NOT HUMAN

Chapter 31 - Oculos Blood

She was sitting up in her bed, staring blankly at the white wall, and feeling melancholy. Her life had changed totally. She thought meeting her real parents would be a miracle. She had been abandoned at the step of the orphanage, but that wasn't even the creepy part of it.

She was left with a name. Lily Valerie. It was a name she knew her real parents had given to her.

When meeting her father, who she barely knew...

She thought it was a joke, a funny one.

But she was hopeful. Maybe this man who claimed to be her dad would be there for her, to make up to her, after being gone her whole childhood.

Instead, he created a picture of a fake love story of him and her mom falling in love. But in truth, she was a science project, an object, a test experiment.

Suddenly the door creaked open, and her train of thought was cut off.

"Morning, honey," A dark voice chuckled. His cold blue eyes chilled, and his lips smirked.

"David.." She voiced, darkly.

"Oh, call me father."

"Never!" She hissed, standing up from the bed.

"Don't worry, you will eventually." He gave her a toothy smile that unsettled her. "I came to inform you that your next check-up will be at 4 pm."

"I don't care." She growled, her eye contact never faltering. It was a bit challenging to look into his eyes. All she saw was emptiness and cruelty.

"Trust me you will." And with those last four words leaving his mouth, he shuts the door softly, leaving her puzzled.

What did he mean by that?

***

"Get me more!" He ushered, the first, and he responded with a growl. "You should know a few words in our language now. So, speak!" He demanded.

"Yes...I have blood...." The Oculos croaked, awkwardly forming English words. He passes the small container full of Oculos blood to David.

He busted out in evil laughter.  "It's mine, yes." He ingested the bottle, satisfied with it. "Now I'll be just as capable of mind-reading, and forming nightmares in heads as you are, First. I know you're the only of your kind capable of doing that."

The First grimaced at him momentarily, before plastering a neutral look on his features. "Yes, sir," He simply responded.

***

3 pm.

There he was again. His dark dreamy eyes were so gentle, and soft roaming her face and his hands touching her soft platinum blond tresses. The tan dark-haired boy entangled her in his warm embrace. She felt light in his arms, secured, and comforted. If she could she'd stay there in his scent, warm arms, and close to his heart forever.

How dreams felt so real.

Lily was lying in a field of daisies, and Blade was under her. Her head lying on his chest, and his arms holding her.

"Lily, I'm coming for you, don't worry." He whispered into her ear, his soft, warm lips pressing on her skin as though it was real. It felt so real. Every touch, every word uttered, she'd swear it was real because it left her skin burning and her heart racing.

But it was a memory she kept of him.

 It wasn't real.

The sky was a bright pale blue, the green forest was full of life, and the place in her dream was so peaceful, and the only sounds came from nature.

"Blade I believe in you..." As those words departed her lips; everything faded into a bleak white room, and a dark figure stood by the doorway. The door was jarred slightly, and a man who called himself her father stood there smiling, causing her to shudder at the simple action. Somehow his smiling made her feel uncomfortable. If he was happy it had to be something bad bound to occur.

He was a mad scientist.

"Don't worry Lily I'm coming for you." David mocked, and her eyes froze on him in alarm. "If he comes for you, honey, he'll be a dead man." The wretched man laughed deeply.

"...But how..?" Her voice cracked.

"All I can tell you is that you're not alone in your mind, nor are you safe." He smirked.

"YOU MONSTER!" She cried, hatefully.

"Get her!" He summoned two Oculos and they carried her out by the arms and she was thrashing her limbs out clawing at them and struggling in their grasp. But no matter what she did their grip was solid, and the size difference was massive.

"It's 4 pm now," David informed her laughing sadistically at her expression. They took her down long halls, full of purple tech, locked doors, etc.

Soon they halted in front of two tall gray doors.

"Get the door."

The two 7ft tall Oculos guards proceeded quickly to his command and opened the enormous heavy doors. It made loud clanging sounds on the space floors of the white tile flooring. Lily stopped resisting when her eyes dwelled on the doors screeching open slowly. Her heart thumped, and her breath hitched.

"W-what...is this?" She uttered, shockingly. There was a mini lab, tables, beds, glass tubes containing human parts, and Oculos. It made her want to puke her guts up. She saw an empty bed. The guards set her down on it and begin strapping her arms, and legs to it.

"NOOOO!" She fought back. "Stop!" She tried everything, kicking, hitting, and biting. But it was all futile. Suddenly, she felt a surge of energy rush through her, and she felt stronger somehow.

"Oh shit," David commented. Her eyes lit up golden, and bright. Her clothes begin tightening around her growing form and frame. It tore in half, like the hulk, and she was a 6ft Oculos with golden eyes, gray skin, and a surprisingly slender feminine form. She demolished the constraints.

"Let me go!" She growled. She was smaller than the male guards but still packed a lot of force, for her breed of alien was very rare. She was the last of her kind to have golden eyes. She bit the arm of the guard that tried holding her down on the bed. She yanked the arm off entirely, and a green bleed seeped out.

But out of nowhere, a needle was injected into her arm causing her body to collapse. Her vision blurred as she shrunk back to her human form and saw her dad hovering over her with a syringe in his right palm.

"...Why...dad..." She muttered those last words before everything turned black.

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