Chapter 27: 12th Gem (3).

Warning: These Chapters will or may contain depictions of violence, strong language and other mature content that may not be suitable for some readers.

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In the darkness of his own body, a man lies unconscious.

He slumbers sound a sleep against his own will. But then he is awaken urgently.

*Smack*

A light, but cleanly continued punch lands on the side of his face. His eyes which are closed then twitch open slowly.

In a weak, but aggressive voice, he ask in great hast and fear, "W-where the hell am I?!"

A woman them goes to answer his question, "Calm down, buddy. Your in the bosses office."

"Huh?" He enquired. "Why am I here?"

He was once again tied on to a chair, but this time more luxurious and comfortable.

It was a seat with rich brown wood and a soft cushion to sit on. The only thing that was uncomfortable was to rope bounding him to the seat only.

The place was in was small, but oblivious high class. Paints decorated the walls and the carpet was a pale brown. Infront of him was a brown desk with the same chair he was sitting on behind it.

*Open*

The door behind the man which he couldn't see because of his position opened.

A man answered his second question as he entered, "To see me."

It was Kuwobasa; once again in his long white coat.

He walked behind his desk and took a seat. He laid his left foot on top of the other. He looked might serious as he clutched his hands together and laid his chin on top of his knuckles.

Kuwobasa peered into the man soul, whom was infront of him. He then relaxed his body and leaned back in his chair.

The man also relaxed himself because he had escaped from Kuwobasa glare.

"Leave us," Kuwobasa demanded to his guard. "I want room to ourselves."

The lady nodded and leaved.

Kuwobasa then took up a pill of papers from his desk. He stared at them for awhile, before saying aloud, "Sakiyo Hussain. You don't seem Asian to me."

Hussain stared down Kuwobasa after he had said his name.

Hussain inquired, "My dad was Asian and my is American. I think you can figure out the rest."

"Hmph," Kuwobasa then took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and a lighter from his top pocket. He took out a signal cigarettes from the pack and lit it, putting everything else in his right pocket.

*Gasp*

*Blow*

Kuwobasa then inhaled the smoke and then blowed it out at Hussain's face.

Hussain stared blankly at the man.

"I think you already know what I want?" Kuwobasa enquired; pushing his chair up more closer to his desk.

Hussain continued to stare blankly at Kuwobasa, and Kuwobasa stared.

A brief moment pass before Kuwobasa said, "Hmm, I don't seem to know what your talking about."

Kuwobasa then blowed the smoke out his mouth before saying, "Don't play foolish. Besides what do you gain from holding this information from me?"

Hussain answered simply, "My loyalty."

Kuwobasa then pandered from a couple of seconds, then he started to chuckle softly, "Hahaha. Loyalty?"

"Yes," said Hussain, "my loyalty."

"Your loyalty is going to waste," said Kuwobasa looking Hussain dead in his eyes. "Your loyalty could be spend on something more... profitable."

"What profit would I gain by serving anyone in this chaos world?" Hussain inquired.

"That's a question you should wonder about, Hussain. What will you gain by serving the government and the rest of the politicians that left us and probably fucking their wives in a underground bunker or something?" Kuwobasa said.

He then grit his teeth. Kuwobasa walked towards the curtains on the walls of his office and said, "Choose your companies wisely."

He then opened the curtains. Outside was still dark; nothing to be seen except darkness.

"You weren't out for long. Only for a fifteen (15) minutes."

"The night is long. I think I know how to use it." Kuwobasa stated.

A small pour of sweat settled on Hussain's forehead as he asked in a shaking voice, "W-what do y-you mean?"

Kuwobasa turned around to face Hussain. He then glanced at the door and called, "Maki! Call Jeneve!"

From outside, faint voice answered, "Yes, sir!"

Hussain was suspicious. He wondering why he ordered one of his subordinate to call another, and what were they going to do to him?

"What are you going to doing to me?" Hussain inquired wearily.

"Hmm, simply," Kuwobasa continued, "I'm going get the information needed from you."

"Argh!" After Hussain groaned in fury the door opened to the room.

*Open*

"Take him away." Kuwobasa ordered.

*Stab*

The needle of the syringe was injected into the neck of Hussain.

"Eek!" He groaned.

He then felt dizzy. He head started to spin, forcing to close his eyes.

When he closed his eyes, he then felt sleepy. He then once again fell unconscious.

Kuwobasa then looked at Maki and said in an Korean language and accent, "마키. 그의 고통을 돌봐주세요. (Maki. take care of his suffering.)"

Maki answered  and with a small bow of respect, "알겠습니다. (Yes, sir.)"

Maki then whispered something into Jeneve's ear. Soon they proceed to escort the Hussain out of the room with the chair still attached to him.

Kuwobasa then took a sit on his chair, still smoking to relax his stress.

"Why am I feeling stressed all of a sudden? I didn't feel this way while talking to Hussain. Am I worried?" He asked himself.

"아마도 그렇지 않을 것입니다. (Probably not.)"

"(The effects of the drug probably will wear out on twelve (12) minutes," He told himself in his mind. "Since, everytime someone gets a dose of the drug, their immune system resists the affects of much as possible from the last time.)"

*Blow*

"Hopefully Hussain gives me what I need soon."

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".. Huh?" Ken opens his eyes to only to see a bright, blinding white light stare back at him. His eyes start to feel a bearable pain.

His eyes were normal inactive as well as his body. He was weak and lazy at the moment, and kind of sleepy as well.

"What is this?" He inquired.

Ezil answered, "It's the sun, you fool. Have you lost the understand of your world?"

The sun?" Ken said in confusion. "But, why doesn't it feel as painful as before?"

"Hmm..? (That's a question that I can't answer. Actually how did he get that much resistance from the light rays from the sun?) Don't ask me." Ezil said abruptly.

"You took an awfully long pause there. We're you think about something?" Ken asked now moving his eyes away from the sun. "Right, if you can hear me think, I can hear you think, so you probably just paused for some other reason."

"Hmph," Ezil scoffed.

Ken then took a stance. He looked at his clothing which was now stained in green blood from last night.

He bent his neck and lift up the stained part of his shirt to take in a little scent of his clothes.

*Sniff*

"Ugh, yuck. Disgusting." He responded.

"Let's get myself some new clothes."

He walked towards the exit of the building which was the staircase downwards.

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Back again in a room eclipsed by darkness. The only lively thing was the groans and slashes of water suddenly, then abruptly disappear.

In the room was Hussain being tormented by two thug-like men. Tattoos were printed on every part of their revealed skin, making them look threatening without weapons.

In the middle of the room was a enormous pool with water in it. At the button of the pool was Hussain, who was bound to a chair with metal cuffed on his arms and legs that were attached to the chair.

He was losing oxygen from his lungs every second at a rapid rate. On the foot of the chair was a hook which was penetrated though the top of the chair.

In a couple of minutes Hussain was pulled back up from the merciless body of water by the hook which was apart of a elevating machine.

One of the men were standing behind it while just keep his hand on a button.

Once he was out the water, he lifted his hands off the button. The other one asked mockingly, "Have you give in yet?"

Hussain stayed silent at his enquiry.

"*Sigh* Dump him in the pool again." The man said with an annoyed tone.

The man at the machine then pushed a button which hastily lowered Hussain in the pool.

*Slash!*

"How long are we going to be here?" The man at the machine asked. "His not going to say anything until he finally drowns."

"Simple, we let him drown," The thug said while walking around the edges of the pool; forward and backward. "Kuwobasa can't blame us for his stubbornness."

"That's true. I didn't know that army guys could be this stubborn. I only got three (3) hours of sleep today." The guy at the machine complained.

Suddenly a knock was heard at the door.

*Knock, Knock, Knock*

"Who is it?!" The guy at the machine asked.

The person answered, "Maki."

"Go open the door." The guy at the machine said.

The other man went to open to the door, but he suddenly stopped and warned, "Take him out of the pool. We don't actually want to him to die."

"Yeah, yeah, right! Just open the door." The man commanded.

The man opened the door. He peered outside to see Maki and Kuwobasa.

"Uh, sir?" The guy stuttered.

"Open the door." Maki instructed.

"Um, yeah, sure, of course." He then hastily opened the door fully.

The tow walked in calmly.

Maki inquired, "What's the matter with you guys and the lights? There always of!"

"Um, because..," The scratch the back of his head to think. "Cause fits the theme..."

Maki glared at him in awe and then demand, "Turn on the god darn lights. You guys got bulbs in your eyes?"

The man turned on the lights as he was instructed.

The room was now fully visible.

"So, what brings you two here?" The guy asked.

"What do you think, Zach?" Kuwobasa asked. "I came here to check on the the process."

"Well about that..," Zach began. "We haven't gotten anything out of him, excepts groans and moans and other noises."

"What were you doing to him?" Maki inquired. "Fucking him?" She then put on a grin as she said that.

"..." Zach stayed quiet at her inquiry.

"Stop with the jokes. Hussain is too stubborn," Kuwobasa said.

"*Whispers* A way to stated the obvious." The guy at the machine said.

Kuwobasa then continued, "I'll the room for myself. By the way, how long has Hussain been under the water?"

"Hmm? Uh, shit!!" The guy at the machine then hastily pushed the button, making Hussain elevate upwards.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit..." He continued with a quick succession.

Hussain emerged from under the water. He was oblivious drenched in water, but the miserableness was easy to see.

"Ugh." He groaned, proving that he was still alive.

"Phew!" The guy sighed with relief.

A hand was the placed on his shoulder. He turned his around slowly to see Kuwobasa glaring at him.

"Get out." He said with a dark and rough voice, which gave chills to the guy. "All of you!"

"I just got here." Maki argued in a teasing attitude.

Kuwobasa then glared at here intensely, warning her to leaving by only using his eyes.

"Alright." She said, shrugging her arms.

The three leave just as they were commanded.

Kuwobasa the turned his attention to Hussain who was floating above the pool.

"Did you like you torture?" He asked.

Hussain grit his teeth and said in fury, "Not as much as when I get my hands on you!"

"Is that so?" Kuwobasa inquired. "Why do you keep this information from me?"

"..." Hussain stayed silent.

"All this meaningless conflict wouldn't be happening if you just told me all I needed to know." Kuwobasa stated.

"I can't.." Hussain said in a weak and defeated voice. "Besides, this wouldn't be happening if you leave the thing alone to begin with!"

"Well it already reached this point in time, so you're the one to blame," Kuwobasa said. "You that I remembered that I meet your father once at the hospital."

"Huh?" Hussain inquired.

"Yes. It was only one time," began Kuwobasa. "It was when I was just a rookie. When we meet, only thing I can remember what he told was something that lifted my spirit."

"I was in doubt of being a doctor, cause I was in battle with myself. One side of me wanted to be a doctor while the other wanted to be a scientist." He said. "When I told this to your father at the time, he said that I should pick the most righteous one. The one that would save the must lives."

Hussain stayed quiet to hear Kuwobasa story about his father. He was immersed in his world, picturing everything single thing that he said.

"I think you already know how that went. I stayed a doctor for six (6) years than I moved on to biotech." Kuwobasa continued. "When I started biotech, the first I was ordered to do was not so simple. To make plants just like humans."

"Hmph?" Hussain inquired. He was now fully interested in Kuwobasa story now.

"Yes. I was apart of the contribution that led to the catastrophe of my own world," Kuwobasa revealed. "I didn't know what I was getting myself into at the time. I started to feel the stress of being a scientist and the stress of being a pawn. The higher-ups rushed our work as much as possible; forcing us to finish in a few years."

"I knew that we couldn't finish in that much time. I wanted to quit," Kuwobasa stated. "But I didn't. Apart of me was curious about how this would turn out, so I went on with there rushed work. And so, rushed work become all this shit."

"The reason I need this information from you is to fix the shit that was contributing towards. It may take days, weeks, months, years, but at least I had contributed towards something to a brighter future for our descendants," said Kuwobasa. "So, are you going to give me what I need?"

"..." Hussain hesitated a bit. He touched by Kuwobasa reasons, but his reasons was at war with Kuwobasa's.

"But..., my honour?" Hussain stated.

*Clutch*

Kuwobasa clutched his hands tight hearing Hussain's reason. He said, "Oh my god! That's all it's about, honour?!"

"No one gives a fuck about your pride! No one!" Kuwobasa argued. "Not even the person that you're holding it for!"

"*Whispers* Shit." Hussain slowly whispered.

"Your last cause! Zach, and Antonio; get back in here!" Kuwobasa demanded.

The door opened to the room. Zach and Antonio walked inside, while Maki waited outside.

"Why can't I come in?" She asked the two men that walked in.

"I don't give a hell!" Antonio bursted into anger. He was tired of Maki's nagging from behind the door.

"Hmph?!" She scoffed.

Kuwobasa started to walk away, when Hussain shouted, "Wait!"

Kuwobasa then stopped and asked, "What the hell do you want!"

"I'll give you want you need..., Kuwobasa." Hussain answered.

Kuwobasa turned around and said calmly in relief, "Finally."

"Huh? What did the hell you tell?" Zach asked.

"I guess my mom was right. Words speak louder than actions." Antonio said.

"I thought it was actions speak louder than words?" Zach complained.

Antonio answered, "My mom always told me that when I get in fights."

"Will you two stop yapping and untie Hussain." Kuwobasa command.

"Uh, yeah." Zach said.

Kuwobasa watched as he two henchmen untie Hussain from his bounds.