Hi everyone, I'm so sorry i haven't been updating lately, but here is something new for you guys!
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It has been yet another exhausting day in my miserable excuse for a life. I'm eight years old and I have never seen the sky, felt rain or wind, or even stepped outside. My entire existence has been spent locked up in this despicable lab constantly surrounded by white everything! All day every day for as long as I can remember has been test after painful test! At least I am not truly alone here, but before I go into that I should probably introduce myself, I'm Project Tenshi, or as my family calls me, Horus Ride. Sharing this painful existence with me are the other six members of my family: nine year olds Max, Fang, and Iggy, seven year old Nudge, four year old Gazzy (aka The Gasman), and two year old mind reader Angel. We are all genetic experiments at a lab filled with psychopathic scientists we call whitecoats. Max and the others are all in a shared dog crate across the room from me, as they are Jeb's experiments, I am the genetic experiment of Doctor Mal, or as I like to call him, Dr. Bad Guy. We are all human and avian hybrids, 98% human and 2% bird. Yeah, we have cool heightened senses, are stronger than your average human, and we all have wings, but trust me on this, it is not worth it. I like to dream about the outside world beyond these white walls and dog crates, but I fear that I will never get to see the world for myself. Every day I am taken by the erasers (human/wolf hybrids, but 100% stupid) to some painful test, or an MRI or something, usually I have to fight off wave after wave of erasers until the whitecoats are satisfied or I pass out from exhaustion, after my shock collar can no longer keep me awake, and wake up in my tiny crate a while later like today. "Horus?", Nudge's concerned voice snapped me out of my thoughts, "are you alright?", I nod a yes to her and she looks down bashfully and asks, "Could you continue your story?" I smile at her before slowly getting to my knees ignoring the lingering pain form my latest fights. I have a strange ability to manipulate light, when I use my ability the light turns a gentle golden color, like how I imagine sunlight would be, and I have been told that when I use said ability that a weird glowing golden eye appears on my forehead. I stare at the six of them through my amethyst colored eyes and wait for them to settle in before I brush my spiked blonde bangs away from my face and run my pale hands through my strange, spiked black-tipped-with-purple hair and begin my story.
The light swirled around in the space between the two dog crates, turning gold as it did so. Guiding the light with my hands I create the world I see every few nights in my dreams. It is a beautiful land, a city nestled in swirling golden sands, with a grand castle, in which my tale tonight begins. The miniature figures appear and move as I narrate, "It has been a few months since we last checked on the little prince," I began as a miniature child appears, that ironically looks a lot like me, "and he has been continuing his lessons and mischief with his friends, and for a time everything has been peaceful in the kingdom, but as we well know all good things must come to an end. There was trouble brewing deep in the shadows." The figures and scenery change to go along with every word I say, and my hands move on their own accord, bending the scene in front of me, "a band of thieves has decided to cause trouble in the capital city, they began a raid in the middle of the night!" I hear a few gasps from my siblings across the room and continue after seeing the level of interest in my words, all eyes on my little light world, except Iggy, he's blind, but leaning towards my voice. "They destroyed everything in their path, and stole anything that they deemed of any worth! Soon the city was on fire and the king's warriors headed out on horseback to try and stop the thieves, with the king himself soon following!" The chaos of my tale was illustrated in my light, "the soldiers were doing well, but the leader still was not found, but what they didn't know was that the leader of the thieves had made it to the palace gates, where the little prince was waiting, worried for his father. Then out of the shadows the thief struck! He grabbed the prince, and….. That is where our story ends for tonight" the light dissipated, and I smiled as I heard multiple awwww's from my family, "sorry, I don't know what happens after that. I'll tell you as soon as I do though" I promised as we all began to settle in for some rest. I hoped that I would be allowed to visit the land of sand again, but those dreams only come every few nights, and every other night I have nightmares. As I wrapped my aplomado falcon wings around myself, I fell into a restless sleep, but nothing would have prepared me for what happened I the morning.
I woke to someone shaking me, I bolted awake and launched myself to the back of my dog crate. I had never had positive physical contact with anyone before, and normally I was shocked awake with the shock collar I have had for as long as I can remember. As my vision cleared (it took a few seconds) I noticed that the person that woke me was….Max. She and the rest of our little flock were out of their crate…. With Jeb standing by the one door in and out of our room. I slowly crawled out of my crate, and once I was standing I was surrounded with love for the first time in my eight years on this planet as the flock gathered around me in a group hug, and it felt amazing. Our moment was ruined by Jeb clearing his throat, causing me to jump what felt like ten feet into the air. "Sorry to interrupt, but we should really get going now, I don't know how much time we have."
"What is going on Max?" I asked, peering up at her, noticing that she was almost a head taller than me.
"Jeb is getting us out! We're going to be free!" Max answered practically vibrating with excitement.
Leaving the school was a blur of hallways and doors, but the moment I stepped out into the sun will be something I will never forget. The front doors of the school had opened, and I saw the outside world. For a moment I was scared, but that fear vanished when I took a tentative step into the sun light. The rays from the sun felt hot against my extremely pale skin, a breeze blew into my face and I took my first breath of fresh air, and I saw the sky. It was as blue as I had dreamed, if not more, dotted with white fluffy clouds. I felt free, and all I wanted to do was run, run as far away as I could, and take off flying into the sky. Before I could take another step, I was grabbed from behind, I immediately began to struggle, but I froze as the collar that had shocked me so many times opened and was removed revealing the skin beneath. I turned around to see Jeb standing there with my collar in his hand, and he threw it back through the door and shut them, closing the door on the only life I have ever known. I was beyond ready to face this new frontier filled with freedom and light, free of labs, tests, scientists, and pain with my family by my side. I was ready to live up to my name, Horus is the Egyptian god of the skies, and I was ready to fly.
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