Experiments

Manta sighed as he looked down at his shoes, it was a late evening, at the verge of becoming night, and he was waiting for the last train to arrive. School had ended late again, but it didn't matter much to Manta, Yoh had gone to Izumo, without even saying goodbye.

'I guess he hates me so much that he won't even speak to me again.' Manta closed his eyes, thinking depressive thoughts, not even bothering to look up as he heard boots walk over the ground. He supposed it was just another person who had to work late, yet he opened one eye to see who it was, then his eyes dilated.

"Hello Manta." An eerily familiar voice spoke.

"F-Faust VIII." Manta wanted to scream, but it only came out as a mere whisper. Recalling everything that had happened that night only a few weeks ago he quickly decided to flee. But as he jumped down from the bench and ran in the other direction, he didn't get very far.

Faust didn't even have to run after him, even though it would have been easy enough, instead he smiled down at his skeleton-dog as Frankensteiny carried Manta back.

"Good dog" Faust spoke out as he scooped up Manta who was now paralyzed with fear. Frankensteiny barked and waged his tail, glad to make his master happy.

"P-please let me go." Manta whispered, his whole body trembling with fear.

"I'm sorry, but I can't just let an interesting specimen like you just slip away, can I?" Faust chuckled as he covered Manta's nose and mouth with a cloth. "From now on you'll be my little lab-pet." Manta struggled for a moment, but then his struggles faded to nothing as he lost against the chloroform. Everything turned into darkness.

As soon as Manta had opened his eyes he wished he hadn't. He had a huge head-ache. Manta groaned as he sat up to see where he was. It reminded a little about a hospital but it did in fact look more like some sort of lab than any hospital Manta had been to.

"Decided to wake up now? Good." Manta twitched as he realized Faust where standing beside the bed, scribbling down something in a note-book. Then he took his notebook and pen in one hand and laid his other hand on Manta's forehead. "How do you feel? Do you feel nauseous or dizzy?"

"No, just a headache." Manta replied and the doctor wrote it down. As the doctor wrote in his notebook Manta felt how tears were starting to well up.

"Hm?" Faust looked over his notebook at the quivering Manta.

"W-what are you going to do to me?" Manta had to struggle to keep his voice steady.

"Hm? Have you not understood? You are my lab pet now, Manta." Faust gave a low chuckle. "There's a small bathroom behind that door over there and food will be served three times a day. Except before operations of course." Faust chuckled aging.

With a shriek he jumped out of the bed and sprinted past Faust towards the door. But before Manta could open it, he was picked up by a pair of skeleton hands.

"No, no, no, no!" Manta cried as Eliza held him in a firm grip and turned him around to face Faust. "Let me go!" Manta started to sob while Eliza then pinned him down on the bed, he squirmed but it was impossible to get away. And while the grip on him hardened Manta started to panic.

"You won't calm down, will you?" Faust said as he looked at the two. "Very well then." Faust turned to one of the benches that was in the room and started preparing a syringe.

Manta whimpered when he saw Faust approach and felt his left sleeve being pulled upwards by Eliza.

"P-please, don't." Manta whispered as he saw Faust preparing to inject the needle.

"Don't worry, this doesn't hurt at all."

Manta quickly looked away, whimpering and with tears still running down his checks. He'd always been scared of needles. His lips let out a small whimper and he twitched slightly as the needle pricked his skin. It felt cold as it emptied its contains into Manta's arm.

"You shouldn't make such a huge fuss over this, you'll get used to this sooner or later." Faust said with a little laugh as he took out the needle. But Manta didn't answer, instead he fought for keeping his eyes open. But only after a few minutes Manta lost conscious and everything turned black.

You know, one of the things that surprise me the most is the fact that it seems like no one else had written and put up a fanfic like this, I mean, isn't this quite obvious? The reason Faust even cut Manta open was coz he was an 'interesting specimen' in the manga.

Oh, I guess this is based on the manga then, but in this version Eliza didn't loose her precious legs (CURSE YOU ASAKURA YOH! ) now… I'll probably delete this story someday, but first I think I'll put up other chapters, too.

'' er, I got idea's for both Necroman's apprentice and Remain or leave, please bear with me, I don't want to rush it but I WILL update! Or foul demons with bad breath will eat my soul! And we can't let that happen, can we?