Chapter 1 - Bad and Good

"Tsk. Another failure" A man's voice rang out.

A shadow pulled out the needles and untied the small boy that laid on the table.

The boy looked very young, about 5 or 6 or so but seemingly very malnourished. He was still alive, as one could see the boy still breathing in pain, but unconcious. He was wearing a dirty old patient's garb.

It was a dark lab, with only a bright light poitning at the boy's body and vats of various liquids around the table as well as many tools.

Of course the red liquid, blood, stood out the most out of them all.

"Remove him." The man spoke out again.

Another shadow seemingly appeared right beside the 'man' as it spoke. "Sire, this is the last specimen."

"Tsk." The man spoke out. "Get more then."

"Sire, I do advise against that. It's too dangerous for us to act here." The shadow spoke again.

"...I thought it would succeed for sure this time, alas." The man sat down onto a nearby chair.

At that moment.

Crash!

"What was that!" The man stood right back up.

"We're being attacked, we need to leave now!" The shadow shouted as he grabbed one of the sharp tools upon the table.

"Quickly, dispose of everything and take what you can. Leave nothing that can be used to track us!" The man quickly ran out one of the side doors as the shadow started to quickly gather the materials.

He then glanced at the unconcious boy upon the table and grabbed him as well.

The shadow dashed out the same door with a bag full of the various liquids and tools as well as the boy upon his shoulder.

There was a small opening at the end of the alleyway the shadow had come out to where a man was gestruing at the shadow.

"Hurry! Just throw the boy aside! He'll drag us down!" The man urged as he looked around in panic.

The shadow quickly chucked the boy behind a few pieces of junk. "Don't blame me kid, you were a sacrifice... A necessary one for our cause."

The shadow then quickly entered the small opening before the man closed the 'door' which seemingly hid the entire entrance.

Boom!

A crowd of knights bursted through the door from the lab and into the alleyway.

"Split into two and chase! They couldn't have gone far!" The knight in lead, who was obviously of a higher rank due to the gilded armor he was wearing, shouted out his orders.

"Yes sir!" The knights immediatly split into two and ran out from the alleyway.

The knight in lead, who was about to walk off as well, noticed a small boy's leg sticking out from a corner of his eyes.

"Hmm...?"

He walked over to the boy, finding a small unconscious boy laying there in a sickly manner.

"Tsk... The poor starve in the streets whilst the royals swim in riches..." The knight sighed as he shook his head. He had also lived like this before. His own parents had been taken away as slaves when he had been young.

He pulled out a small bag and took out two silver coins and tucked it into the boy's hands. He then pulled out a small note and a pen as he started writing

-There are bad people and good people in the world. You just met the bad ones first. You'll meet good ones from this point on. Survive and live. Only then will you be able to see the light.-

The man tucked the note onto the boy's other hand before taking off his cape and covering the boy before walking off.

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The boy woke up in darkness as pain coursed through his body. But he was used to this. Actually it was feeling much better than before. He was even warm.

'The doctor must be taking a break...'

The boy continued to lay there but realized something was off very quickly.

There were no sounds of tools clanking or liquids bubbling, but rather various voices and the high pitched clicks of... Insects? The boy remembered the last time he had heard an insect as he tried to stand up. He realized that there was a piece of black cloth that had been covering his body that had kept him warm.

He then noticed something cold in his left hand and a note on his right.

"Ugh..." Pain and dizziness strikes his head as his vision tries to focus onto the objects upon his hand.

He sees a small piece of paper with some writing upon it. He couldn't read so this was quite useless to him, however he felt as if it was important and decided to hold onto it.

The 2 small pieces of silvery metal in his other hand he knew as money. He had seen it before but not quite remember where.

"Oh!" He remembered.

He remembered seeing the doctor hand a bunch of these coins to igor, his one and only servant, while giving him an order to get more food as his 'treatment' was prolonged.

The boy struggled but managed to stand up and looked left and right.

"I...Huh?" He was standing in an alleyway. "...Doctor?"

It took a moment before he realized the various footsteps upon the ground and the door that had been bursted open where he could see the lab inside.

Tears started to roll down his eyes as he finally realized what had happened.

Something had happened to the doctor. The evil doctor who had killed his parents and took him into the dark lab. Where he stabbed him with tubes and hurt him for days and weeks.

"Sniff." The boy wiped away his tears before realizing that the coins and the note had come from the person that had left the piece of cloth that had kept him warn.

He leaned down to pick the cloth up before wrapping it around his shoulders.

The boy then walked off into one end of the alleyway and into the light.