’What am I going to do? How the heck am I supposed to figure out how to turn her?’ With the assessment over, Grim left the three blood mutants, Skyler and Anya in the simulation chamber and went off to attend to other important matters. Cherry and Jim were still on the ground recuperating. The two had been pushed beyond their limits and managed to learn a couple of new things about themselves and their blood-mutant genes. For starters, Jim had learned how to become more vicious forever since he woke up from the six-year-long hibernation he and the others were placed in, he became softer and less vicious than when he was on Earth. This assessment opened his eyes to how dangerous the new world they were yet to get into was. He now started to focus more on his brutal skills, quick thinking, but also on how to attack without hesitation. Cherry, who was and still is the most aggressive of the blood mutants, had learned the importance and danger of letting one’s emotions get in the way of their battle. After her fight with the blood beasts ended, the young woman fell to the ground and could not get up for a while, for her body had given out on her. She didn’t wish to admit it, but Grim was right about her behavior. In the end, Cherry learned that she’d need to handle her emotions and understand when to use them before she ended up making careless mistakes that could cost her life. "They weren’t kidding, this Grim guy’s too harsh with his training." Cherry muttered to herself as she remained on the ground, looking at the high ceiling. While doing so, she heard the whimpers and sniffs of the other female in their group while her brother pranced from left to right, pulling the hair from his head and screaming due to frustration. "What’s going on with him now?" "Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it." Ace frustratedly shouted while figuring out how he was supposed to turn his former school nurse into a blood mutant. The young man figured that the Granians thought he knew how to do so, given that Grim was an unplanned Blood Mutant in the first place. However, Jim’s blood mutant existence still confused Ace to this day for he did not know how exactly Jim got turned. ’Wait, I could ask him to explain to me how it happened.’ Ace run over to Jim, who was just getting back up on his feet. Stretching his hand out, the younger blood mutant helped the older stand straight as he stared into his eyes and asked, "How did you turn into a blood mutant?" "Excuse me?" Jim asked, confused by the unexpected and random question. "I need you to tell me just what exactly happened when you got turned?" Ace asked again. "Did you see anything, feel anything? Did you consume my blood?" "Why are you so interested in this?" Jim asked back, still confused by Ace’s curiosity. "Are you thinking of starting a blood mutant army?" "Look over there.’ Ace abruptly spoke while pointing at Anya. "The Granians want me to make her like us, except I don’t know how. I don’t know how you got turned into what you are now. All I remember is my system telling me to subdue you when you challenged me." "System? Subdue?" Jim’s confusion grew even more. "Ace, what exactly are talking about? Were you hit on your head so hard because that seems like the only logical conclusion for now." "No, I’m not insane. Let me start over." Ace went on and explained everything that happened to him, starting from the pods landing down, to his short battle with Grim, and then finally the information he got concerning Anya. While doing so, he continued to emphasize just how important it was for him to do so, otherwise, the human would end up dying. "So you’re telling me that the aliens put something inside of her that’ll kill her and if you do not turn her, she will die?" Jim asked and then responded to his own question. "I think I understand where you’re coming from." Having regained some of his energy back, Jim looked at Ace and asked, "Before I tell you what happened to me, I’ll need you to explain just what happened when you were inside the Blood Type Serum Injection room because that is where I found the ’thing’ that turned me into a blood mutant." Ace remained quiet for a moment and then remembered how his body overreacted the second he ingested the red gas, the same gas that was used on the planet Earth and turned those who were unfortunate enough into either red men or killed them. As soon as he gave Jim this information and the other did the same, they both came to a conclusion on how Jim was turned. "The red gas had a violent effect on your body which made you turn into a blood mutant to defend itself. Once you turned, a little strain of your blood mutant gene, mixed with the Gifted Serum, infused with my DNA." Jim concluded. "Since that’s the case, we’ll have to get your own DNA, spliced with the red gas and a catalyst similar to the Gifted serums. I guess that will do." "Thank you, Jim." Ace said as he quickly ran to Anya, who was being tended to by Skyler and Cherry who was strangely looking at her. "You look oddly familiar," Cherry said as she squatted next to Anya. "I feel like I’ve seen you before, but I just cannot remember you." Seeing Ace coming over, Cherry went over to him and asked who Anya was. "This was my school nurse." Ace answered. "You don’t know her because she was a nurse for the seniors and juniors." "Oh, you must be Cherry." Anya said to Cherry with her hand held out for a handshake. "Your brother used to speak about you a lot. It’s a pleasure to meet you." "How did you end up here?" Skyler asked the more important question that she and Cherry had lingering on their minds. "Were you a test subject meant to be turned into a Blood Mutant?" Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝕟𝕖𝕥 "I-I don’t know what that means." Anya answered and then proceeded to tell the two girls how she too was abducted. "After the school was attacked, I ran out from my little nurses’ office and headed outside, just as the military personnel’s said. As I was heading out, I saw these aliens knocking your brother down and I accidentally peeped. Once they saw me, they knocked me out and put me on their ship. I just got up a couple of hours ago." "There’s something inside her body that’s slowly killing her." Ace interrupted while helping Anya up on her feet. "We need to take her to the Granians. I’ve already got a plan on how to heal you." "Which is?" Anya asked with fear in her eyes. Even though she had not seen the full extent of Ace, Cherry, or Jim’s power, she did not wish to possess or have anything to do with it. "I’m sorry, Anya, but the Granians have put you in between a rock and a hard place. The only way to heal your body is by turning you. If there was another way, I would go with that but it seems that these Granians want yet another Blood Mutant." "Lord Grim, the humans wish to speak with you." Somewhere else in the Granian Mother Ship, Lord Grim was seen communicating with Grand Master and a couple of other Granian Heads of Authority. Upon hearing what he was called for, the others grew curious and inquired just what Grim was planning. "The people of Grania know you as a great fighter, warrior, and conquerer, Grim." One of the Granians said to Grim. "Please, do tell us. What new strategy do you have concerning the humans." "Indeed. What news do you have to tell us?" Another asked. "What’s the progress with them? Do you think they can defeat the others and the Ethisians and the other two?" "The humans have just completed the symbiotic fusion program." Grim answered, making sure to keep a cool and calm composure. "I tested them a couple of hours ago. They lack the strength to battle a lowest-ranked Ethisian single handedly. They also lack the basic, fundamental fighting skill needed to take down a strong leveled specimen. In other words, they cannot defeat the other two as well. In fact, if we get attacked immediately we land back on our home planet, I guarantee that we will lose another colony to them." "What’s the way forward." Grand Master asked. "We’ve already subjected them to the symbiotes as you said and even if we put them through too much training, they still will not be able to handle themselves out there." "I’ve come up with a new strategy that’ll enable us to regain our colonies as well as strengthen them. It goes ...."