The Fallen Angels

Chapter One

I wake up to the blinding lights of my cell. I sit up and shake my head, letting my short blonde hair fall in a sort of neat style. I walk to the edge of the cell, to the barred door where a dark silhouette stands.

"Hello 1912, my little tick" the dark voice of Dr. David Tadacha, head scientist of

"Project Animalia Kross". He has been a pain in my side for eight years, literally. "You will be fighting today to test your abilities, you must work with your teammates."

"Teammates?" I say, the black wolf ears on top of my head twitching slightly.

"The other two experiments in your project, Subjects 1910

and 1911." He explains, "Now time to get ready" he hands me a black jumpsuit with "Subject 1912" across the back. I walk into the small bathroom connected to my cell. My cell is more like a room, they want us comfortable. It has a bed with a dark blanket and the walls are a deep purple. I have a set of wireless earbuds that I can talk to the others with. I also have my own tablet that I can listen to music on.

I walk out of the bathroom to see Dr. Tadacha opening the door and letting me out. He leads me to a room with a boy and a girl, both in jumpsuits.  The girl is is an inch or two taller than me with light brown hair and greenish eyes. The boy is a good head taller than me with dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes.

"Shade" The girl says.

"Dove" I say hugging her. "Solar" I say giving him a high five.

We don't remember our names so we gave ourselves names. Mine is because of the black wings crafted into my back and Dove is because of the white wings she possesses. Solar choose his because of the red on his wings that resemble flames on the black.

"Grab your weapons then to the door 1912, 1911, 1910" Doc. Crazy says pushing us to a metal door after we grab our weapons. We walk through the door to see an arena. People sitting with clipboards in hand, white lab coats neat.

The door closes as soon as Dove is through. Another door opposite us opens and three kids that are more animal than human walk out. Their skin are made of a scaly armor, like a crocodile. Their mouth are protruding from their skulls with razor sharp teeth. They have scaly green tails and talons on their hands. They must have been a failed experiment to create hybrids that can hide their mutations.

They run at us with incredible speed and I look at Dove and Solar, they nod knowing we have to fight. I let my pure black wings of a raven extend from their hiding place in my back where they hide as tattoos. Dove spreads her pure white wings and springs into the air. Solar not far behind with his black wings, the red running through them shining.  I bend down to jump into the air and draw a black dagger strapped to my ankle. Dove has her pink throwing knives and Solar has his red and orange sword.

We hover until the croc kids are close then Dove hits it one in the eye with a flash of pink, we look at it to see a pink throwing knife sticking out. The remaining two are covered in gashes within minutes.

The door opens again and Lilith Cisco, a thirteen year old girl with the DNA of a lioness and monkey, a successful experiment, steps out with two other kids behind her. She grows her nails to a point and runs at us, her companions following. We fly out of their reach, Dove kicks Lilith and keeps going, after five, ten minutes, two of them tire out and go to the door, Lilith jumps up and reaches for my leg, I kick out and hit her arm, a snap and a yell echoes through the room. Someone comes in and drags her out.

One of the scientists speaks up from her seat, "Excellent performance. We will be testing your abilities outside, your collars will remain on but will be deactivate during the test. Any act of defiance will result in shock." She says her voice ringing.