Deceived

After a few minutes of being carried I got brought by the assistant in front of a wagon, she gently put me there and got inside the carriage with me, it was quite empty.

The doctor got on the front part and started to make the horses walk, the wagon immediately moved, fast and steady, I soon after fell asleep, the goodbye took is toll.

...

After two weeks of travelling we finally arrived in a plain looking house in the slums of one of few border cities, the entire duration of the travel I repeatedly asked the assistant where we were going receiving no clear answer, sometimes she seemed slightly irritated by them.

To appease me the Doctor gave me a lot of plain food, that even if it was nothing incredible, it was still way better than the usual food that I ate at home.

The house wasn't like what I imagined, it was way too poor and run-down to be the house of a doctor, it seemed I was going to meet some troubles.

I tried to get up and run, without thinking, before remembering how my entire lower body was immobilised, so I tried my best among the rising pain to move my body using my arms to escape.

The assistant looked at me, her once kind demeanour had completely disappeared, the mask slid away revealing her true self, she took me for my right arm, confusing me a little, her grip had monstrous strengt in it, she started pulling me right away without a care, the pain became so strong that I felt my consciousness beginning to fade.

As my eyes started loosing focus I saw the doctor getting out the wagon, he saw the half conscious me and the assistant, his face seemed for a second disheartened before returning to his normal always happy expression, he walked towards me, the assistant stopped holding me, making me fall on the brown terrain.

The doctor took me in his arms, he slowly whispered "Nyx, I'm sorry for the pain my assistant made you feel, she's quite clumsy when it comes to care for kids, now you should sleep, tomorrow you will meet you new family..." the more he talked the more my eyes began to shut down, my mind became numb and slowly my thoughts began to disappear, everything while a strange odor relaxed my body.

All that pain made me sleepy, maybe I could sleep just for a bit, a little bit...

...

Nyx laied asleep in the arms of the doctor, just when she closed completely her eyes the assistant asked "why did you put her to sleep? The plant you used it's quite expensive in the black market, we don't have a ton of that" the doctor glanced at her before answering "You idiot, she could be the perfect specimen we searched for years and you almost teared her arm apart, you should at least control your strengt when taking care of her".

The assistant gave him a nod, she then tried to get away inside the house before getting stopped again by the word of the doctor "don't think I don't know how you play with the others specimen, crashing their bones I'm a bliss of pleasure, you can do that to the bunch of those failures, but she is off limits, clear? " the assistant's eyes flashed with bloodlust, the doctor didn't react at all, once a few minutes passed like that the assistant talked "excuse me Master, I will try to contain myself better".

The two of them entered in the house, a plain looking poor house, if not for the basement, a giant lab full of strange liquids, spells, mutagens and dead and almost dead creatures open with their organs harvested.

They walked straight for a couple of minutes, the lab was enormous, inside tens of black mages and scientists were working on kids, conducting inhumane experiments, they arrived in front ten of cells, five on each side they were also divided from one another, they were tiny, inside there was only a little bed and a bucket, rats and spiders coud be seen in the corners of the cells, it was the Detention Center S, the one containing the most promising experiments, every cell had a bunch of spells that made them almost indestructible.

The doctor put down the asleep Nyx in one of the terrible cells, he looked at that helpless kid, his smile returned just from thinking what she could become under his experiments, eyes could be seen looking at the duo from the other cells, they released tons of bloodlust, a lot, but not nearly as much as the assistant, the doctor sensing that the other experiments looked at him exclaimed with a laugh "Hello my children, from today onwards this kid will be your new sister treat her well and maybe I could give you freedom" once he finished he started to leave, as he got at the door he stopped adding "I was just kidding, I could never separate myself from my creations".

The lights closed the moment he got put leaving Nyx asleep on the floor in complete darkness, the other children soon returned each to their corners of the cells, one of them stayed still looking closely at her, a spark of interest could be seen.