Child of Grimm Ch. 25
Second time writing this chapter. The main reason I'm not producing chapters later on in the evening is because I experiencing some technical issues with my comp. Also, I crossed 25/20 so thank you so much for that.
Derek's eyes slowly fluttered open. He looked out of his one window, and realized that he had slept later then he normally would. A miracle given the conditions that I have been subjected too. Derek stood up as much as his bindings would allow him too, and stretched as much as he could. As soon as he kneeled down, Pip and the ram faunus walked in. No time to think about what to do. The ram faunus set down a plate of pancakes in front of him, and him and Pip left the room. Derek started his mental clock, and looked down at the plate Derek quickly noted that he had nothing to eat the pancakes with. They're going to try and make me a savage. Derek felt his cuffs and helmet come loose, and he quickly dispatched them. He extended his claws, and took a deep breath in. Time to see if this truly works. He swung his claws at the ground, and successfully broke off two of them. He grunted slightly in pain, but quickly regained composure. Derek concentrated all of his aura to his two fingers that had lost the claws, and they both regrew. Handy to know for the future. Derek quickly blew a small stream of fire on his claws, and went to work in fashioning them. He finished up, and he had something that resembled a fork and something that resembled a knife. He quickly checked his clock, and realized that he only had a few minutes. He started to eat the pancakes as fast as possible, and finished up with a little more them 30 seconds left. Derek quickly tossed aside the silverware, and put on his helmet and cuffs. He had just secured his cuffs when he felt the electricity go through his body. The two guards walked into the room, and eyed him carefully.
"Check the bonds," the ram told Pip. Pip walked up, and checked Derek's helmet and cuffs.
"He's secure again Beast," Pip said. "I don't know how he does it, but he's secure again." Something caught Beast's eye, and he walked over to a corner. He bent down, and picked up Derek's makeshift fork and knife.
"Utensils?" Beast asked, looking over at Derek. Derek nodded slightly. "How did you do this?" Derek raised up his hands, and smiled. "No wonder we keep him this locked up. He's fucking nuts. Come on Pip." Pip and Beast locked Derek up again, and he just sat in the center of the room. Time to await the return of Cinder.
Beacon Academy: Lawn
Blake threw aside another file, visibly angered. Yang walked over to her partner.
"Calm down Blake," she said. "We can find him."
"We're getting nowhere," Blake replied, the frustration flooding her voice. "I don't know what I'm missing, but I'm missing something."
"We could ask for help. Ren and Pyrrha are free, and I think that they might be able to help draw some connections." Blake pondered this idea for a moment, and gave a nod to Yang. She promptly called Ren and Pyrrha, who both came over as soon as possible.
"You said you need help finding Derek?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yeah," Yang replied. "We're going through these files, and trying to draw connections. We looked yesterday, and this morning. So far nothing, so we thought an extra pair of eyes might help." Blake handed two files to Pyrrha, but hesitated before handing two over to Ren. Pyrrha and Yang were already back in their files, but Ren silently wondered why Blake hesitated, and he began to wonder if those were the two files that Blake had initially picked for him.
Unknown Location
Derek was waiting patiently in his chains. He let his mind wander, which helped pass the time. I wonder how my team is doing? I wonder if LOOS put the pieces together and figured out what happened to me? I wonder what is going on without me there? I doubt that much has changed since my absence, given that it has been one day. Regardless of how long that day is. Derek stretched out again, and something caught his ear.
"How could there be no signs in his blood?" A female voice asked angrily outside of his cell. Hello Cinder. It's good to know that you'll be making a return.
"I don't know," someone replied. And you. "His blood is either fully Taituo, or fully human. There is no in between. Nothing that could help us tell who would survive the process. But, there is one thing that was confirmed by his blood analysis. Something that we've been waiting on."
"I believe I know what you mean. Knock him out, and then we'll re-chain him." Why would they need to do that. Oh great. Derek's mask started to fill with gas, and he quickly tried to breath some fire. Maybe I can get this to burn up. But the gas didn't stop, or burn up, or anything. It just kept coming rising up. Soon, it hit Derek's mouth. Derek soon started to lose consciousness. He faintly heard the door open, and he looked to see Cinder, the leader, Torchwick, and several White Fang walk in.
"Night night little dragon," Torchwick said. "We'll see you very shortly." Derek fell to the ground, and blacked out.
Beacon Academy: DRGN's Dorm
Monica walked into her dorm, and slammed her fist on the desk. Nathan and Gwen both jumped, and looked up at Monica.
"Rough day Moni?" Nathan asked. Monica shot him an angry look. "You know what I mean."
"He's still not back," Monica said angrily. "How can there be no sign of him?"
"I don't know how either, but we have to do what we can."
"Blake's research team is getting nothing so far!"
"Calm down Moni. I still don't know why we don't just ask LOOS."
"They already said that they were kept in an offsite facility. It was probably abandoned, and Ozpin already sent a team out to check."
"How could they not remember where they were made to be what they are? It just doesn't seem right."
"I'm with Nathan," Gwen said quietly. "It seems suspicious."
"Well we have to believe then," Monica said. "We don't have a choice." Their fears began to stir thoughts in Monica's mind.
Unknown Location
Derek's eyes slowly opened, and he looked around. He noticed almost immediately that his bindings had changed. His wings and tail were now free, but he couldn't reach any of his other bindings. He looked over and saw that his hands and legs were chained to the ceiling and floor, forcing him to be in a star position. He tried to move his head, but that was also locked into place. What is going on?
"He's awake," someone said. Derek looked up, and saw a room full of White Fang, the leader, Torchwick, and Cinder. Upon hearing that he was up, Cinder walked over to him.
"Good," she said. "You're awake Drake. I'm sure that you're wondering why you're here." Derek puffed up a small cloud of flames. "You can pretend you don't care if you want. Now, your blood didn't show what we want. But, it did show us something of interest. You're strong enough to endure a third dose of the formula. Now, we thought about doing this in the gas chamber, but your pain would be dulled. Where is the fun in that?" Cinder walked away from Derek, and gestured to the leader. He reluctantly pulled out a needle, and handed it to her. "This will hurt." Derek fired off a pillar of flames at her, which she easily caught. I expected as much.
"Are you sure about this?" The leader asked. "I mean, is numbing the pain really unnecessary?"
"Of course," Torchwick said. "We need to show the brat who's in charge of the situation."
"He's right," Cinder said. "And you would take care to remember who makes the decisions." The leader backed up, as Cinder walked forward. She raised up the needle, and carefully inserted it between two of his scales. She injected the fluid inside of it into him, and then backed up. Derek felt nothing for a moment, but then the pain hit him all at once. He could feel his body growing in size, and he yelled out in pain. He started to feel the scales on his skin separate in certain areas. At that point, he saw in too much pain to understand where they were. He yelled for what felt like hours, but the pain subsided. He looked up to see nothing but smiling faces. Torchwick dragged over a large mirror, and he looked up at Derek.
"Time to see what you've become," he said. Torchwick flipped around the mirror, and Derek stared in horror at the image that was him. His body was larger, of that much he knew. But he now had bones protruding from his elbows and knees. He stretched out his wings, and saw that he had bone spikes coming out of every fold, and at the tips of both of them. He looked on in horror as he could see that he had spikes protruding all along down his back. Now they've made me almost a full Taituo. Now, I'm a true monster.
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