Part 1 - Her Story
Chapter 1
Emotions Are Bad
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A mysterious girl who looked about nine years old was held captive in a laboratory where all of your nightmares became reality and haunt you until the day you die. This lab is where nut jobs like to make experiments of the gruesome type, and making crosses between nature and humans were their specialty. But the girl who was a prisoner to the sick minds of the workers wasn’t a crossbreed freak of nature like the others were. She was just a human with something inside her. A power was held captive in the depths of her soul. She was aware of this thing inside her and it always haunted her. The psychos at the lab, or Banshi Incorporated, were trying to find that power. They kept doing tests on her, hoping that her ability would awaken. They made her eat and drink foul substances to see how she would react. The girl never ate or drank them willingly for fear that they might be poisonous. But they made her anyway. The sickos put needles in her to inject chemicals into her bloodstream. If they kept that up the girl thought she might die, which would be fine with her. She wanted to leave this place, and the way she left didn’t matter. The sick people that worked at Banshi Inc. wanted nothing more than to rip her soul out to free her power, but their leader never permitted them to ruin his “work of art.” Thus, the girl was subjected to a world of pain which would only get worse because of the workers’ desire to free her internal depths.
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Where am I? Why do I feel warm? I feel like I’m floating so maybe I’m in water.
No, wait. I’m in the capsule. Again. Why did they move me here?! Ugh, so many questions I want to ask . . .
Man, I’d rather do some more tests than be in here. This thing creeps the heck out of me. Nnnn . . . I feel like I’m going to throw up . . . Whoa! Look at that! I can see much better now! I can actually see, um . . . my hand! Yeah, that’s what it’s called. Geez, I don’t know anything about myself thanks to my sick upbringing in the lab. Maybe they gave me the ability to see better since I’ve been doing so well. I hate how they took away the things that made me human just to see how I would react. I haven’t felt like a real human in, well, forever. How they were able to take away what makes me human in the first place is beyond me. This water stuff is just too murky though. Darn it, I can’t see who just came into my cell.
“So, what do we do with her? I mean, we’re not finding anything else about her, but it’s not like we can just throw her out.”
“Why not? She’s useless to us now that she has developed more humanlike feelings and abilities. She developed them on her own accord even though we took most of them away. We need her to feel nothing so the experiments come out correctly. If she can feel pain, stress, or any emotion similar to those, there’s no telling what can happen!”
Whoa, I gave myself the ability to see better? And I’m becoming more human? And they’re gonna throw me out?! They can’t do that!
“All you can say is why not? She’s a living creature just like you and that’s all you can say?!”
“Look, let’s just examine her like we were sent here to do in the first place, ok? Just unlatch the chamber and take her out slowly . . .”
“AHHHH! IT HURTS! PUT ME BACK WHERE IT’S SAFE!”
“Ah! See? What did I tell you?! Pain isn’t good in her condition!”
“Duh, I know that! Just lay her on the table and let her get used to the light.”
Light isn’t good. I don’t like it. It’s not my friend. It’s my enemy. I was content until these bozos took me out. I want to go back. I want to leave this loony bin.
“PUT ME BACK INTO THE CHAMBER!”
The girl was getting out of control and possibly going delusional. The two workers noticed this and started to worry. But going delusional would be normal in a place like this, right? The girl moved her hands shakily to brush golden-brown hair out of her face.
“Chill out, girl! You stay right here while the two of us get the equipment. Let’s go where she can’t hear us, Daichi.”
Well, I could hear you that time, moron.
The two men walked over to the room’s door and whispered to each other.
“Look. We need to get rid of her. Now.”
“What, are we just going to kill her, Shuichi? One, we don’t have permission to do that, and two, that’s homicide! You know as well as I do that we have no authorization to kill her!”
The man named Shuichi thought for a moment and whispered, “Well, the others don’t have to know that we threw her out . . .”
Daichi looked like he was going to explode at his companion when suddenly the girl said, “I want to stand up and walk for a bit. Let me get up or I swear, I’ll yell even louder.”
Shuichi said to her, “You can’t go anywhere, young lady, until we run more tests on you.”
The girl looked at him with pure loathing and said, “I’d like to tell you what I think about you, but I might just make your ears bleed. I’m going to scream until even the leader hears me!”
“AAAAAHHHHH!”
She screamed so loud that she actually broke some of the small windows high up on the wall.
“SHUT UP, GIRL, BEFORE I KILL YOU!”
She immediately stopped and looked at Shuichi for a minute. Then she collapsed onto the table and sobbed into her hands.
Shuichi turned frantically to Daichi. “Do you see what I mean?! Her feelings are getting out of control since she hasn’t felt them most of her life! We need to exterminate her or throw her out into the outside world!” He immediately regretted saying anything about the outside world and mentally smacked his forehead.
Daichi looked at Shuichi and said, “I suggest taking her into the outside world so she doesn’t have to be alone and someone might care for her. I also suggest that you keep your temper to a minimum. You might make her even more angry and sad by yelling at her.” Shuichi opened his mouth to retaliate but Daichi interrupted him. “Don’t get furious with me either.”
Daichi looked over at the girl, now wiping her tears on her hands. “If we take her to the outside world, it will be dangerous. She’ll tell everyone all about our laboratory, so we need to control her memories of this place.”
Shuichi smiled, “I could do that.”
Daichi hesitated and looked at him for a minute, then said, “Fine. But I’ll be right next to you telling you which memories to suppress.”
Daichi walked over to the girl to try to calm her down while Shuichi muttered to himself, “You won’t tell me what to suppress, you fool. I’ll suppress whatever memories I want, and if you get in my way . . . ” Shuichi pictured Daichi getting punished by the leader himself and grinned.
Fiction: 07/25/08 | Posted By: twilight luna | | Tags: bird, caged, fiction, luna, science, twilight