-back in the lab-
The doctor was curled up in the fetal position under the control panel of his machine, trying to hide from the monster who was headed his way. He thought to himself, why.... why did i have to go so far? I... I never... no... why?....
As the monster neared the doctor, it pulled from its pockets a sword of complete darkness. It had black flames shooting off of it, and the material it was made of, harder than bedrock, was just as dark as the monster's hair, maybe even darker. Chuckling evilly, the monster swung the sword side to side as it strode up to the machine. Just as the monster was nearing the hunk of metal, it passed by a WINDOW with sun pouring through it. It let out a sickening scream as the dawn light began to burn through its skin. With a quick glare at where the doctor was hiding, and THE WINDOW with light streaming through it, the creature flapped its wings, burst a hole in THE ROOF , and flew off into the sky, following the disappearing moon and twilight.
It took the doctor a few minutes to realize that the creature was gone, and when he did so, he poked his head out from his hiding place to see the damage it had done. The lab was in total ruins, and would be easier to rebuild completely than to try and fix it. The entire roof was gone, and bits of debris had fallen all around the room below, some almost crushing the people inside. The doctor, still shaking a little, began walking around the room looking for his apprentice. After about a minute of walking, the doctor stepped on something soft. He looked down, and found he had stepped on Jackson's arm. What was left of it, at least.
Pushing a boulder off of the boy, he found that his apprentice had lost the majority of his right arm, from about the elbow down. Most of Jackson's bones were broken, if not all, and he was a bloody mess. The sticky red liquid was gushing from Jackson's head. His legs were a twisted mess, glistening with blood and bones sticking out at every direction. His torso was bent at such an unnatural angle that it seemed as if he had been cut in half. If one did not see what had happened to the boy, one would have not recognized the misshapen bloody lump lying on the ground.
Dr. Lothar began to back away from his apprentice, his eyes beginning to water as he slumped down to the ground and sobbed. Then, over his crying, the doctor heard the faintest gasp. He looked over to his apprentice who had managed to open one eye, as he clung onto life. Lothar hurriedly crawled over to Jackson, and grasped his apprentice's only hand. With a fatherly expression on his face, he shakily pulled a potion out of his pocket, and forced the liquid down the boys throat. In the blink of an eye, Jackson's wounds were healed, but he was still missing most of his right arm. He tried to move, but the doctor made him sit, and told him not to move a muscle, or else the potion's effect could fade, leaving him for dead.
The doctor stood, leaving his revived apprentice alone as he searched for a god apple to completely cure the boy's wounds and to strengthen him after the ordeal he had faced. Shifting through the rubble, he found a trap door that he had never noticed before. He thought it best to leave it for now, as Jackson's life was still in JEOPARDY . Continuing on his search, he found the young hybrid girl still strapped to the table, completely unharmed. slowly walking up to the girl, he decided it best to keep her with him as he tried to sort out this mess he had caused, rather to release her back into the wilderness with no recollection of what had happened. He removed her from the table, and put her into shackles with a long chain attached. Just as he did so, the girl awoke.
"LET ME GO," shouted Cassie.
The doctor did not even respond to her as he pulled her along with him. After a few minutes of dragging the girl around, the doctor decided to say something.
"Girl, you may want to tell me your name, because you will be with me for quite some time. I am not going to let you out of my sight until this mess I have created is fixed. who knows, I may need you since that monster i released escaped from a portal that came from you." stated the doctor.
Cassie froze when the doctor said this, and seemed more frightened now than ever before.
Scared out of her wits, Cassie screamed in a high pitched voice,"w-w-what do you mean monster?! Portal?! From ME!?!"
Sighing, Lothar responded to the watery-eyed girl. "Yes... The thing I did to you produced a portal to an unknown realm of which I was trying to access. However, I apparently accessed a certain part of that realm, a forbidden area as they call it, where the most horrid creature out of all the creatures in every realm resided. With heart and soul darker than the darkest night, his only purpose is to enslave everything that breaths, and to kill those that don't obey. And I, in my stupid quest to connect the realms, gave him a means of escape, and have doomed us all! ...that is, unless, the prophecy is fulfilled, where a small group of people will defeat the monster using any means possible, and trap him back in his realm for the next 10,000 years. However, if the prophecy is not fulfilled within the next six months, the world will be bathed in black flames forever, as the monster has his way with anyone or anything he wants. That is why I need you, little hybrid girl. Now please, tell me your name. You could be the key to the prophecy, and I will need all the help I can get."
The doctor turned to the girl as he said this, and removed her shackles, since he knew that she would have to help him out of her own FREE WILL , otherwise the monster could never be defeated.
Cassie looked the doctor in the eyes, still a bit scared, but shook her head yes.
"I will help," stated THE HYBRID , "but only out of my own free will. If you try to force me to do anything at all, I will not help you, and if possible, I will leave. Now, just because you removed my shackles and I said I'd help you on your quest does not mean I trust you, because I don't. However, I will tell you my name. I am called Cassie by my friends and family, and you can call me that as well."
At this the doctor smiled.
"Thank you," spoke the doctor,"after what I did to you... Now, please help me to find a god apple, for my apprentice is in dire need of one, after feeling only some of the monster's wrath."
