Prologue
A pale pink orb of light floats gently in an endless abyss, unable to see anything, without anything to do the light counts softly.
'100,893,723,890,745,666,982,123,432,564,7384,111,233,090'
'100,893,723,890,745,666,982,123,432,564,7384,111,233,091'
Suddenly strands of light begin to pull away from the pink orb as though something within the abyss was delicately tugging away at the orb. This had happened thousands of times before and was likely to happen again.
'Nu uh, get back here!'
The pink orb draws the light strands back into itself quickly and seemingly effortlessly, once all the strands where drawn back into the orb seems it seemed to glow even brighter than before.
'Hehe I win again...wait now I lost count meanie!'
As the pink orb continues to float endlessly in the abyss it begins to think back on its life before the abyss.
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The orbs first memory was of its birth, the orb never knew why it could remember everything even since its birth but alas it did. Its birth was bloody and messy and its first feeling was pain, a searing pain on its bottom that caused it to cry out for the first time in its life. The second feeling was warmth, a loving cosy warmth that it found from what it could only describe as the single most beautiful woman it had ever known or at least it would have been had the woman not been covered in a scars a bruises all over her face and body. She had dishevelled auburn hair, eyes that seemed to be close to losing their light, and skin that seemed as though it would feel like velvet to touch if it wasn’t so scarred.
Despite the clear pain the woman was in she smiled down at the child in her arms a warm motherly smile, with eyes that exuded love that filled the child with the more love it'd ever feel again in this world.
"My precious daughter Lumina, stay strong and don't let them break you"
After these words the woman seemed to fade away and died smiling at her child causing the child to cry out. After a few moments a haughtily dressed man with a disgusting smirk and golden hair waltzed in and tore Lumina from her mother, Lumina couldn't help but cry out due to the rough way the man handled her.
"Good, we have another Guinea pig to experiment on and the trash died, saves us the effort of killing her. Somebody take this filthy thing away from me and prep her for experimentation, can never start to early"
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Lumina spent the next 9 years being constantly experimented on, some things were as simple as IQ tests, hand eye coordination tests and sensory deprivation tests whilst other experiments could only been described as torture. She'd be beaten, crippled, burnt and cut open and made to watch and after each time she'd be healed, though poorly leaving her body severely scarred. During these 9 years she had never seen anyone other than the vile man who pulled her from her mother, who turned out to be her father, he would of course be the one to administer these 'experiments'.
When Lumina was not being experimented on she was locked up in her room, it was a giant room that could really only be described as a library with a bed and TV. Lumina would spend all her time reading books with the TV in the background so that she could soak up as much information as possible, by this point she had read all of the books in the library and was just reviewing them for fun. By the age Lumina's IQ tests showed her to have an IQ of approximately 270. Despite her surroundings and extreme intelligence she held on to her childish nature and found herself still able to smile giggle and play even during experiments.
After turning 10 years old her father came and took her by the collar dragging her to an area of the complex that she'd never been before and threw her in to a pitch black room. It took her some time to get her eyes to adjust but when they did she was shocked to see the room was full of children around her age with lifeless eyes. She made a mental note to help them all regain their will to live.
"This is your new home, enjoy it filth. I've babied you too much on account of you being my child but no longer, your testing shall be intensified and you will spend your time with the rest of the Guinea Pigs, try not to die, not that I really care"
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At age 18 Lumina had yet to be broken, despite her father best attempts she still held a very strong will to live. That is not to say that she was unaffected by the life forced upon her, a part of Lumina remained ever childish never progressing. She had feelings the same as an adult woman, she had even found love in a girl from her group called Rose who she'd often spent nights with kissing and comforting each other, Rose had beautiful red hair and a lean tall body, Rose wasn’t her real name but those who had been in the complex for a long time tended to forget their own name. Despite her being very much an adult Lumina still held on to her childish giggly smiling self that didn't match her beautiful albeit damaged body. She would often refer to even those her same age as big-sis or big-bro and had a seemingly endless supply of love and kindness for all those in her group, which had given all of them a reason to carry on. Despite being very childish she ended up taking up the role as caretaker for her group.
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Despite this she was still sharp and extremely intelligent, she had realised that Rose would likely not be able to survive much longer under her experimentation as her face had started to become gaunt and her eyes where slowly losing their light. Lumina quickly began planning an escape in secret from the group in order to make sure that if it was discovered before the right time the others would not be punished.
During experimentation she would steal small things that wouldn't be missed like small amounts of common chemicals and torture instruments small enough to hide in her rag-like clothing. One night without warning Lumina threw a chemical concoction against the door of the group’s cell that caused an explosion that blew the lock of the cell door off, the guard stationed just outside quickly arrived to secure the group in the cell until reinforcements came. Before he had even noticed the glint of light on the scalpel that Lumina slashed across his throat he was already as good as dead, slowly bleeding out as Lumina smiled at him. She quickly grabbed his keys and key card as well as well as the pistol that was still in its holster.
"Follow me if you want to live! Hehehe oh right you guys never got to watch TV you wouldn’t get that, eh oh well let's go, c'mon Rose I'ma get us out"
It took a moment for her group to realise what was happening but soon they all cheered and followed her. Lumina had already planned the quickest and most secure escape route allowing the group to only face a few guards that she swiftly dealt with and allowed for her to free several other groups. Arriving at the exit the guards and her father where finally catching up to their position. Lumina opened the exit with the key card and stayed back whilst ushering 100’s of children ranging from 8 to 18 out. Rose was the last to exit and just as she stepped out Lumina closed the ballistic glass door and locked it, locking herself within.
"Hehe I'm sorry Rosey this is the only way to make sure you get out alive be sure to live happily enough for both of us and find out what chocolate tastes like for me, hehe I love you!"
Lumina remained smiling looking gently at Rose, her love, through the glass door. Lumina shed a singular tear that slowly slid down her smiling face as she watched her beloved crying, begging for Lumina to come out and run away with her. This was the first tear she had shed since the age of 10.
Lumina took one last look at Rose and turned around to see her father and what must have been 100 guards at least.
"Hehe, Dad you made me have to make my beloved cry, I'll be sure that you pay!"
Lumina's smile that was both beautiful and adorable at the same time did not fit the situation as her smile never had. She took out two small vials from her ragged clothes and before anybody could say anything she threw them on the ground releasing a dense gas the engulfed herself, her father, the guards and slowly spread through the rest of the complex.
Lumina's father and all his guards quickly dropped to the ground choking and bleeding from the nose, eyes and mouth, screaming in pain. Through all this Lumina remained standing looking on ever smiling with blood spilling from her eyes mouth and nose. Refusing to die until she could confirm that anybody who would harm Rose was dead. Once silence had fallen and nobody was left alive, Lumina finally let her consciousness slip. She died standing with her ever adorable smile still looking down on the 100 or so men she had killed.
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"Haaaa, I wonder if Rose ever got to try chocolate, hehehe oh well best start counting again 1, 2, 3, 4... Eh eh eh what's that, THERE’S LIGHT! Hehe I must have been here for like billion years and nothing has ever changed and now there’s light hehehe YAY"
Lumina continued to slowly float towards the light, until the light began to suck her in picking up speed.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"