[hr][center][h1][color=007272]Noelle "Benji" Aether[/color] & [color=8dc73f]Naeemah "Viper" Meskhenet[/color] & [color=blue]Dante "Stalker" Foster[/color] [/h1] by [@omerta], [@13org], and [@omerta] 
[hr][sub]Ft. Edgar E. Eisley by[/sub] [@beyond visions][/center][hr]

[indent]Naeemah had a terrible morning. For some reason, she was shedding her skin once every two days. What it should be a painless process was extremely extenuating, painful and tiring. To top it off, they were making her take a pill every morning. They said it had something to do with her blood or something like that, but it didn't matter how much Naeemah asked, they never gave her any information about it. That thing had a [i]terrible[/i] taste...

That day, more than the others, she was in a horrible mood. Todd also wasn't there to cheer her up, so she had a dangerous expression in her face, her eyes seemed to pierce those who looked at her. She had refused to train that morning. Those who went to her room to call her, were quickly greeted with a threatening, loud hiss and rattle.
Her usual stealth and ambush training could wait. She was by no means in the mood to keep striking moving dummy targets and sinking her fangs on that synthetic material, which had a horrible taste, making her brush her teeth after she was finished with her training, or risking having that plastic taste on her mouth the rest of the day.

Finally going out of her room, after spending the entire morning there, she went to eat something. She was specially hungry after shedding her skin. She needed to eat something. Taking a quick bath to take of the rest of the dead skin from her body, washing herself, and taking care of her appearance, she went outside. As she was told so, Todd wasn't there (otherwise she wouldn't be that irritated right now), but the other one who wasn't there was Clyde. That was indeed strange, but they could be training or maybe doing a medical checkup, which were being even more frequent those days...

Arriving at the mess hall, Naeemah grabbed something for her to eat.
Since the day she became a hybrid, she started wanting to eat meat even more. The breakfast, although it wasn't entirely composed of meat, it wasn't that bad.
With a big yawn, flexing her fangs inside of her mouth, she sat down, but the moment she would start to eat, Eisley came into the mess hall.

[color=8dc73f]"What is [i]he[/i] doing here?"[/color] she asked herself. 

Something was off.
When he started talking, Naeemah became paralyzed. With only a few words, her world was simply shattered, completely broken.

[color=DA70D6]"Based on animal testing, the injection was thought to be safe... However, now with human subjects, the serum has developed rapid carcinogenic and fatal qualities. And..."[/color] he spoke. Eisley was sweating, apparently afraid or troubled. But the way that the words got out of his mouth... so [i]easily[/i].... 

Naeemah would never be a mother. Her plans to start a family with Todd, living with him somewhere nice and quiet, her research as a biologist, they were all shattered, crumbling down under the heavy weight of Eisley's words. She simply couldn't think about anything. Her mind went blank. Everything else Eisley was saying was unimportant...
Except for one thing.

[color=DA70D6]"... Clyde Aether is dead..."[/color] she heard him saying.

He said something about him dying while he was sleeping... So that's why he wasn't there that morning...
Dead... That word was still echoing in Naeemah's head. Death, the unavoidable fate that they were all doomed to have. Soon enough, all of them would be dead as well, because of [i]him[/i]... Because of [i]his[/i] mistake....

[color=8dc73f]"Todd needs... to know about this..."[/color] she said in a monotone voice.
But the second his name got out of her mouth, she realized something.


Clyde was not there that morning because he died... That meant that Todd was also dead?


[color=007272]"What do you mean Clyde's dead?!?!"[/color] Noelle screamed, interrupting Naeemah thoughts. When she looked to Noelle, her hands were already around Eisley's throat. She was crying, blind with rage.

[color=DA70D6]"I-I-I--[i]I'm[/i]"[/color]
[color=DA70D6]"... [i]sorry![/i]"[/color]
Eisley said, gasping desperately for air.

With a loud hiss, Naeemah darted towards Noelle, coiling her tail around her, immobilizing her.
The only sounds in the mess hall now were a loud, threatening his and the rattle of her tail.

[color=8dc73f]"Eiseley, where is Todd?"[/color] she asked, in a menacingly low tone.
[color=8dc73f]"Get out of this room, and bring Todd here RIGHT NOW."[/color] she said, trembling with rage.
[color=8dc73f]"Do not show your face to me again."[/color] she said, her forked tongue getting in and out of her mouth as she looked to him with piercing eyes, still hissing and her tail still rattling, an obvious giveaway that he should get out of there as soon as possible.
[color=8dc73f]"GO AWAY!"[/color] she screamed, with her eyes wide open.

[color=007272]"No!"[/color] Noelle's struggling was futile; Naeemah was much larger than her and had quite literally trapped her. [color=007272]"Let go of me, I'm going to kill him!"[/color] The words were meant to be malevolent but the sobs now wracking her body conveyed otherwise. Noelle was dead serious about Eisley, she'd never killed anyone before despite the practices taught in training but right now she wanted nothing more than to have Clyde back. Obviously that wasn't going to happen so she was aiming for the next best thing -to end the man who'd caused this to happen. He needed to pay for what he'd done. [color=007272]"Naeemah, let go of me!"[/color] she literally growled, the feral sound escaping from the depths of her chest as she continued to fight in the other hybrid's grasp.

An exit for Eisley did not exist, the doors were magnetically sealed shut. He was trapped, because there was no chance in hell that Cane would order those doors to be opened. To the Captain, the mutants were now animals. No, worse than animals, they were monsters. But at least, before he dies, he could leave Naeemah with hope. [color=DA70D6]"T-Todd! You You-- want to know what h-happened to T-Todd! Naeemah, he's--"[/color] 

Dante was already observing everything from the corner of the room, remaining quiet and motionless like he was getting ready to pounce. Refusing to touch the tray of garbage he had received. He stood up abruptly and sauntered toward the ongoing incident, staring at this wretched individual cowering for his life. Wasting no time and cutting him off mid-sentence, Dante violently speared Eisley through the back of the head with his tail, coming out of his mouth. Slicing through it like butter, recoiling his tail back while his head burst and blood erupts like the skull was hit point blank with a sawed off. 

Seconds after Dante's tail exited Eisley's now lifeless corpse, a siren wailed all through the entire facility as alarm lights flashed red. It was obvious, the place was now put under lockdown. 

Dante smiled the very next moment, staring at the two other hybrids. 

[color=blue]"Please, let her go. Don't fight each other over such a worthless excrement. A knight will not sit back and watch such unnecessary violence."[/color] Dante pleaded in a calm and pleasant tone.

[color=007272]"Naeemah, let go of me!"[/color] Noelle growled, unsuccesfully.
Naeemah continued looking to Eiseley, her eyes burning with anger.
As much as she wanted to kill him, just killing him would be too easy... She wanted to make him feel exactly what she was feeling. She wanted to crush his future, to destroy all his dreams and hopes, to watch as he was left without a purpose to keep living.
Todd... he wasn't dead, was he? That thought clawed on the back of her mind.

Before the administrator could answer, Eiseley's head burst in blood, as something pierced the back of his skull. Naeemah was left speechless... What was he going to say? Was Todd really dead? The only one she loved... was he DEAD?!

[color=8dc73f]"...You..."[/color] Naeemah whispered to Dante, too angry to be able to scream.
[color=8dc73f]"Unnecessary violence..."[/color] she said, slowly loosing her grasp on Noelle, letting her go.
[color=8dc73f]"Who do you think you are?"[/color] she asked, quite literally trembling with rage.
Her tail began to rattle rapidly once more. Hissing loudly, she opened her mouth, her fangs dripping with poison. Things were blowing out of proportion really, really quickly. That was a clear sign for Dante to back off.

Noelle stopped fussing the second Eisley was dead. Now that Naeemah had finally released her, she dropped to the floor without any effort to catch herself. She fell with a thud. [color=007272]"Oh my god, Clyde..."[/color] A whimper. The hybrid pulled her knees up to her chest and hugged them tightly, tunning out the rest of the world as she simply sat on the floor. Much like a child. Noelle didn't notice the blood staining her face and clothes, nor the sirens blaring, nor the commotion occuring right above her head as Dante and Naeemah conversed. Clyde was dead and that's all she could think of. 

[color=blue] "I'm sorry that you had to see such a gruesome sight." [/color] Dante replied coldly, not even able to muster up the false sincerity he was used to masking his voice with. He simply took some steps backward, giving both of them a little distance and preparing to act if required. His tail casually swaying behind his head, he raised his claws in a stopping motion.
[color=blue] "I didn't need to hear another word spewing out his mouth, knights rule number eighty seven, Listen to what people don't say, if you want to get to the truth." [/color] Dante continued sounding completely confident in his words. 
[color=blue] "Todd, is very likely still alive."[/color] 

That was the only thing that Naeemah needed to know that moment. She didn't cared about Dante's insincere words, his twisted "knightly rules"... Even her hate towards him disappeared for the moment.

[color=blue]"Eisley wouldn't have even started speaking otherwise, but he also probably didn't know where he was, since he didn't just say it right off the bat. Your anger toward me isn't needed." [/color] Dante explained. 
[color=blue] "The one in charge clearly already wanted him dead. This place is likely sealed off and impossible for humans like him to escape. So he wouldn't have been capable of leading you to him regardless." [/color]

Immediately stopping hissing and threatening him, she ran to the door, knocking on his as strong as she could.
[color=8dc73f]"Please, let me out!"[/color] she said, ignoring what Dante said about the place being sealed.
[color=8dc73f]"I... I just want to be together with him... We will die anyways... I just want to spend my last days together with the one I love..."[/color] Naeemah said, falling on the ground, crying.
[color=8dc73f]"Its... not asking much..."[/color] she said, slowly breathing in and out, trying to calm herself down.[/indent]