Part Five; Masked Girl

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Laura's POV.

Today is probably one of the worst days of my life... probably. I don't remember any of my other days so I guess it's the worst day of my life that I can remember.

I've been in my room all day, so when the lights went out in the whole mansion, I decided to go look around more.

I silently sneak out of my room, and down the stairs.

An hour later...

I've looked through this whole entire place. The place is huge considering it was once a castle... wait... how do I know that?!

Anyways... I was even able to sneak outside for a few minutes.

I sigh as I enter the kitchen and pull out the dog tags I found earlier. They were a beautiful silver, shiny and jiggly.

I begin rattling and studying the tags.

I take a deep breath, but stop in the middle of it. There was somebody watching me.

A real intruder.

I slowly place the dog tags back into my pocket and start to reach for a knife that was close by.

Footsteps began making their way toward me. They were very silent, but I could hear them as if someone was pounding towards me.

Some instincts suddenly kick in.

I turn around, jab the knife into the intruder's shoulder, and kick the intruder in the gut.

The intruder stumbles back before looking up at me, grabs the handle of the knife, and rips it out of her shoulder.

"Who are you?" I ask.

The intruder stares at me for a moment, "They really did take your memory." she says.

"What?" I ask in shock.

Suddenly, she lunges at me again, but I move and she slams into the counter. She gets up, again, and continues to pursue me.

Whenever she'd attack, I'd block her.

Some things broke, so I wasn't surprised when I heard people waking up. But I was surprised to see that the Professor was the first one in the room.

The intruder turns and goes to attack the Professor, "No!" I scream.

Something... strange happens after that.

As the intruder goes to sink her silver claws, claws extremely similar to Mr. Logan's claws, into the Professor, my hands hurt suddenly. Before I realize it, silver claws are retracting from my knuckles too and I'm able to stop the Professor's death.

The girl and I had the same amount of strength, so nobody was really going anywhere. The "nothing happening" moment was stopped when Mr. Logan showed up and knocked the girl out.

"What the hell?!" I scream. "What's happening to me?" I look at the claws that are still retracted.

"Laura, you need to calm down." the Professor says.

"No! No I won't calm down! I want... I need to know what's-" I'm cut off when something hits my head and I'm knocked out.

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