Volume I Chapter Two The Town of Death

It was only a matter of time before consciousness came flooding back to her like a wave that hit all her senses at once, her sight was the last to come back as a blinding white light flooded her vision. Her head slowly moved from side to side as she raised her hand grabbing her head and groaning feeling the dried blood matted in her dark hair from where she had been struck with the flashlight, "Where am I" She groaned out while looking around her from the chair she was in. The room reeked of chemicals and it looked as if someone had covered the walls, floors and ceiling in bright white clean Tiles, in front of her was an Alter-like table that was as well white. It seemed like the only thing that was dirty was the chair she was sitting in and herself

Upon feeling pressure on her neck and forearms she attempted to stand up but was held down by metal clamps attached to the chair. A loud static sound erupted in the room as she peered to the side to see a speaker in the corner of the room "Vell vell it Seems that all Za newcomers are awake" A male voice spoke through the speakers and oddly had a German Accent, wasn't a accent she was used too. The alter in front of her started to crack and shift as if it was a piece of machinery, the top split down the middle and opened up to reveal a metal slab pushing what seemed to be some kind of weapons. "Athena Price" the voice on the speaker said, The woman's head snapped to the side as her eyes widened 'How do these pieces of shit know my name?!'.

Athena sighed "Your ability is unknown as of now but in front of you are a set of different type of weapons, your a free to take one or all it does not matter to us" the voice stated from a speaker that she couldn't see, with that the speaker seemed to be shut off and clicked on in another room where she could hear it faintly, the clamps on the chair seemed to loosen and flick themselves open as she stood up stretching. Although it didn't take long for her to look down at the altar to observe the Three weapons sitting on the metal slab, A ice pick or a climbing pick was the first thing on the stand that she observed. It was red on the base that led to the handle which was crudely put together and wrapped in cloth, the second item seemed to be a piece of junk that was scrapped from a junkyard. It was a kitchen knife but the handle had rubber wrapping and was a wrench that had a rusty knife attached to the end of it and a metal piece that said Thirteen

The third item was what seems to be a sword but she didn't know how to use one so she wasn't gonna take it, As she reached for the Ice pick a sudden screeching sound made her Yelp as she looked up to see the wall across from her open up to reveal clothing choices. The static on the loudspeaker picked back up as a new American like voice spoke up "Athena was it? Doesn't matter you'll be dead anyway, the bracelets on each of your forearms and on your neck are detectors. They will limit your usage of your ability, go overboard and overuse it the bracelets will release a toxin that will kill you in less then a few seconds. Try to take them off and it releases the toxins, that is all", this was definitely a lot to take in currently. She would die? Hell she didn't even know where she was let alone what they were talking about, she had no ability so why were they doing this?!. Not like they would truly care in the end

But first off she would change, and so Athena walked over to the wall with clothing and observed. The clothing could barely be considered clothing, it looked like they really didn't care for the ability user's. Athena sighed as she started to pull off her already tattered clothing from that rapist before, she didn't feel exactly comfortable stripping in this room where there were probably cameras but she had too. And so she settled with some black stockings that she pulled on and a pair of really short black shorts along with a long red torn shirt that could almost be considered a torn up dress, as well she picked up two extra things excluding Shoes and undergarments. There was a glove that had blades attached to it and she had taken hand wrapping, and so she tied the wrapping around her forearms and hands covering the bracelets and pulling on the glove onto her right hand. It was fingerless and perfect for her

The static of the loudspeaker started back up once again as she strapped a leather harness onto herself that was also hung in what seemed to be a wall closet, before they started talking she would hook the Ice pick into the harness, the static started to get louder as she soon realized it was broadcasting to more then just this room "Prepare all survivors~ Five new combatants have entered town" just as the sentence had finished Athena's attention was snapped to a loud sound that rang through wherever they where at, almost seemed like a gunshot "Four new combatants are entering town...Make them feel welcomed" and with that a portion of the wall on the other side of the room creaked and groaned as it swung open