Wow, I thought to myself, this cannot be happening. Well, the thing is I am different, well, more than normal. I am a kind of freak. It all started with my mom. As a scientist she loved to experiment. She heard a thing called the Power Project, catchy huh? Anyway, the project was supposed to make regular people part animal and combine people and animal DNA. When she found she was having me she decided to give me to the project when I was fourteen. Because I don't have a father, there was no one to stop her. When I turned fourteen I was handed over to the other scientist and military personal that were included in the Power Project.
Thus started the process and I was one of the first people to ever be experimented on. So I thought. Anyway, I was nervous and unsure if I would be the same ever again. Well, during the process there was a brilliant white light and immense pain. I thought my head was going to split in two and my body felt as if it was on fire, I felt my arms go numb then my legs, then I couldn't feel any part of my body. I could still see and saw a scientist came with a half-foot long needle. He injected it into my arm. I vaguely sensed I was falling asleep. I woke up in a place that was pitch black. I felt pain all over my body; everything hurt even my bones ached. I felt an urge to shake my bottom. I looked down and saw I had a tail. "Ahhhhhh," I screamed. I grasped the tail and saw it was real. I looked closely and saw there were spots on it. As I examined my tail, I saw my hands. I gasped and my heart started to beat, earlier there was a normal hand. Now, there was cheetah hair and my nails had grown razor sharp and about an inch longer. Wait, I thought, How can I see?
Finally after what seemed like forever a door opened. Guards came and groped around the room until they found me. Then they led me into a bright room. I grimaced and closed my eyes because the light was so bright. I heard someone talking and by their tone they seemed surprised, "Hi, Kate." I searched my brain looking for where I had heard that voice before, but I couldn't remember. I squinted my eyes and saw a stout, slightly overweight woman standing up and starting to circle me, "Wow, the results are quick." She pulled my tail and examined my hands. She caressed my hair and looked into my eyes. She started to extended my arms and examine them. They looked very muscular and had cheetah hair and spots on them too. She kept doing this until she had gone over every inch of my body, "We need to run physical tests."
"Yes, of course Lisa," Someone said matter of fact. Ding, ding, ding went off in my head. I knew who this was. "Mom?" I croaked. Lisa did nothing to have indicated that she had heard me. "Mom?" I said more firmly and loudly. Lisa turned around and looked at me, "What did you just say?" I opened my eyes fully and looked her right in the eye ignoring the pain, "Mom." Lisa looked amazed, "She remembers! How is this possible?" Her tone changed from shock to anger, "She wasn't supposed to remember, none of the others do!" I noticed there was another person in the room. Lisa seemed to be talking to her.
She was tall and skinny and had extremely long arms. "Well, if we used another scientist besides you, she wouldn't have remembered," she snapped, "But no. You had to see what you had created." Lisa seemed offened. I on the other hand felt like Frankenstein. The guard beside me asked, "Do you want me to take her to her cell?" "No, I want to run physical tests first," Lisa told him. The woman with the long arms said, "Yes take her to Cell 5816161." The guard didn't listen to Lisa but instead grabbed me roughly and I yelped. Out of instinct I swung my arm at his face and made contact with his nose. Blood erupted from his nose and started covering his face quickly. The guard started howling and clutching his nose. I saw this as my chance; I kicked him hard in the stomach and heard something snap. I turned and wrenched open the door. My legs started to hurt, but I brushed it aside and continued my escape. I flew down two flights of stairs and up another all the while hearing shouts of, "Get her," or, "Don't let her get away," following me as I went down another flight of stairs and ended up at a dead end. Several doors ran the length of the hallway and I ran into the nearest one.
What I saw was disturbing. Five kids all different ages were sprawled around the room. Most of them were wearing nothing but rags and they all had soot that covered their faces. This made me stop dead. "Who are you?" the littlest asked. He said black hair that was cropped short and deep blue eyes. He couldn't have been older than five. "I'm Kate. Who are you?" I asked completely on my guard and looking for a way to get out. There were no windows and the only way out was the way I came in. "I'm Jack. This is Karee," he said pointing to a girl who looked about seven. She had raven black hair with eyes so dark they seemed black. "This is Spike," Jack continued pointing to a boy who had electrifying white-blonde hair and he looked twelve, "This is Ash and that's Lief." They both looked a bit older than me. Ash had brown hair with blonde highlights that stood out; Lief had blonde hair and stunning green eyes that seemed to see everything. I nodded as each person was introduced. "So what happened to you?" Jack asked. I didn't answer and went over to the door and pulled. Nothing happened, so I pulled again. "What's wrong with this stinkin' door?" I asked angrily. "It only opens from the outside," someone said from the shadows. I jumped about a foot in air. Literally. A boy emerged; he looked the oldest at around sixteen. He had brown hair and brown eyes, and was pretty cute. I kicked the door. "That won't help," he put in. "Yea, well it's better to kick the door rather than kick one of you," I spat back.He nodded as if he understood. This made me mad.
"Like you would know," I snapped. "That's Shadow," Jack said. Shadow didn't say anything, he just studied me. Then I realized that all of them were different. Jack was like me only he had no spots, Karee had wings tucked loosely behind her back, Spike had little holes all over his body and when he noticed me looking, quills came out of the holes. I shuddered and he smiled. Ash had scales all over his arms and legs, and his pupils were slightly slanted, Lief and Shadow, well I couldn't see anything wrong with them.
"Look, watch this, come on Lief," Shadow said. They both went over to the door and pulled; the door went flying back and hit the opposite wall. "Oh, so you're freaks too?" I said nastily and started running back down the hall, only I ran into a guard. I slashed his throat before he could do anything and continued running. The other six were right behind me; I ignored them and ran to the wall. There was a barred window about six feet above me. I jumped and reached the ledge. I stared to claw at the metal and it slowly started to break.
Lisa had finally caught up. I hadn't realized I was so fast. Anyway she was right below me aiming a gun. Shadow crept up behind her and punched good and hard, so hard that you heard her lose her breath. They were holding on their own pretty well so I continued slashing at the bars. "Aha," I exclaimed. I kicked the rest of the bars and they flew across the grounds. "Wait for me!" Jack called and he jumped next to me then out the window. Thankfully we were on the first floor so it wasn't that far of a drop. Next went Karee and Lief who flew out the window side by side. Lief didn't need wings. Shadow was lifting Spike without difficultly and flew out the window. I was the last one out and I jumped, then ran and followed Jack. I passed him without difficultly and was soon flying by all of them and everything else; I was running at the speed of a cheetah. After a time I waited for the others.
When they got there, we set up camp without comment, like we knew each other for years. After a time I dozed off, exhausted.