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Chapter 2: Beauty from room 009/Beast from room 007
"So then, which dragon slayer caused that you want become one of them?" dragon was going deeper still from time to time just listening if Ultear followed her.
"Is it something required to practice?" Asked coldly ice mage.
"No but it was you that have come to me so you have to listen to me, right?" echoed in the cave. "Anyway I'm curious whose scent felt on you back then..."
"I suspect that you sensed scent of my friend, with whom I've seen a few hours before finding you," she said with quite normal voice.
"Hmm," the dragon stopped and looked back. "Before we get to the place can you tell me a little bit about this 'friend'."
"This is the first person who wasn’t hostile towards me. Arik Raven," started Ultear.
"Raven," mused Rigantona. 'Could it be one of the people over whom watching over and observing Koriana?'
"Is it by chance ice slayer?" she said casually noting the surprise on time mage face.
"Yes, but how?" interrupted her quickly. "I'm a dragon and our knowledge goes beyond your limited perception of the world around you."
"We're here," stopped walking behind her mage. "Before we start teaching tell something about that slayer," and seeing as her student been reluctant added, "It wasn’t a request."
"It all started when I was little," Ultear started recalling her memories.
"That's enough for today," said the taller of the assistants as his companion turned off the machine. As soon as he entered next room began to undo the rope from located a little over a metal tabletop child. Exhausted after another hour test when she went almost unconsciously he led her to one of the rooms passing by other children leaded in the direction of where she came from.
In another part of the building in a room where guests were welcomed one of the employee’s was talking with a woman explaining the reasons why she couldn’t see her daughter's body. When she cried with a practiced manner comforted her.
"Finally," he sighed with relief when the woman left the building.
"At least she wouldn’t come again to see her daughter. Now we can safely continue testing on it," said Brain.
"What do we do with this new kid?" assistant looked toward the window.
"What kind of problems reported his father when he left him?" asked his boss.
"Uncontrolled use of Take-Over magic and abnormally high levels of magical energy," he replied looking at a piece of paper, which he took from a nearby table.
"So we have another kid to reduce possessed magic energies?" Brain got slightly bored with the ruse.
"Not really. His father expressed desire to just make sure that his son has gained control of the magic and magical energies. Clearly marked as not to reduce magic potential."
"Don’t reduce? Wonder how much energy he got right now," interrupted at that moment hearing some noises coming from behind the door. When both were on the corridor past them ran in a hurry employee of the Institute. Going in the direction of where he went they came to one of the rooms where the tests were conducted.
"What happened here?" Brain asked stepping inside.
"Probably some circuit. During the test placed subject caused momentary reversal of flow magical potential," explained one of the technicians.
"Change?" his boss looked at the walls noting in some places traces of nails and rope hung haphazardly in the middle of making an impression as if the person strapped to them just broke them all. Opposite to the door was a big gap, on which edges were clear signs of claws.
"Unfortunately one of the technicians forgot to change the settings of our device," explained nervously technician. "And subject was subjected to strengthening the magic potential."
"Where is he?" Brain went through the hole into the next room.
"Two rooms ahead he stopped and just standing there," said the following after him technician. Both passed through another two holes in the walls, each of which was less than the previous. In the room ahead of them huddled with size of few years old child being. Wings growing from his back and the floor slowly moving tail. When he heard footsteps, he turned his head to the side and began curiously looking up at them with his blue eyes.
"That's the kid from uncontrolled Take-Over magic," after two of them appeared consultant taking care to watch over curled before them being, which went back to staring at something on the floor in front of it.
"I noticed. Next time make sure that he will be stronger tied up," said little nervous Brain and headed toward nearby door. "And take him to his room."
"Boss, but... after all, he still hasn’t returned to human form. Are we suppose to take him in such state?" asked one of the staff present in the room.
"Yes. Sooner the better and then begin to repair the damage he caused," he said and started walking away down the corridor. The rest staff member remaining in the room staff began cautiously approaching the still kneeling child.
"What do you all so sulking? Chief will be unhappy if we don’t drag him quickly to his room," said the man standing closest to the door.
"Easy for you to say. But it doesn’t look like a human now more like a... like a miniature dragon," on the word dragon toddler looked curiously at the man, who gulped feeling his gaze on himself.
"Dragon. That imagination of yours. They are just merely legends," laughed the other.
"But look. He has wings, tail and even the body itself is just such a shape as these mythical creatures. In addition what is it?" he asked while being close lightly touched kid skin feeling under fingers cold to the touch scales.
"It's just an effect of Take-Over magic," said consultant and firmly grabbed the kid's shoulder trying to move him on but with a sudden movement it broke free and fell to the ground. When he was raised it seemed to them that was holding something in one of the hands a rather out feet. However despite careful checking his both hands didn’t find anything so they took him to his room. Once inside he waited a long time before it spat out a small silver key with a symbol resembling a cat's head on the handle. For a long moment he eyed lying down in front of him key until he put it under bed, which was in his room.
"Freak," said the tall man when using electrical stick shocked boy, who still had a reptilian form after few hours passing by.
"Like of your would be best to get rid of or treated as you deserve," struck again cowering before him child.
'Another,' thought a little girl being two rooms away hearing coming from behind the door inhuman howls. At least no one bothered her when she tried to find a way to get out of this damn room and go back to her mother. In one wall was what looked like a fairly well disguised passage to another room. Another day she was working on the opening this and when they were coming to take her it was covered with casually arranged toys that were in the room when we first time thrown here. Howling slowly began to change into loud cry, which quickly faded.
Her door opened suddenly, but looking inside short man didn’t notice anything suspicious. For a moment he scratched himself and then closed door wondering what doesn’t fit there. For a few days staying in this room little girl most of the time was suspiciously quiet so he suspected that she was planning something but when he looked she was always laying on the bed looking at the ceiling. 'Certain she tries to do something,’ he thought until he moved on.
During the following days Ultear was subjected to a smaller number of tests but still every time she was all bruised and she had her eyes red from crying.
"Mommy," she sobbed as she sat curled up on the bed trying to forget the pain she felt during tests. From thoughts snatched her coming from somewhere in the distant roar. For a moment she sat curled up as her body instinctively responded to the roar by convulsive huddled up.
"What was that?" slowly relaxed when it came back again, this time roaring like being causing it was closer. This time a little less sat huddled and relaxed after a long moment she didn’t hear anything. Slowly getting out of bed went to the wall pushing aside toys and grasping the loose panel. Today finally gave up and putting it on the ground next to her now had in front of her a small passage to another room. There wasn’t huge but large enough to let her crawl through it. An adjacent room looked like this, in which she was however was looking for unused for a long time.
"Hmpf," released a sigh of disappointment slowly strolling around when she suddenly heard a loud roar coming from somewhere close. Instinctively shrank back pressed against one of the walls. Moment later she heard a muffled voice, after which roar was heard again this time literally on the other side of the wall, on which she was leaning. By issuing a cry of horror quickly jumped and with long leap was in the passage to her room. Hurrying squeezed as she could and as soon as she passed put the panel in place covering it with a stack of toys.
"Hmmm," sighed short man when he looked into her room a few minutes later, still holding in his hand the stick, at which end when she looked noticed red marks. Slowly walked up to her and without warning struck her. Gritting her teeth made no sound. Then again struck her again but just gritted her teeth harder to not give a groan.
"I must overheard it," he muttered under his breath and turning around left the room closing the door behind. A minute or two later she heard a loud roar, this time sounding more human-like. And another one after the other, each sounding less inhuman but causing her chills and more human. Fifteen minutes later however it stopped but she couldn’t stop staring at the lying pile of toys next to the wall.
'I’ll only look into the next room,' she thought waiting for when she gets 'supper'. Immediately after eating it quietly walked over to the stack and slightly moved them aside revealing a loose panel. A moment later she was in the next room. For a brief moment she hesitated before moving to the opposite wall. For a moment she stood leaning against the wall when from the other side came a low growl. Almost immediately she found herself in the doorway to her room.
'What am I doing? I need to find way out of here,' shook her head covering passage.
"Again," whispered the little boy sitting leaning against one of the walls in his room. Half of his face was covered with blue scales and the eye looked pretty inhuman. Also one of his arms was changed; he moved it across the floor. The ends of the claws scraped in contact with the metal surface but even that sound didn’t help to forget the scent he just felt. It was the second time he felt that scent though it seemed to him that he knew all the possible types of scents that his sensitive sense of smell can detect in this awful place.
"What's that funny smell doesn’t allow me focus on anything other than it?" muttered cowering. He wanted to go home and to his father. When he was left here was said that he would be there shortly to help with the problem but for now days passed and didn’t seemed that anything has improved. Day after day, more tests but now rarely was losing consciousness during these and was less frightening him changes which was happening to his body as if it was something natural. Father said it was a wonderful thing but he was scared and didn’t even have anyone to talk to about it.
"Alone still alone," slowly tailing his legs walked to the bed, on which laid and reaching under his pillow pulled out a small key. Holding it in one of his hands he falls asleep.
The next day, she noticed that the door to her room was still open when she came back from tests. Not only her but also one of those, which she always passed by.
'It's a chance, ' she thought, sitting on the bed rubbing feet numb from the pain. If she have been able to get to the room, which was occupied by someone else but at the moment was empty then she would be able to slip away. When she could move no longer feeling pain squeezed into the next room and she started to walk around one of the walls looking for if there was the passage to the another room. Fifteen minutes or maybe longer took her to find a small passage blocked by not firmly attached panel. But before she could check how much panel was holding quickly returned to her room when heard approaching footsteps from the hallway. Moment later she heard the howls, as always for past few days. She waited a moment as everything went quiet and pushed her way into the next room. Taking care to not make a noise came up to the panel and grabbed wanting to see if it will be easy to remove.
"Hmmm," he turns around on the bed still feeling bad after next test and treatment by an assistant who always escorted him into the room. Single wing was slowly disappearing like scales covering most of the left side of his body. However somewhere in the direction of a nearby wall again felt a strange scent. Getting off from bed on the floor slowly crawled in that direction, trying to be quiet. Halfway stopped and rolled back when his body began to involuntarily change. The right side of his face and eye assumed reptile like appearance just like both arms. Not paying attention to this continued crawling until he stopped in front of a wall in a place that looked like a metal plate covered passage.
'Someone is there?' he mused as he sat staring at the moving more and more panel. More accurately could feel a strange scent, which still couldn’t assign to anything seen in this place or any of the people. It was nice but it seemed to him that the more he tried to focus on it the more he was losing control of his transformations.
'Almost,' she was delighted to see how the panel began to move. Another moment and she’ll take off it and then look inside on the other side of the wall. Then she thought however, that there may be someone there but it was too late when the metal plate shifted and fell into the next room.
"Ouch," he managed to mutter as the panel literally fall at him, making him turns over.
"Huh?" slowly and careful peered through the hole to the next room. It was dimly lighted, however she could see a small bed in the corner and toys scattered on the floor. Here and there on the floor were claw marks and on the walls can be seen in several places traces of something wet which flow down the wall earlier. From the hole also blew a gentle chill as if in the next room was a slightly lower temperature.
‘Someone can live in such circumstances?' she mused noting protruding from under a small panel scaly paw with claws. Elsewhere pair of legs was sticking out.
'What was that?' he slowly slid out of himself a piece of metal and sat rubbing his head, which even then not wanted to stop hurting. Not even bothered him, when he felt as a pair of wings started grown from his back.
'What is it?' She stepped back a bit to see humanoid creature that appeared form under an overturned panel. It looked like a cross between a human with a monster what caused Ultear to further step back feeling an inexplicable fear.
Scent intensified and seemed to radiate from the newly created hole in the wall. Curious he crept in that direction and looked to the other side noticing a small purple-haired girl who was slowly retreating toward the opposite wall. Trying to get close to her he got stuck in the hole. Frustrated by the inability to move he began to struggle trying to free himself.
'No, don’t come near me,' more and more moving back seeing how creature seems to spotted her and was approaching but luckily got stuck in the hole. She became a little frightened when she saw it beginning to struggle. She looked away seeking passage to her room when she heard disturbing noises and she looked at the figure before her. It seemed to literally grow in eyes and the wall around the hole slowly began to bend and break here and there as if it were made of paper.
The more he struggled the more he felt like the hole seemed to tighten around him, so the more furiously he tried to squeeze through it. He heard the sound of cracking metal under the stress and turned his head to hear somewhere in the distance approaching footsteps.
"Nooo," he gave a low guttural almost animal-like sound when the water vapor present in the room around him began to condense and wall parts still holding his growing body started to be covered with frost. Finally with one firm move ripped apart wall connecting rooms and a moment later took a deep breath. When he breathed out it air around him cools down slightly. Now definitely he could hear people approaching thru the hall.
When she found hole not paying attention to anything started to squeeze through it. Being on the other side turned and peered carefully. The creature was already two may three times bigger and began to destroy the wall around the passage, in which it got stuck before.
'Is it a human?' she thought hearing a sound like a human speech that being let out just before the rupture of the wall. Then it seemed when it took a deep breath and breath out it Ultear felt a cold breeze. It's still just looking almost at the last minute she heard the door open and frightened quickly covered hole and turned toward the door to her room.
'Almost,' she feel relieved to see it still closed. Then she heard noises from behind the wall. Low guttural moans and raised male voices, then the sound hitting into something hard and again few moans. Trying her best covered passage with toys and leaped quickly toward place near her bed. When she gets on it the door of the room opened and there stood one of the assistants, which was sometimes taking her for the tests.
"Here nothing has happened," he shouted into the hallway and when she looked at him noticed that form object in his hand was dripping fresh blood.
'Did they actually do something that creature?' She thought when men closed the door and after a moment behind the wall again began to assert snatches drowned out by a mix of loud moans and howls. Ultear just curled up trying to cover your ears to not been able hear anything and so lying fall asleep.
"Bastard. He grew again," one of the assistants massaged his neck when the three of them was walking down the hall.
"And even after we mauled him a little bit he didn’t come back to normal shape," said another men and spat. "Maybe we should have softened him even more?"
"No it’s enough for today. Otherwise it wouldn’t be in shape for tomorrow tests. But what do we do with this broken piece of wall between those two rooms?" the third one was thinking.
"Let it be so. We don’t need room 8 for anyone at the moment, right?" thought the short man and spat again.
"No. Well then we’ll tell the boss that kid needs more space and all will be fine," said the first one.
"Damn you had good idea," laughed the third and highest of them.
The next day around noon Lionel visited the institute in order to find out how was progress Arik treatment. After a short conversation though somewhat tumultuous he left the building visibly upset.
"I see them still treating him," Bruce began.
"Probably. Though trying to tell me that unfortunately, during one of the attempts to control transformations he died," said Lionel.
"You don’t believe in it?" asked the older men.
"Feeling his scent in the building is difficult indeed to trust what they told me," replied the other. "Just thinking what they're planning if so much tried to convince me that Arik is dead."
"Maybe he interested them," Bruce looked up at the sky. "Try to understand them there are after all are just humans."
"So we'll leave someone that will watch from a distance flow of events and we act that we believed these people?" Lionel looked back on structure seen at the horizon.
"As you wish but you going to relay this message to Koriana," laughed older Raven.
"Father...," in younger Raven’s voice sounded reproach.
"What's wrong dear?" asked Grandeeney.
"I feel like someone mentioned me," said Koriana coughed.
"Overall it's possible that you're most often mentioned among us all," said with amusement Harudha.
"What do you mean?" ice dragoness stared at the water one.
"Maybe it comes to these sheep’s of yours which breeding you control," interjected Riganton.
"But even though they look so nice," chuckled Suia with Ix Chel. "We gladly would crunched one of them. Do you need them all?"
"Don’t know. But there are definitely among them such specimens, which showing promise to meet my standards," mused Koriana. "Damn right I would almost forget."
"I guess at your age its normal to forget things," echoed along both acid and poison dragoness.
"But I'm not so very much older than both of you. Maybe only ten to twenty years more," around ice dragoness started to condense water vapor.
"So what you almost forgot?" sky dragoness began its attempt to change the subject.
"Soon I will have to start again to look for human children to teach them slayer magic," she sighed slightly resigned.
"You really have to still do that?" Water dragoness looked toward the other end of the plateau where they should be males of their species.
"I'm already so close to achieving my goal. Then I will not have to worry about such trivial matters."
"And I think that just want to get even with Adam using yours carefully breed humans," said the darkness dragoness.
"Don’t start me quote here Igneel and his nonsense about leaving people to themselves and remove ourselves into the shadows," Suia looked threateningly on the ice dragoness.
"Someone called me?" after a while around them emerged flames when Igneel appeared beside them.
"No," answered together and ignoring his presence continued conversation.
"Overall taking a human and learn him magic wouldn’t be so boring," mused Grandeeney. "Some very young and nice human female."
"Or two at once," chuckled Harudha.
"Or a strong healthy male," said Igneel.
"You have learned one few centuries ago and how did it ended?" ice dragoness looked at him coldly.
"The same goes for you with the first human whom you taught your magic," he said quite calmly. "He turned against who taught him his magic."
"Go back to your friends," she breathed icily breath on what he quickly disappeared.
"And what are they talking about there?" Asked A-su.
"Just like females. So stupid stuff," said fire dragon. "Well let's get back to the important things."
"Just like I told my lightning bolts are stronger than your flames," said Raitingu trying to keep a poker face.
"Neither lightning nor the flames can pierce my iron skin," protested Metallicana.
"Your iron skin. I hope you not mean that imitation of my wonderful stone skin. Nothing can compare with it resilience," hit the ground with a paw A-su making that around place he hit stand out of the earth several stone spikes.
"Maybe just learn some humans your magic and then let them beat between themself to see which one of you was right," said almost simultaneously sitting slightly away Skiadrum with Weisslogia on what other male dragons looked at them curiously. "Just choose some normal humans and not any breaded people by Koriana."
"Good idea," said A-su and spread his wings.
"Where are you going?" Igneel looked at him.
"Search for the right human to teach him," he replied before he flew away.
"You both too? Ehhh," fire dragon get a little upset seeing as lighting and metal dragons also flew away.
He was lying on the floor staring at the ceiling. The side still hurt after yesterday's punishment for destroying the wall. He rolled onto his stomach and looked toward the door. Hours passed but no one showed up to take him in the morning only showed up one of the assistants and left much more than the usual food. Not that he had the appetite so he didn’t eat much.
"Dad...," he held out one hand as if to reach somewhere. However nothing has changed so after a while he got up and slowly walked over to his former bed looking for something in sheets. Finding small as compared to his current hands key he calmed down a bit.
'What is it?' he scratched his head again feeling some kind of energy emanating from held object but didn’t have enough time to learn more beyond the basics of sensing magic in objects and other people. He tapped with it floor but nothing happened. Resigned put it in the same place where it was before.
"Scent," he muttered as he turned and lay on the floor with his head turned towards one of the walls, from which came some noises.
As the hours passed after she was brought after anthers tests, which was much earlier today. When the pain remains after them fade away she sat staring at the pile of toys. After a while, she got up and started pacing still thinking about the creature that could be on the other side. Minutes passed as curiosity struggled with fear until he first won.
'I‘ll just take a look,' she repeated several times in her mind while taking to unfold passage. Before she started to move panel listened but on the other side seemed to be total silent. When she was previously lead back to room the door was locked so she wondered if it was still there. Taking off a piece of metal took a moment and carefully set down next to her then looked into the other room, when from opening to her room was slowly seeped through a cold air.
In the second room saw remains of the wall dividing rooms covered still with frost. Looking around noticed claw marks here and there or frosted places on walls. At first didn’t notice being that she saw yesterday. After a while manage to see quite huge shape lying in the further part fo the areas partly hidden behind the wall remains.
'Is it sleeping?' she thought, slowly squeezing to the other side of the hole. I still didn’t move even when after passing thru inadvertently nudged a toy lying next to the aisle.
‘Somebody passing thru,' he thought closing the eyes. He decides that a person who was in the room won’t come close if she would know he’s watching her. Besides he could still feel her scent thanks to who pretty well could figure out where she was now. Slightly smiled at the noise of tipped toy indicating that she was already in the room.
She breathed with a relief seeing as he still had closed eyelids. He looked much different today than Ultear remembered it. It was slightly bigger but she didn’t see him quite well because he was just lying on the floor and only his head and arms were visible. Head of roughly resembled a human apart covering the entire blue scales and was bent at a weird angle. The arms were much overgrown and also covered with scales.
'It doesn’t look scary,' she noted standing still against the wall and a little more carefully looking around. In two or three places saw red marks on the floor and a larger on the wall near the door. For a moment she stood there thinking if she should approach the lying creature. She wasn’t sure whether it was a human or a beast.
'If he would be threatening or dangerous will already attack,’ reassured with that thought, she started slowly approach him. Despite the still present fear children's curiosity won in her. Reaching the breach in the wall for a moment stopped and hiding behind still remaining piece looked into the other room. He still lay on the floor with arms outstretched to the sides. Just as them his legs also were overgrown and covered with scales. In fact they were covering whole body even tail and huge wings that lay folded in half on the sides of his torso.
He felt her approached the breach, which moreover yesterday did himself in the wall and she stopped there. Does she watching him? Her scent didn’t change for the time being so he tried to stay calm wondering whether it will be someone with whom he could talk. And what if his appearance scares her?
Curiosity was still pushing her forward so she looked around once or twice slowly crossed the gap found herself in the next room a few meters from lying Arik. Although he had his head turned towards her his eyes were closed.
‘Getting closer,’ he thought feeling as she slowly approaching him.
It was two or three steps from him when she stopped. Fear was beginning to overcome the existing curiosity. He still lay quietly in front of her as if asleep. She could see how much he was bigger than her and even it seemed bigger from the people who took her from time to time for these painful tests. All of sudden he opened his eyes and suddenly she found herself staring straight into his blue eyes, in which she could seen children's curiosity and something else she couldn’t identify yet.
"No," he managed to mumble when she yelled loudly and not paying attention to anything she turned and ran quickly over to the passage.
Next chapter: Escape
A/N: Ok so we got some little gathering of dragons here with for now most of them that noone not have idea who are their. So let take a short tour about new beast we seen this chap. First was Koriana - lovely or maybe cold and heartless ice dragoness (I think if ever Atlas Flame would make comment about here it would be some along lines: She's queen of the ice dragons), Harudha - water dragoness, Rigatona - all should by now know or soon realize what element she hold control over, Suia - acid dragoness, Ix Chela - poison dragoness, A-su - earth dragon and Raintigu - lighting dragon.
A/N v2: Should have put more romantic stuff today I know but couldn't whimp myself to write anything fluffy and gotic at the same time to put. Well here we got some stuff that can be fitting for todays worldwide mood but just a lil bit.
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