Disclaimer: I do not own any Maximum Ride characters or settings, James Patterson does.
I could see them, I could see them all, their cold soulless eyes staring at me, as if I was a piece of carrion in the desert, and they were the hungry vultures. I could hear their voices in my head, even though they didn't know I did. These lifeless, cold-hearted, demons from hell had kept me here at the School for as long as I can remember.
"Experiments 1000123 and 1000124 have showed no sign as to hint at what the extra genes are. They haveā¦.." One of the male whitecoats droned on, talking to a female whitecoat while they made me run through a maze filled with a hot floor and hungry Erasers.
They were now having me; wait let me rephrase that, forcing me to take these stupid tests that were the bane of my existence. Things like seeing how much weight I can withstand and how long I can hold my breath. Then when they had finally quenched their need to see me in pain they threw me back in my little metal dog crate.
I had been here for my whole 13 years of being alive. And I still can't believe that this is a real place.
I would have no doubt killed myself if I hadn't met my best friend Aqua. She was probably one of the sweetest people you will ever meet, unless you get on her bad side. Aqua was a very petite girl. She had long flowing blonde hair that no matter how long the whitecoats (crazy scientists) didn't let us have a shower it still looked as if it had been just washed. Her dazzling blue green eyes seemed to change sometimes with her mood. Not to be rude or anything to her, but sometimes though she could be all full of herself. But underneath it all she was really nice and considerate of others.
Now back to the story, "Ash, what did they do to you?" she couldn't stop staring at all of my bruises and cuts and burns from the maze test thing.
"Fine, w-why'd ya ask?" I stared at her pretty face and wished that I could find us a way to get out of here, to leave this all behind and find a way out. You just can't run from the real world now can you though? I sighed and tried to not worry her anymore by wincing in pain or something like that. I decided that sleeping would help, so that's what I did.
When I woke, it was not to my liking. The reason why I woke up was because of the brawl (hey Mrs. Neindorf I used vocab.!) that the new experiment or hybrid was making trying to get away from the Erasers that were all trying to get him in his new dog crate. He looked normal but I don't think he just accidentally walked into the School.
Then I figured out what sort of hybrid he was. When one of the Erasers got to close to his back he let out his halk-like wings throwing the unlucky Eraser back against the wall. I know I shouldn't have but I started laughing, and that did not help me at all. In fact it made the Erasers pretty pissed at me. Now I'm used to being beaten up by them, but this time they let me out in the sort of indoor par, the place where they taught the younger Erasers how to hunt.
I was so scared I was afraid I'd shit in my pants, but I just composed myself to look undefeated. They couldn't take me down.
