The Elites

Chapter 25

Lyra-Rose's Point-of-View

Elise, Cameron, Micah, and I took off sprinting as quietly as we could down the fork in the hallway. We raced and raced until we came to a wide open laboratory.

"Woah," Cameron whispered. He walked off by himself toward some vials of green goo.

The room, which was about a little less than half of a football field, was jam packed with beakers filled with liquids that most people probably wouldn't even want to hear about.

"Probably lots of radiation," I thought to myself.

There was a huge movie screen in the middle of the laboratory and diagonal to it was a huge chair where someone could be strapped into. The chilling part was, it was shaped like it was for a human. There was seating beside it, probably for spectators watching the experiment.

Micah and Elise went over to inspect the chair. I went towards the movie screen.

Apparently they recorded all of their experiments. There were so many videos you could scroll through.

I was almost done looking at videos, when one in particular caught my eye. I clicked on it to watch it. The volume was already turned down so all I had to do was watch.

It was Rebecca. She was getting dragged to the chair. I could read her lips perfectly.

"HELP!!! She screamed,"THIS IS A REPUBLICAN GANG!!! THEY'LL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND RUN WITH IT!!!"

I watched, horrified, as she got strapped to the chair and was injected with a green liquid, the exact same one that Cameron was looking at now.

Becca went from panicky, to angry. So angry. I'd never seen her this mad. Her fists were taped against an object, so she couldn't fire her powers.

"Guys...we have to get out of here," I said.

Elise and Micah walked towards the exit quickly with me. Cameron, however, was still looking at the green goo.

"Cameron, that stuff is seriously dangerous," I whispered.

"I just think it looks so cool," he whispered. He went to touch the vial, but accidentally knocked once into the other, all down the row.

It was like the world's most terrifying game of dominos.

Each glass break made a huge sound, not to mention the goo oozing on the floor.

Then we heard footsteps.

"Everyone, climb a pole!" Elise whisper-shouted. We all jumped onto different circular poles surrounding the room. Thank god we got up in time because the second we had climbed about twenty feet in the air, two body guards walked in, dragging a short girl with unbrushed, dirty looking hair. She wore a dirty nightgown. Struggling against the guards grips, she tried her hardest to escape, but it was no use. The guards were too strong for her.

"She looks so familiar," I whispered.

That's when I saw it.

Every Elite has a scar along their collar bone, from the experiment that gave us our powers.

And the way the nightgown fit, it showed the scar.

Becca! We had finally found her!

Elise must have noticed too, because she was wearing a big smile.

However, that smile soon disappeared.

We all watched as Becca was strapped to the table and injected with a liquid.

She suddenly grew fangs and her nails became furiously long. She began to claw at everything she could get her hands on.

It was too much to watch.

The bag of the liquid that had injected her with the liquid started to fill with blood.

No. She couldn't die now!

Holding onto the pole with only my legs, I fired thorny tree roots towards the two men in attempt to save my friend. Elise saw what I was doing and started an earthquake underneath the table. The men looked up to see the four of us.

"They're here!" The heavier man screamed.

The other man ran to a breaker box and flipped a switch.

And then, we were electrocuted.

Unable to hold our concentration or our positions anymore, the four of us fell from the poles and hit the ground.

I was half-conscious when I heard the man say,"What is that now? Five Elites and four Red Eye Brothers?"

"Sounds about right man. Hey, should we tase 'em, just to be sure they're out?"

"Yeah, boss will be so happy. Maybe we'll even get moved up a rank in the gang!"

I felt the stinging as I drifted off the sleep, somewhere.