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Chapter 2: Percy's Point of View

The past couple of weeks became a blur of getting to know each other and planning on how to escape; which we got nothing on.

Spread out during each day the white coats would individually take us out one by one to 'fly and see the outdoors' but I was guessing that they really meant 'we want to see how powerful our success subjects are to see what other experiments we can do on them'. Each time they took me or Kat outside of our cages they treated us with more care and respect than the bird kids. I think they were just scared of our fangs, and it did help by killing a couple of erasers once in a while just to scare the rest of the scientists. Whenever I went outside a different white coat would test my skills in various different categories. But whenever I fought I would never feel the same as I did when I was with Jeb the first time, don't get me wrong though I still killed a lot of erasers, it just felt different and a little more difficult.

Today was the first time since the day I became part panther that I saw Jeb. The door opened and all the kids with wings cowered back, even Max which was surprising 'cause she always acts tough in front of the others. Me and Kat eagerly and curiously stumbled forward in our crates to see who was there, but I could have sworn I saw fright in Kats eyes. The blinding light from the other side of the door made me blink furiously to adjust to the florescent beams of light. When I fully regained sight I realized that it was Jeb at the door. He cautiously walked forward to my cage. He bent down to my crates level. He had a strained and pained look in his eyes.

"This is tough for me as much as it is for you." He said while motioning for the erasers behind him to go to the others. All the bird kids were held with their arms and wings tucked behind their backs by erasers, like police do to criminals. It took three erasers to retch Kat out of her cage; I think my pep talks to her were helping. Lastly Jeb opened the latch to my crate. I was about to lunge at him, or the other erasers when Jeb motioned for me to stop.

"Make one move and at least three of your friends here die." He said while gesturing toward my new found family. I looked guiltily over at my friends than glared at Jeb.

"If you hurt one of them, I swear I will rip your spine out and brake each and every one of your bones in the most painful way there is." I threatened.

One of the erasers spoke up while chuckling "Well you might not like our little game."

I tried to pounce on him but Jeb put a hand on me. "Save your energy, and just remember this wasn't my idea." He said while glancing at his shoes in sorrow.

Confusion is taking the best of me, and just for future reference, I can't stand being confused or restrained, because the next thing you know I'm all mad and blood thirsty, who knows maybe this panther- bird- human mixture causes bipolarism.

"Don't touch me" I said coldly "and if you know what's best for you, you would tell me where we are going, now." I added with a stone expression.

Jeb looked pretty scared; there is no doubt that I could kill him within a second.

"You will see." He said then looked away. I tried to take this time to actually be with my friends, so I moved up toward them and I saw that the eraser holding Gazzy was twisting his wing ever so slightly but it was still probably hurting the poor little tyke. I strutted forward and barred my fangs which made the eraser back down a little so I fixed the poor kid's wing. Next I went over to Kat who was still struggling against the guards. All three guards were holding her back and arms close together. One of the erasers; who looked like a 21 year old, was snaking his hand down her back toward her butt. Those perverts. I jolted forward and grabbed his hand and with one slick movement and a loud CRACK, his arm was broken.

I don't know why but I always feel more protective of Kat than the others; maybe because she the only one of her kind or maybe because she was so vulnerable, but something about her kept bugging me to keep her safe. The eraser tried to show no pain but failed epically because he let a loud grunt escape his mouth, he sucked it up and lightly grabbed Kat with his left arm (the one I broke) and tighter with the right.

With that I lead the way through the hallways closely following Jeb and was followed by erasers my friends. We made it to the outside doors and as we exited everyone took a relaxing breathe. It was a cloudy day with no blue exposed behind the thick blanket of gray; but it didn't look like it would rain. I fluttered my wings out and flapped them a little to get rid of the stiff feeling, and the erasers let go of the others who followed my example of stretching. Angel quickly ran up to Max and me and hugged us both. Oh ya, a piece of important information is that I have been kinda fathering/brothering the youngsters like Angel, Gazzy, and Nudge. Gazzy joined the hug, and soon enough they let go. I patted Gazzy and Angel's backs as I walked past and saw Nudge eyes closed and enjoying the outdoors. I ruffled her hair and made it back to where Kat and the scientists were.

"Tell me what's going on." I demanded Jeb.

He took a wary glance at the winged kids then back to me. "The other scientist thinks that we should see how well all of you fight together. Even the little ones." This shocked me. The little kids always go outside but never fight, they just practice flying and what not. There is also Iggy who I worry about because he's blind, sure he's good at being blind, but he isn't the best at being able to react fast in fighting. Max and Fang were okay I'm guessing, they never got taught how to fight but they are old enough to play off of instinct. Kat was an excellent fighter, she hasn't had many lessons but she is really strong and her fangs could kill anyone. I looked over the younger kids and took a hard gulp.

"What are we against?" I asked hopefully.

"Around 70, or so" he replied. That gave me hope but with little kids around to avoid and to restrict myself to not kill one of them when I'm on a massacre-mode will prove to be really hard. I protectively put my body in-between the erasers and my friends. More erasers piled out of the lab and went to join the army against us. "You are allowed a couple of minutes to prepare." Jeb said in a distasteful tone.

I took the time to gather us all into a circle and discuss what are plan is. "Okay so we should have Iggy and the kids stay here and the rest of us go and fight them off one by one." Max said trying to be the leader. All the youngsters and Iggy looked really unpleased and about to object but I beat them to it.

"Well as much as I want to protect you guys, the scientists want us to work as a pack. I suggest that we have you three," I pointed to Gazzy, Angel, and Nudge "in the back incase if we get overrun or need backup, and Iggy, I think you should protect them because I trust you to take care of them. Me and Kat can go up front because we can kill the most erasers and-" I was cut off by Max and fang.

"We are the best fighters." Max said while gesturing towards her and fang. I just chuckled and started morphing into my Panther side and Kat followed my lead while morphing to her snow leopard side as well, when I was done I had my piercing black coat of fur, claws, and I could feel my fangs and snout come in too. I looked over at Kat and saw her thin pale gray fur that was decorated with darker gray streaks and spots. Her dark brown hair had gray streaks. The only thing the same was her icy blue eyes.

I stalked closer to Max; she looked kind of scared but more impressed. "What were you saying" I said with an unintentional purr. I pulled my shirt off because it was getting in the way. My scars were coated with barley any fur, so they were really noticeable, but I didn't really care right now because right now I'm ready to fight. "Max and Fang you guys stay behind us, we will give you some to kill every once and a while." And with that me and Kat stalked toward Jeb, who was looking at us impressed and also intimidated. Other scientists came outside to see the show and were with Jeb and starring at me and Kat all the same.

"Jeb, when can we start." I said as I approached him.

"Soon, here drink this, your gunna need energy to not kill your friends." I took the gallon sized water bottle and downed it, but I stopped drinking about half way and passed it to Kat. She drank fast and gave me the remaining water, which I dumped on my head. I know cats are supposed to hate water, but it helped me a lot and gave me energy.

Jeb was looking between the erasers and our small pack so I decided to head back to the rest of our friends. I bent down into a battle stance and unflustered my pitch black wings with a white and sea green stripe on the tip of each wing. My wings looked proportionate to my tall body so they were very large and I had the biggest wing span out of the whole flock, lucky me. I retracted my claws and stood protectively in front of the others with Kat slightly behind me. The bird kids behind me took out their wings on instinct, just in case things got too bad they could fly away. Jeb looked at us and then at the erasers and motioned for us to begin the fight.

I leaped out and tackled three erasers at once thrashing my claws at all of their exposed skin, or fur, I don't really know. I killed them in a heartbeat then moved on to the next victim who was trying to sneak attack me. I latched onto his neck with my fangs and broke it as if it was a normal walk in a park, and I kept my grip until he went flimsy. I then dropped the carcass and rapped my arms around another wolf-human. I quickly tightened my grip, and with my abnormal strength he gagged and vomited all over the ground and on my bare feet. Okay you need to die for that I thought while grabbing his jaw and twisting his head all the way around. That killed him. I grabbed the closest wolf guy and clawed his ears, and as he screamed and tumbled to the ground I did the same thing to a couple other erasers and then finished the job off with a few swift kicks in their chests. I came to a breaking point where I rested for a few seconds. In those seconds I looked around at my friends.

First I saw Max and Fang, back to back roundhouse kicking and punching all the mutants that came near, what a match made in heaven they are. One sneaked up on Max but Fang was quick and stealthy, so he was able to break the eraser, and yes I mean break. I then glanced at the youngsters and Iggy and was surprised by how well they were doing. Iggy was waiting and listening to any erasers who came close and once some did he beat the crap out of them. I don't know how he did it, but he punched and elbowed them in various places. Once and a while he would accidently let one pass but Nudge and Gazzy were one step ahead of them and would grab onto their necks and push them to the ground and kick until the eraser stopped breathing; Angel would kick a few times as well and looked like she was enjoying it, what a scary little girl.

Then I took a long grimace at Kat. For some reason she always had a new way on how to impress me. She was killing erasers like she did it for a living, which she kind of did but still. She clawed, punched, elbowed, kicked, bit, twisted, pretty much everything that came to mind in killing without a weapon, she did. I was staring at her for a while; she had a while of looking pretty while covered in blood. What am I thinking? She is like my family, my friend, how could I think that way? Well there is only one way to clear away from thinking about Kat like that; back to fighting. I gulped down a breath of air and pounced onto the eraser closest to me.

Every time I killed one of those wolf-human hybrids I would do a mental victory dance because it was one death closer to my friends being safe. After a few kicks and kneeing I went into automatic-killing-mutant-wolf-thing-drive. I barely remember what I was doing except for the flashes of images of me chocking or cutting up an eraser. After what seemed like minutes, but from the looks of the sun had been hours, the erasers were dead or just barely alive and their blood was splattered all over the floor. I looked up at my friends and noticed they were too covered in the blood of erasers, a few scratches here and there but what's new? They all looked at their killings and then at one another and their eyes stopped at me. Angel spoke first, she didn't have any scratches or blood on her but her hair was a mess so I knew she fought a bit.

"Wow" she said while glancing between the carcasses of erasers to me. Then she broke down crying and wobbled over to me. "Th-thank y-you P-Percy" she trembled "you sa-saved u-us." She finished shaking in fright and gratitude. Did I look that bad?

I was kind of shocked about her out of character-ness, but she was only 6 years old. I pushed her close to my chest and hugged her while making shushing and other soothing sounds. "its okay Angel" I patted her back "I'm sorry you had to go through that, if it were up to me I would have never made you come here." I said while looking at her glaze coated cheeks. "I'm the one who should be sorry I couldn't prevent this" I said to her in a calm tone.

"it's okay, you were pretty cool out there" Gazzy said with blood stains in his blond mop of hair.

"Ya, I truly agree with you when you say you're the best fighter out of all of us." Max said with astonishment gleaming in her eyes. I chuckled a bit when I heard her comment.

"I didn't see it but it sounded beast" Iggy added in with a hint of sarcasm. I looked next to him and saw that Nudge wasn't babbling on and on like usual. She had watering eyes as she looked at her arm. I followed her glance and noticed she had a 4 inch gash running down her forearm with blood leaking out of it, it wasn't life threatening but it did look like it hurt. I motioned for Angel to go to Max and she obeyed as I shuffled toward Nudge. She noticed me and immediately collapsed into my arms, embracing a hug with me. Tears stained my shirt as she bawled her eyes out. She stayed like this for a while until her tears ran out. When she was done she wiped her puffy red eyes and looked into my eyes.

"I'm so sorry Percy, I tried to stay strong like you but it hurt, I tried to stay tough but I can't, I just can't, I'm just a weak freak." She puffed and tried to cry again but I pulled her to look at me.

"You listen to me, if you ever say you are weak ever again then maybe it's true that you are weak, but right now you look like one of the bravest, strongest, toughest, and smartest 11 year olds here. I could never expect you to not be strong with a cut like that, I think I would cry too if I had a gash like that." I said and she gave a slight giggle as she imagined me crying. "And you may be a freak but we are all freaks, and as long as we are all freaks together, we are less freakier." I added and she full on giggled at my attempt for a meaningful speech. She gave me one tighter hug and then left to Iggy's side again describing the battle scene to him. I stole a quick glance from Max and Fang and they looked at me impressed and a bit confused at the touching scene. What? I can be a gentle man.

To my surprise Fang spoke. "Thanks, for everything." And then walked over to where Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angle were. Max looked at me approvingly and left with them. That left me with Kat. I took a close look at her; she had 4 large identical scars that lined next to each other, it started below her eye and traced her jaw all the way down to her chin. Beads of sweat crossed her forehead and her hair was messed up into a birds nest. I glanced at her paws and saw that her usually gray fur was stained red from blood. She noticed me staring and morphed back to her human self, but she still had blood on her skin. I followed her example and transformed as well then she looked at my body and I realized my shirt was off showing my bare chest and my pants were tattered. She blushed lightly then looked into my eyes.

"That was really sweet, what you said to Nudge" she spoke softly.

"Thanks, she is a tough girl." I said matter of factly. "You did really well today too; with the claws and teeth nothing comes by you without a scratch." I stated with a light chuckle and she joined me.

"Ya, I guess, but you should have seen yourself. You looked like you were enjoying slaughtering them." She said a bit frightened.

"Well-"I said with taunting in my tone and she started cracking up. It was nice to see her laugh; it was like seeing the whole world cheer up a little. I embraced the moment and added my laugh to the equation too. After minutes of laughing I realized it wasn't that funny; I guess during tragic or intense times anything can make you laugh. Once we calmed down I noticed Jeb standing close by eyeing me suspiciously. I beckoned Kat to follow me and we both strutted over to him. He gulped visibly before we made it over to him.

"Well done Percy, now we will lead you back to your cages." He motioned toward the lab and I just shook my head no.

"What do you mean no?" he asked sternly.

"I mean no I'm not going." I said playfully but dead seriously. I snarled my teeth and retracted my claws. Jeb looked shocked. Remember in the beginning when I said I didn't have a plan? Well I was lying, I just didn't want to admit how simple and bland it was; kill everyone and fly away. I quickly grabbed Jeb by his throat and slammed him against the ground with such force; I could see his breathing slow. I didn't want to kill him because he was one of the nicer white coats but did make sure he would stay in the hospital for a while with a good head ache in the morning. I turned around and extended my wings to full length. I was looking at the other bird kids and they un-tucked their wings too. They were getting ready for takeoff but two things stopped me. One being that Kat was looking frantic about how she would get away, and two being the loud clattery sound of a helicopter in the sky. I looked up to be greeted by erasers pointing guns at us from far off. So point being was that flying was out of the picture. I yelled at the other bird kids to go into the forest and they obeyed happily.

They sprinted to the forest with me close behind making sure no one was left behind. Kat was up front since she was the fastest and led the way. Once we were within 10 yards of the forest everyone was panting slightly, except for Angel and Gazzy who were gasping for air. I saw the flash of guns going off and the light of dog eyes through the trees. I jumped on top of everyone else to make sure the gun shots didn't hit them, and as I did so I felt the air of the bullets zooming pass my cat ears. Once they paused for a moment to reload I gathered everyone up and we sprinted again but this time toward the school, again. So the woods were out of the question, the lab will have to do.

We were about halfway when Angel stumbled over the ground; tired and breaths deepening in exhaust. Gazzy quickly noticed; but the others were too far ahead to notice, and he fell to her side checking if she was all right. I had no time for talking so I scooped both of them up, one in each arm and sprinted full speed to the rest of the flock. It took only a couple of seconds to make it to the rest of the kids, and Gazzy and Angel were abnormally light with their hollow bone, and it didn't hurt to have really strong muscles and cat speed. We made it to the shade of the building and stumbled into the building. It was exactly the same as before except for the lack of erasers. We must of finished most of them off in the fight. We all took a long break in silence, just catching our breath, while I was making sure the two young siblings were okay. Suddenly Max spoke up.

"We should head to the roof, there are 2 choppers up there, and Fang or Iggy and Gazzy can fly them." She said acting like leader, again. I nodded in agreement and we started getting ready. This time I didn't want to hold the two youngsters because I was the fighter of the pack and I couldn't do that holding two kids so Kat held Gazzy while Max held Angel, of course since Angel was her favorite and everyone knew it. I lead the way running until I made it to a lightened hall way, lined with several doors; maybe 4 or 5 doors. I walked by the first door and notice it was infested with cages filled with experiments. It broke my heart to see the sadness and sorrow that filled each room. I made a fast decision.

"Everyone get a room and get the other kids out of the cages, lead them to the roof, and make this fast." Without giving them time for a response I ran into the first room. What I saw made my heart ache. There were a total of eight cages and only two of the cages had occupants that were moving. One was a dog-human mutation that was coated with patches of white fluffy fur. She had a long tounge and floppy ears. She looked to be around 11 or 12 and had sad and fearful eyes that leaked tears of poor memories. I started unlocking her cage and she looked confused at me.

"It's okay, don't worry. I'm here to save you. You can you trust me." She nodded and crawled forward in anticipation. I opened the door and she clung her arms around my neck and murmured hopeful words into my chest. I slowly set her down and looked into her black eyes. "I need you to be brave for me, can you do that for me?" she nodded again and looked around in curiosity. I moved onto the next cage and saw that it was a scaly little boy. He was around 6 like Angel. He had a dab of brown scales on his arms, legs, and neck. He had yellowish eyes with a black pupil in the center and to top it off he had a mop of brown hair. I unlatched his cage and he cowered back. I made shushing sounds that seemed to calm him down. Then he shocked me by speaking.

"Please don't hurt me." He pleaded in his little kid voice that was cuter than Angel's.

"Don't worry I'm here to save you. I'm like you, an experiment and I'm busting you out. You wanna come with?" I asked with the nice tone I use with kids. He looked at me wearily. Come on kid we don't have all day, white coats and erasers should be on their way by now.

"Yes" he said with a trusting voice. He huddled into my arms and I pulled him out.

I looked at the two kids and spoke. "Py name is Percy Jackson, and I'm gunna get you guys out of here, okay?" they nodded and the reptile boy spoke.

"My name is Zalro" he said in an adorable voice. Then I looked at the dog-girl expectantly.

"My name is Wimzy" she spoke softly.

"Cool, now let's get this show on the road." I said and headed to the door but noticed that neither of the kids was following. They were clearly very scared. "Listen I'm going to protect you, I won't let anything happen to you as long as I'm around. Now come on lets go." I said encouragingly. Instead of words my response was of Zalro putting his hands in the air, wanting me to pick him up. I did as he wanted and his mood immediately cheered up. Then I looked at Wimzy and saw her look at me scared. I put my hand out to her and she gratefully took it, leaning into my leg.

We made it to the door and was taken to surprise by the sight in front of us. Max and Angel were hugging and talking to some slimy kids with frog distinctions and with a closer look I saw Angel holding a black Scottish dog in her arms. Iggy was comforting a kid with 3 fingers and one eye. He was covered in scars, and when I say covered I mean covered, head to toe. I then glanced at Fang and saw him standing next to a girl that seemed to be 13 or so, she had fangs in her mouth and dark eyes, but that was all on the mutation list. I looked over at Gazzy and saw him talking to three kids, one with wings like us and she had Asian features, the other two were similar but different at the same time, one had red hair and green eyes with a slick look about her and had a bushy red tail; fox. The other had the same green eyes, but she had light brown hair and dog looks, a tail, snout, ears, just like Wimzy. The two girls had the same facials, eyes, nose, mouth etc. and they were the same height and what not, but they were otherwise nothing alike. But I presumed they were twins or something. All the three girls were around Gazzy's age, man he's quiet the lady's man, he must get it from me. Lastly I looked at Nudge and Kat. They were standing next to each other, Kat holding a young boy I her arms while Nudge was talking to two older kids, 16 maybe. One was a boy and the other a girl. They too looked almost the same, the girl had long sandy blond hair and hazel eyes and the boy had sandy blond hair and chocolate eyes. They were looking over run by Nudges ongoing mouth, but seemed soothed by having someone to talk to other than each other.

After looking over everyone once more I yelled directions.

"Okay everyone lets head out." I said. I couldn't help but notice all my friends looking at the kid in my arms and the one holding my hand, and the other mutants were looking at me happily and excited to leave. I looked down at Wimzy and gave her an encouraging smile and she grinned back, and with that we lead the way upstairs.

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