Lili's Home, Above Ground, Unknown Location; Present Day

The group was assembled in her study. Artemis was still sitting on the same chair. Butler stood behind him. Holly stood beside Artemis, wishing that she didn't needed to come back. Juliet stood beside her and Foaly stood next to Lili, who was sitting behind her desk. The twins were with Lili's bodyguard occupying themselves in a room Lili created just for them.
"Tell them what happens next?" asks Juliet.
"That's where I was heading," says Lili. "After I got kidnapped, you wouldn't believe what, or shall I say, who I saw."
Lili types into the keyboard of her laptop and brings up a photo behind her on the monitor. Everyone, except Holly, looks onto the monitor shocked at the photo they were looking at. They didn't know whether to believe it or think it was fiction.
"Is this a joke?" says Artemis.
"No," replied Lili.
"Trust me it's not," says Foaly. "I found it hard to believe myself when she told me, but once I did a brain scan, I knew she wasn't lying."
"That's impossible," says Artemis. "I saw her die in front if me."
"I know," says Lili. "I thought it'll be a clone of her or something else, but it wasn't."

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Above Ground, Unknown Location; About a Year Ago

Lili wakes up in a very dark room, the only light showing was directly above her. Her body was upright on a sixty degree angle lying on a metal backboard. Her arms and legs were shackled with a large brace that formed evenly across her joints, making it impossible to get out. Lili inspects the room, looking for a way out and is unable to see anything that is a five foot radius around her. Then footsteps can be heard in front of her and little by little the person's figure can be seen. At first Lili couldn't believe what she was seeing, but after several blinks and double takes it was evident that the person in front of her was the person Lili feared of ever meeting.
"Lili Frond, isn't it?" says the person.
"Hello," greets Lili. "If this doesn't make anyone believe in ghost stories, then I don't know what will."
"You are always a joke, aren't you?"
"I'll rather be a jokester than a murderer, Opal."
"Oh Lili. Don't make me regret keeping you alive."
"Like I said, murderer."
"I wouldn't talk if I were you or did you forget the war between the LIB and LEP? It seems you've killed more people than I ever did in a lifetime."
"There's a different between killing and murdering. Of course someone like you would never understand that."
Opal moved closer to Lili and puts her hand on a lever to the right of Lili and pulls it toward herself causing Lili to be perpendicular to the ground and her face inches from Opal's. "You are lucky I need you alive," says Opal.
"Actually, you're the lucky one," says Lili. "You would have never spoken a word the minute you came in, have I not been restrained." Lili felt Opal's fingers wrap around her neck. "Kill me. I dare you."
Opals fingers loosen up and released themselves from her neck. Instead her hand went to her hips taking out a small tube. She removes the cap revealing a very sharp needle. "I would have done this while you were sleeping, but I wanted to see your face while it was inserted under your skin."
"I under went plenty of needles while in training. There's nothing you can do that would hurt me."
Opal took the needle and inserted it in Lili's arm. Lili held her breath, remembering all the times she's been through this. She remembered the first time she got a shot and fainted a minute after getting it. Even after getting her other shots in the months to come, she fainted right after every single shot. Lili had to go through intensive therapy to train herself to remove that fear. She could never understand why she would faint, but the doctors explain that it's a natural reaction for some patients to faint after getting a shot. Seeing that half her DNA is composed of mixed human DNA it will make sense that she inherited that from one of her "relatives". After Opal took a sample of her blood, Lili prayed that her years of therapy didn't go to waste.
"I would have thought you'll faint on me," says Opal. "Seeing the reports of your incidents."
"How did you found out about me?" asked Lili, trying to divert her mind away from the shot.
"That's on a need-to-know basis."
"Well I need to know, so I guess you should tell me."
"Here's on thing I can tell you." She looks straight into Lili's eyes. "I've been waiting a long time for someone like you."
"If that's the case, why didn't you come and get me earlier?"
"Because I died before I ever found out about you."
"Then how are here talking to me? You should be nothing but a figment of everyone's imagination. Your life only existed until the point you decided to kill your younger self, then become a supernova. In which Artemis successfully managed to make you obsolete." Opal slapped Lili across the face, giving her a deep red mark on her cheek. Lili turn her face to reveal her other cheek. "Why not do the same to my other cheek."
Opal walks away until you can no longer see her. A minute later you can hear a door open then close. Then the light above her shut off causing the room to be pitch black. In the darkness, quiet footsteps can be heard all around her. Lili felt a small pinch on her neck and the footsteps slowly sounded further and further away.

Lili woke up once again, but instead of being in a dark room shacked onto a metal board, she was in a small cell. The walls, floor, and ceiling were stainless steel. On top of the side walls were vents. Lili was laying on a bed, in the back, right corner of the cell. There was a toilet and sink in the other side. Further down the wall a small desk and chair sat. Atop the desk laid some toiletry, a notebook, and a pen. Lili sat up and looked toward the front. A large steel door was directly in front of her with a small, glass window on top. Lili gets up and walks toward the door and peers through the window, all that can be seen is another door directly ahead just like hers. Lili notices that the doors had no door handle, nothing that shows that the doors can be opened from the outside. She looks around her cell and sees a bulge on the top corner of the wall, above the toilet, going into the cell. Lili knew immediately that had to be where a camera was nested. She had a feeling Opal was smiling at her, telling her to don't think of escaping.
Lili sat back on her bed with her back resting against the wall. A few quiet minutes passed by and a soft yet crisp voice can be heard from the vent above her, singing. The song was unkown to Lili, then again she wasn't one to be fond of music, but her voice wasn't anything Lili has ever heard of. Unwanting to interrupt her, Lili waited until she finished her song to say anything, "hello?" says Lili.
"Hello," says the mysterious singer.
"What's your name?"
"I don't have a name. They call me Experiment 2480."
"Experiement?" Lili was surprised that she didn't have a name, yet she wasn't shocked that this person was an experiment. "If you don't mind me asking. What are you supposed to be?"
It was silent for a while, until Experiment 2480 decides to speak, "I was an experiment gone wrong. And not a pretty sight to look at either. Just imagine a cross between a sprite and a goblin." Lili tried to imagine, but just couldn't bring up an image that satisfy the look she was trying to go for. "Hard to imagine, huh? I was supposed to be the ideal war machine. Have the ability to fly and conjure fire to enemies below me, instead they get a one-winged creature who can't summon fire at will. And don't get me started on my face. They would have executed me, have I not sung to them. My voice is the only thing keeping me alive"
Lili felt bad for this person. To be imprison for life, but kept alive by her heavenly voice. She also had more insight on what Opal plans on doing. Lili couldn't stay there much longer, she had to get out. She may have never seen the halls of this building, but she was certain she can make her way out.
"Experiment 2480," calls Lili.
"Yes," she respond.
"Have you ever thought of giving yourself a name?"
"No. It never crossed my mind."
Of course not, thought Lili. "I have a name. Why not, Kalliope."
"That's pretty, but it doesn't fit me."
"Yes, it does. You have a beautiful voice and what a more fitting name than Kalliope."
There was a short silence. "I guess your right."
There was another silence. "What are you supposed to be?" asks Kalliope.
Lili wasn't sure to tell her much about herself. The information she tells, may put her in danger, but it could be what will let her out of here. "Let's say, I'm what Opal has always waited for."
There was a short silence, then whispers can be heard all around. It was as if Lili was surrounded. Then slowly the voices got louder and louder, until it became screams and howls and banging can be heard all around. Behind the chaos, Kalliope's voice can be heard clear as day, "We should have never spoken."
Lili's heart stopped for a moment. Kalliope was right, they should have never spoken.
Lili stares at the wall ahead, the only thoughts going through her head was to get out. Staying could mean her death. Her prison door opens and the noise around her doubles. A guard walks in with needle in his right hand and just as he was about to inject its content in her neck, Lili grabs his hand and puts the needle through his neck causing him to pass out. Before Lili dashes out, she takes the guard's gun and realizes that it's a Nuetrino. She stares at the gun and wonders what other weapons did Opal possesses and who else is working for her. She decides to speculate on that after she has left this building. Lili walks toward the door, but then looks at the vent above the bed and says, "I'll be back, Kalliope. I promise."
Lili turns left from her cell, seeing that's where the guard came from. The hallway was just like her cell, stainless steel from floor to ceiling. It reminded her of the times she'll go through a mirror maze, except in this hallway you can see the outlines of the cell doors and where the hallway joins another. She runs through the hallway and stops before entering the adjoining hallway. There was two ways to go, left or right. Lili looks at both sides and sees that they both lead to another hallway. She turns to the right and quickly pauses at the end and looks at both sides and the results are the same. Lili decides to take a left and pauses once again and inspects both sides only to see two guards heading straight toward her on her left. Lili makes a run to her right and enters the next hallway on her left and leans against the wall. She knows the only way out was in the same direction the guards came in, so she takes the Nuetrino and powers it up. To her luck, it was one of the older versions that didn't require a fingerprint to use. She puts it to half power, enough to let the guards have a good night sleep. The first guard passes by and Lili quickly shoots him before he ever knew she was there. The next guard was aware that she was there and points his gun at her, but Lili was faster at stopping him. Then she heads for the direction they came from which lead her a set of steel doors. Both doors were just like the cell doors. She inspects the door seeing if there's a way to open it, but sees that there isn't. To her surprise it opens, leading her to an elevator.
Lili was unsure of going into the elevator. For all she knew it could be a trap, but staying could be far worse. She walks in and the doors closes behind her. The elevator was just like the halls. Lili wonder how someone can aquire so much stainless steel, but then again this is Opal she was talking about. She turns around and faces the door. The place where normally an elevator control panel is located was bare. Lili started to regret walking into the elevator, but there is nothing she can do about that now. She gets the Nuetrino ready for anything that could be on the other side if the door. The elevator stopped. Lili looked above the door and saw that the floor number was double zero.
The door opens and to Lili's surprise there was no one. Before stepping out, she does a full inspection and saw a slight shimmer directly ahead of her. Fairy or possibly one of Opal's experiments. Whoever it was they were going to have a nice, long sleep. Lili shoots in the direction and sees that it was indeed a fairy, specifically an elf. She steps out into the hall and, unlike the prison halls, this looked like an ordinary office floor. There was a desk to her left and hallways on both sides and the front. She notices a group of guards running toward her on her left. Lili dashes forward and zigzags through the halls. One technique that she learned from her training was to never be predicable and doing many turns in random order was the best way to be unpredicable. Lili enter a room she came by. She turned around hoping to not have entered a room full of people, instead she found herself in a closet full of the usual nurse and doctor attire. She quickly puts on one of the doctor's outfit, complete with a mask and hairnet.
Lili hides the Nuetrino under her labcoat and leaves the closet. She walks down the halls like a normal person would. She makes her way through an intersection until she hears a guard calling toward her telling her stop. Lili stops and places her hand on the Nuetrino.
"All staff are ordered to stay in their rooms," says the guard.
Just then a guard enters the hall ahead of Lili. He stops in his tracks and stares at her. "She has a gun!" yells the second guard. He points his gun at Lili and fires.
Lili ducks and fires at the guard ahead, knocking him down. She then spins around and shoots the other gaurd. Lili looks to both sides of the hall and sees that one of them ends with an elevator. She heads in that direction and notices that the elevator is just like the other one. She looks around and saw another door on the left wall. On it hanged a stair sign with a large window below. Lili kicks the window causing it to shatter. She jumps through and quickly makes her way down the stairs. The first door she passed on the floor below had the number twenty-two written above it. Lili had a long way down, but stairs were no match for her up or down. She made her way to the first floor in a short amount of time. All the doors on the way down were identical, so Lili kicks this door's window in and jumps through it entering a very large, tunnel-like space. At the end of the tunnel was a large wall slanted inward. Lili runs toward it and sees the outlines of a door and an opening to her right by a large window. She enters in the opening and notices a guard sitting behind a large control panel. Lili takes her Nuetrino and shoots the guard. She quickly went to the control panel and looked for a button to open the door. Luckily there was a button that said it. Lili pressed it and heard the noise of the motor opening the door. She went out and stands by the massive door, slowly sliding its way into the ceiling above.
"Where do you think you're going?" says a voice behind her. Lili wondered how long it took for her to reach her.
Lili turns around. "Hello, Opal," she greets. "It's a pleasure to see you."
Opal stood a good distance from Lili, but she was close enough to do any harm she wishes upon her. Opal was flanked by two guards by her sides. "Did you really think that you can escape so easily?"
"A girl can't hope, can't she?"
"If you worked on the opposite side of the law, we could have made a good team."
Lili smirked. "If I did, you would wish to switch sides of the law."
Opal glared at her. She moved her head slightly to her side and told her guard, "now."
Both guards drew their Nuetrino and started to aim toward Lili. Meanwhile, Lili took her Nuetrino, started to quickliy mess around with the buttons and switches, and threw it toward Opal and the guards making it land between herself and them. Upon it landing, the Nuetrino explodes causes an electric field around it. Lili seizes the chance and rolls herself under the door. She gets up and examines her surrounding and notices that it's night time. The sky held millions of a stars and a large full moon. By looking at the constellation, Lili can tell that she was in the Northern hemisphere, but that couldn't help her know exactly where she was located. She looks around and sees that she's standing on a large mountain and there was another to her right. Ahead of her, she can see the shimmer of what appeared to be water.
Lili quickly makes her way down the mountain. She knew the further away she got from Opal, the least likely she'll be to follow her. The Nuetrino she caused to explode will only halt Opal for a few hours and since it was night time, Opal would make sure to closed the door before any of that light could shine through. Lili occassionally looked behind her and saw that no one was coming after her.
The mountain hike was very long, but Lili made it toward the bottom faster than anticipated. She started to make her way into the woods and into the direction of the water. After a while of trekking through the woods, Lili could hear some rustling of branches. She stopped for a moment and looked around only to be greeted by a flash of light toward her eyes.
"Ohh, I am so sorry," said a voice. The light was quickly taken away from Lili, the person then makes his way toward her. "Are you lost?"
Before Lili answers, she lets her eyes adjust to the darkness around her. She looked over to the man who spoken to her and noticed that he was young, possibly in his late twenties. "No," Lili answered. "I'm just traveling the woods, that's all."
"Really?" The man didn't sound convinced. "A young lady shouldn't be traveling the woods alone."
"Neither should a man."
"My camp is not that far from here."
Camp? thought Lili, if this man was camping, that meant that there are others around.
"Are you with friends?"
"Yeah. My wife and a couple of other friends."
Mmm, thought Lili. "That's nice. How long are you here for?"
"Just two more nights, you?"
"I just got here yesterday, planning on staying for a few nights."
"By yourself?"
"No," Lili lied, "just a couple of friends."
"My name's Tom." He reaches his hand over.
"Gabriella." Lili shakes the man's hand.
"So, where are your friends?" Tom asks.
"They went to sleep. I just wanted to walk to the river, before heading to bed."
"My friends are out on the island. I was just heading there. You want to come?"
"Sure."
Lili wondered what island this man was talking about, but if she wanted to find out where she was, she needed to play along. The two headed into the direction of the river. "Are you from Scotland?" asks Lili.
"Yes," Tom replies. "How'd you know?"
"I have few Scottish friends and I can tell the accent right away."
"Normally, people have a hard time figuring out the accent seeing that many of us Scots speak a bit differently, depending on where we live."
"Well, I've known these people for a long time, so I've grown used to the accent. Your friends there Scottish?"
"No. Only my wife. The other two are from elswhere. One from Italy, the another was born locally."
Locally, thought Lili. I wonder where I'm at.
"That's nice. How you met them?"
"Sarah, the one that's born here, decided to study abroad and went to Italy. I meet her when she was an intern at my other friend's restaurant."
"So, she's studing culinary?"
"Yes."
"I'm guessing your Italian friend owns the restaurant."
"Correct. He's an amazing cook."
"That's funny. I have an Italian friend who owns a restaurant, too. His food is phenomenal."
"I'm sure his is great, but my friend is better."
Lili chuckles. "I doubt it."
"I've tasted many restaurants around Italy, so far nothing beats his."
"So have I."
The two reached the river and Lili stops and observes her surrounding. She sees a small island that's on the river, with a small, narrow, grassy pathway that connects the island to the land. Lili has seen this placed before, actually she has travelled her before when she was working for the LIB. It was one of those places used for training. This was one of her favorite places to travel. Now, it just seem like a nightmare.
"Spirit Island," Lili whispered to herself.