott's eyes. Or maybe it was just his aura. Logan silently thanked himself that he took a shower and shoved some grub into himself via a two bit hotel before returning to the school.
All of them Including the returning Logan wore simple street clothes.

"I don't see why not." Jean smiled sweetly as Scott brushed past Logan.

"Aw Kitty , that's stuff is for kids." Logan said in haste taking a step towards the school.

"Nonsense wild boy." Rouge's southern drawled voice cheerfully chipped in as she put her gloved hands on Logan's shoulders. "Now just turn around and march yourself to that jeep." Logan was already turned by the strength of the woman named Rouge. She continued to talk with her southern draw. "And just to make sure you get there. Kitty  will ride shot gun."

This statement of Rouges produced an immediate groan from Logan and an excited "YIPPY!!" From the youngest.

Rouge walked to the car where Jean and Scott waited. "Don't think your gonna get out of this either city boy." Rouge threatened Scott as she got into the back seat.

The car pulled out and the battered old jeep followed behind the car. All The live long day, to the zoo.
 

The whip cracked down against her back.

Ruckas snarled from his corner.

Misty blue eyes and golden fur  covered cheeks as human tears rolled, she looked at her abuser.
The man dressed in a suit and tie cracked the whip once more and then disappeared.  There was a time she had a different name for him, but not now. Now he was her fear, her nightmare. He was her Abuser.
Her once intelligent mind was now numb, she defined things in simplest terms to remember and hang onto the few strings of humanity she once knew.
The lights flickered as they all brightened and turned on. The Zoo was open.
 

Sabretooth sat in a back room cage. A large plate glass window made of 5 inch bullet proof plexi-glass was the only window to the outside world he had. Outside of the cage that is. He was stuck in a bloody storage room. Crates, boxes, Another cage similar to his across from him, but with a smaller window. The outside world for
Sabretooth was nothing but gray painted floor, walls, ceiling and a door to a white hallway.

Sabretooth was cruel and the four walls of his cage and the storeroom outside the cage could not hold him. But he faked like they could, for a few reasons of his own.

Stake, Prime rib, Roast beef, Peasant, Pheasant, Wild bore, even a few employees and all in a kings ransom servings, had been his meals for the long months since he'd been captured. But that was only just the beginning. An endless supply of females came his way. Whenever he wanted. He could be as rough as he wanted with them as long as he didn't actually kill them. And each one of them a screaming pussy. Each one he had violently... well.. they always trembled and cried when they returned to him. But Sabretooth could leave anytime he damn well felt like it. Till then he waited. Waited for that special young females scent he'd picked up when he was first brought to this damned hell hole. He could always just rip his way out of the cage and find her himself, but why bother to waist the energy and create the work, she will be coming his way soon enough.
Sabretooth leaned back and tossed a human leg bone out of the barred roof.  As the leg bone hit the bare concrete floor a perverse smiled crossed his lips, pure animal lust filled his eyes. The next victim was dragged through the door and led to his new small domain. What luck she was in heat.
 

Logan walked reluctantly behind the four.

Kitty  tugged on Rouge's covered arm as she willingly peered at the animals and read up on them all.

Logan stared for a long time at some wolves. He could all too well sympathize with them. Even though most where huskies.

When the five reached the Big Cats immediately Logan sensed something was wrong. A tigress was only 1/2 the size she should be. 3/4's smaller than the male. She also walked stiffly.

A Panther female with big green eyes that seemed if not fully human had a litter of eight cubs .
"Jean" Logan grunted.

"Yes Logan?" She stopped her arm looped with her boyfriends. The two slowly turned around to look at him.

"Are you picking up any strange mental vibes from some of these cats?" Logan asked as he stopped in front of the lions pen.
Rouge read to Kitty  who stared through the window at the dreamy eyed lioness who seemed to stare unseeingly at them from behind the shrubbery. Ruckas, paced back and forth growling as a different males scent once again covered his mate of a year and a half.

"Rouge.." Kitty  started.

"What it is suga?" Rouge asked stepping closer to the girl.

"That lioness ... it has.. blue eyes." Kitty  said starring into them.

Rouge looked puzzled at the big cat.

"Jean, what is that cat thinking?" Logan asked pointing to the blue eyed lioness.

"Logan, I can't read animal minds." Jean said still smiling at him.
Scott looked at the blue eyed lioness. "I think you can this one..." Scott finally said as he studied the female lioness, even though he couldn't see her color he knew right away something was odd about her.

"That isn't a lion is it?" Kitty  said in a stunned voice.

Logan sniffed the stale air. Then let out a low growl.

Jean screamed, she sank to her knees holding her head.

"JEAN! What's the matter? What's Wrong?" Scott asked hurriedly worried and concern thick in his voice.

"Sabretooth" Logan grumbled as he looked around.

"No.., The cats.." Jean stuttered as she shook in her boyfriends arms. "They.. all of them.. females.. they all are humans..."

Scott kept his arms around his girlfriend holding her securely.

Logan blinked.  "All of them?" His gruff voice said slowly.

"We better get back to the mansion. See what the professor thinks we should do." Scott suggested as he helped Jean up.

The four others nodded and headed out.