AN: Hello world!! I'm Baa-aack! Bwahahahahaha!!!! Just for everybody's reading pleasure, I have posted a small chapter to my story just so that I can make sure people r still interested in reading it. I must apologize for not posting in a while. Please forgive me and please R&R. I'm going to post again probably tomorrow. Have a good one!
The first thing Paige registered when she woke, was the searing pain that shot through her head. The next was the fact that she was being held up by chains. She tugged at them to test their strength and noted that the thick chains were going nowhere fast.
"I'm glad you're awake. At first I was beginning to think I used a little too much gas." A male voice entered her screaming mind to mingle with the pain that was already there.
"Where are they?" She ground out, still to much in a daze to open her eyes.
"Hmph. Did you really think I'd let them go? Open you eyes and look around." The voice demanded. Regretfully, Paige obliged. Slowly coming to focus, she spotted Hitomi, Kai, Sonya and Allen unconscious and chained to the adjacent wall. Van however, was in a glass cage beside her.
*Is it possible that they know? How? They've never seen Van before. There's no...* She thought as she eyed the raven haired man beside her. She looked around to find the source of the voice but, it was nowhere in sight.
"You seem confused. Shall I explain it for you?" He asked. When she didn't answer, he continued anyway.
"First, I must say that I'm rather surprised to find you back here. I was beginning to think I'd never find you. As for the reason I knew you were here, I have a rather resourceful aide. You see, he wasn't so hard to buy out when I told him you were responsible for the death of his mother." The voice said. Paige's head shot up at the accusation.
"What are you talking about?" She questioned.
"Of course, you wouldn't remember would you? We erased that memory from your mind. Or, did we really? Allow me to explain. When the project began, it was a simple plan. To create a human with abilities that no normal human possessed. The ability to manipulate electricity and use it to your own will. Strength and agility that were unpassable. There was a downside though. Emotional outbursts caused the child's talents to react in an uncontrolled manner. The first incident killed five of my assistants. One of them being my aide's mother. Fellow scientist, Marada Nelton. After much consideration, we decided that it was best to erase the incident from the child's mind might it trigger another emotional outburst. That child was you." He explained.
"What makes you think it was me?" Paige asked.
"Oh please child. Do I look stupid to you. We've been monitoring your every move since you entered the building and as I told you, I've had help in knowing of your activities" He said, mild agitation leaking into his voice at the thought of being outwitted by his own creation.
"So, why do you need them? They have nothing to do with this!" Paige yelled.
"Patience, I'm just getting to the good part. After I finally realized that my wonderful plan had backfired, you had escaped after all, I stumbled onto another ingenious plan. A book manage to fall into my hands explaining the existence of another world not much different than ours. The descriptions of this world were almost lifelike to me so, I began researching and developed a machine that might take me to this world. My fellow scientists must have finally decided I had gone mad and abandoned the project. Not long ago, I tried the machine for the first time. It brought me this." A giant tarp in the middle of the room was released and Escaflowne began visible to all the occupants of the room.
"Now, before you begin to wonder why your friend here is in this nice little cage, let me introduce my little spy. You may enter now." A door behind Paige swept open and a man stepped in. Taking confident steps, he walked to the middle of the room and turned to face Paige. A look of betrayal entered Paige's eyes as she beheld the man.
"Allow me to introduce you to Tristen Nelton, otherwise known as 'Tri' to you." The voice stated.
"You traitor! How could you do this?" Paige yelled.
"Traitor? I was never loyal to you! You're a murderer and you will be punished for what you did to my mother!" Tristen yelled as he raced across the room to grab Paige roughly around the neck.
"Keep your anger in check Tristen. There will be time for that later. Right now we have another objective." The door swept open again and the owner of the voice that had been speaking to them stepped in. Paige glared in his direction, following him as he made his way to where Escaflowne stood. Others entered the room after him, going to their designated working areas.
"Happy to see me again dear?" He asked.
"I'll never be happy seeing you, 'Father'." Paige hissed.
TBC....
AN: Yeah, I know, it's short and it's torture but, it's still a chapter right? Hehehe.... I hope there's no errors in this. I've been doing that a lot... Oops. If there is, I apologize for those now. I may have missed something. I'll post longer next time. Just think of this as a tweener chapter or something of that nature. Just to get the ball rolling again. Some really good ideas have come to mind lately so, I'm hoping to not get stuck again before finishing it. Ja ne!
