HEY!!! ANOTHER CHAPPIE... I should do my homework... but I'll be updating this later so nvm =P... this shall still have the NaLu cover because Lucy hasn't met everyone else yet =P

Haha... the cover kinda gives what this chapter is about... so it's like what ever day it is... and it's 2014 and ya im just gonna get to the story

Dedication again to the one and only @INFINITE_WARRIOR because I couldn't have been this far here without her =)... Thanks so much sister

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Lucy's PoV

I slowly opened my eyes, imitating the actions that I usually do when I wake up.

"Good morning" I rubbed my eyes before yawning and looking around.

"Huh?" I pretended I was shocked.

"This isn't my room" I frowned.

"Hello Lucy" Kurai said coyly.

"Oh, good morning Headmaster Kurai" I greeted him as if it was just another day in the academy.

"Such good manners? Who taught you?" Kurai seemed interested in my past.

"My friend Susuka taught me most of my manners" I replied.

"Lucy, I need for the doctor to look you over to make sure you're healthy okay?" Kurai sounded just like a father.

"Okay" I grinned.

The doctor checked my eyes, mouth, ears, nose, heart, lungs and all those other things. She even banged my knee with that little funny hammer.

"She's perfectly healthy" The doctor agreed.

"Ms. Doctor? I was wondering why I'm not in my room. Did you change the doctor's office?" I asked.

She looked glanced quickly at Kurai who gave her a small nod before explaining more.

"Lucy, do you know that this will never be repeated again and once you decide there is no going back." The doctor glared menacing at me.

I gave a curt nod indicating that I understood while she continued.

"We want to help us so we can make all the people's lives better. We have decided to try to make you different, but we needed you to be 10 years or older, for your body has to be mature." The doctor stated.

"I want to help" I smiled, going along with the thought that I was helping humanity.

"Then come with me" Kurai smiled taking my little hand in his own and walking me to a room with a metal cage.

"Go on Inside Lucy" Kurai gave me a small push.

I climbed inside, inspecting the cool metal.

"Sit on the metal chair in the middle and I'll press the button to lock you in. Then there will be a needle that will inject a serum into your body. Then all you got to do is wait okay?" Kurai got ready to start the machine.

"Okay" I made a small face of confusion wondering what serum was but quickly dismissed it as a minor component of the big picture.

I got into the chair and Kurai pressed a button which made the metal bindings tight around me, immobilizing me.

"Just stay still" Kurai pressed a button.

Slowly a slot in the ceiling of the cage opened and a mechanical arm came down with a big syringe.

I braced myself as the tip of the needle got closer and closer to my arm and suddenly it plunged it. The next second it was empty and out again.

I blinked once, and then twice. That wasn't so bad.

But then I felt a hot, searing, excruciating pain, starting at the base of my abdomen, spreading throughout my body as if poison was flowing through my veins.

I screamed as the pain reached my lungs and made my breathing harsh and shallow. The pain agonizingly spread to my arms making me pull on the restrains in attempt to rid myself of the harmful substance.

I cried out and screamed in hope of my friends, anyone helping me. No one came though.

After what seemed like hours, the pain stopped and I fell to the floor panting and sweating.

"Seems like you survived the first test" The now sinister looking Kurai picked my up by my arms and handcuffed them.

"Maybe all the work it took to get you paid off" he glared into my eyes before dragging me across the room into the hallway where there was a white cell with bars.

Tossing me inside he called the doctor which looked at my with sympathy and regret.

"Make sure she's ready for tomorrow!" Kurai yelled at the doctor before storming off.

The doctor gave a curt nod before turning to face me.

After the pain I went though I didn't trust her. I slowly tried to sink into a little ball hoping that she wouldn't be able to see me.

"It's okay" She tried to stroke my hair, but I reacted and stared at her with a look of fear and hurt.

She moved back and I relaxed a little.

"Come and let me brush your hair. I don't want to hurt you, but help you. If you don't let me help you I'm afraid you might turn out like your friends" She looked downcast.

"I don't like it when you look sad" I croaked out. My voice hoarse from the screaming I had done.

She looked up at me and smiled.

I used the rest of my energy to smile back before slowly, cautiously crawling over and settling in her lap.

"I'm scared" I whispered, shutting my eyes in attempt to stop the small, salty tears from leaving my eyes.

"It's okay I'm here" The doctor gave me a kiss on the head before rocking me back and forth and singing a song.

"Can I call you mama?" I asked hesitantly.

She stiffened before answering. "Of course"

"Mama, can you brush my hair?" I asked, to which she obliged.

Mama, now I never had one. If I ever had one I dreamed that she would hold me, give me kisses, and brush my hair. Now that was how I imagined a mama.

Slowly I fell asleep, leaving the cursed world of hurt.

> 3 < -------------- meow hehe time skip to a month later =)

I woke up to a warm blanket draped around me.

"Mama?" I called, hoping that she would be around.

I heard some shuffling before I saw Mama with a tray of  food and some milk.

"It's almost time to go" She said before passing me the tray.

"To where?" I asked, not picking up what she was hinting.

"To the same place as yesterday" Mama said regretfully

I stopped chewing and slowly sunk back.

"Why Mama?" I questioned.

"I can't stop him. You said yes and now I can do nothing to stop him" She answered.

"You have to be strong." She wiped a stray tear that was rolling down my cheek.

"I will, for mama" I said looking straight into her eyes with a look of confidence.

"There's my little brave Lucy" She smiled.

I smiled back.

Ever since I had become a test subject life had gotten better except for those few hour a day when I was trapped in the cage.

I had learned the best way to fight the pain was to succumb to it. If you fought it, it pushed harder. If you let it take over, it just tickled and sometimes a few pricks here and there.

The first days were agonizing tortured which mama had made Kurai stop for the next day saying that if I didn't get rest then I would die of exhaustion.

After that I learned and slowly each time the pain dwindled.

Lately my chest had been hurting. Mama had been worrying, but I said it was nothing.

I sat in the chair and waited for the mechanical arm which I had decided to call Bob to come.

Bob came, but instead of the usual green liquid in the syringe, this one was blue.

The pain was tensfold the intensity of the first trial.

> 3 < ------------ more time skips hmmm 4 months =P

I figured out that every month the liquid changed color. The first was green, the second was blue, the next light blue, then grey, after that orange, then red.

I wondered what this month was going to be. I sat in the chair and greeted Bob when he came down.

Bob had vibrant yellow inside the syringe this time. And then the syringe was inserted.

I waited a few minutes and nothing happened. Nothing at all. I felt no pain. In fact I felt better than I had ever before.

The scientists that usually watched me when I was in the cage took of their glasses and stared at the monitor.

"IT WORKED!" One of the yelled.

"Took long enough" Another rejoiced.

"Into the tank she goes!" The last cheered.

My mind was racing. Why didn't it hurt? Why were the scientist happy? What was the tank!?

They unhooked me and started dragging me down the hall.

"CHOTTO MATTE!!" (wait a second) Mama screamed, trying to get past some guards.

"Mama! What's happening" I stared at her now realizing that something bad was about to happen.

"Her condition is unstable! Let her rest a few days before going in the tank! Once you put her in the tank there is nothing I can do. She might die!" Mama yelled.

"Mama, what do you mean die? I don't want to die!" I screamed.

"Hurry, get her in the tank." Kurai pushed me, running past towards Mama.

"Nooooo!" I screamed as the sliding metal doors shut tight behind me. The last image I saw was Kurai taking out a gun and a loud bang. Mama paused before her eyes rolled back into her head and she slumped on the floor. A bloody mess.

"MAMA!!" I screamed.

Suddenly I was put in what looked like a glass tube.

It was slowly being filled with the same vibrant yellow liquid they had injected in me only minutes ago.

I banged on the glass as the yellow liquid went up past my hips and when the liquid was high enough I started swimming to the top of the tube. When I reached the top I screamed before I was fully submerged in the substance and my vision slowly darkened.

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Hehe... sorry I was gone for sooo long =P... I was in Cali XD... but here I am with another chappie for THE ASYLUM .. ya... I was lazy and this is kind a bad chapter... I mean what the heck happened with the time skips and everything... well whatever

Next chapter is going to be an even longer time skip of about 5 years =P... maybe 6... ya six years... so lucy is 16 1/2 years old and whatever..,

I should go answer the 179 emails I have unanswered =.= you guys are amazing but at the same time are making me go crazy > 3 <

Thanks so much for reading peeps

~AWH >^.^<