AWAKENING[REVAMPED EDITION]

CHAPTER XIV

UNDERGROUND.

4 days. He had been in hell for four days. 5 fingers missing, a liver and half a lung missing, and white noise torture. His hair had turned stark white and his skin had gotten pale and chalky in color.

"I'm honestly surprised you have survived this long", the voice grumbled through the speaker seemly disappointed. Nico paid little to no attention, his mind on the brink of insanity. "Today, we'll be doing something a little different", it continued.

Instead of the lights turning on up above they continued to stay off leaving the room pitch-black. The voice above on the speaker cut off as the lab station Nico rested on suddenly raised up and leaned forward so that he appeared to stand up.

Because of how tight the chains were that retrained Nico to the table he barely moved as he for the first time stood straight up and faced the sliding door that he had heard so many times, the door that brought the scheduled pain for the day.

"Experiment 1 commence", the voice said and while Nico still watched the born it hissed open. Instead on the usual ten doctors that would scurry in only three people walked in. Two of them were armed guards in their forties who held the chains attached to the guy in the middle.

As the three got closer Nico narrowed his eyes and tried to analyze the person that walked before him. The guy in the middle was young and he appeared to be only in his early twenties the same as Nico. With a soldier's haircut and walk Nico easily assumed that the chained man was so type of military personnel.

The three men continued to walk toward where Nico was until they stopped 20 feet in front of him and the two men holding the chains dropped them in sync. The two me then continued to walk as the one chained up stayed in place watching.

The two soldiers approached the lab station and Nico eyed them down as they untied every chain and pulled out the needle pumping the L-01 into his system. In a heap he dropped to the cold floor and turned on his back facing toward the dark ceiling. 

He could feel his body trying to recover as the wounds on his skin and inside him healed slowly. Lifting his arms, he took in each hand that was cut-free except for the 3 missing fingers on his right hand and the two on his left.

Closing his hands into fists, Nico glared at the roof in anger and turned over on his stomach to face the three soldiers. He watched in suspension as the two soldiers both took out a syringe filled with a green liquid and stabbed it harshly into the upper chest of the soldier chained up.

Instantly the effects of the liquid were shown as the soldier chained up clutched his chest tightly and fell to the floor screaming in agony. Veins popped out of his skin as with both hands he began to claw at the top of his head and rip out strips of flesh revealing the white meat beneath.

The two soldiers that had injected the other soldier now had drawn mini Uzi carbines and stepped back towards the sliding door. Painfully the soldier began to turn into a full-beast lycan; as hair began to sprout from its body the sound of bones cracking and reforming filled the room everyone was in.

After only 10 seconds the soldier had turned into a lycan 5 seconds quicker than an original. Its orange eyes glared back at Nico who laid down in astonishment at the transformation that had just taken place.

"Impossible", Nico muttered and stood up taking in the full 9ft of the beats that stood in front of him. "Began." As soon as the word had left the speaker the lights overhead flickered on and the beast/soldier hybrid jumped to life toward the two soldiers behind it.

Spraying their carbines wildly the two soldiers were no match for the thing that charged toward them who's skin deflected the bullets that were shot at it. It pounced toward the first guy and bit into the soft flesh of his neck tearing out the soldiers neck vertebrae making him drop his weapon and the syringe full of green liquid

The bones hung in its jaws dripping blood onto the floor as it turned toward the next soldier and glared at it. The beast dropped the neck onto the ground and in a flash the soldier was mutilated piece by piece. The beast dug its jaws into the chest of the soldier and devoured the inner organs.

Its teeth clawed the body until nothing was left but a tangle of bloody flesh and blood. When the beast looked back up at Nico entrails were dangling by its uneven teeth. Slowly it rose to its full height and roared in the direction of him causing Nico to extend his claws and mentally prepare to get attacked.

It didn't take long. 

The monster lunged at Nico jaws open and ready to kill as Nico narrowly dodged them. Before Nico could position himself back toward the beast it was already behind him. Unable to react in time he was slung against one of the walls as the beast threw its arm backward connecting it with his back.

Blood ran from Nico's nose as he dusted himself off and waited for the the next attack looking around the room for something to defeat the beast with. The table with the tools wasn't present along with any ready weapon, except.

"L-01", Nico muttered glancing at the pouch of clear liquid that still hung next to his lab station. The needle that had been stuck into his arm dangled against the floor dropping tiny droplets of the tranquilizer onto the floor.

The beast had now turned towards him and was charging full speed at his position. Unnervingly Nico waited until the beast was almost close to jump over it. Reaching up above it the beast grabbed the right leg of Nico and slung him back into the wall breaking his leg and back.

Grabbing his head, the beast raised it up and slammed it over and over into the wall cracking the plaster and causing red to stain the perfect white-colored walls. After it was done the beast still continued to grab his head and threw him into his lab station.

Toppling over the table Nico hid behind the metal frame and gathered the needle and pouch full of L-01 and waited for the beast to arrive. 

Instead of jumping over the table like Nico expected the beast ran straight through it causing it and Nico to go flying into the opposite wall. As everything landed the needle that Nico had held was lost in the tangled debris.

"Fuck", he yelled and rolled over to the left as the beast tried to tackle once again at him, he missing its claws by inches. As he came to a stop after rolling he looked back over to the beast and in between them laid the needle and unbroken pouch.

In a mere instant Nico reached out for the needle and as he picked up the needle stabbed it into the leg of the beast as it lunged over him. Luckily the effect worked quickly into its body and as it prepared to attack once more it wobbled for a few seconds before collapsing on the ground.

Now standing, Nico could only hunch over and throw up as the room got quiet once more until it was interrupted by the voice on the speaker.

"Well done Mr. Simmons", it said monotone, "Now that you are still alive we'll be able to conduct the next and final test."

Looking up at the porthole window Nico glared at the two silhouettes behind it with anger and insanity. 

There would be no final test, escape was inevitable.

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