New Age

Chapter 19-Origins

My name...is Zena Lin Sherwood, I turned 15 this year on October 10th and I honestly don't know where I was born. When I was 2 my parents got in a car crash, and I somehow survived and was put in an orphanage. I don't remember the car crash, but I remember one of the ladies there saying something about how "god had protected this special child" and "her life will be blessed by Gnosis!" When I was around 6 or 7, I got "adopted" by that asshole that calls himself a doctor: Dr. W.D Weinstein. I didn't know it at the time, but he had nothing to do with actually taking care of me. I got into the guy's car and next thing I know I'm in a cement box that looks like a prison cell. The walls were smooth and tall and the only things in the room were a mattress in the corner with a blanket and a toilet in the other corner with a sink and mirror next to it. The "room" if you would call it that, was very dim and the only light I got was from a fogged-out window on the door. I didn't know what was going on. I was scared, and most importantly, alone. A few hours went by, and the guy took me outside of my "room" and into a larger, what seemed to be a testing room. I don't want to go into detail about it because it was pretty...traumatic so to speak. Let's just say that day I got my little werewolf quirk.

I woke up in the cement box again and I couldn't move anything: everything hurt. I couldn't even cry. All I could do was just lay on that mattress. I was left in that room for a few days, being fed small amounts of food every once in a while. After about a week or 2 the "doctor" took me out of my room and ran more tests on me. His definition of a test being scratching and cutting up my body. He would then stick a needle in my arm that I think fixed up all the broken bits of my body then plopped me back in my room like nothing happened. Every few weeks though he would put me in the "testing room", chain me to the floor then see what would happen. I don't remember much of these days though, probably because he was testing my "powers" limits. I would always wake up in my room after nights like those. All of those same things kept happening over and over again with no change, only change being made was, well, me. Every day I would wake up in my room after the power tests. I would look at myself in the mirror, and every time I did my hair seemed to be growing a light blue instead of its natural brown color. I would also bite my tongue on accident more often.

This cycle of events went on for a long while until finally one day something different happened. The "doctor" was doing his "tests" as usual but then I saw something, or someone. It looked like a greyish blob of something with two little eyes staring me down. I wasn't able to investigate for long though because I was taken away by the doctor into a different room. See now would be the time he would bandage me up and send me off, but that didn't happen! I got put in a chair that seemed to be in an office of some sort. I don't remember what was happening, but I do know that I saw someone else. It was a boy that looked kind of like Jake but not monochrome and more put together. Brown hair with a green streak instead of black with a white streak, and a white lab coat with green shirt and tie
. I looked at the boy who looked like he was deep in thought. Whenever he did finally look up though he jumped a little at my presence. He got Weinstein's attention and whispered something to him. They talked for a bit, but I didn't pay attention, I was just absorbed in this dark little space that was different and just taken in the place. Next thing I know I'm back in my little concrete box. The next day, I think, he did some tests as usual but for twice as long. I tried to ask him why, but he kept on shooing me away and mumbling about "005" and "I can't believe I found this out" or something like that.

After what I think was a few years I started accepting that I was trapped here forever alone. Until I woke up to a voice in my head that I know for a fact wasn't mine. I asked questions like "who are you" and "what are you" but they didn't know either. While doing the test I asked Weinstein about it, and he actually seemed interested in my existence for once that wasn't destroying my body. He did some x-rays and seemed to be fascinated by something. He then told me to go with the kid I saw early named "Rae". He didn't seem to be pleased about escorting me to the office. When we got to the office, we both just stared at each other until Rae asked a question "You know why you're here right?" thankfully Dr. Weinstein isn't the cruelest man on earth and taught me how to read and write so I was able to answer "I have no idea" Rae leaned down in his chair and said "You know he's a terrible guy right? The things he does to you, the things he does to everyone here aren't right!" I stopped "wait there's more people here besides me, you, the tall man, and slime?" Rae leaned back into his chair "well yeah of course there are, I mean you were one of the first experiments, so I guess that's why you haven't-" he stopped mid thought "wait, slime? Who in the world is slime?" I looked at him confused "Oh I see him all the time I'm surprised you haven't! He's a tiny little blob and has the cutest little face. He's a joy to be around and you should meet sometime!" He looked like he was thinking for a second then said, "oh you mean 001." I looked confused "001? Why is he a number?" Rae turned his head to the side and said in a matter-of-fact tone "Yea all the experiments here have a number, your 005, you were one of the first experiments. You should be lucky you had the right genes" I stared off into space for a second as I could hear my voice screaming and yelling about something, I didn't know what for though. Next thing I know I'm being dragged back off to the testing room, this time though I saw another person with Weinstein in the fogged-out window that looks over the room. It seemed like they were fighting about something. I saw whoever was in the room get almost dragged into the actual testing room. They entered and were yelling and screaming about something. I felt something weird about them though because for the first time in a while, the voice in my head stopped. The lady seemed familiar in a weird way, and I think they felt the same about me. We both just stared at each other for a while, then just nothing. The only thing I remember after that is being in pain for the next few weeks or so.

After that encounter I was way more hesitant to go anywhere with the so-called doctor. I asked him questions, but none were answered. I looked everywhere to see more signs of life and sure enough I found them. There were more creatures in the building I was in. I kept asking questions, but they only got me more bruises. The test kept on hurting more and more and the voice in my head kept getting louder and louder until one day, I made up my mind and decided to end all of this once and for all.