Hoot=Annabeth
Scale= Percy
Nyx= Nico
Hoot was laying down in an uncomfortable dog-like curled up position inside her metal crate. The dog crate wasn't even tall enough for her to sit up without bonking her head on the barred roof. She opened her eyes and sighed.
"Hoot, you 'wake?" one of her friends, Scale, called from the cage across the narrow white aisle in the completely white antiseptic filled room. Hoot nodded, effectively causing her uncut blonde hair to fall into her grey eyes. Hoot at up in a hunched position and rolled her shoulder blades trying to stretch her owl wings to the best of her ability. Scale was trying his hardest to break free of the confines of his cage.
"It won't work," Hoot told him. Scale shook his head.
"Has too!" he shouted. Hoot sighed and slumped back against the bars, hitting her wings in the process. Scale was a strange creature. Overly protective of both Hoot and Nyx, the few year younger nocturnal bat-mutant. Scale had wings of his own. They were much thinner than Hoot's and more scaly than Nyx's. As far as the three could tell, Scale was some kind of dragon-human hybrid.
Hoot visibly jumped when she heard the door open.
"We won't hurt you," a girl who looked to be about the same age as Hoot and Scale said. One of the boys with her immediately got to work picking the locks on the three cages. When he got to Nyx cage. Scale growled. Hoot looked at him warningly. "Scale."
Scale backed down only slightly, still ready to pummel someone at the first sign of attack. The strange boy gently shook Nyx. Who opened his eyes and immediately closed them in reaction to the harsh fluorescent lights.
Hoot stumbled over and helped Scale get Nyx out. The twelve or so boy could barely see in the bright lights, being part bat.
Once the odd rescues had them outside and a fair distance away from the lab, Scale wanted an explanation.
"Explain," he demanded his eyes flashing red in anger.
"Scale," Hoot warned. It wouldn't do them any good for Scale to fry these kind strangers into human-kabobs. Scale still didn't trust them. Why would he? Fourteen years in a cage being experimented on every day would puncture anyone's trust-skills.
"I'm Angel," the youngest girl said. "And we should probably blow this joint."
Hoot agreed with the girl entirely and helped Scale escort Nyx out. Just in time for the building to explode into a big firebomb.
The two that had picked the locks high fived.
"Awesome!" they shouted.
"You did that?" Hoot asked. They nodded.
The 6 strangers introduced themselves as Angel, Gazzy, Nudge, Iggy, Fang, and Max.
"So, can you guys fly?" Max, the oldest, asked.
Hoot nodded, "A little."
They had only learned how to fly enough for experiments. That was barely enough to do much. And Nyx wouldn't be able to see well enough to fly during the day.
"Why are you squinting? Are you blind? Is it the Whitecoats fault? Who am I kidding? Of course it is! Those evil scientist are the absolute worst!" The motor-mouth Nudge would have kept going if Iggy hadn't plugged his ears and Fang hadn't covered her mouth with his hand.
"I am not blind," Nyx told her. "I just can't see right now."
"What?" Max asked.
"Not your concern," Scale growled.
"Chill out," Max told him. "I'm not about to do anything to you or your friends. What're your names anyway?
"I'm Scale, She's Hoot, and the little one is Nyx."
"Little?" Nyx asked.
"Smaller than me, aren't cha?"
Nyx resigned to Scale's term of "little."
"So, let's go."
The now enlarged group began walking. Scale still didn't trust these strangers. If they made one wrong move he would use his fire breath to burn them to crisp. He had harmed enough white coats to protect Nyx and Hoot.
They came to fork in the road with a creepy ally on one side.
"We're leaving," Scale decided immediately. "I don't trust them!"
Hoot and Nyx nodded and took the path that followed the darkened ally.
And somehow they made it to New York.
A/N: Thanks for reading. This is just the first chapter. The 2nd is already half-way done. Hopefully you enjoyed this. They should get longer but I needed some kind of prologue. Review. Tell me what you think. Thanks!