Chapter 1- "Innocence Lost"

I didn't know where I was. I woke up in a bed as I looked around to see that I was in a damp, dark place. I couldn't possibly be where I thought I was because what it looked like was jail. I couldn't believe I was in this terrible place and I didn't realize how terrible it was until later.

I gasped and twisted around in my bed as I saw another woman looking at me. Her red eyes pierced my burgundy ones as she just kept looking at me. "Hi..."

I didn't reply as I was so scared and I just couldn't get over how terrible this place was. Then I calmed down as I looked at the other woman. She had long deep pink hair with two horns coming out of her head. I'd never seen anything like her but she looked beautiful as she stayed in bed.

She could tell I was scared.

"I guess you're in here for the wrong reason, you don't look like you would be a terrible human." she replied. "Happens all the time here, the wrong people end up in this facility."

"I thought this was a jail." I replied, I didn't know where I was or how I got here. "What is this place?"

"A mental hospital jail." she replied as she tried to move but the chains rattled underneath. "They chain everyone to their beds at night but you, they made an exception. By the way, this place is called Chosin."

"Oh my god..." I shuttered. "I don't belong here...I-I don't belong here...I-I was on a mission and...I got captured and moved to this place."

"Oh...They do that..." she spoke softly. "So, what's your name? Are you a terrible human like the rest?"

"Aiko Otani. Most people call me Ai." I replied as tied my long hair until a loose bun. "What's your name?"

"Kaede." she replied. "I go mostly by Lucy. I hope we can get along because humans have been very mean to me. I'm the toughest one in here."

"We will..." I replied as I looked into Lucy's eyes. I could see so much pain and sadness. No wonder she had asked if we would get along at all.

Lucy faced me. "You promise? You will look out for me?"

"Of course, Lucy. I will be your friend. I guess we have to help each other out." I smiled. "I guess what we should do is get to know each other."

Lucy felt some happiness and her eyes widened. "Really? I would like that very much but I have to warn you my past isn't a past, it's much worse than that."

"My past was hard too. I'd be glad to hear yours." I replied as I smiled. "I feel like I can trust you."

"Well...It's long." Lucy replied. "Some may scare you. I hope that doesn't change our friendship."

I saw the male guard go into a cell and heard the screams of two girls as they were beaten and raped. Their screamed scarred my ears as it continued all through the night.

Lucy looked at me. "I was almost raped seven times by them. You are never safe here."

"O-Oh my..." I stopped short. This was hell and when I found out the real reason for the faculty. It would make me ashamed to be a woman for the longest time. There would be no forgetting the reason or the treatment of this facility.

The screams continued as the guards continued. "You damn bitch! If you just did as you were told we wouldn't be back in here! You know you wanted it...you basically begged me! I feel good, don't I?"

I couldn't tell who the officer was so I asked Lucy. "Lucy? Who is the officer that is doing that?"

"Officer Naito." Lucy replied as she looked up at the ceiling. "We all call him Jigoku because he is exactly that. He has been here for years but it wasn't until recently he began the raping and the harassing. He hasn't gotten time with me. So, he makes it known he'll come for me."

I shuttered. I really felt unsafe here and I knew I would have to fight off the guards since they all seemed corrupted and unstable. Lucy could tell that I was scared and I just went in the corner and refused to sleep. I couldn't without them sneaking in and doing something.

"Lucy..." My burgundy pools looked at her red ones. "I promise I won't let them hurt you...I don't think I can sleep with all the screaming."

"I can't either." Lucy moved against the chains. "This isn't the first time I've been in an institution. That I will tell you about some other time. Anyways, you should sleep because we have hard labor tomorrow at eleven-thirty. Breakfast is at eight."

I felt like it was my duty to keep Lucy and myself alive because we could die at any moment or be harmed at any moment if we chose not to pay attention. I still couldn't sleep not without the fear of the guards slipping in to have their way with Lucy and I. So, I remained awake for now until I got too tired and fell asleep.

The screaming did stop but then crying came after and it went on all night. I felt like everything was so inhuman an so inhumane at the same time but with more dark twists surrounding them.

No one cared about us. I watched one woman try to run down and escape and before she reached the bottom, a gun went off three times ending her life. The guards decided to leave her there to have the reminder be found in the morning to all the rest of the inmates.

Lucy spoke again. "Escaping is execution...you try and they will kill you. So many still try and no matter how many warnings, they still go thinking that they will be saved. You won't."

"How are we going to get out of here?" I panicked thinking that I'd never see the outside or freedom again for as long as I lived. I cried even more since the conditions were so bad and everything was so unhappy.

Lucy growled darkly. "I want to kill them all...Kill them right where they stand. They don't deserve to live, more miserable humans that just hurt others..."

Lucy cursed more and then fell asleep. I decided to close my eyes since the guards had finished that night. I couldn't stay awake anymore as I fell asleep.

Lucy slept lightly as she moved against her chains. "Kouta...My Kouta..."

I was wrong to think day one was hell because the rest of the days from here on out would be a frozen toxic hell that I could escape and had no comfort in.