Ch 1

I assumed control myself from Zodiac to find myself in a dog crate to small for my tall, slim body. I was six' seven" and a hundred and ten pounds. Anyway when memory of seeing Jeb's face smiling at me from outside of the truck hit me, I was pissed all over again and had to struggle a bit to keep Zodiac at bay. I hadn't known Jeb that much at all, he had spent most of his time with six other creations, but when I had seen him, he had been kind, and he had helped me escape. Why should I be pissed that a whitecoat had caught me and put into a dog crate. I mean it wasn't the first time I had been put in a dog crate, it had been my home for nearly seventeen years. I guess I was pissed at Jeb for bringing me here again, I don't really know or care. I did, however, care enough to take a look at what I could through the bars of the dog crate. I shifted my position in the d-crate so that I was looking out through the door and not at the back of the d-crate. I saw a small girl in the d-crate across from mine. She looked back at me. I smiled wondering who and what she was when someone in the cage beside me groaned.

"Where are we?" It was a boy speaking. A girl beside the one in front of me answered him.

"We're back at the school Iggy. Max doesn't know what to do, Gazzy is still out. Fang won't talk. I don't know about Angle, and I'm scared and angry."

"Oh," was all the boy, Iggy, would say.

I decided to speak, "Who are you guys and what are you doing here? How do you know the whitecoats. Why'd they bring you to the institution?"

Another girl from across answered me.

"My name in Max. And I won't answer your questions until you tell us who and what you are."

"My name is Aiden. I'm a bat-tiger-panther-wolverine-human-hybrid. Now, you answer." Before she could, however, the other girl spoke again.

"Wow! You're all of that? That's a lot of animals. What animal is what about you. Do you..."

Before she could finish Max cut in, "Shh Nudge. Angel, can we trust this boy?" The girl in front of me answered after a short pause. "Yes. He's on the same side we are."

"'Kay. As I told you my name is Max, my flock, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel, are all avian-human hybrids. We were caught in New York and brought here yesterday. We saw you come in."

I was about to answer when I heard a door open and two whitecoats walked in and paused in front of my cage. One squatted down in front of me and said, "We're going to let you out and you're going to follow us. No trouble, no problems, got it?"

"Up yours," I answered. The whitecoat glared and opened the door. I didn't move, I had a plan.

"C'mon, out now, there are some people who need to talk to you."

I crawled out and stood up, stretching after being in that cramped d-crate for so long. I took a look at the girl and her "flock" as I walked by. They looked back at me.

I followed the two whitecoats through a series of hallways, most of them familiar, and felt sick as sixteen and a half years of memories came flooding back to me in a rush. I don't know why they had taken so long to come back, but now they had, and they weren't pleasant. The whitecoats stopped suddenly in front of a door and I ran into the one who had spoken to me..

"Watch it stupid," he growled. I snarled and he paled, turned, and opened the door. I followed the whitecoats into a small room where a man sat reading something stuck to a clipboard.