Pain. It's the first thing I can remember. All of my life has been spent in a dog crate, poked with needles at this laboratory from hell. The people, if that's what they are, experiment on kids from birth on up. They mutate them to see what happens when you mix animal genes with a human's genes. I was born here. I was one of the babies that got avian, or bird, DNA. I grew wings just like the rest of the kids. Just like the Flock. They are famous here. They are a group of six avian kids that managed to escape the lab two times already. It gives the rest of us hope. Last year my friends and I had made a break for it, and I was the only one who was left behind to save the others. I hope that one day I will escape and be reunited with them… but as of now, it's only a dream.
"Come on Adv3si45n. You're wanted in lab 10." I choke back a whimper. That lab is infamous. It's the one where they try to give us mutants extra abilities or kick-start the preprogramed ones to come out. My current ability is healing. The demons here have been dumping the sick kids in here so I will heal them, but I always fail. The white coat shoves me into the room as we approach, slamming the door shut behind me. I look around the bleached room. The only thing I ever see is the tinted window, through which the white-coats oversee the experiment. I watch the door open as they shove a boy in. He looks sickly, hardly able to stand. Then his legs give out. I grimace. I've seen enough of these cases to know what happens.
"Where is the pain?"
"Neck…" he chokes out before fainting. I roll him over and see his expiration date, trying to stave off a sob. We all come with a built in expiration date. Our genes start to unravel and we die. I focus as hard as I can on trying to heal him but am just overcome by sadness and fear. I can't do it; this kid would die just like all the others they threw in here. I would have to watch another death happen in front of me, the blood be on my hands. My hands begin to burn and I look down as they begin to glow a dull white, the flicker strengthening into a bright white that was laced with blue. His body is infected with the light, and I sway as an exhaustion I've never experienced before racks me. He groans and finally sits up several minutes later as the glow recedes, seeming to know when its duty was through. He looks shocked to be alive but when our eyes meet, we both recognize it for the curse it was. He was trapped here until more experiments finished him off. The weariness hit like a tidal wave and I faint.
When I wake up I am back in my cage. I slowly sit up and look around, hoping there were no scientists nearby. If there were they would probably subject me to another test. Then I hear one shout, "It's astounding! Adv3si45n completely sealed B54ieRG5's genes. It doesn't have any expiration date, and shouldn't have one again. We need more tests. Quick, go see if it's up yet!" I immediately lie back down, feinting sleep. When the white-coat comes over he yells to his partner, "It's still sleeping."
After they finally leave I pass the time by looking at the other experiments going on, planning another escape, when suddenly I hear white-coats rushing around. "They got them, the Lupine-hybrids got them!" She counts the cages. "Well most of them." I jerked my head over to the side. I saw that they where wheeling in two cages with passed out people in it. I whimper. "No…" It was my Flock.