Mary took the address of the company where the vials had come from and she scribbled this on a small piece of paper. With this information in hand, she set out to look up the lab which manufactured the vials and the strange potions which she has been drinking so far.
After many hours of walking through the woods at the outskirts of the city, she found an abandoned laboratory which seemed to have the same address as the one on the sheet of paper. The building looked old and run-down, and when she got there, it seemed like there was nobody there at that time. So, she walked around the building, hoping to find a place where she could find a way inside.
Once she reached the back of the building, she spotted a small door which had a padlock on it. When she pulled on the handle, the old lock just came off and fell to the ground. Someone didn’t put the lock on right, so the door just opened and gave her an easy way inside.
Once she got in, she flipped a light switch so she should see well. Long corridors with many doors were before her, so she carefully and quietly walked down the hallway of the tiled floor. When she spotted a door with the sign “serums”, she went in and saw a large freezer in the corner containing many vails, resembling those which were delivered to her house a few days ago.
She carefully reads the vials that she pulls out of the freezer, since they are all inserted into a big plastic tray. She reads the labels and recognizes some of them, since they match the ones that were delivered to her house. Then, she spots a few that she had not seen before. One caught her eyes, “Anti-Mutant”.
“Oh! I need that one!” she grins, as she lifts that vial out of the tray and unscrews that cap. She then places the edge of the vial at her lips and quickly down the serum contained in it. The serum tastes like orange juice and she feels the effects of the serum working on her body almost immediately.
Quickly, her body becomes more human-like as her mosquito-like attribute fade and she becomes more human again. Her hands and arms form the familiar fingers and toes that she used to have before and her eyes and facial features return to her slowly and gradually. But, she still has a desire to have the wings she had longed for all this time.
Luckily, Mary finds a mirror hanging from the wall in the back of the room, and she smiles as she walks over to it and sees her reflection. She looks just like her old self again! But, she just wishes she could have her wings, and she’s actually thrilled to be in the lab where all the serums are made. She has a world of opportunities before her and all these serums can allow her to change into anything she wants, so rather than leave the place, she decides to stick around a little while longer, hoping to find a serum that would give her what she wants.
She turns back and walks into the lab room where the freezer is located and she browses through the large plastic tray containing all the vials, hoping to find something interesting. After a few minutes, she spots a vial with a label containing the words “Butterfly Serum”.
“A butterfly? Oh! Why not? I want to be a beautiful butterfly with nice, big wings! Those are so pretty!” she grins as she pulls the vial out of the tray and screws the cap off. Without any hesitation, she puts the edge of the vial against her lips as she quickly gulps down the serum in the vial, which was a bright, red color. It tasted just like fruit juice.
After a few moments, she realizes that if she drank all of it, she would transform into a full-size butterfly, so she changed her mind and only drank half of the contents of the vial instead. She left the rest in the vial and put the cap back.
Almost immediately, Mary began to feel that tingling sensation all over her body, which was now completely human! She started to dwindle in size, shrinking as antennae formed on her head and her eyes started to enlarge while the honeycomb features formed. Butterfly-like wings began to sprout from her back, quickly growing longer and wider! That was what she wanted! She quickly rant to the mirror and turned sideways so she could see her new additions.
“Yes! Wings! I got my wings!” she cheered, making her wings flap several times.
Suddenly, she heard a sound in the distance. Some alarm had gone off! It was time to leave! She turned around and ran out the room, racing down the corridor until she reached the exit door where she had come from. Then, she stumbled her way out into the woods behind the building, running as fast as she could. She didn’t want to get caught! She was afraid of being seen, caught, discovered and then discovered or dissected as some weird animal or something! She needed to get out of there and get away! So, now that she was in the woods, what would she do in order to survive?