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    ~Chapter 1~
    Loss

    The moment I awoke it was to darkness, something that I could appreciate as I rested, my heart thudding uncomfortably in my chest. Lilith… I thought and with a heart wrenching realization, she was gone. My life partner, my other half, had become prey. The very one I had promised to protect with my own life had fallen before my very eyes, and I had been helpless.

    A cold washed over my heart, and in the relentless darkness I felt the tears attempt to spill over my eyes but I held them back. A weird sensation came over my body and in the next moment I was standing before a tanned trainer, a hand leaning down to touch my face.

    “Hey there, how you feeling?” The voice queried and my response was to bite violently into the flesh.

    “Don’t. Come. Near. Me.” I growled softly but his eyes registered confusion as he calmly bound his hand, obviously not understanding my words.

    “There’s no reason to fear me, I saved you,” He said but with his uninjured hand pulled out two other pokemon, an aggron and an Absol. I bared my teeth and backed up, black fur bristling with hostility as the trainer unzipped his jacket to reveal a tight black shirt with a blood red R painted menacingly on the front.

    The R frightened me beyond words, and as I backed up I was stopped by a wall, which made me really feel the need to make a quick examination of my surroundings.

    I was in a dimly lit room with plain yet sturdy walls. The floor was made of hard packed dirt, but beyond the musty smell I caught the scent of cement, leading me to believe that the dirt was to calm a recently captured pokemon as myself. It did the complete opposite. My heart was thudding in my ears as my gaze went back to the leering pokemon, a smug air surrounding the two. The look of softness and worry was replaced on the trainer’s face with a cold smirk as the only door leading out of this place opened.

    “Zane, what have we here?” The falsely warm voice cooed. It belonged to a woman with long black hair and dark blue eyes, her body clad in tight leather, leaving little to the imagination. She was followed by two men in white lab coats splattered with blood, their eyes contained an interest once they spotted me, and the took a step forward, a syringe in hand which was all the weapon they seemed to need.

    “I found an umbreon as you requested, but his condition isn’t the best.” He replied with uncaring eyes. The woman waved off his words with a dismissive hand, her eyes ravaging my body. “He’ll be fine. After all, he’s only a test subject,” She said, and with those words the aggron moved towards me, thunderous footsteps shaking the ground.

    It all didn’t matter anymore, I couldn’t live without Lilith, she had been the only reason and now she was gone. With one massive hand he pinned my spine, holding me there and a pleased look overcame his masked features.

    “You’re smart. You know there’s no reason in fighting it” He said but I was no longer paying much attention. A flash of sparkling blue fur had caught my attention and as the scientist with the syringe moved to my side I saw it again.

    “Lilith?!” My heart seemed to elevate, my hopes revived. Maybe, just maybe, she had survived. The scientist withdrew as suddenly I began to thrash uncontrollably, a new fire set within my soul for the answer that I craved. I stirred up the dust, making the humans in the room cough and the aggron let out a warning growl. The absol took a protective stance over his trainer, though it was so obvious that he wished to stop the fuss I was making himself.

    My struggles were stopped short though as there was a loud crack and flaring of sudden pain. The woman had came over and kicked me square in the jaw, sending a shocking numb and then I realized what the numb was exactly. A small poke to my side alerted me that the needle had been embedded within my skin and the liquid administered.

    “Such sweet, calming, liquid…” She spoke softly, stroking my muzzle and at the same time digging her nails into the flesh. My eyes began to droop and as the dirt settled there was the flash of blue fur once more.

    “Li-Lilith” I stammered and with one weak struggle I tried to get up with no success, the aggron’s grip firm on my spine. He applied pressure, warning me as my lungs began to constrict not to move. All went black and the only thing I was aware of was being picked up in metal coated arms.

    Several hours later…

    The moment I tried to open my eyes I quickly shut them, shielding them from the bright light above. Cool metal allowed me to know I was on a table, and heavy chains kept me still.

    “Awake are we?” The voice hissed and my body stiffened in fear. Such confidence from earlier was replaced now with a massive amount of fear and a hope that I could die and I could die soon.

    “I’m going to do some… changes to your body. I can make this as painless,” She gently stroked my spine and despite myself I felt a small shiver of pleasure go through my body. “Or as excruciating,” There was a horrendous pain as she shoved a scalpel into my paw, one that set every nerve on fire as it ripped apart through the tendons. I gritted my teeth against the pain though, as much as it hurt, I was going to hide as much of it as I could. “As possible. Now, behave and go to asleep, and when you wake up everything will be much better”

    The too familiar stick of a needle made me wince, and then, finally, I was in the deepest sleep I had had in such a long time.

    ~End Chapter 1~