The Renegade

Chapter 7

Truence watched the wall of screens that loomed before him. He struggled to keep his face as blank as possible but inside his emotions were building up and threatening to burst out of him.

I knew I should have never agreed to this…

"Hey, your time is up, 47." The one of the erasers growled from behind him. He was tempted to rip all their throats out but he don't know if he could handle all 5 of them at once. He didn't respond. "Now!" The eraser roared. Just then the lights flicked on and Dan came in leading another scientist.

"47," Dan said sounding surprised. He cleared his throat and continued, "Jeb this is Experiment 47."

"It's Truence." He said tensely, refusing to face Dan or his fellow scientist. The two stepped up to the wall of screens.

"I think we might have found something pretty important to you." Dan stated, completely ignoring Truence. Dan picked up the remote and rewound the tape to one of the screens. The screen showed the opening to Aven's cave. He fast-forwarded until a flock of six 'angels' swooped down onto the ledge. Jeb's mouth hung open for only an instant before his face returned to its usual stern, serious look.

"That's them," Jeb responded, staring at the screen, "Have you sent any search parties?"

"Well, we would like to study how these experiments react to each other. You see, we released Experiment 46 and 47 together to see how they would survive and studied their interaction," Dan started, still not caring about what Truence heard, "Then after three years we took this one back." He motioned to Truence. "We wanted to see how they would do apart…" He trailed off and looked at Truence. The video continued until the oldest 'angel' boy flew up to the ledge carrying Aven where Dan paused the tape, revealing her shredded shoulder to the hidden camera. Truence could barely see the screen in the light but he knew the extent of her wounds.

Aven I'm sorry…

"Now we want to see how different experiments react to each other. It's the perfect opportunity, we should take advantage of it." He finished.

"Yes, well if you'll excuse me I have a meeting." Jeb said and slipped out of the room, the erasers following him. Dan turned to Truence and felt a twinge of fear upon seeing the boy's face. Truence stood up to tower 5 inches above the scientist.

"You didn't release us, we escaped," the boy began with a dark tone. Dan dared to look up to his pale gray eyes but could not hold his gaze.

"Yes, but-" He started.

"You swore you would let me go if Aven ever got hurt as long as I came with you …" Truence interrupted.

"Yes, but the problem is you didn't come without a fight."

"You never said I had to come easily." Truence let his voice rise with his emotions.

"We had to damn near kill you to get you to come with us!" Dan yelled back, "Your lucky we didn't just kill you then."

"You know you would never kill one of your precious experiments." Truence mocked the scientist and let his wings stretch out around him. Dan stared at the boy angrily reaching for the intercom.

"We're going to need two erasers in video study room 56." Dan talked into the small speaker without ever taking his eyes off Truence. Within seconds two erasers came into the room and roughly took Truence away by the arms. As they escorted him down the hall one thought remained in his mind.

You know you would never kill one of your precious experiments…

With the thought a plan erupted. Truence had a plan to get whatever he wanted. He knew it would work. It had to work. The erasers stopped at his room. It was a lot better than all the experiments' rooms simply for the fact that it was a room and not a cage. It was still only a four by six room though and had only enough room for a small cot. The erasers shoved him in and slammed the steel door behind him. Truence slumped down on the cot and held his head in his hands.

Aven…My Aven is hurt and I'm not there to help her.

Silent tears rolled down his face. Miles away, Aven was crying too, silent tears that could be sensed by Truence. Tears that blinded her in the dark pain and now tears that blinded Truence in the brightness of the florescent lights of the lab.

Author's Note: Wow, deep! laughs manically Yup, this is the result of finally being on spring break. I hope you think it's good. Your first introduction to the mystery of Truence. I'll update soon! Toodles!