The lab

Ch2

"What do you mean by 'merging two souls'?

When you came and snatched this vessel from me, you interrupted my process of taking possession of this body , so your soul merged with mine as the body cannot contain two souls at the same time"

Ethan found her words weird however, he listened to the end because he needed information to figure out the situation he was in.

As he was talking to her, the three people who were lying on the ground began to regain consciousness.

" where am I?" Said a woman with blonde hair.

As she checked herself. She found that she was wearing a pair of ragged clothes that didn't cover her properly .

" Where are my clothes? Who took them?" Panicked the woman.

The two other men just stood there, examining themselves and said nothing. They were dressed similarly to the blonde woman, with a few differences here and there.

But the strange thing is that these clothes do not fit with what people wear in the present. But Ethan attributed the matter to the fact that the plane may have fallen on an island in the Atlantic Ocean inhabited by some indigenous tribes. But he could not figure out how these people had learned the English language.Not because he was racist or anything, but tribe people tend to preserve their original language.

One of the men spotted Jennifer and me looking at them and came up to us.

" Hi, I'm captain Oliver, do you know where we are and where is the plane is, or what's left of it?"

At this moment Ethan brain stopped, he couldn't process what the man said, because the captain Oliver he knows doesn't look anything near the man in front of him.

He had hired the flight crew by himself, so he was sure this wasn't captain Oliver.

"Hey man, are you alright ?" His thoughts came to a halt and he was brought back to reality again.

"Do you mean captain Oliver as the plane pilot, or it's just a nickname?" Ethan asked rapidly

"Yes, I...." Before he could finish his words, a needle came flying and hit him in the neck. He immediately fell and hit his head on the ground.

Then another set of needles came, targeting the rest. Ethan tried to move, but he was still paralyzed. He cursed the day he got on that plane as the sight of everyone being knocked unconscious unfolded before his eyes. Soon, he also lost consciousness.

.....

" test subject No. 400. The subject lasted for three days after the administration of the serum before going insane."

Ethan heard a hoarse voice in the darkness. It was in a language he never heard before, yet he could understand it fluently. He opened his eyes but had to close them again due to the blinding light . He slowly opened his eyes and give them time to readjust to the light.

He was no longer in the forest, the trees that surrounded him were nowhere to be seen.he was lying on his stomach atop a cold metal table , the room temperature was freezing and ,he felt an excruciating pain in his back, but he restrained himself from screaming, and gritted his teeth for fear of being noticed by the voice he heard ,before he could assess the situation and devise a plan of action.

There was stitched wound on his back. And a very long syringe were inserted on his spine and attached to a tube, the tube containing blue liquid running through it.

Now he can move his head. He looked right and saw a man lying on a table like him, but his eyes were lifeless, he was dead. His back was torn open and his spine was ripped off. His skin peeled off which made possible to see his bare muscles and nerves. But Ethan was lucky to not see this gruesome scene.

' this must be the test subject they are talking about' Ethan thought

' isn't that the man who pretended to be Oliver '

"Hmm… very interesting. This test subject seems to be reacting positively to the serum implant .He doesn't show any kind of madness yet."

"We didn't have to spend money to get this specimen. And it's quite resilient for a mere human." Ethan couldn't see their faces, but there was two pair of boots walking toward him.

'What 'specimen '! What're they talking about? what kind of fucked up place I'm in?' Ethan felt something is very wrong with this two people.

Ethan raised his head with all his might to see the faces of the people in front of him. He was speechless of what he saw, they looked like some kind of trolls, he fainted immediately.

....

In a dark room where no light enters, a man is lying on a cold metal table in an upright position. On the edge of the table are leather ropes that hold the man to the table. This man was naturally Ethan.

There is no longer a syringe on his back.

He tried to open his eyes and failed before realizing they were open . He couldn't even see his own hands.The two freaks from before weren't in the room.As his eyes got used to the darkness, he could see faint parts of what looked like laboratory tools, though some of them looked a bit old.

From what he saw earlier, he knew he isn't on Earth. Initially , he couldn't find any signs of the plane crash, then the overturned wagon and the man named Oliver and now some kind of fantasy creature doing experiments on him.

As for how he understands this foreign language, it must be because the original owner of this body. Although he doesn't have his memories, but language cannot be forgotten even if you were on a coma or have Alzheimer, language is deeply embedded.

"You seem to finally wake up, I was getting bored here . I didn't come out of that forest to get locked up again." Ethan forgot about the female ghost.. spirt... who claims to have merged with him,but he was pleased to hear her again nonetheless.

"I think we didn't get off to a good start,so since we're stuck together can you explain everything, starting with what or who you are? Where are we? And what are these people?"

"I don't get anything from helping you, for all I care, you are the one who took my freedom from me."

"From what you've said earlier, you have been locked up in that forest for a long time, and now you're locked up with me, so...."

"Get to the point, what are you implying?"

"Let's put it simply, if those things killed me you will die too. And I don't think either one of us wants that. Help me, and I will help you find a way for you to be separated from me."

She was silent for a while before speaking again.

" I have a condition, I want you to give me control of this body for some time. For some reason, you're the one who has control. "

" Deal, but how do I give you control? "

Ethan thought this wasn't a bad deal for him, because, as long as she asked him to give her control, it meant she can't take over without his permission, so he could stop her if she did anything out of place.

"You just have to think about giving me your consent "

Ethan did as she said. He suddenly felt a strange feeling running through his body. His bones began to reconstruct into a more feminine shape. His facial muscles changed. His chest moved forward.

He was seeing through his eyes, but they didn't feel like they were his. It was as if he were looking through a window. You can open the window and close it, but you can't make it move forward or backward.

The whole process was very painful, but nothing he couldn't handle. You can't expect your bones to move from their original place without pain.

He wasn't dreaming or in a game; this was the real world. This is the world he has to live in from now on, so he has to get used to it, and the sooner the better for him.

"Ah!..What happened to me? "Ethan spoke in a quavering voice as he caught his breath.

"I changed Your.... my body to match the shape of my soul."

"Why didn't you give me a heads up first?" Ethan replied angrily.

"Haahahahahah!"