Experiment VII

Chapter Five: The New Girl

     A few days passed after our names were revealed and a lot has happened since. The lady mentioned the tenth person that was supposed to live in the cell block, but their mind wipe was not yet completed. The next day I think it was that she arrived on. It was a fairly funny incident if I am being honest.

     I was sitting in my cell, as usual, listening to Daesung complain when I heard three pairs of footsteps and a female screaming something along the lines of, "Get your hands off me!"

     When I heard the commotion I got up off the floor and walked over to the bars of my cell trying to get a look at was going on, along with just about everyone else in the cell block. I saw a girl struggling against two strong guards that were trying to escort her down the hallway presumably into one of the cells. She could not have been any older than the age of sixteen, and despite all her struggling against the two men I managed to make out she had black hair and looked to be Asian, which confused me a bit because Naomi Circes does not sound much like an Asian name to me.

     The guards then directed her to the cell opposite mine and shoved her in gruffly to which she responded in a Japanese accent, "Touch me one more time and I'll slap you right off the face of the earth you idiot!" She screams then turning to the other guard and adds, "Same goes for you chubs!"

 "Just shut up already." One of them said harshly whilst slamming the barred cell door shut and inserting his key inside and turning it, clicking the lock before removing the key from the hole and putting it back on his belt, then turning to walk away.

"If I wanted to hear from a butthole I'd fart..."She mumbled leaning her back against the wall and sliding down until she was in a sitting position. The girl then turns her head over into my direction and speaks up again, "What are you looking at?!"

This is the point where Daesung shouts back to her, "If you don't already know I don't think he can help you." To this, I let out a chuckle when I hear the girl mumble something.

       After thinking back to when the new girl arrived my brain cruises back to just a little later when who I have come to know as 'The Lady From Before' announced all our names and shortly afterwards commanded the guards to take Dan Everett for mutation. I remember Gemma, the eagle-human hybrid girl pulling on the bars of her cell screaming his name in a screechy manner while Dan was being dragged to another room. Nobody likes getting mutated, from what I am told it is an excruciating and rather risky operation. It seems at least one out of ten people die after or during it. I do not want to get mutated, and I dread the day where it is my turn to become a mutant or possibly die. Dying does not really bother me so much since I do not even know who I am or remember my family or anything from my past life so there would not really be much to miss. I just do not want to be turned into a...monster.

"Axel. Axel!" I hear I distant voice call before a blurred hand snaps in front of my face and then my name is repeated again, "AXEL!" suddenly snapping me back into reality. I slightly shake my head a bit before blinking a few times causing my eyes to come back into focus. When I realize I was being spoken to I answer drearily, "Huh? Yeah? What? Is something wrong?"

 "Dude you zoned out for like five minutes straight! What was that all about?" Daesung questioned while stuffing some what we call 'food' here in his mouth right before spitting it back out into his bowl. "That stuff never gets any better." He remarked in disgust.

      I let out a chuckle before responding, "You got that right, and as for the other thing, well, I guess I zone out a lot."

 "We noticed," Naomi added out of nowhere. I seem to have avoided that question pretty well then.

 "You're almost as bad as the old lady over here." Ellie said between mouthfuls of food and gesturing to Gemma as 'the old lady over here'.  She earned herself that nickname because her hair is white, not because she is old or anything it just sort of happened during her mutation. That and her yellow eyes which creep me out to this very day. I would think Gemma was some kind of alien if it was not for her freckles, they sort of humanize her in a way I guess.

 "How do you do that?" Daesung inquired.

 After looking up from her bowl of slop while some of it fell out of her mouth Ellie wiped her mouth before replying, "Do what?"

 "Eat that stuff." He responded with a disgusted face while peering down into her bowl.

 "A girls gotta eat yo." Ellie shrugged shovelling another spoon into her mouth."

 "What are you going to use for a face when the baboon wants its butt back?" Naomi questioned out of nowhere as if considering it for a second or two.

Thanks for reading everyone! I hope the story is starting to make sense now...

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