It looked like a failed human experiment, it had the skin of a human being but it wasn't just one skin but skins, its figure was like the fusion of multiple people forcefully melted together to form a new being entirely.
It had eyes, mouths and hands on every part of its bodied, with no face, it was just a mashup of human beings moving around. Even the hands had eyes on them. As the monster moved he saw for just a moment Jason's face as he was being absorbed into the creature.
He looked aware, not wanting to have the horrified face of his friend etched in his memory, he tripped over a vine and fell, without a moment to worry he got up and continued to run.
Kai kicked open the door and got in with Mika, Eira, Luella, Melanie, Antoine, and Lukas.
"Where are Javier and Nour?" Melanie asked.
"Over there" Antoine answered and pointed outside. They all looked to see Javier running with Nour in his arms, behind him was Alex and the monster.
The monster let out a puff of black smoke in the air, the smoke almost engulfed Alex but he darted forward. He was soon beside Javier, as they both where almost to the door, he peered back and saw the monsters hand stretch towards them.
He looked beside him, at Javier who had a determined look on his face as he ran, an idea popped up in his head. Immediately he leaned to the side, his plan was to ram into Javier but surprisingly Javier stopped running and Alex swerved the side.
They all saw as he fell and landed on a vine, while Javier fastened his pace. Alex stood up and followed after him. The moment they were inside the monsters shot out several hands towards them to no avail.
They had closed the doors and the hands ended up colliding with the door.
They all lay on the floor panting hard, Javier laid Nour on the floor beside Mika, they where both trying to catch their breath. Mika had a hand around his neck as he tried to breathe.
"What do we do?" Antoine asked.
Javier knelt beside Nour "Where's your inhaler?" he asked her, she held his hand with tears in her eyes as she tried to talk.
"Quickly check her pockets" Eira snapped and Javier's hand hesitantly checked from her shirt pocket to the pocket on her skirt, he soon fished out an inhaler from her left pocket and stuck it in her mouth.
Melanie rushed to her side and held her arm, none of them noticed as her pupils suddenly turned white and her eyes closed.
"What about Mika?" Antoine asked.
"But he's not asthmatic" Melanie
"He has had an attack before though, maybe it has resurfaced or something" Luella mumbled.
"It's worth a try" Javier said as he put the inhaler in Mika's mouth, once he used it he calmed down a little. "You good?" Javier asked.
Mika coughed and nodded at Javier. "But why is Nour unconscious?" Eira asked.
*****
Nour opens her eyes and finds herself in a white space "Hello?" she called out and her voice echoed.
"Hahahahaha" she heard someone giggle far off and she turned to see a little girl wearing a black gown, she had short dark hair and was barefoot ,the child giggle again and it echoed around her.
Nour couldn't see the face of the girl, only her back, "Hello there" Nour said softly "Are you lost?" she asked as she slowly approached the girl.
The little girl stopped laughing, Nour turned the girl around and was stunned when she saw the girls face "Mel?" she called out.
Immediately, the girl turned to ash and Nour found herself falling. She fell into a dark abyss and found herself in a dark space.
She heard a girl giggle again and turned to see the same little girl but this time she had silver white hair and her gown was white as well "Mel?" she called out and took a step forward but paused "No, Mel's hair colour..." she hesitated and approached the girl.
With the girl before her she placed a hand on her shoulder and she stopped giggling, she turned the girl around and gasped as she took a step back.
The girl's eyes was like an abyss, all she could see was black, and on her face was blood, around her mouth, she gave Nour a creepy smile and blood dripped from her mouth. Her teeth was also cover in blood.
Nour turned around and ran, she paused when she saw another little girl, this time her hair was neither black nor white, it was both.
Her back wasn't facing Nour like before and she wasn't giggling either, this time she stared straight at Nour with blood on her face and blood stained hands. She opened her mouth and said something but not a sound came out of her.
Nour tried to hear and understand her, she did it again but nothing.
"Nour!!"
*****
Nour gasped, her eyes flung open and she sat up immediately. Javier was in front of her, holding her hand, she looked beside her, the moment she saw Melanie she flew over to Javier side. Instinctively he held her as she clung to him.
"What happened?" Javier asked her, she looked around to see the puzzled expression on everyone's faces as they looked at her.
"Nour" Melanie called out softly.
Nour let out a sigh as she steadied her breathe "Sorry about that Mel, was well... sorry" she said softly as she still clung onto Javier.
"Where are we?" she asked as she looked around.
"Gym" Javier said in a soft tone as he held her. They lights came on and they finally got a better view of the place.
This was where students played basketball and practised other sports. Kai felt another metal rod leave Ice's body and frowned.
"We can rest up in here for a now, let's all look around for supplies and hopefully food" Javier told the others, "The building is big, check the locker rooms and the supply closet" he added, they all nodded and walked away.
.....
"WITH ICE YET TO RETURN I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU CROSS"
Cross looked at the egg and nodded
"ONCE I DETACH MYSELF, YOU'LL NEED TO GET A NEW POWER SOURCE FOR THE BUILDING..." The egg asked and he nodded.
"AFTER THE BUILDING IS POWERED, I WANT YOU TO BRING ME ALL THE SAMPLES OF THE BOY YOU HAVE COLLECTED AND EXPERIMENTED WITH OVER THE YEARS"
Cross nodded "I shall order them to do it now, the backup generator should still be working" he said and quickly left the room.
He hurried out of the room and a couple of security men rushed up to him "Sir we have to put the building on lockdown, these creatures they are-"
"Send the scientists to get the body parts of 935 that we've experimented on immediately to this room, and get the back up generator fired up now" he ordered and walked away, without giving heed to their words or explaining why.
Cross immediately rushed to the white room, as he made his way there to his surprise the monsters he saw didn't attack him. He tried his best to ignore Kaitlin that was still growing on the wall as her vines seemed to have spread out far in the facility.
Luck seemed to have been on his side as Kaitlin's vines where not yet close to the door, he rushed to the door, the read beam scanned him and even without the door fully opening he rushed in and closed the door behind him.