was in the chamber with the Wolf. They were test subjects. The failed test subjects turned into a ghastly purple hue, with fangs and slick skin, great giant beasts. Whoever built this tunnel and secret lab had been kidnapping the children all along for some sort of experiment. Whatever monster his father had become, he wasn't guilty of the kidnappings. There was another monster right beneath their noses.

Relieved, Felix located a card key on a nearby counter. He scanned it on the chamber full of guns, which opened, and he grabbed one. He then scanned each of the animal chambers, and keeping his gun on the animals, pulled the children from the chambers quickly shutting the door behind them. He climbed on top of the chamber full of water and scanned the top door with his key, quickly grabbing the children before the Orca could attack him. Amazingly, the children were alive. There was no oxygen tank with them. What had they become?

He untied the blindfolds and removed the tape from their mouths, offering his lab coat to the Orca children to dry themselves.

"Who kidnapped you?" Felix frantically asked them.

The terrified children had no answer. They were shaking and silent and terrified. Who knew how long they had been in the chambers.

He gave the oldest looking child the keys to his vehicle, and said, "My vehicle is outside. Take it to the Ring, use this radio, say you're the missing children." He passed the radio to them from his pocket. "Ask for the Alva children."

"What about you?" One of the children asked.

"I need to find out what this is. Buy you time to get out."

The children ran from the hall, into the lab and up the stairs out of the complex with a speed acquired and built from a childhood of suffering.

Felix waited, his gun aimed at the doorway.

Hours passed, and then Felix heard a noise behind him. He turned, and as far as he could see down the tunnel, he saw flood lights begin to illuminate stepwise. Someone was approaching. The lights flicked on one by one as the person approached, closer and closer to Felix. He tried to make out who it was, his eye peering down along the barrel of the gun, his hands drenched in sweat, the metal of the gun cool on his hands. The person walked slowly and calmly, which shocked Felix. There was no doubt the person approaching saw Felix and the lights before him, and knew their secret location was no longer secret. Yet they remained calm.

Squinting, Felix finally realized who it was. He closed his eyes in anguish, despair, betrayal. His stomach turned as the events of the recent past started to become clear, like a dark jigsaw puzzle piecing together before him. The man was now mere thirty feet from him. Felix kept his rifle aimed.

"Not you," an exasperated Felix said to the man in front of him who calmly smiled back. He felt like a fool.

He should have known all along.