Donor

By: Anna Q.

Chapter 1

I yawned blinking my eyes and stretched. I must have fallen asleep. I looked down at my ipod; it still played down the 947-song list. I sighed and looked out the cross-country trains window. I could notice that we were clearly out of Arizona, where I had picked up the train, because now fields of corn and grass swept against the train tracks. I smiled at the sun setting, the wonders of freedom.

My smile disappeared at the movement my eyes caught. I narrowed my eyes to the six flying birds outside. But these weren't birds, no; these were too big to be birds. My telescope like eyes narrowed to one of the 'birds'. I could see her strong face, my photo memory flashed on my eyes to some documents i had handled. Experiment #0075, Avian Human Hybrid, I looked at another Experiment #0089, he was also an Avian Hybrid, but he was different: Blinded in an eye enhancement surgery. I continued to watch them as they flew in the sky. These were just numbers and science facts, but I had heard the rumors from the scientists, these were the famous six avian hybrid children who escaped Itex multiple times, and had stopped Itex from conducting many of their wrong doings. And I had to get to them.

I grabbed my large camping backpack from the empty seat next to me, immediately swinging it onto my back and stuffing my ipod in my sweatshirt pocket. I made a quick check of the seat, making sure I had everything, then burst down the narrow train car hallway, racing down the train cars. I ran through three cars when I came apon a train stewardess.

"Can I help you Mamn?" she asked, but I easily pushed her out of the way and continued down the long train. I came across the last car, pushing my way through the piles of luggage and onto the back platform at the back of the train. The large engine's sound made it impossible to hear my own thoughts, but I didn't need them then. I knew what I was doing. I kept one eye on the flock, and another on the rushing train tracks below me. I was going to jump.

I took my eyes off the flock for my little trick. I griped the safety rail, bending my knees like a spring. I slowly inhaled, closing my eyes to conentrate. Only one way to do this. I told my self. My eyes flicked open, and I added more spring to my legs. Then I burst my legs strait, propelling myself forward off the train. I squinted as I raced my hands to the back of my neck and head, then I hit the ground, somersaulting into the dusty earth, being covered in the dust that flew up.

I sat up and looked into the sky. The flock was heading to the forest 20 acres away from where I sat. I quickly got to my feet, took a quick breath and raced toward the forest like them.

I ran and ran, I was faster then a horse and still couldn't reach them. Half way there they landed into the forest. C'mon legs! Move faster! I urged myself, I felt the prick of a mosquito on my neck, but ignored it. The sun was close to being completely set, and I needed to get to them before dark.

I reached the Forest, a dim light still easing from the sun. I huffed, trying to catch my breath, listening to the forest, knowing they were near by.

"Clouds are soooo cool! So today, while we were like flying, I saw this one that look like an apple, and then another that looked exactly like McDonald's French Fries, and," a loud mouth went on and on. I smiled, I was finally going to meet them!

I crept throght the forest, searching for the Flock. I followed their voices and when I got closer, the light coming from their fire, till I was so close I could see all of their faces glowing around the fire, eating and talking.

I studied them. There was a tall, black hair boy that silently listened to his ipod leaning against a tree, a nice laptop laying next to him. A tall, same aged girl sat next to him, she kept one eye on what she was doing, brushing the hair of a dark skinned younger girl, and the other monitoring everything else. Then there was a smaller girl, the youngest of them all, looking at her fingers, as they slowly morphed into feathers, scales, then a rainbow? I couldn't see too well in the dim light. An older boy, with features identical to hers watched the little girl excitedly. Then I quickly scanned the two dogs laying asleep on the ground. A large fluff ball, and a small Scottie dog, who seemed to be muttering? In English? I would listen more but the last boy, a boy my age was staring at me. I recognized him as the boy who was reported as blind, but he seemed to be staring at my frozen body. He was cute, I might admit, but that frozen look? What was he doing?

"Guys," his voice even alerted myself. The Flock got quite. "Somebody's here,"

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