BULLSH*T

Neptunia woke up dazed and disoriented. She tried to move her hands but she felt bound. She lifted her head as much as she could to see that she was lying on an iron table and her arms and legs were tied up.

There were needles laced with....something, surrounding her hands and feet, meaning if she so much as moved a centimetre, she could get pricked with god knows whatever it what was. She breathed deeply and tried to control the needles but before she could get far, the door banged out. Neptunia jolted, gasped and grimaced in pain as she got pricked by various needles.

Neptunia gazed around the room, it was a small one with chains on the wall and some descending from the roof. It was dark and dingy, smelling of dirt and blood. The only saving grace was the tiny rectangle with bars on the top which served as the ventilation. Neptunia craned her neck and she could see a bit of the outside. So, she could run away if she broke the wall. The whole place was another level of deadly.

While Neptunia was smart in a way, she didn't have a lot of experience. She was still an eleven year old. She still has so much to learn. Neptunia jostled her chest, in hopes of getting out or loosening the rope surrounding it but all she succeeded in doing was pricking herself with the needles. Neptunia hissed. It hurt. It hurt

What had happened? It was all so blurry. Dryah..no, that wasn't her name. Whatever it was, that lady wasn't nice. No, she wasn't nice at all. And thinking of her, the woman came strutting into the room with a smirk on her face. Well, wasn't that just great for her...

"My name is Persephone." She paused to grin dangerously at her. "You see, HYDRA-"

Neptunia shook her head, "Wait! Wait!" Neptunia took a breath in, "Wasn't Hydra destroyed? Y'know because of Captain America?"

Persephone scoffed, "If you think that because of the loss of a leader, HYDRA will fall. You are mistaken."

Neptunia cut her off again, "Listen, lady, I don't care about your little boy band. I want out."

Persephone scoffed, "You have no choice. You will be a good little soldat." What she had said at the end of her sentence, Neptunia had no idea but she recognised that it was Russian. Sounded eerily like Soldier. Hell naw.

"I will do no such thing." Neptunia raised her chin in defiance.

Persephone laughed and it was chilling, "You, little Neptune, are going to be our new pet. Whether you like it or not, besides, we have ways of making you obey like a good dog."

Neptunia blinked, was this woman serious? This level of delusion was new. Neptunia just shook her head and grinned lopsidedly, "Aww, I'm flattered that you think I'm cute but I'm a person and I'm really not a follower unless I want to...and I really don't want to." On the outside, Neptunia was smiling but she was really scared. Her hair was still black.

Persephone stood tall and smiled thinly with veiled disgust, "We'll see darling."

Those words were laced with venom and ill intent. It caused a shiver to run through Neptunia's body. Persephone snapped her fingers and a few doctors or what appeared to be doctors came into the room. Persephone walked away and as she walked her heels clicked with a different kind of intensity, Neptunia watched her go. As Persephone walked away, Neptunia tried to get out but Persephone's voice rang out, "Don't try and escape. The needles are laced with drugs to keep you sluggish and worn out, helpless and unable to do anything."

Neptunia raised her eyebrow, so that's why she felt tired out. Neptunia groaned in frustration as she tried to use one of her elements but they weren't responding properly as she couldn't focus at all. She heard Persephone exclaim softly, "I almost forgot."

Neptunia acerbically spat out a word, "What?"

Persephone looked back, "Not you." She looked to the men and women in labcoats, "Undo her."

Neptunia's eyes went wide, "What? Wait! No, WHAT!?"

The men and women descended upon her and in a long time, Neptunia felt a familiar feeling. It was like being a 5-year-old again. That feeling...she felt like she was,

Being Trapped.

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Neptunia's wrists ached as she pulled one of her arms away from the wall, only to have the other pulled back. Neptunia sighed. Useless to try, she knew this place like the back of her hand.

Her whole body was aching in ways she didn't know were possible. They injected her with some sort of serum and it was burning her inside out but Neptunia was familiar with pain at this rate. How many days it had been since she first heard the words 'Undo her', Neptunia had no proper clue since she had passed out many times with no clue for how long she had been so.

A few days ago (was it a few days? hours?), Neptunia had been forced to undergo a transformation. She suspected that the only reason she survived it is because of her being a witch and it counted as transfiguration. But she wasn't going to tell the people at HYDRA that. She smirked to herself, let them lose their head trying to figure out how it worked.

But she hated one part of the torture with passion and that was waterboarding. She was supposed to have control. She didn't like being under the water without being free. They trapped her and she didn't like that. And it raised another problem.

Neptunia hung her head, her elemental powers were another problem. She could no longer control them. Was it because she had refused to listen to her instincts to scream and run? To fight back? No. That couldn't be it. Her powers were more than just that. I mean, Neptunia thought, weren't they? She never wanted to fight back against Mrs Crawley but wasn't there a period when...

Not to mention, her hair. It was permanently black nowadays. She wanted her red, her pink, her blues and even white! She didn't like the Black. She didn't want it. It felt bad. Black. BAD. BLACK. BLACK. BLACK. BL- BREATHE! Neptunia swallowed to get rid of the lump in her throat. In the back of her mind, Neptunia wondered if Black was the colour of being trapped or closed off.

The door opened and Neptunia wearily raised her head, "Persephone! Did you miss me so much?"

Persephone punched her and Neptunia felt her cracked lips burst open. "Where are your powers!?"

Neptunia laughed like it was some sick joke, her life was one probably, "Hell if I know." Neptunia shook her head, "It's gone. Your plan for an elemental wolf is going bye-bye."

Persephone looked down at her, "Elemental? Maybe. Wolf? No."

Neptunia looked up, "What."

Persephone smirked, "Say, do you know what today is?"

Neptunia rolled her eyes. "No, seeing as I have no calendar down here." The woman was getting on her nerves. What she would do to just hit this woman. To fight back.

Persephone laughed and threw her a dead flower, "Happy Birthday Neptunia."

Neptunia looked down at the flower, the first of August. A month. These assholes took away a month and she had one left to go home. Hogwarts, oh she missed it. It felt like a distant memory. A distant feeling. She had missed Harry's twelfth birthday too. Neptunia looked up at Persephone and growled, her canines, which were now elongated, bared at the woman.

Neptunia wanted to fight. She wanted to feel the heat when she played with fire. The softness of the earth when she commanded it. The lightness of air when she flew. She wanted to use water without drowning. Without feeling disgusted or nauseous. Neptunia saw everything blur and felt something run down her face and it felt soft somehow. Like it was giving her a sweet caress.

Persephone laughed and Neptunia felt her blood boil. She wanted to be free and this low life woman stood there in front of her and mocked her? Neptunia closed her eyes as she took a breath in and she as released it she opened her eyes and pulled both her arms. Persephone looked afraid as she stepped back.

Good. She should be.

Neptunia rose to her feet and whispered one word, "Run." As Persephone turned, Neptunia flicked her wrists and the chains that once held her were now at her command. Neptunia jerked her hands outwards and curled her fingers outwards, as much as she could anyway. The Chains flew to Persephone and wrapped around her. Persephone fell and Neptunia looked to the other side of the room and brought the rope to her. She used the rope to gag her.

Neptunia couldn't understand how or why her powers were suddenly all to complacent right now but she wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Neptunia smiled with hate dripping off of every syllable, "Thanks for the Birthday Present." Neptunia picked up the dead violet and tucked it in Persephone's hair.

Neptunia turned to the wall and clenched her fist. She raised it before bringing it down fast.

The wall crumbled and Neptunia ran. Neptunia ran. Her lungs ached and her legs felt like jelly. She stopped only when she felt she was far enough. Neptunia took a breath in as she stood in the middle of a forest. She gazed at a point ahead of her, "Ad eundum regnum I."

A portal opened and Neptunia stepped through, only to collapse and utter only three words, "This is bullshit." before losing consciousness.