The Quest for Onyx (Book 1)

Chapter 9

Images swirl around in my head. There's the battle of the Night Crawlers a few months ago. I'm fighting the Night Crawlers alongside everyone else, then everything goes black. I hear screaming and suddenly there's fire everywhere. I try to orient myself in this sudden chaos but it's no use. Then behind me I hear something that chills me to the bone.

"Essix help me!!"

I spin around and see two dark outlines of winged fox warriors who had to be the "angels of death" I was told about earlier. In one of their hands they're holding Tiny.

"Tiny!!" I try to get to him but I can't move. It's like my legs are stuck in mud.

They just laugh at me and fly off with Tiny. All I can do is hear him screaming as they take him away.

I jolt awake in a large room. The room is entirely white. There is nothing in the room. I panic thinking about my nightmare. Tiny! I frantically turn around and see him lying on the floor next to me.

I quickly crawl over to him. And hold him. "Tiny, Tiny wake up!!"

"Mmph." He mutters as he opens his eyes.

"Oh thank Onyx you're alive." I say relieved.

Tiny sits up and looks around. "Where are we?" He asks confused.

"I-I'm not sure." I say.

I look around the room and try to find a raised spot in the wall where an entrance might be but I see nothing but white walls. "The entrance must be hidden in the walls somewhere. Either that or it's outside of the room and the fire is disguised." I mumble to myself.

I hear a sound outside the walls and a door slides open. I tense and wrap my arms tighter around Tiny. I see a figure silently slide into the room. Before I can figure out what it was doing it pulls out a dart gun and shoots me with a dart. Again the world around me went dark.

This time I come to in a room that looks like a lab. I am strapped to a table with a bright light pointing in my face. I squirm against the light and try to move my arms to block it out.

A deep voice comes from the shadows "Good my new test subject is awake."

I hear a click and a syringe filled with a green liquid appears in the top of my vision. It's attached to a mechanical arm above me. I hear a second click and it starts to slowly lower itself towards me. I don't like the look of that syringe. This whole situation is making me very uneasy.

I try to break free from the straps holding me down.

The voice laughs "Resistance is futile Essix."

"How do you know my name?" I demand.

"Oh I know a lot about you my dear."

"Well someone's a stalker." I reply while I continue to break free. I can't see him because of the stupid overhead light blinding me. Shoot.

The voice laughs again "I like those with a sharp wit and a sense of humor."

The syringe has lowered enough to be right beside my arms. I try to move away from it. But I follows my movements and jabs into my arm.

A searing pain goes up my arm and through my body. The pain intensifies like fire is running through my veins and I grit my teeth and cry out in anguish. The pain keeps getting worse and worse. I dig my fingers into the leather seat I'm attached to but it doesn't seem to help. The pain gets to be too much and I finally pass out.

As I'm fading into unconsciousness, I hear voices close to me.

"Experiment's.........over....."

"Second phase.........tomorrow.......easily...."

"Control.......will be imminent."

I knew nothing good could come from the bits of conversation I heard.

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