"WHAT!!" you nearly shrieked out at Robert. From the corner of your eye, you saw Jack flinch at your outburst, but that didn't matter at the moment.

" They can't Do that!" you yelled to Robert who was giving you a pitying expression. " Hoolan is the Most special creature that has ever been discovered, they can't just kill him! What if he's the last of His kind. They can't do that!" Robert opened his mouth to reply, but someone else beat him to it.

" They can, and they will Y/N." you turned with wide eyes to see who the person was that spoke. It was Maria. She was giving you a hard look and she had her head tilted a little bit with her hip jutted out.

" There is nothing you can do about it anyway Y/N. Besides it's just an animal, there's plenty of more in the ocean." She rolled her eyes as she spoke to you in her usual Narcissistic voice. You gritted your teeth as tears started to roll down your cheeks. The tears felt hot against your eyes and cheeks. How could she say something like that? Didn't she know how much Hoolan meant to you? Oh, she did alright, she just didn't care.

You lunged over at her and grabbed her by the collar of her lab coat and shoved her against the wall. She let out a little scream as you did and you heard Jack, Paul and Hubert yell your name as Robert yelled for you to stop.

" How could you say that?!" You yelled in her face " That's like saying if you drowned it's ok because there's plenty of other people on the planet!" You would have yelled more at her but you felt someone pulling you off and away from her. Robert stepped between you and Maria as you struggled in Hubert's grip, as you did a tapping sound filled the room.

" That's enough Y/N! I don't agree with it either but there is nothing we can do about it! " He shouted. Then continued, his voice lowering a little. " they are going to be here tomorrow to get him, so I suggest you just make peace with the fact on what's going to happen.

You ripped yourself from Hubert's grip and looked between your three friends. Paul and Jack were both looking ways from you with sad expressions, so you turned to Hubert for help. He himself had a sad expression and even had his mouth open trying to say something, but nothing came out.

Eventually, he just closed his mouth and gave you and even sadder expression before looking down at the ground. It felt like your heart was being ripped to shreds right there. your legs and hand were shaking from anger and sadness. You looked over at Hoolan's tank to find him tapping the glass with one of his hooked foreleg's. The sight broke your heart even more than it already was.

You looked between everyone one final time before turning around and running from the lab. You heard Hubert jack and Robert call after you, but you didn't stop. You heard the footsteps of someone racing after you but you ignored them. You eventually reached your room and slammed the door shut behind you after you entered. After a second you heard the footsteps stop at your door and Hubert's voice as he knocked furiously.

" Y/N come out, please! we can talk about this!" he said, his voice a little muffled as he spoke through the door.

" Go away! You shouted back but quickly regretting yelling at him. It wasn't his fault. You walked over to the door and opened it a sliver, not wanting to reveal all of your tear struck face to him. He was breathing a little heavily as he looked through the door at you, his hands on both sides of the door.

" I'm sorry for yelling at you Hubert, It's not your fault and I know you're just trying to help. here, come in." You opened the door wider for him and moved to the side so he could slip in. he moved over to the center of your room before turning back to look at you. he held out his arms for you and you slipped into them.

You and he just stood there for a few minutes hugging each other. You started to cry into his chest and he started to rock you back and forth, shushing you gently. After a few more minutes you pulled away from him, sniffing and wiping your none on the sleeve of your lab Jacket.

" Thank you for being here for Me Hubert, you are a good friend." he smiled at what you said and reached out to rub your shoulder.

" I like you Y/N, and I hate to see you like this, what can I do to help?"

I just wish we could do something for Hoolan." You replied sniffing some more

" Me too Y/N, It's not fair what their doing to him, and it's not fair how Robert and Maria are treating you too, she had no right to say that to you, I was honestly hoping you would punch her in the face." he Chuckled and you couldn't help laughing with him a little bit.

" Yeah, I probably would have if you didn't pull me back." He laughed at your reply. Then it got quiet for a little bit, You both looked into each other's eyes. You into his Dark, almost black eyes and him into your E/C Eyes. You felt a blush rise to your cheeks, what did you do deserve such a kind person? Your mind quickly went back to Hoolan again, He didn't deserve to die. You knew you had to do something ].

" I think I'm gonna get some sleep, I'll probably feel better in the morning." You said, " thank you for helping." He nodded and you both hugged again before walking over to the door, he opened it before looking back at you.

" Just let me know if you need anything Y/N."

You nodded at him before telling him that you would. You both said your good nights and after he left you started pacing the floor of your room, trying to figure out how you would save Hoolan.

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You waited until late at night, making sure everyone was asleep before slipping out of your room to make your move. You quietly made your way past everyone's rooms. down the hallway's to the lab. You stepped as lightly as you could, being careful to not make the metal grating clink with your steps.

After a few minutes of sneaking through the hallway you finally made it into the lab, all the lights were shut off except for the lights in the specimen tanks. You made your way over to Hoolans tank, not turning on the light. You found him at the front of the tank, looking at you almost if he expected you to come.

" Don't worry Hoolan, I'm not gonna let them hurt you. I'm gonna get you out of here." You said quietly to him. You put your hand on the glass in front of him and he put both of his front legs on the glass where your hand was. You looked into his little eyes for a bit before turning around to look for something to carry him in. You went to the cupboards where the transporting containers were and opened them to find that they had been cleared.

"What?" you said quietly to yourself. so you searched the rest of the lab. Only to come up empty-handed. You couldn't believe it. Robert must have known that you would do something like this, so he removed everything that you could use to carry Hoolan to someplace else. he even removed the small nets used to catch the little feeding fish.

You swore under your breath and left the lab to go check the medical room. You found that everything that you could use to carry Hoolan in had been removed from there too. Then tried the kitchen in the last ditch effort, The same thing had happened there too. You really didn't need this right now, You had to get Hoolan out of here Now!

You Quietly ran back to the lab, but right as you were at the door you heard footsteps coming down the hall toward the lab. And from the sound of the stride, you knew it was Robert You were about to bolt into the lab to hide when you heard a voice that didn't belong to Richard.

" Hey, Robert, what ya doing up so late?" It was Hubert. And he sounded like an Angel straight out of heaven.

" Nothing much, Just looking for Y/N, She's not in her room."

" Oh, she was in the cafeteria with me. But she just went back to her room." Holy crap, Hubert knew you were doing something and was helping you not get caught. He really was a good friend.

" Oh." Robert was speaking again. " If that's the case we should just let her be, she had a rough night. Robert said as you heard their footsteps going away from the lab.

" yeah, she was pretty upset. So we went to get a bite to eat." and that was the last you heard as their voices faded from earshot. You sighed in relief. You would thank Hubert later. You went through the doors to the lab and went straight to Hoolan's tank. He was in the exact same spot.

You were pretty scared about what you were about to do next, but you were out of options. After all, you couldn't lift the tank. You lifted the cover off of the tank and hesitated for a second before sticking your hand into the water. Hoolan got in a threatening stance and snapped his mandibles at you. You quickly pulled your hand out of the water.

" Come on Hoolan!" you said desperately. You kneeled down so you could be at eye level with him. " Hoolan, you need to listen to me. I know you can understand me, I knew you could from the day we first met. I can't carry you in anything but my hands so I really need you to cooperate with me right now. Because if you don't I can't get you out of here. There are bad people coming and if you're still here by then, they're gonna kill you. So please let me help you Hoolan."

You looked at him for a little bit before he started to do something. He started to shrink! he was now the size of your hand again. you took that as a sign and stuck your hand back into the water again. This time, he got on your hand, It felt weird, but you were too happy to care.

"Thank you Hoolan!" You said to him before turning around and making your way out of the lab. You headed through the halls to the loading room where Hubert was Set off every day. You reached the room after a few minutes and immediately headed to the panel. You stood in front of it for a moment, trying to remember how Jack did it.

After a while, you remembered what to do and flipped the switches and pushed the buttons necessary before pulling down the lever. The room started to vibrate loudly and you cringed. You hope that didn't draw any unwanted attention. you quickly made your way over to the part of the floor that was lowering down and got on your knees and looking down at Hoolan with a sad smile.

" Alright Hoolan, this is where you get off, I'm so glad to have met you, thank you for coming into my life. I'm going to miss you so much." You had tears streaming down your cheeks by the time you were done talking. The little creature looked back up at up at you, his mandibles moving softly. You continued to smile at him as you lowered him into the water.

" Take care Hoolan." You cried softly as his image was blurred by the water, but he didn't get off of your hand.

" come on Hoolan, you need to go." Your heart was slowly breaking again. You shook your hand gently shaking the little creature off of your hand. You cried even harder as his image grew smaller before the water cut off your view of him. " Goodbye Hoolan."

You started to cry harder as you went back up to the panel and did what you needed to do to lift the platform up again. After it lifted up and set into place you went over to the door to go back to your room. you were surprised when you almost crashed into Hubert's chest.

he didn't say anything but quickly pulled you into a hug. you embraced his hug and cried softly into his chest.

" Thank you, for having my back out there." You said into his chest.

" I knew you were gonna do something like that." he replied, " so I knew I had to help you."

You pulled away from him and smiled up at him.

" Although they're going to know it was you, They're not gonna keep you here anymore, he said with a frown on his face. You sniffed and nodded.

" I know, it was worth it though, I couldn't let them kill him, I had to help Him because that's what friends do," you said, looking up into his dark eyes. " But thank you still, for helping me help him." You smiled up at him, He returned the smile

" That's what friends do," he said back. Your smile grew wider at that and you grabbed his hand, and you both headed back to your rooms.