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“Mom! Dad!” The nine year old child yelled, they’d been right here. How in the heck could they have possibly just disappeared like that? And why couldn’t they hear him.
“Are you lost, little boy?” A man said, walking up to the kid.
“N-no, but my parents just vanished…” He responded, pulling his hood up as his eyes filled with tears.
The man pouted, seemingly filled with pity. “Well, I know a place that can help you find them, you see I work at a hospital.”
“R-really?” the boy stuttered, believing every word this man said, after all you went to a hospital to feel better right? And finding his parents would make him feel better.
“Of course, why would I lie to you?” The man said.
The kid followed him to what looked like an apartment building, and walked down the steps to a door on the bottom floor. “This doesn’t look like a hospital…” the kid said.
“On the contrary,” the man said as he opened the door, revealing the white tiles, walls, and LED lights that you'd usually see in a hospital, completed with a front desk and lady typing on a computer
“Dr.Z! Your back already? And you have a child with you?” the lady spoke as the boy hid behind the man, who apparently was named Dr.Z.
“Yes, you see this poor boy has lost his parents, and I was hoping we could get a code A?” Dr. Z smiled.
The lady straightened up “O-of course.” she left for a moment, then came back with a glass of chocolate milk. she handed the glass to the kid with a sympathetic look on her face.
“Splendid!” Dr.Z exclaimed as the kid drank his milk.
“This tastes funny?” he questioned.
“What kind do you usually drink at home?” the lady asked.
“Mom says it’s two percent, I don’t know what that means though…”
“That explains it, this is only one percent.” the lady explained.
“Tell me, what's your name, child?” Dr.Z asked.
“V-Virgil Sanders.” he yawned as he responded, his eyes halfway opened.
“Barb?”
“Yes sir?” the lady responded.
“Start a file for Virgil Sanders. Age nine I believe, I want to see if he’s compatible.”
“Yes, sir…” Barb sighed as she began typing again.
And then, everything went blank for poor little Virgil. Yet the nightmare had only just begun.
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“Hey, hey! Are You dead?” Virgil heard a male voice say, it was high pitched and kinda reminded him of that one show his mom watched with the weird guy in a striped suit ...mom? Where was she…
“I’m sure he’s not dead Remus, they wouldn’t put a dead person in here.” another voice responded, clearly annoyed with whoever this Remus was.
Virgil sat up and opened eyes, only to be greeted with blinding LEDs. “where...where am I?” he asked, squinting as his eyes adjusted to the light. He glanced around the room, there were two bunk beds, one of them was completely empty, the other had a blanket on both the top and bottom bunk, one with yellow snakes, and one with tacos. There was also a table with four chairs, and a deck of cards. Other than that the room was empty.
“You're in the lab’s sleeping quarters. I'm Deceit and this is Remus.” The second voice said, Virgil fully opened his eyes and was met with two figures, both older than him, the first looked like a disney villain with fake mustache and a white streak in his hair, and something black emerged from his back, though virgil couldn’t see what. The other was wearing a black hat and a gray collared shirt with yellow trim. But the most noticeable feature was his face, his right eye was yellow and had a slit pupil, and not to mention the right side of his face was covered in scales.
“Ahh!” Virgil screamed as he tried to get up to run, looking back at Remus he finally saw what the black things were. Tentacles, he had tentacles. “AAAHHHH” Virgil screamed louder, he turned around and saw the four spider-like limbs that now sprouted from his own back.
At this point the poor boy was freaking out. Understandably so, and continued screaming for about five to ten minutes.
“Are you done?” Deceit asked. Virgil didn’t respond. Deceit took that as a yes. “Good, you're probably wondering where the limbs came from right? Well after you passed out Dr.Z took you to the testing room, he found out that you were compatible with the spider trait.”
“What does that even mean!” Virgil shouted.
“It means that he mushed ya with a spider and it worked!” Remus told him, a grin on his face. “He mushed me with a squid and Dee here with a snake!”
“Remus, stop you're scaring him!” Dee yelled.
“I-I want to go home!” Virgil cried.
“Well guess what! You can’t! Cuz this is home now!” Remus laughed, not listening to Deceit.
“Remus!” Dee said.
“None of us can go home! We're trapped here forever!” he continued laughing, making Virgil cry more.
“THATS ENOUGH!” Deceit shouted, making Remus stop laughing. Virgil looked up at the two of them, Dee now had six different arms. He sighed and the arms fell to his side, disappearing. He went over to the bunk bed and pulled a blank lump from underneath, brushed it off and handed it to Virgil. “Here, we thought you might want to keep this.”
“M-my hoodie! How did you?” Virgil asked them.
“It’s better if you don’t know.” said Remus.
Dee simply rolled his eyes and sighed. “Welcome to the lab.”