Author's POV
The atmosphere in the school had shifted from a celebration to a slaughterhouse. The air was still thick with the lingering scent of yellow gas, and the silence that followed was more deafening than the screams.
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The heavy mahogany doors of the administrative office didn't just open; they were kicked off their hinges. Ion entered first, his usual calm replaced by a cold, vibrating fury. Angelo followed, his hands already stained with the blood of the guards he'd leveled in the hallway.
Sir Alvarez sat behind his desk, leaning back with a sickeningly calm expression. "Angelo,Ion, sit. Panic is for the weak. Jay is simply being... repositioned for the school's greater good. You understand politics, don't you?"
"Cut the crap, Alvarez," Ion snapped, slamming his palms onto the desk. The wood groaned under the pressure. "I've spent years watching you play both sides. I know about the secret ledgers, and I know about the 'donations' from the Council. I know your truth. Now, tell me where Jay is, or I start dismantling this room with you inside it."
Alvarez chuckled, a dry, rattling sound. "You wouldn't dare. I am the backbone of this institution—"
Angelo leaned in, his shadow looming over the administrator. His voice was a low, jagged blade. "You aren't a backbone, Alvarez. You're just a rib—and I've always found it remarkably easy to break ribs when they get in my way. Tell us where she is, or I will turn this office into your tomb and bury your reputation under the rubble."
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In the dimly lit basement corridors, Matt moved with a frantic purpose he'd never felt before. Beside him were Cin, Felix, Dave, and Jerome—an unlikely squad unified by a single name.
They were nearing the restricted laboratory wing when Nicky stepped out from the shadows, her arms crossed, her eyes wide with fear and a hint of warning. "Stop! You can't go in there. The Board... they'll kill you all for trespassing. You're throwing your lives away for a girl who's already gone. Remember Matt, now youu are member of BBG"
Matt didn't even slow down. He brushed past her, his jaw set.
"Matt, stop!" Nicky cried out. "Why are you doing this? You don't owe her anything!"
"You're wrong," Matt said, looking back with eyes that burned with a new kind of light. "I do. Everyone else saw a traitor. Everyone else saw a coward. Jay is the only one who didn't misunderstand me. She gave me a gift when I deserved a grave. If I can't save her, then I don't deserve the life she gave back to me."
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Above ground, the "Supremo" was gone. In his place was a god of war. Ace and Raze moved through the faculty housing and the old gym, places where the Council often hid their "prizes."
"If they touched a hair on her head," Raze muttered, checking his weapon, "Keifer won't be the only one turning this place to ash."
Ace didn't speak. He didn't need to. Every door he kicked in was a declaration of war. He wasn't looking for Jay anymore; he was looking for a reason to stop himself from burning the entire campus to the ground.
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In the main hall, Keifer was a vision of horror. He was bleeding from multiple gashes, his shirt torn, looking like an injured lion backed into a corner.
A Board member, a man whose name was synonymous with cruelty, stood safely behind a line of guards. He smirked at Keifer.
"Look at you. All this for that girl? She's weak, Keifer. A soft heart in a world of teeth. She's probably crying for mercy right now."
Keifer's roar was primal. He tore through the guards like they were made of paper. He reached the Board member and began to strike. One punch. Two. Five. Ten. The man's face was a map of ruin. Keifer was losing himself, his eyes vacant, focused only on the pulse under his knuckles.
"Keifer! Stop!" Zein screamed, grabbing his arm. Her grip was like iron. "If you kill him now, we lose the lead. Look!"
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The giant projector in the hall hummed to life. The room went dark. On the screen, the image was grainy but clear.
Jay was there. She was tied to an operation bed, her skin pale under the harsh fluorescent lights. A masked man stepped into the frame, looking directly into the camera.
"Students of the Academy," the man whispered. "Let me introduce you to our masterpiece. The experiment... the first to survive. Ms. Shion, thank you for your blood. Without it, our evolution would have been impossible."
Zein froze, her breath hitching. "My... blood?"
On screen, a nurse approached Jay with a massive syringe filled with a glowing, amber fluid. They plunged it into her arm. The crowd in the hall gasped, but Jay didn't make a sound. She didn't scream. She didn't even flinch. She was staring past the nurse, focusing on an empty chair in the corner of the room.
"Speak, Jay," the masked man taunted. "How does it feel to become a god?"
Silence.
They turned a dial, and blue sparks danced across the bed. Electric shocks racked Jay's body, her muscles seizing violently. Still, she didn't shout.
"JAY! LOOK AT ME!" Keifer screamed at the screen, his voice breaking.
As if she heard him through the miles of wire, Jay turned her head. Her eyes met the camera. They weren't filled with pain; they were filled with a cold, calculated signal. A flicker of the eyelids—a code only she and Keifer shared from their nights on the rooftop.
I'm ready.
Then, the screen went black.
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Madam Violet stepped onto the stage, flanked by the Council. She was laughing, a high, thin sound that grated on the nerves. "It's over. She's been integrated. Jay as you knew her is gone. She belongs to the project now. You all now know the consequences if opposing us."
Keifer stood tall, his voice vibrating the floorboards. "Then I hope you've said your prayers, Violet. Because if she's gone, I'm going to burn every single one of you until there's nothing left but the smell of your arrogance."
Suddenly, the doors at the back of the hall burst open.
A figure walked through the smoke. It was Jay. She was covered in blood—splattered across her face, soaking her white shirt until it was a deep, wet crimson.
The screen flickered back on.
The lab was a graveyard. Eight Council guards lay brutally slaughtered, their bodies twisted in ways that shouldn't be possible. The masked man and the nurse were cowering in the corner, alive but paralyzed by fear.
Jay was on the screen, standing over them with a jagged knife. She looked into the camera, her smile terrifyingly sweet.
"You think I'm the weak link because I smile?" Jay's voice echoed through the hall, but it was coming from the girl standing at the door and the girl on the screen simultaneously. "That's cute. In a school full of monsters, the most dangerous one is the girl who has nothing left to fear. I've seen Hell, I've survived the Council, and now? I'm going to show you why Keifer calls me his Queen."
On screen, Jay turned to the nurse. With a blur of motion, she stabbed—once, twice, twenty times—a rhythmic, relentless punishment. She left the man alive, staring at him with eyes that held no mercy.
She walked out of the room on screen. A second later, a massive explosion rocked the facility, and the screen went black for the final time.
The real Jay walked to the center of the hall and grabbed the microphone. The silence was absolute.
"The Bloody Night is closed," Jay announced, her voice booming. "As of this moment, no one is allowed to kill anyone. And don't think this is just a warning. I'm going to make sure the peace that was stopped twelve years ago actually happens this time."
She looked up at the balcony, where a dark shadow lingered in the rafters. She didn't blink. Then, she turned her gaze to Madam Violet, whose face had gone ashen.
"Start the countdown, Violet," Jay whispered into the mic, her eyes glowing with a terrifying resolve. "Because your days are officially limited."
The grand hall, once a place of structured violence and rigid hierarchy, had become a tomb of silence. The flickering projector light cast long, distorted shadows across the faces of the students, making everyone look like ghosts.
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Zein's POV
My heart felt like it was being squeezed by a cold, invisible hand. Seeing Jay—the girl who had just hours ago been laughing about birthday cake—strapped to that surgical bed felt like watching a part of her own soul being dissected. When the electricity surged through Jay's body and Jay didn't scream, Zein felt a different kind of terror.
Cry out, Jay! Scream! My mind pleaded.
The silence was worse than the pain. It meant Jay wasn't there anymore. It meant the girl I loved as a sister was being replaced by something else.
When Jay finally looked into the camera and blinked that rhythmic signal, I saw it—a flash of ancient, cold recognition. The confusion was paralyzing.
Then she entered and I felt I was seeing a different person.This was not the Jay , I know.
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Ace's POV
I stood at the edge of the mezzanine,my knuckles white as he gripped the railing. I had spent his life becoming the "Supremo," the ultimate predator of Hell University. But watching that screen, I realized I was just a guard dog in a much larger cage. Then Jay entered and the air inside changed.Her eyes were lifeless.Her body cover in blood but she wasn't scared now.Then she said bloody night will stop. I know something was about to change.Beside me, Raze was deathly still.I stood at the edge of the mezzanine,my knuckles white as he gripped the railing. I had spent his life becoming the "Supremo," the ultimate predator of Hell University. But watching that screen, I realized I was just a guard dog in a much larger cage. Then Jay entered and the air inside changed.Her eyes were lifeless.Her body cover in blood but she wasn't scared now.Then she said bloody night will stop. I know something was about to change.Beside me, Raze was deathly still.
"The Hell University is about to witness something dangerous," Raze whispered, his voice trembling."The Hell University is about to witness something dangerous," Raze whispered, his voice trembling.
I didn't look away. "Dangerous? No, Raze. We're witnessing the end of the world as we know it. The board didn't just wake up a monster; they woke up the only person capable of tearing this entire system down."
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Keifer's POV
I was an injured lion, blood seeping from his wounds, but he didn't feel the pain. I only felt the signal. Double-blink. Steady stare. It was the code from the mansion. It meant 'I am the predator now.'
I knew then that the experiments hadn't broken her; they had completed her.I was an injured lion, blood seeping from his wounds, but he didn't feel the pain. I only felt the signal. Double-blink. Steady stare. It was the code from the mansion. It meant 'I am the predator now.' I knew then that the
experiments hadn't broken her; they had completed her.
When the screen went black and Madam Violet stepped out, laughing, my roar wasn't just out of rage—it was a distraction. I knew Jay was coming. I could feel her presence like a storm front moving in. I stood as a wall of steel, his eyes burning with a silent, terrifying support. Come home, Jay. I'll burn the path for you.
The doors thudded open. Jay stepped through the smoke, a vision of carnage. The blood on her face looked like war paint. She ignored the gasps, walking straight to the microphone with the steady gait of someone who had already won.
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Author's POV
The moment the doors of the dorm clicked shut, the "Queen" vanished. Jay turned to him, her eyes finally breaking. "Keifer... I am tired."
He didn't say a word. He didn't need to. He scooped her up, feeling the weight of the girl who had just single-handedly ended a war. He knew she had remembered everything—the orphanage, the needles, and his father. He sat her down, standing behind her like a silent guardian as the others crowded in.
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Zein's POV
I couldn't stop looking at Jay's hands. They were stained deep. When Mia asked why Jay had become "one of them," I felt a surge of anger, but it was drowned out by Jay's response.
"I remembered what they did to me," Jay whispered. "To my mother. To Keifer's dad."
Then Jay looked Zein dead in the eyes. "And to your sister, Zein."
The room went cold. My breath hitched.
I staggered back, my world dissolving into a blur of grief and fury. The girl I was trying to protect was the only one who truly knew the depth of the horror they were living in.
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A/n
Guys a new chapter for you all.I know you all might be having a lot of questions, have patience because soon the truth will be revealed.
Spoiler for next chapter 😉:
Flashback: Experiment truth
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