A/N: Quick question. Did you all watch the RWBY volume 2 opening titles animation? If not watch it on roosterteeth right after you read this.
CHAPTER 8: Time and Place.
"I'm running although I don't know where or why but I'm running as if my life depends on it. Then I come across a huge beautiful tree and suddenly I feel fear, crippling fear. I hear my name and it sounds like I said it. I turn and I am looking into a pair of eyes but there aren't just any pair of eyes they're mine. Although their shade of purple is darker and blood is dried along the sides, I know it's me. It lifts its left hand and it's holding Mortem, he lifts the blade up to my right eye and slowly cuts the side. I don't feel pain and he finishes and starts on the other eye. When he is done he vanishes and I'm standing in front of a mirror and see I've become the person I had seen." I shuddered as I finished telling the girls my dream.
"That's horrible Icarrus!" Ruby shouted as she pounded on the glass that separated us.
"Don't worry we will get you out as soon as possible." Weiss added as she placed a hand on the table.
"Thanks girls but I'm not so sure if I should be allowed back out, don't get me wrong I would love to be free again but if I am that much of a risk." I sighed. "I just don't want to hurt any of you."
Yang smiled and Blake chuckled. "Icarrus please you wouldn't hurt us."
"At first I didn't want to hurt Cardin's team but you know how that ended up." I frowned.
"That's different! They were bullies that deserved justice, even though that was a little too harsh." Weiss stood then slowly sat back down.
"What happened to Doctor Serena? She said that we would walk together when I woke up." I said with slight hope.
"She left a while ago and no one knows where she went." I rested my head on the table.
"Quit being so lackadaisical Icarrus. You need to be positive and believe in us, we will get you out." Weiss stood and stomped away. Blake and Yang smiled and followed her. I looked at Ruby and she seemed sad.
"Are you OK Ruby?" I placed my elbows on the table and rested my cheeks on my hands. "There is something else isn't there?" I tried to pry deeper.
"Yeah." She sighed. "It has just been really lonely without you around. I meant yeah it's still as loud and lively as before but I, I mean, we miss your presence. We got so used to you being around and it's not fair." She started to tear up.
"Hey Ruby look at me." She sniffled and we locked eyes. "You'll be fine, you did pretty well before I got here and you will be OK if I'm not there." I tried to cheer her up.
"Times up you have to leave." A large guard walked over to Ruby and led her out. I made my way back to my cell where they placed the chains on me once again. I sat on the floor and draped the chains over my back.
I brought out my wings and the chains broke. I held the broken links in my hands. "You would think that after the third time they would have gotten heavier chains." I knocked on the door and the peek hole slid open.
"What is it now?" A deep voice boomed.
"I've broken the chains again; maybe get some stronger ones this time unless you want me to escape if I have another episode."
The peek hole slammed shut and I heard the footsteps thud as the got farther away.
"Two days after she drugged me and then I find she's gone. Doctor Serena where are you?" I leaned against the wall and shut my eyes. I had almost fallen asleep when the cell door was pushed open. I looked at the door to see two guards carrying a thick linked chain. They dropped it to the flood with an obnoxious thud.
They removed the chains that were on me and replaced it with the heavier one. Instantly I could feel just how heavy it was. As soon as they left I struggled to drape the chain across my back and I felt like I was being crushed. I brought out my wings and the chains held. The force ended up just pulling the chains tighter and bruised my wrists and ankles along with my arms, legs, and chest, basically anywhere the chain was touching.
I cringed as the chains slid off of me after I pulled my wings back. I felt content to just rest on the cold chains as I rhythmically tapped my fingers against the floor. I faded in and out of reality as I focused on the soothing sound.
{"He's coding! Hit him with another shot of epinephrine his heart is still slowing." I looked down at the body on the table and realized that it was me after one of the fights almost killed me.
"Again! More, keep doing it till we stabilize his heart beat." I turned to see Doctor Serena barking orders at the other people in the room.
"Doctor that much could kill him!" One of the masked faces said.
"He should be dead with the amount of dust you savages keep pouring into him. He will be fine; he's strong enough to come back from this." She shouted again. I walked closer to her and stood at her side following her look back to my body. "Please don't die you poor child." She whispered.
"I'm not dead Doctor I'm right here!" I screamed but she could not hear me. "Stupid vision! I! AM! ALIVE!" I yelled as loud as I possibly could. Doctor Serena turned and looked in my direction then back at my body.
"Out of my way!" She said loudly as she shoved people aside. "Subject 7 it's me Doctor Serena, you need to wake up. If you do I promise there won't be any more tests for the rest of the week." As soon as she finished her sentence my eyes shot open and my vision ended. I was still in the cell, the same one I had been in for a month now.}
Recently they had been giving me some free time and I used it to work out. I felt like I was wasting away. I didn't want to be an immobile mass of muscle so I focused on making my muscles denser and harder. I had just finished my workout and headed to my cell, I dried the sweat off with a towel and when I entered my cell I saw Weiss looking at all the pictures and poems I had made.
"Hey Weiss, what brings you by at this time of day?" I asked because usually they came to visit after school but it was early morning. She turned and blushed as she looked at the floor. "What's up?"
"You can come back tomorrow." Was all she said as she sped past me and the guard that was with me. I looked at him and he shrugged and closed the door. I sat on the bed and felt restless, I twisted and turned for a while until it became too much to handle. I shot up and hurried to the door, I pounded mercilessly until the peek hole opened.
"Do I have any visitors yet?" I asked anxiously. The guard looked back and nodded. He opened the door and I sped to the visitor's room and sat in the empty desk staring at the glass divider. I waited a couple minutes before I saw the girls, minus Weiss, walk up.
"Hey Icarrus!" Ruby said loudly as she sat down. Blake and Yang leaned up against the desk and giggled.
"Hey girls what are you doing here so early and what did Weiss mean earlier when she said that I could come back tomorrow, and why did she run off so quickly?" I was almost pressing my face against the glass.
"Well that's because you can come back to us tomorrow, well if you think you can handle it. We fought tooth and nail to get you out and even though it's conditional you'll be free!" Ruby squeaked as she tried to hide her excitement.
"I can seriously come back? How did you manage to make that happen?" I exclaimed.
"Strings were pulled, people persuaded, money exchanged hands, and you know the usual." Yang said with a huge grin.
"Get some rest Icarrus we'll be back for you tomorrow, bright and early." Blake spun around and headed off without waiting for a reply. Yang and Ruby followed but both of them waved and smiled.
The guard led me back to my cell and slammed the door as I entered. I could hear him as he spoke to another guard.
"He may be going free tomorrow but from what I heard there are some very vicious people out for his head." He laughed and tapped the door then walked away.
"Just great. If he was telling the truth I'm not going to be free at all." I sighed and fell onto my bed. "Well let's see if sleep can take me away to a better world, at least for the night."