Chapter 1
Okay, for all you doubters, this is Jordan Falls. Yes, my name showed up on the news because I had unknown DNA in my blood, and yes, this is reason is why the paranoid scientists are chasing me around the country with highly armed security forces.
My story begins in an orphanage. I was left there by my mom or dad, and I've lived there since I was really little. The place wasn't much to look at, it was in an old, run-down, brick building filled with boys and girls of all ages (the youngest were around two or three years old). I'm hovering somewhere between thirteen and fourteen years old, but did that stop crazy scientists from poking me with needles? See, ever since I was born, I could turn into a dragon. Shocker, right? The government is after me, they've been after me since I was six. Word got through to the government when I had to get my shots and get a blood test. Apparently, the doctors thought I had a disease and needed treatment. They were half right. When, I get mad my eyes narrow into paper thin slits. Everybody thinks I'm a freak, well almost everyone, my sister. She's around four years old and her full name is Annabelle-Martin Falls. She's like me, and we share the same navy blue eyes and largish ears. I'll find her, I have to. Here's a description of what's really been happening for the past three weeks. The only other person I've told is my best friend, John. He was pretty freaked out the first time he saw me transform.
"C'mon Jordan, it's time to get up!" said John "You don't want Ms. Rail to get so mad her face turns purple and she yells so loud we all go deaf, do you?" That's John, he's my best friend in this prison of an orphanage. Ms. Rail is our school principal and our self-proclaimed "savior", even though the only thing she's saving is the checks the city sends her for retirement. "John, Jordan, get your lazy, no-good, rear ends down here!" the PA blared. We both groaned, knowing the PA system ran through the girls' bedrooms as well as ours. Since, we both knew this was going to be a LLOONNGG weekend, starting with our names at the top of the morning gossip list. We normally try to keep low profile around the girl's table, but seeing Ms. Rail in all her four-ton glory, I knew after we got into the orphanage's cafeteria, that this was not going to go unnoticed. When John and I, finally made it to Ms. Rail's office, there she was, flabby arms crossed, and beady eyes glittering. We walked with our heads down, hoping to avoid being noticed by the fifty girls sitting at their table. John and I might as well as asked for forgiveness for spray painting Ms. Rail's statue. We had spray painted our opinions of her choice make-ups and hair spray. Even when she's singlehandedly depleting the ozone with her hairspray, Ms. Rail is always trying to find a way to throw us both into prison. "When we walk by the girl's table, act casual, and please don't call attention t yourself." I said to John as we walked towards the cafeteria. "Don't worry, dude." John whispered "I'm not that stupid, and besides, it's not like we put a snapping turtle in her bathroom. Again." John said, straight-faced. I tried not to snort with laughter, remembering when actually had put a snapping turtle in her bathroom; Ms. Rail couldn't sit down for weeks. "Alright, you know the drill. Just walk into the cafeteria, get our breakfast, and sit down where we always sit. As we neared the doors to the cafeteria, I noticed that it was completely deserted. "Jordan, are you out there?" Ms. Rail screeched. I walked, shamefaced, to her office on the other side of the cafeteria. When I entered her office, I noticed that a gaunt, pale man in a lab coat was sitting in a chair across from Ms. Rail's desk.
"The paperwork has been filled out, and signed by my employer." The man said. I froze. I knew that voice, the man with his back turned to me had taken my sister. I nearly ran out of the room screaming my head off, but before I got a chance, the man reached back stabbed my arm with a syringe. I winced before I fell over onto the floor "Dr. Naas has kindly agreed to take you off my hands. The consequences of resisting will be… severe if you do not allow him to study you and your sister." Ms. Rail said with a smile on her face that could have raised goose bumps on a corpse. "Leave her out of this!" I yelled, hoping to get John to realize I was in way over my head. Just as I hoped he would, John burst into the room. "Jordan what's going on…" John's voice trailed off at the sight of the man that had dragged my sister kicking and screaming into the car. "Run, John." I rasped just before I collapsed onto the floor.
When I finally awoke, I heard a dull thrumming noise above me and I was tied up and gagged. The situation couldn't have been much worse. Suddenly the door to my cell burst open, to burly men wearing gas masks and carrying a cage walked to the corner of my cell and stood at attention. Another man walked into the room carrying a figure who was bound and gagged. "You will obey us or your friend and your sister will be eliminated." The man said "After you our top agent you will be next."
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CLIFFHANGER! I had to keep youguys coming back.
