Chapter 6
Trigger Warning: The following chapter contains depictions of suicide, violence, and rape, which some viewers may find disturbing. It is intended for mature audiences. Reader discretion is advised.
I woke up because of the horrible pain in my chest. I tried to move but every time I move I can feel the pain pressing against my joints. I can't breathe, my eyes are hurting, my ears and my throat are burning. Everything in my body is hurt so bad. I can feel my mouth watered until it filled my entire mouth. I can feel the thick liquid run down from my mouth. It tastes metallic and I feel like gagging. I cough and that's when I heard something move beside me. I can feel the warmth hugging me.
I slowly opened my eyes and found myself inside the same room when I first came here. Laying down on the comfy bed with IV and many apparatus linked in my arms, sternum, chest, and between my legs. I jerked my head to the side but my sternum hurt. The beeping sound goes faster and it annoys my ears.
"Don't move."
I looked beside me and found Hyunsung laying close to me while his right arm was wrapped around me, head resting on his left arm. Just like me, IV with tubes linked on his body too. Just when I noticed that the tubes that linked to be connected to his tubes- except the IVs. I blinked and the edge of my eyes feel like swollen, and red.
"Are you alright? How are you feeling?" He asked, moving his fingers on my stomach.
"Pain..." I mumbled. I tried to get up but Hyunsung stopped me.
"Don't force yourself. You need rest." He worriedly said.
"But...I need to get out of here. We need to get out."
Hyunsung opened his mouth to speak but the door swung open and the man- that man everyone calling a father came in, wearing his lab coat and holding a tablet. He took a seat beside me, smiling at us like crazy.
"Glad you're finally awake now Lee Sunie. How's your feeling?" He asked with that creepy smile. I didn't answer and remained silent but it seems like he read my silence. "You're still in pain I see. You and Hwang Hyunsung is the person who only made the operation this far. I'm so happy with the results."
"Let us go now!" I said with a demanding voice even though he won't do what I say. He shook his head just like I expect.
"Sorry, no can do. We can't let you go. You need Hwang Hyunsung and you need us to survive." He softly said and tried to pet my hair but I move my head. I closed my eyes shut when I felt his hand running through my hair. "You're hair is softer than before. But it didn't turn all white which means you can take the operation future than anyone else. Hwang Hyunsung too."
"Let us go, you sick doctor!" I shouted. He shook his head no before going back to his seat. He pulled the chair slightly close to me.
"Like I said Lee Sunie. I can't let you go. You and Hwang Hyunsung are our rare specimen. Now, take your rest with your half and you can join to the other special specimen soon."
The man stood up and leave the room. The room from the edge is dark and the only light in this room is the light on top of the king-sized hospital bed that is linked to the wall. I tried to move again but the pain immediately shot my entire body. I feel Hyunsung trying to steady me on the bed.
"Don't move Sunie. Why are-"
I didn't let him finish and stared at him unbelievably. How can Hyunsung stay calm after all happen? That sick doctor is doing something in us and sooner or later they'll do the operation again. I don't have any idea of what that doctor sees in me and Hyunsung. We are just ordinary human beings that can die anytime from their operation.
"Why are you so calm after all happen?! We need to get out of here as possible!" I said and tried to get up again but Hyunsung suddenly struggled me down- pinning me on the bed. I winced when he accidentally touched the tube that connected to my sternum.
"I want to get out of here too as you do but in our current situation right now, we can't! We need to rest! I need you to rest." He shouted but whispered the last words. He slump his head on mine, moved his head up, and pressed his lips on my forehead. "Please...I don't want you to die."
"Because you'll die too." I coldly said and move away from him. Our tubes are near too tangled together. "You only care about your own life. I am too but don't worry because I don't want to die either and I don't want to stay here for long!"
I struggled away from his grip but he only snuggled himself to me, like want to bury himself inside me. I winced as the blinking red came back again. "My chest Hyunsung!" I said with a warned tone. He just squeezed the tube on my chest. "Let me go! I can't..." The heart monitor beside me began beeping faster.
"Sunie..." He whispered into my ears. I shuddered and tried to kick him away but I accidentally hit the plastic tube that insert between our legs. We both winced in pain. "Why can't you settle down!" Hyunsung voice is going louder now and he tried to push himself up but when he noticed that I'm going to get up too, he pushed me down.
I heard the door open and that same doctor came in a hurry. He run to us and tried to calm me down but no matter what they do my body won't calm down.
The doctor get something on his pushing table and injected something in me. I winced as the liquid ran in my arm. I took deep breaths but it too hurts to breathe. My vision is slowly painted in red as my eyes sting even more. I cough, my ears began to hurt.
"His eyes...why it's turning all red! Please do something!" I heard Hyunsung said.
"Don't worry, I won't let you both die." The doctor looked at me and my eyes move to Hyunsung. He looks so worried. I can't say if he's crying or not because it's so red. It hurt my eyes. I can't keep my eyes open. I blinking.
Hyunsung held my shaking hand and bring it to his lips while the doctor tried to keep my eyes open. He rummaging his stuff and getting something that I can't see well.
I can feel him raise my head and put something around my head until I can feel the cold metal on my face. He used it to keep my eyes open wide. My eyes sting even more.
I noticed Hyunsung closed his eyes and docked his head on my shoulder. I can feel him squeeze my hand. I tried to kick in the air and this doctor need to hold me down. I heard him call someone and pressed the alarm button beside the machine. The door opened again and his minion came in worry. He hold me down while father Chil get something again at his table. My heart quicken in fear when I saw another syringe with weird liquid in it. I want to shake my head but I can't. The metal thing preventing me. The doctor held my eyes and stuck the needle in the edge of my eyes. He pushed the needle forward before injecting something into my right eye. He did the same on my right eye. After then, he remove the metal and he told me to blinked.
I tried to blink but my eyes began itching along with the stung feeling in my eyes. I scream as goo came out from my eyes. My vision slowly mixed with green color. I moved my eyes violently and for some reason- I can see. I can see the things in the dark- I can see in the dark. I closed my eyes when the doctor wipe the goo that just came out from the edges of my eyes.
"Put them to sleep especially Lee Sunie and clean him up, clean his eyes. His eyes are the most important thing- his important and Hyunsung too. They are an important specimen." The doctor said over and over again before I fainted.
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I woke in the same room but this time I can see wires now not just plastic tubes that connected to our body. The tubes were still connected to Hyunsung and the uncomfortable between my legs pushed me to the edge of getting annoyed. My eyes went to Hyunsung who sleeping calmly. I don't know why he's acting so weird earlier like he wanted to embrace tighter and tighter until I can't breathe and it seems like he was burying himself inside my body. That's so weird if you ask me. My eyes move away from him and focused on the other tubes that weren't connected to Hyunsung's. I see the wires were stuck to my skin and they ran to each side of the bed. I and Hyunsung were connected to so many different things.
Are we going to lay here all day long? I want to get out of this bed and search for Junghwan and Homin, or even Jinki.
But the tubes that are stuck inside my body are too scary to pull out. If I woke Hyunsung and nagged him to come with me then we can get out. But it is pointless because Hyunsung won't agree with my plan.
The door opens again and that doctor's minion came holding a stethoscope.
"Oh, you're awake now Lee Sunie." He said and walked towards me. He pulled off the blankets.
"What are you trying to do now?" I asked.
"Checking? You see, father Chil wants to transfer you to his lab."
I could feel my face paled up after hearing what he had just said. I want to get up and run away from here but I couldn't. I can't suddenly move my body. No more operation!
"Please no more..." I said in a shaky voice. I can feel the tears gathered in my eyes again and run down my face. "I can't take another operation please!"
"You can. You just can't take the pain. Don't worry father Chil just want to check your operation and Hyunsung too."
"What?"
He didn't reply after that and pulled up the hospital gown I was wearing. The cold air immediately hit my thighs. I can feel the tube move. I thought he will pull it out but he just fixed it. He pulled back down the hem of the gown and turned to Hyunsung. He did the same thing to him. Checking, fixing the plastic tube before pulling it down.
He walked away from us and when he came, he already have the other adults. They all wearing white masks with a red cross drawn on them. Are they...are they the nurses?
They pushing two wheelchairs.
"Don't be shocked. They aren't teens. Well, they teens before but when they reach their adulthood like the twenties, they gonna have to work with us as nurses." He said.
Two nurses carefully carried me and another two nurses for Hyunsung. They placed us both in wheelchairs. He signed the nurses to follow him. They pushed the wheelchair and when we were outside of the room I can see a long white hallway with a bright light above us. The nurse pushed the wheelchair and it squeaked. I can hear Hyunsung waking up from behind near me.
"Glad you're awake now too, Hwang Hyunsung." He said but wasn't looking at us.
"Sunie?" I heard Hyunsung call.
"I'm here. Don't call me as you lose me!" I whine.
"Who are you?" He asked the nurses but they didn't speak.
Soon we finally reach the end of this sickening hallway. He pushed the door open and my eyes widen when another hallway greeted us. But the walls weren't made in cement or anything- it's a glass wall where I can see a pack of huge glass tubes with fetus in it with their backs has jellyfish tentacles. They were also kids and all of their limbs were jellyfish tentacles. More people with lab coats or let me say, scientists experimenting with them. We also reach the glass tubes with the weird thing inside that resemble a padlock but those more like an alien. What are they trying to create?
"What are those?" I heard Hyunsung ask.
"Glad you ask that. Well...these are padlocks or more look like a womb." He answered, looking at the weird things inside. "We implanting that to the mans' body so they can bare the successful specimen child."
"Like the kids and fetus inside those giant test tubes earlier?" I asked and he chuckled.
"Those are the failures. Most of them were have a low pulse and impossible to live longer. We have a few successful thoughts but most of them were from the women and the children aren't stable. They all deformed and look like a monster." He explains.
"So...I can have a child with Sunie if you planted that thing inside him?" Hyunsung suddenly asked and he even sounds excited.
"Yes, you can. It's even up to you whenever you want to impregnate Lee Sunie and raised the child inside him."
I feel the sudden goosebumps after hearing all that. I won't let myself end up like the other teens and give birth to those monsters. Wait, are they creating monsters? And why is this only for men? Because we don't have egg-like women? And why the women's children are unstable and deform?
"Why in the men though?" I asked. "Aren't the women doesn't enough for you?"
"Women's eggs can damage easily by the specimen's sperm."
"That doesn't make any sense. Why can't you implant that thing to the women then?"
"Those thing is for men only. We tried it before but most of the girls died. The lock eats their stomach because they don't want another ovary inside except them. They are very territorial." He calmly said.
Wait, those things have lives? That's scary. I unconsciously hugged my stomach.
"Can you implant something like that to Sunie now?"
My head moves to Hyunsung. I glared at him but he seemed don't mind. This dude is sick!
"Sadly to say. We can't for now."
For now, so that mean they can plant that thing in me soon? I need to get out of here before that time happens!
We reached another door and the doctor pushed it open. A muffled scream covered my ear. I looked at the glass window and from under us, I can see people screaming angrily while on the side of was the deform monsters, trying to eat them alive. What are those things?!
"Those men below us are the useless pigs who don't give birth to the children perfectly. They nothing now but a food chain from those deform children."
I gulp thickly, clenching my hands together. This place is sick. What are they trying to make? Are they trying to make an army of monsters invade the whole world?
We reach another door and this time it's another white hallway. They silently walked until we reach the black door. He knocked on it twice before opening it. My eyes widen and I could feel my spirit leave me instantly, my heart skip in fear.
We are in another hallway and this time we can see through the glass wall the teenagers, girls, and boys were being raped by the monsters with full of stitches on their skin. I can hear their muffled scream passing through my ears.
The walls- the rooms behind this glass wall are all rusted and covered with blood. I stared at the monsters that enjoying their little moments. They are also monsters but look like humans with stitches all over their bodies and are incredibly pale. But most of them were the deform monsters that look like an alien. I quickly looked down, trying not to look at them.
I jump when I heard the sudden thud beside me. I looked up to see what is it and saw a naked woman, crying out of mercy. Her stomach is all bloated and swollen but they let her suffer like this. She banged on the wall, screaming and saying something but I can't hear her. My whole body began trembling in fear. I don't want to experience something like that in the future.
The monster pulled her hair and she scream. The monster pushed her down hard against the bloody floor and began doing its business to the woman. She looked at us with tears while mouthing the words 'help'.
"Oh, sorry about this. You see, it's breeding season." The doctor said.
"What are you trying to do huh?! Are you creating an army of monsters to invade the world?!"
"No. We have the reason why we doing this."
Another door was pushed open by him and finally, we reach the final destination. We can see the father tapping on his keyboard. When he noticed us, he quickly stopped and faced us.
"My rare specimen is finally here."
He stood up, taking something in his desk before marching towards us. He walked closer to me and injected something into my stomach. He next walked to Hyunsung that look like he was traumatized by those called breeding shows. He injected the same thing into his neck.
I feel my eyes getting heavy. I don't want to fall asleep. I'm afraid that when I woke up I'm already in that cage and being harassed by those monsters. Then will be carrying a child and giving birth to it. And when I'm a failure- they'll gonna feed me to the monsters.
I'm scared. But no, I won't let my fear take over me. I need to escape from here. I need to tell the police. For those parents who lost their children and bring them to justice.
But no matter how I want to stay awake. I couldn't. My eyes are heavy and darkness slowly hugging me.
The last thing I remembered is father Chil's smiling face.
"Grandfather will be happy."