Disclaimer: I don't own maximum ride I am not James Patterson.

Max Pov

When I woke up from my unexpected nap, I was tied up in a van with zero light what so ever. How I knew it was a van you ask, I could feel the bumps of the road. I

waited in silence for what I will guess to be about a half an hour. I started dozing off, right before I fell asleep I noticed a faint glow in the room. I started jerking

around trying to find the source of light, but the walls, ceiling, and floor were all void of anything that could produce light. After jerking around for about a minute a

small clump of hair fell in my face. I realized it was golden, and I'm not saying blond, I mean 14 karat gold, it seemed to be giving off a faint glow. I stared at my hair for

a solid twenty minutes before the glow started to go away. I was left in a dark room with only one thought What The Hell.

After an hour or two of wondering if I was going crazy the van stopped. Two Erasers opened the back doors allowing light to stream in. I expected them to haul me out

but they hesitated. I was about to ask what the found so interesting, when I realized, duh! The golden hair. So I am not going crazy, what a relief. They both just

shrugged and pulled me out. They untied my legs, but left my hands tied behind my back. Then they put a leash around my neck. "Shouldn't you being the one wearing

the leash" I said

One punched me in the gut and said "Shut up bitch"

Okay I thought, must of struck a nerve their. They led me through a hall way were I saw torture, sorry experiments taking place. I won't describe them because you

would probably vomit. After a minute of walking I came face to face with, "Jeb" I growled.

"Max" Jeb said as if we were old friends "How have you been, and what happened to your hair and eyes"

Eyes I thought did my eyes change color to. "How the hell should I know you're the scientist, you tell me" I sneered.

Jeb looked like he was thinking then said "Take her to section X room Omega, and take off the collar she could choke herself with it and we would lose another

experiment"

Ha! Like he cares about me. The Erasers removed the collar and started to guide me to where ever Jeb told them to bring me. When we got to the room the untied my

hands and shoved me in the room. In the room their were two hammocks with a boy laying down on one. He look a lot like Fang. He had raven black hair, blacker than

night wings that were stretched out, I guessed them to be about 15 feet long, pale skin, and was probably about 6 feet. The only differences were the eyes, his irises

were jet black, darker than Fang's eyes, but the weird thing was his pupils were white as snow. He sat up, pulled in his wings, and looked at me as if he was waiting

for me to say something. I decided he was not going to say anything so I said "Hi I'm Max what's your name?"

A small smile formed at the corner of his lips. "What are you smiling at?" I asked

"Which question do you want answered first?" He asked.

"Name." I answered.

"The name's Shadow." He informed me.

"K now why are you smiling?" I asked again.

"I'm tired of living in solitary." Shadow replied.

"So I guess we should start telling each other about ourselves right." I suggested.

"O.K. What color did your hair and eyes used to be?" He asked.

"Both brown. How did you know about the hair and eyes?" I asked

"Because the same thing happened to me my hair used to be light brown and my eyes used to be light blue." He told me.

"Oh." I said, then asked "Why are you and now I in this separate room."

"I have powers and this room stops me from using them believe me I have tried." He told me bitterly.

"That still does not answer why I am in here." I said.

"Right after my hair and eyes changed is when I started to develop my powers, so if I had to guess I would say they think your change will be followed with powers as

well." He said.

"You keep on mentioning powers what are they." I questioned.

"I control darkness." He said

"Meaning?" I asked, getting impatient.

"I mean I control darkness. It started out with just taking the shadows of things and changing their shapes. I turned a tree's shadow into horse once. After a while I

could make the darkness three dimensional. You could walk right through it but you could see it on all sides. At first their had to be a shadow or darkness of some sort

and I could bend it to my will. If their was no shadow I could do nothing. However I learned to create darkness. The first time I did it I created a small area void of any

light about the size and shape of a baseball. Later that day I was captured. I was brought to this room which nullified my powers. Luckily the scientists could not control

themselves, they wanted to see how my powers would develop so they would bring me to another room where I could practice using my powers. After playing around

with darkness for a few days I learned I could condense it into some sort of black energy and blast it at things. I managed to kill an Eraser with that. So they installed

holes in the wall would let out sleeping gas to nock me out then drag me to my room. As I kept practicing I learned cooler and cooler tricks. I learned to create some

wicked black fire. This fire would burn no matter how hard the scientists tried to put it out. It didn't need oxygen so when the tried to smother it, but it kept burning

and the scientist caught and burned to death. I created some in an air tight room and they filled the room with water and it kept burning under water. I decided to

name this fire Hellfire. Next I developed black lightning. This lightning could travel through anything, even rubber. I just started trying to turn my self into a living

shadow." He was about to continue his story but I cut him off.

"What do you mean living shadow?" I asked incredibly curious.

"I would tell you if you didn't cut me off." He said irritated. "When I say living shadow I mean I can melt my body into a shadow then change the shadows shape. Just

yesterday I turned into a shadow and then made the shadow the size of a marble. Also" he walked over to me and said, into may ear just quietly enough for my

enhanced hears to make out what he was saying, he said "as a shadow I can pass through solid objects." Then he backed up.

"Then why didn't you escape?" I asked incredulously.

"Because." he said "I can't do it once I leave the training room, so the would just recapture me and all hopes of escape would be gone." He said as if it were obvious.

"Why can't you?" I asked.

"The hallway out side the training room nullifies my powers as well." He said

"Oh" I replied then I asked. "What do you think my powers are?"

"Aside from changing hair and eye color did anything else happen?" He asked.

"I was glowing" I replied.

"Perhaps you can do with light what I can do with darkness." He stated.

"Why would you think that why is glowing so important." I asked.

"Because when I changed everything around got darker" He said " I was in a bubble the made everything about five feet from my body go darker as if someone

dimmed the lights. Then the darkness went away and now I can control it."

I thought that over for a moment. "I hope your right" I said "Because those are some pretty kick ass powers you got, and I might get them to, just in different way."

Read and Review Please