Achroi came to with her head throbbing. She groaned as she opened her eyes and looked around. It looked like she was in some kind of dungeon, all the walls were made of stone and there were no windows. There was only one door. It was made out of steel and obviously locked.
Achroi sat up then opted to lie back down again when her head started to spin. Remembering the deep gash that was across her forehead, Achroi lifted her arm then froze completely. Tiny tubes were sticking into her arms and she realised that there was a gigantic one inserted into her stomach. Achroi looked around and noticed that all the tubes were connected to monitors and the monitors were connected to something that looked a lot like a control board.
Achroi sat up again, this time slowly so that she wasn't hit with a wave of nausea, and studied her surroundings more carefully. The control board was against the wall to her left, a cupboard filled with only God knows what was on the wall to her right along with other little do-hickeys and gadgets. And there was a rack of things that looked like white coats. The bed she was lying on was situated in the middle of the room and there was a strange light above her. Realisation finally dawned. She was in some kind of laboratory.
Samhain quietly tiptoed down the hall past his parent's bedroom. He hadn't heard anything from Achroi in over a week now and he was getting slightly agitated. He walked down the stairs as quietly as he could and walked out the front door. He saddled his horse then readied himself. On the way out, he had taken a map of Myanmalla from the kitchen table.
He and his family had been trying to find possible locations where Achroi might be. So far there were only three places that were most likely: the old warehouses at the edge of the town, the main street where a few inns were or the old château that was situated high on top of a cliff. He decided that he would just try to get as close to Myanmalla as possible before the sun rose because when it did, there would be search parties everywhere looking for him.
Samhain jumped onto his horse and sped towards the sleeping town of Ollabandia. He thundered past the towns border and straight into the Evannha Forest. He headed, well tried to, for the clearing where he had stayed with Achroi. There might be a slight chance that she had returned and was waiting for the right moment to go back into town and get him. But it was highly unlikely.
Amazingly he managed to find the small clearing but Achroi was nowhere in sight. It looked exactly like it did a week ago when he had been kidnapped a second time. He jumped off of his horse then sat down by "his" tree. He pulled out the map that he had taken and studied it. He had to head north first then go east. Seemed simple enough. He climbed back onto his horse then took off again, praying that Achroi was alive and well.
Achroi was still staring at the laboratory when the steel door opened. In walked Midir and a couple of his cronies. One of them walked over to one of the monitors that were hooked up to Achroi. He then turned to look at her and jumped. Obviously didn't realise that I was awake, Achroi thought as she stared coldly at the man. He quickly walked over to the control board and pushed some buttons then turned to Midir and nodded.
"Ah, glad to see you're awake, Achroi," Midir said as he walked over to her.
"How're you feeling?" Midir asked mockingly as he touched her forehead. Achroi hissed in pain then spat at Midir. Midir just looked at her as he wiped the spit from his face only to be spat at again. This time it hit him in the eye.
"Now now, Achroi. Don't start being nasty," Midir said as he walked over to stand by the man at the control board.
"What is this place and what are you doing to me?" Achroi asked.
"This place is my own personal lab where I conduct little…. experiments," Midir said smiling evilly.
"What kind of experiments?" Achroi asked suspiciously eyeing the tubes stuck in her.
"Oh, this and that. But you, my dear, are my biggest experiment yet," Midir said watching her.
"YOU'RE EXPERIMENTING ON ME?!" Achroi shrieked.
"Why yes, of course, "Midir said, "Why else would you be hooked up to these monitors?"
"What kind of experiment?" Achroi asked momentarily panicking.
"It's an experiment I've been wanting to try for years. All my other subjects didn't suffice because they lacked certain qualities."
"And what "qualities" were they?"
"They weren't of the female gender."
"What??"
"I'm sure you heard me quite well, but I said that they weren't female."
"And the hell has this got to do with me?"
"Haven't you noticed the fact that you're a female?"
"Yes, I'm not an idiot like you," Achroi spat, "but what are you planning to do with this 'female'?"
"Oh, you'll find out soon enough," Midir said, "restrain her!" Achroi struggled as Midirs cronies tried to tie her down to the bed. They tied her down but not after receiving several nasty bites.
"What are you going to do?" Achroi asked her voice sounding shrill from all the panic that was welling up inside her.
"Just inject you with something," a crony said pulling out a very large needle and jabbing it into her arm.
"What something?" Achroi asked as she started to feel dizzy and sick.
"Just something to put you to sleep at first," he answered.
"Then what?" she asked her words becoming slurred.
"Oh, you'll see when you wake up…if you wake up."
Samhain was exhausted. He had travelled all night and the sun was only just starting to rise. He wasn't even halfway there yet. He still had four days ride left. He wondered how Achroi had gotten there so fast but then he remembered that she might be a vampyre and could possibly ride very fast.
He slumped forwards in the saddle and urged his horse on. His parents would be awake by now and his mother would be having a panic-attack. He hoped that they hadn't clued on already as to where he was going. Samhain trudged on wearily, only stopping shortly for some food or water. It would still be a while until he reached Myanmalla.
Samhain rode all day without being disturbed by any search parties. As dusk fell, Samhain came to a small village, smaller than Ollabandia. He sludged slowly through the town, looking for any sign of a small inn.
He finally found one nestled in between two old buildings. He clambered down from his horse and handed him over to the stable hand. Samhain entered the inn and requested a room for the night.
The innkeeper led him up the stairs to a small but comfortable looking room. Samhain walked quickly over to the bed, stripped and settled beneath the covers. As soon as his head hit the pillow he was asleep.
Well, what did you think? I know the end was pretty bad but I couldn't think of anything else. I have an idea of what's going to happen to Achroi, but I want to hear what you think should happen to her. Maybe I'll have a suggestion that's better than mine! Thanks again.
Au revoir!
