Rebellious
Chapter Fifty One – Past from the underground Base
The underground base had kept its reputation for being dark and sinister. The place of memories laid here for those that had been here before and survived the torture. Many have died from their tortures down here, now of the people who knew what happened even cared, but only the Emperor took care when he heard of it all. It was dark and foreboding very clearly hinting at staying away from its walls. There was tape barring the front entrance, of course it had been considered breaking the law to just enter that place now. The Emperor must have really been appalled from hearing of such terrible ways to get people to become obedient soldiers. Because of the Emperor interfering with this base, Sapphire had been able to live thanks to him. So in words that had been how she managed to survive such a horrific place.
Rain glanced upon the building and clearly understood, with just a glance, at how horrible the place really was. Her eyes trembled as if she could feel the torture and all the pain that people had felt down here. She looked to her friend to see that Sapphire's eyes were narrowed, meaning two things at the same time. She was angry at this place, but the second was she was afraid of being down here again. But in order to accomplish what she really wanted, she would have to face her nightmares, although taking a glance at it Rain knew that it would be hard to not remember all that went on down here. But seeing her friend's distant eyes, she had a feeling that she was remembering the horrible past.
The feeling of being surrounded by awful sounds, smells and everlasting fear that vibrated in the air passed from one prisoner to the next, caused fear to resound through her. Sapphire was among those prisoners, feeling the fear of the others and feeling her own at the same time. Yes she feared the tortures that happened, but she was different in the very room. When the contact of the whip on her bare skin, it stung and always made her rip a scream from her throat, but she couldn't help but taunt and call her torturer pathetic. Who would actually torture a girl so young? Yes she may have been so rebellious, but is that any reason to be so unpleasant, so revolting, that the sight of the child seeing the one who sees pleasure out of such actions, would be embedded, scorched within the mind of the child in either anguish or fear.
Sapphire had taken that as in anguish. Fear never fared well for her and everything that she felt pain for it easily turned into anger and it would soon be directed onto those that had caused it. In this case, she had to refuse the route of her anger in this underground base that was forbidden to be entered. Her other form of anger was deep within it. She was glad that Prozen had decided to send her down here instead of being up there. But there was a problem that Sapphire had to face now. She needed one of them up there and one of them down here. She was deciding to be down here, but she wanted Rain on the surface. She had nothing to do with Prozen; she had always obeyed the bastard, because she feared him. Especially his anger when he released it at her one time.
"Take Rain up top. She has nothing to do with Prozen or me; she'll fare better in the cells above."
"Shut up Sapphire. We already know that the only reason Prozen sent us down here was so you could be in the base of your worst memories. We already planned to take the girl up to the surface after we dropped you off first."
They were being quite considerate to Rain. Sapphire was glad at that. She wouldn't of have had it any other way.
"You two take the girl up to the surface and place her in that jail. We'll take Sapphire inside this one." He pointed with his thumb at the dark base. The two of them nodded and took Rain away. Of course, Rain and Sapphire managed to have eye contact for a second and Sapphire had managed a message with her smirk. Rain widened her eyes at first and then smirked in reply, knowing that that smirk had been the starting sign. As she watched Rain being taken down the same path they had come from, she begun to wonder why the hell did they waste a journey bringing Rain down here when her cell was up there? Were the soldiers that stupid or did they want to make the impact a little more painful?
She mentally smirked thinking it like that.
Yeah she had really pissed some people off when she was with the Imperial Army.
She obviously didn't care of course.
They tugged her and forced her to move towards the base. Honestly, Sapphire didn't really care what cell Rain was in, she knew that she was in the same holding base as her, it was okay. But that wasn't what really bugged her. Rain would be caught in the crossfire when she met up with Rafael. Having Rain involved in the crossfire… she couldn't do that. Would never be able to live with it! So when they took Rain above just now, she was truly glad that that was their plan from the start. Unless they had only thought of it as fair punishment that only Sapphire was to be down here. Rain didn't really do anything except follow Sapphire after she met up with her. There was no guarantee that Rain was a part of any defiance against the Imperial Army.
Aside from being by Sapphire's side all the time!
Okay, there was that, but they seemed that Rain had done nothing terribly wrong.
Sapphire was a little jealous that Rain was getting a less punishment than her.
But this time, there was a reason behind her not caring about how heavy or light the punishment may be.
Rafael was in this underground base… and it was down to her to be able to set things right.
She could hear the shoes as they tapped on the ground. They opened the door first, hearing it squeak as it slowly went back, striking the wall softly. They ducked under the tape, forcing Sapphire to do the same and they entered the building. Inside the base was entirely different to the outside. There was absolutely no light within this place, aside the torches they turned on. Everything was trashed when they were able to set their lights and eyes onto the pathway they were going to walk through. She could feel his energies everywhere, completely heavy and transparent. He wanted her to know he was here, but wanted to confuse her with how heavy he left his energies in places.
She was not fooled.
He was further inside, on the last level of the underground base.
Below this floor, there were two more…
The very last one is where she would find him.
The most terrible room that held all of her memories within, the room of her upmost torture!
Yeah she was going to struggle when she would first into that room.
He chose carefully this time. Smartly too! This base was going to affect her in some form or another.
One of the soldiers pushed her on her back, making her stumble over something and stumbled painfully onto the floor. She cursed mentally and swore there would be a grazed on her lip, possibly her arm that made contact with the floor. Her arms were still tied behind her back. She heard the loud screech and then the click as the door was slammed shut. She narrowed her eyes into the darkness, assuming where the door could be. Her sight was terrible. Everything was clouded in darkness, she couldn't see a thing. Her wrists ached from the metal cuffs that somehow clicked open and clanged to the floor. She rubbed over the wounds one after the other, easing the pain so she could focus enough.
Well that was one problem out of the way.
But he wanted a fair fight with her, with the use of all existing parts that can be used as a weapon.
The structural plan of how this base was formulated had been burned within her mind on the day she had tried to escape. Failed of course, she had to appoint that the guards here were once extremely good at their jobs. Until this place had to be locked down and Sapphire decided to slay them for their agreement to help with the punishments of the likely innocents! Although knowing the plan didn't make anything easier with the darkness and the scattered bits on the floor that she couldn't shuffle around. In a minute or two she would become accustomed to such darkness and be able to see what was around her.
How Rafael could see into such darkness was beyond her.
She struggled to see through its depths even with her eyes now fully accustomed to it.
This was way beyond her ability to see.
She had to move otherwise she would get nowhere. She raised her hands to feel the wall on either side. She knew the entrance part; she could see it in her mind as she walked along. But she had to shuffle her feet on the floor, she could not tell how big or small, or how heavy or light the things were. A few cans here, some paper, chairs, boxes, even some items she couldn't identify, but they were there, all scattered on the floor that barricaded and made her path much more like walking through hell. She stopped to shake her head, believing she had been hearing and seeing things. But she hadn't been. She had been seeing a glimpse into the past, obviously knowing that Rafael was forcing it before her, forcing her to remember her life as a prisoner that was daily, and hourly, tortured.
She could see a little girl, white dress, white looking hair, and eyes an extremely dark depth of blue running towards her. She glowed in a colour that told her that this little girl wasn't real, was just something else, almost like a memory that she was being forced to see from another perspective. She watched as she fell to the group, gasping in fear and surprise as she reached her hand forward, almost looking as if she was reaching for something. She could see the state that her dress was in. Dirty, ripped, tattered, and extremely unfit to be worn. Her face was covered in dirt, arms, hands, legs, feet; her body was covered in bruises. She couldn't see on the back of the little girl, not because of the darkness even though she was amazed at how she was able to see this, but she couldn't see because the back wasn't turned to face her.
From down the hall she could see a male figure come forth from a corner. He too was glowing just like the little girl. She narrowed her eyes as she watched as the scene played out. She knew it couldn't be real. She knew it was forced upon her. But she could relate exactly to the scene, it was a scene from her memory. She knew that he was toying with her mind now. She damn well knew it. The little girl tried to get up, but she was grabbed by the arm and hauled back down the path she had ran away from. Sapphire saw that by this illumination from her past illusions come to life before her; she could see that the way had been brightened because of the glow from around them. She followed after, only using them as a source of light.
