Cyrus Noble Chapter 12

When we we finally paused we were standing in front of a set of doors. The doors opened to reveal a room with a set of benches on each side. On the opposite side were two pieces of a wall on each side, and there was a glowing, see-through wall. Jazz later explained that they were using cold plasma generators to generate a resilient force shield. Cool. What I saw through the shield was something else. I saw a long hallway, and at the end of it, it opened to a huge arena and at the moment someone was getting slaughtered by an android. They pushed Viktor and me in and closed the doors. I lunged for the doors. "NO!" I was too late. The doors closed on me, I could still see there faces. I turned to Viktor. He had a quizzical look on his face. "What're you freaking out over? There's a hallway right there." He moved towards the energy gate, oblivious to what he might be walking into. I grabbed him by the shoulder and said, "What are you, stupid? There's an energy.......watchamacallit right there!" He tilted his head, listening for a moment. He responded, "Is that what that humming is?" He experimentally touched the gate and it zapped him. He sucked in his breath and bit his lip; to keep from cursing I'm sure. He turned to me. "Really hurts." I responded. "Yeah." He went to a bench and sat down. I looked over to the other bench and jumped a little at what I saw. It was another dude, another experiment. He was looking at us with curious, fearful eyes. I said, "Hey. You come here often?" He gave me a questioning look, which then turned serious. He muttered, "We are about to die." I gave a quick glance to Viktor. "Why is that?" I asked. He looked up at me. "This is where they execute the failures. Either you kill or get killed. I got here a little while ago. Now its only a matter of time." He put his head back down and stayed quiet. Conversation over. I looked to the sides of the room. I can see small rectangular windows that led to other cages like ours. I looked through the one that was next to Viktor. It had an energy wall in it just like the main wall of our cage. What was inside didn't like me. It snarled and tackled the window, causing me to jump back a little. It had very slick black skin, it's eyes were yellow like a cobra's, its face was similar to a wolf's, but with huge snake-like fangs. I heard the other guy behind me say, "Viper-wolf. I think they were doing something with dogs and snakes." I looked at the other window and said, "Do I even want to know what's in there?" He looked at the window I pointed to. He shook his head. I heard a tiny voice cry out. "CYRUS!" I looked at the window to see Sara getting her face as close to the shield as she can without touching it. I said, "You okay kiddo?" She nodded, which she couldn't do much with that collar on her. I could see Magnet right behind her. Sara said, "Cyrus. I'm scared." I said, "I know. I'll.....I'll get us out of here. I promise." I wasn't sure how I was going to do that, with these collars on us. I said, "Mag. Is there any way you can bend the metal to get out of here?" He lowered his head so that now I was looking at the goggles that rested on his head. He said, "I tried. The collar. It just......" I nodded. "It's okay bud. Just hang tight for right now, aight?" He smiled a little but then he looked down again. Great. Nice speech, Cy. Just hang tight? What are you thinking? Sara says to me, "It's okay Cyrus. You'll find us a way out. I know you will." My heart was falling apart at her bravery. Then it was consumed with fear as I saw something moving behind both of them.