The NexttGenns Trilogy: Season 1: THE CORRUPTION SERIES

Season 1 Finale || 4 | Encounters

Sainkra's POV

I stand outside the hallway behind the throne. Traple walks out, fuming. I reach for her, about to follow after her, when Stygian storms out, and I refocus my attention. I jog to catch up with her. "Hey, hey. What's with you two? What happened?" I ask.

She's focused on the exit. "Space." She says. Traple goes upstairs and we follow soon after.

*

We reach the top of the stairs and turn left. I frown. "Trap went that way." I say, pointing right. Stygian shakes her head. "I'm not following her." I raise a brow, and she continues stalking off.

Glancing around, I catch up to her. "Where are you going?" I ask. She flicks her flaming eyes towards me. "To get revenge."

I look around as a room comes into view. I frown. "How d'you know that Space is here?" I ask. Her ocelot ears go up. "How do you figure it's Space I'm after?"
I shrug. "She hurt someone you care about and you want to make her pay. It's not that hard to decipher."

She rolls her eyes. "I tracked her scent." She says. "I know she's in here."

The farther we proceed onward, the darker it seems to get, despite the hallway lights. Stygian blinks on her glowing purple eyes. We walk on, into a room that becomes more and more bizarre. The walls start to disappear, and the floor doesn't seem to exist on a visible level anymore. Chills shoot up my spine. This doesn't seem right.. I watch as the ocelot looks around the room. It almost seems like a huge, long hallway at this point.

Something moves around in the darkness. Stygian illuminates it, revealing.. "-Pepper?" I say. It- I'm not sure what it is.. It looks like my creation, but it's moving on all fours. It has glowing yellow eyes. No pupils or anything. Just a yellow light..

I frown. Stygian shakes her head. "That's impossible. She doesn't have wings anymore." She points. She's right. This Pepper look-alike has its wings raised, like an animal on defense. It stands in a stance like it's protecting something.

"Look." Her gaze follows on the cytronic. She steps closer, and the look-alike moves its head down, revealing a chain at it's neck. Stygian looks past it, revealing a whole science lab looking area. There's giant tanks of blurry liquid, with things floating in them. I squint. "They're experiments." My eyes widen.

Stygian steps back. "Holy shit.." She squats to the Pepper experiment. She reaches a hand out to like it's an earth dog. It sniffs her, and hesitates for a second. Then, like an earth house cat, it rubs its face against her. "Space hasn't just cloned her mother.." Stygian says uneasily, her rage seemingly gone.
I walk over to the tanks and try to look at the glass with my hands above my eyes, my nose pressed to the glass. Right before me, floats some type of animal. I frown. There's no animals on Lotiis yet.. "There's others here too!" I say, moving to the next tank. There's what looks like.. "a shark?" I say suddenly.

Stygian looks up with a raised brow. "What's a shark?" I look back at her with a blank expression. "Uh, nevermind." I move on.

"There's citizens here too.."She says, examining another tank. I walk around, thinking. "Holy shit.. This has got to be some sort of secret lab."

The Pepper clone sits up like a dog. "So you think she's building-"Stygian begins.

"An army." I say. I look around. "She's planning to strike us. "

Stygian frowns. "That's.. surprisingly smart.."

Her glowing eyes widen, and focus on something behind me. "What?" I ask. The clone, looking scared, hides behind Stygian. It's ears go down, and it raises its stolen, golden wings.