A New Hope

Chapter 10

The searing pain of what felt like knives on fire running through my veins woke me up again. I have been restrained with silver chains in a small cage for days, maybe a week. I lost track of time constantly going in and out of consciousness.

I know we are headed to North America on a ship and assume more specifically America. The cold hearted crew all have American accents to go with their cruel nature.

No food or water, just injections of God knows what and the occasional freezing spray down, which is better then sitting in my own vomit and waste. So far I'm not sure what the injections are meant to do except give me a slow tortuous death.

The last injection made me projectile vomit blood for an hour straight. I thought the worst was over then my head felt like it was going to explode until my ear, eyes, and nose started bleeding. The full body convulsions started making my restraints cut into my skin, until I passed out from pain.

I'm not sure how many more injections I can take and the only thing thats kept me holding on is Gabriel. I've been having vivid dreams of him that I would almost believe to be real if there wasn't giant wolves. Sometimes I dream of him eating or drinking and I wake up, full and my thirst quenched. I must truly be going insane.

My captors seem to think there's something special about me, because they separated me from Alice and the others the first day, or at least the first day I remember, in the hell hole.

They have been experimenting on the others as well, I heard one of the crew laughing that twenty three were dead already and placing bets on how many more they would have to dump into the sea. I hope Alice wasn't one them.

The pain constantly coursing through my body was unbearable but I refused to show it or cry out. My captors would enjoy hearing the pain inflicted on me and the only thing I could do inspite of them was deny them that satisfaction.

"Good your not dead yet, your worth much more alive" a raspy voice said behind me.

"So do you just like taking it up the ass, or do you have to wear a strap on to even attempt to please anyone stupid enough to sleep with you?" I mocked the man behind me.

"Stupid b***h, I hope you live through this next shot, because I'm going to have a lot of fun with the next step" he spat as he stabbed another needle into my neck. "its been a walk in the park so far, you'll know true pain soon enough"

"The only painful thing so far has been dealing with an annoying little p***y like you. Like really is your d**k an inny that you have to chain and cage little ol me" I egged him on.

"Your f*****g mouth is going to make things much worse for you. See you in a few days if you live that long" he said leaving the room as I started to vomit blood again.

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"Alice my mommy's dead isn't she?" Anne asked me as I held her in my arms. I nodded my head and rocked her while she cried into my shoulder.

Anne was the only child any of us has seen locked up and think she was taken by mistake, because some or the heartless crew looked disgruntled by her presence.

We've been here for days now, nobody knows how many. All we know is we were all on vacation, felt a sting on our neck then woke up on this ship. They took all our belongs besides our clothes and separated us into cells. There's at least four cells with about fifteen each in them. Or there was fifteen in each.

The first injection they forced into us made everyone seize then pass out, I pretended to do the same so no one would know I was different. Whatever they gave us felt like fire going through my veins and made it almost impossible to contain my wolf.

Three died from the first injection and they left the dead in with us until the second injection knocked everyone out. I pretended to do the same and again I felt the fire run through my bloodstream and the fight for control over my wolf.

Anne's mom didn't wake up from the second round and when they took away her body, I cradled Anne close to me wanting to give her any comfort I could in the cold and hopeless cell.

"Everything hurts Alice, make it stop please make it stop!" Anne sobbed into me and desperately grabbed at me with abnormal strength.

"Shhh I got you, just hold on!" I cooed to her.

The other six that are left in our cell are moaning in pain and not very coherent. I can hear screams of agony from other cells and I pray that they got a different injection and Anne doesn't have to suffer more than she already has.

We haven't been given any food or water, we were all cold and traumatized... yet I somehow felt stronger than I ever have before. I wasn't even hungry or thirsty. I haven't slept since I first work up on this ship and it's been days, yet I didn't feel exhausted.

Could they trying to replicate werewolf venom or DNA? If they knew about werewolves they obviously didn't know I was one and I'd use that to my advantage when I had the right opportunity.

I have no idea how they would replicate our DNA, its not simply gathering our venom like you would a snake, or doing a blood transfusion. No one knows why some people can turn into a werewolf and why others die, our own scientists have been trying to figure that out since the first werewolf.

Am I turning into whatever kind of monster they're trying to create, or is whatever it is that makes me a werewolf feeding off of it?

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I woke up with a start again, the burning feeling was no longer in my veins but from my restraints. I looked down and it looked like where they cut into me was now soderized and I could smell my flesh burning. I shifted causing the chains to move up my wrist and soderize the raw cuts they weren't touching before. Were they torching the f*****g chains now?

I glanced around but I was still alone. They must have moved me while I slept because I was no longer in the cage. Same room, but now I was attached to chains attached to floor at four different points. We're they going to try to rip my body apart limb by limb?

At least they left me enough slack to sit uncomfortably on the cold steel floor. Everything in this small room was industrial steel and cold. Just four walls, a door, poor lighting, and me chained up in the middle.

I was surprised I was still alive with no idea how much time had passed since my last injection. After I was done vomiting blood and bleeding from every hole in my body, I passed out. I feel like I was out much longer than the previous times tho.

The steel door opened and my least favourite ass hole walked in carrying a bag, with two others behind him. One carrying a small table and the other a crowbar.

"Look whose finally awake, I've been patiently waiting eight days for you to wake up for this" he sneered at me.

I was out for eight days? How was I not dead. I thought it was impossible to go that long without food and water.

"Awe f**k face, did you plan a surprise party for me? Oh and the heated chains are new, how thoughtful" I mocked him.

"They didn't burn before?"

"Oh you forgot to plug them in? I'm sure you forget a lot of things with an IQ as low as yours" I laughed at him.

"Did nobody f*****g check if she was human or not?!" He turned and barked at the other two.

"She's clearly marked" one of the lackeys defended himself.

"And you didn't notice the silver didn't burn her you f*****g morons!"

"Well neither did you" the other lackey replied.

"f**k it, the fact that she is just a kinky human b***h stays between us"

"Wow you guys must be f*****g stupid if your just realizing now that I'm a human and not a chimp or whatever animal people experiment on. Like honestly no wonder nothings happening if your in charge of the experiments" I egged them on.

The three of them ignored me as they set up the table and tightened my chains forcing me to stand with my arms and legs out stretched.

"Hmm I think the first thing I'll do is fix that smart ass mouth of yours"

"Scared I'll hurt your feelings?" I got out before he punched me in the mouth with brass knuckles.

I felt my jaw shatter and could taste blood. I was so numbed by the constant pain that I didn't yell out in agony, I wouldn't give him the satisfaction.

"f**k you" the words were almost inaudible but he knew what I was trying to say.

"I told you that attitude was going to make things worse for you" he snarled at me punching me in the jaw again.

"p***y" I glared at him, earning me two more punches to the jaw causing me to sag against my chains.

"f*****g cunt, just wait to see what I got in store for you." He turned and grabbed what looked like skewers off the table.

With a sinister smile he slowly put them one by one under each finger nail on my left hand, making me wince in pain and pull against the chains. I didn't even notice the chains burning my skin anymore. I was just praying that I could pass out from the pain and dream of Gabriel again.

He grabbed pliers off the table next and pulled all five finger nails off my right hand again making me fight against the chains but doing my best not to cry or scream in pain.

The twisted bastard was loving every moment of this and my only hope was to limit my reactions and hope he got bored.

Next he pulled out a knife cutting and slashing me in different ways all over my body. After the first first fifteen minutes I just went completely numb and just glared at him with contempt as he mutilated my body. He just kept cutting. Some deep sticking the three inch blade straight inside me, others sliding it across my skin leaving twelve inch slashes.He cut off all of my clothes so he could even cut my breasts and my ass. He cut one of my n*****s off then finally put down the knife.

It looked like a bathed in blood. Every inch of my body was red and I was now standing in a pool of my own blood, somehow still conscious and alive despite the massive blood loss.

"Well that was disappointing, I was hoping for more of a show" he sighed as he stepped back to see the mess he made of me.

"f**k you, you f*****g p***y" I tried to say with my broken jaw.

"Ah see there's that attitude again, if I couldn't cut it out, maybe I can beat it out" He laughed as he picked up the crowbar.

He hit my knee shattering it making me hang from the chains around my wrists and frowned when I didn't even wince. My body had suffered enough that there was nothing he could do to me to cause a reaction other than death. That didn't stop him though, he continued to break my other leg and both arms before finishing on my ribs.

He passed the crowbar back to one of the other men and pulled out the skewers from under my finger nails as the other two packed up the bag and grabbed the table.

"Well that was fun, let's do this again sometime soon" he sneered at me as he loosened the chains, dropping me to the ground.

The three of them left and I glared at their backs as I sat slumped over in a pool of blood like an abandoned marionette. Unable to move, struggling to breathe while choking on my own blood.

When my body went numb during the torture, my mind was free to wander no longer restrained by my pained body and I focused only on Gabriel remember every detail to his face and body. His icy eyes, perfect smile and adorable dimples. I've been away from him longer than I have known him, but the bond we made somehow continued to grow.

Thinking of him brought a smile to my broken lips. I told him I was his and when he said he loved me, I said I felt the same, but as I sit here in this dying mutilated body I regret never saying the words.

"I love you Gabe" I whisper through my broken jaw.

I felt a huge wave of sorrow, fear, and hatred wash over me, but it wasn't my own... it was Gabriel's. What happened to him just now to cause him so much anguish?

"Be strong Gabe, I love you" I whispered hoping somehow my words would get to him.

My vision started going in and out, then I fell into darkness.