5-Rebirth

Andreas finally awoke an unknown amount of time later. He had a cloth gag in his mouth. He was in a cool room and he couldn't move around all that much.

"Don't try anything funny, buddy." A voice said, the person speaking was outside of Andreas' field of view, "The more you struggle, the worse this'll get!"

Andreas could hear the smile in the man's voice as he said the last part.

Before the boy could even react, he felt something stab into his arms and legs followed by several slashed across his left arm.

A devious cackle overtook the room as Andreas tried to scream out in pain. The gag muffled most of it.

The table he was laying on began to slide apart and his body was being held into the air. His arms and legs were inside some mechanical tubes which held him in a cross shape.

Andreas could now see the only other person in the room. It was the Blue haired man he saw the day before.

The man held a blood soaked knife in his hand, presumably the boys blood was what was soaking the blade. Blood poured out of the boys left arm, soaking the ground.

The Blue haired man cackled again before going behind Andreas. He slashed and stabbed the boys back over and over again, cackling louder and louder with each new addition to the boys pain. He continued on and on until the pain became too much for the boy to bare. Until the boy lost consciousness.

The boy eventually woke, hoping for the nightmare to of ended, only to be greeted by the Blue haired man's despicable grin. The blue haired man continued with his torture. More violent stabs and slashes, now focused along the boys arms. It continued until the boy lost consciousness once again.

He once again woke, wishing it had all been a bad dream, but again he was greeted by the same devious grin.

The torture continued on and on. The torture went on for what Andreas felt were years, how he hadn't died of dehydration, hunger, or anything else he couldn't even begin to understand. He thought maybe the machine was pumping his system full of something, but he never had enough time to figure it out. At one point Andreas had wondered why the Blue haired man was so keen on cutting into his arms and legs more than anywhere else, but the child's mind couldn't even begin to grasp the thought process of this psychopath.

He had begun to understand that "Arket" was only after him for this, but he couldn't even begin to understand what they had hoped to gain from it.

After suffering like that for however long he had, at one point he just gave up and accepted this as his new life. He stopped screaming out in pain, he stopped fighting, he just accepted this hell as his new reality. Eventually he even stopped feeling anything within his arms and legs. The only reason he even knew he was still being cut along his arms and legs was the fact he could see the blood spilling out after each and every slash.

Mentally Andreas was broken beyond what any human could endure, but yet he remained alive. He wasn't sad or scared anymore. In fact the boy was now void of all emotions. He had no thoughts, no anger, no aspirations, and he had no will to escape anymore.

After what had to be several more months of this torture, Andreas had felt the Blue haired man began to cut into the back of his neck and down the boys spinal cord. It was something different for once, but the boy remained unfazed.

After the silence within his head had lasted this long, a voice sprung up. The same voice he kept hearing since he arrived at the facility. It cackled like the blue haired man before telling the boy, "You were warned child," another cackle echoed within the boys mind. "You aren't the same person you were when you first got here and neither am I, But I promise you this, if you give me the reins, I will get us out of here." Another ungodly cackle tainted the boys mind.

All this while the boy could feel the Blue haired man put something cold and spikey into the back of his head, which was followed by what felt like stitches being used to close the freshest cut along the boys spinal cord.

Shortly after the boy passed out once again.