Ailita's POV…

In the darkness of my room with the mask as my only means of clothes, I was bolted down to a machine that was injecting me with a toxin that disconnected my mind from my body. I don't want to remember any more. The pain of my past is too much to endure, especially here. I do not understand why this happened to me. I never wanted to harm anyone but my parents are gone and I am a prisoner of the wretched place. Wait, a prisoner has more respect than these scums give me. Just because of a genetic defect, I have been trapped in a research facility where they are doing some repulsive experiments on me and my new family. I hate them! When I finally escape, I will kill as many as I can before leaving this evil place.

"#0313? How is it doing?" A scientist asked outside of my cell door.

"We have discovered that she is a Queen and that her Vectors have increased in length within the last few days to ten meters." Another scientist seemed concerned. "Also, her ability to infect is quite different from the others… It is not a recessive in the victim like the others. Instead of just becoming a carrier, he became one of these forsaken creatures."

"Do you know if this just affects men or is it anyone who can get the Vector Virus from her?"

"We will need to obtain a female test subject to confirm the extent of her infectivity." The other scientist sounded unhappy. "But it was hard to get her to the right amount of sedation to have a survivor. Ailita is very unstable when it comes to handling her. She doesn't want to do what you want."

The other scientist, the one who actually acknowledges my name and gender, is Dante. He is unlike the others who call me "It" and "#0313", he actually tries being nice to me. That is the only reason why I fight the urge to murder him when he is nearby. My guess is since his daughter was also a diclonius; he feels compassion to what I am. It angers me when the other scientists harass him about being nice to us.

"Well, do the experiment soon. The others are feeling a little unnerved by how many of these things are on the island." The scientist sounded a little uneasy. "We will be transporting her to a facility on the mainland later this week."

And with that he walked off into the deeper parts of this prison. There was a moment of silence before Dante talked to me as we waited for the coast to be clear.

"Then, when they are transporting you to the other facility, would be a perfect chance for you to escape, Ailita." Dante pressed his hand on my door. "Do what you have to do to get off the truck before it reaches the destination and make yourself hidden. Whatever you do, don't reunite yourself with the people of your past. They will betray your location, even if they did not mean to. I will try to accompany you when they are transporting you."

"Thank you, Dante." I whispered.

And then Dante left me to wait for that day to come. And so I waited with an excited heart. I will be free from this horrid nightmare soon.

The day came slowly and I could hardly contain my delight. It was even more splendid when I heard Dante talking the group transporting me in front of my capsule. He was giving the men charged with taking me to the other building some safety precautions regarding how to manage me. All of the scientists hated me but wanted to keep me alive, but just barely.

"You boys should try to stay as far from her capsule if you wish to stay alive throughout the trip." Dante sounded troubled. "Her Vectors are capable of passing through anything and she will kill you without any second thoughts. It is better to just to have me take care of Ailita. She seems to trust me more than anyone she has ever come across. I am unsure why but she chooses not to tear me apart when I attend to her."

"It could be how you tend to treat her like she is actually a human being despite her being a killing machine." A guard grumbled. "No one should treat a monster like her as if she was a human girl."

I felt a flare of anger burn inside my heart. How dare that pathetic man call me a monster and think so lowly of Dante! If it weren't for the fact that I wanted to escape successfully and prove Dante right about me being capable of being gentle, I would tear him to shreds. But then Dante would think that I was only using him and I would never get the trust of anyone again. I wanted to live among the people of this world without anybody thinking that I am a freak.

"Ailita, you are going to be sedated with large quantities of the neurotoxin during the trip." Dante spoke to her. "I tried to convince the other scientists that you are fully capable of traveling without being drugged but they still don't believe that you are trustable. I am sorry."

I felt panicked because the very thought of being unable to do anything made me worry that maybe I would not being escaping. But then I heard Dante come closer to the capsule.

"Don't worry." He whispered. "I still will get you freed from this inhumane company's grasp. I promise that you will be free to do as you please without any of those scientists experimenting on you."

I smiled happily before the needles attached to the capsule penetrated my flesh and inject me with the toxin. Dante's foolish trust in the fact that I was a good person was misplaced by far. Once I had gotten my use out of him and was free, he would be torn apart before he saw it coming. What a fool he was to think that I would ever change. I had after all killed my own parents who had loved me dearly despite the fact I had a set of horn growing from my pale pink head. I feel nothing but hatred towards these foolish humans. I am an angel of death after all.

Jeff's POV…

Somehow I managed to end up in the town that I spent the majority of my childhood. The town before the time my family moved to a new place and I went insane. It was always a laid back place and the people were fairly nice to me and Liu but now barely anyone lives here. Why is that? What happened here while I was gone? Of course I tried to locate the house of my best friends' but only found it abandoned. And they were pretty happy here and had the money to keep staying here for a long time.

"Master Lucas' old home?" A woman that I remembered as one of my friends' housekeepers came up to me with a grim expression. "Did you know him and his family?"

"Yeah." I glanced about hoping to see if Lucas or his younger sister were anywhere. "What happened here anyway? It used to be so cheery and pleasant."

"Lucas' parents were murdered in their own house and everyone got scared that something bad will happen to them." The former maid shook her head. "Master Lucas apparently saw the murderer but won't tell anyone who it was."

"What about Ailita?" I looked at the woman. "She is not…"

"Master Lucas claims she died the night of their parent's death." The maid seemed to get a little fearful at the sight of my face. "But no one found her body and Lucas refuses to speak of her anymore."

"What happened to Ailita?" I grabbed the scared woman. "I can tell you are lying! There is more to what happened isn't there?"

"Men in white coats came with some guys that were armed and dragged poor Miss Ailita outside. They took her to who knows where and Lucas seems to have secluded himself from others." She tried to struggle. "I don't know what happened really. All I know is that the little mistress can never come home."

I felt a deep pit form in his stomach. Ailita was always a good and happy person but something must have happened to make her mentally unstable.

"Was she in the room when the parents were murdered?"

"Yes…" The woman nodded. "I think the shock of her parents being murdered before her eyes might have triggered hysteria."

Hysteria? I never would have suspected for such a happy girl to endure that nightmare. The former maid of the house seemed to have relaxed a little. Big mistake! I pulled out my knife when she turned her back and began to walk away.

"Go to sleep." I whispered as I brutally stabbed her several times until she stopped moving and lay in a puddle of crimson.

It sounds as though Lucas might still be living in this secluded little town. I better go find him and release him from his suffering like any good friend would. He needs to go to sleep so that he will have only good dreams.