Sorry for the time I took to update, I will make sure I update much sooner
next time. It's summer, so I might even have the time to do longer chapters
Thank you for my *(im)patient* reviewers: BerserkerRageX-Girl, Guin, webster, Catz, Alison, LYKAchan, Aofyn, JB
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Chapter 9:
All was silence. Slowly waking from his compulsory sleep, Shawn immediately felt that he couldn't move. Wondering what was happening, he tried to get up, but found himself being attached to something, that he knew wasn't on the ground. If it was, he would have felt what was around him, but now, he just felt like a normal blind human, unable to fell what was there without a cane. He didn't even know if he was alone . . . wherever he was.
Slowly, he remembered everything that had happened. The school, his mistake, his getaway, those two strange mutants and his capture. He panicked. Where was he?
He wiggled, but felt that ropes or rather leather straps, were restraining him to what seemed to be a chair. Using all his strength, he jumped, in order to see if the chair he as attached to wasn't itself fixed to something else. It wasn't, and the chair jumped about an inch above the strange platform he was on.
Regaining his senses, he felt that something like a cloth was in his mouth, and that he was tightly gagged. His eyes were too well covered for him to open them. All he could do was hear, but all there was to listen to was deep and boring silence. He tried to make a sound, but it was muffed by what was in his mouth. It was then he heard someone open a door, walking into the room. He couldn't feel the steps on the ground, but could hear them clearly.
"Did anyone give him the serum yet?" a hard, manly voice asked.
"No, sir," another said, this one seeming to obey to the first man. "We were awaiting your orders."
"Fine, leave me with him," the first man said, his footsteps being heard on the floor, getting closer to where Shawn was.
Nightmare heard the door slide shut as he was left alone with this man he knew was an enemy.
"Hello, Dusk," the man said, sending a shiver down the boy's spine. "Long time no see, hun?"
Shawn made a move backwards, trying desperately to untie himself.
"Wait a minute," the man said, approaching.
Nightmare tossed and turned, trying to get free, to get away from that man he was too well acquainted with already. He didn't want to go back to the past . . . he didn't want that, but it was already to late. He felt the needle enter his skin in the middle of his neck, and that cold and painful fluid flow through his body again.
He lost consciousness, hearing the man whisper that he was going to wait until he would wake up again.
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"Where is he, professor?" Logan asked, walking down the hallway with the others towards Cerebro, following the professor.
"I have no idea," the old man answered. "He was in the woods and than he just disappeared and I couldn't sense him anywhere. I'll check Cerebro. Something isn't right."
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Shawn woke up to the contact of a fist to his face, hitting him so hard he thought he had a dislocated jaw. His hand reached his face and he rubbed the side of his face, opening his eyes ever so slowly to see who had hit him.
A tall and very strong-looking man was in front of him, but he could only see his outline because of the blinding light in the room. Another man in uniform was behind that one, leaning on the wall.
"Wake up call," he said sardonically as the stronger man walked back to let them talk together. He seemed to just be there to do the dirty work, and for now, he wasn't requested for his services.
Shawn frowned and rubbed his head, yawning. It was only then he realized that he had been untied and that he was free to speak. But an inner doubt made him stop himself before screaming that he wanted to get out from this place.
"Afraid to talk?" the man in uniform asked, walking forward.
But Shawn couldn't help yelling when he finally noticed that he was looking at them and that they weren't dieing or agonizing on the floor.
The man chucked in front of his utter state of awe.
"Come on, Shawn," he said. "I want you to speak. Tell me why you ran away. You *wanted* to keep that curse on you? Not to be able to live normally?"
"Let me go," Shawn pleaded. "Please, just let me go." "Oh no, my boy," the man growled. "We need you, just as you need us."
"No I don't! Let me go! Don't do this to me again!" Nightmare yelled, seeing the man approach, a needle in hand.
A few seconds later, everything went black again.
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"I can't find him anywhere," the professor said, wheeling out of Cerebro. "He just disappeared."
"But how come?" Jean asked. "It's impossible for him to have simply disappeared like that!"
"It was already extremely difficult to pass his mental shields when he arrived here, and I'm guessing that he built them himself. It must mean that there was someone else trying to get in his mind," the professor noticed. "Someone must have administered him something, or he is unconscious. Both ways, his brainwaves are fainter than they already are with his shields, which makes him nearly undetectable by Cerebro."
"So how are we going to find hi,m?" Scott asked, crossing his arms. "It means that he was captured!"
"Yes, it's most probably what happened, but I don't see how Shawn could have let them catch him," the professor continued. "He would have sensed them."
"Let's not dwell on that, we need to locate him and go get him before something bad happens," Ororo interrupted.
"Jean, come with me, we'll try to locate him by combining our powers," the professor said, turning back to Cerebro, followed by the red-head.
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Shawn woke up again, this time with a splitting headache. A flash of blue light was seen just before he opened his eyes, and he saw that he was in an empty white room. It obviously meant that he could use his powers.
The walls were white and somewhat mushy, just like the floor. One of the walls was made of a glass panel, and people were obviously on the other side.
Looking down at himself, he saw that he had been equipped with much less clothing than what he had been wearing before. He had no shirt or gloves, or anything on his head, but had his baggy pants and shoes.
"Hello?" he asked in a shaky tone, his voice echoing inhumanly on the walls, as if searching for someone to hear him.
"Your voice is filtered before reaching us, so feel free to speak, you're not harming anyone," a cold voice said. "Bet you couldn't do that with your little friends at the school, hun?"
Shawn glared at the little speaker placed out of his reach in the far corner of the room, close to the ceiling.
"Why did you bring me back here?" Nightmare asked, his voice echoing again, even if the room wasn't that big.
"We are going to test your physical capabilities," the same cold voice answered. "Just as your father ordered, we will use the faster method."
Shawn cursed as he started to make a few steps here and there. Before he could do anything else, a small door on the opposite wall opened and a tall, well-built man appeared in the entrance. Shawn smiled to himself, knowing that they hadn't administered him the serum that stopped his mutation, and turned around to look at the new-comer, but was stunned to see that nothing happened. The person wasn't affected by Nightmare's sight, and Shawn soon figured why: that thing was a machine.
"Not good," whispered Shawn as the buff 'robot-man' approached and he instinctively backed up against the wall.
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Please review!
Thank you for my *(im)patient* reviewers: BerserkerRageX-Girl, Guin, webster, Catz, Alison, LYKAchan, Aofyn, JB
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Chapter 9:
All was silence. Slowly waking from his compulsory sleep, Shawn immediately felt that he couldn't move. Wondering what was happening, he tried to get up, but found himself being attached to something, that he knew wasn't on the ground. If it was, he would have felt what was around him, but now, he just felt like a normal blind human, unable to fell what was there without a cane. He didn't even know if he was alone . . . wherever he was.
Slowly, he remembered everything that had happened. The school, his mistake, his getaway, those two strange mutants and his capture. He panicked. Where was he?
He wiggled, but felt that ropes or rather leather straps, were restraining him to what seemed to be a chair. Using all his strength, he jumped, in order to see if the chair he as attached to wasn't itself fixed to something else. It wasn't, and the chair jumped about an inch above the strange platform he was on.
Regaining his senses, he felt that something like a cloth was in his mouth, and that he was tightly gagged. His eyes were too well covered for him to open them. All he could do was hear, but all there was to listen to was deep and boring silence. He tried to make a sound, but it was muffed by what was in his mouth. It was then he heard someone open a door, walking into the room. He couldn't feel the steps on the ground, but could hear them clearly.
"Did anyone give him the serum yet?" a hard, manly voice asked.
"No, sir," another said, this one seeming to obey to the first man. "We were awaiting your orders."
"Fine, leave me with him," the first man said, his footsteps being heard on the floor, getting closer to where Shawn was.
Nightmare heard the door slide shut as he was left alone with this man he knew was an enemy.
"Hello, Dusk," the man said, sending a shiver down the boy's spine. "Long time no see, hun?"
Shawn made a move backwards, trying desperately to untie himself.
"Wait a minute," the man said, approaching.
Nightmare tossed and turned, trying to get free, to get away from that man he was too well acquainted with already. He didn't want to go back to the past . . . he didn't want that, but it was already to late. He felt the needle enter his skin in the middle of his neck, and that cold and painful fluid flow through his body again.
He lost consciousness, hearing the man whisper that he was going to wait until he would wake up again.
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"Where is he, professor?" Logan asked, walking down the hallway with the others towards Cerebro, following the professor.
"I have no idea," the old man answered. "He was in the woods and than he just disappeared and I couldn't sense him anywhere. I'll check Cerebro. Something isn't right."
~~~~~
Shawn woke up to the contact of a fist to his face, hitting him so hard he thought he had a dislocated jaw. His hand reached his face and he rubbed the side of his face, opening his eyes ever so slowly to see who had hit him.
A tall and very strong-looking man was in front of him, but he could only see his outline because of the blinding light in the room. Another man in uniform was behind that one, leaning on the wall.
"Wake up call," he said sardonically as the stronger man walked back to let them talk together. He seemed to just be there to do the dirty work, and for now, he wasn't requested for his services.
Shawn frowned and rubbed his head, yawning. It was only then he realized that he had been untied and that he was free to speak. But an inner doubt made him stop himself before screaming that he wanted to get out from this place.
"Afraid to talk?" the man in uniform asked, walking forward.
But Shawn couldn't help yelling when he finally noticed that he was looking at them and that they weren't dieing or agonizing on the floor.
The man chucked in front of his utter state of awe.
"Come on, Shawn," he said. "I want you to speak. Tell me why you ran away. You *wanted* to keep that curse on you? Not to be able to live normally?"
"Let me go," Shawn pleaded. "Please, just let me go." "Oh no, my boy," the man growled. "We need you, just as you need us."
"No I don't! Let me go! Don't do this to me again!" Nightmare yelled, seeing the man approach, a needle in hand.
A few seconds later, everything went black again.
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"I can't find him anywhere," the professor said, wheeling out of Cerebro. "He just disappeared."
"But how come?" Jean asked. "It's impossible for him to have simply disappeared like that!"
"It was already extremely difficult to pass his mental shields when he arrived here, and I'm guessing that he built them himself. It must mean that there was someone else trying to get in his mind," the professor noticed. "Someone must have administered him something, or he is unconscious. Both ways, his brainwaves are fainter than they already are with his shields, which makes him nearly undetectable by Cerebro."
"So how are we going to find hi,m?" Scott asked, crossing his arms. "It means that he was captured!"
"Yes, it's most probably what happened, but I don't see how Shawn could have let them catch him," the professor continued. "He would have sensed them."
"Let's not dwell on that, we need to locate him and go get him before something bad happens," Ororo interrupted.
"Jean, come with me, we'll try to locate him by combining our powers," the professor said, turning back to Cerebro, followed by the red-head.
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Shawn woke up again, this time with a splitting headache. A flash of blue light was seen just before he opened his eyes, and he saw that he was in an empty white room. It obviously meant that he could use his powers.
The walls were white and somewhat mushy, just like the floor. One of the walls was made of a glass panel, and people were obviously on the other side.
Looking down at himself, he saw that he had been equipped with much less clothing than what he had been wearing before. He had no shirt or gloves, or anything on his head, but had his baggy pants and shoes.
"Hello?" he asked in a shaky tone, his voice echoing inhumanly on the walls, as if searching for someone to hear him.
"Your voice is filtered before reaching us, so feel free to speak, you're not harming anyone," a cold voice said. "Bet you couldn't do that with your little friends at the school, hun?"
Shawn glared at the little speaker placed out of his reach in the far corner of the room, close to the ceiling.
"Why did you bring me back here?" Nightmare asked, his voice echoing again, even if the room wasn't that big.
"We are going to test your physical capabilities," the same cold voice answered. "Just as your father ordered, we will use the faster method."
Shawn cursed as he started to make a few steps here and there. Before he could do anything else, a small door on the opposite wall opened and a tall, well-built man appeared in the entrance. Shawn smiled to himself, knowing that they hadn't administered him the serum that stopped his mutation, and turned around to look at the new-comer, but was stunned to see that nothing happened. The person wasn't affected by Nightmare's sight, and Shawn soon figured why: that thing was a machine.
"Not good," whispered Shawn as the buff 'robot-man' approached and he instinctively backed up against the wall.
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