Chapter 1
Hey, 'Sup, I'm Nightsbane, or at least, that's my name from now on. You may know Maximum Ride and the rest of the flock, but I'm not like them. Yes, I'm an Avian-Human Hybrid like them, but I was not created that way like the rest of them. My life started by the name of Nicholas Jonathan Rideous, and I had a normal life. Then, one day I come home from school a little later than I should have, ( I was serving detention for being late too much, I was never on time.) and I see the front door hanging open. At first, I think 'Oh, mom left the door open for some fresh, cool air for the daycare kids.' Then I remember she was done with daycare two hours ago! I rush right in the house, wind whistling in my ears and I fall to my knees at the sight of both my parents on the ground, shot through the head. I weep and weep, mourning my parents. Then I hear someone come in the doorway. It was a complete stranger.
"What are you doing here?!"
I run and swing at him, but he stepped to the side, I feel a sharp swing to the back of my neck and I black out. I wake up later in a steel crate. I felt like I was in a prison, metal bars everywhere. I shook and shook the bars to get out, not thinking of how pointless it is. Then I smashed my hands on the bars, ignoring the crushing pains of my bones shattering.
"You really shouldn't do that."
I look to my right to see this teenage girl. And in the crates next to her five more kids.
"Leave me alone!"
She closed her mouth after I shouted at her and turned away. I gasped, she had wings! So did the other kids! The door opened and all seven of us looked. It was the man who knocked me out!
"So, Max, you got to meet the new guy."
So the girl's name was Max. I would remember that forever, such a strange name.
"Hello, Nick."
"It's Nightsbane now."
"OK, Nightsbane, as you way have already seen, these six have been genetically altered." He was referring to their wings.
"We've been working on this for awhile, but the only success has been through pre-creational genetic engineering"
"Excuse me."
"Changing the DNA before they're born." I looked at the girl and she turned away again.
"That's right, Max, but now we are trying to make it work after the subjects are born." The man pulled out a syringe. I hate needles! I hate them!
"Jeb, are you sure this is who you want to try it on?" the woman to Jeb's left finally spoke.
"Why not, he has no family anymore." Jeb laughed. Oh, how I wanted to kill him.
"Yeah, because you killed them in cold blood!"
He had two security guards hold me in place and he injected me with whatever was in the syringe. I screamed louder than I ever had.
"Stop it, can't you see you're hurting him, stop it!" the girl was concerned for me? This WAS weird. Finally they threw me back in the crate. I couldn't see anymore, hear, talk, or move anymore. I could only feel, and I felt pain, extreme pain. Then I felt a hand touch me. It was the girl.
"Don't worry, you'll live."
I choked out, "I don't want to live."
All went silent and black. I awoke again to see Jeb.
"What do you want?" I looked around. The girl or the others were not there.
"You wanna see them?" I nodded.