6— Torture Lab Pt.1

"Renee, come with me." A familiar man tightly gripped my wounded arm.

I almost jumped up with joy when I realized it was none other than Alpas! He has finally come to help me! He is indeed my knight in shining armor.

"Where and what have you been doing?" I cried. I felt a surge of warmth in my heart when I came to think that he care. I had a glimmer of hope that he still loved me, but due to the marital arrangement, he had no choice but to marry my stepsister. "They've been at me since morning. But I knew you'd come to save me."

He didn't return my smile and simply grabbed my hand. A few moments later I found myself confined within the bars of the cell. I was dumbfounded as I stared at his harsh glances. W-Why? I called out his name but he just turned his back on me. The taste of sour betrayal left a bad taste in my already grieving heart.

I could only scream and shout then embrace myself in frustration. Hours had passed, and I was still being held captive in the prison for who knows what reasons. My wounds are also gradually healing making me extremely sleepy.

But the most agonizing aspect of this space is the deafening silence. Outside, I could barely hear a few faint footsteps. I was about to drift off when the door suddenly opened wide, and a pair of men wearing military clothes dragged me out of prison hell.

"Where are you taking me?!" I hysterically shouted, and fear registered inside my system.

I have an extremely bad feeling about this. They took me to an unfamiliar lab, it was a huge space decorated with documents and machines. However, the strangest is, the moment I stepped inside, the different unique scent only a hybrid have surrounded the place. How can there be hybrids here? Hybrids live largely in seclusion and are much more difficult to locate than vampires but how can this place reek of its smell?

Sweat dripped from my brow as I watched a girl who has brown wolf ears and a tail's whole body jerk the moment a guy in a white coat with a mask on his face injected a blue liquid from the injection he was holding.  How can they be this inhumane? This is like a torture house specially made for hybrids.

I can feel my heart beating fast as if I was in a marathon. I don't understand what's going on or where am I. I heard a loud shriek from the last row of my seat and there I saw a little boy's terrified face. I tried calling him but my voice seemed nowhere to be found.

I stared at the boy's pale face. I suppressed a shiver as I saw how the boy convulsed and how the blood rushed out of his mouth. His eyes turned white and a bloody tear from his eye escaped. Tears continuously fell from my eyes unconsciously. Will that be my fate too? Why are they doing that?

"No, no, no!" I cried out. Alas! I found my voice

What's this? Am I having a bad dream? Stop, wake up! No! This is a dream. Tears continued flowing out of my eyes. I felt my body tremble in fear when I heard another loud cry. I want to cover my ears but I'm all tied up. I saw how the guy's head shake every time he fails.

What are they planning? Why are they doing this? What are they trying to achieve?! Is this what they call human experimentation? I gasped in horror as they draw nearer to me. Oh, sh*t. I never thought it actually exists, I thought it was all fictional. But no, I am witnessing how hybrids one by one die each time they fail. I saw someone signal them to come and they all went to their base and they seem to share the data they gathered. I need to do something. I can't die here!

My gaze stopped at the front row. The people tied there are not breathing anymore, no sign of life. And that's when my tears started streaming out again. And now, I'm going to be next. My heart started to palpitate. I scanned my surrounding hoping I could see Alpas. Is he alright? I hope he is. I desperately looked around but no sign of him. The scent of rot and decay lingers in this space, how could they get away from the government? Even for unwanted hybrids, experiments on us are forbidden.

I was lost in thoughts when there was a sudden commotion around, I saw dozen of men in black-fitted t-shirts enter the room.

They walked toward me and held my chin tightly, disgust covering their face. "Not even Farsak can save you anymore after you harmed his only daughter. You thought you were above everyone but your wings have finally been clipped."

"Don't forget that I am also his daughter!" I taunted, spitting on his face. "So, don't you dare lay a finger on me."

But harm their only daughter? What kind of stupid accusation is that?! It was her who hurt me! The faint sizzling sound of my burning skin harmonized with my loud scream of agony when he suddenly pushed a silver metal into my thigh. My eyes wandered to one of the old men in a white lab coat— I recognized him. He still has that hostile glare in his hateful chocolate orbs, it's none other than Boris, Night Silver Pack's researcher, whom I haven't seen since Mom died— immediately and angrily pressed.

"You don't deserve to meet death easily. You deserved to be tortured for harming the Miraculous Mage." Boris took a chair and sat down right across me with a broad sinister grin on his lips. "Among the hybrids... you were tagged as the most dangerous but now that you have crossed the line, you no longer have the protection of Alpha Farkas. We can finally make use of you, you're indeed the best lab rat to try these amazing weapons on."

I felt blind terror mounted within my soul when the door opened and a group of personnel in lab coats entered pushing carts filled with silver weapons I have never seen before lined up. Boris retrieved a glove from his back pocket and put it on. He pulled a long sword made of silver from the trolleys. Fear was an unexplored darkness that lurked deep within our souls. I thought I knew fear from my experience of today, but looking at Boris. I have a hunch that I am about to witness horror, mask as a person behind Boris' menacing smile.