Katy's POV

Light.
I was surrounded by blinding white light, was I dead? No, not dead, there is too much pain to be dead. My entire body felt broken, as if every bone had been twisted, shattered, broken and then reformed.
I tried to move my hand up to shield my eyes from the white light but was met with a searing pain that cause me to scream out in agony. I knew this pain, how could I forget the agonizing pain of the Onyx combination the DOD favored in torture. Slowly the pain ebbed away as I stilled, fearful of another scorching round of pain from the Onyx. I squinted my eyes trying to adjust to the brightness or my surroundings, the room was pure white from floor to ceiling and I recognized the horrible sterile smell mixed in with my burnt flesh from the shackles around my wrists and ankles. This room was similar to the one Will had previously entrapped me in and also to the room we had saved Bethany from.
I wasn't sure if I was happy to be alive or not. I was trapped in a room full of empty cages with no windows or a way out apart from one door which I am sure would be set up with the vaporized onyx. I had to think of a way out, maybe someone would come in to perform tests on me like with Mo? I could sure as hell try to fight my way out if I could, but then I would need to find a way out and that would be near impossible.

My eyes scanned the blank room hoping and praying that my mind would think up some ingenious escape plan. Where was Daemon? My mind flickered back to the moment the doors separated us and I saw him for what I thought to be the last time before I died. Daemon would be trying to find me, trying to rescue me I knew that for sure, but I hoped he didn't. Of course they wanted him to try and rescue me why have a weak mutated human when you can have one of the most powerful Luxen?
At the thought of Daemon fresh tears sprung to my eyes and the magnitude of the situation swept over me, I wanted to be out of here with Daemon and safe. It felt so hopeless in this room, that I would never get out and just live my life out as a lab rat until I was all used up.
I moved against the shackles slightly and the burning sensation spread through my body once more causing me to curl up and whimper until the pain slowly lessened. I remembered then about Blake's plans and our training, of building up a form of immunity to the onyx almost. I had to try at least, it was something and I was exactly flooded with good ideas right now. I tentatively looked down at the onyx and moved so all the shackles made contact with skin, I couldn't help the screen that erupted from my mouth momentarily, but was quickly silenced. "Come on Katy, you can do this." I repeated over in my head. I tried again but this time I tried to push out some of the source and see if I could use even a once of my power.
Nothing but the searing pain and an underwhelming blip from the source, I needed to keep trying I couldn't give up. I would not just lie down and die like a dog, I would fight even if it were hopeless.


I don't know how long I'd been torturing myself with the onyx or how long I had been alone in this room, but I was staring to feel stronger I able to push my source slowly further and further out. But I was no way close enough to being strong enough to escape. As I was just coming down from my latest onyx pain session I heard a click and the movement of doors, I looked up to see the only way in or out of this prison opening. Although I was scared of what was about to walk through the door, but I knew that this could be my chance.

The doors slammed open and I saw my captors enter. Through the door entered three figures, one was a beautiful young girl she couldn't of been any older than sixteen, with blonde hair that grazed the tops of her shoulders, she was very small and looked like an easy opponent in my plan to escape. However on the other side of the man who led in the middle was a largely built man who was all muscle and looked like he could take on a fully armed tank, he would be a lot harder to get past. My gaze then rested on the man in the middle, he wore a dark suit with a blood red tie, his dark hair was slicked back and shone in the rooms' bright light and he walked with such a self important demeanor. He was like a human snake that slivered across the room toward me, eyeing me with his dark blue eyes that were cold and malicious.
He approached the door of the cage and I instinctively backed away from the door, I would never be able to rush them all with this shackles on me, I was no way near close enough to try and fight my way out with the searing pain of the onyx bearing in to my skin. I winced as my back scarcely grazed the back of the cage and stopped and stared straight in to the eyes of my approaching captors. The greasy snake like man opened the catch of the cage doo. Opening it at a frustratingly slow pace, probably trying to build up some sort of moronic villainous bravado.
"Well hello Katy, we have been keeping our eye on you for a quite long time. It is such a pleasure to finally meet you, I am Samuel" The tall man almost hissed the words, perhaps he was a snake hybrid? Or just a real creep. "The pleasure is most certainly not mine asshole." Even in this dire situation I couldn't help but let my anger and venom seep in to my words.
"Oh my Katy what an interesting first meeting, you have quite a smart mouth on you?" A slow and sinister smile swept across his smug face. "But don't you worry we'll soon fix that. We have big plans for you Katy and you are going to make things very interesting around here."

Before I could even ask what he meant Samuel had grabbed the ends of the chains tugging hard, pulling me down on to my face and dragging me out of the cage on my front. I couldn't help the screams that escape me as the chains pulled and tugged in new ways. As soon as I was out of the cage I felt 2 pairs of strong arms hold me down, I assumed they belonged to the two who previously flanked Samuels side. Their strength felt inhuman and I assumed they must be some sort of Luxen hybrid also, I did not have the strength to fight of two hybrids I had to wait for an opportunity to run, I could do that I just needed to find the right moment. To my relief Samuel began to unlock the shackles that bound my wrists and ankles and I was in a euphoric state for a moment as I felt the cool air hit the burns that the cuffs had left. That moment was short lived when a felt a sharp pinch enter the crease of my elbow and heard Samuel's malicious laugh. "This may hurt just a little Katy." As soon as he had spoken those words a searing burning pain spread throughout my entire body, as if I was incased in onyx and I tried to scream but no sound came out. It was if I was being burnt at the stake from the inside out and all I could do was thrash my body violently as the pain spread to every inch of my body.
I tried to open my eyes and focus on what was happening around me but all I saw were lights moving above my head, as if I was moving down a corridor, but I could not feel anything apart from the pain and I was completely immobile apart from the violent thrashing of my body. I was screwed.

I must have blacked out from the pain because when I opened my eyes I was staring straight up at the ceiling, my back flat on a cold hard metal table and my wrists and ankles again bound. Although this time I did not feel the familiar burning of onyx and I was relieved as well as hopeful. Perhaps now would be my chance to escape. I pulled at my restraints and tested their strength, weak enough to break through only simple leather cuffs, seemed easy enough. I then scanned the room scoping out my surroundings and sizing up any possible opponents who would impede my escape. There was no one the room was empty apart from metallic and threatening look metal contraption that hung from the ceiling on the right hand side of the bed, it had numerous metal tools stretching out of it like fingers, I dreaded to think what this machine did if it was given the chance to exercise its little metallic tools on me. Just as I was sizing up the machine in walked Samuel. Sauntering towards the table this time he was accompanied only by the muscle machine from earlier and a new woman in a white lab coat with hard cold features, she looked closely related to some sort of ferret or rat, fitting for her job description I guess, she held the same smug look as Samuel and didn't take her eyes of me until she reached the metal machine by the bed. She begun to touch and fiddle with all different dials on the side of the machine. "Katy, so good of you to join us" Samuel clasped his hands together and stood over me, I could not wait to knock this douchebag flat on his ass.

I began to build the source inside of me, waiting for the perfect moment to expel it and attempt my escape. My plan was not well formed and I may even be captured when I get through the other side of that door, but it's the best I had. As I pushed the source out from me, I was shocked as nothing happened, no light, no big bang, nothing. I began questioning whether I was dreaming or awake until I heard Samuel's small snigger come from beside me. "Something wrong Katy?".
"What the fuck have you done to me?" I spat at Samuel, staring straight in to his cold blue eyes with my grey ones, hoping to produce some sort of answer from this staring contest. "Liquid onyx my dear Katy. Although you can't feel the painful effects of it anymore it is still running through your system and unfortunately until its all out your system, I guess you are more helpless than you were before." His smile spread even further across his face, taking pleasure in the look of fear and horror that took over my expression.

"What are you going to do to me?" My words were choked with the fear of what they had planned for me. Samuel moved around the table and stood by the evil scientist and her metal weapon. "Well Katy first of all, we're going to change a few things." He laughed that awful sniggering laugh and tapped my forehead. "In there." My mind flashed back to the first time I was in a place like this, with Will and when two of the guards who took Mo threatened to "Windex my brain". They were going to erase my memories and make me some sort of vegetable? Panic coursed through my veins turning my blood cold. "You're going to erase all my memories." Tears had begun to form in my eyes now and my voice broke, my strong front was slowly crumbling away. "Oh no Katy, what use would you be to me then? No, like I said we are just going to change a few things." What did he mean, change a few things? How could he even do that. I didn't have a chance to ask what the hell he meant, as the woman in the lab coats machine whirred to life and moved slowly over my head. The sound was deafening like a chainsaw trying to cut through metal. As the machine approached all I could think of was "Daemon please help me, Daemon." I began to sob uncontrollably and the machine moved down closer and closer with its long protruding tips moving towards my face and the last thing I heard was a murderous scream coming from my mouth.