Chapter One
Anya Eden
We have been trying to search for a way out for the longest time. We have somehow ended up in an experimental mad house involving the mutation of innocent human being, children. While me and my sister Phantina are both 16 and have to take care of everything in our lives from finding a meal to eat or out running the men in the lab coats, we try to enjoy our lives to the fullest, we've decided that we won't let these science freaks rule our world. We were born, ehem created, to be wild and free, and that is just what we will do. This is our story, our lives, and our dreams written on paper for you to aspire and control your life the way me and my sister did ours, but I'm getting way ahead of myself. Let's go back to where it all started: The Lab.
"I don't understand what's going on!" my sister Phantina shouted, "We did what you asked us to do! Please don't put us through all this again!"
The Lab Coat, a sharp-featured old woman known as Dr. Teasley, promptly said "Quiet you mutant freak! You have no place to talk in my lab and you will not abuse the rights you do have."
That's when I stood up and defiantly said, "You have no right to keep us here, we did your test and you drew our blood. You let us out or we will find a way out of here ourselves. We will not take this crap anymore! We have had enough of—"
smack!
The Doctor quickly slapped me across the face and turned to leave the room, but before shutting the door she turned her head slightly, scoffed, and said, "Watch your tongue Anya, we wouldn't want to put you back in the Impossible Maze, do we?".
As soon as she left the room I rushed over to Phantina, checking to make sure she was ok, knowing the Lab Coat is an evil woman and capable of hurting just about anything.
"Are you ok Phan? Did she hurt you in anyway?" I asked quietly but urgently.
"I—I think I'm alright, she didn't lay a finger on me. The only thing she did to hurt me was saying that I am a waste of DNA, that I should've been scrapped in the beginning." She replied.
"Don't you ever let anybody tell you that. We will get out of here soon, just wait ok? I've got a plan but I can't tell you—not yet at least. They could have bugged the room. So get some sleep and I will think about this whole situation."
She needed no more convincing and walked over to her side of the room and crawled into her bed, I mirrored her on my side of the room. We will get out of here I think as I lie down, they won't control our lives forever. Enough is enough.
I wake to find Phantina shaking my shoulder,
"Wake up Anya, wake up!" she says urgently.
"What is it Phan?" I ask,
"It's the time that the Lab Coats go to that conference in Italy. And they are planning to take us with them and use us for their 'Save The World With Better Species' thing. We gotta get out of here before they run more strenuous exercises on us."
As I sit straight up in my bed, startled by the news, I realize that if we are to escape it's now or never. "
How do you know this Phantina?" I ask.
"Because I over heard them talking. You know we have extraordinary hearing, so it wasn't hard to make out what they were saying." She replies.
"Alright let me think a minute." I say as I get up and walk the perimeter of the room. "There" I say as I see it, then point so Phantina's eyes will find the vent in the corner. "Let's try to pry this thing open, you know, you'd think they wouldn't leave a big enough vent for us bird kids to fit through. Looks like the brainiacs aren't so smart after all." I mumble as I use my super mutant strength to open the vent.
I tuck my gigantic wings into my back and hoist myself into the vent. "Hey c'mon Phantina, no wasting time!" She tucks in her wings and follows speedily after me.
As we make it out of the vent we find that we are on the roof. Who would've thought it was so easy to get out of that place? I know that I suspected security to be a little more, well, secure. As we stand up fully in the night time sky (we are nocturnal) I spread my enormous wings with a span of 16 ft. I let the moon light shine through my red wings, I was mutated with the DNA of a cardinal thus making my crimson wings outstanding.
"Come Anya." Phantina points to the edge of the building and runs off towards it.
I run after her and we jump off at the same time, unfolding our wings as the current catches them and pulls us upward. Freedom, I sigh as we fly over the dark city, I'm not sure how it was this easy, but somehow I feel they let us go. All of our other escape attempts have gotten us nowhere but days without food or water and many other agonizing things. All that matters now is that my sister and I fly as far as we can to see if there is a safe place where we can land for the night. But as for our future destination I'm thinking: the Grand Canyon.