Shift

Chapter 16

I shifted uncomfortably in the corner of the cell. Alex and Steve looked at me miserably. When they tried to rescue me, the people that want me for my power caught them and put them in the cell with me. We were here for about 3 hours, according to the clock in the cell.

"So. Why don't you just teleport out there and knock the guards out then open the cell for us?" He asked.

"They're fully armed, and I can't teleport far enough to exit this facility, it's huge."

"Now that's quite a problem." Said Steve blankly.

Abruptly, an arrow shot into the wall next to Steve's head. It was on fire too. Steve scrambled away from it, looking at something behind me. I turned my head, and saw that one of the guards had shot an arrow through the bars of the cell.

"You can't escape, you idiots." He said.

Alex shot the guard a deadly glare, but the guard just shook it off and went back to his position.

There was the sound of heavy footsteps outside the cell, and a woman, also fully armed, came in the cell with a tray.

She set down the food in the floor in front of me, and I saw that there was a salad and two pieces of steak on my dish.

"I don't eat meat." I said flatly.

"Well, we won't get any other food, so either you shut the hell up, or eat what's on your plate." With that, she turned on her heel and walked toward the cell door.

Suddenly, Steve pounced on the woman, knocking her down.

"Quickly, run!" He yelled.

I took off toward the cell door, but a guard held his arm out. He walked toward me, pushing me backwards until the wall. He held me there, pressing his hand, squashing me. Then, he grabbed me by the collar, and threw me backwards.

I looked behind me. Steve and Alex were being held in their positions, keeping them from coming to help me. The guard loomed over me, and opened his mouth to talk.

"Listen, shapeshifter." He hissed, saying the word shapeshifter like poison."You're not going anywhere near that door, hear me?" He hit the flat of his diamond sword into my side. I winced.

Then, he walked away, out the cell and back to his position. Alex and Steve were freed of iron grasps.

"I swear, if they lay a hand on me again, their fate will be utter hell." I vowed.

I sat back in the corner and poked at my salad with the stick utensil, and ate every single bit of it. I was still hungry though, because all I ate was a salad. I left the remaining bits of steak, and gave them to Alex and Steve to eat.

Then, there was a banging on the cell door. The woman that kidnapped me earlier was there, also fully armored.

"I want the shapeshifter, and only the shapeshifter." She said. Her voice was cold, harsh,and emotionless. "I want no idiots tagging along try to supposedly 'rescue' their friend." She glanced once at Alex and Steve.

She tugged at my hand so fiercely, my hand might've as well broken off its joints. She did her earlier deed, put her sword at my throat, and led me towards the door.

She led me down a hallway, and everyone in the facility was staring at me and the woman, but no one said a word.
We went through an iron door, which had a sign that said:

Authorized access only.
Any unauthorized access will be reported immediately.

Inside, there was a bed-like object in the middle of the room (like the bed at the dentist's), and was bordered with small iron bars. Attached to it was an iron box filled with slim containers that have a needle at the end (injections, she just doesn't know the names). They looked horrifying. There were also lots of translucent tubes connected to a huge container.

There was a red chair next to the bed thingy, and a few chests next to it.

"Lay down here, shifter." She said.

"Is-Is that for me?" It looked horrifying.

"Obviously, and before we start, I will tell you everything about the facility. Since you are being studied here, it would only be fair to tell you what's going on." She said.

"Being studied?! BEING STUDIED! Look you people, I am human too, like you, I am not a lifeless object. I am not to be tested on. And most of all, I have a name. MY NAME IS CECILIA!" I said.

"Cecilia, do as I say and lay down. I will explain everything." She said.

I did so. And sat down.

"Look, there is a legend about Shapeshifters. We are a group named The Shudiers. It's not a good name, I know. We study the legend. We dedicate our lives to meet one, we even built a facility for it. And that's when we found you, Cecilia. The first shapeshifter we made effort to discover-" I cut her off.

"Discover? As I said, I am human!" I said.

"Yes, yes. Anyways, you are the first shapeshifter we made effort to find. We saw you shapeshift behind a tree, but guess who else was behind it? But from what we saw, clearly you were ashamed of this power. You didn't want anyone to know. And you also seemed aggressive. Each time we sent someone to get you, you had to knock them out-" I cut her off again.

"First, that was only once. Second, you were behaving agressively and acting all like,'Seize the shapeshifter!'" I said, trying to imitate the man's voice at the trade place.

"Yeah, that was Eric. He was always like that. Seeing as you killed him, and the rest too, we knew that you wouldn't want us to have you. So, we came fully armored and ready to take you. We want to study you. Like now."

"Wha-"

Suddenly, Iron clasps held me in place, and iron bars rose at the area after my feet and before my head. I realized why. So there wouldn't be enough space for me to shapeshift into an enderman, so I wouldn't escape.

"This, is so you wouldn't escape while I try to have a blood extract of yours to study, and to see if it is possible to drain you of your power." She grinned.

"Let me go!" I screamed.

"Not before I'm done." She spat.

She grabbed one of the needle containers, which were labeled as injections, and I saw that the one she picked was the one with the longest needle.

She forced the needle tip into my skin, and pulled the white circle at the back of the injection. The injection immediately filled with a dark purple liquid.

"Isn't it expected of you to have purple blood?" She questioned annoyingly. "Now I would try several methods of extracting your powers. If it works......I'll keep the powers."

"YOU...I WILL KILL YOU!" I screamed.

"Oh don't bother, I think it would be hard enough, seeing as you can't move, and soon, maybe you wouldn't even shapeshift."

She jammed a tube into my skin, and it filled up with a glowing, light purple liquid.

"Ah.." She said. "First method works."