This chapter is dedicate to raven at midnight for being my very first reveiwer. Thanks so much! the chapters are going to be kind of short and jumbled untill it's all mapped out. So hang in there!

Before I continue on with my great escape, let me explain myself a little.

The doctors call me subject 5. The director, I don't know her name because she only lets me call her the director, calls me alpha. I know from all the books I have read that alpha is the Greek name for the letter a. (I'm pretty much allowed to read anything because the doctors say I'm supposed to be the smartest experiment, like, ever) So I decided, why shouldn't I have a name like most people do? And because alpha is the Greek letter a, I figured that my name should be Greek. So after reading through several Greek history books, I finally chose a name.

Arrah.

I don't really know what it means exactly, I couldn't find a meaning no matter where I looked so, I decided, why can't I define the meaning? After several minutes of contemplating it, I had it.

Someone with a mind of their own.

Yeah, I know it' not the best, but it does make sense, after all. Ever since I was born, someone has always told me what to do. Sit here, hold still, run until you can't anymore. And I'm sick and tired of it. I'm going to show them. I'm going to show them that that is not okay. They only want me around so they look good. Well just how good will they look when I disappear?

Now I'm not saying I know how to live without being told how to. I have absolutely zero life skills. But what else can you expect when you've lived in a hellhole with no one around but self-absorbed jerks who only care about appearances?

I'll figure it out.

So, back to my sick and twisted appearance. I am 5 foot 8. I only weigh about 100 pounds. I have a wingspan of 15 feet. No, I am not a huge bird. I am a human girl. Well, only 95% human girl. The other 5% is split between avian genes, feline genes, and something called an alpha gene. The avian gene gives me my (purple) wings, my light, porous bones, and my great eyesight. The feline genes give my speed, excellent hearing, and highly defined senses. The alpha gene causes me to mutate. It is what gave me the purple wings. They were once white. But around age 5, they began to get darker. They are now almost black on the top, fading down into a pretty light purple. They also grew golden flecked feathers. The alpha gene also gave me the extreme flexibility, wonderful balance, and extreme dexterity. I can bend over far enough to grab my calves without so much as wobbling, I can balance on a half-inch-wide beam indefinitely and, thanks to their fight training, I can beat the crap out of someone four times my weight. I am the best experiment Itex has ever created.

And what will they do when I'm not under their power anymore?

Suddenly, the door opened loudly, jerking me out of my reverie of destroying this horrible place. walked in, her hair pinned back from her face.

"I'm just going to take some blood to run some tests and in about half an hour, you'll be doing some endurance studies." She said, smiling. I couldn't help but notice how slowly and cautiously she was moving towards me. She was afraid of me. She knew I was dangerous. "I'll be supervising you, and letting your run as fast as you can for as long as you can", she said with a fake smile. In other words, she'll be letting me out of my cage into the open to run on a treadmill until my sides hurt like hell and I'm ready to pass out.

But the main thing is that I'll be out in the open, that much closer to her and the bobby pin in her hair.

Please let me know if theres anything wrong here, my computer is being really crazy and hard to work with right now. I'll be updating whenever I can! -Carly