Maximum Ride Story-
Chapter 4-
We flew for hours, I don't think any of us knew truly where we were going, the kids really wanted to go the beach and I thought that was a bad idea but I kept my mouth shut.
"Fine! To the Beach!" I twitched, I loved swimming but the ocean meant the noise of the waves which could easily hide the approaching sounds of any attackers.
We tilted to the side and flew towards the large blue expanse of water that had been to our right for a while now and landed on the course sand and the kids jumped at the water giggling and splashing around, I kept myself on high alert, even after Max calmed down, I didn't like beaches.
"It's fine Eris, you can relax." Bruce urged me, he was smiling widely and soaking wet. I smiled at him, even if he was eleven, he acted about seven.
"I'm still not used to relaxing when I'm in open areas like this, you go have fun." He didn't need to be told twice. I sat down and leaned back on my hands, looking out over the ocean before checking the feather, since it had now become a habit. Max, who had been sitting next to me, noticed my movement and frowned, her eyes focusing on the black addition to my hair.
"Where did you find that?" she asked, her voice unnecessarily harsh, my fingers drifted over it,
"In Kayla's backyard, around a tree that another 'Angel' crashed into, apparently some Erasers had attacked him and he got thrown into a tree, I found it under that tree." I explained my hand dropping to lay protectively on my bag.
"Oh." Was all she said. I nodded in agreement and watched over the kids, I don't think I had the same protective instinct Max had, but I didn't want them to die, but I knew they wouldn't mostly because they were bird kids, it was the other mutants who I was more worried about.
I was really curious to learn more about Fang's group but I knew it was smart to not ask Max of all people about it. I continued to look over the kids, growing slightly bored.
"How long have you been the leader of the Flock?" I asked randomly. She shrugged,
"About five and a half years." I nodded, not knowing what else to ask.
We sat in silence for even longer, the sun was starting to set and the kids had all come out of the water, shivering slightly. I sat back and let Max dry them off, I was wide awake and stared up at the night sky.
"You guys can all go to sleep, I'll stay up and watch." I offered. Max hesitated, she must've taken Angel's words of caution deep to heart but nodded anyway, giving me the benefit of the doubt.
I smiled and perched myself on the top of the rock they were taking shelter under. I watched the sky for the longest time in my air form until I heard everyone fall asleep and shifted to my land form, stretching happily. My tail twitched silently as I continued to scan the skies, my sight and hearing twice as good now.
The night passed slowly, I decided not to wake anyone else since I slept for so long the night before and I wanted everyone else to be on their best tomorrow. The sun was almost up when I heard them, a lot of them. I jumped up and, just before I woke everyone up, I shifted back to my air form and opened my mouth,
"EVERYONE GET UP NOW!" I hissed, they were awake at once,
"Gen 5 Erasers!" I announced. Bracing for a fight.
"Gen 5?" Max questioned angrily.
"Yep, they're faster, stronger and, instead of wolves they're combined with Snakes."
"That's right! We're much superior to our lupine ancestors!" a voice purred from behind me. I turned around and snarled.
"Lucas." I spat.
"My dear Chimi!" I glared at him,
"Don't call me that." I hissed, hoping no one would ask later.
"Hmm looks like you found a new group of 'friends' I wonder how long these ones will last? Do they know yet?" I saw red for a second but I gritted my teeth and it cleared.
"Shut up."
"Oh ho ho! So they don't!"
"We don't know what Eris?" Max snarled.
"Now is not the time." I said in exasperation.
"Oh no, I think it's the perfect time, because, you see, I am only after you dear Chimi, so if I tell them they'll go away and I don't have to deal with them, the original Erasers are after the normal bird freaks…but not you…no not you." He purred, the red was staining my vision, my breathing was starting to go jagged and I felt my wings trying to shirk away, giving way to my battle form.
"Lucas I'm warning you…I really don't want to do this." I panted.
"Oh but I do…" I closed my eyes, knowing he won't attack until I shift forms.
"Max, I need you take the Flock and leave, now." For some reason though she crossed her arms and stood firm,
"I'm not leaving, no matter what." She said stiffly. I moaned in annoyance,
"Fine, just don't blame me if you die or don't like what you see."
Lucas, like most other erasers, looked like a model, he had tanned skin with brown hair and piercing green eyes with a slitted pupil, like a snake's. He also had poison fangs and nails, like I did, as well as scales, like me but my scales were stronger and my poison more potent. You'd have to get a lot of his poison in you to die, his was mostly just for knock out and to paralyze you.
Mine was meant to kill.
I turned to Bruce, my golden eyes filled with regret as I shifted my forms,
"I'm sorry." I muttered, my eyes lightening and turning acid green, my wings shrinking and disappearing with a sickening crack before my skin bubbled and the scales grew out from under it. My nails grew, the tips dipping with poison and my fangs growing as well.
"You want a fight Lucas?!" I snarled, "You got one." I shot forward, hoping to catching him off guard but he was ready. I went at him with my nails but he blocked them with his black scales.
"This is the Chimi I was looking for." He breathed in my ear. I glared at him and snapped at his ear but he pulled away just in time.
The other Erasers wanted to attack too but I was Lucas's pray, always was, always will be.
I jumped back, skidding in the sand and stopping a few inches from the flock. Max pulled them back and I felt sorrow well in my heart before I lunged at Lucas again.
"Looks like you just lost another group of 'Friends'! This is what…the seventh?"
"Shut up." I muttered, tensing in emotional pain, I've traveled with a bunch of groups of experiments but as soon as they found out what I was I was kicked out.
"No…it's ten?"
"Shut up!" I snapped quietly, my vision starting to go red.
"And then there was your own brother what happened to him again… oh yah! You—" Tears rolled down my eyes,
"SHUT UP!" I screamed then everything went red.
When my vision cleared I was, once again, standing in the middle of the beach, all of Lucas's cronies strewn around me, but of course no Lucas, blood on my gloves and some of the bodies still twitching. My eyes widened and I screamed, clutching my head,
"NO! NO NONONONONO! NOT AGAIN!" I screeched, tears pouring from my eyes.
I scanned the group of bodies, looking for any bird children, there were none, which made me feel a little relieved. I let my neck fall back, so I was staring into the air. I saw the flock staring down at me, eyes wide in shock and terror. I opened my mouth, I wanted to explain but I couldn't find the words. I just looked away, shifted to my land form, grabbed my bag and ran.
I ran away from the erasers, away from the flock, away from my little source of happiness.
I was given the curse of the Chimera, I was a cold blooded killer and everyone was afraid of me.
I kept running until my legs wouldn't carry me any longer before curling up and crying myself to sleep, not caring if anyone ever found me.
I woke up who knows how long later and found it was raining, even though all I wanted to do was just curl up and die I forced myself to not give up and I found a cave to stay in. I shivered in the mouth and watched the rain fall.
The only reason I kept myself alive was so I could find, and kill, every single offshoot of the 'School' and all the doctors who controlled them.
The rain continued to fall so I went deeper into the cave and pulled out the computer, my insolation of clothing had kept it safe and I turned it on.
It happened again. My vision went red and went I came to I was surrounded by dead bodies. I hope it never happens again I hate that form, it's terrifying.
I wrote sadly before shutting the document and turning off the computer shoving it back in my insolation nest.
I didn't know what to do next, I could try to find Fang's Gang, but they would just reject me out of fear like the Flock did, I guess I could try to stay alone, I can easily take care of myself but that's only when I went into my rage state and I didn't want that to happen too much.
I just wished I was a normal kid…why is my life so messed up?
Other POV
Max and the Flock stared after their 'friend,' their friend they had seen kill over ten men without even blinking, her face was simply twisted in rage and her eyes were a demonic red, even when the Flock called to her, told her to stop, she either didn't hear or didn't listen, but she just kept killing, slashing and biting, it was a horrific sight, something Max had wished Gazzy, Angel, Nudge and Bruce will never ever have to see or hear about again.
"S-She's the Chimera…she saved me…but she's the Chimera." Bruce was muttering to himself in terror.
"Should we go after her? She seemed fine until the Erasers came." Max shook her head,
"No, she's too unstable, I can't risk having her around, she could snap and kill us all." The Flock, and Bruce, nodded sullenly and glanced in the direction the experiment had disappeared to.
"I feel bad for her. Did you hear what that eraser said? She's been abandoned by ten groups and something happened to her brother, I wonder what it is..." Nudge muttered sadly.
"Yah, I do to, but there's nothing we can do, I can't risk her staying with us, I'm sorry." Max said, still staring after where the Chimera had disappeared to before turning and flying the Flock in the opposite direction, only Bruce glanced back, remembering her final words to him, the look of sorrow in her eyes when she shifted her forms, revealing her true self as the Chimera, the creature that had haunted his nightmares ever since that day, the day two years ago, that day when the Chimera was forced to hunt down and kill innocent experiments just so they scientists could test her hunting abilities.
The day she killed his sister.
(Flashback)
Bruce was curled into his large dog crate, his sister curled up next to him, they were good kids so they were allowed a large crate and got to stay together, it was a tough fit but they made do. The door opened on the other side of the room, light flooded in and everyone cowered back, Bruce hugged his sister closer, they may not fight but they still hated having to do anything. One thought was going through every experiment's mind
"Not me! Please don't let it be me!" the feet stopped outside a crate and everyone almost cried with happiness, that is, besides Bruce and his little sister, Annabelle. The man in the white coat leaned down and gave them a kind smile,
"Hello my dears, I only need Anne today, okay?" Anne nodded, tears pricking her eyes and untangled herself from her brother, who's eyes were wide with horror.
"W-What are you going to do to her?" he rasped.
"It's okay Bruce, she's going to a better place now." Bruce's eyes widened ad the door closed on her sister,
"N-NO!" he wailed. Anne tried to reach back to her brother but was pulled away, the tears trailing down her face.
The white coat kept a firm grip on Anne's arm and pulled her through the halls. He smiled down at her, wiping the tears away.
"Don't cry sweetie, you're going to help us learn about our most successful experiment yet: the Chimera." Anne sniffled and kept walking,
The white coat opened and door and ushered her in. It was a huge white room, stained with red. There were nine other mutants there, cowering on this side of the room but, on the other, was a barred door with a girl, who looked to be about thirteen, pressed against it. She was dirty; blood smeared her face as well as tears. She looked normal but there were two golden ears on the top of her head as well as a golden tail thrashing behind her, she looked over the experiments in horror before opening her mouth and screaming. Her scream made Anne even more scared, she had never heard something more pain filled and sad.
"I DON'T WANNA KILL ANYMORE!" she wailed. The entire grout of experiments froze.
"Did she just say kill?" went through all their minds.
"It's okay Chimi, that's what you were made to do! You were made to kill." A gen 5 eraser purred.
"BUT I DON'T WANNA!"
The bars started to raise and they got a full view of her. She was wearing a ratty white and red dress, the red was not supposed to be there. Her black gold and silver hair was tangled and ratty, very dull. She looked a little healthier than her prey, like she got fed a little more. She shot out of her cage and hid in a far corner, shaking and crying.
"CHIMI! HELP ME!" a voice cried from the distance. She lifted her eyes and the group flinched back.
"L-Liam?" she whispered.
"That's right Chimi, Liam's going through more experiments, just kill these brats and he'll be fine." The Eraser said. She sniffled and stood up, looking at the experiments sadly, her ears and tail shortening and silver scales growing over her skin.
"I'm sorry, but I have to save him…I can't let him die, so you're going to have to." She closed her now green eyes and took a deep breath, an insane smile curling over her lips. When she opened them again they were red, with a snarl she launched forward, her speed bringing her across the room in seconds.
The experiments tried to run, to fly, to survive but they were brought down by a bite of slash by the Chimera. Anne stood frozen in fear as the girl turned to her, a smile staining her face, dripping with the blood of her victims.
The last thing she saw was that smile and murderous red eyes tainted with tears.
Bruce had heard her scream all the way from his crate and he wailed in mourning, he would never forgive the creature that had taken his sister from him.
(End flashback)
"Never." He breathed and flew after his new family.