THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS

Level 17: Bio-genetics Level

The Elevator

Suddenly a loud siren went off, gaining everyone's attention. They all froze in bewilderment their looks turned horror, Ten head turns to the red light spinning around. 'I should have known'. He thought with horror looks.

"THIS IS A TRAP!" Ten shouts.

Instantly the elevator shakes tremendously, a dividing door came from the top, separating them. Ten, Kaneki, Rin, Asano, Daiki and Haya at one end. Shino, Ren, Sumi, Kaname, Mirai, and Yumi at another.

"MIRAI!" Kaneki shouts banging on the iron wall that separated them.

"I should have seen this coming" Ten said with trembling eyes.

"What do we do now?" Asano asked frightened to the core.

"We are in this mess just because someone doesn't know what a camera is," Ten said pissed facing Daiki.

"Daiki is sorry, Daiki didn't know it was a camera" he said panicking.

"Well it looked quite obvious but you were too dumb to figure it out!"

"Stop it Ten, you can't blame him" Rin cut in.

"Who else is to blame?" Ten hissed.

"I should have seen this earlier, I calculated our every move, but yet I couldn't see it, I couldn't see it was a trap or worse". Ten's heart skipped a bit.

"Where will the elevator stop now?" Haya asked.

"I don't know! This elevator is no longer in my control" Ten said shakily.

"Dammit" Kaneki hissed slamming his fist against the wall.

"We are doomed," Daiki said with horror looks and trembling eyes.

"Great this is a trap, the smart ass couldn't think of this earlier" Sumi scoffs.

"It wasn't Ten's fault," Shino said with a stern look, his eyes fixed on the iron wall that separated them from the others.

"Then it's the dumb guy's fault" Sumi snaps. Shino faced her.

"Rather than blame each other, shouldn't we think of a way out of this".

Sumi's eyes averts to his back.

"It was your idea of an escape, am sure you will be better enough to figure out a way out of here".

Shino turned to her, she froze when she saw him trembling, a frightened look in his eyes.

"Yes I was the one who brought in an escape plan and now our life's in danger because of me".

"Mirai-chan, am scared," Yumi said in tears holding onto the Mirai's shirt tightly. Mirai's eyes trembled, watching her.

Shino's looks sadden seeing the action.

"RIN!" Ren shouts for his sister but the thickness of the wall can't allow his voice to get through even if he wanted.

"I should have looked when that guy said something about a water sensor but I didn't think," Kaname said with clenched teeth. Ren faced him.

"What's gonna happen to us now?"

"I don't know," Kaname said shaking his head negatively.

*Ding Sound*

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*Sudden Stop*

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*Increase in Heartbeat*

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Their hearts slammed loudly in their chests, beads of sweat against their features, their minds filled with all sorts of thoughts, confusion, fear, the anticipation of their current predicament.

'Why did the moving elevator stop?' These were the major questions in their heads like a raging storm.

"Mirai-chan look!" Takai Yumi exclaimed pointing at the panel that showed the levels, her crystal blue eyes fixed on the number.

"We are at the top," Shino said confused seeing the number showing 'Level 1'. 'Did Ten plan work?' He thought with trembling eyes, gulping hard.

The elevator made a ding sound, making the kid's quiver more.

"It can't be," Sumi said with widening eyes as the elevator door slowly open, they waited in anticipation of what to come, bright lights came through, they block it with their hands, their eyes adjusting to the light.

Sumi was the first to step forward, her curiosity overtook her, her dark pink eyes studied the path opened to them, others eyes widen too, gazing upon the newfound environment.

"It's-".

"The outside world" Shino finished for her, gazing upon the abandoned city of Tokyo, Japan.

Ten was left stun as the elevator iron doors opened all of a sudden showing them abandon Tokyo. It was an unbelievable sight to behold.

"My plan worked?!"

"We...we...we are outside but-" Kaneki stammers in confusion.

Others gulps hard at the scene before them.

"Where is everybody?"

Ten slowly steps forward, others were frozen to the core as he did. Ten held the edge of the elevator, the cool breeze found him, his messy dark hair dancing with the wind along with his clothes. He breathed the air deeply, it was fresh and clear. He adjusted his glasses.

"But I don't understand," Haya said with trembling eyes.

"I don't see anyone, it looks abandoned, and it's almost as if no one has stayed here in years".

The whole city looked like a ghost town, not a single soul. From their view trees were covering most of the skyscraper buildings, cars abandoned and worn out, the air wild and chilly.

"The Prime Minister said it has been 2 years since the black storm," Rin said stepping forward, her blue eyes laced with seriousness.

"Are you saying all those crap the Prime Minister said is true?" Kaneki hissed in defiance, not wanting to believe.

"If the black storm happened then-" Asano said as her eyes grew teary.

"Then we are orphans" she adds in horror.

"No no don't say that, Daiki don't wanna hear it," Daiki said, the tears drops profusely as he covered his ears.

"Something is odd".

Their attention drifts to Ten, his glasses shined blank white.

"As much as I disagree with the Prime Minister, I can't help but say this... it wasn't just the Chemical Plant exploded, it did alongside a virus," Ten said his glasses back to normal.

"Now's not the time to play smart, smart ass" Kaneki grumbled folding his arms.

"What point are you getting at Ten?" Rin asked curiously, her blue eyes fixed on him.

"The point of saying", Ten looked up to the skies.

"Why is the air fresh when a deadly virus spread and the surface is inhabitable, we are breathing the air safe and sound, in other words...", Ten took a step down landing on the grass.

"This world we are in might not be real".

The moment he said those words a widescreen transparent computer came up revealing Prime Minister Kiyoshi, they froze when they saw him.

"Welcome bio-genetics" he began, his voice echoed like a loud mic sound.

"Am glad you have made it this far, am impressed" he comments, as his eyes drift to Ten for a brief second.

"Tck!" Kaneki made a sound annoyed.

"I deeply knew it would be hard for you to believe me or what I said about the world ending, well I will like to prove I am right here and now," he said spreading his arms at both like he was a performer.