Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or any of its characters and plot. Please look for James Patterson instead.

Prologue

"Wanna play a game?" The man in a white lab coat smirked evilly. His lenses were reflecting the bright lights hanging above him.

"What kind of game?" A little girl asked. The little girl's hazel eyes were sparkling with curiosity.

So naïve and innocent. He thought to himself. The man's grin grew wider. He reached out for the girl's tiny hand. "Come." He told her as he was petting her jet-black wings. He brought her to a new test room. It was so white that it was almost blinding the girl. "Commence phase 1," He commanded his fellow scientists.

"Where are we?" The girl asked. No answer. She tried to ask again, "Where are we?"

The man's lips parted slightly as he says, "This is the game room." His maleficent grin kept its figure on his face. He loved the fact that he could manipulate this girl's mind so easily.

The room started to change and was slowly transforming into a forest. Tweet, tweet. Small holographic birds were singing joyfully to the small girl. Trees 15 times as large as the girl stood tall. Flowers of every type were all sleeping on the forest floor.

"WOW! So pretty!" The girl was dancing around while smelling each flower. She raised her arms to catch the sunlight that was peeking through the trees.

"Now, aria. We're going to play a game and you're the head player: an eradicator," The man said.

"Ewadee-alligator?" The girl was confused because she was only 8. She had already trusted these people who had yet to show their evil side.

The man laughed. "Yes. You're job is to kill those two avian humans over there. This is the point of 'The Game'," He pointed to a spot behind her.

Aria looked behind her to see what he was pointing at. Her blue eyes widened as she saw two beings that looked like her. They had the wings and had the faces of a human. They also seemed to look like defects since one had one large wing and a small wing while the other had no arm. She began to tremble. "Why?" Her hands shook at the thought of killing experiments that had endured so many vicious trials.

"Tsk, tsk." The man was shaking his head. "It's to collect data and heighten your skills, but I guess you can't understand yet. We're trying to help you." The girl just stood there motionless. He sighed. "Look over there." He was pointing at two other experiments. One of them was her best friend that was dragged along with Aria to this new School. The other was a cute dog that had been an experimental failure. All of them were cowering in fear.

"If you don't do as we say, then we'll kill all of them. It's your choice. Either kill two and save two or…everyone dies." He still had his evil grin. Aria who used to be an innocent little child grew more mature as she decided what to do.

"I'll do it." Aria was clenching her fists.

"That's a good girl. Start the trial," He told the others. The white coats were disappearing into the scenery. "Now remember, in order to save the two you must kill the other avian humans."

Whoosh! The two bird humans flew up into the air and tried to escape their horrible fate. Aria decided to pursue them. She was crying as she flew through the air at an amazing speed. She was wiping away her tears as she cornered the two kids.

Bam, bam! Aria was kicking, punching, and biting at the two bird kids. The two of them did the same until a last blow knocked one of them out. The experiment took its last breath as it froze on the dirt. Pow! Aria delivered a last punch to the other one which sent him flying over a cliff.

The falling bird kid tried to reach out for Aria's hand, but all she did was stare. "AHHHHHH!" The screams were ringing in her ears.

"Stop. Stop! STOOOPPP!" She was screaming at the world. She gripped onto her ears.

"STOP!" Aria quickly rose from her bed. She was panting roughly. Her heart was pounding.

Huff, huff…huff. She calmed down as she saw her room. "Just a dream." She rubbed her eyes and lowered her head back onto her soft pillow. Aria brushed away the loose brown hairs on her face.

She was finally 14 years old. It was just a few years from that dream, no…her memory, but The Game still dragged on. Aria always scoffed at the scientists' great creativity to come up with names. She was glad that she named herself, otherwise they would have named her: Bird, Kid, or Avian. Actually, Avian as a name didn't sound so bad to her.

She was forced to stay with the white coats. She didn't have a choice. Aria was always thinking that she would never be able to survive out of the school alone. She didn't want to kill, but she had to. She wanted to keep her friends alive, but they were gone because of her hesitation in killing another. Her only reason to keep going was to live.

Beep. The loudspeaker in her room turned on. "Aria please report to the board room."

Lousy white coats. Always making me do their dirty work. She thought to herself.

Airia lifted herself up from her bed. She walked out of her comfort zone and into the white coats' little schemes.

A/N: So what do you think? Review please.

The point of view that this story will be written in might become experimental because I am planning for it to alternate between 1st person and 3rd person. And don't worry, romance will appear. =]