Doctor Yen inserted his key card into the slot, he waited six seconds, and a green light flashed while the door was unlocked. Yen took a deep breath and pulled the handle down and entering the room. The hologram had been ceased for a few minutes, and the creature was standing in the middle. The lights flickered at varyingly slowing intervals. Yen could now see how bad of a condition the boy was in; his hair had a lack of melanin, skin looked sickly, and worse, his body mass was far below what it should have been for something.

"Hey there, buddy," Yen cooed when he walked in and when he approached, he knelt, making the two eye height. He gently placed his hands on the creature's shoulders and asked, "Having fun?" In which it shook its head. Yen smiled, "Would you like to see something cool?"

The creature seemed to have gotten a little excited, the breathing hastened audibly, and its eyes widened. Yen also smiled and stepped back while saying, "Watch this!" He held his index finger up, a tiny orb of light suddenly appeared. He danced his finger in the air, and the sphere of light followed the tip very slowly, leaving behind a lazy tail of fading opalescence. Yen waved it around high above his head, creating shapes and designs. The creature was entranced until he brought it closer. The light went crazy; it flickered rapidly and exploded. The effect didn't go without an adverse impact because of the small light explosion; he saw it the moment it happened. Something inside the creature brought out great fear, perhaps it was some innate instinct to escape a phenomenon, but instead of getting away, it lashed out, getting a clean swipe at the doctor. The wound immediately gushed out blood, a substance alien to the creature. The doctor's face was wholly white either with fear or to the increasing blood loss; either way, he tried to stumble out of the room. He continued leaving a trail of crimson liquid everywhere he went. Confused, the creature touched the warm liquid. It stunk, but for some reason, he was compelled to taste it.

It was bitter, bland, yet it could be addictive. Everything after that felt like a blur; things were confusing and kept moving fast. People rushed in to grab him; they were yelling and talked fast. It was hard for the creature to comprehend. The only thing it could do was hide in the corner as best as it could. Then everything got a little hazy and hard to stay awake. Then it woke up in its cell again.

The creature retreated to the darkest recess of the room, a corner that had a wall to separate another cell. It curled itself in a ball. It felt that the darkness was a friend. As if it would never hurt it as long as it remained within.

"They hate you," whispered a voice. The creature looked around and found no one that could be speaking. "They don't want you anymore. You broke, and now they throw you away." The second voice sounded like it was coming from the wall. "They make another, and you be here forever." The creature looked around the wall to see a small hole, big enough for a rat to climb through. The creature's rough breathing increased along with its heartbeat. It inched closer to the hole and could feel its heart rate increase. Looking into the hole, it saw a glowing blue eye that made it jump away.

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The whispers continued to speak, "It happen to me; it happening to you." The voice continued to talk, bringing the creature back to the hole. It looked in once more to see the glowing blue eyes staring right back at it.

The creature sat down in front of the hole and took a deep breath asking, "How do you know?"

There was a long silence as the eye on the other side stared, looking the creature up and down. Eventually, it started to cackle. The laughter continued to echo in the dank room. Then another long silence. "You replaced me."

The creature stepped away from the hole, and the voice on the other side began laughing and shouted, "Stuck down here!" the creature retreated to the darkness again away from the hole as it continued to sing its mad chant. The light in front of its cell was increasingly flickering between on and off.

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The red-head researcher whistled while leaning over the medical bed's rail. "Gee. That looks way worse than it did on screen," He said, cringing over Yen's stitched up wound. "How badly did it hurt? I didn't hear you make one noise since."

"It hurts less you think and more than I want it to," Yen admitted. "Honestly, it was my fault. I was aware of the effect it had on light, yet I still foolishly did it."

"Oh, speaking of which," The red-head started and then pulled out an electronic tablet putting it in front of the doctor. "Here, watch this." On-screen was a recorded video of Doctor Yen walking into the room alone. His face lit up when he watched everything that just happened to him from a secondary point of view, except everything that was happening had only him. The was no sign of the creature at all, just Doctor Yen.

"Eugh. Seeing this now makes me highly uncomfortable," Yen confessed. "But, I think you were right; he does have some kind of magical ability,"

The red-head adjusted his glasses. "Actually," he stated, "I may have been wrong about that… but I do have a theory." Yen nodded for him to go on. "Well, the hero was a positive affinity for all six elements, right? Well, what if there was a negative affinity."

Yen squinted slightly. "So, what you're saying is that there is a seventh element?"

"Well… no," The red-head corrected while opening up a blank canvas on the tablet. "So, we know all known forms and elements of magic, right?" He began drawing six circles labeling each with, Earth, Water, Fire, Darkness, Wind, and Light "I think there can exist a space in between all the elements, Like a bridge!" He then drew several lines, each connecting a circle to another. In the middle was a space that wasn't touched by any line creating a circle of its own.

Yen adjusted his position on the infirmary bed. "You know that sounds crazy and scientifically impossible, right?"

"I'm aware, yes," The red-head agreed and nodded.

"But," Yen continued. "It would make sense. If your theory is correct, then that would mean his ability to disappear from recording would mean that instead of controlling the light, He was simply warping around him, making the connection of the element null."

"Exactly!" The red-head shouted. "So, I believe he's unknowingly controlling the spatial gaps in magic!"

"We were only supposed to raise a hero, not discover a new form of magic. Where's that nurse? I think I might need some medication; I'm feeling a headache coming along," Yen sighed. "What's Director Alph planning to do?"

"Honestly, I don't know," the red-head said. "Probably going to scrap him like the other clones."

Yen pinched the bridge of his nose. "This is like the tenth one, and by far the most intelligent." He sighed once more and kicked his legs to the side of the bed. He looked to the red-head and chuckled. "I'm not kidding about those pills."