Authors note: This is an original character, all artwork is by me!
I hope everyone will enjoy this! Chapter two will be out next week!
I remember having this dream when I was a little kid..I thought it was a fairytale or something imaginary but it wasn't. I was swept away off into the night falling into despair. I heard sirens and I saw flashing lights, someone or something was after me. I ran with a stranger away from my home, he said I would be safe they just needed me to be a test subject. I ran into a hospital the smell of medicine and metallic objects filled the air. I was pushed into a room as we walked along, falling to my knees I look back at the man who had shoved me in the room and the door was slowly shutting. I scrambled to my knees to try and stop the door but the force of impact I put on it had shut it. I had leaned against the door, my eyes wide open in the pitch black room. I couldn't see anything it felt like I was blind. Suddenly I felt a sharp prick in my neck and I screamed turning around and smacking away what seemed to be a needle. I heard it clang to the floor and I heard a sharp grunt in front of me. My eyelids were getting heavy, I couldn't open them. Where am I? Who are these people? "Mom! Dad!" I cried out. "Help..." Then it was lights out.
I jolted awake, the flashback still startling me. I felt my tail fall to my side and hit the wall, everything around me was still dark..I'm 17 now and I've never seen the outside ever since I was 10..I can still almost remember the sweet smell of grass and flowers the way that my parents would play with me. I was an only child and I had very few friends. Now that I lived in this laboratory I usually had to dress up with many layers of clothes if I wanted to leave the room. It didn't hide the fact I had a large tail. They had done this to me, I use to be a normal girl but now I'm some kinda freak. I'm not even sure what kinda hybrid I am. Dragon? Bird? Some mythical creature? This type of stuff you'd imagine only come from TV shows and books but I guess I'm a first. They had tattooed a barcode onto my neck to represent I was subject "404" their first human subject. They had never found me so I guess it's kinda ironic that i'm named after an error.
I heard the large door creak open, the sound of footsteps following. "Good morning.." the professor had said. "Lunch." She kicked a tray next to me and left the room shutting the door behind her. I never liked the slop they gave me, might as well give me something good if I'm your little pig. Even they get better food than me..I picked up a handful of it and shoved it into my mouth, I haven't eaten for hours so it felt so good to at least get something in my system. It tasted a little better today, maybe the hired a new chef? I had gotten use to seeing in the dark by now. It wasn't all to bad but I would still prefer to have some sort of light next to me. You see, ever since I was stolen away i've been afraid of the dark and other humans. I stood up and paced around the room, I knew that today was one of the finals in my testing before I was aloud outside. Yes, to the actual nature filled world i've been excluded from.
I kicked the tray away from me knowing that they wouldn't let me out first thing, it annoyed me that they were constantly on me for every little thing I do. The other day I was crying because my eye was bloody from the change it was making, they slapped a bandaid on my eye and told me I'll be fine. For some reason I feel safe here, maybe it's because of all the things they tell me or maybe it's because I've been here for 7 years. I sighed and waited for them to come back to get my tray. A few minutes of sharpening my tassels and I was relaxed, the door flew open and a man walked in. "Hello." he said picking up my tray and throwing it in the trash outside of the door. I backed up confused and I eventually made my way to the corner. "I'm here to take you to your final testing." He said and flipped through the pieces of paper he had. I hesitated to stand up but eventually he grabbed me by my wrist and walked me out of the room. I was shoved into another room where I was cuffed and examined for any kind of weapon.
I was shoved into the another room, as if this place isn't big enough. I was gonna be tested on combat, sense, and agility. As I looked around I heard a voice come over the speakers. "Stay still in the middle of the room as we process your first test." they firmly said and I did as told. I felt the floor shift into the first stage "Combat will be your first test. Defeat the person we have assigned you." I stood in a fighting stance waiting for the hologram to appear. As soon as it did it was charging towards me without warning, I threw myself to the side and grabbed the arm of the hologram, it twisted me around and flung me to the other side. I kept my balance and ran back to it. Once I had reached it I felt it's fist dig into my stomach like the point of a needle. I fell down and kicked my legs up knocking the hologram over and I towered over top of it. I could feel my adrenaline kick in as I threw out my talons and pierced the hologram.
I stood up panting and looked over to the workers behind the glass window. Most of them were taking notes on my tactics. I waited for the next stage, as I had passed the first one. I stood in the middle of the room and waited again. I felt my heart drop as I didn't hear anything. I started to space out then I heard the buzzer and Instantly snapped into the sense of mind I needed to pass this test. This one was easy to pass, it didn't make sense why they would give me a intelligence test? It was basic things like, how to escape prisons and how to survive in fires. I stood in the middle of the room and prepared for my last test. It was agility. The rest of the floor crumbled away besides a thin line in front of me, I started to walk but the voice came over the speakers again "HALT." it yelled. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked back at the window behind me. A hologram was right behind me. I freaked out and yelled "ARE YOU INSANE?!" they ignored me, I wasn't even sure if they could hear me. I mumbled to myself "This is it, i'm done for."
The hologram came running towards me as usually and I had to duck and grab it by the legs. Little did I know this was a foolish mistake. The hologram swung it's legs to the side and I was loosing my grip. I held on for dear life but I had a feeling this could turn out one way. I lost hope and let go, falling to the pit. The floor reappeared before I could fall to my doom and I looked up at the window on hands and knees. I scrambled to my feet and ran to the window pleading for my life. They had instantly forced me back somehow and I was at the end of the room. I knew what was gonna happen next, it was the last time i'd see light.
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