Percy POV:

~ 4 days after previous chapter ~

After 4 days of testing, the scientists were finally ready to inject me. I was both upset and glad. Upset, because I was going to get injected with some strange animal DNA and become even more of a freak than I already was. Glad, because they were finally done with the testing, at least for now.

So here I was strapped to a table in room 105 ready for some whack-job scientist (probably Steve) to inject me. I was kinda hoping they would hurry up and come because let me tell you, being strapped to a table to were you have to stay still is torture for an ADHD demigod like me. Just saying.

Anyway, some god out there must have heard me, because almost as soon as I thought this, Steve walked in in all of her demented glory holding a syringe the size of my forearm. "Hello Sweetie." she said, "Time for injection!"

She came up, grabbed my arm and injected the huge syringe. Searing Pain 10 times worse than swimming in the Styx washed over me. I felt like my body was attacking itself and then replacing itself with... with... something else. Something screamed and I later realized that it was me.

Blackness ebbed at the edges of my vision and I almost gave into it when suddenly, it stopped. The pain just vanished. I lay there gasping on the table. Steve looked slightly shocked before she said, "Impressive, you're still awake and you lived. I honestly wasn't sure whether you would or not. Oh well, no matter now we can move on and inject you with the next thing." I closed my eyes and said a silent prayer to all of the gods on my side. 'Please, whoever is out there listening

please help me escape. It's terrible here. Help me. Please.'

The last word was filled with all of the desperation that I felt. Surely someone out there would help me right? Steve came up to me with an even bigger syringe than before and injected me. If anything the pain this time was worse. A-lot worse. This time I know I screamed for sure there was no way I couldn't have. This time I allowed myself to slip into unconsciousness. Maybe when I woke up things would be better.

Max POV:

I was starting to get suspicious because the scientists were not doing any tests on me like they usually did. Now, this might not seem like a big deal to you but it was for me because when you are in a place were whack-job scientists experiment on kids and mess with their DNA, you usually expect things like getting tested on.

But there hadn't been any tests the last few days, all of the scientists seemed side tracked with something else, a new experiment.

I was just starting to fall asleep from boredom when I heard voices outside. A voice that sounded female was ranting about how some 'experiment' she was in charge of had survived getting injected with- wait a minute. Did I hear that right? Two different types of animal DNA? Was that even possible? I mean I know there are the Flying Erasers but they were different. They were failures.

The lady didn't make this sound like this experiment was a mistake. She made it seem like this one was an accomplishment. But even worse than that was as soon as the 'test subject' woke up they were planning on injecting it with another type of DNA. How terrible was that? I felt sorry for whatever person this 'experiment' was.

Eventually the voices faded away and I was left alone with my thoughts. I just stared at the wall on the other side of the bars of my dog crate. I was really missing the flock right now. I wonder what had happened to them.

I was captured and taken here alone and as far as I know, none of the others were captured. I sure hoped they weren't for two reasons. One, I really didn't want my family in everything but blood to be captured and taken to a place were things worse than death occurred, and two, maybe if they weren't captured they could help me escape.

Okay, so I know the second one was a bit selfish, but hey! If you were captured in a very bad place and there was a chance that your friends could bust you out wouldn't you want them to? Thats what I thought.

Anyway, back to me worrying about the flock. If they were captured by the School then where were they? Because I was positive that they weren't in the same room as me. No, they put me in here alone. Completely alone. Because they had learned that if I was in here with someone that I would come up with a plan to escape and they really didn't want me escaping this time. No, they wanted to keep me here. I had figured this much out. I sighed and leaned back in my cage. I might as well get some sleep.

With that I closed my eyes and fell into a land of dreams.

OK, so please review and tell me what you think! I probably wont usually post this quickly although I will try. I just happened to finish this chapter early because I had already been writing it when I posted the previous chapter. Plus, I really need to know who Percy should be paired with before I can continue to far into the story so please tell me what you think!