Thunk
I felt the cool texture of the plastic dog cate as I slumped on the floor. The towering scientist slammed the door and clicked the lock of my small prison. I couldn't feel anything below my waist. The hours before had been the same as always, since I was born six long years ago. The usual experiments happened, the blood tests, memory insights, healing rates, speed tests. Everything you'd expected from a doctor trying to find a sickness, but here it was different. The blood tests used blood that was taken forcefully, through means of violence and fighting. When the blood was taken, it was a large amount. A sum that could kill any normal human or animal.
The memory tests were simple matching. However, if matched incorrectly, the subject would be given a painful shock. Healing rates involved guns and weapons. Speed tests were much like memory; only the subject would run a maze, given no choice of rest of slowing.
Sometimes, combat was tested. Another race of experiments was used in this field. They are named Erasers, a species of wolf-human hybrids, much like me. Only they are more savage, bent on destroying everything in their path. Their one of the only things that keeps us here. That keeps us from escaping into a normal world full of helping humans.
Us is my family. Well, not my blood family, but their the closes I have to one. Apart from Snow, my twin sister. My family consist of six hybrids freaks, including myself. Re is oldest, at 12; we found out a while ago that he can see the future. He also has a voice in his head that keeps him from breaking the "rules". I don't know what they are, so don't ask. Re has really dark hair with grayish eyes. They turn white when he's sighting. That's what we call it when he looks into the future.
Next is F.K, the second oldest at 11. She's blind but has the ability to sense whatever is around her. She's been blind sense birth, but describes the world as a large mass of colorless shapes. She was a little brother, related to her by blood in our family too. More on him later. F.K has hazel colored hair that reaches mid back and usually covers her sightless eyes. Her eyes are a pale violet. Another power of hers is that she has an IQ of, like, one billion.
Glint, the third oldest at 9, is a chatter box. She keeps us all entertained with her mid-night rambles. She moves a lot faster than any posable human or un-human. We've tried to convince her to leave and escape. To run into freedom, but she won't go. She says that she won't leave without us by her side. She's Native-American and has curly dark brown hair with matching eyes.
Then, Snow, my twin sister at 6. We use to be identically, with black hair and green eyes, but due to an experiment gone wrong, all the melanin in her system dissolved. Her hair's now white, coupled with burning red eyes, fueled only by hatred. She's the most defiant of all of us, the most protective of our family even at six. While apart, my sister and I can't do much. Only make small force fields around objects. We also have large IQs for six year olds.
But together, our power is off the charts. For one, we're stronger, able to lift hundreds times our weight. We're faster and smarter. Our senses are more powerful, able to see and smell things miles away. We can read each other's minds and feel what the other feels. But, when pushed far enough, we can summon two mighty swords, two that combine into one and turn against our enemy. But for that last one we both have to be past the breaking point and super close to pull off. Unfortunately, we tried it once, and when it failed we were put into two different cells.
Lastly, is Dev at 2 years old. He's F.K's younger brother. They look identical apart from their eyes. Dev's are a darker purple. Dev has a power to where he can control people by writing it down. It looks like scribbling to us but it totally works for some reason. When he does it we call it "inking" because his eyes turn an inky black.
We all have the ability to transform. We call ourselves a pack because we all turn into wolfs. Glint is the other one who has any trouble with it. It's not that she has trouble turning a wolf, it's that she can't stay out of wolf form. Whenever she loses focus.
After explaining all of this it's pretty obvious why we're being tested in a lab. But to be honest, all the members of my pack could lead a normal life if they learned to control their powers. All of the pack apart from me and Snow. We stick out a lot. Maybe it's the permanent wolf ears and tail, or maybe the eyes always in silts?
My family has always been like this, from birth. This aren't just some sort of weird birth defects where that one lucky baby is born into awesome super powers. Nope, this was done on purpose. Before we were even born, this heart-less people injected weird DNA into us. My siblings were injected with 23 percent lupus(dog) DNA and 2 percent avian(bird) DNA. My sister and I were injected with 5 percent lupus more DNA then the other, so we have ears, tails, and wacked up eyes when feeling strong emotion. "Where did the avian DNA go" you may ask. We also have wings, by the way. Snow and I can't fly though, because the 'over-dose' affected one of our wings, to where fur instead of feathers lay in place.
"What'd they do Inky, you're hurt?" My sister's voice rang out over the silent. She looked at me with worry clouded, slit eyes. She know how I felt, know I'd been hurt. I'm fine, just speed today. Where are the other? I felt her get my mind message. It echoed back to me as she thought of it. She was across the ally in her own cage, just far enough to where the we can't tap into our shared strength, but close enough to where we could still talk through mind message.
Her white, thigh length hair was spiraled throughout her cage. They're in testing, I just got back a while ago, she sent. My cage felt cold and my stomach had a weird weight to it. I changed into my wolf form, to make to space more roomy, along with extending my wings and wrapping them around myself to block out the cold. When I looked at my sister, she had done same. Her white coat was couple with a wing filled with feathers, and a wing of fur. Her red eyes were in slits. I could feel the angry radiate off her.
I carefully looked into her mind. –treat us as if we weren't living, breathing, things. We're not their toys for playing with! Me and Inky will show 'em, when we kill them all and burn this place to the ground! Soon, just wait a lit-, she didn't have time to finish the thought before I injected out loud. "Kill Them! WHAT! You know that we can't!," I shouted to my sister. She had never considered murder! Sinking to their level, taking the lives of others. She had always thought of escaping, we all had! I always do! Every single minute of my horrid life. But I never would kill anyone! "It's the only way Inky! The only way to be free! The only way to leave here!"
"THEN DON'T THINK I'LL GO WITH YOU! KILLING, SNOW, MURDER! OUR FREEDOM WILL NOT BE SPENT IN A JAIL CELL!" I screamed at her, angry infused my voice. I could tell my eyes were glowing green, sliced with the hatred of my sister's words. Her eyes glowed right back into mine, lite with crimson and speared with angry. We glared through the bars of our dog crates, wings extended and tails bristled. Inverted colors were clashing in the standoff when the door banged open. Neither of us filched at the noise.
The tall scientist from before came in again, six others behind him carrying members of my family. I didn't need to look to know they were all accounted for and well. In my wolf form I can sense my pack, can tell that their fine and well. But right now I was focused on the member in front of me, the member that was slowing leaning off the rails.
After everyone was in cages the tall scientist looked over at us and was slightly taken aback. "Two alpha females, siblings, high alert. Write in down Carson. White, Blakes grab their cages, take them in for testing." One of the two, Blakes I believe, brought over a cart and grabbed Snow and my cage, tossing them roughly onto the surface and securing them down. We began to roll down a hall, Snow and I's cage were still facing each other, close enough to where we could hold hands through them. I continued to glare at her when her eyes started to dart this way and that. Inky they put us close, we can try again. Sorry I didn't let you in on the plan but I needed you reaction to be real. I was worried you'd see through it though, you know I would never KILL anyone! The message surprised me at first, but then it made so much sense. They had slipped up and now we had a chance. Snow quickly sent the details of how this would work. She quickly slipped her hands through the bars, reaching for mine. I reached out and grasped them like they were the only things keeping me alive, and in some ways they were.
The second we touched, power flowed through us. We let go and kicked open our small prison. Once out transformed back to humans, and stopped our captors from calling for help. After a quick push of certain pressure points we were back in our holding room within a second. Me and Snowy spread to cover more ground, but the connection never broke. It never did when we were like this. Down our certain row were three cages on each side. I took the side that held where my cage had been, along with Dev's and F.K's. Snowy took her side that had Re's cage and Glint's cage. We both busted in the doors letting up our family one by one. Dev and Glint had awoken as they had been brought into the room unconscious. Re had been waiting for us with F.K looking in our general direction. Together, we run from the room, sirens blazing through the air.
We know this building like the backs of our hands. In our last escape we had made it out side, until we were stopped by Erasers. Now we ran like this was our stomping ground. We made it through two double doors and were greeted by a forest lite by moonlight. We were also greeted by three dozen Erasers, fangs beard. Without thinking, I reached for Dev the smallest of all of us, grasped in F.K's arms. I throw him into the air with all my strength, hoping that he wouldn't come crashing down. Even at two, Dev realized the effort and flared his wings, white, speckled with brown. He hovered thirty feet above us.
I moved on to Glint before seeing his next down stroke. Once up the she flapped too, unleashing green wings with random blue feathers. The wings of a humming bird zipped, keeping her afloat. I turned and show that Snowy had helped F.K up, I also saw that the Erasers were charging. I quickly got Re up in the air with the help of Snow. His dark brown wings blocked the moons light for a few moments, then dived back down to pick me up.
I was lifted only about ten feet off the ground when I noticed no one was picking up Snowy. See ya.
The message was simple, but it was like a slap to the face. "SNOW!" The scream ripped through my throat as Erasers tackled my sister. I could feel every single punch and kick thrown at her, every cut she got, every bone that was shattered. I felt it all.
Thrashing and kicking was all I could do, be Re hold me firmly in his arm. "LET ME GO! HELP HER! SNOW!" He said nothing. I looked to F.K, could see the sweat beading on her forehead, her wings, which looked the same as her brother's, flapped with a nervous twitch. Glint had tears in her eyes but made no move to help. Dev didn't seem to know what was going on, but he'd soon realize one of his sisters wasn't coming home.
I could still feel Snowy fighting, but it was weaker now. Then suddenly the connection stopped, just snapped close. Like a thread between us had been cut, or a tunnel had been block due to damage on the other in. I final message slipped through the cracks. Goodbye.
Gone. She was gone. I couldn't feel her near. At the moment I know that she was gone. That I had just lost a sister.
"SNOW!"
I sat up from my sleeping position on a couch. It took me a minute to remember where I was. Right, at the Maximum Ride residents. And that was just a dream, a memory of long ago. I took a deep breath, and went back to sleep. My family would be here soon, or what was left of it anyway.