Nightmare

The blindfold over Orion face was removed. He sneezed due to the dust that irritated his nostrils, slowly he opened his eyes to grasp and understand where he was and his environment. Looking to the right, he saw a door that led to a lounge, few men in designer casual dress could be seen playing snookers with few occasionally taking a sip from their wine cup.

On his left, he could see a heavily built bald man, in robe, seated at a large round table enough to accommodate 25 people, and food servings spread all over the table. The man elegantly eating from his sumptuous table. Above him, he could see reflective ceilings with a see through glass, where he observed the sunny blue sky and few birds flying over. Decorated Chandeliers hanging over emitting different colours of light. The tile on the floor was like glass, he could quite see his reflection. Squinting his eyes, he observed that his eyes was red and swollen.

'How long have I been out?'

"Two days" The built bald man answered from his dinning, as if he could hear his thoughts.

'Seem he is the owner of this place. But what am I doing here?' Orion thought lingered.

"Two days you were out. If not for your raising and falling chest, we would have disposed your body into the incinerator thinking you are dead".

Orion gasped. "Why am I here?" He asked.

"Well, you know something you're not supposed to know, that's why you're here to inform us who told you". The bald man said.

"What is it that you think I know?" Orion asked.

"Well, as you can see, we have a covert project going on and one way or another, you knew about it. I got your voice recording but the people who told you about it, we didn't get their names. Though, I had my guess, but I can't be so sure".

"I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't remember anything after that day". Orion responded.

"Huh".

The men at the lounge dropped their games and began entering the room where Orion was held. One by one, they filled the room, each with different attire, exquisite fragrance and perfumes, hair, facial attributes and...

'What! This man is...is here? Among them. Jeez!' Orion had closed his eyes hard while clenching his teeth.

He saw the man, dark, tall, dark shades and a casual outfit. He looked radiant today.

"I saw you at my parent's house. You came to the hospital when my mom was bedridden. I reported the people that killed my dad to you, and I thought you were a FBI agent. All these while, you were part of them?" Orion became nauseous.

"Hello boy, we meet again" Jayden replied sipping from his cup. He let out a breath of satisfaction indicating he was enjoying his drink.

With each men looking at him, as if they were expecting something, Orion felt surrounded, ambushed and he could sense danger lurking.

"So, are you going to tell us or not?" One of the men asked Orion.

"Leave him, he doesn't even need to tell us anything anymore, we have a different plan" Another man said.

'Another plan? For what? What are these people planning to do with me?' Orion thoughts wandered as shivers kept running through his spine.

"Well, boy, as you can see we planned on taking you to the lab for an experiment. We want to see if our plans would work. As a start, we would be using you as a specimen" The bald man said nonchalantly.

"What? What are you talking about?" Orion shuddered from what he just heard.

'Are they going to use me as a lab rat? Will I be killed or what is going to happen?'

Orion could be seen evidently shivering while cold sweat ran down his face.

"Well, we planned on killing you and dumping you inside the laboratory. And not just you, along with anyone related to you in one way or another. So prepare your mind" The bald man said grinning.

Orion couldn't believe his ears. He never thought of a day that he would die like this. He wouldn't want that thought seeping into his head. No, not like this. I'm going to have to fight.

Amidst his thoughts, something else caught his interest, he looked sideways, outside from the room he was, he could see someone on a stretcher being taken into a long bus, more like an ambulance from the back without the siren.

'Who could that be?' He asked himself. He could see I.V. fluids and moveable oxygen cylinder attached to the person's body. 'Could that be....mom?'. Orion struggled to free himself of the rope used to tie his hands and leg together. He crawled on the floor moving towards the door and screamed.

"Please, that's my mom! What do you want? I promise to tell you everything you need to know. I'll tell you everything".

"Nah Boy, that's late already. We are already moving". The bald man signalled two hefty men to pick Orion up to the car. With every men in the meeting moving towards their individual cars. Like a convoy, they zoomed out of the Mega mansion compound and headed to Stellenbosch.

*******

Orion had suddenly woken up from a nightmare. He cried all through the journey till he was injected with sedative. In his dream, he had saw monsters and beast going on a killing spree. The hordes kept coming out from an underground and going on rampage on every corners and streets. Calamity and rogue killings were recorded on every breaking news. The country was in chaos.

He could see bomb detonation, guns and heavy guns been shot at different directions. Occasionally, missiles were launched dealing devastating damages, but the hordes kept on coming. Like the more was killed, the more they came.

He jerked awake when one of the monster had lunged at him. Opening his eyes, he found himself in an abandoned scientist room, laid and tied on the bed. He struggled to free himself but it was fruitless.

He checked around and saw liquid potions in different colours, different mixtures, emitting different odours, in different tubes and glasses. He noted a lot of specimens like lizards, snakes, chameleon, beetles, bugs, scorpions. Directly in his side view, he saw two other persons tied and restrained to the bed.

He could quickly identify his mom, 'but the other person was who?' He queried.

Dark skin, braided hair, definitely a girl. 'But which girl? And why is she here too?' Orion thought was disrupted by the bald man he had saw in the mansion, as he came into the room with another man in lab coat and Jayden.

Orion wanted to talk but realised he couldn't, he was shocked about his new state, then he realised he was been muted with a tape wrapped around his mouth.

"So boy, like I said, we're starting the experiment. We have here, your mom in a vegetable state and your girlfriend".

Orion muffled.

"So we need blood too to hasten the procedure, now we decided to either use your mom or your girlfriend. Well, your mom has a lower chance of survival, so it's right you choose her. Cause your girlfriend surprisingly had a life growing inside her". The scientist said, with the other men in the room nodding.

Orion eyes widened, then he began to growl and muffle some words.

"Oh oh, you didn't know she was pregnant. That's good to hear. Let's pretend you didn't know, then she's a good choice. Two bloods makes the process speedy" The lab scientist said with a dark smile curling over his face.

The lab scientist signalled and Orion's mom was wheeled towards him. He connected a cannula into her veins, the tube attached to a big machine nearby. Then in a moment a black red liquid began coming out of the cannula and into the machine.

Orion groaned at the sight.

The Lab scientist laughed hysterically, holding his chest to catch his breath. Then he straightened up, and kept a straight face like he wasn't the one that just laughed a moment ago, then he said,

"Kill him".