Jason sat at the table as his listened to the muffled voices of his parents and the principle discuss what had happened, and after a while a new set of voices could be heard. A moment later there was silence for a few minutes, then the door handle turned and Jason raised his head at the sound. A man wear a black suit entered the teachers lounge and sat across from Jason at the table while another man walked around to stand behind him. The man sitting across from Jason smiled at him before pulling out a pad of paper and a pen, and jotted something down.
"Um..." Jason said as he looked at the man, "No offense but... would anyone mind telling me whats going on here?"
"What happened," The man across the table said looking up from the notepad he had been writing on, "Was that the terrorist group Taint attacked your school."
"Taint?" Jason asked, "I don't understand. I mean I've heard of Taint on the news but... Taint is an organization of people... what attacked me was... Well it definitely wasn't human."
"Well young man," the man in the suit said, while signaling to the other man, "You are right about some of that. You see that creature was made by Taint and just like it the creature the people who are in Taint aren't human." And at that the man standing behind Jason grabbed Jason's arm and wrenched back his sleeve.
"Hey!" Jason said as he tried to yank his arm away as the man pulled out a case.
"Don't worry son," the man said while pulling out a needle and syringe, "Just a routine check when dealing with cases such as this."
"Hey stay away from me with that!" He said pulling away as hard as he could from the hands holding him. "I-I have rights against this! Let me go!"
"Son, you only have rights so long as you pass this test." The man said, plunging the needle into Jason's arm. However instead of the red blood filling the syringe the color of the liquid that came out was green like emeralds, or the forest in high summer, shimmering in the dull light of the room.
"Wha- What the hell have you done to me!" Jason said after a moments shock at the sight.
"I'm afraid boy," The man said as he put aside the needle, "that you have failed. You are a Taint." he then reached into his suit and pulled out a gun.
Jason heart missed a beat before he felt a sudden heat in the hand of the arm being held and he and the man holding him were thrown apart. The man holding the gun quickly trained the gun back on Jason but Jason ducked as the bullet embedded itself in the spot his head had been.
He then scurried to his feet and jumped for the door except the man got in front of him, the gun being pressed flat between them. Jason in an attempt to get over the man with the gun started clawing at the man's face when he felt another sudden burst of heat from his hands.
The man let out a scream of agony as he fell back and dropped the gun as he reached for his face from which billows of smoke was rising from. Jason then rushed out of the room and kept running despite his parents worried cries as he ran past them.
He ran and ran that day till he couldn't run any farther. As he finally stopped to breath a group of three teenagers around the same age as him stopped and looked about as if searching.
"And you're sure that the new Taint went this way, Sammy?" A boy said looking at the only girl in their group.
"Of course I'm sure," The girl, Sammy, said. "When I'm this close to turning I'm always sure." she then sniffed the air, "And he's close... and really stinky."
"Are you sure you're not just talking about yourself?" the other boy asked with a laugh which turned into a gulp at Sammy's glare.
"You- you people are part of Taint?" Jason asked them as he walked over to them.
