Hello! This is my first fanfic, so constructive criticism is appreciated! Please don't judge to harshly, but if there is anything I need to explain more thoroughly, please let me know n a comment, for future reference! Also, in case you didn't notice, this is a Percy Jackson and Maximum Ride crossover, and I own only the storyline, and my OC, Orabelle. The name means something *winkwink*.Also another character I was told about by my friend, is from the MR world, but was fanmade. I am not sure by who, but thanks for creating this character! All of this, is irrelevant if nobody ends up reading this, though. All rights to Uncle Rick and James Patterson!
Orabelle's POV:
I'm Orabelle, and I'm going to tell you the story of my pathetic life. When I was two years old, my mother taught me how to shape shift, under the guise of a game. We were reading my favourite book, 'Why Aren't Mice and Cats Friends?'.
The scary cat meowed, scowled and howled at the tiny mouse.
"Why don't you try to look like a cat, sweetie?" suggested my mother, "Just think very hard about a cat, and imagine yourself turing into one."
Of course, I tried. I closed my eyes, and imagined myself turning into a small kitten.
'Do I look like a cat mummy?' Turned out as "Meow?"
I had turned into a cat! Mum just smiled and laughed, looking proud.
"I knew you would be able to do it." she proudly proclaimed, and petted my head.
Then she turned into a cat too, and leaped off my bed.
She used her cat paw to signal to me to come with her, and we bounded into her bedroom, so we could look in the mirror. Mum was a grey and white cat, with white paws, face stomach, and tail, while the rest of her was grey. I was a black cat, with white 'socks' up to my cat-elbows.
Then she turned back to human. I started to scratch the floor in panic, as I didn't know how to change back to human. I WAS GOING TO BE STUCK AS A CAT FOREVER! Thankfully, Mum spoke up.
"Imagine yourself turning back into a human again. "
She said smiling, "You have discovered the gift of our family. "
I imagined my self as human again, and once I had turned back, I asked Mum a question.
"Can I turn into other animals too?"
"You can be anything you want, honey."
TIME SKIP: TWO YEARS LATER
Two years after I discovered my gift, I turned into an animal almost everyday. I usually slept in the form of a sloth, because I fell asleep quicker. Today, we were in a taxi, driving to visit my pre-school. We were in a quiet road, when there was suddenly a big dog on the road. It was black, and had glowing red eyes. It was the size of a garbage truck!
"Mummy," I said pointing at the dog,"What is that?"
Mum's eyes widened and she let out a little gasp.
"Turn into a cat, darling and run away, no matter what happens, you must leave. You must travel in animal form, but turn human to get food. Try to get to the Empire State building, and ask the man to call camp. Tell him the blood of Pylos and the daughter of the Underworld commands him, if he pretends he doesn't know what camp is."
"Why? Mum, are you coming too?"
"You must trust me darling, go, now."
She opened the door and ushered me out, but before I was out of earshot, she told me this.
"I love you, and I'll see you again, now leave. I promise I'll see you again."
I slipped out the door and into my usual cat form. I ran 50 meters (One meter is 3 feet) before turning around to see what was going. I turned just in time to see the taxi explode. And that was the end of of the amazing life that was my mother's. But mine has yet to finish.
TIME SKIP: 2 WEEKS LATER
The next two weeks were extremely hard for me. I was a 4 year old, with no home, and money. I had to beg for food, and even then, the compassion of people didn't stretch far. Most days I had to forage in bins. Then came that fateful day. The beginning of the worst two years of my short life.
I had just transformed into a human, (after being a labrador) and a man saw me. He was tall, and had brown hair and blue eyes.
"Hello, sweetie, would you like some food?" he asked with a smile that didn't reach his eyes.
I nodded my head eagerly, stomach rumbling so loudly, that I didn't think anything was suspicious, or care.
"Come with me- I have lots!" so i dutifully followed him, like pathetic dog, (which I had been for the 24 hours before hand).
We got into his car, and drove to the place, that dubbed by we mutants, is the School.
Two hours later, I was strapped down to a stainless steel bench, screaming and crying as scientists injected tubes of clear yellowy-white liquid all over my body. By then I was used to the sharp pinch of the thick needles, but my body burned. Between my shoulder-blades I felt as if i was being stabbed. I felt as if my bones were being melted away by acid, and my lungs were being compressed. My brain hurt, and suddenly, the exact time popped into my head: 2:34pm. Why did I even think that? How did I know? Why, was the time of all things, exactly what I know? Knowing what they were doing to me would have been better. Humph.
When they were finally done, dog-men threw me into a cage. There were other cages, stacked up onto each other. They were all humanoid, but had something wrong with them. Some had tails, of all kinds of creatures, ears, and so on. Some had strangely coloured skin, scales, fur, crustaceany-eksoskeleton, everything you could think of. There were even people in fish-tanks, blowing out bubbles through their noses. Thats when the pain started. I cried out in pain. Something was definitely coming out of my back. I screamed, and cried, but nothing happened, I was trapped. The other kids/things, stared at me, expressions ranging from mildly interested, sympathetic, and fearful. I finally calmed down, and fell to the bottom of the cage, sobbing. I reached back to find out what was in-between my shoulder-blades. When I got to the place where the pain had been coming from I met resistance. Feathery resistance. I turned my head around, to see beautiful silver wings, with speckles of black protruding from my back. I reached out to touch them, finding them to be real. I flapped them, which came as naturally as moving a finger. I looked to the cage on my right, to find a girl, about 14, with red ears and a fox tail. She had dark brown hair with streaks of red, and orange eyes, with red pupils.
"Whats going on?"
"Eh, nothing."
I pouted. Thats not exactly what I meant.
"No I mean why are we here, and what is everyone here, including me?"
"Well this is the School, and they either; steal kids off the street, or hijack pregnancies with animal DNA. The kids they steal are injected with the DNA by the whitecoats, the scientists. The dog things we call erasers, 'cause they erase people from life. We are all mutants. There testing, us, for who knows what, and changing for who knows why. Whats your name?" She sounded bored, as if she had that explained many times.
"I am Orabelle, and I am 4 and one-quarter."
"I am Flora, nicknamed Kit because of the Japanese name for foxes, kitsune. Can I give you a nickname?"
"Sure." I replied, not minding.
"Your nickname is… its… no…hmm…sounds weird… Bells!"
"Okay. I like it." I say. "Can you do anything, like turn fully into a fox?"
"Well I can summon and control fire." she replies, acting nonchalant, but I could tell she was really proud of her gifts.
"Really? Can you show me?" I ask. I want to see!
"Of course!" she says, beaming, "Here you go!"
"Woah."
She is making shapes to of the fire, while it floats in mid-air. Animals, food, love hearts, and finally a ball, that she plucks out of the air, and holds it in her hand, without being burnt.
"Also, Bells, your hair is uh-mazing."
"What do you mean? It's brown."
"How did you not know what colour your own hair is? Its a mix of red, orange, green blue, brown and turquoise."
"What!" I yelp, pulling out the braid I have had for the last week and a-half. Oh my, she wasn't lying. It looks amazing! The colours strangely perfectly mix together in a practical colour-wheel on my head! How do I even know what a colour wheel is?
After being injected with the DNA, I not only have wings, but an internal clock a compass, cool hair, possibly regenerative healing (the cuts and scrapes from living on the street were gone, and there were no marks from the needles), I am more intelligent, and for some reason I feel lighter and I can breath deeper. Pretty cool.
"Kit?"
"Yeah?"
"I have a secret I want to tell you. Do promise not to tell anyone?"
"Sure." She probably expected something childish like; I used to have a dolly named Polly, who wanted to eat a lolly (Candy, for any Americans out there). She didn't know what hit her.
"Can you make walls of fire around our cages? It is really important."
Se lifted her hands, and all at once fire surrounded us.
"What is this secret?"
I leaned in as close as a could, with the wire cage in front of us.
"I can turn into any animal in the world."
"Prove it."
Which animal would you like me to turn into?"
"First a sloth, then a monkey, then a fox."
"Sure."
I did as she said, amazing her with every change. When I was finally done, and had turned back to human, I asked her to turn off the flaming walls. She obeyed.
"How did you know you got that ability? I had to use trial and error to discover my power."
"I was born with it, I didn't develop it after the injection."
"What? How?"
"Dunno. Mum said it was the gift of the family to be able to do it. And, we get powers?"
"Yeah when we become mutant, we develop unnatural power, that usually corresponds to the animal we are mutated with, other than the other body parts, I mean."
"I wonder what I got?!"
"We'll go trial and error."
"Sounds good."
TIME SKIP: 2 YEARS
Over the next two years, Kit and I became best friends. She might be 16 years old, and I 6, but we understood each other. We told each other everything, tortures the whitecoats put us through, everything.
We also discovered I can control, summon, and effect the four elements, fire (though I don't get burnt), water, earth and air. I could also sense the emotions of every living being. Thankfully I could turn it on and off, because I wouldn't want the emotions of everyone here at the School suddenly overloading my senses.
Also, everyday the whitecoats torture me. At least I have my regenerative power. They want to know how I got my shapeshifting abilities without mutation. They do the same to Kit. What chemical did they use, to give her the power to control fire? Even the whitecoats are frustrated. We also discovered she has super hearing and smell. One time, Kit heard the man-dog hybrids called erasers (who are the guards and enforcers at the School) talking about how, if they find me asleep, they won't bother bringing me to the torture chamber that day. So I pretended to be asleep. It worked, and they went away. They were three rooms away from us! She had smelt them coming, and listened to their conversation. Over the two years, she had refined her sensitive hearing and smell.
They are also testing me for something. We're not sure why, but they make me run mazes and things like that. Its like they're trying to say, "Good luck and try not to die!"
Kit and I also worked out an escape plan. I would turn into a dragonfly, fly out the cage, turn back to human, find something small, pick the lock on Kit's door and the other mutants doors, and use fire, the other elements, and super hearing to get all of us out. Tomorrow is the day we escape. Then we get to go to clothes shops and hotels, shower and change our clothes, then, we'll roam until we get to the Empire State Building! Then, we will do exactly as my mum told us. I am ready to leave this hell-hole. So is Kit. She has lived here for 5 years. Thats 5 years too long, for anyone that isn't a whitecoat, that is. I fall asleep in my cage, dreaming of the freedom that I hope will come with tomorrow.
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