Under The Blood Moon Chapter 1
2:00 A.M. At Main Wicked Compound
Ava Paige and Marcus Janson sat at her desk as they went over the final details for the subject failure and rejection procedure that they were about to put into motion.
"Now that we've finished going over the procedure, please call the guards to bring me subject Galileo Galilei.
It's time to dismiss him from the rest of his duties."
Ava Paige said as she took her glasses off and closed the manila folder that lay in front of them.
Marcus held her gaze for a moment with his eyes full of curiosity.
"Do you think he'll survive?"
Ava shook her head and smiled the twisted smile that her workers at Wicked knew all too well.
"Of course not.
No one ever makes it out of the city alive.
Death is his reward for his duties.
You did hear him tell us that he'd accept death for what he had done, did you not?
This way we're killing two birds with one stone.
We want him dead, he wants to be dead.
Good riddance."
Marcus's eyes flickered with sadness for a second before returning to their regular hardened gaze.
"As you wish, Chancellor."
He said with a nod before pressing a button on the intercom and telling the guards to bring the unfortunate subject to them to start the procedure.
They waited for a few moments before the guards came in dragging Gally behind them in shackles with guns pointed right between his eyes.
After Gally had killed Chuck at the end of the Maze Trial, he was taken back to Wicked where he remained all this time being used as a human lab rat enduring torturous experiments until he had become so numb and broken that he begged for death knowing that they'd kill him soon anyways.
As Gally stood before Marcus and Ava Paige they saw that he was thoroughly broken, no longer the fiery spirited boy that had always caused them trouble.
His hair was long and matted and cuts, bruises and needle marks littered his body as his head hung low going in and out of consciousness.
Ava Paige clasped her hands in front of her and gestured for the guards to step away as she looked at the shell of a once lively and healthy young man.
"Galileo, your time has come.
You are being relieved of your duties permanently.
We have decided to go through with the subject rejection process that we talked about earlier.
Now you have a choice.
Your last one, in fact.
You may either choose to be sent to an undisclosed location where your chances of survival are laughable at best, or you can choose be executed as soon as you step foot outside of this room.
You have three minutes to think and decide.
Time starts now."
Gally's eyes widened in fear at the thought of death waiting right outside the door and knew he had to choose wisely or else what little of his life would be snuffed out right before his very eyes.
Closing his forest green eyes tightly he swallowed hard before he opened them again and gave the two Wicked employee's the best fighting look that he could muster.
"I'll go wherever you send me. Just let me live."
He spat out as Ava Paige gave a laugh and shook her head before the guards took hold of him once again dragging him towards the middle of the room where a flat trans glistened in the darkness.
"That's the thing, Galileo.
Whatever your choice was going to be, you were going to die.
No one survives within the walls of the city.
You'll be dead within minutes once they find you.
Also, this is the last time you will ever be within this world so I suggest you take one last look around you and say a prayer that your friends never think of you because you will never see them again."
Gally let out a dark laugh of his own and pinned the Chancellor with a steely glare.
"Guess this is goodbye, bitch. See you in hell."
He bit out before he was unceremoniously thrown into the flat trans.
His body flew through the air as he fell down into what felt like a bottomless pit before his body slammed hard into a stone ground and he was plunged into eternal darkness.
He cried out from the impact, as several bones and broken ribs cracked; his blood flowing freely into the stones below him.
He let out a shuddering breath as blood started to drip down from his lips making it hard for him to breathe.
He could feel his eyes closing as the effects of the blood loss were taking effect fairly quickly.
He silently cursed Ava Paige for being right about him dying as soon as he arrived to wherever the fuck he was.
Just as he thought he was going to lose consciousness, his ears caught the sound of faint footsteps walking towards him somewhere within the sea of darkness.
Suddenly he felt his body being lifted into the air by a pair of strong arms and felt himself being carried away, disappearing into the darkness with the stranger who was either his savior or the one who'd end his life.
He felt the blood loss finally take over his battered body as his eyes closed and he drifted off into unconsciousness.
Little did Gally know, his journey into the darkness had only just begun.