1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

summary: we've all read about max and her flock. but what if some other experiments had gotton out as well, before the flock did?

disclaimer: if it's familier to the books, it ain't mine.

patterson owns the oh so lovely flock and the erasers, i'm simply

borrowing a few and having fun. no suing, unless you want pennies.

prologue

i'm not a storyteller.

i'm always backtracking to add something more, so my stories never

make sense. carlos, the third eldest in our family insists that i

tell this story. our story. he seems to think that i can actually

tell a story. that i'm the best in our family.

we don't even know

what to call ourselves, other then the family. yeah, real original

eh?

we're freaks of

nature.

a bunch of curious

scientists decided to see what would happen when they grafted animal

dna to human dna. we're the results.

we have a couple

groups in our family. the aeries, and the grazers. yup. we're

sticking to real original names here.

my name is cris, and

i'm the elected leader of the family. it's my responsibility to keep

them all safe. i don't know why they selected me. i don't like

talking to people, and i certainly don't care about anyone else?

right? wrong. well, i don't like talking to people, but this strange

family has wormed its way into my cold black heart, and i actually

care.

i escaped the school

when i was four, long before max ever got out. her and her flock are