CHAPTER 2: SOME CHILDHOOD

M.P.O.V.

I awoke strapped down on a table. White coats were everywhere. I turned to my side and saw the same wolf like creatures coming toward me. I panicked; I started to gnaw on the straps that were holding me down.

These creatures, these erasers, that's what they are. These erasers erased my family out of my life…

I saw one of the erasers stalk toward me and started to unstrap me from the table. As soon as I was freed from the grasp of the table, the eraser grabbed my skinny wrist and yanked me hard. He started dragging me out of the room that was filled with white coats into a dark hallway. In the hallway there were cages everywhere. In these cages there were these animals that were not normal. Some of them had beaks while others had human bodies with a tigers head, but one cage caught my eye .there was a boy, he had black hair and eyes that were dark as night. He glanced at me but he was covering himself with wings? I was shocked. Wings. I turned around trying to feel my back. That's when I felt feathers. Actual feathers. I turned around to find wings on my back. They were brown with white streaks across. I was stunned; I didn't know what to think.

That's when I heard the eraser whisper to me "How could you not have ever noticed. They were there since you were born."

I glared at him "You're lying" I yelled. I felt tears prick my eyes. Is this true? Is this the reason why my parents never took me to an actual school? I never really bothered to look at my back (who looks at their back?).

" Don't be so stubborn, Max. This is who you are, an experiment" He sneered. I didn't want to start sobbing "I am not an experiment" I snarled at him.

"Max stop lying to yourself, your just going to hurt more," he said "look at you you're a little girl, Max. You can't do anything. You're just an innocent child."

Wrong thing to say to me. A child, Maximum Ride has been called lots of things like a little girl, pipsqueak, stubborn, but a child, even worse an innocent child. I may be a five year old girl, but I know one thing for sure -I am NOT an innocent child. If you were to witness a death of your own parents, would you called that innocent? No. I am way ahead of innocent, now. I wouldn't even call myself a little girl or ANY of those childish names because I am pretty mature for my age. I barely cry, when I do it's for a big reason. If you saw you parents die in front of you wouldn't you cry? Yes. I am not going to let these erasers take advantage of me. Don't judge me, I love a fight…

As soon as the eraser turned his glance away from me but to the boy who I stared at before, I kicked him in his ( AN: guess). He fell on the floor. I ran down the hallway but I stopped as soon as I saw a girl inside one of the cages, she looked around my age and had wings, but she was a little smaller than me and frightened. I ran toward her cage and opened it and told her to "RUN!"

She got out of the cage and ran down the hallway with me. It was a dead end. We turned around and saw the erasers run at top speed toward us. I saw a window and told her to jump. She shook her head." Jump or stay here with them"

She turned to me and nodded whispered on a count of three… one… two…three! We started to fall, but then I realized, I have wings. I tried to flap but I couldn't. I saw the earth coming toward me. I closed my eyes and started to remember my family who loved and cared for me, the memories we shared together. I opened my eyes and realized I wasn't falling any more. I was … flying. The girl next to me was screaming like a banshee (she stopped when she realized she was flying, too).

"Angel"

"What" I said

"My name is Angel" she said

"I'm Maximum but call me Max for short"

She glared at me deciding if she should say something or not, finally she turned to me and asked "Where are we going to go"

I stared at her blankly; I didn't realize where to go to. If you're a five year old where do you go?

"I don't k-know" I stuttered probably because it was cold outside and I was scared." Max, I should probably be the one to tell you this but I can read minds, control people's minds, breathe underwater and I can shape shift into a couple of things"

"What" this was a joke right?

"I'm telling you this because then we can go stay at a hotel, I can control them to let us stay there"

"Angel, won't it be a little strange if two five year olds walking into a hotel without a parent"

"Max" she said coolly "I can control minds."

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