Sarah- 10 years ago
The lights in the dark room flickered. On, and off on a loop that wouldnt stop. Like the rooms very own heartbeat. Electricity sounded through the room, sparking when the lights would disconnect.
The chains holding me to the floor were ice cold, just like the concrete underneath me.
I could feel the constant thrum in my vains. Whatever those horrible men and women were doing to me was unholy.
"Wheres my mommy!," I cried, looking up at the man guarding my door. He glared down at me, his burly eyebrows almost completely covering his eyes.
"None of your concern missy. Now get your eye patch back on," He ordered. I sobbed, reaching down and lifting up the dark eye patch they gave me. I frowned, covering my right eye with it.
"Please let me go.. I miss my mommy!," I cried even louder. He growled angrily, ignoring me. Suddenly the door behind him opened, and another kid was thrown in. His hair was black for the most part, but the ends if his hair were a tainted silver, his milky gray eyes fierce with determination. He turned, glaring up at the man who locked us in here.
"Let me out you old fart! I want my mom!," He demanded. The man flared down at him.
"Just great, another brat I have to deal with, " He grumbled. The boy smirked, and I watched as his right eye changed, glowing a bright silver, black Mark's covering his face and going under his shirt.
"Dont make me hurt you!," He stammered. The man laughed and kicked him, sending the poor dude sprawling back next to me. The man grumbled under his breath as he took the chain off my right hand and attached it to his. I'm bound to this weird boy with a big mouth.
"What's your name?," He asked me with a confident smile. I turned, giving him a scared look.
"My name is... I dont know my name," I whispered, looking down at my hands. I dont remember anything except for my mom.
"I thought as much. That's what happened to me when I got here too. I think there are other kids here. My name is Alexander. I got this name from my ex cellmate," He cheered. I looked up, feeling sad.
"Who's going to name me?," I asked. He grinned confidently, an unfamiliar look on kids our age. He put his hand on my head.
"How about.. Sarah? It's an awfully pretty name for an awfully pretty girl like you! ," He exclaimed with prowess. I smiled, feeling my face heat up.
"I love it!," I cheered.
Present day (1 hour earlier)
"Sarah... Sarah wake up! Are you ok?," A familiar voice demanded. I slowly peeled my eyes open, glaring up at a stone ceiling. I gasp and scram, just now recognizing the icy feel on my wrists. Chains. I look around me, noting someone hanging across from me, his dark hair pasted to his forehead, his eyes bruised, and his lips swollen.
"Charles?," I demanded. I kicked, struggling to get free. No no no... Not this again. My mind flashed back to a creepy grin that haunts my dreams.. But why cant I remember the face?
"Yup.. Its me... Theyve been using this drug on me... And that psycho robot chick has been cutting me left and right... Howd they catch you?," He asked. I shook my head, reaching my arms up and clenching the chains. I noticed they were hung from the ceiling. I looked to my left, noticing the familiar body of Michelle Hall in Comatose.
"I dont know," Suddenly, a pain struck me in the chest. I gagged, falling from my grip, the chains stabbing into my skin. Not now.
"Sarah! Are you ok! What's wrong with you!," He screamed. I coughed up blood, watching it splatter the ground in front of me. Why now...
"My snacks... Where are they?," I demanded weakly, feeling the strength being sapped from my body rapidly. My chest started to glow, black Mark's slowly spreading across my body. No! Not this..
"They took them away... Why what's wrong! Answer me Dammit!," Charles cried. I yanked on my chains, feeling a huge weight fall onto my shoulders. I struggle to breath. I'm losing control.
"I need them... Now!," I looked up, all sight in my right eye gone. Charles stepped as far back as he could from me, fear showing clearly on his features.
"What are you!," He demanded in a low tone. I let loose a growl, yanking on the chains.
"LET ME OUT OF HERE!," I roared. A woman walked in, her long blonde hair pulled up into a tight pony tail. Her eyes widened, a smirk covering her face.
"Look at you! I thought Lionel was the only one who could do that! What a surprise," She mocked me, stepping closer to me.
"Give me my snacks... Please... that's all I need!," I begged. She grinned, gesturing to my snacks on the table.
"I'm sorry.. But the boss said to keep them away from you... He took quite the liking to you...I wonder why... I dont see anything special... Just a sad loser who cant control her own strength! ," She howled with laughter, her eyes clenching shut. I let loose a loud growl and ripped my right arm free from the chain, snapping it instantly. I grabbed her throat tightly, pulling her close.
"I-," I stop as a sharp pain invades my arm. A familiar pain.
I look down, noting a syringe in my arm... Not again...
"You're my test subject now... Be a good girl and-," She continued on, but the world turned black.
10 years ago
"How are we gonna get out of here!," I asked Alexamder with fear, clenching his pale hand. He turned to me with a smile.
"Well beat up the guards and run," He answered nonchalantly. I shook my head.
"They're all big and strong and scary. Theyll hurt us!," I cried. He smirked, raising his fist.
"We use our power then," Slowly, a dark red substance falls from his palm, burning a hole into the cement. I gasped in awe.
"Whoa! What is that!," I exclaimed. He smirked.
"I dont know... Some time after they started stabbing me with those weird syringe things, they started to develop... But in order to stay in a good mood I have to eat my snacks.. Otherwise I get bad headaches and I dont feel so well," He warned, before whipping out a small sack of tiny cookies. I oggled them with desire.
"Here, have one. One if the guards gave them to me!," He cheered. I nodded taking a bite of it. Instantly, I spat it out to the right if me. It was disgusting.
"How can you taste that?," I demanded with a gag. He shrugged with a soft smile.
"I dont," He raise his palm, letting his weird liquid fire spread over the wall in the form of his hand print. He giggled and turned to me.
"This way theyll remember us long after we kick their butts and get outta here!," He promised. I nodded, letting him melt a whole the shape of my hand. Surprisingly it didnt burn me.
When I asked him later, he just shrugged.
"If I dont want you hurt then it dont hurt you. It's weird like that," He giggled. Then, the guards came in.
Present time
"Magnus! Lio wake uo!! You need to get out if here now! ," Magnus's mom cried. I sat up, throwing on a shirt and my shoes. Magnus followed as his mom led us to her room window. She pushed us out of it into the roof.
"Do not engage unless it's absolutely necessary," She ordered. I nodded, before leaping off the roof, landing into a roll on the lawn. Magnus followed.
"Its Flare," I hissed. I looked around me.
"I smell him," I added. Magnus glared at me, his body erupting with flames. I felt my fingers frost over.
"There you are boys, I was looking for you," Lyra called. We turned, seeing her stomp over to us. Without hesitation, she stomped her foot, a wave of ice shooting at us. Before I could make a sound, Magnus raised his palm, shooting an explosion bullet into the center. It erupted as beautifully as ever, throwing Lyra back on her ass. She hissed audibly, standing up and raising her hand. A wave of hellfire blasted us, followed by a wave of ice.
As I froze the fire, Magnus would melt the ice. Yet she never stopped her attacks.
"Dammit!," She screamed. She sprinted forward, knives ripping out her palms. She lunged at me. I dodged, feeling an icy calm overcome me as I let my palm open, a spike of ice stabbing right through her and sending her sprawling to the ground.
"Stay down for once in your damn life!," I yelled, snapping the ice off of my hand. She reached up, yanking the ice out if her body, blood, actual blood spilling from her metal chest plate. She shakily rose, her mechanical eyes sguttering and brightening.
"Why cant she stay dead?!," Magnus moaned. I shrugged. Lyra stomped towards me, hernknives disappearing.
"Let's settle this fist to fist," She ordered. I nodded, raising my hands into position.
Before I knew what struck me, she had kicked me in the face, sending me sprawling. I stumbled, falling to my knees. I spun around, kicking her leg out from under her, kicking her in hmthe head once her knees touched the ground. I lunged forward, an icicle branching from my palm. I thrust it downward trying to stab her.
Instead, she threw me over her head, shattering the icicle on the impact. I turned over, seeing her god forsaken knives flying towards me. I froze them, watching them fall to the ground. As I was distracted, she sprinted forward, headbytting me with her whole strength. I stumbled backwards, black dots covering my vision. She started wailing me in the gutz causing me to bed over, before she kneed me hard in the chin, launching me into the air. I crashed into the dirt with a loud thud.
"Is that all you got?," She demanded. I rose shakily, my head aching from all the blows I took. Shes strong. Really strong. But not strong enough.
"Now FREEZE!," I roared. Time froze. I stalked forward, limping over to her eith a snarl. I didnt want to use this attack, but oh well. I let two icicle form in my palm.
"It was an honor to kill you again, Lyra," I whispered. I went to chop off her head. Then- Time unfroze.. More like defrosted. She caught my icicle, melting it with her palms.
"You didnt think I'd let you use the same trick twice did ya?," She hissed, before yanking up on my arm. I screamed as I felt the upper bone shatter. She spun me around, twisting me arm backwards.
"You're done!," A loud female voice roared. Out of nowhere, warm liquid coated me neck. I slowly turned, seeing Lyras throat slashed, her body falling to the ground. Above her, a hooded woman held a bloodied blade, her long silver hair falling into her eyes.
"Wheres Michelle Hall?," She demanded, yanking Lyra up by the throat. I stumbled backwards, feeling Magnus's arms snake around me. He caught me.
Lyra laughed, her blood spilling even faster now.
"Shell be dead by the time you see her again! YOU INSOLENT-," She never finished those words.
"So be it... then I'll repay her with your life," She murmured. She put the sword in her scabbard. She turned around, making eye contact with me. Her eyes widened.
"Its you!," She smiled from the darkness of her hood.
"I'll save Michelle Hall for you... I swear," Were the last words she said to me as she ran off into the darkness.
"Lio! Are you ok?," Magnus asked. I shook my head, falling down.
"I'm hurt... Severley.. Its not good," I said with a wince, clenching my eyes shut.
"Oh my... Look who we have here!," A familiar voice roared, I turned, seeing the blonde girl who attacked me with Lyra a few days back. I snarled, struggling to stand. Magnus dropped me, moving forward to face her.
"No... Claire... They're mine," A low voice grumbled from behind her. She stepped away as Flare stalked forward. I watched as he unbuttoned his shirt, letting it fall to his feet, his mask melting right then and there.
"I've been waiting for this you know... A chance to prove you arent special," His voice got lower, the red fading from his hair, turning into a light silver. His chest started to glow that same silver, Mark's spreading across his body, exactly the same as mine. His right eye glowed an even brighter silver than his chest. I gasped, slowly rising to my feet.
"How did you... How did you do that?," I demanded. He smirked, raising his hands, lava falling from his palms.
"The vaccines needed test dummies idiot... Some of us were unfortunate enough to land ourselves there... I wonder though... How did a noo good weakling like you get this prestigious gift! I never seen you there Lionel Hall!," He roared. I felt my arms freeze, instantly healing. My chest burned as the Mark's across my body reform again, shining through my shirt. I looked up, glaring at him.
"Shut up BASTARD!," Magnus roared. He sprinted forward, going to punch him.
A loud scream pierced the air, and Magnus was propelled off to the right.
"Magnus!," I cried, going to run after him. A splash of lava hit the ground at my feet. Flare wanted me to stay. I watched as Claire walked off after Magnus. I turned, feeling a furious rage overcome me.
In my head, a familiar voice whispered to me.
"Are you ready to accept me??? Are you ready to let me in?," It demanded. I closed my eyes, feeling a sharp pain in my chest.
"Yes," Were all the words I had to say. In a flash of an eye, mindsearing pain went through my body, forcing me down to my knees. I breathed heavily, my voice becoming distorted as power flooded my veins.
"WHAT ARE YOU!," Flare screamed. I panted, a violet aura spilling out of my skin. I opened my eyes, suddenly able to see a hundred times better. I'm in control. I looked at my hands, the Mark's on my body glowing.
"What the hell!," Flare cried. I looked up, cocking my head, an icy chill going down my spine.
"Ready to get serious?," I demanded, my voice distorting.. Its not even my voice anymore.
He raised his hands, their palms glowing.
"I will END YOU!,"