With this small freedom the ten year old Aziel made a friend. An eleven year old girl who went by the name Ashley. She was a outgoing girl who loved to talk, this trait was the thing that drew Aziel to her. The young boy was never found of words, they were never something that come easy to him so it was common that he used the same phrase or wording. It didn’t take long for Ashley to learn how he spoke and was able to translate certain things he spoke of to other people. The short visits made there friendship hard but neither of them cared. Despite all these the two were the best of friends and inseparable when they were together.

The joy Aziel would feel once he got back to the building didn’t last long. His sister and brother were always put straight back to work and testing, only allowed back to their shared room when they couldn’t take it anymore. When Aziel’s sister Ophelia would come to the room, she would just sit on the floor covering her ears. Callum would sit on a bed to sore to move to much. The two didn’t want to worry the others so they would still joke around as if everything was okay.

A year had passed before they used the serum again, taking Aziel’s other brother Rowan. This time was different the gift didn’t show up right away, the scientists didn’t seem worried though. Rowan said he had heard them say it was because this time the serum was linking to his DNA. This would have been true if Rowan didn’t feel the gift inside of him and it wasn’t ready to come out yet.

After six months they gave up on Rowan’s power ever coming and turned to Aziel. It was his twelfth birthday when they brought him to the serum. It was a huge tank with a glowing liquid that didn’t seem like it could choose a color. He was mesmerized by the look that he didn’t hear what they said, when the time came for him to answer he just nodded his head not wanting them to get angry at him. Even though he saw everything that happened to his siblings he never fought anyone when they put the serum in him. What he didn’t expect was the pain it brought, he didn’t want to move in fear of increasing it. It was a surprise to him as none of his siblings ever mentioned anything about it hurting and he didn’t know if it was because they wanted to protect him or there wasn’t any pain for them.

This lasted hours and he just sat there his eyes closed waiting for it to stop. When it finally came to an end he sat up, they took his vitals to see if anything was different. Nothing was, everything no was in place and nothing was out of the ordinary. The scientist seemed to be getting frustrated and he heard them talking about the two other kids and they still had a chance to get it right. This information chilled him, how many kids were there before him? How many would be after. What was there goal? When would they stop?

When Aziel got back to the room with his siblings Callum was play wrestling with Rowan clearly going very easy on him, Ophelia was quietly humming to herself. Since he was the one who got the serum none of them where tested, they all seemed excited to have had a break and they turned to Aziel when he came wanting to hear what happened. What they were told lessened their excitement as they realized none of them were put to work was because their younger brother was in so much pain they needed everyone there to try and stop it.

It was quiet for a while, no one was taken no one was let outside of the walls. The testing seemed to have stopped until Rowan spoke, he said his power was ready to come. No one spoke a word Ophelia and Callum looked at each other speaking with their eyes. Neither of them wanted him to go through the same tests they had to, and the chance that Aziel would get one soon it wasn’t something they wanted to risk. Callum had everyone sit and he took a breath, “I think we should try to get out of here and never come back”