Evolution
by Lady Dragon
Prologue
The wind was warm as I flew back to my home, catching insects along the way, when I heard the sound of a gun fired off and felt a sharp wet pain in my shoulder and wing. And then I was falling, unable to keep altitude with one wing, and hit the ground with a burst of stars in my eyes. Pain, had to get up, had to escape. Rough hands grabbed at me and hauled me into the back of a truck. The whitecoats had found me! I tried to struggle as someone bound my hands and feet before jumping out of the truck and slamming the doors shut. Shit! I thought as I fought the pain. The truck started moving as I tried to figure out what I was going to do to get out of my current predicament before I blacked out and the unreasonable thinking of my second personality, Zodiac, would take over.
By the way, My name is Aiden. I am a genetic mutation, a freak. I have bat wings, real sharp teeth, claws, and, oh, get this, a split personality. Oh and did I mention, a real problem with being aware of my surroundings? Anyway, I'll give the short version of my "life story". I was made by crazy scientists, whitecoats, who loved playing with human embryos and animal DNA. I am a surviving product of that crazy love. I am one of few successful creations, another important successful creation is a kind of lupine-human hybrid, I call 'em Shifters and they're more lupine in mind and human in looks, except when they are shifting then they are all lupine. Most of the other creations either don't even survive the embryo stage, or they do, and live a short, horrible life. I got to live, oh lucky me.
Anyway, I managed to escape the institution, the lab where I was made, via a guy named Jeb. He had been nice to me when I saw him and had later helped me to escape. Since then I have been living on my own in a forest somewhere in the U.S. undetected...until now.
Now I was in a truck with my hands and feet bound, my shoulder and wing damaged and Zodiac taking my thoughts away. The last coherent thought I remember before he took place of my mind was the truck stopping and someone opening the doors to revel a face I hadn't seen for a while.
