CHAPTER 3: PHASE 3
2 years later,
{Professor's lab}
"Hah, professor,
I see, you're still working on the new weapons, ",
"Yeah, the royal queen needed weapons for the war, ",
"Oh, the queen",
"What are you still doing at this time, Commander? ",
"Nothing much, just filling reports on the test subjects,",
"Oh, the test subjects",
"Yeah, apparently the phase 2 results were all successful, and the phase 3 is taking place tomorrow",
"Ok, so it’s time then",
"Yeah, I need the equipment for the phase 3 before tomorrow",
"Ok, I would have them ready",
Next day,
It was my 7th year in this strange place,
There wasn't basically much happening, just days of a regular life.
But I could find out information about this place
— The place is always cold. There were no other seasons in this place, just completely snow,
The outside was not visible because of a haze which hinders the outside from sight.
Well, most of the knowledge found was not helpful.
Because we could not move within the place.
On a certain day,
I noticed we were missing one of my friends.
Day by day, it went on.
— Maybe they are going through a test or something?
I hoped,
After sometime of missing them, a peculiar feeling was being brought back,
As I was aware that we were in a lab with nobody but ourselves,
I felt fear,
And for the first time in my new life, I felt fear,
It was a frightful feeling, as it was—
The feeling of,
DEATH.
After some days of my friend's missing
On a certain morning,
{Blu's Room}
"Number 102",
"Hi",
"Follow me"
As I followed the [men in white], I was brought to a medical room, as I stood,
I was given another substance into his body,
Unknown to me, it was a prosthetic.
After a while, I started to feel my vision getting blurry, then I lost balance of my body, falling onto the ground,
"Looks like the drug works",
"Put number 102 unto the stretcher",
"Hi",
As I heard the [men in white] on the I after a while, I noticed that they had brought me into a new place with an inscription written on the door.
[AREA: 02]
As I was guided into the spot, I couldn't keep myself awake as the drug took effect. I fell asleep but my consciousness was left awake
— I don't know why, but that was helpful,
As he could hear on the [men in white] speaking,
"This is test subject 102,
Requested permission to commence phase 3".
— What is phase 5?
"Permission granted,
Number 102, can move on to phase 5".
"Phase 5 in progress...
Mana implant, check,
Mana core, check,
Proceeding to confirm link,
Link currently existing...".
— Mana? Hey what's going on!
"Request reconfiguration",
"Proceeding to the next step",
"Entry of subject data,
Number 102, Defect subject",
"Phase 5 complete".
—Hey, what's going o...
After the experiment,
I found himself in bed, as I tried to move,
I started to feel changes in my body, though I don't know why, but as I woke up, my body started to feel strange,
— It felt like I am no longer myself again,
The feeling came on with a strange fever, I was cold out, but had felt burning heat from my body,
As the fever couldn't reside, I thought to myself,
"Am I going to die?"
"No, I don't want that."
No, please not again."
As the thoughts kept coming, I could feel my eyelids getting wet,
Then before I knew it, a tear came running down, as my nose felt stiff,
I started to feel my vision getting blurry every second, with my eyes feeling heavier with each passing moment,
Till I finally lost consciousness,
{Headquarters Of Area: 02}
A round table of 5 was called upon to report the progress of phase 3.
NT: Positions of round table chairs are placed in pentagon format; top, left top, right top, left bottom and right bottom
On the top was [red boss] - Commander of Area: 02; Royal knight of Eliana
[Leazus Fhaust]
Left top - Assistant commander of Area: 02 [Rosa Melathia]
Right top - Director of project [Cerberuse Bernz]
Left bottom - Head of security of Area: 02 [Dust Maestro] (currently absent)
Right bottom - professor in charge of utilities [Fenn Dustin] (currently absent)
Standing to the left of the hall next to a screen was the secretary to all operations
Leazus: where are the remaining members of this round table.
Secretary : well Dust Maestro and Fenn Dustin were reported to head back to the forefronts in preparation for the war with the kingdom of Gale.
Cerberuse: why wasn't this mentioned before I called for this meeting?
Leazus: Hey, don't you see we are here, please calm down
Rosa : "..."
Cerberuse: Huh, are you giving me an or...
Leazus: (stared with a deathly aura at Cerberuse)
Secretary: sorry sir, we were put upon on a short notice as the General commander ordered it was from the Queen .
(all eyes were at Cerberuse to for proceedings)
Cerberuse: tsk.. Proceed
Secretary: The experiment of phase 5 on the new test subjects has being, done and the assessment shows 2 failure and 1 defect
(All eyes were raised from the sound of the word)
Cerberuse: defect, Hoi... Hoi... Hoi...
A defect.
Secretary: Yes sir, a defect was found upon test subject 102
Leazus: 102, huh well, advance with the next phase,
Number 102 should be placed on high alert
Secretary: Ok
Cerberuse: It seems like our Commander here has a little successor
Leazus: I don't know what our queen was thinking but putting you as the director,
As it seems she was mistaken, Leader of black knights, Cerberuse
As it seems she was mistaken, black knights, Cerberuse: huh, it seems you don't know your place in this...
Rosa: Silence, I won't overlook the fact that you all—actually are disrespectful towards the Queen", as she said with an enormous display of powerful aura
Okay, they all said
Leazus: Number 102,
Interesting.
A few days later,
"Where am I? Oh, what's with this nostalgic feeling, like am floating"
Then I heard a voice
"... Memory reconfiguration",
I instantly woke up,
As I turned to view who it was, I couldn't find anyone.
— "Who was that?"
After regaining consciousness,
I numbness from my legs,
— "How long was I out",
Moments later, my legs felt better,
Though, I found it strange that my legs healed a lot more than normal,
—Maybe it was due to the experiment.
I then looked out to check out what they did to my body,
But to my surprise, there wasn't any wound on,
"Shh"
The [men in white] came to my room saying,
"Number 102, you are requested"
As the [men in white] spoke, I could feel a shiver in awe, as I didn't know what was to happen,
Later on, after following the [men in white], I detected the direction in which they were going, which was,
{The play hall}
On the sight of the hall, I saw my friends who were all missing,
As I stepped forth in view of them, tear fell from my eyes,
— "Huh, why am I crying?"
Before I could move again,
Aria, who was the clingy type, ran forth to me as she hid behind his back,
Emotions came out as I cried, for the first time in my new life,
After a moment of heartfelt reunion, I started to notice 2 people were missing,
Phil and Lepus were missing
As I asked,
"Huh, where is Phil and Lepus?",
"Phil? Lepus?",
"I meant, did you guys see Phil and Lepus?",
"Who is Phil and Lepus?",
"Huh",
"I meant number",
"We don't have anyone like that",
— wait that's weird, what with this follow up of questions,
I searched all over the place, as I couldn't find them on sight,
I instantly felt a huge shock of fear, as they were no where to be seen.
