The Awakening pt. 6
Kei's P.O.V.

I looked at Kaoru and he seemed to have a slightly confused face, then he continued with a skeptical look.
"...well... I'm still worried about you, finding you in Tokyo Zero and all... so I'm taking you to Liz. She's the Doctor here, you remember her right? She was the woman you met first when you came onto the Cell."
God, he rambles on and on...
Shush!
"Yeah, the woman you had me under anesthetics?"
She seems absolutely delightful!
Your sarcasm isn't needed
"Yeah... Sorry about that, she's really nice, all of that was just protocol, whenever someone new enters the Cell, you have to be tested." Kaoru helped me up, "Come on, her lab is this way." I followed him out my room and we started walking.
"...What exactly is The Cell? I heard you guys talk about it, but I don't really understand..."
" The Cell is what we are on right now." Kaoru spoke nonchalantly as if this was common talk.
" What?" I didn't understand him, what we're on right now?
"The Cell is what we call our flying islands here. There are multiple Cells and there are different cities on each Cell. Right now, you are on Cell 00, the first, and most advanced, Cell. Since Cells float, we use teleportation technology to get from Cell to Cell, or From Cell to Surface and vice versa." We exited the Residential Building and stepped outside.
" So wait, how high up are we? And why are we here? ...How long have I been gone? None of this seems right at all..."
Calm down, stop panicking.
" You went missing on the day of the apocalypse, 6 years ago, the day the Earth became absolute Hell" Kaoru's expression became a serious and terrifying one. It sent chills down my back when I looked at him. " I looked for you for days, avoiding the Gates, but when I had scoured the city for weeks, these guys found me and took me to Cell 00 and I've been here"
"...Gates?" We turned onto a pathway.
"I mean the creatures down on the surface, you must have met one?" A vision of the creature I came face to face with flashed in my mind and fear surged into my brain.
"Y-yeah... I did... it's why I decided to kill myself at the hospital...What are those things..." The goose bumps on my arms and legs started to calm down and I took a few deep breaths.
mill zombies, no, they are something that Mother Nature chewed up, spit out, and then shot in the face a few times. Most people thing they were created by radiation or experimentations gone wrong, but we think it's mutation in DNA. You can't kill one by chopping it up, you have to destroy its heart. Chopping it up just makes it multiply." Kaoru went on talking about what they looked like and how they moved.

My blood ran cold and I felt like curling up in a ball and hiding from all this.
This world...truly is hell...there's no doubt in my mind. This world is absolute hell.
Kaoru caught my attention again when he said my name.
"Hey Kei, what's up with your hair by the way" We kept walking around the Cell.
"My hair?" I ran a strand in between my thumb and forefinger and played with it. "What about it?"
"Well... for one its silver and purple when it used to be black. What the hell happened?" He started chuckling.
"Your guess is as good as mine" I shrugged.
We reached the Cell's Lab where I'd meet Liz and Kaoru opened the door for me as we entered. He took me through the main entrance with the familiar boring white walls and white ceiling. The woman named Liz met us in the next room and shook my hand.
"Hello, you are Kei I presume?" She smiled and looked me in the eyes.
I have an unnerving feeling about this woman Kei, be alert around this one...
"As far as I know, I am" I chuckled nervously and smiled back.
"I could never forget this remarkably colored natural hair... Its also amazing how you have been missing for six years and stayed the same age. You are very interesting Kei... follow me..." Liz led us into a room with a table-bed in the middle of it and another door which had a one-way mirror next to it.
"Please sit on the table Kei, I'm going to examine your body to see if you have any wounds or infections that might worry us." I did as I was told and sat on the table-bed quietly, "Now please extend your arm so I may take a blood sample to run some tests on" she pulled out a syringe and held out her hand.
Oh no, Kei don't let her draw blood from you. That is an extremely bad idea.
Why? What do you mean it's a bad idea?
Once you died here, your bloo-
Liz became impatient and grabbed my arm and stuck the syringe in my forearm and I flinched as she began to draw blood from me. I became nervous when she got a puzzled look on her face. She stopped drawing blood and the removed the syringe from my arm and held it up to a light to examine it. Kaoru became curious and walked over to Liz and looked at the clear syringe with her.
"This is quite intriguing Kei...Were you aware that you had black blood...?" Liz looked over at me calmly while Kaoru kept looking at the syringe.
What do I do?! Help!
" W-Well..." I stumbled on my words.
Just tell them the truth. You don't know much anyway...
Azrael...can't you tell me what happened?
Later.
" Azrael says I can tell you the truth. But I ask that none of this ever leaves this room or either of you lips." I look Liz and Kaoru dead in the eyes then close my own.
"Azrael?...The Angel of Death? Azrael gave you permission to tell you the truth?" Liz looks at me skeptically.
Azrael pushes my consciousness to the side and I can feel myself losing control of my own body as he takes control. My eyes feel heavy but then normal and they open, revealing red irises and cat-like pupils.
"Do not underestimate me." I smile and stare into Liz's eyes.