Fangless

How It Began

Well, that was intense but the truth is it's built up from the past year in my life. I was a normal teenager, well. I am getting ahead of myself. As a 16-year-old girl, I was living my own dream. Playing video games, enjoying trashy anime/manga, reading books, participating in my school's key club, and getting straight A's my life was pretty set in stone for perfection. My parents were mundane workers. My dad is a chemist at a local food development company, and my mom was an attorney. They both left me alone a lot but I enjoyed the solitude. It made me extremely happy to be able to do my own thing, with little control and my parent's trust. That all changed one day.

October 3rd last year was the day everything changed, my dad was working overtime in the basement lab. He experimented with different salad dressings again. I was back from the mall with a big plate of Panda Express for him, walking into the lab I said,

"Dad, I am home!"

"Hi, Nellie down here!"

Walking down and seeing his various test tubes all filled with various liquids, oils, and other substances I was vibing while he finished writing a note for his lab report. My dad soon finished and sets down the pencil and gave me his undivided attention,

"Did you bring the fun stuff?"

"Yes Dad, I got you orange chicken, with lo mein, and steamed vegetables. I got honey walnut shrimp, and brown rice for Mom, and for me, a bunch of lo mein, and orange chicken as well. I left Mom's food upstairs for her to try later. I'll set this on your desk for now."

"No sweetie, hand it here I am starving, I am trying to uh... experiment with vegan mayo to make some delicious tuna salad."

"Wow, great dad."

Sounding very sarcastic my dad laughed like normal and we just ate our meal together. However we heard clanging noise soon and I quickly said,

"What was that?"

My dad had a couple of bites of food in his mouth finished chewing and held up a finger. Watching him move I stood up and placed my plate down. Walking towards the noise with him, suddenly a canister was tossed down the stairs and smoke leaked out, I was utterly surprised and covered my mouth immediately. My dad was immediately on his feet and he yelled out,

"Nellie! Get down!"

Immediately getting under a desk by his command I covered my mouth and watched as several men entered the basement. I was unsure what was going on, but Oh my god Dad.

Getting up I saw my dad was fighting some men in black with guns, he was surprisingly skilled for someone who followed prancercise dvds regularly. I was shocked and frozen in place at the sight. Seeing a man begin to stuff tubes into his bags I immediately got up and yelled out,

"Hey! Why are you raiding our basement over salad dressing!?"

The man turned as I just stood up and he stood over me and scoffed at my smaller stature,

"Get out of my way kid"

As I stepped back, surprised by the man's tall structure, he just knocked me over and I fell face first to the ground, with the gas making the air thick that I began gasping, I looked up and saw my father being in combat with three men and he was looking weak. My head was ringing. Things were starting to sound far away, What did I hit?

Looking around and seeing a piece of wood, I reached to grip it trying to breathe, I felt my chest feel heavy, and my vision was blurring, what was going on?

However all this changed as my dad was knocked over, suddenly it all became clear, they were here to kill us.

Standing up while gripping the wood, I felt the splinters dig deep as I just glared, with the guy pointing a gun at my dad I sprang into action.

Gripping the piece of wood I moved quickly and whacked the guy in the back of his head, with his lackeys shocked, I yelled out,

"Get away from my dad you bunch of freaks!"

My dad immediately looked horrified as I raised the piece of wood and whacked the guy about to hit me, as I spun, I lost balance as a guy pulled a knife, in my head i thought,

This is where I die huh? Dad.

Crash!

Seeing the guy I knocked over recoil in horror as sirens went off in the lab, I looked to see a man in a black hood use his bare hand to crack the glass and pull a vial of substance away from the shelf. Dad marked that as the mold area. What are they after?

Pushing the guy out of my way and avoiding the knife I yelled out,

"Idiot if you drink that mold you will get salmonella,"

Dialing 911 on my phone I knew I should have called earlier but I panicked and Dad was in danger. About to yell I saw the guy pull a gun and say calmly,

"Goodbye Mr. Faye and Thank you."

Frozen in place, I immediately lunged forward with the stick and whacked the gun out of hand and cursed out, "It's mold, for fuck's sake stop!"

"You idiot clueless naive kid. What are you doing?"

"Takes an idiot to know one."

Using the conversation as my chance I grabbed the vial but as I did, the guy immediately struggled with me to get to it, He reached for my arm and tried to pry it off, Eventually, we fell to the ground struggling with each other I just knew not to let this guy go like that.

Suddenly the vial cracked and he froze with me holding the glass as it cracked it suddenly burst. The liquid in the container came dripping out and landed on my face annoyed I yelled out,

"Look what you did asshole."

The man did not even flinch he let go of my hand and stepped back yelling,

"Marcus, Will! We have to go now."

"But Boss the drug."

"Forget it it's been contaminated."

As I sat up hearing this guy stare he made a smirk on his face and said,

"Nellissa Faye huh? You will live to regret this."

Giving the man a death stare I stood up holding out the vial to my father and saying to him,

"Sorry Daddy, I just wanted to protect you, the mold did not enter my mouth but some of it is missing."

My Dad did not pay attention he tossed the vial aside and gripped my shoulders panicked. He immediately asked,

"Are you feeling okay? Hun? You need to sit?"

Looking up I nodded however my vision turned red and blinked. My dad looked panicked as I just felt my body lose consciousness and strength. Falling backward my dad immediately grabbed me and said, "Nellie! Baby! Come on Bud!"

I could not hear him, however. My world was turning red. As voices became muffled I thought to myself.

That is not mold.