Kellen was left alone in his room with the mind shaking news the wacky researcher had parted him with.
'My parents... Thomas... Was it all just a lie?'
He couldn't accept that the cruel world had taken his parents and best friend from him for no reason.
He lied down on the strangely familiar white bed as he stared at the ceiling above him, hoping for it all to just be a dream.
But no matter how he tried, he just couldn't wake up from his living nightmare.
Kellen rolled over to his side and stared at the digital clock on his desk as the time slowly passed by.
Eventually the steel door to his room opened again with a different researcher entering the room.
His lab coat was a black color with the number zero, etched in white text, on each of his shoulders.
"Zero. Come with me. It's time for your testing." said the researcher with dark bags under his eyes in a monotone voice.
Kellen blankly looked at the researcher and slowly got up out of the bed. He was still unable to completely process everything that had happened.
The researcher gestured for him to follow him out into the long hallway corridor as he straightened his lab coat.
"What kind of testing do you guys research and perform here?" asked Kellen as he stopped at the doorway.
The researcher didn't answer him and instead gestured for him to follow again. Kellen turned his head to gaze back at the room before leaving but something caught his eye.
'What? Why is that here?'
On the desk next to his digital clock was a drawing of a child with red eyes in his parents embrace. Kellen couldn't completely make out the face of the kid but it felt familiar to him somehow.
However, the researcher patted his shoulder motioning for him to hurry up before he could dwell on the matter any further.
'Strange...' thought Kellen as he followed behind the researcher through the corridor lined with similar doors like his room.
The only difference was that each door had a different black roman numeral on them while his was just blank.
'I wonder if the other kids from the orphanage are here too?'
Kellen came to a halt as he noticed the researcher had stopped before him in front of two massive hospital like doors. The researcher with baggy eyes walked over to the wall next to the doors where a small black box was located, and pushed his face towards it.
Kellen heard the researcher sigh before he used two fingers to open his eyelids more and press his face next to the small black box again.
A small beep rang out from the small box before the two hospital doors swung open revealing a massive room. Kellen followed the researcher into the room and curiously gazed at the different equipment and test tubes lining the wide room.
In the center of the room was a small operating table with little black elastic looking straps and different robotic equipment moving around it at a fast pace.
This area was lower in the room with a couple stairs leading to it from four different sides along white walls that bordered them.
Above this area, Kellen saw reflecting windows that seemed to house an operating area for the researchers. The one he was following gestured for him to enter the small area as he waved towards the reflecting windows which halted the frantic movements of the robots.
Kellen was nervous as he gazed around the room filled with different equipment and robots until he noticed the researcher gesturing to him again frantically.
"Let's just get this over with." mumbled Kellen under his breath as he took his seat at the operating table.
The researcher was busy rushing around and fiddling with the different robots until he came over to Kellen with a small syringe filled with an unknown liquid.
"What's that?" asked Kellen nervously.
"For the pain." muttered the researcher as he grabbed Kellen's left arm and inserted the contents of the syringe.
Soon Kellen felt his entire body go numb and was unable to even lift one of his fingers.
'What is this? A horse tranquilizer!' thought Kellen as he became more anxious.
The researcher ignored his subject's body hitting the table after administering the sedative and put purple latex gloves on both his hands.
Kellen could only gaze at the back of the researcher while his body refused to listen to his commands.
"Initiating test one!" said the researcher in a loud voice.
This was the last thing Kellen heard before the slowly moving machines around him rushed over and began working on his body.
He couldn't resist any of the robotic arms and procedures as the researcher studied the harrowing scene while jotting down some notes on a clipboard.
The sedative seemed to have worked but could not block out all the pain as the robots continued their work. Kellen tried to scream in pain but his mouth refused to move.
'What are you doing! Stop! I can't take it anymore!'
His silent cries reached no one except for himself as the extremely painful testing continued. Time continued to pass with the robots and researcher operating nonstop with test after test.
Kellen felt like his entire body was engulfed in flames and began to fade away due to the constant pain. The only thing he could hear was the drumming of machinery and the occasional shout from the researcher announcing the start of a new test.
'Please... Just make it end...'
These thoughts repeated through his mind as imaginary tears dripped down his cheeks. After what seemed like an eternity the tests ended as the researcher waved towards the reflective windows and the robots began to stop. Then, after the extreme stress and operations, the researcher returned to his side with another syringe that contained a different liquid.
The color of this liquid was a dark crimson red that looked just like highly concentrated blood. Looking at the weird liquid, Kellen began to get a headache as he was reminded of the strange drawing that had appeared in his room.
'Wh... Why... Does this seem so familiar?' he thought as the researcher injected the serum on the side of his neck.
A burning sensation coursed through his body like his blood itself was fire. His previously laxed body began to twitch and move about wildly as he tried to get rid of the painful sensation spreading throughout his body.
With every heartbeat it felt like a painful pulse or wave was being sent through his whole body. Kellen finally screamed out as his body began to writhe due to the odd serum that was injected into his body and fell off the operating table.
The veins on his forehead bulged as his heart beat began to quicken which made it feel like his body was collapsing. He gripped at his chest, where his heart was located, as the pace of his heart beating continued to quicken.
Finally his headache began to reach its peak as a voice started to slowly emerge from within his mind.
"Kill them!"
"They must die!"
"I need blood!"
The voice continued to shout inside his head like beating drum furthering his earsplitting headache.
"I don't understand! What do you want from me!" screamed Kellen at the familiar voice that continued to repeat its death threats.
Suddenly, Kellen began to cough up blood as his vision began to get blurrier. The room around him began to spin and the researcher next to him seemed to have disappeared leaving a clipboard lying on the floor.
Kellen stared at the clipboard finding the drawing he had seen appear in his room.
"What does it mean!" screamed Kellen as he used all his energy to crawl over to the picture as his vision continued to fade.
Grasping the clipboard with his one hand, while his other remained clutching his aching chest, Kellen stared at the child in the picture with glowing red eyes.
"I don't under-"
Kellen coughed up more blood, unable to finish his last sentence, covering the drawing with his blood. However, the drawing just sucked it in, like a greedy plant drinking water, and the red eyes of the kid began to glow even more with a menacing light.
Kellen's mind seemed to click as he remembered the same thing happening before at the orphanage when Thomas was killed, and his memories began surging in his mind, compiling on top of one another, creating cracks in his memories.
"What is happening to me?" muttered Kellen as he stared at the drawing that began to glow a reddish color.
With the blinding red light, his surroundings once again began to collapse as his vision started to darken.
"Wait! Not yet!" yelled Kellen in vain.
But it was useless. His vision went completely dark as the glowing red light surrounded the collapsing memory.
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Hello Everyone! Today will be a special where I release an extra chapter! I hope you all enjoy the reading... The memory chapters will reach their completion today after I finish all the editing. It's been really fun writing this section so let me know your thoughts on it. More chapters will follow after this release so stay tuned... Much love guys!