I rocked myself back and forth, whispering to myself in the dark. Tears were rolling down my face as my hands were shaking in fear. The cold stone floor of my cell seemed to freeze the pool of tears, making my reflection stare back at me. Everything was silent but the quiet murmurs of footsteps and my whimpers. I was so scared, scared of what they had to say. What they would do with me. They had done so much already...from feeding me nothing but scraps...to beating me down to the flesh. And now they say that they were going to do something big with me...something that their leader had wanted for a long time. It scared me to the bone thinking about what he would do...

I stared at my sad reflection of myself, staring at the girl with paper white skin and white eyes. My eyes were pooled with sadness as waterfalls glided down my face back onto the floor. I dug my head into my knees, closing my eyes and forgetting about the sad, lonely girl.

Instead I tried to reach out for any happy memories I could catch in my mind, anything thing that could bring warmth to my skin and place a smile on my face. But no, nothing came to my mind. All that came was the same picture of everyday of my life. Everything I could remember is being in my jail cell, and crying and crying. All I could feel from those memories was the deep hollowness of my cheeks and stomach, and the scars that were on my body from past experiments. It pained me so much....I just wanted...a light in my life that could bring me out of my dark cell, something that could finally free me from this cage. I wanted to escape this horrible place and find somewhere happy and peaceful to live...somewhere where I could be happy and feel the warmth of the sun for the first time. But I knew these were just my fantasies, nothing but a image in my head. I knew I would never escape the darkness and never escape the pain that I have went through. But one thing I knew for sure in my future was, that I was certainly going to die here.

Suddenly, I heard the footsteps of the man come towards my way. I looked up from my knees to see the face of a evil man, the person who had made my life miserable. Even though he had a mask on, I could see that he had no good intentions at all. I crawled into the corner of my cell as I stared at the masked man, hoping that he would not hurt me no more. But deep inside, I knew he was going to make me scream.

"No need to shiver in fear, Jikken. I will end this quickly." he said in the dark, moving along to open my cage. I swallowed a huge lump as the cage shattered as it opened. The rusted bars collided with the stone floor, making a awful sound. The man came closer with a needle in his hand. He was up to my face now. My hands were shaking once the man shoved he needle deep into my arm. A small pain went through my arm like a person running through my body. I could see a crimson red liquid fill up the container above the needle, filling it up to a certain line. Soon, I felt dizzy, like I was about to go to sleep. I felt my head get foggy as my eyes started to blink closed. I felt the needle go out of my arm as the man started to stand up again. Everything thing then started to get blurry, until I heard a sharp metal noise clang into the wall. I looked up next to me to see a knife with a red band on it stuck into the wall. Why was there a knife there...? Were they going to kill me...

I shut my eyes closed as I heard more clanging of metal knives and the sounds of agonizing shouts. The screams filled my ears as I counted how many people had screamed. So far fourteen people had shouted without any sound following it...did that mean everyone was dead? What about the man who just took my blood? I felt myself lose conscience as I saw the blur of a orange mask look at me one last time. Then he dispersed, leaving no trace behind. I began to hear more footsteps come my way, heavy footsteps running along the floor. Then I felt a sudden warmth touch my arm as I felt myself elevate form the ground. I saw the blur of a cat faced man with red lines on its face. The warmth of the cat felt good on my ice cold skin as I heard one last word before I fell asleep.

"It's going to be alright, Hitomi."