Chapter One: Freedom
Authors Note: I don't own Harry Potter or Maximum Ride. They belong to J.K. Rowling and James Patterson respectively. This chapter occurs just before and when the Flock is freed by Jeb.
Experiment #134562 P.O.V.
This place is horrible! I've only been here for a week and I'm already tired of resisting the whitecoats. I noticed another experiment in the cage beside me. I decided not to say anything to the other experiment; after all he'll probably be taken away soon.
"I know you're in pain, I know you hate it here." a silky voice said. "Oh and how do you know that? Can you read minds? Or are you empathetic?" I replied snarkly "No. I am the first successful hybrid with a magical creature. I can taste your misery. I can also release you from it. Would you like that?" He said "But I must warn you, you will remember every bad memory that you have, but then you'll be free. Free to leave, to move on to the next stage or to be re-born." "Will the pain be over then?" I asked, afraid of the answer. "It will be, but only after you die. If I'm going to do this, I would like to know your name and I'll show you the souls of the experiments that I have 'freed,'" he said. "Fine, my name's... well I don't have a name" I replied truthfully. "Then make one up and hold onto it. It will help you get through it" he told me. "Hum, I think I'll be... Luna, I am a wolf hybrid after all. This should be interesting." I said. Suddenly I felt a dread unlike anything I had felt before. I wanted to scream at the other experiment to stop this horrid thing but I couldn't even open my mouth.
Suddenly I felt the most amazing warmth flowing over me and I was looking down on my body lying composite on the ground. Am I dead? Probably am considering. That experiment was smiling up at me. "Enjoy your freedom Luna. If you want you can stay, not that you'd actually want to," he said, mumbling the last part. "Why wouldn't I want to stay?" I asked indignantly, 'How could this-this savoir, this redeemer think I wouldn't stay?' I thought, "After all you set me free from those stupid whitecoats. I'm going to stay with you until you die, well except for when you're doing more... private things. And I'm going to help you escape." He looked in as though he was in shock when I said that. "After all you helped me to escape, in your own way." "I-I'd like that. I'd like that a lot." He said smiling. I tried to smile back but got a bit annoyed when I realised that I couldn't because I didn't have a face. "Uh, you wouldn't know how I make myself... solid do you?" I asked, startling him out of his thoughts.
Experiment #125364 P.O.V.
Wow. One of the experiments that I 'freed' actually wanted to stay. I'll finally have someone to talk to! The only people I've had to talk to are whitecoats and the experiments that I've released from their torture. But then again they were all really angry at me for 'killing' them. Oh, Luna's trying to talk to me. "Yes Luna? What is it?" I asked "Oh, and could notscream in my ear next time." "I was just wondering how to give myself a physical form. Oh and what's your name? After all I can't keep thinking of you as an experiment now can I?" She replied kindly. "Well I don't really have one, and I'd rather not chose one that might be made fun of, so I'm going to wait until I escape to chose a name if you don't mind." I told her, hoping that she wouldn't make me choose a name. Oh god, what if she does make me choose a name!
"Don't worry; I'm not going to make you choose a name. But I can't just keep calling you, the experiment so I'm going to give you a title. And I know exactly what to call you. The Redeemer, the Redeemer of the Lost because you redeem experiments and most of the experiments are lost from all the torture that they go through. Therefore, the title 'the Redeemer of the Lost'." She said. "How are you going to help me escape?" I asked "Oh and to make yourself solid you simply focus on being solid. That shouldwork." "Well, I can hear people's thoughts now. Well, except for yours and that might have something to do with who and more whatyou are. No offence intended of course. Oh and one of the white coats is already planning on breaking out a group of six avian-human hybrids a few days from now. I'll make sure that he takes you along but I have to ask, do you want to live with them or do you want me to have Jeb drop you of half way there and have them forget about you until they meet you again?" She replied. I thought for a bit. Live with Jeb and six other hybrids that I would probably make miserable with my very presence, or have to live on my own, with only a spirit with a great personality for company. That decided it. "Luna, have Jeb bring me along but have him drop me off half way and make him and the avian-human hybrids forget about me. Wipe Jeb's mind of me but try to make it so that ifthey ever meet me again they'll slowly remember me. Like, first a feeling of recognition and trust eventually resulting in total recall of everything to do with me. Can you do that for me?" I asked. "Of course I can do that, after all I am only the good things about me and my personality. Just give me a bit to work on it."
Jeb's P.O.V.
Jeb,youmusttakeExperiment#125364withyouwhenyoufreetheflock.
What in the name of all things good and holy was that? Why am I hearing a voice that sounds suspiciously like Experiment #134562's voice? "Charles I need you to check on Experiment 134562. I think it might have been a bad idea to leave it with the wizard hybrid." I said into my headpiece "Yeah I know the subject is only seven years of age but do you remember what happened when we tried to do testing with it conscious? That's why I need you to check on them." Now that I think of it, it would be a good idea to bring that subject with the flock. He could help Max save the world.
Charles's P.O.V.
Why would Jeb want me to check on that experiment again? That stupid experiment sucks all the happiness out of a room. I opened the door but the feeling from inside was…different. The room seemed to radiate happiness. That's new. Usually it makes whoever's guarding or working in that room depressed for a while. Something is defiantlyoff. I had better check it out. As I opened the door to the observation room, so quietly that even our experiment with the best hearing, otherwise known as 'Iggy', wouldn't be able to hear it, I heard the voice of Experiment 134562 talking and a silky smooth voice that was more charismatic than even our new Erasers. Now that's scary. As I looked through the one-way mirror, I saw the most amazing sight. There, out of her cage, was Experiment 134562. But she was glowing, quite literally, without a scratch or bruise on her skin that was showing. And she was slightly transparent. I could see her cage with…oh god, the one standing outside of the cage…it was her ghost, spirit, whatever you want to call it. It didn't the facts. Experiment 134562 was dead. Now all that's left to do is find out how the other experiment had done it. I'll just have to ask.
The Redeemer of the Lot's P.O.V.
I was happily talking to Luna, talking about what I should do when I get out, whom I should or shouldn't tell about my past. Luna had discovered that Magic was real, that the six avian-human hybrids were witches and wizards, that I was a wizard, I was the first human-magical creature hybrid and the DNA that wasn't human in me was Dementor DNA. Dementors were horrible, lifeless creatures that feed off bad memories. That must be why I'm never hungry here, a place with an inexhaustible supply of bad memories. What I did to 'Free' experiments was something like the Dementor's kiss, in which a Dementor sucks out a person's soul and devours it. My 'kiss' was different because, when I sucked out a person's soul, I left something like a ghost behind, consuming the bad in a person while leaving only the good and personality of the person and killing the body.
Suddenly the door at the side of the room is flung open and one of the nicer white coats came in. "Okay Experiment 125364, what have you done to experiment 134562, how did you do it and where is she 'cause I've already seen her." He said nearly shouting. Luna's voice came out of nowhere "For your information, my name is Laura and he doesn't have a name but for now he's called the Redeemer of the Lost. As for how he did it, well that would be the nature of the creature that you attach the DNA of to his DNA. Oh and I'm right here." She said appearing right in front of the white coat and scaring him half to death.