Caged Friendship
By A Unique Kunoichi
Chapter four! I hope you all are doing well and enjoying reading this as much as I am writing it. Enjoy! Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Maximum Ride. Otherwise Ari would've never died at all. :)
Chapter Four
My eyes widened as I quickly plummeted to the bottom of the pool, the weight on my leg pulling me under by feet every second. Those stupid whitecoats! This was one of the many reasons I hated them; they made me do inhumane, horrible things. Things a normal person would never be forced to do. But I was a mutant sea creature freak, so of course that made everything better. Right.
I groaned, struggling against the weight as I tried to pull myself up. I kicked furiously with my free leg, my weighted one dragging along uselessly – and dragging me down. This was so hard! Sure I could breathe through my gills, but lack of air wasn't the issue.
The real issue here was that no matter how fast I could swim, and no matter how hard I kicked, it wasn't doing me any good and it wasn't going to. That was really, really bad.
This was hopeless! I was going to sink and the whitecoats would just leave me down at the bottom of the pool to starve and die. The sad thing is I'm not exaggerating. I know they'd do something like that. Fatigue started to overcome my body, and it got really hard to keep my eyes open. I sunk farther and farther…how deep was this pool anyway? I'd never reached the bottom before.
I sighed, deciding to give up. This entire thing was hopeless! Let the whitecoats see how their stupid experiment cost them a precious "Number". I didn't care anymore. Ok, that wasn't true. I did care. But this was so unfair! It made me so mad!
In blind fury, I clenched my right hand into a fist and punched at my weight, waiting for pain to sear into my hand.
So I was really surprised when the weight shattered instead.
Eyes wide, I watched as the weight's remains descended. The only thing that remained was the small loop around my one leg and a few links of the chain. Which meant I was free! A grin broke across my face and I quickly started swimming to the surface. Whatever happened just saved my sorry butt and I was happy! Even if I had no clue what was going on.
I was panting when I grabbed the edge of the pool, my head bobbing above the cool water. I'd really made it. I was in a state of awe. As I lifted myself out I noticed the male whitecoat from before was holding a stopwatch. "Fifty six seconds." He grinned, pushing up his glasses with a finger. "Not bad." He looked down at the remaining clasp on my leg and undid it. "And from the looks of it, it's even unleashed its other ability."
…What?
Yes! And thus Melani...or, "Number 35" discovers she has super strength! Full credit of the idea goes to my friend Amethyst; she was the one who suggested it. Hope this story's going ok! Oh, and some reviews would be nice. ;)