Another day another successful test, with 100 corpses around Cinder with a crazed look in his eyes.
'It's not enough. I need more!'
***
"Is today the big meeting, sir?"
"Yes, they should be here in a couple of hours, if I'm not mistaken," Chris said while looking down at his watch.
"Oh, I can't wait!" Nick said with excitement plastered across his face even though no one could see his face.
"Go get Adam and Eve presentable we don't want to embarrass ourselves."
"Right away."
After being left alone, Chris couldn't help but get a little jittery himself, for today was a special day.
***
A few hours later, Cinder and Alina were brought together with matching white jumpsuits to another testing room. This was the first time they saw each other again since their first encounter; Alina was having a hard time with her strange feeling again, so was Cinder, but he learned how to suppress such things, or he lost more emotions along the way; who knows?
Finally, alone again, Alina tried to converse with Cinder only to be shut down with utter silence; not knowing why; Alina approached Cinder.
"Hey! Hello!"
Over the past months, Alina's weird feeling only seemed to intensify, now with her split personality to boot; it was double trouble.
'Hehehehehehe, come on, rile him up, I want to meet the other Cinder.'
'Would you shut up!'
Now having an internal battle with herself, not noticing that Cinder opened his eyes. Watching as Alina started to tussle with her other self, Cinder grew curious and asked.
"You can hear a voice too?"
Snapping out of her inner struggle. Alina's gaze rested back on the even more handsome boy; lost in Cinder's eyes, Alina failed to register his question; noticing this, Cinder clicked his tongue while backing away from Alina at a walking pace.
Becoming self-aware of her actions, Alina blushed while quickly apologizing.
"I'm really sorry. Can you repeat that pretty please?"
"Do you hear a voice?"
"A voice? Do you mean the one inside my head? Do you hear her too?"
"No, I don't, but I also have someone in my head who talks and sometimes takes me over. I just wanted to know if you were having the same symptoms."
"Yes, in fact, she tells me to kill and eat everyone I meet in this facility except you, for some reason, she wants me to str-"
Alina quickly covered up her mouth before blurting out the next word.
"Well, why do you think they brought us together again?" Alina asked, quickly changing the subject not to embarrass herself.
"I don't know." Cinder said before resting his gaze on the front and only door.
Back to ignoring Alina's existence, Cinder closed his eyes.
"Oh! No, you don't; you can't go back to ignoring me!"
'These voices within our minds, from my understanding, seem to latch on to any negative or traumatizing experiences, and their one goal seems to be making their respective host stronger?'
Sighing, Cinder reopened his eyes to see Alina screaming at him. Ignoring all of Alina's attention-seeking, Cinder thought of the only answer he could muster up for their meeting.
"I believe we're meeting someone special, at least that's what I think."
"You're correct, my brilliant Adam; you will be meeting two other subjects today that have kept their intelligence just like you and Eve," You could hear the impatience over the intercom in Chris's voice.
"What's taking them so long?" Alina asked
"Well, one of them tried to break out; it would seem he was too excited to see you that he couldn't contain himself."
'That's unusual.' Cinder and Alina thought.
***
Twenty minutes later, the door finally opened to a group of 80 guards with Nick and another white-masked doctor at the forefront.
"Sorry for the delay Chris." The other doctor said
"It's fine, Natalie," Chris said through the intercom.
Moving her gaze over to Cinder and Eve, Natalie's eyes seemed to sparkle.
"So this is Adam and Eve, magnificent," Natalie said before exiting the room with Nick and the 80 guards, revealing one boy and one girl in grey jumpsuits.
"Welcome, welcome; I am so pleased to meet you, Lucifer, and Lilith. I hope you can get along with Adam and Eve, for you will all need each other in the future." Chris said before shutting off the intercom to chat with his fellow doctors.
Now, with no interruption, the groups of two sized each other up.
The boy named Lucifer seemed to be in his early 20s if judging by appearances. He was handsome with medium-length black hair and red eyes standing at 6.6 feet, but Lucifer had a slight tan, unlike the rest of them.
Feeling a piercing gaze, Cinder moved his gaze over to Lilith, which seemed to satisfy her for some strange reason.
Lilith had long blood-red hair with matching eyes and pale skin standing at 5.10 feet; she also seemed to be in her early 20s. Even Cinder had to admit that Lilith was even more beautiful than Alina.
Finally done assessing each other, Lilith spoke with a seductive smile.
"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you. If I may be so bold as to ask, what are your names? My name is Victoria, and this is Troy." Victoria said, not once taking her eyes off of Cinder.
But, Cinder wasn't paying any attention to Victora's words, for an even stranger feeling started to take hold within himself, a longing feeling that he couldn't wrap his brain around. Alina also had a strange feeling, but unlike Cinder, this feeling was repulsion to Lilith and a subtle attraction to Lucifer. Before she could understand why she kept getting these weird feelings, Victoria started walking over to Cinder.
Since she wasn't getting an answer and Troy was standing around dazed, Victoria decided to take matters into her own hands, not once breaking eye contact with Cinder; she slowly but sensually walked over.
Stopping just two feet before Cinder, Victoria asked again.
"Hello, my name is Victoria. May I ask this handsome man his name?"
She said while emphasizing her large breast in her grey jumpsuit.
*****
Bonus Chapters
25 power stones = 1 Bonus Chapter
50 power stones = 2 Bonus Chapters
100 power stones = 4 Bonus Chapters
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From your author RogueErebus.