Chapter 1 "The beginning"

The day started like any other. A sun filled sky the fresh smell of spring in the cool morning air. The first day back from spring break at Wellspring Mountain Academy. This academy is unlike any other. Hidden in the center of the mountain it is a play land for the world's first human genetic subjects. The students are stolen from family's ago over the globe to be transformed. This is the story of the schools final batch of students.

In a large hospital in Chicago a set of twin girls are born to a small family. The hospital room is warm as the newborns test their lungs for the first time. The mother looks to her husband, "are they alright?". She pants as she tries to catch her breath. "they are just getting their first screams out hun. So what are we going to name them?"

The doctors work their way around the room helping the mother and cleaning up the babies from the procedure. The babies are born with hair and eyes already open. Identical twin girls with light blonde hair and blue eyes. "Hun let's talk about names later I need . . . I need to rest" she says closing her eyes. The father looks to the doctors, "so what's the next step? what do I need to do?" The doctor looks to him as she is cleaning up the room, "get some rest we need to take the kids for cleanup which should give you both time to rest and come up with the little sweethearts names" she smiles. The father finds his spot on the couch and watches the doctor and nurses work till he falls asleep.

A few hours later both mother and father wake up to meet and name their newborn girls. The baby girls are brought in each in their own little pink beds. "Here they are" the nurse smiles as she picks up the one girl to hand to the mother. The mother lovingly takes her daughter into her arms and lightly rocks her. She kisses her daughters forehead, " I want to name her Sanshi, and let's name her sister Emily. What do you think hun?" the mother looks to her husband who after sleeping on the couch has bed head. The nurse hands the other daughter to the husband. He looks at his daughter, " I like it Sanshi and Emily Volden. Hello Emily I'm your daddy" he holds her little hand and rocks her lightly.

A few months go by, the family is home and the twins are growing happy and healthy. Today their mother plans to visit her work to show off her sweet little twins. Both girls are calm and quiet babies. The husband is back at his own job so their mother packs them into the car and makes her way to work. Her work is a 45 min drive into the city from the suburbs. The traffic is light on a gloomy Chicago spring day. She arrives at work and checks in at the front desk drawing attention of the busy lobby. "Good morning, Karen Volden checking in two guests." she motions to her stroller with the two sleeping baby girls. The lady at the desk looks at the kids then turns to her computer. "What are their names I'll put them into the computer," she looks uninterested as she chews her gum. "Their names are Sanshi and Emily Volden. We're going to visit the Starmain Chemical on the 36th floor. Do you need my badge?" she asks pulling it out of her purse. The lady at the counter takes it and enters the babies into the computer. "Alright here is your badge back and their visitors badges. Please keep their badges on at all times. Enjoy your visit". The lady hands Karen the badges and turns to the next person in line.

Karen makes her way to the elevators there are 5 other people using the same elevator. An elderly lady who takes an interest in the babies and 4 men in suits. The elderly lady looks to the children smiling then looks to Karen, "How old are the little cuties? Are they identical twins?" Karen answers, "they are 3 months old and yes they are identical." The old lady holds Emily's hand a little as the elevator doors open for its first stop in floor 15. Two of the men in suits get off taking to each other. When the fires close the old lady turns her attention to the elevator control council. Karen watches her, "did we miss your floor?" She pulls the emergency stop and the elevator suddenly jerks to a stop knocking Karen to the floor waking the sleeping girls.

"Are you crazy! What are you thinking!" Karen yells getting up of the floor. The two men grab the stroller and Karen's heart drops as she realizes these people plan to steal her children. The elderly lady smiles as she types into the pop out keyboard that was hidden behind a panel in the elevator. "Understand miss Karen Volden we've been waiting for you to get here. We've been looking for the perfect set of twins for our genetic testing. Be proud in knowing that your children will become the future." One of the men laugh, "yeah if they survive the transformation". Karen grabs the stroller and tries to fight as her daughters cry. "YOU CAN'T DO THIS! Give my children back to me right now!" Tears coat Karen's cheeks as one of the men hold her back. A secret door opens and the elderly lady takes the stroller off the elevator. "Goodbye miss Karen Volden," the old lady flashes her an evil smile as the doors close. Karen drops to her knees in shock the men get off on the next floor. The elevator opens on the 35th floor. Karen's work friends knew she checked in and were waiting at the elevator expecting to see a glowing new mother and her beautiful new twin daughters. Instead they see a broken woman bruised, crying, and in shock.