Hello Ladies and Gents! I'm back with another chapter. Not much to say so let's get into the story!

Also, thanks to Raiden the OC, for pointing out the grammar mistakes! I fixed them accordingly.

Enjoy!

Chapter 2

The Dark Unknown

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
― Bram Stoker

I looked around the woods for a moment, taking in the beauty of it. The clouds had taken place in the sky, rain bouncing off the trees to the ground underneath. My awestruck gaze was broken by a loud booming sound coming off from the trail. I seemed to hesitate for a moment, before going to investigate. "Something doesn't seem right." I thought to myself. I noticed a clearing up ahead, with three figures in the clearing. Two seemed to watch the other, before shouting over at him.

"Alright, that's more than enough testing results, come on." The voice seemed to echo throughout the field. The man turned around, and proceeded to walk with the two men.

"What are you doing out here..." I whispered to myself, before sneaking through the woods, over to the path the men were on. I could clearly see them now, two of the men wore black body armor, with a blue jumpsuit underneath. They wore metal helmets, obscuring their faces.

"Why the hell did we have to get put with him?" One of the men said, his voice muffled by the mask.

"Hey, you better be damn glad I picked you, because of that, me and you both just doubled our pay with that." The other man said angrily, before moving along. I looked over to the third man in the group, before discovering that his face was covered by a cloth bag. The trio walked towards a metallic building lodged in the side of a hill. One of the guards walked over to a opened panel before pressing in a keycode. The metal doors opened up, revealing a platform on the inside. The men stepped onto the platform, before it began its descent down. I took a moment for the platform to go down, before making a quick dash into the hollow room, nearly being crushed by the doors. I looked down to see that the men had stopped at a floor a few dozen feet down.

"Why the fuck does everything have to be so difficult?" I said to myself with a sigh, before taking a lunge to a pipe that lead down. My weight caused me to slide down at an alarming rate, before I tightened my grip. I jumped down when I was a few feet from the platform, trying to make as little noise as possible. The only way out from this box was the way the three men had gone. I peeked around the doorway for any guards, luckily not catching sight of any.

I began to walk down the long metal corridor, every ten feet or so, glass doors revealed the insides of rooms, some containing computers, others containing shelves upon shelves of files. I stopped at a door that read, 'Project Obsidian Research Database: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY'. My curiosity took the better of me, and I pushed through the door. The room was nearly vacant, aside from the computer on the far end of the room. The screen glowed a dim blue, before lighting up after a button press. I looked on the computer for a moment, before noticing a folder marked, 'Obsidian Subjects', the folder contained several files on subjects numbered from one to one hundred. Most of them had red text over them, opening them only showed giant red text that read out, 'FAILED TEST'. As I skimmed through the files, three came to my attention. Subject #14, #90 , and #99

The first file revealed the image of a girl, no more than ten years old. The file showed that the serum had been effective and allowed the surgery to go along smoothly. It came with photos of the girl before and after this 'surgery'. The first photo showed a girl with brown hair. Her eyes were hidden underneath her eyelids as she lied there on the operation table. The other photo revealed the same girl, except that the girls hair had already significantly darkened, she seemed like a normal healthy ten year old. The only odd thing other than the girl was her glowing violet eyes. The files explained that the melanin in her system after the surgery caused her eyes to turn an abnormal color, possibly a side effect from either the surgery or the serum.

The next file revealed the photo of a man, looking somewhere in his early twenties. In the before photo, just like the girl, was unconscious on a operating table, his hair was a jet black, and he wore a simple hospital gown. The after image revealed a image of the same person, same facial features, but differences in such a short time, similar to the girl. His hair was a greyish-purple tone, while his eyes glowed a bright violet color.

I went to open the last file, before an alarm began to go off. The screen began flashing 'Unauthorized Access' the alarms blaring.

"Shit." I said, before darting out of the room. To my left, a group of guards rounded the corner, taking sight of me.

"There! Get him!" One of them shouted, before they all began to stampede towards me. I held my sword out, ready to attack at any moment. The closest one lunged at me, before I managed to trip him off his feet, dealing a blow to his leg. The two guards behind him rushed at me, I quickly went to grab one of their batons, before it turned to dust in my hand. This caught him off guard, allowing me to give him a heavy shove into his partner, knocking them out.

"That was easy..." I panted, before a blunt object hit me on the back of the neck. I then realized I was back-first, lying on the ground. My sword was inches away from my hand, I reached for it before it was kicked away by someone above me. I looked to see the man from the files, his heel ready to kick me at any moment. I listened to him utter one phrase, before falling unconscious.

"But not easy enough..."

Sorry for the shorter chapter... I just wanted to get something out there. Longer chapter coming out soon (hopefully)! Hope you all enjoyed, and I'll see you in the next chapter! Peace!