03

~Miranda

I had fallen asleep when the sound of the caged door violently coming open awoke me.

I got up with a start and stared into the darkness. The evil man was standing in the doorway with eyes that glowed a fierce crimson color.

My heart began to pound violently against my ribcage. My lips trembled nonstop. I wanted to run. I tried screaming. It felt like I was having a nightmare and no one was coming to my rescue.

The man was not alone. There were other men with him who had glowing yellow eyes. That was when I understood that the evil man was the Alpha of this pack.

They prepared chains and I feared that they were about to use them on me.

Fear seized me and I wished my mom was here. She would have to know how to fight these men. She would have protected me from them but she was gone. I was left alone to face the monster that had killed my parents and was probably about to kill me too.

I should have run when she told me to. I should have entered the woods. Maybe then, I would have had a better chance at survival. Maybe I would have had the upper hand.

Why was all this happening to me? What did I do wrong to deserve any it this? Was it my fault? Was it my punishment for being a naughty child?

Why was this not a dream? This nightmare was endless and I only wanted it to stop. Tears flowed freely down my cheeks and I could not stop them.

"You think you're so smart, don't you? You think you're so bright?" He began.

I began to retreat backward as I tried to find an escape route from the ruthless monster that slowly began to approach me. I peered around the space. The other men were blocking my exit. There was no other way out. I could only use the window because I was too small to reach it.

I was doomed all alone with them.

"I'm going to uncover the secret of your filthy blood. I'm going to run experiments on you and I will find a way to finish off what is left of the vampires in the world. Prepare yourself to suffer for eternity because I will never let you go. You are now my lab rat. The key to a powerful weapon! You are the key to the rise of my reign! My toy!" He exclaimed and grabbed me by the neck.

He squeezed hard and I could not breathe. I tried to claw at his grip but I could not set myself free.

"By the time you wake up, you'll be far away and the friend you think you have will never be able to find you again," he whispered into my ears.

I shivered and he continued to wring my neck. I heard echoing laughter and it dipped into my brain. There was nothing I could do. I was trapped by him and I was too small to attack him and save myself.

My vision started to blur. My breathing started to slow. Was this how dying felt?

I felt cold. Too cold.

Eventually, darkness crawled in and I lost consciousness.

I dreamt of my parents' death again. I saw the way the evil Alpha finished them off. I saw their blood spill and I heard my mother calling out to me to run to safety but I was too frozen to move. Slowly, the dream melted away into darkness and I was alone in it. Drowning in it and slowly dying alone.

The next time I opened my eyes, I was in a different room. There were lights at every corner and I was strapped to a bed. There were glass containers all around the room. Some were big enough to house a huge wolf while some were smaller in size.

The large glass containers had water inside that seemed to be boiling. There were body parts inside each of them. I saw eyeballs in one container. Another had fangs. Some have hands. There were many of them with different body parts inside. The sight made me want to puke but I contained myself and looked ahead.

I was not alone in the room. A man was moving about the table and testing things. He wore a white lab coat and a huge pair of glasses. I guessed that he was the mad scientist behind all the creepy body parts in the lab.

He turned to face me and I almost screamed. One side of his face was burnt and he looked like a mutated monster.

He began to approach me. I tried to move away from the bed but I could not. I was still strapped to it.

He placed his fingers on my hand and cleaned my arm. Then he injected me with a syringe and I cried out. He retrieved my blood and laughed hard before going back to his station. He looked like he was slowly losing his mind.

"What do you want from me? Let me go!" I screamed but the man only laughed.

As if on cue, the evil Alpha walked into the room. His laughter echoed inside the room and merged with the mad scientist's. He came to a stop over my bed and looked down at me.

"I told you was going to uncover the secrets of your vampire blood and I will use it to my advantage. I will use it to conquer the world," he stated.

I started crying again. "Why won't you just leave me alone? Leave me! Let me go! Let me go!" I screamed.

The Alpha turned to the scientist. "What are you waiting for? Electrocute her until her voice dries out. Let's see her resistance level," he stated.

My eyes went wide with horror. I looked at the scientist and so he pull the lever to something and the moment he did, pain that I had never known seized my body.

I screamed.