Chapter 1

Perfect

The white coat grinned, feeling a laugh bubbling up in his chest. So many years and years he had worked on this project! How long had it been? How many trial and errors had he experienced? But he shook his head, clearing the thoughts away. The maniacal smile returned to his face, and examined his creation with joy bursting out of every pore of his body.

As a child, he had been obsessed with creatures of myth, monsters of the night, things that go bump in the night, and had decided that he wanted to create the ultimate monster, perfect and unflawed.

His creation was lying on a cold table, covered by a sheet, tubes producing from underneath. She was the first one of many not to go blind with agony or die after a few weeks. In fact, she had survived years! After the first year, he expected her to start bleeding from her pores, and just dropping down, dead as a doornail, but she grew and grew.

He felt like a proud father, looking at his daughter. His coworkers hadn't thought that he could have done it, could have created the ultimate monster of myth. But he had done it! She was nearing the age of ten, already smarter and more beautiful than anyone he had ever met.

Despite his growing attachment to the girl, he still preformed necessary tests, ignoring her pleas and cries. The only flaw, he thought with a frown, is her lack of emotion.

But he shook his head, reminding himself that it didn't matter. Emotion meant rebellion and rebellion meant extermination. And that was something he wanted to avoid at full cost. The girl, his experiment, began to stir from her sedated sleep, her eye lids fluttering like a humming bird's wing. They snapped open suddenly, revealing vibrant red irises, with cat like pupils.

She moaned as she began to move, trying to understand where she was. "Hush, my darling," the white coat purred, "I'm just running the daily tests. Don't worry." But his little experiment started to thrash, pulling the tubes out of her body. The machines that she was hooked up to began to whirl wildly, and the white coat began to yell.

"Stop! What are you doing!" he cried. This would mess up his results! She sat up, the sheet covering her naked body, and glared at him with her large red eyes. The white coat placed the protective mask over his face, to make sure that if she spat at him, he would be safe from the poison.

Suddenly, she got off the examining table, her pale face emotionless. Her bare feet made a soft padding sound on the tiled floor, and the sheet began to fall from her body, exposing everything.

Neither of them cared. The white coat began to back up as the child approached her more and more, a menacing hiss emanating from her throat. "Stop!" he cried, desperately trying to find something behind him to protect himself, or intimidate her.

She raised her delicate hand, her long claws gleaming in the overhanging light. The white coat knew what was coming next. If you make the ultimate monster, he thought, then you've got to expect them to act like a monster. The fully exposed girl continued to approach him, until she was right in front of him. With a sadistic smile, flashing her gleaming fangs, she said with her musical voice, "Good bye."

The ten year old grabbed her creator's neck, and began to squeeze. When she realized that this would take too long, she clenched her fingers together, and stabbed the man in the heart with her long claws. It gave her the desired effect. Crimson blood, the color of her eyes, poured out of the wound, and the man slumped away from his creation. A smile played on his lips as his vision began to darken.

She's the perfect monster, he thought before he slipped away.

Eclipse: Hiya! This is my first Maximum Ride fanfic in a while, so excuse my rustiness!

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