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A/N: Hey this is GoddessHitomi with my first fanfic. I hope you will enjoy it even though I am not brilliant at getting what I think in my imagination down on paper. Anyway tell me what you think. Read and Review! Thanx!
The Forgotten Experiment: Prologue
By GoddessHitomi
It was midnight and all was quiet in the Zeibach experiment headquarters. The only sound that could be heard was the patrolling guards checking in on all the residents of the lower levels of the building. That is if you can call them residents, since they were all brought there unwillingly. Practically all of the prisoners were homeless or kidnapped children who were brought to the building to see if they would become Zeibach's next successful creation.
The kids here were all treated like they were just animals that shouldn't even be given a second glance, they were nothing. However this was not the case for one of the experiments. She was the scientists' latest and most important experiment. She was not like the others; she wasn't born from a normal family.
Her parents were projects just like the other kids and were the best assassins known anywhere; even though no one knew who they really were since secrecy is key in their occupation. Then after many years of countless completed jobs the couple was put up in a village to be called on only if the Empire really needed them, which wasn't often, since they had destroyed practically all of the people who opposed the Zeibach Empire.
The woman soon became pregnant, had a beautiful, bouncing baby girl and they named her Kiara. The little girl had the darkest black hair with deep blood red eyes that seemed to shine like rubies. She had ivory skin that made her hair stand out and she was one of those babies that you could tell when she grew up she would be desired by all men. Beside from her beauty and being a child born from the best assassins born on Gaea, Kiara had special powers that the Empire was interested in. The parents obviously didn't give her over and for that the Empire killed them and kidnapped Kia. However this didn't happen until Kia was at the age of 8, and before her parents died they taught her some of their tricks unbeknownst to Zeibach.
Kia soon became the Empire next project; they injected her with many drugs which enhanced her: sight, hearing, strength and agility. Zeibach took her under their wing and trained her to be the youngest and one of the best assassins by the age of 10; however they were still baffled by her power that seemed to never show up and couldn't make her use. They thought that maybe she didn't have the powers to begin with, but she did still have a strange aura that surrounded her. They didn't through her away because with or without powers she was still one of their best assassins and experiments.
When Kia was kidnapped by she became quiet and reserved, she never talked unless she was ordered and always did what she was told by her superiors no matter what. The Empire thought it was strange that she changed totally when she was out on a mission; she seemed to have lots of fun killing targets in many different ways. Kia always seemed to play a game with her prey but Zeibach thought nothing of it as long she was still loyal to them. What they didn't know was that Kia was getting prepared for her big escape. One of the things Kia learned from her parents was to always to play your part. Basically she was pretending to be on Zeibach's side so she could gain their trust and then stab them in the back.
And she played her part well because she had a lot of freedom in the Zeibach headquarters, which had been her home for 2 years. All this freedom didn't come in much use on the night of her escape though, since all the guards came charging after her when she broke out of the headquarters. She was heading toward the woods when she was surrounded by guards, they closed in on her and she knew it was no use. However just when it seemed there was no hope a beam of white light surrounded her lifting her up towards the Mystic Moon.
On the Mystic Moon the light ended right in front of a group of men carrying weapons. Kia then fell down to the ground but knocked herself out on the cold, hard concrete floor. The men to say the least were gob-smacked, who was this girl? The leader of the group decided that they should take her with them. Unbeknownst to Kia she had landed right into the hands of a group of professional assassins.
After a year of searching high and low for Kiara Zeibach decided it was a lost cause and destroyed any trace of her from their records. They thought that they would never see her again, but how wrong they were!