"Where did they take me?" I thought. My head throbbed and a fresh wave of pain was sent through my body. How will I ever get out of this place? I'm going to be tortured. I've heard the test subject's screams. How could my father do this to me? There has to be a way out of here.

Why is the king so evil? Why was I here?

Questions swirled through my brain. But the answers never came. I've heard the worst things about test subjects. They sometimes get tortured with injections and even wipe away their memory. I shivered at the thought of getting my memory wiped. I heard footsteps behind me. Who or what else could be in here besides me? I turned to see two faces with there eyes staring at me.

    "Looks like we have a newbie," A boy said. He had scars and bruises all over himself and his hair was in knots in some places

    "Who are you and where am I?" I asked.

    "You're in the dungeon where the king keeps people like us. I'm Iris and this is Ralph. We are both test subjects," The girl said.

    "I'm Jackson." I said. "Where are the others? Are there any more of you?

    "Only one more. She's in the lab. The rest are dead." Ralph said and pointed to over a dozen dead bodies.

I cringed and gagged at the smell of rotting flesh.

    "I'm not going." I said.

    "But you have to. They have a rule. If one of us escapes then we all die and our families will replace us." Iris said.

    "Do you want to end up like them?" I said, pointing at the dead bodies. "You want to end up dead like those innocent kids? If you want to end up like them then I'm sorry but I will not die here."

    "You have to go. Even if we helped you escape we would die and so would you. We can't risk losing our families. If we will escape we need a plan which we won't be able to come up with right now." Ralph said.

I went to the other side of the room as it was the darkest place in the dungeon. They couldn't find me there, and that's when I was proved wrong. Two guards came in dragging a girl. Her face was pale and she looked like a zombie. Her brown hair was damp and tears were rolling down her cheeks. She collapsed when the guards let go of her. I sat there stunned, staring at the girl. They must have done something horrible to her.

    "Where is he?" The guards ask coldly. They can't take me. Ralph pointed straight at me and the guards ran toward me. They took me by the arms and started dragging me to the door

    "Please," I whispered. They just stood there and watched the guards drag me away to the horrible place that awaited me. I struggled but I couldn't get out of their grasp. We were headed toward a giant blue glass door. When we got close to the door I put my legs to the side in an attempt to stop them from taking me. They simply shoved my legs together and we entered the lab. The lab was huge. It had a giant glass cylinder in the middle with some sort of liquid in it and a table with someone standing beside it. There were also a lot of shelves with their equipment lying on them. They slammed me against the table which sent a jolt of pain through my body. Then they grabbed a black rope from under the table and tied it around my struggling body. I heaved in a huge breath and stopped struggling. There was no escape. No way to stop what was coming. I heard a click and a door opened. A young girl who looked about ten walked in.

I blinked and above me the girl that had walked in only seconds ago appeared. She smiled in a way that could have been evil or encouraging.

I didn't say anything. The guards held my wrists to the bed as I watched the woman who was standing by the table insert medicine into a syringe.

"Oh no." I thought.

    "We are going to do a simple test that all of your 'friends' have gone through. But also we will be inserting a chip into your brain." The woman said.

    "They're not my 'friends'. I barely know them, besides you're probably lying to me right now." I say trying hard to take the fear from my voice.

"Oh but they will be, you're going to be here a very long time and I'm not lying. But I would keep my mouth shut if I were you. I can make things even worse for you." She threatened.

While the woman had her back turned, the girl said softly, "I'm sorry." Then I feel a prick in my arm and something weird happens to me. The world was covered in grey and it seemed as if I was in a different place. I could also barely hear what anyone was saying. Then I feel my body being lifted into the air and placed in the cylinder and suddenly I was closed in without air. "They're going to drown me." I thought. I started to panic. The liquid burned against my skin. I screamed, but only bubbles came out.

My body bolted upright. I was sitting in the same white room two guards were standing on the sides of my bed. They grabbed me by the arms and dragged me out of the room. I cried out in pain as they dragged me to the dungeon. I felt as if I was sunburned all over, and could barely move. Tears streamed down my face and they merely opened the door and walked in. The guards dropped me and I crumpled to the ground. I heard the door slam shut and I was left to deal with my pain in the darkness of the dungeon.

I can't handle another test. I need to escape somehow. I'll never escape they said they put a chip of some kind inside of me. I stood up and limped over to a corner. How am I useful here I'm only eleven.

    "Where are the others?" I wonder. I looked up and saw Ralph, Iris, and a girl I haven't met before staring at me.

I looked down again and a sudden pulse of anger went through me but was gone as soon as it came. I lay on the cold ground feeling pain as I moved.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and saw a girl I didn't know standing in front of me.

"Hi, I'm Nessa." She said softly.

"Hi, I'm Jackson." I said and smiled.

"Ralph and Iris told me about earlier."

I didn't speak.

"Listen, we all would like to get out of here as much as you would. But we can't without putting our families into this place."

"Not to mention how hard it would be to escape. This place has so much security and so many guards it's nearly impossible to escape." Ralph added.

"I can understand the family situation and everything. I just really want to get out." I said.

The room was filled with complete and utter silence when all of a sudden Iris collapses on the ground, writhing and holding onto her head. Then Ralph fell. Me and Nessa were still standing. Then Nessa fell she was also writhing on the ground. What is wrong with them?

Then something takes control of my body and I'm writhing on the ground like everyone else. The writhing stops and I slip into unconsciousness.