Prologue-

"What do you want with me?"

The large man sitting across from her held her gaze and clasped his hands together, as he replied, "We need your help, Chosen One."

Nina felt a chill run down her spine. She didn't trust him, or anyone who worked for him for that matter. Why should she? She didn't even know who he was, or even where they were. Heck, she didn't even know what day it was!

One afternoon, she had been going for a small walk around her neighborhood, like she did every day before dinner in the summer. That was when she had been surrounded by men and women in suits who came almost out of nowhere as far as she could remember, and a strange needle was stabbed into her arm. Next thing she knew, she was in some strange cell, surrounded by cold metal walls and constantly being watched by the cameras that were placed in every room and every hallway.

And now she was being forced to talk to this strange man in this empty, tiny gray room, who somehow knew she was the Chosen One.

"How did you know that? Who are you? Where am I?"

He got up from his chair and walked over to where she was, reminding her of how Victor would sometimes act when interrogating her back at Anubis House. But this was not Victor, and this was not Anubis House. Those two simple facts made her more terrified than ever.

The man put his hands down on the table with force, nearly knocking over the single glass of water she had been given. Leaning over, he said, with his face uncomfortably close to hers, "One question at a time, Chosen One. I do not have patience for stupid girls thinking they can interrogate me in my own building."

"But I wasn't trying to-"

"Silence." He got up again and walked over to the wall. Pulling a remote out of his pocket, he hit a button, and the wall moved away to reveal a series of screens hiding behind it. He pressed another button, and the screens turned on, revealing images of things she had seen her entire life. Her house when she was growing up in California. Her new house in Pennsylvania. Her elementary school, her middle school, and her old summer camp, and... Anubis House. That one especially made her tense. All she could think was if her friends...if Fabian...was okay. "As you can see, we have been watching you your whole life. The minute word got out that the newest Chosen One had been born, well, we simply couldn't resist."

Nina swallowed hard, and he continued speaking.

"We know everything about you, Chosen One. You've had a rather interesting life, haven't you?" The man turned to her, and she tried not to shrink away at his cold stare. "Didn't you?"

"You could say that." She was determined not to appear frightened by him; Nina sat up straighter, looked him in the eye, and did her best to speak clearly and calmly. It was hard not to give into the void of terror that was growing in her stomach.

He laughed a little. "Did this answer your first question?"

She didn't answer.

"Well, did it?"

"I guess it did."

"Excellent." The man smiled and turned the screens off. As she saw the image of Anubis House disappear, she felt a strange feeling of despair in her stomach. "Now, moving on. Was that your only question you had for me, Chosen One?"

His fake smile and his sudden forgetfulness got her angry. "You didn't answer the other two! Who are you?! Where am I?!" Nina stood up and shouted at him this time, which she really shouldn't have done.

The man shook his head and pressed another button. The iron door behind her opened up and two people walked in, with another needle. Seeing them, she began to panic instinctively. As they grabbed her arm, she tried her hardest to resist.

But her efforts were futile. As they shoved the needle into her arm and injected more of the strange liquid into her bloodstream, the man looked at her and gave her a smile.

"Very sorry, Chosen One. But the answers you wanted are classified."

Nina was dragged from the room, while the unknown drug took it's control. She stopped struggling, and by the time she was halfway through the hallway, she was unconscious again.