Why hello there. I see you have stumbled upon my humble fanfic, and that you have proceeded to the second chapter. To reward you, have a cookie.

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Anyways, this chapter is still in Irisu's POV, but it's a flashback. Have fun reading the thingy.

I do not own Hyouka in any way, shape, or form.

The first time I saw him was about seven years ago. It scared me for life, and turned me into what I am today.

"Where are we going, father?"

"To see a boy about the same age as you at the hospital."

"At the hospital?"

"Yes. Listen, daddy has some work he needs to attend to. This is really important. Who knows? Maybe you can play with this boy. I think I know where we can find some playing cards."

We parked the car in front of the hospital. The moment we entered through the doors, a flurry of scientist surrounded us.

"Here are the statistics of the patient." said one of the scientists, who was sporting rectangular thick glasses, with electrical tape keeping it in one piece. "Almost all of his wounds has recovered, except for his arm"

"The blood. Tell me about his blood."

"We are still examining the blood on the seventh floor. I'll have an intern fetch the results when they are done."

Why are they fretting about the blood so much? It's not like they can do anything much with normal blood. We took an elevator large enough to house me, my father, and all of the scientists to the eleventh floor. Going through a series of twisting, white hallways we found a set of huge, metal doors, about three inches thick, with two guards were positioned in front of it. I didn't even know that there was a room with this amount of security in the hospital. Whatever is behind those doors must be really important.

My father pulled out some id from his breast pocket. The soldier took it out of his hand, and after some time, handed it back and said "Right this was sir."

The soldiers opened up the heavy doors by punching a code into an interesting keypad, that went from 0-12, instead of the normal 0-9. There was an electric whirring, and the door slowly opened, revealing a room full of computers, with a large window at the far back of the room. On the other side of the window, there was another room full of heavy machinery, and a single bed in the middle of it all, with a large lump in the middle of it.

"Did we really need to isolate the subject?"

"He almost killed three of out guards."

"He did that?"

"You underestimate the Darkin." said a third voice.

We spun around to be greeted by a tall scientist, with tiny glasses parked upon the tip of his nose. The top of his head was completely barren, and what little hair he had on the sides of his head was gray.

"Who are you?" my father asked the man.

"I am Dr. Sugai, a specialist in Darkin anatomy."

"We don't even know if he is a Darkin."

What is a Darkin?

"Fuyumi-sensei!" called a voice that seemed to appear from nowhere. We discovered that the was an intern. "The blood results just came in. Here they are."

As my father was looking through the sheets of paper kept together by a folder, his eyes widened and he started to tremble.

"I see that he was confirmed to be a Darkin." the doctor said smugly.

"How did you-"

"It was obvious from the beginning, wasn't it? You just refused to accept the truth."

"You're right…" That was strange. Father never admitted that he was wrong. This must be really serious. "We need to get him to a more secure facility. I know a private army that I can call..."

"There won't be enough time. When he wakes, he will go on a rampage. You see, Darkin physiology is very complex..."

I tuned out after he got too complicated. I made my way to the big window and examined the lump on the bed. I discovered that it was not a lump, but it was a boy, about my age like father said, but with a rather pale complexion. I noticed that there was an absence of lump where his arm should be. When a doctor lifted the sheets to do a routine medical check, I realised that his arm was gone. All that was left was a stub covered with bloody bandages. The doctor replaced the bandages and exited the room.

After a while, the character under the sheet started breathing again, but no one seemed to notice. I examined him with my curiosity blazing. Suddenly, his eyes opened, and I could swear he looked right at me, despite the one-way window that separated us. His eyes were a deep blue. I could have gotten lost in them if one of the scientists didn't interrupt our weird bonding moment.

"HE'S AWAKE! GET AWAY FROM THE DOORS!"

Five soldiers cautiously entered the room, assault rifles shouldered. One of them attempted to calm the kid down.

"It's okay, it's okay, we're not going to hurt you."

I doubt he was even listening, as his eyes were still locked with mine.

"Get away from the window, Irisu."

As I departed from our staring contest, I saw that his eyes suddenly turned an icy blue, almost as if the deep blue was water, and it has just experienced a horrible fimbulwinter. The ice then turned into a blood red.

"OH GOD IT NOTICED US!"

The lights suddenly flickered off, and multiple blood curling screams echoed throughout the hospital. My father held me close to his chest to try and block out the noise from reaching my ears, but was horribly unsuccessful. There was a large explosion that lit up the room for a few milliseconds, revealing a shadow leaning on another, slowly being carried away.

"Someone find the lights!"

After a few moments, the lights flickered back on. It was revealed that the intern that brought the Darkin blood earlier was the one that managed to turn on the lights.

"What just happened?"

On the other side of the window, the bodies of the five soldiers were laying on the ground, with the blood of the marines splattered across the room. There were bloody footprints on the floor, and the camera that observed the two rooms was crushed, and on the ground.

"What was that?!" asked the intern that was able to find the light switch.

"The power of a half-darkin."

"THAT WAS A HALF DARKIN?!"

"He only had one arm as well."

"There was more than one..." the younger me said.

"What? What makes you so sure?" the doctor said in a very menacing tone, coming right up to my face.

"In the explosion, there were two shadows..."

"Well, this is an interesting turn of events. We will need more than an army to stop the Darkin. "

Suddenly, the lights flickered out again. There was the sound of footsteps and glass breaking.

"EVERYBODY GET DOWN!"

By the time the lights came back on, all of the boy's blood was gone.

"Somebody must really not want us to save lives."

Suddenly, the security guards rushed through what was left of the main gate after the explosion.

"What happened here?!" asked the head security guard.

"The boy escaped." said the doctor, brushing the dust off of his lab coat.

"What? How? It was just one kid!"

"Do. Not. Underestimate. The Darkin."

I hoped you likes this chapter! Because of it's short length, I will be posting the next one shortly. I will now be responding to comments!

To Vomouse : Thank you for your insight. I will be sure to add more action into the later chapters.

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