Leany and Farkas's mom silently watched as the two got into the van and with a last wave towards them disappeared in the busy city roads. Leany let out a sigh.
"Their bond is stronger than you thought. You don't seem that disappointed either." said mom.
"And still.. I can't give up him. I doubt that i'll be able to forget him."
"Yes i understand. Now come inside, we will see him again." said Farkas's mother and walked inside the building. Leany followed her, but turned back in the doorway.
"Ah, we forgot to celebrate his birthday."
Farkas liked the idea about the bathing suit, so he decided to stop by a shopping center on the way to the harbor.
"It's not like a travel around the world, but still a vacation. Let's go shopping." he said with a smile. Both of them needed a little recreation and he would do anything to make Angela happy. He quickly grabbed a bathing trunk and threw it into the shopping cart that faithfully followed behind them. After that he helped Angela choosing a bathing suit, then shopping the other necessary stuff together. When they were done they packed the stuff into the van and left the shopping center.
It didn't take much time to get to the bay from the city. At the harbor a scientist already waited for them.
"If you'd like you can go ahead, the island surface has a beautiful scenery and there is a mansion built there for staying overnight properly. Food and necessary equipments are on the ship already. We won't be coming until tomorrow anyway, we still have some things to take care of, but you two go and enjoy yourselves." he said in a hurry as he showed them the ship. It was moderate sized cruiser, silently floating in its air-cushions.
"I have to go now, but the captain and the shipcrew will help you pack onboard if you brought something. See you tomorrow." he said and ran away constantly looking at his watch and almost tripping over a concrete jut.
"This man always rushing somewhere. Does he ever get tired?" said Farkas as he locked the van after getting their bags.
"Are you ready?" he asked Angela with a smile, one hand full of bags another over her hips.
The time was getting close to noon when a loud voice started speaking.
"The first cyborg is about to be finished. Please gather at the examination room." it repeated a few times and gone silent. Serene looked at the old scientist who nodded and led her to the specified room. The pod was already transferred there surrounded by overjoyed scientists.
"Bio-sustain liquids has already being drew out. It just a matter of a few seconds to see the firstborn." explained a younger scientist happily. Just as soon as he mentioned it the pod slowly opened and a female human body appeared. Several cables were attached to her but when the body slowly started to get transported out the pod they dropped down themselves after each other.
Serene went there and noticed that the whole body was covered in some sort of really thin layer. She looked back to the scientist who nodded to her. She grabbed the layer gently at the neck and slowly ripped it apart, then gently pulled it away from the face. It was completely modeled after a human female. She had light-purple hair, long enough to reach her shoulders, petite body with clean white skin.
Serene was amazed by the perfection of the bio-technology, even the body and face proportions were right. They could even make the ears resembling to the human ones. Not to mention her body heat was just like a humans.
"Wait.. Silence.." said Serene with a serious look. The scientist quietly watched her placing her hand on the neck of the cyborg. After ten seconds of silence Serene looked at them worriedly.
"Her body temperature is dropping. Do something, quickly." she said and held her towards the scientists. They quickly grabbed her and placed her on a bed nearby while others brought all kinds of medical equipments.
"Quickly, hold the queue. If its some internal problem the second will get it too." ordered the old scientist while watching over the scan data.
"Something is wrong, the living parts can't get accustomed to the metal parts. This never happened in the simulations." he said and turned to one of the labcoats. He instructed him something and got an equipment into his hands. He quickly put a few coin-like items on her body and started the computer.
"Just as i thought. We're lucky we built the thing anyways. Quickly get her into the warm bath." he ordered and waved to Serene to follow him.
"You see, i was afraid of this happening. To explain it in a nutshell, since we use living cells, not only their personality is individual, but their build as well. Thinking about this we didn't want the risk of one that might feel bad in its body, so we created this thing." he said as he showed a big tank of bluish liquid.
"Upon creating this without any proof of this happening we just named it the warm bath. Inside the liquids keeps the body constantly on forty Celsius degree, making it react like it has a fever, as a diversion to the problem we have now. Well, in this case, we only need a little more time to get the cells accustomed to the metal parts and she will be fine." he explained while watching the others slowly placing her into the tank. Serene sighed in relief.
"Okay, continue the queue. You wanted a second buddy, right? Let's get started." he said with a smile and walked away. Serene placed her hand on the glass of the tank and stared the girl inside.
"Welcome." she whispered and then followed the scientist.
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