Sage's POV
I woke up again with a killer headache. This time, I was in a cage. I recognized this place, it was the School. I'd never been here, but I recognized the description from the flock. The only place I'd been like this was the Institute. But it was basically the same. You know, the usual mad scientist torture devices.
But you wanna know what really pissed me off? My baby, Arseny, was locked up in a dog cage. He was curled up and shivering in a size small cage. His gray sweatpants and blue t-shirt were dirt streaked, and maybe but I'm not sure, blood stained a bit.
Around the room were various other cages, all filled with mutants. Across the room was a girl with multiple eyes and four extra legs. She only looked about two, but then with all these experiments, you could never tell. There was a boy maybe three cages down making clicking noises. He had a blowhole on his head like a dolphin, and his arms were fins. There was definitely something wrong with him, considering every couple of minutes his muscles would twitch and become spastic, and water would spurt out of his blowhole.
The giant double doors swung wide open, and two other mutants walked in. Caleb and that girl who was with him when he had died, or so I thought. Him and his stupid smirk spread across his face. How could he be so full of himself? I'd known him when we were kids, and now I could barely recognize him.
"So Sage, stupid mistake you made, no? I mean the running away thing back in New York," he said.
"Oh, so that's her name Caleb? Sage? Sounds like a tree or something. I can see why you two never took off. Her hair is so, so ugh! I'm Cassie by the way. Nothing personal hun, but we don't like you," she said snidely before stalking off.
"Ya gotta love her. And as for you, what the hell are you doing breeding? And with that failure when you could've had this?" he said, gesturing to himself with a sweeping motion of his hand down his body.
"Caleb, what happened to you? You used to be so innocent and well, caring! You'd always…" he cut me off.
"Shut up! Those days are over and they're never coming back. Now I was gonna be nice," he put air quotes around nice, "and let you know exactly what the deal is."
He should just leave now. I was completely tuned out.
"We're taking the kid to do some stuff. I don't know what, but don't expect him to be very capable of anything after this is over."
Caleb jabbed a thumb over toward Arseny, who was now awake and taking everything in. I saw his face scrunch up at the sights and soon when we got out of here, if we got out of here, which we would. I knew we would.
The double doors swung wide as Caleb strode out with Arseny in his arms.
Iggy's POV
List of problems to deal with: broken window, split lip, bruised left eye, throbbing headache, various cuts and scrapes all over me stinging, Sage and Arseny were gone.
But hey, everyone's gotta deal with the high risk of getting their girlfriend and son kidnapped right?
"Max already knows, so leaving her out of this will only tick her off more," warned Fang.
Well of course I knew that. Max had a pretty low boiling point. But that was just something that we'd have to deal with. This was something I had to do on my own without her "leader help". But then again, I couldn't go on my own, so Fang was gonna fill that spot. He managed to ditch the flock while walking to the bus stop. Yes, they had resorted to walking in the past months. And even Nudge, with her big mouth, didn't have much complaining to do.
"Listen, Fang, let's just pack our stuff and go. I don't want Max here when we leave."
I was shoving clothes and money and cans of food into a bag. Fang was getting his stuff ready too. We were gonna leave today around noon to try to get to the School by five, not including breaks and stuff. This was just too freaking far. I was seriously fed up with all this drama they liked to cause. You know how it goes, save the drama for ya mama.
"Dude, you ready?" asked Fang. Ready as I could ever be to face possible imminent death.
"Yup. Let's do this," and with that, I hopped out of the already broken window into the warm almost-summer air.
Caleb's POV
You know, I actually kinda felt bad for Sage. But then I rethought the past, and I didn't feel bad for her anymore. True, she used to be my little sister, but those days were over. It was time for me to grow up and forget the past.
Well, not completely. I won't ever forget when I met Cassie.
It was a week or so after Sage had escaped, and after my transformations had taken place. A bunch of us were in the Main Lab, which is used mainly for the DNA implanting processes. She was flipping through an issue of Cosmo, and I was teasing all of the failure mutants. The ones that would die in a matter of days.
"What the hell is wrong with you? They're gonna die anyway. Leave 'em alone, you freak," she yelled without looking up from her magazine.
I was the freak? She was the one who looked like a freaking tiger.
Then she looked up. I swear, she had the most beautiful green eyes ever. They were spellbinding, like, addicting.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were a white coat. I'm Cassie by the way, " she said provocatively. She got up and took a couple steps toward me. I still couldn't stop looking at her eyes. They were like the fire and I was like the moth. If I came too close I'd be dead. And that's exactly what happened.
"You love my eyes, don't you? Well, everyone does. They're hypnotic. Now get over here and kiss me, you sexy beast."
And now you know.
I swear, that child of hers was just like Sage. He was definitely a fighter. The kid kept squirming in my arms until we reached the lab he was due for testing in.
"That's subject thirteen? He doesn't look like much," said Riley.
"Its ugly," said Sammy from the corner.
"He resembles your dad then sweetie," sneered Joanna. She was combing her hair and making faces at Sammy. They never got along. Partly because she was Cassie's daughter, and Cassie is the alpha female. Joanna used to be. We'll get more into detail about that later, but right now I had to get out of that lab. I had a guilty conscience, which I've never really experienced before, and I freaking hated it.