Chapter 1- A New Enemy

Percy POV

"Uhhh.." I moaned, sitting up. I looked around. Everything was blurry. I heard someone say something to my right.

"Are you okay?" asked a tan, blue, and blondish blob besides me. I figured it was a person, probably a girl from they way the person talked.

"Uh, I guess so," I replied, "except that everything looks like we're under water."

"Umm... that's probably not a good sign," The blob replied carefully. I hated me having to call her the blob.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Call me Max" was her reply. Wait, isn't that a boy's name? I thought. I was really confused. My vision became more swim-my. Then, I blacked out.

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I woke up and panicked. I looked around the walls and they were white, and I was sitting in a dog crate next. There was another dog crate next to me. A girl was sitting inside of it. She had brown-blonde hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans. I kinda remembered last night. "Max?" I asked.

"Hey, your awake! Is your vision still funny? Wait- what's your name?"

"I'm Percy, and no, my vision isn't blurry anymore."

"Good. That probably mean they haven't experimented on you yet." Max replied, almost to herself.

"What do you mean, experimented?"

"Ohh, did I just say that out loud?"

"Yes, yes you did." I answered. "Now, what do you mean, who are 'they' and where am I in the first place?"

"The school" she replied, I guess in response to my last question. School, damn, I thought, I hate school. "No, not a school" she continued, I guess seeing the look of disgust on my face, "THE school. It's a place where scientists - we, I mean I call them 'white coats' - take kids and change their DNA so that they are part animal. It's complete and utter torture." After Max explained the school, I became even more disgusted.

"Kids? Gods, these people must be psychopaths or something."

"I know. Believe me, I know. Most kids they experiment on don't even make it a day until they die. Then the white coats throw them out like trash. It's awful." Max sighed.

"Wow. Wait, how'd you know that?" I asked, wondering if she had gone through this process already.

"Umm. I guess I can trust you. Just don't tell anyone, okay?"

"Sure.." I replied, eager to hear what she had to tell me.

"I grew up here for most of my life. I was a test tube baby, and they put avian DNA into mine. I'm two percent avian, ninety-eight percent human."

"What's an avian?" I asked, completely confused. Max turned around and unfolded wings. Wings that looked like a hawks'! Wait, wings?

"Bird DNA" she replied. "Avian DNA is Bird DNA."

"Whoa."

"So how about you, Percy? What's your life been like?"

I started to tell her about my life. I hesitated when I started to tell her about being a demigod. I guess I could trust her. I told her pretty much everything. And afterwards Max raised her eyebrows. "How do I know your not lying?" I guess that was as good as a question as you could get.

"Do you have any water that I you wouldn't mind giving up?"

"Uh, yeah. Here." She drank a little water. then she gave me her doggie bowl of water. Jeez. We are really treated like animals here. I put my hand in the water. I took it out and showed it to her. My hand was completely dry. "That's not possible. Let me try." She did the exact same thing. Her hand was now soaked. "Hey!" she yelled.

"Try and get me wet. I only will get wet if I want to." I replied with a smirk.

"Ya, right." She tossed the bowl of water on me. I was still completely dry.

"SEE?" I retorted, pleased that she was wrong. And probably mad as hell.

"Ugh. I guess you were right." she gave me a dirty look.

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Max had told me before that I came in and was unconscious for a day. When I has passed out the second time I was asleep for another day. I was exhausted because of how many tests I had. They took my blood, too, which is not good. Max and I were talking after I had another testing session three days later, when one of the white coats came in.

Max gasped. Then she got angry. "Jeb." I had thought he was on Max's side. I guess not.

"I'm here to take Alpha 3 into testing." Jeb said. He walked over to my crate and told me to get out of it.

"No."

"Do this or I will get the Erasers and do it for you." Jeb replied. I got out of the cage. I was taken to a room and strapped on a white operating table. I was given numbing medicine. Another doctor came into the room.

"Alpha three ready for injection?" asked the doctor.

"Yes." replied Jeb.

"Alpha 3, avian DNA being injected, 14:02, five days after capture." said the doctor. I didn't know why he had to day it. I was injected, and pain wracked my body. Again. I was so exhausted. I prayed to the gods. Then, I passed out.