Chapter One: The Beast's Call

"Oi! Up and at em brat!" Rue let out a growl as she rubbed her eyes the best she could without poking her eyes out with her claws as she woke up.

A tray of food from an MRE was slid through her cell door. "Your in luck boss is in a good mood and gave you that." With that the guard went to talk to one of his lackeys.

Rue shook her blonde hair to fix it before she got off the mat off the floor and grabbed the tray, using her claws to pick out the meat of the MRE meal to eat first.

She really didn't get hungry as she used to anymore, it wasn't for a lack of eating but rather what she was now. She barely felt the rumbling of her stomach anymore. Rue remembered from a book she read years ago that the titans would feed off of radiation as a food source and heal off of it, so she figured that was it for her.

Though despite that knowledge it didn't seem the scientists here didn't know that or cared to, a lot of radiation a Titan would give off on a constant basis with being alive though with Rue she only had slight radiation level but it was low enough it wasn't harmful.

Rue pushed through the uncomfortableness of eating to eat the meat then in the similar sense of a pet eating their food began to eat the rice she had picked the meat out of from the chicken fried rice. It wasn't like she could use a fork or spoon to eat it, with her claws it made it near impossible to get a grip on them.

Once she finished her meal she let the plastic bowl land on the tray with a clatter while picking up the plastic cup of water and greedily drinking its contents up. While she felt uncomfortable with eating human food to a certain degree (or that could've been the fact it was long expired MRE's she had to force herself to eat, if MRE's could expire, the ones she ate definitely didn't feel okay to eat even if she was still human) drinking water just felt like a bit of peace.

Rue finished drinking the water till there wasn't a single drop left and placed it on the tray which she then pushed through the cell door where it came from and crawled back to the mat on the floor. She laid down on her side, putting her head on her arms and letting her tail curl around her like a shield.

Rue just stared at the wall for a couple of minutes to wait for the tests. It wasn't the best thing to keep her occupied but it was better than nothing. Thankfully enough it wasn't a long wait as after a few minutes later the cell door opened revealing four guards and two scientists.

Rue pushed herself to sit before standing up. She easily towered them with the alterations causing her growth to skyrocket especially her height.

Two of the guards came over and hooked her up with a shock collar and chain. Once those were secured the slight tug on the chain from one of the guards signaled her to follow them which Rue did so.

While Ghidorah was known for absorbing electricity from lightning bolts that its storms would summon or even from biting down on a grid system and sucking the power from an entire city's power grid it didn't make it less painful and uncomfortable for Rue to have to try to absorb it.

Rue glanced at her feet, ignoring the animals in cages around her as the guards and scientists led her to where her testing area was. 'Please no electrical tests, please no electrical tests, please please please no electrical tests. I hate those tests!' Rue practically begged in her head for some divine force from above.

One of the guards opened a card scan door as she was led in the testing room making her glance her eyes upwards seeing it had been set up in various sound equipment around and the lights to the room behind the bullet proof glass were off hiding the people behind it.

The scientist holding the leash led her to the center of the room where more mics were pointed at. "Stay there." The scientist told her making Rue do so while the scientist let go of her leash and went to the sidelines.

Rue glanced up briefly at the bulletproof glass as a snarl painted her lips showing the tips of sharp teeth for a brief second. She didn't even need to be able to see who it was to know the man behind the glass.

For her luck (or they didn't notice the snarl) the shock collar didn't go off making her look back at her clawed feet on the chilly concrete ground.

"Test number two hundred and thirty five, date is September twenty third, the year is two thousand and twenty two," The tests were the only way she kept tract of time at this point especially since the lab was constantly frigid since it was in the arctic (it didn't take much braincells to realize it with how constantly layered everyone was in winter clothing and the amount of heaters) didn't show a seasons change.

"Today's test: The Titan's roar." Rue's ears perked slightly at that. This was definitely a new test, other times it was to test either her durability or powers Ghidorah had.

She remembered the infamous Battle of San Francisco as well as any person did alongside the Battle of Los Angeles with the titans, probably didn't help that she experienced both of them, the Los Angeles as a toddler and the San Francisco just months before she was taken with her little sister.

The test reminded her how Ghidorah was able to control the titans with ease with its roar to destroy everything around them.

'Oh this is gonna go crap I just know it.' Rue thought to herself in worry, she had a feeling if it was a pathetic roar she would be shocked.

Then she got an idea, 'Maybe this place isn't sound proof to Titan roars... Maybe I can-' Rue cut her thoughts off as she listened to the sounds of the scientist's powering on the equipment around her.

'What if it doesn't work? What if they don't hear me?' Rue worried in her head, her tail swaying slightly behind her across the ground.

Rue shut her eyes tight for a brief moment, 'It's better than waiting for people to come save me.' She decided in her head.

"Beginning Experiment Zero G's Titan Roar test," The scientist said after all the equipment was powered on. She hated that name they called her with a passion.

"All equipment is functional and running, begin the test," The main scientist looked at the glass then pressed a button on his remote.

"Now."

Rue took a big breath as much as her barely functioning lungs could take and roared.

The sound itself wasn't the best, it was weak and it's strength was faint. The roar had the echoing thrill as Ghidorah's, the shrieking of Godzilla's and the lively angelic thrill of Mothra's in one.

But for Rue's message it was enough to get hope sparked a bit.

When Rue finished her roar she coughed and wheezed heavily despite the lack of needing to breathe anymore. She wasn't used to using her vocal cords in so long especially in this form.

The sounds of equipment powering off rung in her ears.

"Well sir?" "Pathetic for her first roar."

Rue braced herself as a button was pressed activating the shock collar. The preteen fell to her knees and clawed palms with a screech similar to Ghidorah's in pain.

Rue roared again, at the man who made her like this, took her family from her and her from them, destroyed her humanity and made her a monster. The roar despite being full of rage held pain and fear, it's sound shaking the equipment in the room.

The roar finally stopped when the shock collar was turned off allowing Rue to slump to the floor.

Unfortunately for her she didn't stay on the floor as the leash to her collar was grabbed and yanked harshly by one of the guards forcing her to her feet as she was led back to the door to her cell.

Rue let out a low rumbling growl that felt worth the quick shock to the man behind her imprisonment when she passed him; Alan Johan.

Rue focused back on her feet as she followed the guard back to her cell.

"Help me."
"It hurts! Make it stop! It hurts! I want out! Free me!"

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Chapter One: The Beast's Call
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