Experiment 59 (A five part story)

[rubyknight1]

Okay, other than my long chapter tale (which I am almost done with Chapter 2), I am going to do a five-part story. Please enjoy. It is a lot longer.

Part 1
A dark laboratory is our home, our pain is a daily task, merely a chore, for us. It is gloomy, not in liveable condition, yet we live here. We all wish we could escape, but when you are heavily tortured, all energy sapped from your body by the end of the day, it is not at all possible. It is literally a place you can be imprisoned your whole life without living a single minute in happiness. We know what pain is better than anyone.

If you ask who I am, I am Priscilla, the albino vaku. I was taken away from my hearth when I was an egg, and since the day I have been an adult vaku I have been mistreated by scientists. They say "We do it to progress and make life better", but how can it make life better when you are really making life a whole lot worse? I don't understand. None of us do. All we know of the outside world is what we view out of the tiny windows on the indecent lab's walls. Many of the dragons which have been inside this lab have become beserk, insane, even suicidal. I have managed to keep my sanity for a year now, but it has become harder and harder every waking moment.

The days are cruel - an unfilling meal which is not at all nutritious, water which is not as clean as one may think, and experiments which have warped, hurt and killed dragons. They give us names, based on numbers. I wait hastily for the time I can finally stand up, it's the only time I can in a cage not suited for a dragon, the back of the cage squashing my tail.
"59, out you come, time for you." a big burly guard yells. It's my queue to finally leave this cage. It is the only time I can actually leave my cage and relax, though this ends quickly as soon as I get to where they do their excessive experiments. After a few painful injections and a few hard to swallow tablets, they test the many effects. I watch my bretheren going through the same process. Regardless of what happens, it is painful to watch. After this they put us back in our cages, where we painfully try to rest again, already knowing that the next day will never be any better.

That was until that fateful day.... the day that I changed. The day that we were redeemed as dragons. The say we rekindled the hopes of justice and freedom was seen, and hope was in every dragon's eyes.

[Luna]

ooh, this is pretty good so far, Ruby~

[rubyknight1]

Thanks, and with that, I bring you Part 2!

Part 2
Christmas Day approached finally, the day we'd all looked forward to. On this day, no experiments were performed, we were given actual meat (though low quality) and if you were lucky, you'd be one of the few which actually gets to see the outside. It seems today I was the lucky one.
I heard them call out, "58, 59, 60, 61, 62.... it's your lucky day."

Though we were allowed outside, there was the strictest rules ever to this priority. Two hours, a tracking chip implemented into your collar would make sure they could always find you once the time was up. You lose that chip, they will use state of the art technowlegy to track you down, hunt you, and may even kill you. They'd believe you would have attempted to escape... and that would not at all be good for them.

I walked outside with a forest orpolvor, a blue vaku, a shadow tak and an air kolit. It had been my first time outside, so I was mildly afraid. As the tracking chips were implemented, we ran into the forest.
"Okay, let's ditch these chips." The air kolit, Iiru, said. It brushed the chip off. The others smashed, deactivated and swatted theirs off.
"What about you little 59? Are you going to waste this time doing as they say?" the blue vaku Azura said, "This is a chance!"
"... I have no idea." I said, "I don't want to get into trouble... and my name is Priscilla, please learn it."
"But 59 will always be your name unless you come to freedom." the shadow tak Shade said.
"I'd rather not take my chances." I said.
"Oh well, bye 59." Iiru said, then they left as a group, and I went to see the world. Little did I know that my chip fell off as soon as I walked off.

I ran into the forest surrounding me, so thrilled to have escaped the clutches of my masters. But soon I had realized it was night, and they hadn't found me. I checked my collar.

Oh no.

I had lost it. Now they are hunting for me. Though freedom was so sweet I was now running for my life.

[Luna]

Poor Priscilla XD

[rubyknight1]

Yeah....

Without further ado, I give part 3!

Part 3
I heard a shotgun from afar, with a dragon roaring in pain. I identified the roar to be Iiru's, and that whoever shot him was probably the scientists. I shuddered to think of what could happen if I was caught. I ran towards a tall mountain as I heard more shots being fired off in the distance. I heard the roars of pain from the dragons who had aimed to be free, yet I never really wanted to acheive it and I am possibly the last to survive. As I ran, my collar had slipped off onto a branch which I had brushed past.

My only choice was to run away undetected. If I could fly, it would be too dangerous, and I don't know if I could, being locked up for my entire life. If I confronted them, I'd indefinitely be the loser. All I knew I could do, is run. And fast. I ran into a nearby cave for shelter, and that's where I saw a vaku that looked just like me, an albino vaku that was near death. She had been injured and needed food and water drastically. For the good of my kin, I gave her a few berries I'd found and water I'd collected from a nearby river. She had smiled happily at me for doing so. We chat about our lives, and I told her my name, though she did not tell me hers. But as I heard people coming closer, I'd fled, to both keep myself alive and her safe.

Unfortunately I was weary, I mean, I didn't know I'd run for my life today. I collapsed. But luck was on my side....

I awoke, alive. I was in a cave, where a community of vaku were. A small community, but still a community.
"Get up Sara." a young green night vaku said.
"Huh?" I said, then wondered to myself, "Who's Sara?"
"Sara, we're so glad you're okay. It's me, Emerald, you know, your cousin? When you went out today we were very scared, I mean, you're a lot weaker than us." Emerald said.
I remembered the albino vaku who was injured and then played along. If I was found to be not her and a stranger, they'd probably kick me out.
"It was tough out there...." I said.
"Sara! I'm so glad you're alive! We've got briliant news!" A male blue night vaku yelled.
"Cian! Glad to see you here!" Emerald yelled.
"What's the news?" I asked.
"Shade and Shadowbell have a new addition to their family!" Cian said, "But not any ordinary vaku - a storm dragon!"
My eyes widened. The birth of a storm dragon through a vaku family was more rare than getting meat in the lab.
"We're all celebrating! You should come and do the same!" Cian yelled.
"Okay, I'd like that." I smiled, saying so. In an instant I had made friends! Cian and Emerald pulled me up and all night my friends and I celebrated all night with the population. Nobody suspected a thing that I was not Sara, but a vaku from the lab.

Even though I had been decieving them, I was happy. I wished it would never end....

But all good things must come to an end.

[MagpieBird777]

Ooooh... The plot thickens...

[rubyknight1]

Yeah I'm glad everyone likes it. Part 4 is going up soon.

[MagpieBird777]

Cool!

[rubyknight1]

Just about done.... just gotta put Chapter 2 of What the future shall bring up as well.

[MagpieBird777]

Yay, can't wait!

[rubyknight1]

Part 4 Underway!

Part 4
Though a day later people started to notice I wasn't Sara, saying I've changed, they found it more positive and accepted me as Sara instead of the original. All except Emerald, but as a supposed relative, she still pretended to love me. Cian and I got along well, joking around and playing together usually with Emerald and some other new-found friends. Most of them actually started noticing and joked around, teasing every now and then. At night I found the comfort of a family, staying in Emerald's house with her mother and father.

I found it somforting to be around new friends, ones which supported my ideas instead of ignoring or pressuring to take another idea. I started to feel as if I really was Sara and forgot gradually about the lab. But those memories would never truly fade away, as pain never does.

But then a week later, as Cian, Emerald and I were playing out in the field, we saw the sillouette of a dragon. When it became clearer we saw it was the real Sara, all healed. She stared at me, full of rage and betrayal.
"Who would you be?" Cian asked to Sara.
"I'm the real Sara, unlike that impersonator!" she yelled.
Emerald and Cian looked towards where I was, but I had run as soon as she started her sentence. It was all a mistake, I would have told them, but they respected me.... admired me... now they know I was lying. I was so scared. I was running from my own race now.
I came to the cave that Sara and I had met in, then lay down in sorrow.

For an hour I lay in that cave in shame, then I heard a rustle from outside. Then the roar of a dragon.
"Whoever you are.... please, come out. I won't be angry." the dragon said. I knew them, it was Korriette, a red vaku from the nearby community - the one I was once part of.
"Korriette.... leave me alone." I said, silent.
"First, tell me who you are." she said.
"Didn't Sara tell you?" I said, then thought, "I'm an impersonator."
"I can see you don't want me around...." he said, then flicked his tail and walked away.

After the long night I felt shameful of not telling anyone who I really was, I could have been accepted perfectly. I heard another dragon come.
"Uh.... albino vaku?" he said. This time it was Cian, the vaku who trusted me the most. I summoned up the strength to finally tell the truth.
"What'd you like to know?" I asked him.
He crawled into the cave and said, "Tell me who you really are. I won't be upset."
"Okay, I'll tell you. Just because I can trust you." I said, "My name is Priscilla, or more commonly known as 59. I was kidnapped from my nest and taken to a horrible lab when I was still an egg. II have no idea about my relatives or my home, I had cruel experiments done on my after I matured."
"So.... you wanted to escape, right?" he said, tilting his head.
"Yes.... well, not really. I'm now on the run from the scientists. They'll kill me if I'm found. My tracking chip fell off when I was let out, that's why." I said, looking down.
".... I can understand. And you crossed paths with Sara, and then soon ended up pretending to be her to finally have the life you'd hoped for since the day you hatched." Cian said, and then smiled.
"You.... do?" I said, then felt ashamed, "I'm sorry for not telling anyone, I was just afraid."
"Don't be afraid of being yourself." He said, then smiled.
I felt a lot braver and said, "....okay. Thankyou."

[MagpieBird777]

The moral of the story:
Anybody named Sara is nothing but trouble.

(NOOFFENSETOANYBODYNAMEDSARAIJUSTHAVEN'THADMANYPOSITIVEEXPERIENCESWITHPEOPLENAMEDSARADON'TKILLME)

[rubyknight1]

Lol that's funny....

Moral: Anybody named Sara is nothing but trouble... unless they're an imposter.

I may extend it to a 7-part story, I have sooooo much to write.

UPDATE: It will be a 7-part story!