Vespen

Arrival

"LET ME GO" vespen cried as he continued to fight against the men in lab coats dragging him further and further away from his mom and through the laboratory gates

"MAMA, PLEASE DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME" he looked back at his mom who wasn't even facing him anymore and instead was crying into his father's chest. Not even his father was looking at him.

"They left you for dead, ves. Accept it"  Cass's voice echoed in vespen's head.

"NO, NO, NO" vespen began to cry harder, shutting his eyes as hard as he could. He felt himself being dragged across the cold floor. He finally opened his eyes and looked around at his surroundings. There was yelling and screaming coming from every direction behind closed doors. The whole long hallway was brightly lit and was all a white color, it looked spotless.

But before vespen knew it, they went through a doorway, it had some odd shapes on a sign. He never learned how to read, but he knew they were letters. He could barely see through the cloudiness in his eyes from his tears. The smooth floor turned into a harsh stone floor scraping against vespen's feet. He winced in pain, letting out a slight whine.

There was some chatter going on between the man and woman dragging vespen, but most of it was mumbling, too quiet for him to hear. His under eyes were puffy from his tears, which were still flowing and causing him to have labored breathing.  He was stopped in front of a cell, it had iron bars that looked like they were made of an odd material, not metal but something else. You could see everything in the cell through the bars. Two small white bed's on each side of the room. That had two signs, one on the left and one on the right. The one on the left read "036" and the one on the right read "037". He was tossed into the cell, and his knees and elbows became scraped up from the hard stone floor. He winced in pain and curled up into a ball, not daring to look at the two lab coats walking away. Vespen's little fangs clenching together trying to hold in tears and trying to keep cass from getting in his head once again, but he wasn't strong enough.

"Go ahead and cry, I warned you, but no! You never listen to me" she mocked vespen.

Vespen threw his hands over his ears and continued to cry, getting a lot of his plain white t-shirt wet.  His injuries bleeding and stinging, but his emotions overrode those feelings.

He finally brought himself to open his eyes after crying for what seemed like hours, but turned out to be only 3 minutes. He looked around at the small cell, there were 3 walls made of pure stone, the only one not made of stone was made of the iron bars vespen saw earlier. He used his hands and knees to get up, the stinging only getting worse with the weight he puts on it. vespen gets his balance straight and looks around, he spots a small lantern just out of his reach.

"Look at our situation now Ves, I've told you from the start you shouldn't have trusted them" 

Cass's voice echoed in the room, it sent a shiver down vespen's spine. He looked to his left where the sound came from and saw her there on the wall, she was vespen's own shadow, except every time she wanted to communicate she reshaped his shadow slightly. The differences being horns on top of his head and a tail swinging back and forth in a flowy motion, and a pair of glowing green eyes.

"Leave me alone!" vespen yelled at her

"you want to be all alone again? No one's going to help you, the best thing for you is to listen to me ves" she said calmly.

Vespen punched the wall, knowing it wouldn't do anything but scare her off for a while. He looked back at the wall and saw his shadow go back to normal, no more horns or eyes. His knuckles began to bleed. He put his head against the wall and slid down in defeat.

How was he going to get out? Why did they leave him? Was cass right? All these thoughts swarmed his head.

A loud thud was heard behind vespen that made him jump.

"ASSHOLE" the cussing was followed by a loud scoff

"what the?"

Vespen turned around and scooted back into the wall despite already being against it. He saw another person, or were they even human? The boy had burn marks all over his arms and a giant scar going from one side of his mouth to his ear. He looked at least 8 years older than him, he had dark brown hair and glowing orange eyes. He had the same outfit as vespen, the same white t shirt and white shorts. On the boy's shirt the number "037" was embroidered on it, vespen's own shirt had the numbers "036". His hands were cuffed together with dark gray cuffs, the boy struggled against them trying to get free.

There was a lab coat outside the iron bars with a remote with a button, once the door slammed shut the man clicked the button and the cuffs disappeared like magic. The lab coat walked away, and the boy didn't care, he was more interested in vespen.