Her Journey Home

The Experiment

"Get up, ye stupid snake!" I woke up just to find some strange creature poking me with something really sharp. The one thing that pushed my buttons was him calling me a snake. "How dare you! I'm a Naga, not a snake! Learn your species, sir!" I told him. I probably should have never said that. The unknown thing had grabbed me by my long ponytail to where I met his face with mine. He could have used a breath mint, like jeez! Do they not brush their teeth or anything?! "I call you whatever I want, brat. I work for Syco. You don't! You listen to us and might just survive, snake," he spat. I flinched at his movements. Rude much? Not long after his actions, he threw me to the ground and started to walk out of the cell. "Well, get up! We have to go and see Dr. Syco. We wouldn't want to make him wait and get mad, would we?" Ok, that scared me. This "Syco" guy seemed so nice when he talked to me. Wait, he was kinda creepy in the end of our so called meeting. My thoughts were broken when the creature took another step near my trembling body. Before he could get any closer, I got up. He smiled and led me to a huge white room. There were lights almost everywhere! I could actually see 5 feet in front of me! I took a quick glance of the room and saw a metal table with straps on it, many beakers full of colorful liquids, and many people testing many different things at many different stations. It was so clean. So organized. If the room isn't bad at all, then why am I scared? Then the tall dark haired creature walked up to us. "Ah, Ms. Gladious! Glad you could join us!" he cheered. I was so confused. What is he hiding?

 "So for our first game, we're gonna play inject the chemical in the Naga!" Say what?! No way is this so called human going to put chemicals into my body!! "Wait, what?!" I quickly said. "I'd prefer to maybe play hide and seek or whatever, just not that please," I pleaded. His lips then showed an evil smirk. This is not going to be good. "I'm afraid not dear, but maybe next time. We need to know some information about you so that we can trust you in the world," he replied. He smirked then went away. He wasn't in a good or funny mood, but a mean and serious one. Before I could even reply, two of the weird creatures grabbed me by my arms and strapped me down to the metal table. I shivered right at the touch of the steel, but the feeling soon went away. The Syco guy then came over with a long needle connected to a bottle of light blue liquid. "This won't hurt a bit," he smirked. And as soon as he said that, the needle was injected into my arm. The liquid sent such a strong burning sensation that I couldn't help but scream in agony. Almost all noise was blocked out from my screams, but I could hear Dr. Syco laughing evilly. I tried to free myself, but the brown leather was too tight. I even tried to knock the table down. Too bad I couldn't. I felt as if all my strength and energy was being drained out from me. I looked down at my tail and I had seen that the colors were fading. All that was left was a monochrome tail. The black overlapped the white and the white overlapped the grey. My hair color changed not long after too. The once dark magenta strands are now just grey, black, and white mixed in altogether. The one thing that I would miss was my once happy and playful personality. The feelings that remained were anger and sadness. I felt as if I didn't care about anything or anyone. Almost of if I were the complete opposite of what I once was. And when they turned the table to angle and unstrapped me, I couldn't even stand up. I was so weak, so pitiful. Not long after they had done so, the two humans picked me up by my arms once again. "Take her to her cell and keep a close eye on her," he ordered. "She's not supposed to be completely black and white." Soon I was dragged back to my cell and thrown in there. All I did was scoff and get on the bed table contraption. As the cell door closed and locked, everything disappeared.