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Chapter 4

"When I was 17, all of a sudden I woke up in a strange place. I still remember it like it was yesterday";

Her eyes flickered open, only finding herself inside a tube, filled with peculiar green liquid. She couldn't feel like breathing, but it's also like she didn't need any air. Even though she was conscious, she couldn't move any of her naked body, she felt limp, no, she felt like stunned. And all she could see was green-black vision. Then, two silhouettes of humans came near her, and a feminine voice was heard, "Is she ready?"

"She is." A masculine voice responded. "Once the stigma's spread inside her body, she will be our stigma's arsenal. And we'll conquer the world of Gaia!"

Then, the green liquid started to vanish under her feet, her numb body then plopped down on the base of the tube. A hand opened the glass door, four masked humans took her out from the tube and put her on a strecher. She looked up to the ceiling, pipes with rust was all she could see. She didn't even managed to tilt her head to see her surroundings, and all of sudden, she was roughly threw on a hard table, probably made from steel.

Not long, four steel bars were wrapped around her, pinning her against the hard and cold table. A man in a lab coat approached her with a big syringe with black liquid in his hand. Once the needle of the syringe went through her flesh, her teeth grinding, her toes curled, her eyes shut tight. She felt something burns inside her body, it made a stream of fire all through her body.

In that condition, she was brought into a room with a single bed, many foreign thingies and many cables, also she finally got a sleeveless mid-thigh length dress to put on. She spent uncountable days inside the room, feeling like she was an experiment since they need many apparatus to monitor her. She was helpless, hungry, and confused. Her tears dried since she cried everyday. Then, when a masked man came into her room, she couldn't help the anger built inside of her, but it was not an anger that she let out – but a painful scream. That pain came all over her again, her back felt like it was sliced. And a single white wing emerged from her back. She leapt forward and punched the masked man out from the room, only inviting more of them.

"Project R is a failure! Evacute her at once!"

Since that day, she was locked inside another room, which was worse than before. It was a prison-like room, since she didn't meet anyone else, she even forgot what her face look like. She spent 2 years in that room, she'd prefer death than being locked from something which was definitely not her fault.

"I believe I was the one who had to be their Geostigma's hostage, not you. I'm sorry, Denzel."

"So, instead of being infected, you grow a wing."

"Yes. When they took some of my blood, it wasn't black like yours. Mine's red, like a normal being. Well, I'm not a normal being, since I have a strange wing on my back." She smiled weakly, but cannot hide the deep sadness from the past events of her life. She's been through so much. "I hope a friend of mine will find us."

"Who? You mean, Cloud? Is he your friend?"

"Yes! You've meet him? It means he's also in this school too!"

"Yeah, I was locked inside the other world and he found me. He told me that he will get me out of this building. But when we went through the portal, we separated. I don't know where he is now, but I believe he is in here, right in this building."

"Oh, thank Gaia." She clasped her hand in front of her chest as if she was praying. Then, she looked up with a strong-willed face facing him. "We have to get out of here, Denzel. We have to find Cloud, no way he would find us here."

"Why?"

"We are in a secret room in the basement. I don't think he'd find the secret passage. We have to move, Denzel." She declared.

"Okay, Tifa."

The secret passage was actually a labyrinth, lit by countable torches on its wall. It has many turns and dead-ends, but Tifa knew every bends and corners of it, as if she was trained to go through the maze. She was practically dragging Denzel all through the passage, but he didn't mind. His right arm clung on her shoulder and her left arm support him by his waist. After many turns, they finally found a set of stairs.

"Why didn't you escape from the first place?" He asked her all of a sudden.

"I was... scared. I've lost my hope long ago. Then, I remembered Cloud. There was a little chance to call him here, so I sent him the letter, praying that he'll recieve it. After hearing that he is here, it feels like I've found a single ray of hope."

"Hn." He brought eyes back down. "Tifa?"

"Yes, Denzel?"

"I believe it's pitch dark upstairs."

"Hn." Her hand reached the closest torch, "I believe this will help."

"Sure!" and so, they ascended the stairs and finally inside the abandoned school, inside the teachers room to be exact. The secret door was under one of the tables. The scenery? Many tables were lined and uncountable scraps of paper were spread everywhere. Some chairs were missing and the only light in the room was coming from their torch. They walked passed the messy tables, only to find a slimy thing under their feet.

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"What are you saying?" a cool masculine voice was heard from inside the dim room.

"There's a trespasser from Gaia. I believe he has brought Denzel with him. Sooner or later he will find Selene and Marlene."

"Hmm. Well, you know what to do, my dear Aerith." He said with a smirk.

"Of course, Dr. Fair."

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Their footsteps were echoing through the walls of the strange building. His flashlight became dimmer and dimmer by the time. Two little girls were at either sides of him. 'If the second floor was that room, so, where is the attic? There must be another set of stairs.' He convinced himself.

"We're going without Denzel?" a voice sounded beside him.

"Of course we'll go with him. We will find him, then, we can escape from this world." He said to her, a faint smile attached on his face.

"Can't we?" a familiar voice came from behind them, a click then sounded from the same direction. The sudden wash of light made his eyes hurt. They turned only to see the crazy nurse once again. "Hello there, Cloudy boy. Missed me?" it only made him furrow his brows.

"You."

"Ah, I see you got two cute little girls. I'm sorry, but a stranger like you is forbidden to take my daughters away from me. They'll need their mother."

"You're not my mother!" Marlene shrieked, she pointed straight to her face.

"Now, Marlene, isn't it a bad behaviour of yours. It looks like your punishment is not enough." She said with her evil smile, she pulled her knife from her pocket and charged Cloud.

But he reacted fast, while shielding his little girls, he blocked her knife with his gun, then had his scalpel through her arm. Her blood spurt out from her arteries, staining her skin. But her wounded arm didn't distrub her, she managed to wound his shoulder, and knocked him to the hard wall. A grunt escaped his lips, seeing her approaching his little girls, he stood up and knocked her right on her stomach. He shielded them again, with his gun pointed toward her forehead, he fired a bullet from his gun. But she was fast enough to dodged it, though it managed to graze her left temple, leaving a scar with blood flowing down from it. A stream of blood also seen flowing down from her mouth, the effect of his punch not long ago. But she was not the only one to be covered in blood, his rear head was stained with blood, it had made him dizzy, but he still could focus on his enemy, well, maybe only for now.

A chuckle came from her throat, "Very well, then, Cloudy boy. I might let you go this time," she said while bringing her body back to standing position with a little help from the wall, "But you'll never be able to escape." She said not long before a click sounded again, and all he could see was pitch black again. He fished the flashlight and lit it to find that crazy nurse, but there was none.

"Are you okay?" he asked the two little girls. Recieving a simultaneous nod from both of them, he walked through the corridor of the school again, with two little girls, and two little wounds.

To Be Continued

Hooraayy! Chapter 4 is done! Please review if you want, if there's any errors, please leave a correction. It would help me a lot!