The Experiment

The doors opened and light streamed down the corridor, men well dressed in business suits and shined shoes stepped into the doorway, the sunlight casted their shadows over the cement floors, all too suddenly, the doors swung closed behind them, cutting off the flow of the light, abruptly. The men proceeded down a series of hallways, going through many doors along the way, they talked respectfully amongst themselves, as they walked. Before them, a white steel door, it was well protected with a combination pad lock and fingerprint scanner. A slender, dignified man stepped forward from the rest and turned to face them. "Gentlemen, what you are about to see is classified, no photographs or recordings, no media distribution of any kind, if it is found that any of you break this code of silence..." the man paused to swing open his shirt top, in a quick motion he pulled out multiple photographs, in these photos were women and children, the families of these men before him. "We have our regulations, follow them and you and your family will remain safe." A few of the men shuddered, struggling to maintain their professional composure. The main man before them smiled "I see we have all reached a mutual understanding" with these words he spun around and entered a passcode

"Our security systems are the most updated in technology, passcodes that randomize at every entry, print scanners that also scan central nervous systems, and nearly five-hundred red tag lasers, if the passcode or scan comes back negative, the perpetrator will be vaporized with the intensity of a thousand sons", The man smiled as if these words provided him with the deepest of joys. The doors swung open automatically, revealing glass windows and impossibly white walls. The tiles below the men reflected, spotless as glass, "right this way" the main man instructed, Through the thick glass windows, well-aged subjects sat on white beds, in whitewashed rooms, they eyed the men emotionlessly, having lost their sense of will, in some rooms the people on the beds laid stiff, perhaps dead...The men passed through one more set of secure white doors, and on the other side stepped through a decontamination chamber, that sprayed them with a light green substance. The room they were in now was wide, with a tall ceiling and around them many laboratory physicians and chemologists worked tirelessly, taking no note of their entrance, Tables piled with toxins of every color bubbled endlessly over open flames, The main man turned to face them, “This subject is our main attraction, the youngest we have ever experimented on, the pride and joy of H.E.X...so to speak" the main man smiled and continued walking, straight ahead of them in the large room was a pure glass containment chamber, complete with a thick glass door, inside was a pale, slender figure, curled in the far back corner, as the men neared the containment they could see it had black slightly curled hair...The main man, now at the glass door spoke to the men directly, tapping the glass behind him "tempered, explosion and bullet proof, this glass is literally unbreakable" he typed in a code and the thick glass door swung open, the men all stepped inside.

In the corner was a beautiful specimen of a young boy, he had pitch black hair and inhumanly deep blue eyes, he studied the men warily as the main man neared him fearlessly. "We call this beauty experiment 8..." he said crouching before the boy "the lab tech ladies just call him Casper" the man ruffled the boy's silken hair, the subject flinched under his hand, eyes still fixed on the group of men. Now the main man stood up, facing the group once more. "Don't get too close if you don't know what you're doing...he bites." The man said precariously. Seeing slight confusion on the faces of his party the main man motioned to a passing laboratory nurse, she entered a code and the door swung open, "sir?" She asked as he motioned to the experiment in the corner, "demonstrate for these gentlemen, the quality trait of our test subject here" the nurses face grew pale, "b-but sir..." she stammered as he motioned the men to step outside of the glass door "that was an order." The main man said calmly, swinging the door shut behind the group of men who stood watching in curiosity, they could not hear what was being said, but they saw the nurse walk toward the experiment shaking viciously, and the main man a way behind her observing, with his hands in his pockets. The lab nurse took out a scalpel from her white coat and ran it over her wrist, blood dripped to the once spotless white floors, the experiment slid upward against the wall, till it was standing and turned its head away. The nurse was sobbing to herself, the main man had a content smirk on his face as the experiment reached for her bleeding wrist several times, pulling away, as if trying to hold back...The nurse cried shamelessly now as the main man stepped up behind her and wiped his finger over her wound, he ran the bloodstained finger over the experiment's rose red lips, fearlessly. Now it's once blue eyes glinted fiercely red, it's flawless face gave off an evil, twisted smirk, it drew close to the bleeding nurse until their noses brushed, still smiling, that bone chilling smile and it ran its teeth, now sharp as steak knives over her left cheek, which began to bleed a stream, running down her body. The men observing stepped involuntarily back from the glass, passing lab technicians scurried away quickly going about their business. The trembling nurse fell to the ground pleading for her life, the experiment peered over her taking her outstretched arm and running its fingers over it, her arm oozed blood where it's fingers had run over, the nurse seemed to scream horrendously through the soundproof glass. Her skin peeled off of her arm into five, straight strips of flesh, the experiment began to ravish on her arm in a messy display, the nurse kicked and fought to no avail as the experiment sunk it's teeth into her face, the men drew back horrified as the nurses eye hung from its teeth, the main man stood behind the experiment, watching on with hidden fascination, the killing went on for about another half an hour and then the nurse stopped moving completely, she was dead. Now the experiment scowled and spat out the skin dangling from its mouth, it stood up and began to stagger as if stricken with a sudden sickness, it stumbled a few times, as its eyes changed back into the breathtaking blue the men had first seen, finally it gave out and fell into the main man's arms, he fell to his knees cradling it in a disturbing manner, running his hand through its blood-soaked hair, laboratory nurses rushed in and began picking up what remained of the victim and shoving it into clear garbage bags, others entered with mops and buckets. A tall man in a white lab coat entered the glass containment and lifted the experiment out of the main man's arms, the main man stood up adjusting his bloodstained clothing, regaining his respective composure, still his eyes followed the experiment until the doctor disappeared with it, down another white hall, connected to the large room. The main man stepped out of the room and faced the flushed group of men "Gentlemen, what you have just seen" he began, adjusting his tie, "is an altered species of human, a human hybrid designed to kill, in its blood runs the blood of a legendary vampire... Dracula himself" the men's eyes widened in disbelief one of them spoke up "Sir, that is impossible, scientific studies have shown the existence of vampires to be mere myths and legends" the short bald man said impeccably. The main man smiled at his comment, "Ah, but, science proves nothing. Science is merely the way of coping with what we humans fear the most, the truth" the men pulled back, most of them being dignified scientists themselves. "Explain to me then, great physicians, what did you just witness?" The men glanced at one another, uneasily...the main man nodded at the silence that followed "hmm...precisely..." he said turning around to view the cleanup of the glass room. ”W-where did they take him" one shaky man asked in the group, adjusting his glasses nervously. The main man motioned toward a small hall to the right of the containment "Cleaning, it follows after feeding time” he sighed, slipping his messy hands into his pockets and facing the men, “we are in the process of training with the creature, already it can speak the ancient tongues of the Aztec, Mayan and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as whatever languages we have not yet discovered from it, experiment 8 never ceases to amaze our scientists, well mannered…almost human…in some things, better…than human” the main man paused, as if to suggest disturbing things…

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