-Area 57- Heartless and Sparrow

[Sparrow]

Vincent looks to the clothing with an arched brow. How did they expect him to change with the cuffs on? He sits silently, mainly because of his muteness, until one realizes they forgot to remove the cuffs. He looks over to Chi concerned. What the heck were these people planing?

[ghostheartless]

They had tied her down to the table and blind folded her again. They bustled about her, pocking her with things and hooking her up to to several odd machines. Muttering to each other. They must had been very interested in something, they seemed to forget he was there. Most of the scientists in the room had gathered around what looked to be a small computer screen.
only two of the small team of six remained on Vincents side of the room. They watched the small crowd at the other end of the room and looked at each other. The younger one who stood behind Vincent shrugged. The older man shook his head and called the rest of his staff over. After a moment they then returned to their posts and began doing the same. Pocking him with a few needles, taking blood samples, monitoring brain waves, heart rate etc. They hooked him up to a few things and began taking notes. The older man begin looking at the gash in his throat. he looked at it closely, "Death cause by a letter opener. Homicide. The cut goes from left to right." he said out loud. One of the other scientist seemed to enter it into a computer. He stood up strait. He looked at the cloth he had taken from Vincent and then glanced to the other side of the room, at Chi, who by now was not moving. "No other injuries sustained, subject is in tact and fully functional." he said and tossed the cloth in the trash, his hands now folded behind his back.
"Prepare him for testing." he said and then went to the other side of the room, to speak with the head of the team who was working on Chi.
"What is going on over there?" asked the younger scientist who had taken the hand cuffs from Vincent.
"They placed it's time of death." "Yeah so?" "This one died fifty years ago." "What?! How is it so intact? We've had some who died a week ago and even they don't look that fresh. " "That's what they are trying to find out." he said, both speaking in hushed tones. "I wanted to hear what did it in, but Hudson called us over before I could hear." he said.
"Maybe we'll hear about it later. Anyways, This one goes to Testing Chamber Five" he said putting the hand cuffs back on Vincent. Seeing he had dressed.
"That one will probably be admitted to the chamber soon too..." he chuckled "That will be a waste of time. The thing can't walk on it's own, no ones sure if it can even see." He shook his head. The other man shrugged "Oh well." he said. "Yeah... Well I'm off. Lets see if this ones worth anything" he said, referring to Vincent. "Get moving." he said to Vincent, half pushing him off the table.

[Sparrow]

Vincent had about enough. He didn't care so much about how they treated him, as he cared about how they treated Chi. Poor girl, they treated her like dirt.
During their discussion he keeps his mouth shut, some blood builds inside. He narrows his eyes into a glare at the pairs last comments. A low almost growling sound comes from him as throat tightens from anger. Upon being shoved he turns the glare to the one pushing him, and in the same instant spits blood in the scientist's face. After doing so he gets off the table like they ordered and waits for them to take him wherever it was he was to go.

[ghostheartless]

The man starred for a moment in surprise. The other man chuckled "Looks like you made it mad" he said. The other man glared at him and he stops laughing. He looks at Vincent, obviously furious. His face dripping in black goo. "Get moving, now." he said gritting his teeth. Obviously retraining himself. he pushing him again toward the the door. He grabs a near by rag and cleans his face, throwing it at his friend as he and Vincent leave the room.

[Sparrow]

Vincent follows the orders and directions, slightly surprised they didn't taze him or anything for that little stunt.

[ghostheartless]

After going form hallway to hallway and down several elevators they reach a large door. The man enters a code and it opens. They enter a yet another hallway and go through another large door. They enter a large circular room. Several people sit at control panels. Screens show what the cameras in the room on the other side of a thick glass window are watching. Someone standing at the window turns and walked over, he looks at Vincent coldly "The field is ready." he says. The man nods and leads Vincent to a small circular elevator. After taking off his hand cuffs, he pushes him in. The door closing behind him.
After a few moments the elevator descended into the maze which he couldn't see at the moment due to the fact the elevator had no windows. There was a pause "The objective, is to stay alive." Said a voice over the speaker. The doors slid, now on either side of him was nothing but solid stone wall. A few yard in front it seems he could go either right or left. On the far end, it seemed the was another control room and elevator shaft. the elevator was going up, was some one else in the room? Would they be fighting? It was eerily quiet.
On the other side, Chi shuffled out into the maze. Her eyes remained covered. Shaking she knew where she was some how. Her head began to ache. The pain was sudden and intense. It felt like there was a crack going up through her right eye socket and along to the back of her head. She suddenly got the feeling she wasn't along in the room, there seemed to be one or two other things here with her. One was one the other side of the maze. The other, however, she couldn't seem to place. She whimpered, here eye began to hurt. Though blind folded she began to see things. But how? It was all black, but in white, she could see a three denominational outline of what as in front of her. Confused and in overwhelming pain she stumbled and leaned against the wall, her hand over her face as she did her best not to cry out for fear that who or what was in the room would hear her.

[Sparrow]

Vincent gets out of the elevator, knowing he has no other choice. He glaces back to see the elevator go back up.
Survive? .... Was there something in here?
He looks ahead cautiously. ....
I'll get nowhere standing here.
He starts forward and turns left, feeling like a rat in a maze.


"So, what should we toss in? A mountain lion, a pack of wolves maybe?" A male scientist, about twenty, asked another besides him.
The man spoken too watches the screen. After a pause he coolly answers,
"I have a better idea, but first, lets allow them to get a bit further out."
The other scientist nods to show he understands.

[ghostheartless]

Chi slides down, gritting her teeth. The pain now leaving from the rest of her skull and into her eye.
The scientist in the room above looked at each other, perplexed. One sighed, a rather impatient female with short strawberry red hair. "This is going to be boring" she said leaning back in her chair. "It wont even last five minute. What a drag." she said, crossing her arms. "What is he sending in this time anyways, anything?" She asked a man who sat not to far away. He had just hung up the phone and sighed. "Great, looks like I'll be having lunch early." she muttered and turned to look back at the screen.
Chi whimpered, the pain now subsiding. She did her best to stand, using her crutch. The presence she felt from the other side of the room, she suddenly felt she knew who it was. Something else moved some where to the far left of the room it's presence did not feel at all friendly. She could feel it's hostile nature, it blood lust in its eyes. Survive? How? What? She sighed and then, facing forward she walked the few yards to the other wall and paused, she felt the other presence go left, she wondered what would happen if she did the same. She began walking left and found the walls curved. Following them, she knew she and the other person were getting closer. She got the notion that they would both meet in the center of the maze.
As she kept following the continuing curving wall, she came to the conclusion that the maze was a large spiral and that no matter where you entered the maze, you would always end up in the middle.
the closer to the center she got, she found she could almost read this person. She could sense its vital signs, she found she could also read its emotions; cautious. As they neared the center, she realized who it was. "Vincent?" she thought, she found she was right as they both reached the circular area in the center. The 3D outline of a young man appeared at the far end. An oddly colored flame flickered where his heart would be. No details, no color, just a black world, with everything outlined in white. She froze, the pain suddenly coming back. Her whole skull felt like it was being broken apart. It was all she could to do keep from screaming. She felt her self begin to fall, she quickly hobbled over to a wall and leaned against it.
She looked up, sensing the thing on the far left of the room being to move.
"It won't be too long now" she thought.

[Sparrow]

Chi is here? He looks over at the familiar voice and sees he’s right. Quickly and with a worried expression he rushes to her side. Having nothing to write with, he can’t ask her how see is.
If only those jerks didn’t take my stuff... he thinks sadly.

“Well well, looks like they found each other.” The scientist says coldly.
The other one that had given the suggestion earlier watches the screen blankly.
“Then it is an adequate time to add something in...”
The scientist looks to him,
“So, what do we toss in? A bear or something?”
The other scientist is silent for a moment before replying coolly,
“Or something... Release Jack.”
The scientist flinches,
“Jack?”
He looks back to the screen then after a moment smirks. Without a word more he types in the code and enters it.

He knew something was in the maze, he could sense it. There was fear in the air. Wanting to get out, he paces back and forth in his pitch black sealed wall tunnel. It only had one small steal plated door. He hesitates a moment when he turns to see it open. The hesitation is short lived however as he goes to exit. He narrowly fits out of the small space, having to pass the four spider-like legs through it first. Now out, he waits for his eyes to adjust, they remain solid black however. The claws at the end of each extra leg allow him to stay on the wall’s side. Once focused he darts over to the maze’s wall and scales it with high speed. At the top he freezes, standing on the edge of the wall, looking over the maze’s vast twists. After a moment of silent watching he makes a bloodcurdling inhuman shriek clearly audible through out the arena, his goal being to spike the fear of whatever was here, to grant easier tracking.

Vincent jumps slightly at the sound.
The heck was that? he thinks nervously taking a quick glance around.



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[ghostheartless]

Hearing a voice beside her she looked up. Did he just speak? But his lips didn't move.
She whimpered, her head throbbing. The pain went to her eye again. She gave a small scream, feeling as though some one had just stabbed it with a hot poker.
She flinched as she heard the blood curdling screatch. She manages to turn her head in the direction of the scream and there, atop the maze wall, a large humanoid beast with large spider legs stood, eying them. Searching for weaknesses. Hungry for blood.
The dark aura it gave off was making her sick. She could hear a foul voice in the air, glancing at Vincent. It didn't look like he could hear it. To make manners worse, blood began poring from her eye socket, soaking the blind fold in blood.
A whiff of that and she knew it would be over.
What was going on with her? This was something even the scientists in the control panels were wondering by now.
she knew it would spring at them at any second, but would could they do?
She felt maybe she could distract the beast long enough for Vincent to get away, with out knowing, this thought would be known to him. Audible, as though she had said it out loud.

[Sparrow]

Vincent heard the thought, and it surprised him. He wasn't about to ditch her for her to deal with whatever that thing was. He looks concerned to her and shakes his head, to show he wouldn't up and leave her here.

Jack caught the sent of more then just fear in the air. There was blood too. He watches them silently. Sizing them up.

Vincent looks over and sees this.
Oh what? Really? he thinks nervously.

Deciding they would be easy enough to take he starts off, scaling down the wall partly before springing to the next, then scaling that wall and repeating. It wouldn't be long before he got to them.

[ghostheartless]

Her eyes widened "You can hear me?" she asked out loud in surprise. Even more surprised at his answer. She shook her head and looked back at the beast, it stared at them and them began making its move.
The sound of a disembodied voice entered her head. It sounded crazed, repeating the same thing over and over. The closer the beast got, the louder the voice got. She could hear its thoughts?
The questions flooded her mind.
She cried out, sinking down to the floor. The pain returned, stronger and sharper than before. It was starting to become more then she could bare.
The lines soon began to blur and blend in with the dark back drop.
"Go." she whimpered pushing him away. Surely he would stand a better chance with out her.
In the control room, eye brows were being raised. "What is it doing?" asked one of the younger males in the room "I think it's telling the other to save itself." said the girl from before as she popped a chocolate donut in her mouth. This behavior has not been shown by any subjects before.
They either avoided and ignored each other completely, or they would try to kill each other.
She sat up as Jack entered the center of the arena, suddenly very interested.
"What do you think is wrong with it? It seemed okay before." said the young male, looking over at her.
"Sometimes when powers are awakened, it causes the subject pain, but not always. In fact, it is very rare and we've only had one other subject go through this since this experiment began. Take subject 57-119, like all other it isn't in any pain. It's powers will probably awaken within the next several minutes with out any pain at all. It will probably be surprise and confused, but it will be fine. I think this is a result of something that was already there and is only being awakened now." she said thoughtfully as she watched the screen. The boy nodded and looked back at the screen in anticipation.

[Sparrow]

I'm not just going to leave you hear with that thing. He thinks quickly.
A plan, they needed a plan. There was nothing to use as a weapon, and not too many directions to go if they ran. But he made up his mind, he wasn't going to leave her here to deal with this thing. Even if that meant.... death, re-death?, whatever it'd be considered.

Jack stays up on the wall once at the center of the maze. He glares down at them, staying silent and keeping his extra legs close to the rest of his body, ready to defend himself.
Wait.... is one of several scattered words he thinks of.
Others are,
Watch, and Pick among other gibberish floating around.

Vincent watches Jack cautiously. He moves so that he stands between Chi and Jack.

[ghostheartless]

The noise coming from the beast was making her head hurt all the more. She could feel Vincent had not moved, Why isn't he leaving? Sensing the beast was only feet from them she glanced up just as he began to move to stand between her and the beast.
What was he thinking and why? He hardly knew her. Why go to such trouble for a complete stranger? No ones ever done anything like this before, at least, not to her anyway. It went against everything she was used to. The only thing she was ever shown was pure hatred. Her death was evidence of this. It confused her.
"Very interesting." said the girl as she leaned back in her chair, propping her feet up on the edge of the control panel.
"Where these two found together?" she wondered.

[Sparrow]

"This is odd so far isn't it?" asked the younger male scientist to the other.
He glances to his coworker for a moment, then looks back to the screen when not given a returning glance.
"Indeed, this is proving to be more interesting then others. Though 57-119 had better discover its powers quickly." The other scientist replies coolly.
He keeps his vision locked on the screen.

Jack narrows his glare, then carefully walks down the wall into the center of the maze. He moves carefully with one extra leg at a time as he slowly approaches. Testing them to see if they have any distanced powers. So far he keeps about twelve feet away, and moves sideways to keep moving but keep the distance as he searches for a spot to strike.
Several words float around in his head,
Find, and Wait being the ones most repeated.

Vincent moves slowly, as to not trigger an attack, to keep himself between Chi and Jack.
What do I do? It's a mega spider. What do I use? A giant newspaper or something? ... I bet this is Karma for that spider I flushed down the toilet... But it just wouldn't stay out of the house. he thinks, not realizing for a moment that his mind was wandering. Once he notices he snaps back to reality and keeps focused.