Prison of Experiments

Chapter 3: One Year Later...

"Haley Flamia?" the teachers asked. I heard no response even though one was expected, and it was odd that Haley wasn't here. I know how much she enjoys acting so she wouldn't purposefully avoid doing acting class.

I sat and tried to listen to the teacher lecture us, and of course it's just a review of a type of script written by Shakespeare. But all I could focus on was the fact of Haley being gone, missing. Just like all the other kids that others were talking about in the hallway.

Why is she gone? If the principal was coming to classes and grabbing students from their classes, they would've done that with Haley. But what would they want with Haley?

My mind just raced with thoughts of how this could've happened. I couldn't get it off my mind, and then the bell rang. I hopped up and slung my bag over my shoulder and dashed as quickly as I could out the door. I'm exploring this school and looking for Haley.

I know I had an underlying feeling about this school, but I didn't want to be assuming too many things. I started walking around and found a bathroom, and hid out in there for a bit. I waited for the bell to ring, and once it did, I finally headed out of the bathroom and started to hesitantly walk around, looking for small passages, and different locations in the school.

I walked through the school, the hallways were hauntingly quiet, making my hair stand up straight on my neck. The doors I walked by I knew had teachers right in eyesight, and I didn't want to bring attention to my movement. So, I bent down to get on my knees, and crawled on my hands and knees slowly through the halls. Occasionally there'd be a moment or two where my shoe accidentally screeches against the floor, and because I was right outside teachers doors, I rush to behind the door,

When they fling the doors open, I just stay put until they go back inside, and then continue. Once I got to a hallway that seemed to be used just to walk around, I saw a door at the end of the hallway on the left. A shiver went down my spine, and my curiosity brought me to go toward the door. Once I reached it, I took a deep breath and opened the door. The darkness behind the door swelled, and the only light was the dim and flickering light in the stairwell, barely illuminating the stairs themselves.

I turned back toward the door and closed it manually so that it wouldn't shut with a bang, and the only noise that came from the door was the click of the door handle. Once it closed, I slowly made my way down the stairs, and I took a look down to see how far down the stairs go. It went at least six stories, so I tried to walk as quickly but as quietly as possible. Once I reached the fifth story of stairs, I heard banging, and a slight bit of chatter from the room below.

Once I reached the bit where I could see into the room without them seeing me, I knelt down and looked into the room. There were kids in glass chambers, some strung up and chained, some just existing in the chambers themselves. Their faces seemed to be twisted, but in a form of them being terrified, not terrifying. I took a couple more steps, and then I heard strong and quick footsteps from the floor below, so I went back to my original spot. I breathed deeply and as quietly as possible as Principal Tuwile came into view.

Tuwile?? Seriously? He stopped in front of one of the chambers and waved his arms, and a door of the glass appeared. The boy in the chamber looked up at him, with tear streaks down his face, and looked like he's about to cry again. Tuwile grabs onto the back of the boy's shirt and hauls him out of the chamber and back where Tuwile initially came from. I took this opportunity to climb from the stairs, and stealthily creep through the facility.

I heard a big bang as a big door was shut, with Tuwile and the boy behind it. I looked around for a control panel, because I need to figure out how to free these kids.