Yuki: Okay, chapter 2
Anika: My Hikari is now forever changed by Elfen Lied
Yuki: Wutever. Oh, I accidentally put Mai in the last chapter, she isn't going to be in this story \/-\/ and Lucy is #3
Warning: this chapter contains blood, gore, cussing, and mentions of nudity (mwahahahaha!)
FYI This takes place a little while after the Elfen Lied series. Lucy got captured again... they decided not to kill her
"talking" "Diclonius with a helmet on"
thinking "Screaming/yelling"
Chapter 2: Meet Lucy, Beta, and Alpha
Shirakawa led the group down the hallway, careful not to let any of the teens out of her sight. Yugi was apprehensive, there were no windows in the facility, it looked as though no one other than them was ever let into the building unless they worked on this 'project'.
"Shirakawa-sama?" asked Anzu.
"Hai?"
"Where exactly are you leading us?"
"I am going to show you the most deadly threat against humanity."
That little sentence sent shivers up and down everyone's spine. They have had enough adventure and risk for one lifetime... they couldn't take it anymore. Yet they continued following the woman down the dimly-lit and metal walled corridors, having the feeling that today was going to change their lives... who would have known they were right.
\/\/\/\/\/A few minutes later\/\/\/\/\/
Shirakawa stopped in front of a door with a sign that said "NUMBER THREE".
"Wait here," the woman said and she slipped inside. Jounouchi's stomach made itself known. He groaned.
"Why can't they give us food instead of a tour?" he cried.
"Guys," Otogi interrupted, "I don't think we are supposed to know about any of this."
"Huh?" wondered Honda, "what are you talking about?"
"Otogi," Yugi said, "has a point guys.Think about it, why else would they knock us out with the darts?" No one could come up with an answer. Even if they did, Shirakawa had opened the door, giving them no time to voice it.
"You may come in... if you think you can handle it." Every teenager accepted her 'invitation' and quickly stepped inside. They all gasped. Though a large window, they saw a figure in a cage about six meters away with restraints wrapped around them and a helmet on their head. That was not the most appalling. It was the blood and tattered bodies of soldiers and security guards that decorated the room that gave everyone a fright and feeling of repulsion. (is that even a word?) Shirakawa and the scientists that were also in the room were unfazed.
"This is a Diclonius," Shirakawa explained. "A diclonius is a mutant form of a human with horns protruding from its skull. They also have, usually four, invisible arms or 'vectors' that come out of their back when they are three years old." She paused, as if waiting for a question. Anzu ceased the opportunity.
"Shirakawa-sama, why is there... b-blood all over the room?"
"Diclonius are homocidal and merciless from the day they gain their vectors. They won't even hesitate to kill their own parents, if given the chance. They normally target humans and other Diclonius, but never animals... except for one of them. But their hearts are filled with a hunger for killing and death. Number Three or 'Lucy' is a good example of that, though she isn't the worst... would you like to see another room?" Shirakawa asked, then she added, "To let you know, this is actually one of the 'better' looking rooms of this facility." Yugi reached out and grabbed hold of the scientist's sleeve.
"Shirakawa-san, why? Why are you showing us all this?" All of this gore and death was overwhelming... he had already seen enough death when he was younger.
"Because," the woman said, "you won't remember any of this anyway." She walked further down the hallway. "So are you kids coming or not?"
They continued down the hallway...
They reached another door, this time with a name, "BETA," which was with a chart of vitals hanging outside. There were also two guards standing outside.
"Is this one of the b-better rooms?" asked Anzu, shaking in fear. The window had a metal 'shield' over it, like a screen. The woman didn't answer the question as she was busy talking to an associate. The man she was talking to turned to the group of teenagers.
"Are you the ones who brought Beta and Alpha to us?" he asked. The man's face was filled with terror, to Yugi's knowledge, he hadn't anything to fear of the teens.
"Who are Beta and Alpha?" Yugi answered with a question of his own, defiance glimmering slightly in his eyes.. Shirakawa sighed.
"Come inside with me," she said, pushing a button that lifted the metal screen, allowing the room to be seen... as a worse room, unlike Anzu had hoped.
"This is Beta," the woman said. Another person in restraints, much like Lucy, was in a cage as well about ten meters away. Sprayed blood intermingled with freshly killed bodies, giving the room the utmost feeling of death and torture. They heard a small noise come in over a small speaker in the room. A scientist looked at Shirakawa (f--k I use her name a lot) questioningly (is that a word), who in reply nodded. The scientist flipped a switch next to the speaker and let a voice pass through.
"So... you've finally caught us again, human?" The voice, Yugi thought, sounds so eeriely (sp?) familiar, yet with the malice and hate that seasons it, makes it impossible to recognize. Shirakawa pressed a button to respond.
"Don't try anything, Beta, there is more security than you realize." A dark chuckle from the voice, presumably male, was heard.
"He he... you know, Alpha isn't be too happy to hear that you brought innocent humans into your facility, Shirakawa-san. He just might want to punish you." Yugi heard the woman gasp.
"He knows about the children... how?"
"Lucy told me, of course... and, not like you would know," Beta chuckled, "... we don't keep a secret like that from Alpha." An alarm started to sound. Shirakawa pressed a button to contact security.
"Chief officer, what's wrong?!" The woman was in such a fright, you could see the tension filling the room.
"Alpha and Lucy aren't in their chambers!"
"Nani?!?!?!" The teens started shaking in terror, murderous creatures were held in this building and they were stuck within it. Everyone froze at the sound of a new voice through the speaker.
"Daijoubou ka, Shirakawa-sensei?" Another voice? Yugi thought From the looks of things, it's Alpha by the looks of things... why aren't we all dead yet, then? So familiar...
"Alpha?!?!"
"Aww..." The voice sounded slightly disappointed. "You sound like you're not happy to see me... or, more perhaps, my thirty other arms." Everyone gasped as a figure emerged from the shadows of the room. They had, what appeared to be, arms shooting out from their back, a total count of thirty. The figure also had a helmet on, but you could see glowing red eyeslits through the visor.
"Lucy?"
"Hai, Creator?" A female voice, grating, yet sweet and rich like honey.
"Free Beta from his restraints."
Everyone was frozen as Lucy's transparent arms ripped away at Beta's restraints and lower him gently to the bloody floor. All the scientists gasped. A Diclonius helping another of its kind, let alone to listen to one more powerful, was unheard of.
"Of course." A chuckle from Alpha. "The Heartless Creator of the Diclonius Race can't show affection to its first creations? No, we are merciless killers by your standpoint..." Yugi watched as Alpha turned his head to Beta. "Beta, Lucy, how about we prove to them some of their theories?"
"Yes, Alpha, lets."
First meeting with Lucy, Beta, and Alpha:
... deadly...
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TIME: 1:40 AM DATE: JAN 1, 2008
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