There Won't Be A Next Time

On the airship, everything was quiet, with everyone minding their business.

Cole had given Gabe coordinates to a location where they could lay low for a while, which he had computed into the ship's computer and set the airship on autopilot.

Gabe was on a seat, trying to recollect everything that had happened that day. When he was feeding on Beatrice and draining her life force, he realized that he had also absorbed some of her memories.

What he saw from her memories was that the specimens in the facility were been prepared to be a kind of military force. They were going to be brainwashed in the final stages of the processes to be carried out.

There also seemed to be a group of people pulling the strings behind everything that went on in the facility but who they were and what they wanted he did not know, as it was not found in the little memory he had scavenged.

Taking his mind off the little information he had learned, Gabe tried to sense the red spot he had seen before at the corner of his eye but it wasn't there. He then thought about the status screen he had seen and attempted to will it to appear and it worked. Immediately the status screen appeared, his mind was sucked in. There, he saw how the relic was formed.

Most of what Beatrice had said was confirmed. This relic was one among many artifacts which were created from the combination of magic and science. It was built to amplify and regulate the nature and power that all humans possessed, greed. It was used in the military and other government armed forces.

Humans in ancient times, from the lost era before the current time were unstoppable and ruled the world during that time.

Apart from this information and the workings of the system, Gabe didn't see anything beyond. What had happened during that era that left the era in ruins and ushered in this current civilization remained a mystery.

Gabe thought that he had spent a good amount of time in the space his mind was absorbed into, but the duration of his mind's stay there only lasted four seconds.

Opening his eyes he saw that the place was already heated up and a fight was about to break.

'Woah! Like everything was just kind of ok four minutes ago, who is looking for trouble now', Gabe thought.

"What do you mean calm down, she is a witch and not just any witch but a witch from the facility. In case you guys forgot, the place we just escaped from happened to be run by dark elves and witches".

"I think Michael here, is making a good argument. I don't know about you Rose, as you are a girl and all but let's rape this witch and throw her overboard.

"Are you guys insane? Surely we went through hell for at least three years in that place I can only describe as the devil's kitchen but I didn't think you guys would become so vile". Rose responded.

Among the five specimens that had escaped along with Gabe, Cole, and Willow, two excluded themselves from whatever was happening, two were showing her how twisted their minds had gotten and the only girl in the group, Rose, was standing up for the witch who was obviously Willow.

Cole was seated at a spot, quietly observing whatever was going on. He refused to intervene in whatever was going on there not because he did not find what those two were yapping and planning offensive, but because he knew that Willow wasn't a pushover and those guys were getting in over their heads. Besides, he and Gabe would surely provide backup if things were to go south.

"Look, I know that you guys have been through a lot. I am sorry for all that has happened to you. Like you, I have also been through a lot in that place as I was a slave there, destined to do my master's bidding until the day I died. I had dreams and goals but they were denied", Willow said.

She took a deep breath before continuing.

"Please just calm down you two, however, the torture was, at least we all here, can finally have a fresh start".

"What the hell is this bitch yapping about, let's just get her and be over with this quickly. We have to make plans on how to enjoy our freedom, what do you say Michael?"

"I say I am with you Harold", Michael responded.

Harold then made his move, as he attempted to grab Willow but Rose immediately stood in his way.

"Michael go handle that witch while I deal with this thorn that is trying to pierce our sides", Harold said.

Michael nodded his head and also moved to grab Willow. Gabe was about to make a move but he stopped as Willow cast a spell.

"Ahogo!"

Immediately Michael and Harold fell to the ground desperately trying to breathe. This was the same spell Willow had used on Gabe and Cole back in the control room.

"You guys insulted me and even went as far as saying you would rape me and then throw me off the airship. I held back my anger and tried to talk to you, thinking you were just pained about everything you had gone through and were looking for outlets to release all your frustrations and emotions that you had, bottled up. But no, you still seriously went ahead and attempted to do what you said you would, such wicked and vile people as you should not be given a chance to ever live in this world or any other again" Willow said with gritted teeth.

Blood was running down from their eyes nose and ears, while they tried hard to beg for their lives until they could finally breathe again. Willow had spared their lives.

"Next time, I will not hesitate to kill you", Willow said.

Michael and Harold were about to thank her when...

Crack!! Slice!!

Both of them were killed by Gabe and Cole.

"There won't be a next time", Gabe said.