Rose POV
Lightning streaked down from the sky and was so close it almost brushed my hair. Rain pounded my face, and the wind whipped my hair around. But still I ran. I looked over my shoulder, just in time to see the silhouette of an incredibly handsome teenage boy coming closer. "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!?!?!" I yelled over the wind, rain, and thunder. My wet ebony black hair slapped against my fair skin. "We want nothing from you girl" the boy yelled back. We? I only saw one of them. I turned my head forward again, and saw two hairy, muscled creatures coming down from the sky. Lightning flashed again, this time making the outline of the creatures real. I tried to outrun them, but felt a hairy paw grab my arm and lift me into the sky. Thunder clashed. The winds howl increased. The thing pulled me up close to its face, so I could smell its foul breath, and see its wolfish muzzle but the rest of it was fuzzed by the rain. "Rose" it howled above the thunder "welcome to your worst nightmare!" I screamed, and my ice-blue eyes widened as it opened its giant mouth. Everything went black.
I awoke later in a whitewashed room that reeked of rubbing alcohol and other antibiotic/chemical thingies. My arms and legs were strapped, no, bound, to a hospital bed. My pursuer was glaring at me from the other wall. I glared back. "Why am I here?" I asked. "I don't think I should be the one to answer that." He said simply, looking at his watch as if we were at a doughnut shop sharing a coffee. A voice came over a black box in the corner of the room. An intercom. "Experiment 5550109; please come to the restriction room. I repeat, experiment 5550109." The boy looked at me. "That's you. Let's go." He gripped the cold steel side of the bed, and rolled it around. So it was on wheels. Hmph. He rolled me past hundreds of dog crates, some empty, some full. In the full ones I saw a boy with cheetah spots, a girl with purple splotches and butterfly wings, and one with a horribly deformed head and eight limbs. I looked away. He leaned in my ear. "By the way, 5550109, I'm Ari." He steered me into a white room filled with doctors and all sorts of syringes and needles. One of the doctors's leaned over me, a smile on his face. "Rose! So happy you came" I grunted. Like I had a choice. "Rose, did you ever wish you could fly? With the wings of a snowy owl?" he took a syringe and filled it up with a yellowish liquid. Ari faced the doctor. "Will she catch Maximum?" he asked. The doctor, still grinning, turned to the boy. "Yes, Ari". He injected me with the liquid, and I felt a dull tingling sensation in my back, followed by extreme pain. I screamed, as tears pooled up in my eyes. The doctor smiled even wider. "I know this may hurt Rose, but, for us it will be worth it. For the mean time, anyway, does the word decoy mean anything to you?"