After what felt like seconds, time flows differently when you get knocked out, I'd know… I woke up in that dark place that I was in before I woke up in Lydia's body. Again, I could see a slight glow coming from myself, but this time, it felt like I landed with my feet planted in a liquidy surface. I looked down and noticed a rippling affect coming from where the surface met my legs, with my feet not being too far below.
The 'water' was pitch black, excluding a glowing purple colour coming off the ripples. It was somewhat surprising though that I couldn't even see my own feet through this water, my whole body was glowing after all.
I looked up and noticed similar tentacles to before slowly approaching. This time though, they were not the same colour as me, which was a somewhat purple colour, maybe even magenta… instead, they were very dark purple, almost a black colour.
Without much time to react, they started striking me, or at least they attempted to. There was once again an invisible barrier preventing them from hitting me. The force at which the tentacles slammed against this barrier was astounding… I could almost feel a shock wave effect, but this wasn't the real world… so everything I felt, felt much different from reality.
The pounding continued for some time, and for a minute I believed I'd be fine, but they just continued—and after continued pressure one of them managed to puncture a hole in the barrier. I quickly covered my mouth as I spat out blood, and since feelings in the world were different, it felt much more painful than I'd imagine.
How was this possible?? I didn't think this 'area' had any connection to my body… is this blood real?
I was so focused on the blood that I hadn't even realized that the barrier had quickly healed itself and cut the tentacle, leaving a part of it near me… Though I couldn't see it as it had fallen into the water.
As this happened, I could hear a screech sound screaming from the pain as the tentacles slowly went back, before slowly disappearing. I slowly started losing consciousness, and before I knew it, I had blacked out.
After some time, I woke back up in the real world. Yuri was holding his head in pain, something had happened… but I couldn't concern myself with that. There was an immense pain coming from my head, as what felt like tears rolled down my face… but they were no tears. They felt heavy, stung my eyes, and smelled like iron. Blood was coming from my eyes as if they were tears.
I started screaming, not super loudly like a scared scream, but more like a groaning scream… if you heard it you would be able to tell I was in extreme pain.
The screams immediately caught Yuri's attention as he turned his head in my direction. He quickly ran over and cut the ropes holding my hands and legs to the chair. I'm unsure how he cut the ropes, but I think I saw his finger transform into a small blade.
I fell off the chair onto my knees and started swiftly wiping the blood off my face. I had started crying from the pain which I think only made it worse, but it was so painful and I didn't know what to do. I'd never felt this type of pain before. I don't even think I've ever broken a bone, yet alone have blood come out of my eyes.
Yuri crouched down and reached out his hand to try and help but I smacked it away. I didn't want his help. He's the whole reason this was happening to me.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!" I screamed at him with tears, or blood, I don't even know, rolling down my face.
"I didn't know you also had a Xeno…" He pulled his hand back and set it on his knee as he looked down.
"A what-"
"This really changes things." He clenched his fist.
Oh no… is my plan foiled?
"I see why you're so open to betray them!" His whole mood completely changed… he was super exited about me betraying… who?
"Huh?"
"Lunar Labs? We should get started right away!" He grabbed my hand and pulled me off the ground.
"Also, maybe you should get a towel…"
"Thanks Mister obvious." I rolled my eyes.
I quickly wiped the rest of the blood off of my face as we walked out of the closet. I started getting worried as his whole attitude changed… Was he really just THAT exited about me betraying this company, or was he playing with me? Also, why does he hate this company so much… Also, what's a Xeno…? Okay, I'm asking too many questions.
Seriously though, I feel like everything is happening so fast… I'm honestly scared.
"W-what are we doing?" I asked him as we walked through a small hallway.
"Getting you ready for 'work.'" He said as he air quoted with both his hands.
"What? It's still night time, they won't even be open."
"No? I think they open at 9:00, which is in about two hours…" He slowly opened one of the doors in the hallway.
"Huh?? Isn't it just… 10:00 PM or something?"
I walked into the room, which was pretty empty but had a small closet, a bathroom, and a computer setup on a desk. This place looked abandoned, so I don't even know how he was getting power for a computer. I also noticed a small tank next to the desk, similar to the one that was in my kitchen…
"Umm… oh yeah that's right! You've been asleep for a couple days."
"Wait what??? HOW HARD DID YOU HIT ME!!" I screamed at him.
"Calm down… Zero-Seven-One told me you were just sleep deprived." He nervously grabbed the back of his neck.
"For a second I actually thought I killed you… hehe." He nervously laughed.
The laugh caught me off guard, excluding the super exited mood he was just in, I hadn't seen much positive emotion come from him. Wait… did he just say he thought he killed me?
"I really want to punch you right now." I snarled at him as we walked over to the desk.
"Wait, what do those random numbers you just said mean?" The numbers he said reminded me of the alien thing that called itself Zero-Eight-Zero…
"Zero-Seven-One? That's just the Xeno's name. Pretty bland I guess… but I don't really care." He sat down.
"Oh you mentioned that I have a Xeno… what even is that?"
"Huh…? Don't play dumb."
I don't know why but me saying that flipped a switch in him and completely ruined his good mood. I know it was stupid, but I pushed the question further because at the end of the day, I literally know nothing…
"I'm not." I looked him dead in the eyes. He could tell I wasn't joking around.
He slowly looked down as he told me. "You know… when they tested on us. That's how you got those Xeno's powers…"
After a slight paused he resumed.
"Ha! You didn't think they appeared out of nowhere right?" He tried to make light of the situation by joking, but I could tell whatever happened was not something he enjoyed.
Does this mean that Yuri was a test subject…? Wait a second… doesn't this mean I was also a test subject!?