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Piper opened her eyes. She was in a small, empty room except for the poky mattress she was lying on. She rushed to stand up but was held back by something. She heard the clanking of metal and looked down. Her wrists and ankles were locked on cold, heavy, metal chains. Piper fought back the urge to scream when the events of the last few hours flooded into her mind.
"How could I have been so stupid?" she asked herself. "I should have known something was wrong the second I saw that diner." Piper knew why she had never seen the diner before. It was never there. The building had been abandoned for years and she had always avoided it. That explained the sticky floor, old pictures and flickering lights. Piper couldn't believe she had let herself walk straight into a trap. She was wrenched out of her thoughts when the door to the small room opened and a muscular man walked in smirking.
"We've finally got one," he said to another man. Piper looked at him more closely and realized that he was not a man at all. He had green, scaly skin. She took a sharp intake of breath when she realized that he was a monster. How had they found her? What did he mean when he said that they finally found one? Piper's mind raced.
When the man and monster left the room Piper searched for a way out. The room had no window, but the door didn't appear to have a lock. All she had to do was get out of these chains. Piper examined them more closely. There was a keyhole. Maybe she could open it with her dagger… She tried to reach into the pocket of her ripped jeans but the chains were too heavy for her to move her arms. She kept trying until her wrists stung from rubbing against the metal and her shoulders were cramped.
Piper sat on the moldy mattress all night. She didn't dare to sleep. When the man returned to the lonely room in the morning, her wrists and ankles hurt so bad that it was all she could to keep from wincing every time they pressed against the cold metal. The man walked toward her and seized her hands. Piper cried out. He unlocked the chains and Piper saw that her wrists were raw and bloody. Since her hands were now free, she landed a solid blow on the man's face. He stumbled backwards. Piper tried to stand up but her feet were still chained. The man came at her but she was prepared. Piper had her dagger in her hand. She dug it deep into the man's leg and shoved him. He yelled in pain and fell to the hard floor clutching his leg. Piper snatched the keys and unlocked the chains around her ankles. Once she was free she ran out of the room in which she had spent many long hours.
Piper raced down the long white hall. As she ran she noticed that the stale air smelled a bit like a hospital and a science lab. "This can't be good," she thought to herself. Piper pushed herself to run faster. She turned a sharp corner and ran into something warm. Breathing heavily, she looked up and found herself staring into the eyes of the green monster. Piper turned to run in the opposite direction but screamed as the monster grabbed her wrist. He harshly turned her to face him. Piper glanced down and saw her blood seeping between his fingers.
"Thought you could run away little girl," he hissed. Piper didn't say anything she just glared at him. "Never could trust mortals anyway. They're weak and distracted rather easily," the monster continued while shaking his head disapprovingly. Piper knew that he was referring to the man she had left lying on the floor in the white room. "Well, now that I've got you, why don't we get started? We have great plans for you," he cackled. Piper kicked him, hard. He hissed. She started to run but he jumped on her. Piper heard a crack and a hot searing pain raced up her leg. She knew her ankle was broken. Now she had no hope of escaping the monster. He grinned and dragged her down the hall. Piper grit her teeth as more hot tears ran down her cheeks.
The monster dragged her into a room full of people dressed in white lab coats. As Piper's vision faded in and out, she managed to see a metal table and a lot of cords and equipment running to it.
"We've been waiting a long time for this," said a man with hair as dark as night. Then her vision went black.
