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part 8: Catnapped

I began my trek back through the ventilation system and hoped that Virgil was okay.
I soon came upon the vent opening to the room with the two glass specimen tanks, but as I looked through the grating I noticed that the second tank, which only a short while ago had something floating within it, was now broken and whatever was inside it was missing.

“What now?” I said worried “As if having to deal with those spiders crawling all over the place and D-Six wasn’t enough, I have to worry about whatever was in that tank too!?”

I endeavoured to hurry back the way I came and get back to Virgil as quickly as possible. After a few minutes of scrambling through numerous vents, I finally made it back to the large underground hallway but Virgil was nowhere to be seen and neither was the giant spider.
I gulped uneasily at the green spider blood, splattered across the floor and the scorch marks in the corner and this left me very confused.

“If Virgil killed or wounded that thing, then there should be body or at least a blood trail,” I wondered. “But it’s as if they both just vanished into thin air!?”

I looked around for any sign as to where Virgil had gone but I found nothing.
I looked up at the glass balcony that Trask was sitting in before, but there was no sign of him either.

‘Trask’ I thought to myself ‘I trusted him for years and then I learned the truth. All this time he’s just been using me, flattering me. He has been watching me all this time! Just waiting for me to complete my research and then use it for his twisted experiments… All of this is my fault!’ I thought despairingly. ‘No, my life doesn’t matter any more, I’m going to stop this anyway I can…Even if it kills me’

“I’m going to need Virgil’s help, but where has he gone?” I wondered aloud, I was about to leave the hall when I heard something coming from the passage that Virgil and I had entered through previously.

“Virgil must be back there!” I ran toward the passage but came to a quick stop as an orange red dragon appeared from the passage.

It was Jack, I was sure of it. The Boy’s transformation had accelerated and from what I could tell, his transformation was about ninety percent complete.
His body had changed into the form of a large serpent making his midsection long and slender. The scales I had seen on his back before were gone and a mane of black hair replaced it and ran from his head, down his back and ended at the tip of his tail.
Unlike Virgil, Jack had no spikes on his face or cheeks. But he had a pair of strange whiskers protruding from his snout.

Jack had the same scale armour plating as Virgil on his shins, his thighs and on his shoulders and arms. His height had increased as well and he appeared to be a few feet taller than an average man.

I realised then that he resembled a Chinese dragon but this didn’t make any sense to me. How is it that Trask could have obtained another kind of dragon DNA sample and without me knowing about it?

Jack was staring right at me and it didn’t take me long to realise that he had come here to for me. I quickly darted in the opposite direction away from Jack and he quickly gave chase.
Jack lunged for me with incredible speed and made to grab me, but I managed to evade him literally by the skin of my tail. I had to escape and the air vent was my only option. At his currant size he would not be able to follow me.
I ran as fast as I could and was only a few metres away from the vent…but I was too slow. I felt a clawed hand grasp around my tail pulling me away from the air vent and then his other hand grasped around my neck and I was lifted from the ground.
I struggled in vain to escape his grip and even tried biting his hand but his scales were too tough for me to even hurt him.

He then released his hold on my tail and with his free hand, the claws on it extended slightly and he pointed them at my head.
I was terrified, I instantly stopped struggling and waited for him to finish me, but he didn’t.

“Stop making a fuss and stay quiet!” he threatened and I simply nodded without a word “Doctor Trask wants to see you” I remained silent and Jack carried me away.

I was taken through the door that the giant spider had emerged through before and I gasped, as the corridor we entered was full of dead spiders, all crushed and sliced to pieces. Jack had apparently killed them all.

The smell of the dead spiders made my eyes water and my stomach turn. Had my stomach not been empty I might have vomited.

Soon enough we arrived at an elevator and we rode it up to the B1 floor. The doors opened and standing waiting for us was Trask himself.

“Well done Six, you’ve done very well” said Trask looking pleased, but he seemed to ignore me.

“Thank you Doctor, I’ve also cleared the lower levels of the arachnid infestation, they will not pose any further problems” replied Jack coldly.

I couldn’t understand what was going on, how did Trask, manage to gain control over the boy like this.

“Excellent!” he said patting Jack on the shoulder. “You have indeed proven your worth” he said gladly and then he finally turned his attention to me.

“Welcome back Darius” said Trask grinning malevolently “You’ve been quite useful guiding Seven exactly were I wanted him to go” I was so angry now that I forgot about Jack’s claws still close to my head that I cursed loudly.

“You bastard!” I swore hatefully “You monster, I hope you get ripped apart by one of your own experiments for this!” I was struggling again trying to get free just so I could attempt to claw Trask’s eyes out “When Virgil catches up to you, I hope he breaks you in TWO!!” I screamed, but Trask merely sighed.

“Charming” Trask smiled sickeningly. “I suppose your wondering how Six here, has transformed so quickly” said Trask.

“I already figured that out, you used bursts of electricity on him to accelerate the process didn’t you, but that caused some mutations didn’t it” I said angrily.

“Quite true, but it appears that the mutations have turned out to be beneficial,” he said grinning.

“But where did you get the DNA for his transformation, you only had the blood from the blue dragon and I destroyed nearly all of it” I asked hoping he let slip any information.

“Enough questions! Normally I would have just killed you here and now but it seems we may still need you for D-Seven” Said Trask with a malevolent grin.

‘D-Seven?’ I thought ‘He must mean Virgil…but where is he?’ I wondered silently.

Suddenly the alarm system went off, beeping loudly. Trask pulled out a communicator from his pocket and turned it on.

“What’s going on?” said Trask into his communicator.

“This is unit five on the first floor, he’s here!! He’s wiping the floor with us and our guns are useless” yelled a panicked voice on the other end of the communicator.

“What!?” Replied Trask sounding concerned for the first time “How did he get up there, he was in the underground disposal area not too long ago, there is no way he could have gotten up there so quickly!” yelled Trask surprised.

“I don’t know! We went down there as you ordered but he wasn’t there, all we found was a huge hole in the wall and two sets of footprints… Oh god our bullets are just bouncing off of this dragon’s body, we can’t stop him he’s… Oh no he’s ERK!!....” The communicator went dead but Trask didn’t look worried, in fact he looked amused.

“It appears that Seven is on the first floor causing havoc” Said Trask with a slight grin. “Six I want you to take our little friend here, up to the first floor and use him as bait to lure Seven to you” explained Trask.

“What do you want me to do with Seven once I find him?” Jack asked.

“Disable him, but don’t kill him, we need him alive. Also I suggest you try not to listen to anything he may say to you” Replied Trask.

I was about to try and say something to Jack when Trask quickly pulled out a muzzle from his pocket, he grabbed my head and before I understood what he was doing he closed the muzzle around my face and I found I could no longer talk.

“There, that will make sure he doesn’t warn Seven when he comes looking for him, now go” said Trask.

All I could do was watch as Jack carried me away while Trask left down an opposite corridor and vanished from view.
I had no choice now but to wait and see what happens next.

To be continued

Description

Darius

part 8: Catnapped

I began my trek back through the ventilation system and hoped that Virgil was okay.
I soon came upon the vent opening to the room with the two glass specimen tanks, but as I looked through the grating I noticed that the second tank, which only a short while ago had something floating within it, was now broken and whatever was inside it was missing.

“What now?” I said worried “As if having to deal with those spiders crawling all over the place and D-Six wasn’t enough, I have to worry about whatever was in that tank too!?”

I endeavoured to hurry back the way I came and get back to Virgil as quickly as possible. After a few minutes of scrambling through numerous vents, I finally made it back to the large underground hallway but Virgil was nowhere to be seen and neither was the giant spider.
I gulped uneasily at the green spider blood, splattered across the floor and the scorch marks in the corner and this left me very confused.

“If Virgil killed or wounded that thing, then there should be body or at least a blood trail,” I wondered. “But it’s as if they both just vanished into thin air!?”

I looked around for any sign as to where Virgil had gone but I found nothing.
I looked up at the glass balcony that Trask was sitting in before, but there was no sign of him either.

‘Trask’ I thought to myself ‘I trusted him for years and then I learned the truth. All this time he’s just been using me, flattering me. He has been watching me all this time! Just waiting for me to complete my research and then use it for his twisted experiments… All of this is my fault!’ I thought despairingly. ‘No, my life doesn’t matter any more, I’m going to stop this anyway I can…Even if it kills me’

“I’m going to need Virgil’s help, but where has he gone?” I wondered aloud, I was about to leave the hall when I heard something coming from the passage that Virgil and I had entered through previously.

“Virgil must be back there!” I ran toward the passage but came to a quick stop as an orange red dragon appeared from the passage.

It was Jack, I was sure of it. The Boy’s transformation had accelerated and from what I could tell, his transformation was about ninety percent complete.
His body had changed into the form of a large serpent making his midsection long and slender. The scales I had seen on his back before were gone and a mane of black hair replaced it and ran from his head, down his back and ended at the tip of his tail.
Unlike Virgil, Jack had no spikes on his face or cheeks. But he had a pair of strange whiskers protruding from his snout.

Jack had the same scale armour plating as Virgil on his shins, his thighs and on his shoulders and arms. His height had increased as well and he appeared to be a few feet taller than an average man.

I realised then that he resembled a Chinese dragon but this didn’t make any sense to me. How is it that Trask could have obtained another kind of dragon DNA sample and without me knowing about it?

Jack was staring right at me and it didn’t take me long to realise that he had come here to for me. I quickly darted in the opposite direction away from Jack and he quickly gave chase.
Jack lunged for me with incredible speed and made to grab me, but I managed to evade him literally by the skin of my tail. I had to escape and the air vent was my only option. At his currant size he would not be able to follow me.
I ran as fast as I could and was only a few metres away from the vent…but I was too slow. I felt a clawed hand grasp around my tail pulling me away from the air vent and then his other hand grasped around my neck and I was lifted from the ground.
I struggled in vain to escape his grip and even tried biting his hand but his scales were too tough for me to even hurt him.

He then released his hold on my tail and with his free hand, the claws on it extended slightly and he pointed them at my head.
I was terrified, I instantly stopped struggling and waited for him to finish me, but he didn’t.

“Stop making a fuss and stay quiet!” he threatened and I simply nodded without a word “Doctor Trask wants to see you” I remained silent and Jack carried me away.

I was taken through the door that the giant spider had emerged through before and I gasped, as the corridor we entered was full of dead spiders, all crushed and sliced to pieces. Jack had apparently killed them all.

The smell of the dead spiders made my eyes water and my stomach turn. Had my stomach not been empty I might have vomited.

Soon enough we arrived at an elevator and we rode it up to the B1 floor. The doors opened and standing waiting for us was Trask himself.

“Well done Six, you’ve done very well” said Trask looking pleased, but he seemed to ignore me.

“Thank you Doctor, I’ve also cleared the lower levels of the arachnid infestation, they will not pose any further problems” replied Jack coldly.

I couldn’t understand what was going on, how did Trask, manage to gain control over the boy like this.

“Excellent!” he said patting Jack on the shoulder. “You have indeed proven your worth” he said gladly and then he finally turned his attention to me.

“Welcome back Darius” said Trask grinning malevolently “You’ve been quite useful guiding Seven exactly were I wanted him to go” I was so angry now that I forgot about Jack’s claws still close to my head that I cursed loudly.

“You bastard!” I swore hatefully “You monster, I hope you get ripped apart by one of your own experiments for this!” I was struggling again trying to get free just so I could attempt to claw Trask’s eyes out “When Virgil catches up to you, I hope he breaks you in TWO!!” I screamed, but Trask merely sighed.

“Charming” Trask smiled sickeningly. “I suppose your wondering how Six here, has transformed so quickly” said Trask.

“I already figured that out, you used bursts of electricity on him to accelerate the process didn’t you, but that caused some mutations didn’t it” I said angrily.

“Quite true, but it appears that the mutations have turned out to be beneficial,” he said grinning.

“But where did you get the DNA for his transformation, you only had the blood from the blue dragon and I destroyed nearly all of it” I asked hoping he let slip any information.

“Enough questions! Normally I would have just killed you here and now but it seems we may still need you for D-Seven” Said Trask with a malevolent grin.

‘D-Seven?’ I thought ‘He must mean Virgil…but where is he?’ I wondered silently.

Suddenly the alarm system went off, beeping loudly. Trask pulled out a communicator from his pocket and turned it on.

“What’s going on?” said Trask into his communicator.

“This is unit five on the first floor, he’s here!! He’s wiping the floor with us and our guns are useless” yelled a panicked voice on the other end of the communicator.

“What!?” Replied Trask sounding concerned for the first time “How did he get up there, he was in the underground disposal area not too long ago, there is no way he could have gotten up there so quickly!” yelled Trask surprised.

“I don’t know! We went down there as you ordered but he wasn’t there, all we found was a huge hole in the wall and two sets of footprints… Oh god our bullets are just bouncing off of this dragon’s body, we can’t stop him he’s… Oh no he’s ERK!!....” The communicator went dead but Trask didn’t look worried, in fact he looked amused.

“It appears that Seven is on the first floor causing havoc” Said Trask with a slight grin. “Six I want you to take our little friend here, up to the first floor and use him as bait to lure Seven to you” explained Trask.

“What do you want me to do with Seven once I find him?” Jack asked.

“Disable him, but don’t kill him, we need him alive. Also I suggest you try not to listen to anything he may say to you” Replied Trask.

I was about to try and say something to Jack when Trask quickly pulled out a muzzle from his pocket, he grabbed my head and before I understood what he was doing he closed the muzzle around my face and I found I could no longer talk.

“There, that will make sure he doesn’t warn Seven when he comes looking for him, now go” said Trask.

All I could do was watch as Jack carried me away while Trask left down an opposite corridor and vanished from view.
I had no choice now but to wait and see what happens next.

To be continued