A/N Once again, so sorry for not updating, I've had a lot on my plate… and I had a mind block for the longest time with all my stories :/ oh well… all fixed (I hope)… ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter 7

I looked down at my hands as tears streamed down my face. Power had never done that before. No, not power, I thought to myself, energy. That's the only explanation for it all, I think. I continued to stare at my hands until the flow of tears started to slow. I slowly stood up on my wobbly legs and made my way towards David.

Even after what had happened, he was still knocked out. I couldn't blame him, having bird DNA, or in his case bat DNA, grafted into your own and then having wings grow out of your back… well it hurt, a lot. I was unconscious for two weeks, or so the nuns had said. I rested a hand on his shoulder and shook him. He moaned in his unconscious state but didn't move. I sighed and sat on the cot next to him.

"I told you to leave, you should have listened to me," a cool voice on my left said.

I looked in that direction and a moment later the girl that had appeared to me in the hallway earlier was sitting on the cot next to me, swinging her legs. She looked up at me and smiled, showing two rows of perfect white teeth.

"Who are you?" I asked her, deciding to start simple and ask the more difficult things later.

"Who, me?" I gave her a look and she laughed. "I'm an experiment like you, one that didn't turn out so perfect. I'm an experiment that had to be terminated."

"What can I call you?"

"Hmmmm… I've always liked the name Jubilee, you can call me that," she said, winking.

"Ok Jubilee," I muttered, "why can I see you and no one else can?"

"Well, it's either 'cause I only want you to see me, or 'cause you're a necromancer."

"A necromancer? You mean I can talk to ghosts and raise the dead and all that? This day just gets better and better," I said, looking down at my hands again.

"Yup," Jubilee chirped happily. "You mind gettin' me my rotting corpse back?" I just stared at her and she let out a trill of laughter, "Look at your face! That's hilarious; I would never want a rotting corpse. Being a dead, ghost girl is fun."

I slowly nodded before asking, "Why do you hide the right side of your face?"

Jubilee stared at me. "Wrong question," she said, and with that she disappeared.

"I'm sorry," I murmured, but she didn't reappear.

I let out another, heavier sigh and turned back to David. My conversation with Jubilee must have bothered him, because he was moving around now. He tried to roll over, but I put my hands on his shoulders and pushed him back down. He turned his head toward me and opened his eyes. I gasped and leapt away from him as fast as I could. His once beautiful jade eyes were no longer looking up at me. His irises were two different colors; his right eye was a deep, blood red color, his left eye was white, completely white. There was no separation between pupil and iris; there was no separation between his iris and the rest of his eye.

"Shadow," he whispered, reaching for me with his left hand.

I took a step towards him and he sat up. His hands grabbed his head and he closed his eyes, taking in deep, unsteady breaths. When he opened his eyes again, he stood up and lowered his hands, reaching for me with his left hand again. I stepped towards him and reached my own hand out towards him. He grabbed it and pulled me towards him, wrapping his arms around me and stroking my wings and hair. I reached up and wrapped my own arms around his neck, careful not to touch his wings.

"What happened to you?" I whispered.

David pulled back a little and looked at me with his new eyes. "Onyx told me that she would get us out of here and that the two of you were sisters. She also told me that she knew we are in love. Shadow, I'm worried about this. What happens if she's lying and turns us over to the Institute?"

"If she does then I'm sure we can get away. I think that they gave us more DNA to help us than they thought they did. First of all, they gave us wings; that's an easy escape route in itself. And I found out that I could talk to ghosts."

"What do you mean, talk to ghosts. You would have to be a-a ne-"

"A Necromancer, I know. But I must be, this girl showed up earlier when I was with Sage, and she didn't hear her or see her; and again just now, before you woke up. Her name is Jubilee and there's something wrong with her face but she wouldn't tell me or show me. Do you know of an experiment that was a young girl and was terminated?"

"No, Shadow I came here not long after you and I didn't know much, I wasn't allowed to take care of the experiments until they could trust me. Shadow, we should go."

I looked around the room and towards the door and nodded, walking towards it. David followed me and when I stopped abruptly he walked into me.

"Shadow, what are you-?"

"GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Jubilee yelled, appearing suddenly next to me.

The door swung open and she ran out and turned left. I followed her, grabbing David's hand before running.

"Can you fly yet?" I asked him as I watched Jubilee carefully, following her every move as she ran through the twisting corridors.

"No, my shoulders still hurt from when they first grew. Shadow, why are we running?"

He tried to slow down, but I tugged him forward, still racing after Jubilee. "Jubilee told me that we had to get out of here. Come on David, we have to keep going."

We continued running after Jubilee until she ran through a door. I opened the door and pulled David in before closing it. I spun towards Jubilee who was sitting on a box in the small room.

"What is going on Jubilee?" I asked as I caught my breath.

"There were people coming to look for you, people with guns. Or something like guns. I don't know, I heard them talking about capturing you to do more testing. You need to leave Shadow."

"Where are we supposed to go?"

"Do you remember looking out the window this morning?" David asked. I answered with a nod and he continued, "Past those trees is a town somewhere. We could stay there for a day but then we would have to leave, get further away from here."

Jubilee was nodding as she listened to David talk when she froze suddenly and looked at the door. I turned my head and looked at the handle as it started to turn. My eyes had gotten used to the darkness of the room, and when the door opened I was blinded.

"There you are, Shadow. I see you've met Jubilee," a cool voice said from within the light.

I blinked a few times and when I could see again I gasped.

"Did you miss me?"

A/N Well? Another cliffhanger, but it'll be good when the next chapter is done. So uh yeah… review please.