Chapter 7

Rou's POV

Where am I?...

Why is everything so dark?...

Am I really died?...

Chirp! Chirp!

The chirping sound of bird made me opened my eyes slowly but I closed them very quickly when the sunlight hit my eyes a little like a flash of camera. I used my hand as a shade to protect my eyes from it and opened them again to see where the noise came from.

I rose up slowly and found myself was laying on fresh green grass under the tree at somewhere in the forest. I looked down and found myself wearing in white summer dress with spaghetti straps.

Chirp ! Chirp!

I turned my head and saw the robin which had orange stomach, dark gray wings, and black head. It landed on my shoulder and cocked its head to the side as if it greeted me. I couldn't help but smile at its cuteness before I placed my finger near it so that I could it without having a pain in my neck.

The robin seemed to understand and skipped from my shoulder to it. I rubbed its head with another hand for compliment which made it coo softly as it leaned to my touch. Then, it flew away and landed on the branch of another tree which was at the both sides of a narrow path that seemed to lead me to nowhere. The robin chirped like it was telling me to follow it and then, it flew away by following the path.

" Hey! Wait for me, little one!" I shouted as I ran, trying to catch up with the robin.

The robin landed at another branches of the tree in tree line near the path that I walked on before it flew again.

I was about to open my mouth and told the robin to slow down but, I decided not to do it and kept running before I lost of it.

Once I saw the robin, I saw that it wasn't alone. There was a man in the black overcoat with the pants that had the same color and black boots. However, I couldn't see his face because around his neck, there was navy blue scarf with symbol like a yang with a small dot inside of it covered the lower part of his face. His eyes were hid under the black panama. I stopped my track and looked at him warily.

The man petted the robin tenderly with the back of his fingers at its belly. Then, he raised his hand that the robin gripped on to let it fly away.

" I'm glad you awake" He spoke and turned his head to me. His voice was deep and calm like a deep water but there was some gentleness in it. But, it made me feel so awkward because no one had spoke to me like that for a long time since I was in that cell. I didn't know what I should say and afraid that he would do that to make me low my guard so I pressed lips in thin line and stepped back a little.

" It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. I know what you had been through, my friend." The man said tenderly as if he knew what I was thinking.

" How do you know?" I said bitterly.

" I've looked after you since you were born until you left and came back here."

I furrowed my brow confusingly at him and I was scared for what he said.

" What do you mean by that?"

The man chuckled at me as the wind blew softly before it was getting heavier and the man raised his arms in 'v' shape. Suddenly, the scarf around his neck wrapped him like a blue ball of yarn and when something broke out from that ball, it revealed the big bird in navy blue light that spread its big wings before it flied into the sky.

" You will find out that soon..."

…...

I slowly opened my eyes again before closed them. Then, I opened again to adjust them to the brightness of the mysterious place I didn't know where. I turned my head to the left side and saw that there was the IV beside me and it attached to my left arm under the blanket of medical bed.

' So...that's just a dream? But, why the voice of that man sounded so familiar to me strangely?'

I mused about the mysterious man in my dream before I had to wrinkle my nose when I smelled the scent of alcohol and some detergent substance that could make people want to throw up for being intoxicated.

' I really hate hospital..'

' Rou, are you alright?'

' Hey, glad you wake up...' I said through the mind link that the alien had made it since she and I were bounded by the word or I should call ' contract' .

' I hate electricity and a technology that those mad mortal beings made to capture me' She said with bitter voice. I called ' she' since her voice sounded feminine. Also, she was deserved some respect after she had helped me broke out from that place.

' You're not only one who was hated to be electrocuted with high voltage electricity.' I agreed with her and started looking around the room. The ceiling was pure white and source of light was electric light which was different from the small light bulb that was always hung on the ceiling of hallway in the cell and gave small brightness which somehow showed my feeling to what happened when I was there.

The floor was made of clean blue tiles which was very cold once my feet landed on them. I pulled my feet back a little before put them on the floor and stood up slowly. My body was recovered completely but, I still felt weak which may be from the famish.

' Where are we?' The alien asked. I forgot that she was knocked out from being electrocuted when we were at that place.

' I don't know... I think we are in the hospital but the question is is it really a hospital? ' I started to feel unsure if I was really in the hospital when I saw at the mirror across the medical bed. I don't know why I feel uncomfortable like there was someone or something watched me from there. I made a beeline to it, dragging IV pole.

In the mirror, I saw the black hair woman dressed in patient clothes whose face looked so tired held the IV pole beside her. Her eyes was golden yellow which glowed dimly and her pupils were shaped like wolf's eyes. I weaved my hand that wasn't attached to the IV and saw that woman also weaved at me with same hand as I did. I grasped with shock. That woman in the mirror was Me!

' What happened to me?!'

' I forgot to tell you that there was some change with your body once you and I were bounded.' The alien apologized at me. I held my hand over my mouth to stop the scream that was threatening to come out.

' Rou...'

' I'm fine...It's just...' I said as I tried to catch up my breath. I looked the mirror again and met my eyes with a new color in the reflection. Suddenly, they glowed and I saw that there were people in there.

The man with a symbol of blue bird seemed to have an argument with another man who dressed like a bat with something pointy acted like his ears and on his chest, there was a symbol of bat with the yellow oval shape behind it. The other man dressed in white lab coat wrote something on the clipboard before he left his eyes from it and looked at me. I repelled from the mirror and realized that it was two ways mirror and my eyes could see through it.

' I-..I have to get out of this place!' This was too much for me. I didn't want to be lab rat again...

' Let me take care of it...'

…...

" This is too much!" Nightwing hissed at his mentor after he found that the woman he had saved was put into the observation room like a specimen.

" But, you had seen what her blood could do with Dr. Sinclair. Do you want the others in the Team turned like that?" Batman reasoned him. Nightwing pressed his lips, trying to argue back.

" Besides, we need to run some tests on how she could survive without being mutated like that doctor. Who knows, she might be the trap or the carrier of some dangerous virus that had been made by some psychopaths." Batman continued before he noticed that the doctor gasped at something.

" What happened, Dr. Alex?" The doctor was too shocked to say anything made Batman to look at the mirror that used to observe the patient and his eyes under the cowl widen in wonder. Nighwing looked at the mirror and saw that the woman had disappeared from the room. The IV was detached and patient clothes was took off and lied on the floor

" Guess that she didn't like your VIP room much ..." Nightwing said jokingly and somehow felt amazed at how the woman escaped undetectably.

…...

" Where are we?" I asked once I was in the room that had many bookshelves around the room. I found out that I could teleport myself to somewhere by the strange circle with some letters. Although the alien had used that while she was controlling my body, I wasn't aware of it.

" Okay, we're in library. Now, what?" Suddenly, my ears heard something and I wiped my head and saw the small security camera looked at me..

" Shit...what do we do?"

' Well, I don't know...I ran out of idea'

' What?! Don't leave me like this!'

' My power isn't strong enough for another teleporting. You had to find another way.'

' Alright...' I guessed I'm on my own...

I looked around for some sort of way out and found the vent above me. I dragged the chair from the middle of room and opened the lid and tiptoed to get in there. I closed the lid which was the same time that the automatic door made a ' whoop' sound which meant someone come into the library after I had got into the vent. I stayed quiet a little as I looked the tan man with a very short blond hair and strange tattoos on his arms checked the room if there were any trace of intruder. I crossed my fingers that he ignored about the chair that I had used to reached the vent.

" Aqualad to Nightwing, library is cleared." The man I presumed that he was Aqualad radioed to Nightwing.

" Copy that. Checking the other rooms. She could be anywhere." Nightwing said through radio

" Roger that..." Aqualad said before he looked around the room again and walked out from the library. I sighed, relieving that he was gone. Nightwing? Wait! That was the man who saved me.

' But if he saved here, why I was in that creepy room?' I started getting so confused when I recalled that he was in the room behind two ways mirror to watch me.

' What if his heroism act was a lie?' With that, the chill ran into my spine. My heart felt depressed extremely. I thought that we could escape from nightmare.

' Let keep move on, Rou. Before they caught you again..' I thought to cheer myself up and crawled without knowing where to go but let my instincts lead me until I saw something...

It was a small mouse which I shouldn't be surprised but its color seemed to be so unnatural. Its had green fur like the color of grass. Its tail, legs and ears were dark green like a leaf. Suddenly, it morphed itself into the boy around eight-year-old who smiled triumphantly.

" FOUND HER!" He beamed.

" AHHH!" I screamed out loud. Suddenly, the bottom part of the vent split up and I fell down to the floor below the vent which was 15 feet of ground and made me wince at the pain from the impact of it. But, that's not the time. I had to get out of this place.

" Nightwing, I think she need a doctor. Wait! Hey! Come back here!" The green boy exclaimed when he saw I got up quickly and ran away from him.

I kept running and running without knowing direction until I felt something locked me tightly.

" I got her!" The man in black t-shirt with red S- shield locked me with his bear hug after he had used his well-toned arm to stop me. I struggled from him but the more I tried to free my myself, the more his bear hug would tighten around me.

" Calm down. We're not going to hurt you. Nightwing! I think I got her." The man growled at me before he pressed the communicator at ear while his another arm held me over his shoulder.

" LET ME GO!" I screamed in his ear loudly, making the man drop me to the floor while he covered his ear and groaned in pain which allowed me to escape from him again.

Since I lost a lot of energy, I started changing from running to walk. My leg started shaking a little when I stopped after I felt I've ran far enough to buy the time for me to rest a little. I walked until I came into the room with a blue neon light floor at the middle.

" We put you in that room to run some test on how you could survive from the experiment without being insane like the others." I startled at the cold voice came from the shadow. The man with a bat symbol walked out from the shadow and looked at me stoically.

" Please...please leave me alone." I said to him. Feeling tired and scared from knowing that I would be in that creepy room again, it cause my tears come out. This time I don't care if I let his saw my tear. I don't care if I had to knee down at him, begging for his mercy. I looked down and saw my body that had been covered in dark purple substance which acted like the clothes for me.

" Aren't you satisfied already in ruining my life?" My voice was shaking as I said to him sarcastically and spread my arms to show how monstrous I looked like .

" Actually, we want to help..." The familiar voice came in from behind of me. I turned around and saw that it was Nightwing.

" We want to help you. That's why we brought you here to take care of you and check you up if there was any way to save you. It would be great if you cooperate with us and tell us who you are. " My heart felt warm when I heard his words that he would help me. I felt the stress that I had held since the misunderstanding in that creepy room was melted away. And, I'm willing to cooperate with him.

" I wish I could tell you more about me. But I only remember that my name is Rou Hammond. I used to work for S.T.A.R Lab." I said softly.

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