This morning was like every other morning to Alex. Having food sent to him through magic sealed traders, creating wooden puppets and dolls so realistic it was scary, and having his regular exercise that he was supposed to do everyday. However he got an unexpected visit from his "sister". She was nothing like him in personality or physical aspects, however to the people that watched over him, she was his sister. Though he still liked having her around, even with her weird personality.
His sister gasps as she enters his room and quickly runs up to his latest puppet, that he had just finished today. For his supposed older sister, she sure acts a whole lot more childish then him.
"Hello, Laura..." Alex mumbles quite loudly to his sister as she plows her way to the puppet he made.
Laura stares at the puppet for a few seconds then turns to Alex and says with inspiration in her eyes, "Who's this one?".
Alex thinks for a few seconds, 'It never did tell me it's name...' he thinks. He looks back over at Laura "Not sure..." he mumbles in response.
Laura looks back at him, her lips pursed clearly annoyed, "You better not of forgotten it" she retorts.
Alex raises his hands slightly in the air saying quite clearly, "Really, I swear..".
Laura's lips remain puckered for a few more seconds then her normal cheery face reappeared. Right after it did, she said, "If that's the case then I'll name him..." she stops for a second clearly heavily thinking. Alex could always swear he could physically see her thinking whenever she thought so hard. "Yuvi!" she shouted out.
"Yuvi, huh..." Alex mumbles out just under his breath, "That's an alright name... definitely better than Loopoo".
Laura quickly responded clearly hearing Alex's last comment, "Hey... He was totally named Loopoo, I swear!". After her little rebuttal she quickly rushed over to the door and carefully picked up some things that she dropped on the way in to his room. It was quite difficult for her to do it, considering her right arm is nothing but blades in the shape of a hand. When she is able to pick what she dropped on the floor up, she returned to him. "I got you some more books to read, Alex" she cheerfully said with a smile on her face, "There's some stuff about dolls, magic and cooking too!".
Alex couldn't help but smile at that last one, it wasn't like he was ever going to see the inside of a kitchen less alone outside his room. It was quite odd how Laura could make him smile so easily. He takes the books carefully out of her hands and says perfectly clear, "Thank you Laura".
There was a moment of silence after that, then suddenly Laura's face went as red as a tomato, she quickly covered her face in her hands. This happened quite often whenever she went to visit Alex. When she was finally able to recover she asked, "When are you going to make a doll of me?".
Alex quickly responded, "You know I only make dolls and puppets of people who are dead right...".
Laura looks at her shoes clearly shy now, "Can't you make an exception..." she says quietly.
Alex sighs, it is really hard to say no to her, but on this subject he always says no. Although if he remembered correctly, it was going to be her birthday tomorrow. He sighed once more and mumbled, "If you come here tomorrow, I'll make one of you...".
Laura looked up at him to see if he was serious, and was quite happy to realize that he was. A large smile went across her face, so large he swore it must of hurt. "Yay!" she screech quite loudly, "I can take it with me too?".
Alex smiles and says, "Of course you can". Though Alex couldn't help but get a bad feeling about the doll he was going to make of her.
Alex watched as Laura happily danced around his room, smiling more than hes ever seen. He couldn't help but smile himself as he watched. However the time for her visit was now over and she knew it too. She slowly stopped dancing and slowly made her way to the door, her smile fading. "I guess I have to go now" she said almost whimpering.
"But remember, your coming here again tomorrow right..?" Alex struggled to say clearly, and he didn't know why.
With that reminder, her smile appeared back again slightly, "Yea!" she said cheerfully. And with that final word the door behind her opened and she walked through, waving her hand as the door closed in front of her.
The rest of the day for Alex, he spent trying to make the doll of Laura. It took him a long time before he was able to finish it, almost 8 hours of straight work and it was now the middle of the night. He lays against the wall of his room very tired, just minutes away from sleep. However he senses the people watching from there observing room, and there talking. He can just barely lip sink what they are saying.
"I feel bad for the girl... she's so young" is what Alex believed the female watcher said, "She has so much ahead of her...".
"But you heard the orders... we've got to "clean up"" is what Alex believed the male watcher said, "It's for our safety".
Alex slowly began to feel more and more uneasy as he guessed what they were saying. He soon fell asleep, wondering what in the world they were talking about.
The next day something didn't seem right to Alex. The watchers weren't in there observing room and he was not given any breakfast from the traders. Around 12 Laura hadn't shown up and he couldn't take it anymore. Even if he was tortured for leaving he would be satisfied with the knowledge that Laura was okay.
Alex looked carefully around the room to find the vent that led into his room. After finding it he did a quick bounce off the wall flying up to it, and then ripped off the vent with shear force. He took a deep breath and launched himself through the vent making sure not to touch the walls of the vent. After a small amount of air time he lands and begins to crawl.
After crawling for a couple minutes Alex reaches the other vent which was connected to the observation room. He carefully pushed the the vent cover outwards taking the screws with it. After, he jumped down quietly to the floor placing the vent cover on the floor. He looked around the observing room and noticed the magic sensors which constantly showed his and Laura's room. He noticed that she was not in her's and he began to panic.
'Why isn't she in her room he thought... this isn't normal...' Alex thought quickly, and that's when he heard him, 'Maybe they just killed her'.
Alex looked around more panicked then ever, the voice was right, maybe they did, it was all possible at this point. Then a small prick of anger hit him and he hard the voice again, 'I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. They did kill her'.
Alex felt his right eye unconsciously move to the corner of the observing room where another screen was, and it displayed the laboratory. And clearly in the middle of the screen displayed Laura strapped to a table seemingly asleep.
At that moment Alex creepily smiled, "She can't be dead she's still breathing..." he mumbled out loud. 'Not for long, why don't you watch the show Alex...' the voice said in his head. Alex began to stumble trying to keep his balance, "There's no way... I've got to stop them..." he says as he stumbles off down the hall.
'You won't make it in time, Alex...' the voice says as Alex stumbles down the hall.
"Shut up Ender... I will..." Alex says as he stumbles closer and closer to the door of the lab, he could sense the watchers in the lab, and the presence of a powerful poison slowly getting closer to Laura. His eyes widen as he picks up the poison.
'All you can do is watch Alex... Just like you've always have' says Ender's voice. Alex can feel Ender smile and is terrified that his lips were slightly moving into a smile as well.
Alex makes it to the lab door an opens it collapsing onto his knees as he enters, his power sapped. 'Now sit here and watch like you've always have...' mocks Ender's voice.
Alex couldn't do anything, he could only watch, his body cold, as the poison entered Laura's veins, killing her.
The world becomes still for a moment as soon as Laura's heart stops beating. Anger of the watchers for killing her floods over Alex, as well as the guilt of not being able to do anything. The watchers just noticed is presence in the room.
'They killed her... are you going to do anything?', Ender says in Alex's head. 'They murdered her in cold blood... aren't you going to avenge her... and now there going to kill you... I won't allow that... I'm going to kill them first...'
The anger in Alex finally snaps and he mumbles out loud, "Then if your going to help me... Lets Kill Them".
The watchers, hearing what Alex said quickly prepared to cast there magic, and were preparing for an attack from the front. Alex's arm becomes wrapped in magic circles and raises that arm and whispers, "Act 2, Act 5, Act 3, Dance with Death...". At the end of his sentence the magic circles burn marks all over his skin and magic shoots out from his hand in the watcher's general direction. The watchers quickly dodged out of the way of the magic, the magic continues and collides with Laura's body. The female watcher quickly creates an illusion of a wall in front of her to make it so he can not see him, and the male watcher sends a wave of fire at Alex.
Alex rather quickly dodged the fire by smashing through the floor to the first floor and coming up through another hole he creates next to the male. The male watcher calls to the female watcher but is surprised to see her impaled from behind by, amazingly, Laura. The male watcher quickly recovers and returns his attention to Alex, sending large flames in his direction and jumping back against a wall.
Alex whisper's "Act 4", then suddenly a magic circle appears underneath the male's feet. He quickly and barely dodges as Alex launches through the magic flame and smashes right into the wall, causing the wall and all the wall in his hit's direction to explode outwards from his punch, spreading the fire with it. As the dust started to settle the male watcher was able to see Alex's arm, and was surprised to see it slowly dissolving into the air. He also noticed that Alex's eyes glowed a dark purple, and one eye was covered in magic circles. That was all he was able to see, as metal blades flew in his direction. The watcher quickly dodged them, and prepared a new magic spell, "Phoenix, this ends now". A flame shaped like a bird flew from the watcher's hands. Laura quickly jumped in front of it and tried to block it with her hand but was flung away from the shear force and was sent out of commotion. The magic sail right at Alex and hit him as he stood there smiling like a mad man.
The watcher watched as the area where Alex was exploded into a giant fire ball, lighting the whole room ablaze. The watcher stood there for a few moments and believed he had won, when something caught his eye. Inside the giant flame that he created stood Alex, one eye glowing a fierce purple the other eye could not to be found. The watcher was baffled as a magic circle appear just behind the watcher as Alex whispered, "Act 4, Act 3, Execution". Alex glows with magical energy within the flame as he rockets even faster then before toward the watcher, while on fire. The watcher to surprised to react gets hit from Alex's ridiculously hard hit and before the watcher could get launched away, Alex kicked him with such speed you could hear Alex's leg crack. The resulting forced sent the watcher smashing through the walls and floor of the building, clearly dead.
After Alex kicked the watcher through the building, his world began to spin as his magic energy and blood began to leave his body. He stumbles around for a few seconds then falls through one of the many holes in the building then passes out as he hits the floor.
(That should be good, you can say the building is collapsed when you get there or it looks like it's about to, either one is fine)