Good Girl Gone Bad: Queen of Underground World

Waking Up

The sound of the man's laughter echoed through her ears making one flesh creep. Looking amused at what's infront of him, he leaned towards the bloodied girl sitting in an iron chair. Her back pinned against the spike of the iron chair, her wrist are screwed, few of her fingers are missing and both her feet are crushed. Blood oozes every part of her body. The sight of her is extremely gruesome yet the diabolical man in front of her looked very amused. His lips that were curled upward resembling of a smile, spoke.

"My sera... dear, don't dare forget this.. hmm?" His bone chilling voice without any trace of humanity drifted through her ear.

His voice, his laugh, his touch, his presence are all imprinted on her mind. Her heart is filled with hatred; nothing but hatred.

Feeling a cold metallic pressed on her forehead. Seraphina slightly raised her head, feeling his gaze on her, she smirked mockingly at the man.

'Yes, I will not forget you.. even in my next lifetime, I'll definitely make you pay a 1000 times!'

BANG!
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Tuuut, tuuut, tuuuut

The digital sound of heartbeat resounding the four corners of the brightly lit white room.
A girl lying on the bed with a monitoring arterial blood pressure, ECG and also mechanically ventilated, slowly opened her eyes.

'Too bright!' She thought

Aside from different hightech monitoring machines beside her bed, not a dust can be seen inside the room. As the pitch of her heartbeat increases, the variables present at the monitors starts to abnormally change. An alarm that starts to resound through her ear before her eyelids starts to flicker. Slowly, opening her eyes and shutting them once again.

A series of footsteps rushed to her and vaguely hearing them uttering some words she couldn't understand. she attempted to opened her eyes, blinking slowly until her blurry sight adjust to the light.

"She.. she's a- awake!"
A stuttering voice made the busy crowd paused. They subconsciously turned their gazes on the girl's blinking eyes. The abnormality of the variables in the monitor gradually reach normal limits and her heart rate stabilizes.

Stunned for a second, a man that appeared to be in his mid 20's wearing a white lab coat approaches her.

"Hello, Ms. Yue, I'm Dr. Jin. Can you hear me?" The man's monotone voice asked as he lean closer to her.

"Please blink twice if you can hear me." Instinctively, she slowly blink twice as instructed.

'What the heck? Did I survive hell? Hehe.. that scum he should have killed me... I'll make him regret letting me live!'

Losing herself in her own thoughts and murder schemes, a light pinch on her hand brought her back to reality. Startled. She involuntarily withdrew her hand. the man called doctor Jin nodded in satisfaction. A series of test went on; for who knows how long, she once again heard Dr. Jin's voice.

Hearing him uttering some familiar medical terms, she pondered:

'Did I become Aurora(1) again? Just how long have I've been unconscious this time?'

"Inform Chairman Yue that Seraphina is awake. She—" before Dr. Jin end his sentence, an audible noise made him stop midway, his attention turn to the white-haired man standing outside the transparent glass window followed behind him are few doctors who seem having a hard time explaining that made him frowned even more.

"Continue to monitor Ms. Yue.." after saying a few notes with the other female doctor, he glance at her for about 2 seconds before leaving the room quietly.

Just as Dr. Jin stepped outside, Chairman Yu inquired with a rather annoyed tone.

"Doctor Jin, what happened to my granddaughter?" He asked. In spite with his white hair and visible wrinkles on his face, the way he cause a ruckus contradicts his appearance.

"I apologi—" before the other doctor behind Chairman Yue can fully explain the situation, he was interrupted once again by Chairman Yue. 

"I don't need your goddamn apology! I want my granddaughter's life! I will burn this place if—" as he starts to pour his rage to everyone's present, he was abruptly interrupted by doctor Jin.

"She's awake." Without a change on his expression, doctor Jin stared at chairman Yue who seem to be shock about the news.

Chairman Yue assumed that something bad happened to her beloved granddaughter enough reason to go crazily mad. He is ready to burn this place with everyone who let her granddaughter die in it. But the 2 words that he's been waiting for the last 1 and half year; he thought he heard wrong. Following Doctor Jin's gaze, the doctor that was been monitoring the girl inside and unintentionally blocked their view, move aside revealing the girl who was lying on the bed. Her eyes kept on blinking making the old man eyes well up.

"Sera.." Chairman Yue softly called out her name with a rather gentle tone. His hand slowly touch the transparent glass window.

"Seraphina's vitals are now stable. Chairman Yue, Your granddaughter's chances of recovering are high. She can still live like a normal lady, however, we still have to keep monitoring her condition if any other brain stem are damaged." Doctor Jin's voice drifted through Chairman Yue'a ear yet nothing seems to matter to him.

"I want to see her." Without leaving his eyes on her; he demand.
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After Doctor Jin left, Seraphina tried to move her body but can only manage to lift her fingers. Her body felt sore and numb at the same time. Since her bed is slightly inclined, she can only observe her surrounding.

The room has no decorations. It only has a white walls, white ceiling even the floor is white. seeing a few transparent windows and door in her peripheral vision. She observed the female doctor monitoring her. She can see her sometimes write or check on her. She even once in a while talk to her. Though receiving no response from her, the female doctor still occasionally talk to her.

"Your vitals are stable now and finally you're awake. Your grandfather is too worried about you.."

'Grandfather is too worried about you..' hearing a familiar sentence , she muttered in her mind the rest of the sentence. There, she felt something's off. she looked at the direction of the female doctor. She's writing something but the moment her pen stopped, she looked at her and offered a warm smile. The female doctor slightly bowed her head before she left but before she reaches the glass door, the female doctor tripped.

'Eh!? Deja vu?'