Laying within a white cell, a young teen aged girl lay on a bed, unconscious. She woke up by a strange buzzing sound after some time. For a long time she could not get her body to move, it felt so strange. So heavy, it was like she never had used it before. After some time she manged to open her eyes. Her blue eyes looked around. She could not yet lift herself up or even lift her head. She felt how she had been drugged with some really strong stuff, to knock her completely out. She shook her head closing her eyes. She was coming to more and more now. After a little while she sat up and really got a look around.

She was now sitting in a simple bed in a room that reminded her a lot of a prison cell, or so it felt anyway. The room was simple with white walls and a white metal bed. She had a door into another room, one she was pretty sure was the toilet in her cell. The wall that locked her out from the hall, she could see on the outside was made of glass with a glass door. Hearing the sound that made her wake up, she turned to find the source of the sound. Her sea blue eyes narrowed, as she realized the sound came from a camera that hung on the wall above her. The sound came when the camera moved to a side to shot the rest of the room, yet she was sure it filmed the entire room and every thing she did. She growled and turned away from it. The glass wall reflected the light from the roof and made a sort of mirror to where she sat. She was dressed in a red dress, it did not cover her shoulders, and it was shaped like an arrow at her chest. The edges of the dress was tipped with purple and it had some longer parts at the arms.

I hate this dress. She growled to herself. She moved a lock of her fire red hair back from her face and refastened the skull hair pin she had. As she sat like this looking at herself, she suddenly looked passed her refection and into the cell on the other side. As she realized what she was seeing, she stood up and ran up to the glass wall.

"Maetel! Maetel! Can you hear me?! Wake up, Maetel!" She called but just a few seconds after wards, she sank down on her knees, dizzy and noshes after suddenly moving so fast. The drug that she had been given kicked up again. She looked up into the other cell again, gasping for air.

"Ma..etel.." She gasped. On the bed in the other cell, her twin sister lay, like dead with a oxygen mask covering her face. As Emeraldas looked at her she saw that the mask fogged up from time to time and told her that her sister was still breathing. Emeraldas looked over to the bed she had been on and saw that there lay a mask next to her pillow as well, telling that she had had one on earlier as well.

What the hell happened to us... She wondered as she sat trying to breath calmly to make the effect of the drug go away again. She looked over to her sister again. Her sisters golden hair lay over the bed, a few locks lay over her face and her eyes, that when open had a green color to them. She was dressed in the same dress as her, only hers were white instead of red.

Emeraldas cursed. She had no recollection of how they had ended up in these cells or for what reason.

Did Hard Gear do this? Why not just kill us? Why go through drugging us down and lock us up? What does he stand to win by doing this... She wondered as she felt the drug finally starting to wear of little by little.

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In the control room of the prison the two princesses were in, an old man that one could hardly see were a mech man, looked on as Emeraldas ran over to the glass wall before falling together in a heap on his screen. He grinned to himself.

"Had a feeling the young pirate queen would be the first to wake up... and her sister.. The wanderer. Should not be to long before she to comes around, and then we will see if the project is a success." He laughed to himself. His underlings looking worried over to their commander. The two ten aged girls had been chosen as his new private project, one not even the one that had given him the base knew of, and the future for the two girls looked dark.

"Doctor Kichigai, sir. The queen wants to now how the project is going." A man said, his voice quivering as he gave the message. He held a hand nervously to the metal ring around his mechanized neck, fearing what the doctor would do to him.

"Tell her, I'll be right up." The old man grinned to himself as he left the control room.

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The young Emeraldas had not noticed she had fallen asleep again, before she suddenly heard her sister starting to move in her bed. Emeraldas turned and looked as Maetel lifted a hand up to her forehead. Emeraldas struggled up, still feeling the drug keenly.

"Maetel?.. are you.... unharmed?" She gasped, just standing up made her gasp for air. Maetel turned her head and looked at her, she nodded slowly. Emeraldas breathed a sigh of relief and looked at her worried.

Maetel pulled painfully of the mask and breathed in deeply a few times.

"Where... are... we?" Maetel asked, looking into the unknown roof her her cell.

"I don't.. know yet." Emeraldas cursed and looked down the hall. "So far.. there.. have been.. no one.. to check.. on us." She gasped but it was getting easier to draw breath now. Maetel looked worried.

"What.. about... mother?" Maetel looked at her. Emeraldas just shook her head.

"I don't know... The only thing I do... know, is that... We are being watched." Emeraldas said and nodded up to the camera in her sister's cell, making her sister look at it as well. Maetel nodded to her sister, and tried to sit up yet she had no strength at all, and fell back, breathing hard.

"Take it easy. What ever we were drugged with it does not let go easy." Emeraldas said, closing her eyes, as another wave a dizziness passed over her and forced her to lean on the glass door.

Curses, as long as this drug in in our system, escape is nearly impossible. Emeraldas cursed to herself. Maetel looked at her worried seeing how weak her usually strong sister seemed now.

How did we end up here like this? Maetel wondered trying to make her foggy brain to work and think back, but with no luck to do so.

Did we get kidnapped? What happened to mother? Maetel had so many questions and no answers, when Emeraldas muttered a angry curse under her breath and made Maetel sitt up, dizzy or not. A door further down the hall had opened, and into their sights came an older man.

Author's note:

Here I go again with yet another strange story to tell. Just trying to fill in another hole in me and Gemini's time line, and try to explain just how and why there is both Lady Emeraldas and young Emeraldas as well as Lady Maetel and the sometimes appearing Young Maetel.

Hopefully this did not become to random and strange, but tell me what you think of it any way.

Lightingtooth.