Disclaimer: I do not own SquareSoft or any of that in which has to do with the game of Final Fantasy VII. The Divine Being used in this section of the story is my own so don't steal…
A/N: Hmm, so what's going to happen now? Still haven't reveled who this guy is yet though if you've been reading 'In a Different Time and Space' you already know who he is! Sorry this chapter took so long! I am really, really SORRY!!!
Prisoner:
Hojo was called to his lab early one morning no more then two weeks after receiving the Divine Being from Gast. His health was very poor and he could hardly speak much less move. He was called early in the morning, just past midnight, his assistant was in hysteria and babbling something about the creature had woke up.
Hojo's white lab coat fluttered out behind him as he quickly made his way down a dimly lit hall to his lab. He pushed his keycard into the slot next to the heavy metal doors to his lab then punched in the code. The light on the panel turned green and the door hissed open.
The lab was brightly lit, he noticed, and it wasn't supposed to be because his other specimens did need some sleep. His dark eyes darted around the large room; all the clear-glassed holding cells holding specimens proved they were all wide awake and had various expressions. The more animal like creatures were nearly scared out of their wits while the humanoid ones were just confused.
A shrill scream came from just around the holding cells and Hojo's night assistant stumbled into view; his white lab jacket was quickly becoming stained red as he desperately sought escape.
Hojo stalked up to the man and grabbed him by the collar of his coat. He looked down at the bloodstained jacket and noticed no rip in it. "Whose blood is this?"
"H-he attacked me sir! He tried to kill me!" the hysterical assistant wailed.
Hojo narrowed his eyes. "Who tried to kill you?"
"THAT NEW SPECIMEN!!!"
"He was suppose to be a sleep…" Hojo released the man and walked silently into his lab.
A man with long white-red tented hair sat on the floor in only a pair of shorts. There was a sizable pool of blood about him. Hojo couldn't see his face do to his head being bowed down and his hair covering his eyes.
"What are you called…?" Hojo asked slowly as he approached the wounded man.
A vicious sounding growled stopped Hojo in his tracks. The man clasped an arm around his belly and used his other arm to try to get to his feet. The effort was useless, he was too weak and that assistant had wounded him badly enough that blood still flowed.
"Dezeray," the white-haired man gasped. "My name is…Dezeray."
Hojo's eyes glittered. Good, so he does understand and speak our language. "What have you done to hurt yourself so, Dezeray?"
Dezeray snarled, baring fangs as he slowly lifted his head up with some effort to look into the face of the man standing some amount of distance from him.
"I see…would you like me to take a look at that before you pass out from the loss of blood?"
Dezeray sighed. His strength was diminished and he could do nothing so he sat there for a few seconds in silence before finally nodding his head, giving the stranger permission to tend the wound across his midsection.
Hojo slowly came to Dezeray's side and knelt down to examine the wound. He knew well enough that the night watch was responsible for the deep wound. It wasn't life threatening but he had to get the bleeding under control…and he wasn't too sure about the Divine Species behavioral traits.
Dezeray winced as the scientist place a cloth with some sort of liquid over the sore area but did not make any move as to threaten the scientist.
"What have I been brought here for?" Dezeray asked softly, he was tired yet again…something that seemed to be happening quite often as of late. His dulling eyes closed as he fell into a drug-educed sleep once more.
The scientist sighed heavily and stood back up looking down that the white-haired man. This specimen was valuable…but way to dangerous and unpredictable to be taken lightly. He's have to form some kind of system that could keep the Divine Being at bay…
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Throughout that night and many more following it, Hojo worked to make a kind of cell that would be strong enough to hold Dezeray in without fear of him destroying it to get loose. After three weeks of strenuous work he finally came out with a suitable outcome.
The final product of the raven-haired scientist's work was a kind of barrier that would not allow the Divine Being around it when activated, the result of going near it when on was an instant drain of energy and perhaps even death if left on too long.
Hojo soon had a team to construct a large cell in the lab that had a glass front so that one could see into it. During the construction tiny sensors were built into the thick concrete and metal along with the device that made the barrier.
During all this time, Dezeray was kept in a deep sleep to ensure that he would not be causing problem. A specially trained team was watching him at all times to make sure nothing went wrong, by now they knew that drugs in this creature could cause a lot of problems.
Once the cell was completed, Hojo fashioned a metallic collar around Dezeray's neck then placed him with in the confines of the new cell to wake. The collar would activate the barrier to ward him away if he stayed near a wall for a certain amount of time or if the collar were to pass by the sensors.
The removal of the collar by its wearer would result in a very painful electrical shock that was made to be strong enough to render one paralyzed for an amounted time.
Dezeray was slow to wake, have been drugged for nearly a month…he woke to find himself unrestrained and laying on his side. It was the first time he was really able to think straight since he woke up two weeks after being captured. How long had he been there?
Dezeray slowly hauled himself up into a sitting position and sliding back to lean against the far wall. It was then that he noticed the device fixed around the column of his neck. It was fit firmly but not so much so that is impaired his breathing.
'So this is how it's going to be? They have imprisoned me…'****
-End Chapter 4-