Chapter 56

A Darkened Dawn

I woke to a sharp pain running through me. I was chained to a wall and Nova was chained next to me. He had awoken just moments before me to the same pain.

We were on the far wall of a room with no walls. There was a dim skylight in the center of the ceiling shedding light on a red carpet that lay on the floor between us It lead up to a set of throws that held two people. We couldn't see their faces because of the dim lighting, but by the dark ora they gave of and the fact that they weren't shadows showed that they were the darkness.

"Nova, Shadow." the one on the left said. It was a female and it reminded me of someone I had met at the school…

"We are pleased to have you here." the voice from before said from the right.

I felt Nova's eyes turn to me and he tensed. Turning back to them he spoke, "Who are you?

Suddenly I wasn't in the dark room anymore, I was hit with a sudden flashback.

I was in my cage in the lab just as I had every day of my life. In the cage with me was my best friend. Her name was Dawn and just like me she was an avian-human. We had been in the same cage for as long as I can remember, and for as long as I can remember the whitecoats have thought of her as a failure.

The reason they thought she was a failure was because she could not move from the waist down. Something had gone wrong when they were trying to improve her speed- just as something went wrong with Iggy when they were trying to improve his sight- and she became paralyzed from the waist down.

"Shadow, Shadow I'm scared." she whimpered after she had finally caught her breath. The whitecoats had just performed their final experiment on her and put her back in the cage minutes ago.

"I know Dawn, it's going to be okay." I soothed in a shaky voice. But I knew that wasn't true. I had heard the whitecoats talking and Angel had heard them thinking. Dawn was to be exterminated today, that last test had proved that she served no use to them anymore and would just be a waste of money if she were to be kept alive.

Dawn yelped as we heard the doors creak open. They were here to take Dawn and we both knew it. I sat in a position so I could fight them when they tried to take her.

"Don't fight them Shadow. It's going to happen anyways and I don't want you to get hurt." I looked over at her but still didn't relax my position, "Please Shadow, for me?"

I sat down reluctantly and my eyes filled with tears as they pulled her out of the cage. She was my best friend and I would never see her again.

I was scared to death but I wouldn't show it to Shadow. She knew I was scared but I refused to show her how scared. They pulled my out of the cage and dragged me down the hall. This is it. I thought solemnly, This is the end.

I was surprised when the didn't bring me to the room were they always did these kind of things, instead they brought me to an office and sat me down in the corner, warning me not to move.

Jeb was on the far side of a desk in the middle of the room, and on the other side was a handsome young man about a year older than me.

"Are you sure this is the one you want?" Jeb asked reluctantly, "It is one of our most embarrassing failures."

"Yes Mr. Bachelder, she is the one I want." the boy said. He had tan skin and black and gold hair, and when he turned to me his eyes were the most dark and deep shade of blue I had ever seen, they were beautiful. He was beautiful, in a manly way…

Hello Dawn, my name is Dusk. A voice in my head said, and though no one had told me so, I knew it was him…

The room came back into view and I could tell instantly that Nova had seen what I had seen too. 'What was that?' he asked.

"That was the answer to your question." the one on the right said. He had the same voice as Dusk from the flashback thingy.

'The guy from the vision, he looks just like you!' I exclaimed.

'Do you think it's the same guy?' Nova questioned.

'Maybe…'

"Here, let me shed some light on the subject…" The boy laughed, lifting his hand and pointing it at the skylight.

His eyes started to glow an eerie black and the light slowly started to move so that the beam was pointing straight at the two in the thrones.

The people in the thrones were Dusk and the boy that looked like Nova.

(end of chapter 56)