The story of a bird-kid
Chapter 1
"Shayne you are alone in this world." A voice said from close by. "Even if you manage to escape again you won't get past the State boundaries before we capture you and bring you back you back here. And even if you do get past the border somehow everyone will despise you and you will be the only bird-kid you will ever meet. Anyone else with wings like you was destroyed 1 year ago. You are now the only human-avian mix alive and successful." Suddenly the voice stopped and I opened my eyes to see the one everyone called 'The Director' staring through the bars of the dog crate I was forced to live in and smiling like a hyena. When I saw her face I suddenly found myself trying to get out of the cage once again for about the hundredth time with a strength I didn't know I had.
"Let me out!!" I shouted and continued to attack the door of the dog crate hoping to bend the bars enough to escape once again. "I am not an animal. I may have wings but I am just as much human as you are." Suddenly that hidden well of strength that I had discovers ran dry and I broke down into tears. 'What is wrong with me?' I asked myself in my head. My name is Shayne Rider and I am 16 years old. And if you haven't guessed it yet I have wings. My wings are mostly dark brown but have Black spots here and there on them. I have heard of a group of bird kids from a few years ago that had powers but I am sadly not one of them as of right now. I was taken from my home when I was about 5 years old and have not seen my family since. I have no clue how but I've had wings since I was a baby. I have only cried like once in my life and that was when I was first taken from my family. In a way I am kind of proud of myself on being unemotional. Ever since I almost escaped about a week ago and was nearly killed because the guards got a little too excited in their quest to capture me I have been on the verge of tears at the smallest little things. If you are wondering why I am kept under guard by what I call monsters it is because I am an experiment in a top secret lab I call "The School."
Those bird kids that have powers I mentioned earlier, yeah I knew and were friends with them. When they escaped I was getting tests performed on me to see how I was born with my wings and they couldn't find me so Jeb forced them to go with him and leave me behind. When I got back to the room where our cages were kept and noticed that they weren't in them my first thought was that they were being experimented on like I had been. When they didn't get returned later that day I started to get worried. The next time the whitecoats came to give me more tests I asked where the others had been taken and those stupid whitecoats told me that they had been terminated and I did almost start to cry. That was about 4 years ago and Jeb recently returned to the school like nothing had happened. Not long after that I started my escape attempts. I was scared that Jeb had killed my friends and didn't want to end up the same way. Because I was scared of Jeb I tried to escape every couple of days. Just about every time I attempted an escape attempt I got out of the cage or room where they had me and would run out of the building but just before I tried my wings I was captured by either the Erasers of Flyboys and sometimes punished until I passed out from the pain. Anyway since my last escape attempt and
punishment I have been feeling really weird not only because Jeb told me that he had helped the others escape and had left me behind but also because I have been wanting to sleep a lot and occasionally have found myself speaking and thinking like some kind of animal. I hope I am not turning into an eraser or something of the kind.
Well anyway the 'director' just left from telling me once again that everyone I knew in the past like me is dead and that if I manage to escape everyone else will despise me because I have wings and now I am starting to feel really hot. When the 'director' was here and I was trying to get to her I was thinking about how I wanted to kill her with my teeth and rip her to shreds and I swear I think I felt my teeth turn into fangs. I seriously think I might be part eraser as well. I just wish that I could turn into something small enough to climb through these stupid cage bars suddenly I feel myself shrinking and then squeaking like a mouse. Oh my gosh I am a mouse! How on earth did that happen? After I got over the fact that I was a mouse I quickly slipped through the bars of my cage. I jumped to the ground and landed on my feet. As I flew towards the ground I felt myself turning into a cat as well and once I landed I turned back into my normal form. "Sweet!" I said wondering how I had changed into my new forms and back with nothing more than a thought. The only mistake I made was not moving as soon as I got out of the cage. Instead of doing that I looked around for a few minutes and while I was looking around a whitecoat came in to take me for more tests.
"Shayne how did you get out of that cage this time that cage door is programmed to only open if one of us touch the door." She said," You wouldn't be able to get out by touching the door like we do and you obviously didn't bust out one of the sides so how did you get out?" Suddenly understanding showed itself on her face. "Oh good you finally got an ability." She quickly went to the intercom on the wall by the door. "Omega let the director know that Shayne finally has a special ability. Tell her that when I walked into the room to take her for more tests Shayne was out of the cage and looking around. I wonder why she didn't try to escape again" A few minutes later the intercom squawked and the annoying Omega's voice came from it.
"We are coming." He said, "Don't let her escape. If you have to tranquilize her go ahead and do so, just keep her there."
"Ok," the whitecoat said "I'll keep her here."Turning from the intercom system she looked at me and simply said "You are to stay here and not leave if you attempt to escape I am authorized to administer a tranquilizer in any way I choose." At that I just growled at her causing her to back up as far as she could against the wall behind her. I thought that was kind of funny that she could be scared of me so I decided to push her a little farther. Crouching down closer to the floor like I was about to pounce at her I took a few slow steps toward her and I growled again in a 'this is my territory' kind of way and she about had a heart attack. I was trying so hard not to laugh at her fear and I somehow managed to take a few more steps until I had her practically cornered. When I was a few feet away from her I stopped my advance and just stood there in my crouched position. Right before I burst out laughing I heard someone enter the room and gasp.
Chapter 2
"Shayne," Jeb asked me, "why do you have that poor woman backed into a corner? She hasn't done anything to you." With that I slowly started to turn toward Jeb and once I had straightened up I glared at him and growled in a very predatory manner. "Shayne that won't work with me I helped raise the erasers and you are nowhere near as violent. I don't get scared easily but she is relatively new here she just started work here a few days ago." With that I snarled and leapt at Jeb and in the process of flying towards him I felt myself turn into a wolf. At the last second Jeb moved out of my way and went to grab the female whitecoat I had scared into the corner. He grabbed her by the arm and threw her towards the door. She came to a stop about a foot from the door and then crawled to it and crawled through back into the main hallway. As soon as she left I prepared to attack Jeb once again. I crouched low to the ground and started to jump. As my feet started to leave the floor Jeb suddenly shouted. "Wait Shayne, I wanted to tell you that Max and the others are still alive!" As he said alive I tried to stop my attack and jumped into the air instead of at Jeb.
I landed in my normal form. "What do you mean still alive?" I asked "I was told that they were killed when they vanished on me. And now you are telling me that they are still alive?!"
"Yes I am." Jeb said. "I am the one that helped them escape this place. They wanted to wait for you but I forced them to leave."
"You took them but left me behind to be exposed to even more experiments?" I asked and Jeb nodded his head yes. "Why? Oh yeah by the way the son you left behind. Yeah they eraserfied him. He takes enjoyment in terrorizing and nearly killing me almost constantly. I have no clue how but he is even more bloodthirsty then the original erasers." I turned my back to him and pulled up my shirt halfway up my back where it was crisscrossed with scars from claws and bite marks. "Ari is the one that did this to me. The scars on my arms and legs are from the others but he did the most damage."
"Yes I knew he was turned into an eraser and I have already shouted at the Director about it." Jeb said "As for the scars on your back I didn't know about those and I will punish him for it. Do you mind me asking you how long you have been a shape shifter?"
"A shape shifter?" I asked him, "What is a shape shifter?"
"A shape shifter is a person that can change form at will such as what you did by changing into a wolf when you tried to attack me when I first came in."
"OHHHHH," I said you mean my ability. I have been feeling kind of ill and having an animalistic tendency since the last time your demon of a son and his thugs attacked me for my last escape attempt. The only time I have actually changed my form was when I got out of my cage. I wished I could be small enough to crawl through the bars and then I turned into a mouse. Then once I started falling to the ground I hoped I wouldn't hurt myself when I landed and I turned into a cat and landed on my feet. Once I had hit the ground I turned back to my normal form and started looking around in amazement. As I was looking around that woman came into the room and saw me. She asked me how I had gotten
out of my cage then went to the intercom thingy on the wall and contacted Omega. He told her that he and the director were coming and to keep me in the room at all costs. She then turned back towards me and said that I was to stay here or that she would tranquilize me. I was annoyed that she acted like I was deaf so I growled at her. I saw that she backed up against the wall and that kind of surprised me so I decided to mess around with her head and backed her into the corner and well you know the rest."
"So you just got your new power." Jeb asked, "Well how come it took you so long to develop them? Max, Angel, Nudge, The Gasman, and Iggy all got their powers like last year or the year before. I was starting to think that you and Fang were never going to get powers. Now I can renew my hope that Fang will soon get powers and not be the odd one out. I was getting worried." At that point the door opened and the director and Omega entered.
"Jeb," the director said sweetly. "What are you doing here and why isn't she knocked out I gave specific orders that she was to be dosed."
"Well," Jeb said, "when I came in here she had that poor intern that just started working here, backed into a corner. I got her out safely and Shayne was going to attack me but I got her to stop. Then you walked in and that is that."
"Ok then," the Director said, "you may leave now Jeb."
With that Jeb walked around the Director and Omega and right before leaving he mouthed to me 'We'll talk more later so stay calm.' Once he said that he left the door closing behind him.
"Now Shayne," the Director said, "What's this I hear about you finally getting ability?"
"Grrrrrrrrrrr" I just snarled at her then I said after a few minutes, "I don't know unless you mean the ability to do THIS!!" With that I leapt across the room turning into a snarling black wolf in order to attack the Director. I got about half way across the room then Omega curse him came out of nowhere and threw me across the room and I hit the wall hard and lost my breath. Once I could breathe again and could see clearly I looked up and saw Omega stalking closer to me getting ready to attack me. "Well Omega I can see you jump when she says jump still. You really need to get a life of your own and quit kissing up to everyone." Once I said that Omega attacked me. Right before he got his hands to tight around my neck we heard a sudden
"Omega stop." When he backed off the director continued "Her new shape shifting ability has endless possibilities along the lines of she could be worth keeping alive. We start testing her new ability first thing in the morning. But for now I say we need to punish her for trying to escape yet again. Omega tie her up and take her to her usual punishment room and set the erasers on her again but tell them not to kill her. Oh drug her as well so she can't defender herself or change."
"Yes ma'am," Omega said and the director left the room
"See you later Shayne," she said right before the door closed behind her