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Chapter Six

Footsteps echoed throughout the room, but not my own. I walked quickly, my agile feet moving soundlessly, thanks to my wings. Each step I took, I would flap the ends of my wings to lift me up slightly, then drop me silently. Easy enough, except for the fact that I'm too dang clumsy. Once, I flew too high and bumped my head on the ceiling. Then, on my way down, I tripped over a power cord. I can't even tell you how many walls I ran into. Thats why I liked open spaces. You don't bump into everything whenever you walk.

My palms got sweaty, and I felt my face start to burn. Uh oh, here comes another claustrophobic breakdown. I had a lump in my throat. My heart pounded hard against my chest. I let out deep breaths, but it didn't help this time. I stopped fly-walking and curled up in a ball, hugging my knees to my chest. Enclosed space. Can't breath. Walls closing in. This is it. I thought. I am going to die. No, I was not going to die. Really Scarlet, pull yourself together.
I can't really describe what happened next. I felt some sort of.... pain, but it didn't really hurt. Then my eyes got heavy, and I guess I blacked out, because next thing I knew I was back in a cage.

"Why are you doing this?" I shrieked for the one thousandth time, my voice cracking with strain. I was loosing it. I was going insane. I was loosing my voice, too. I slumped down against the back wall of my cage and sobbed. I just sat there, crying like a baby for a good half an hour. I had already tried kicking down the door, like I'd done last time, but it was no use. I couldn't shake the feeling that they wanted me to escape last tie. Thats why the cage was so easy to break out of. Then I understood. They were testing me. Wanting to see how far I would make it, then stop me right before I'm about to escape. Of course, my plan just blew up in my face. I looked out through the bars of my cage at the room around me. It was not the same room as before. Mountains of cages were stacked on top of each other across the room. They were all empty. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something in one of the cages move. Okay, most of them were empty. I squinted my eyes, getting a better look. I could tell that the other creature was doing the same. It spread out its wings, golden like mine. But on the outside side of its wings, they were black, like coal. I could tell now that it was a boy, a shirtless boy with light ebony skin and dark brown eyes. His hair was shaggy and needed a haircut. It was greyish-black, like ash. His nose curved upwards at the end, like a candy cane. His face was round, the lines around his eyes deeply etched. Dark circles were visible under his eyes, probably from lack of sleep. He was tall, I could tell because he had to hunch down in his cage, whereas I could sit up straight. Something on his shoulders caught my eye. Dark black feathers sprouted from his shoulders, and I could tell that they were spreading. So that was stage two. First wings, then feathers.

His eyes bore into mine, deadly serious. His cage wasn't so far away from mine, about three or four feet. I heard footsteps coming our way, and I could tell he heard them too. He looked at me and mouthed, "We need to get out."
I nodded, breathing in sharply as Dr. Loid entered the room.

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[elfaron.]

Oh my gosh I love the cliffhanger thing at the end of chapter six!

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Chapter Seven

"Hello, Scarlet." Doctor Loid hissed, a sly grin on his face. I could tell he was enjoying every minute of this. "I see you've made a friend?" He kicked the cage containing the gryphon boy and it toppled over. His face hit the wall hard, and I could smell blood. I winced as he groaned, lifting himself up into a sitting position. His face was bruised and swollen, and I felt a pang of pity for him. Doctor Loid chuckled. "What a weakling he is. They say he is more enhanced than you are, Scarlet. They say that he's the best in the facility. But I think otherwise. He is useless, a failure in my opinion. But you, Scarlet, you are the best. I can help you, teach you things that you never knew you were capable of doing. What do you say?" He crouched down, so his face was in level with mine. His eyes looked like steel, his tone so convincing that I almost believed him.
Almost.

I pressed my face against the bars and spat in his face, the corners of my mouth lifting up into a smile. The gryphon boy snorted, and I could tell he was holding back laughter. Doctor Loid, wiped his face with his sleeve, then stood up and straightened his lab coat professionally. He faced the gryphon boy, and he stopped laughing. "You, boy, what was your name? Dente? You're going to regret that, then I'll deal with her." he jerked his head towards me, then reached down to open his cage. The creaked open slightly, and the boy - Dente - kicked it with all his force. It slammed open and hit Doctor Loid in the face. He reached his hand up towards his nose, and I could tell it was bleeding. Dente leaped out of the cage and punched the doctor in the gut. He buckled, clutching his stomach, then blacked out. Dente gave him one last kick, for good measure, then reached down to unlatch my cage. I was surprised, I didn't think he was going to bother to save me. The door of my cage swung open and I slipped out, stretching my arms. "Lets go," said Dente, not meeting my gaze. He had a very thick Spanish accent. I nodded, although he wasn't looking at me, and started for the door, pushing Doctor Loid out of my way with my foot. Dente followed me, his wings slightly extended. I opened the door and Dente ran ahead, opening his wings and pushing down, taking flight.

He looked thrilled, and I supposed this was his first time flying. I joined him, and together we flew though the hallways, our sensitive ears listening for any sign of movement. We flew, not speaking, for several minute, until he grabbed my arm and yanked me down. I winced in pain as we landed on the ground. "Ouch, what was that for?" I hissed through gritted teeth. He motioned to be quiet, and I did. I didn't hear anything. He spun around and started running the same way we'd came, and had no choice but to follow him. His eyes scanned the walls for rooms, and eventually we found one. It was labelled, Test Room. He swung open the door and motioned inside. "In here," he ushered, and I went inside. The walls were covered with shelves upon shelves, each filled with test tubes, paperwork, science instruments and other tools that I didn't even know. Dente crouched down against the wall, his ears pricked. "What is it?" I asked, irritated by his silence. he turned to me, obviously amused. "You don't hear it?" he asked, grinning. What a show-off. "No," I admitted, shuffling my feet. His face regained seriousness as he listened more intently. "There are three people coming this way. You can estimate by their footsteps that there are two males and one female, because the males have heavier footsteps whereas the females have lighter footsteps." I listened, catching a faint sound of high-heels. "Or you could just listen for the one with high-heels on," I suggested, rolling my eyes. I crouched down beside him, the footsteps growing louder and louder until they passed us, then faded away in the distance.

We waiting for several minutes before deciding it was safe to leave. We spread out our wings and started the flight to the exit once more. Memories started flowing back to me like a river. The Lab. The experiments. My escape. My eyes stretched wide, and I saw myself running down this very hallway the first time, trying to find the exit. It was like my mind was guiding me to the way out. I took the lead, turning corners here and there, Dente trailing behind. "Where are you going?" he whispered, confused. I turned a last corner and landed, my feet touching the ground lightly. "Found the exit." I replied, stepping inside the elevator.

[nutella ♥]

Oh my gosh I love the cliffhanger thing at the end of chapter six!

Thank you! I was trying to find something suspenseful for the end of the chapter, and I was considering Dente exploding or something, I don't know. XD I had a major writers block there.

[Sir Dippingsauce]

Awesome.

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Chapter Eight

Ding. The doors of the elevator slid open and Dente and I stumbled out onto the spongy grass, panting with relief. Guess I wasn't the only claustrophobic teenaged science experiment. His eyes scanned his surroundings, and I felt myself step back in time, on my first escape. I stood in that exact same spot, breathing in the fresh air, the smells of the forest overpowering me. But I guess this wasn't like that for him. He'd seen the sunlight before, the grass, the trees, the sky. For him, it was just returning to the life he already knew.

Dente spread out his wings and looked at me questionably. I knew he was thinking the same thing I was. What was I going to do now? I couldn't go back to the cave, that would be suicide. I could go with Dente, but I doubted that he'd want me along. After all, we barely knew each other. I smiled weakly. "Go find your family." I managed, choking on my words. I had found myself a friend, sort of, and now I had to leave, just like me and Bea. "I'll find somewhere to stay." He looked at me, his eyes filled with pain. "D'you think my mother would really want to keep me, after she found out about... about these?" he asked, shaking his wings. "We're freaks. Come with me, we're better off together after all." I considered this for a moment, then I agreed. My wings snapped open to full length, and I sighed in relief as I stretched them. Golden feathers, shimmering in the sunlight. Dente's were different. Black as coal, with gold on the inside. We looked at each other for a moment, studying each other, until I blushed and looked away. Then, in unison, we pushed down with our wings and our feet lifted up off of the ground. Together, we took off.

We flew together, side by side, for several minutes. Dente looked uneasy, and I knew why. His family. In a way, he had it worse off then I did. I never knew my family, all my life I believed that I didn't even have one. I never loved them. But Dente, he was taken from his family, the ones he loved. Why'd they take him? I guess he was the easiest one to take, his family being pour and all. "Do you have any siblings?" I asked, breaking the silence. After seeing his face, I immediately regretted asking the question. His eyes filled with sorrow and longing, with pain. "I had three brothers and a sister." he replied, his voice shaking. "Nina, Carlos, Nico and Sam." I smiled weakly, and he turned to me. "What about you?" I shrugged. "Never knew my family. I was raised in the Lab." He nodded, then we returned to the awkward silence. I looked down at the world below us. Trees, mostly, speckled with houses here and there, probably summer cottages. I had no idea where we were, or where we were going. As long as we got away from the Lab, I was fine.

"Ohio." said Dente a few minutes later. I looked at him, confused. "Whats that?" I asked. "Ohio. You know, the state?" My geography was terrible, so I had no idea what a 'state' was. "Sorry, mutant kid who never went to school here." I muttered. Dente smiled, but I wasn't sure why. "Oh, sorry. Well, there was a sign down there," he pointed below at the ground, not very specific. "saying that we left Ohio. So, yeah, the lab is in Ohio. And we are now in Pennsylvania, I think."
"Is that a state?"
"Yeah, it is."

We flew through 'Pennsylvania' for a few minutes until my stomach growled. "Lets get something to eat." suggested Dente, hearing my stomach. "How?" I asked. "We'll just fly down into a McDonalds and grab a Big Mac, pay for it and fly back up?" Bea had told me all about McDonalds, and how she'd gone there with her dad when she was little. I'd always wanted to go there myself, and thinking about it made flying down to get one a great idea. I stopped thinking about Bea. Bea was gone, out of my life. Dente pointed to a town up ahead. "There. We can land over there, in the trees," he pointed over to the cluster of trees we'd been flying over for a while. "and find something to eat."
"And how do you suppose we pay for our food?"
"We don't."

[Joe Kerr]

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