Why do I only seem able to write things in the late hours of the night?!?! Talk about weird! Well, I'll try to type up another chapter of this story and hopefully you people will like it. Thanks to the three reviewers who reviewed and/or pointed out that the first 'chapter' was underlined completely. Your reviews were nice to read. I've decided on the name Altha; it's meaning foreshadows the direction of the story so I can't tell you what I means. Total and Akila are safe at Dr. M's house so they are out of the story for now. Please Note that Itex is still running and whatever books have Itex gone do not exist.

Altha's POV

As I listened to my music while relaxing on my bed, I noticed that it was about time for me to start working on my homework. Yeah, I know it stinks; I'm practically a thirteen year old genius but I've still got to do homework. I usually make a game out of it by timing how long it takes to finish. My record was ten minutes exactly.

Let me tell you a bit about myself, obviously I'm thirteen years old. And I go to school in California near this place called Death Valley. I'm somewhere around 5'3" tall and probably have the most devotion for science in our whole eighth grade class.

A quick glance out my window and the view startles me. Off in the distance there is a giant black blob of… of… well I don't know what of but it's unusual and not much around my neighborhood is out of the norm.

I stare transfixed as they come ever so much closer to my house. MY house! What could such a thing mean exactly? Well I don't get to finish that thought because a sharp pain in my right arm halts all thinking. I turn my head to look and there's a dart protruding… guess it's sleeping time for me then.

Two Months Later

"Dr. Jones, the experiment is ready for examination," I told the whitecoat to my left. If you haven't guessed, I've become one of Itex's top scientists. And with my age and 'abilities' (yeah, they experimented on me first) that's extremely great for Itex. I guess they just forgot that they were working with a person who has a brain and can think enough to realize that this is all really stupid and horrible. And I guess they never realized that I would rebel on them.

I turned my attention to the whitecoat on my right hand side, "Jeb, so nice to meet you," I was about ready to gag, "let me show you to the room with the new experiments, please."

I walked out of experimentation room one and down the corridor till I got to the big locked door that had a giant 57 painted on it.

After unlocking it with a series of passwords, voice recognitions, and keys the door slid open to reveal six size large dog crates. I promised myself that today when I left this horrid place that I would take the poor creatures with me.

"Here they are sir," I told Jeb, " these are the hybrids you requested."

"Ah, good job Altha. I'll be sure to tell the director of your outstanding work."

I refused to look in the direction of either Jeb or the cages. Soon Jeb left the room and I stayed for no particular reason.

The door opened once again and in came two Erasers, numbers 5698 and 5703 of the 9009th batch at this particular Itex location. Or you could just call them Ryon and Felan like I do.

"Hey Ryon," I said, "Hey Felan."

"Hey Altha," they said simultaneously.

"Whatcha gonna do?"

"We were going to fetch experiment 565 and 564 for testing," replied Felan.

"Well I'm sorry to say that this is the end of my time being prisoner in this place and the same goes for them so either we do this the easy way or the hard way," I told them both fiercely.

They lunged for me, trying to catch me but I threw my shield out (which none of the scientist knew about) and it they rammed head first into it. Using my free hand, I pointed an open palm towards the six crates and they unlatched freeing the prisoners. After that was done, I threw a fireball (which nobody but me knew about either) at the far wall and it burst open into the vast desert which surrounded this Itex location.

The six occupants burst out of the room and out of the gaping hole in the wall leaving me to fight off the two Erasers alone. That was very easy to say the least. I too ran out of the gaping hole a few minutes after the prisoners. I spread my glorious silver and gray colored wings and jumped into the sky, into my freedom.

So… how was this chapter? I think I'm getting pretty good at writing but if there are any mistakes at all then please point them out. I'll try to review by Monday or if I can get a total of ten reviews, whichever comes first.