Fictionducks: The Academy, intro part 1

We are SO SORRY. None of our excuses (however good) will make up for how long we made you guys wait. Believe us, this is the longest time we will ever spend on a chapter. (Three months! Wow!) We're still gonna tell you our excuses, though. Summer homework, starting high school, vacations, normal homework, and overall laziness.

The first two chapters are only the intro, so they'll be pretty short. There will be five people introduced in each chapter.

Rated T for possible language/ A VERY SMALL AMOUNT of torture, non-graphic/some fights in later chapters.

We don't own Maximum Ride or the OC characters included in this story.

Echo Blackthorne raised her head slowly. Blinded though she was by special eye drops the scientists gave her so that she can't see, and therefore know about and move, objects, Echo knew that the whitecoat before her held some sort of cattle prod, judging by the shocks that she had felt only a minute earlier. Probably some sort of stupid experiment to see how much electricity she could stand.

"Now, 6374, hold out your wings, or you'll be sorry." Though Echo would like nothing more than to beat the stuffing out of the men zapping her, she knew that her torture would only be made worse by the maniacal people. Echo held out her wings, which were prodded by the whitecoats' gloved hands. Every time she moved, Echo would receive an extra-hard prod on her sensitive Golden Eagle wings.

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Aria watched Echo's experiment from her cell, knowing full well that she would be next. Though Aria didn't have wings, her 2% wolf genes made her agile and lithe. Unfortunately, Aria had been drugged only about half an hour ago, so her mind-reading powers and movements were subdued. She could only barely feel Echo's intense anger, or the coldness of the whitecoats. Aria was saddened by Echo's anger- if only she could yell out in fury; but she couldn't. Aria was mute, the result of her vocal cords having been crushed as she protected her best friend (and peregrine falcon mutation), Raphael, from the whitecoats after their first escape attempt from the School. Aria wondered if they were ever going to escape.

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From across the room, Quezt narrowed his eyes as he watched the scientists conduct their twisted experiment. Although his hands and bat wings were bound and there was something attached to his throat that stopped him from creating ultrasonic waves, he could still yell. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT SHE'S A PERSON TOO?" Echo's temporarily blinded eyes glanced in his direction, obviously shocked at Quezt's brave outburst. In the corner of his eye, Quezt saw Aria smile slightly. The whitecoats looked over to Quezt. "Shut up, dog, or we'll put a muzzle on you." The man that had responded high-fived his friend, grinning madly at his 'joke.' Glaring at the scientists, Quezt sat back against the metal wall of his cell.

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Halli Renndi watched the whitecoats' experimenting of the girl with eagle wings and the deep blue aura, whom she had only been able to meet once, through a small window on the opposite side of the room she had been locked in. Hal had been the only one in the room for about a week, with the occasional visits from a whitecoat being her only company. Her previous roommate, a girl with a sunny yellow aura who had been tested on with horse DNA, had died from an (on purpose/accidental?) extra-large dose of morphine.

Suddenly, many footsteps were heard, and the door burst open to reveal a very disheveled looking girl held in a half-nelson by a whitecoat, with another whitecoat trailing behind. Her brown hair with blue and purple streaks flew everywhere as she struggled, and her burnt orange aura was being slowly replaced by angry red. The girl was spitting curses at the two middle-aged men. Probably the only reason why the girl hadn't been tased yet was because the whitecoats probably needed her awake for an experiment.

The girl was tossed into the room, and the door slammed shut behind her. After banging on the door for a good ten minutes, the girl sighed, turned around, and stuck out her hand. "Hi. I'm Alexis."

Hal silently took the offered hand and shook it. She then pointed to her mouth and ears, and then shook her head. It was obvious to Alexis that she was deaf and mute. Right after this short exchange, Hal retreated to the window. Alexis knew that Hal would take a while to trust her, and so she settled onto the cold floor to wait for something to happen.

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AUTHORS' NOTE, PLEASE READ SO YOU DON'T GET MAD AT US

If you didn't read the note at the top, then read this.

Alright. Bear with us here: we know it's short, but this is only the intro. We also know that we only introduced five characters, but the next five will be introduced in the next chapter, part two of the intro. After that, we'll get into the real story.

If you have a problem with how we wrote your character, feel free to PM us.

~Fictionducks~