Hey, guys! I'm Cihla, and this is my Percy Jackson and Maximum Ride crossover fanfiction. My updating schedule is going to be all over the place, so don't hold me to anything. I'll apologize for future long waits right now.

All rights go to James Patterson and Rick Riordan for creating all of the characters that I do not own. (Majority of them) I only own the plot and any of the characters that I use to move the story along.

Enjoy!

Max's POV

I leaned back against the cool bars of our dog crate, shuffling my wings to get them more comfortable. Fang's own wings were open and hanging limply. Angel, Nudge, Gazzy, and Iggy had their wings wrapped around themselves to keep their bodies warm. Yes, I mentioned being in a dog crate. I said wings. See, we're experiments in the School, as we call it. They take animal DNA and merge it with human DNA to see what the outcome is. My flock and I are avian-human hybrids, and we consist of six kids, including me. Angel is six, Gazzy is nine, Nudge is 11, and Iggy (who's blind), Fang, and I (Max) are 14.

Whitecoats strode into our room with a bunch of Erasers following them. Erasers were (and are) the worst kind of hybrids out there. They were kids that looked like adults with wolf DNA inside them. They were the School's guards and did the dirty work for the scientists, such as kidnapping kids for their dangerous projects. Most kids that they experimented on died within a day of getting animal DNA injected into their bodies. If the kids did die, the whitecoats just threw them out like week-old garbage. Anyway, Jeb was in the lead, and I sighed. "Well, get it over with. What are you going to do to us, this time, Jeb? Maybe make us run the electric maze again? How about chasing us with the Erasers at our heels? Oh, I know! You'll just use the Erasers to pull us out of these crates and start poking and prodding us with needles until we pass out, or die from blood loss!"

Jeb frowned, "Max," he sighed. "when are you going to learn to trust me?"

"When all hell freezes over," I snarled.

"Dr. Batchelder, may I remind you that you only have five minutes with the six subjects?"

"Yeah right. The good guys DON'T slice and experiment on innocent, young kids. Do they Fang?"

"Good people understand that we-experiments, kids, innocent people-are people too. We're not just stupid, weak children that don't know anything," Fang was getting angry now, "These kids that you take, and add animal DNA to, are just as special as you high-and-mighty whitecoats. They're even more special than you people. They are innocent creatures who haven't killed any human being in their life, and, more importantly, they mourn the dead. Unlike you...you...monsters."

Jeb had turned beet red. "You don't understand everything I've-we've done for you. We've given you a better life than those kids who have nothing but their own human DNA. You," Jeb turned on me, "You were destined to save the world when the scientists and I created you."

"You've forgotten," the Kanskee woman said, "that only you created that disdained girl and the other...mistakes."

Jeb waved her words away, "Max is not a mistake. She just doesn't know what she has to do yet. Yes, the other subjects were mistakes, but not Max. She was the final, good result."

"Whatever. Your time is up anyway." Jeb turned around and walked through "You're special, Maximum. Don't ever forget that."

"I already did," I snapped as I glared at him. Jeb, realizing that there was nothing more to say, left the room. Kanskee followed after, then the Erasers who were visibly unhappy with being unable to hurt anybody.

Angel, Nudge, and Gazzy pressed against the bars of their cages, "Are we really mistakes?" Nudge asked in a small voice, tears pooling in her eyes. "A-are you the more important one?"

Looking around, I could see that even though the older ones hadn't moved from where they were, the comment had affected them just as much it did the younger ones. I could see it how Fang's jaw was set just so, and the way Iggy's fists were clenched. "No, honey. You're just as important as I am. Besides, you shouldn't worry about what those stupid whitecoats think. We just have to know we're right. Okay?"

Nudge nodded, but I could tell that it still bothered her. Oh, when, oh when are we going to get out of this horrid place?

Piper's POV

All I knew was pain. I thought back to the last good thing that had happened to me. We were in Cabin One with the torches billowing to the soft snapping and popping. Jason leaned down and kissed me, then bid me good night. I smiled happily as I left the Zeus cabin and headed towards the Aphrodite cabin to get some sleep.

That's when everything took a turn for the worse. Out of nowhere, I felt a prick in the back of my neck and I fell to my knees. Just before I blacked out, I could see somebody from the Hecate cabin standing behind me with a needle in his hand. I could hear Jason yelling...then I slumped over and passed out cold.

I woke up here, in this strange room with white walls, and I was strapped to a bed. A doctor came in and I stiffened in surprise. This doctor looked nothing like the physicians I had seen before. He wore a long, white lab coat with big pockets. His hair stuck up all over the place, and he had an evil glint in his eye that suggested madness.

A mad scientist.

That's what they were, I reasoned. They talked about what they were going to do to me, right in front of me, like I wasn't even there at all. Whenever they referred to me, they called me subject seven. They never used my real name. Though, now that I think about it, them knowing my name and using it would be just plain scary. The door to my cell opened again, and I steadied my breathing and closed my eyes, trying to make it seem like I was sleeping. It didn't work. A cold, evil laugh echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls and floor.

"Well, look who decides to pretend to be asleep." When he got no reaction from this, he tried again, "Open your eyes right this moment. I know you're awake. Your brain waves tell me so."

With a resounded sigh, I opened my eyes to look at the eyes of the evil scientist's. When I first arrived here, I tried talking my way out of confinement with charmspeak. It worked for a while, but I couldn't find my way out and the first person I met just put me right back in.

The Erasers were worse. They didn't react to charmspeak at all if you didn't count getting a little annoyed. Now, the scientists that I saw had no reaction to the magic speaking either. It was horrible.

If Percy were here, he could use his water powers to flood things, and heal himself. If Nico was in my position, he could shadow travel out of here, being the son of Hades and all. Annabeth would use her wisdom to her advantage to trick her captors, Hazel could buy her way out of here with her ability to pull precious metals and gems to her. Frank could turn into something smaller and slip out of these chains. Jason would be able to call lightning and fly out of here. Leo would use his tool belt to make a gadget to help him escape and/or set himself on fire. I had nothing here. They had confiscated Katoptris and my voice just wouldn't work on these crazy people, no matter how hard I tried. Therefore, to remedy that, I had just stopped talking.

"Hello. Today we will see how well you run so we can make certain...adjustments to the final outcome." He started unhooking the handcuffs that kept me fettered to the table. "Don't try to escape. We have Erasers standing guard outside of this room who have permission to attack any whom they don't recognize."

I sighed again but thought, 'Running isn't so bad. I do it all the time at Camp Half-blood.' What I didn't realize was just how different and creepy this place was compared to Camp Half-blood, which was silly, since I don't think Camp Half-Blood chained people to tables and experimented on them.

As the two of us were escorted down the hall by Erasers, I thought about the problems I faced.

Nobody knows where I am. Heck, even I don't know where I am.

I don't know where Katoptris is.

I have no way to get out of here.

My charmspeak doesn't work.

I can't let them know that I'm a demigod.

They might already know that I am a demigod, in which case, things are about to get pretty bad for me.

We reached the doors outside of a strange room filled with a maze. If running wasn't bad enough, I had to do it in a maze! At least I knew how to get out of a maze. You just have to stick to the left side and just run through the whole thing. Of course, with these scientists, you'll never know what they're thinking of doing. I wanted to complain, but I knew that these people would just start experimenting on me. They hadn't done anything too hurtful yet, but then again, I've only been here for a day (or so), but I've looked through doors to see what other kids were doing as far as getting treated.

The things I saw were so horrible, that they were seared into my mind. Therefore, whenever I walked down the halls, I made sure to keep my eyes on the ground. 'I wonder how Jason's doing,' I thought. Mostly to keep my mind off of the images that were rushing back to the front of my mind. 'He's probably going out of his mind with worry. Maybe he's looking for me, and maybe he's got Annabeth, Percy, and our other friends looking for me as well. No. He is looking for me. They are looking for me. I hope Jason beat the crap out of that Hecate kid that injected me.'

Thinking those thoughts lifted my spirits somewhat, and I smiled inside my head. No use showing the scientist and Erasers that they weren't bringing me down as much as they thought they were. Inside the room with the maze, I was stationed in front of the entrance to it.

"You will run this maze as fast as you can. Otherwise," he held up a remote control. "you will be shocked into understanding the meaning of moving quickly. We will monitor your heart rate and breathing while you run. Begin!"

As I dashed into the maze, I remembered a memory of last summer when Jason and I went into a cornfield. Jason told me the secret to getting out: follow the left-hand side. If I did that I would go through the whole maze, yes, but I would get out eventually. I really hoped it wasn't like the Labyrinth. I had never been down there, but from what I had heard from Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Nico, the Labyrinth kept shifting around on itself. It was literally made to fool demigods. I turned my mind back to working out the maze. Left, right, left, left, right, left, right, right, left again…

That's what it was like for the next two minutes. A couple of times, when I slowed down to take a breather, the stupid scientist would press a button on his remote so that the electrical wires I was running on gave me a shock. Whenever this happened, I couldn't help but think of Jason. As I turned right again, I noticed an end to this maze. With renewed energy, I propelled myself towards the exit.

After I left the maze, I collapsed on the floor, breathing hard. It was bad enough that they made me run and exercise, but to make me do that without the proper nutrition was just torture. I got tired so easily now.

"Let's do it again shall we?" a scientist's voice reached my ears through my labored breathing. I wanted to scream 'NO!' so badly, but I held my tongue. In a place like this, you learned to keep your mouth shut. The consequences for talking back were dire, and I didn't feel like getting a beating. As I struggled to get up, hands roughly grabbed me and hauled me to my feet, taking me to the entrance of the maze. As I was drug there, water was thrust into my hands. There wasn't much, but enough to keep me going. As I looked into the maze, I realized that it had changed. They had torn it down and built another one. After drinking the water, I was grateful, but I kept thinking, what wouldn't I give for a sip of Nectar?

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Cihla signing out.