Chapter 7: Petrichor

My eyes shot open as I tried to sit up, I jumped off of what I was on and tried to run to the only door I saw. Something caught my ankles and wrists and I fell face first into the floor. I looked down and saw I was chained up to the wall.

"What's going on? HELP!" I screamed into the room. I waited minutes while on the floor before I started pulling at the chains trying to free myself.

I heard static then a voice over a speaker.

"Icarrus please remain calm. We have placed you in there for your own safety and the safety of others." I didn't recognize the voice. I tugged at the chains as the fear set in.

"NO! NO! NO! LET ME OUT OF THESE CHAINS!" I screamed as I pulled at them. I tried to activate my Anima Mortem but I found I didn't have them on me. "WHERE IS ANIMA MORTEM?" I screamed even though I already knew they had been taken from me.

"We had to take your weapons and restrain you." The voice over the speaker said.

"Why? What did I do?" I asked in hushed words even though I could feel the memories flood back to me.

{I had just taken my stance and started throwing random combinations of punches and kicks with knees and elbows mixed in as I slowly made my way towards the 3 people in front of me. Then they rushed me swinging wildly with their weapons. I smiled at their clumsiness and easily parried the first two and dodged the third. I laughed as I turned to face them.

"You look shocked!" I jested. "Don't tell me that you thought that would work?" I cocked my head and my lips began to curl in a twisted smile. A low guttural laugh came from me visibly frightening them. I could see Sun out of the corner of my eye back away.

"Icarrus are you all right?" I heard his voice but didn't hear the words.

"morphine. Morphine. MORphine." I kept repeating it over and over again getting louder each time until I was shouting it. "MORPHINE! MORPHINE!" I sprinted at the closest one and jabbed my blade into his thigh.

He was so frozen in terror he didn't realize I had stabbed him. I pulled my right hand back and punched him in his chest causing him to fly back and rip my knife out of his leg brutally. He flew past his teammates and landed on the ground motionless.

"Monster." I heard one of them say. I could feel Sun running up from behind me.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" I shouted as Sun grabbed my shoulder. I felt the pressure in my back and I forced my wings out. Upon releasing them I felt them make contact with Sun and send him flying back. "I. AM. NO. MONSTER!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

The one in the back collapsed as he pissed his pants leaving only one standing in front of me. I could feel the fear emanating off of him as he yelled and charged me. I grabbed his weapon with my right hand and was about to stab him when I felt an enormous force hit the back of my head and I fell unconscious.}

I shook my head and sat up. "No, please that was a mistake. I know that I had an episode but I'm OK now, I'm good, and I can control it." I tried to plead with them but knew it wouldn't get me anywhere.

"It's not that simple Icarrus. We understand your situation and can accept that you had an episode but you almost killed one of those boys, all three of them will need counseling and therapy for a long time." I could hear a sigh at the end.

"How long?" I thought out loud. "How long will they have me caged up like an animal again?" I was asking myself.

I heard the door unlock and slowly open. I tucked my knees to my chest and covered my head. I could hear the footsteps as they approached me. I felt hands on my shoulders and a comforting presence. It felt very familiar and I felt safe, I looked up and saw the one person I had needed to see.

"Doctor Serena?" I rubbed my eyes hoping that I wasn't dreaming. "Is it really you? You aren't her sister are you?"

"No Sebastian it really is me." She said with a smile. I could feel all my emotions that I had bottled up start to flow. Anxiety, relief, happiness and anger hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt tears rise up then fade away as quick as they came.

"Why?" Was the only thing I could manage to say.

"Why what? Why am I here or why did I help you escape?" She said with a hurt look on her face.

"Why did it take you so long to find me?" I said as I hugged her. I could feel her tears as they fell to my shoulder. I felt angry that I couldn't cry but I was overcome with other feelings, relief towering over them.

"It was never safe enough. Thanks to your principal and the Hunters and Huntresses they raided the labs and shut them down." Her voice cracked and she cried harder. "They killed the rest of them." She sobbed into my chest.

"Who? Who killed who?" I asked more worried now.

"The other doctors killed the last of the children in the facility. Once you had escaped they no longer had their number one test subject so they increased to dosages and the number of tests. I tried to stop them but they forced me to watch one by one as they poured that insufferable dust into their veins." She suddenly stopped crying.

"Doctor? What's wrong?" I pulled back and looked into her face.

"I couldn't make it right but I did deliver some justice. I managed to knock out a few of them and run the same test on them as they did to all of you. They caught me though and locked me up. I was there for a couple days before the labs were invaded." She caught her breath and smiled.

I looked into her eyes and could see the pain and regret flooding her once bright golden eyes. I instantly felt more anger surge up in me.

"How could they hurt you? You were the kindest person there. You never ran the test you only took care of us. You were like our mother." I felt the pressure in my back again but then I felt a prick in my neck. My body started to go numb and my mind became fuzzy.

"Doctor, I smell rain." I said drearily.

"Yes Sebastian and when you wake up we shall walk in it together."

A/N: For those that don't know Petrichor is the smell after it rains. Also did I do a decent job writing his flash back of how the fight ended? I know I left a cliff hanger last chapter and that's because I wanted to be kept in suspense. Let me know if it worked or not and how I could have made it better.