A/N This chapter is in dedication to all the snow I've been getting recently and to all of my loyal fans. Hope you enjoy it and if I don't update in a while its because I'm working on my other story Never Forget.
Chapter 10
I had been here for two weeks now. I was still nervous and cautious around these other people. They were experiments like me and Chase and Sky, yet I knew they could betray us even if we shared something as profound as the hatred for White Coats. Many experiments betrayed each other, for some of them it didn't even seem wrong, it was, it just was really, as normal for a person to wake up and sleep.
It was also the reason I only spoke to Chase, Sky and Anthony, I barely communicated with the others I hadn't even said sorry to Jacco, because I wasn't, if I'd do it again knowing what I do now.
There were quite a few experiments living here, I was actually surprised that they hadn't been caught, not even busted by the Wing Beaters. Did the Arena even know hat they had escaped and how had they managed to pull it off? It was shocking to see, experiments similar to me living a semi normal life, some even had families here, as much as normal as you can get from living in a cave.
Still I was happy-ish. I was with my brother and sister, I had a BED, I went to sleep at night without any screams echoing down the hallways, there were no more experiments and slowly but gradually I was becoming like a normal kid. I had started to play with Chase and Sky, I was even asking childish questions to Anthony that would be obvious to any normal person.
Most of my wounds had healed but my arms were still bandaged and my back had a pattern of bruises around my wings and around to my chest. My wings were better, they had been left alone and had healed wonderfully, I could flap them and turn them, but I couldn't fly with them yet. I would fly soon though, I would play in the sky and get lost in the clouds. It was the only thing I yearned to do. To be truly free and able to fly wherever I want.
Sky was running ahead of me and twirling in circles. Apparently today was the day, they were taking me outside of the cave to see the world. I hadn't gone anywhere out of the cave ever since I got here. I was just to afraid to take a step out of this safe haven and do something to ruin everything and end up back at the Arena. Which explains why I was currently clinging to Chase's hand like there was no tomorrow.
"Come on Maxie, there's nothing to worry about. Promise." Chase said as he practically swung me as I clutched his forearm. He had kept saying those words ever since he'd pulled me out of the cave were me and Sky were playing, Sky was teaching me to draw. It was fun even though all I did was make a mess.
"Come on, you're nearly there. Its going to be great, hurry up." Sky sang as she ran through the twisting tunnels causing us to lose sight of her.
I yawned getting tired and wanting to go back to my nice, comfy, blanket covered, warm BED. I still couldn't get over the fact that I had one. Chase saw me yawn as we started jogging to catch up to Sky, then scooped me up in his arms and ran flat out to catch up to her, it was a bumpy ride and I started slapping his jumper sleeves as if they were reins.
"Giddy up donkey!" I cried out as he turned a sharp bend.
"Hey, I aint no donkey squirt!" He laughed as we kept running through the twisting bends and snaking rock.
Slowly the spaced out lighting grew les and less, then gradually to nothing, I grew afraid of the dark and clung tighter to Chase burying my head in his neck. Till he took my head in his hand and turned it to face ahead of us. Sky stood by his side and dimly I noticed he'd stopped moving. The cave had gone from black to a tarnished red. The only thing I could think of to compare it to was blood, I had seen enough of it at the school and that was what this was reminding me of.
"Don't look away. Trust us, it's beautiful Max." Sky rubbed my back encouragingly as I peeked through my hair at the reddish light. They walked forward together and the red got brighter, it slowly turned and mixed with lighter colours to an orange, then yellow then gold, and then I could see the end of the tunnel. I leaned forward in Chase's arms just as the wind blew in, making a chill chase up my spine, I shivered and cuddled back up to Chase.
Both him and Sky laughed.
No matter how cold I was, nothing could have made me turn my face away from what I saw when we finally took the last step out of the caves shadow and into open fresh air. My eyes felt like they were ready to bug out of my head. I had never seen anything so fascinating, hypnotising, beautiful. No wonder it was why they called it freedom, because I could see it and I still wanted more of it. The wind blowing across me felt like welcoming hugs and even lifted my wings up a bit.
I hopped out f Chase's arms and walked in a daze to the edge of the ledge of the rocky mountain we were on. The ledge opened op near its peak and I could see everything for miles. There was a huge forest patterned with ancient trees, a few fallen and a lake stretching all the way trough it. I could see foxes running, wolves hunting, otter's floating, birds dancing and the leaves trembling, with my raptor vision every detail was identifiable. But as I dragged myself away from the scenery I looked to see the sky and thing that had caused what I though was the illusion of blood. A giant red orb was slowly sinking below the tree line. Making everything near it blaze and blurry, almost as though it were on fire, but not the horrible destructive burning of a wild fire, just the gentle warmness you cold nearly see of a camp fire you light to warm you through the night. Sky was right, it was beautiful. I could see why everyone fight so hard to get out. To taste this freedom again. I knew I wouldn't give it up that easy.
The sky above the orb was darkening and turned to blues nearly black. It looked as though someone had put tiny lights in the sky, some in patterns, some glowing brighter than others and some there just to fill the space. There was a bigger light higher up in the sky, it shone silvery and had an outer rim that my raptor vision nearly made look 3D.
I turned quickly to Sky and Chase and pointed at the red orb. "What is that?"
"That's the sun. Remember when I told you about it? It's setting now, going to the other side of the world to give the other people a chance to live in the light."
"Does that mean we're going to live in the dark now?" I asked as I turned to get a final glimpse of the sun, not knowing when it would come back."No, it doesn't. You see those twinkling lights up there? Those are stars. And t biggest one out of all of them, that's the moon. They're like the suns best friends and when the sun goes, they come out and shine in the dark for us. So there's really no reason to fear the dark even if we cant see the stars or the moon or the sun, they're all there. Looking at us." Chase said as he came up to where I was stood there for a short while till the sun reached the edge and I could only see a glimmer of shine, I raised my hand to the sun and waved goodbye. Hoping I would see it again before the Arena found us.
When the sun finally disappeared from sight leaving only a faint shine that allowed me to see the scenery it its darkest shades of colour, I looked back up to the sky to where the moon had been. Only to find it moved higher up and there huge fluffy grey clouds crowding in. They looked so fluffy that I thought I could just reach up and grab one, I even tried.
"Chase, look at those clouds. Don't they look odd?" I looked at Sky. Odd? Why odd, was there something wrong with them and I shouldn't be trying to reach up to them?
"Yeah they do. It's cause they're snow clouds. They're always greyer and more full than ordinary clouds. I remember I flew one and came out soking wet and nearly frozen, literally"A small part of me inside envied the fact that Chase had flew through those clouds. I wanted to fly through them myself and see what they were like.
"What's snow?" I asked rolling the new unfamiliar word around on my tongue. I'd never heard of anything like that coming from a cloud.
My raptor vision caught tiny white fluff falling from the sky, each tiny individual piece of fluff being buffeted by the wind to seem to become one solid mass. A couple of fluffs fell onto my arm, they were cold to touch and slowly melted on my skin. It felt soft was so tiny and fragile as it fell."That's snow Max." Chase said as he took his jumper off to wrap around me. I was too busy watching this snow dance in the wind to notice him and Sky telling me all about it. The snow danced the way Sky and Chase did when they flew.
Soon, I promised myself I would dance like that in the sky. I would teach myself to fly so I could follow the sun and try to reach the moon and stars.
A/N Well that took me awhile but I hope you all enjoy it. Max's first glimpse at the world outside four walls. Hope I described it well. Also to let you know, I wont be updating this story for awhile because I'll be working on my other story, Never Forget. So review for me and let me know what you think. Am I making mistakes and is their ways I can improve it. And I love your reviews even if it comments, critique or whatnots, they're like tiny pressies that make me think yay people are reading this!! So thank you all Xd