Here is Chapter 1. ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I still do not own Maximum Ride. All rights to publish Maximum Ride remain with JP.
I was free! After spending thirteen years trapped in the School, I had escaped and taken some information from their computers with me. They pretty much ruined my life at that place; and spending thirteen years in a cage has made me extremely claustrophobic and distrustful of anyone on the face of the planet that owns a white lab coat. They meaning evil scientists who like to mess around with human DNA and one day decided to make people like me who were 98% human and 2% bird. That is where the wings that are attached to my back came from and let me tell you as much as I love flying I do not like being used as an experiment.
As for the name Ember, I picked it myself. At the School, they don't really care about naming their experiments so; I was just a number to them. I have long pure black hair that comes about half way down my back, my eyes are a bright, ice blue and I have an olive skin tone. My wings look like a hawk's wings, they are black and in direct sunlight, they look like they have streaks of purple feathers mixed in with the black. Right now, I am thousands of feet in the air leaving all of the nightmares from that place behind. I knew they would try to find me, probably send some Erasers after me too but I did not care at all. Let them come I was a highly trained fighter thanks to the School. They had me trained in every type of combat you could think of and I was ready to use some of that training against them. As for Erasers they are experiments too, part human and part wolf. Disgusting creatures, you are better off not knowing what they look like so I'll leave at disgusting for now.
I was headed for a small trailer park home in New Mexico to find my parents. The files in the computers at the School said that they were both seventeen when my mom gave birth to me. Part of my mind was screaming at me that they wouldn't want me and they spend their days now working bad jobs, with no education and live in a trailer park because that's all they can afford. However, another part of my mind said they could have just been two teenagers who made a mistake and were now trying to make up for it and not all trailer parks were rundown. Maybe, just maybe they would want me back.
My head was swimming with all of the things I needed to tell them and all of the questions I wanted to ask. Do you know who I am? Why did you give me up? Did you even miss me or look for me? I was extremely nervous. My stomach was in knots as I went through all of the possible ways this encounter could end.
I landed in a cluster of bushes beside my parents' house and looked around the trailer park. It was dirty and littered with trash. All of the trailers were covered in dirt and crab grass was the only living plant in sight. Outside the trailer that belonged to the people I was looking for were three cracked flowerpots and three blackened plants that looked like they had never even been alive.
Slowly I walked up to the door and knocked twice on its dirt-covered surface. I waited while I listened to the two people on the other side bicker about who was going to answer the door. When the argument was decided, I heard the clunk of heavy footsteps walking towards me. I swallowed the lump in my throat and prepared myself to meet the two people I had dreamt about meeting for thirteen years. Seeing the condition that they were living in made me even more nervous because there was a sickening realization growing in the pit of my stomach that I was not going to get my happy ending.
The doorknob turned and the door opened to reveal a tall man and a partial view of the interior of his home. I stared up at him, took in his appearance and told myself not to judge a book by its cover because so far this was not turning into a very good book. I took a deep breath just as the man before me said in a gruff, annoyed and border line angry tone of voice, "What do you want?"
Well there is my first chapter. I said it would be longer than my prologue and it was. Please review, give me your thoughts and ideas about this chapter, and tell me what you think. I welcome any ideas that anyone has for future chapters. I will try to post a chapter a week but there will be times when I am busy. Till the next chapter!