Creative writing assignment. Based off of a research paper we did.

First

The sun was setting and a young man had dashed behind a rock.

Yuriy was hiding behind the rock. He was pressed so hard against it that the sharp edges on it cut through his shirt and dug into his skin. The scent of salt, blood and burnt flesh caused him to gag and almost lose what little food he had. His hair was cut oddly and matted. Sweat dripped down his body and he was breathing hard. He was trying to silence it; they would hear him otherwise.

“Where did he go?” an older man’s voice commanded.

“We lost-”

A shot rang out and Yuriy jumped.

“Find him, or the rest of you will end up like Dmitri.”

The sound of boots against sand got quieter. He relaxed and he pushed his body away from the rocks. He sat down.

It had been three days since he had sat down. The soldiers had been chasing him for escaping the lab facility. He was more agile and stronger than the soldiers, but three days straight for him had been wearing on his nerves and his energy. Even enhanced humans needed a break.

Yuriy shut his purple eyes. He refused to sleep but resting didn’t sound bad to him.

A war was being fought. Part of it was because he was created. The world powers did not like the idea that Russia had created a virtually perfect human being. Debates broke out over him at meetings for the world leaders. Russia had planned on selling the information, but with it being so controversial they decided to keep it. The genome plans for the ‘perfect being’ leaked out of Russia. Soon Japan, China, America and other countries had perfect beings. The countries began wars with one another, wanting the other’s being and another world war had started.

The perfect beings were called Angels even though they looked like normal people. The only real difference between an Angel and a human were their eye colors. The colors were anything except, blue, green and brown. The more common color was purple and the most rare color was orange.

Crack!

Yuriy’s eyes opened at the sound and he sat up. He wondered when he had fallen asleep. The half moon was above him and it gave him just enough light to look around. Almost ten feet from him was another person, their bright yellow eyes told him they weren’t human.

“So, you finally managed to escape from the Russians?”a childish voice spoke in the language of the Angels.

“Of course. It wasn’t hard,”he told the other.

“It only took you seventeen years. . . .”

“Shut up! They had a lot of passwords-”

“And the Japanese didn’t?”

Yuriy ignored the comment, “Tell me where Tao is, Yasuo.”

Yasuo looked like a pre-teen even though he was only four-years-old. It was evident he was Japanese because of his straight, long, and black hair.

“Making our get away easier. He’s buying contacts,” Yasuo crawled over Yuriy and crossed his legs.

The contacts were a special kind that were only sold on the Black Market. They masked all of the signs of an Angel. They couldn’t be detected either.

“Do we have a plan from there?”Yuriy asked.

Yasuo laughed again and said, “Of course not. Why would I think that far ahead?”

“I should have figured . . . .”Yuriy said.

“We do have to get to Korsakov. Tao’s getting the contacts there and we can get a ship from there to Wakkanai,” he stretched and stood up.

“So you were planning ahead.”

“Nah, it was Tao’s idea. I just was relaying information to you,”Yasuo grinned.

“Let’s go.”

The pair started the walk to the town. The three had been in contact since Yasuo had been created four years ago and discovered the mental link between Angels. They had been planning a revolt with Angels in America and Britain. The plan hadn’t been going as smoothly as they wanted but now that Yuriy had escaped it would go perfectly. Their plan involved capturing all of the major world powers’ leaders. If they could capture the leaders, there was a chance that they could end the war and gain the Angels’ freedom.

They arrived in Korsakov early in the morning, as the guards’ shifts were changing. They snuck past the checkpoints with ease and went to a hotel. Yuriy talked to man at the front desk in Russian.

“Can you possibly let the man in room four know that his friends are here?” Yuriy looked the man in the eye and spoke as politely as he could.

“Room four?” the man knew exactly what Yuriy was, “You’re the ones he paid for,” the man handed Yuriy a set of keys, “And if anyone asks, you weren’t here.”

“Good. Thank you,” Yuriy said and walked off with Yasuo.

Yuriy unlocked the door and walked in. Yasuo bounced in after him and locked his arms around Tao’s waist, “We’re back!”

“Good job,” Tao patted Yasuo’s head.

Tao’s head was shaved and his Chinese ancestry showed. His eyes were orange and very intense.

“Are you ready?”Tao asked Yuriy still looking at Yasuo.

Yuriy responded, “I had a few hours of sleep, I’ll be fine for a while.”

“I’m glad to hear that!”Yasuo jumped on the bed and crossed his legs, “I’ve wanted to leave for days but you took so long to escape. It’s been boring.”

Tao walked over to Yuriy and handed him a small container of liquid, “Put these on now.”

Tao gave Yasuo a different pair and went to the bathroom to put on his own. Yuriy took out one. It was brown. He placed it on his eye. He put the other one on and blinked them in.

“Ahhh! They’re so weird!”Yasuo rubbed his eyes.

Tao walked out, dark brown contacts covered his iris. He hit Yasuo over the head, “Don’t rub your eyes. Its suspicious.”

Yuriy went to the door to leave when there was a vicious knock on the door, “Let us in now! We know who you are and we don’t plan on letting any of you escape.”

Tao’s eyes widened and he whispered, “He told them! I should’ve known better than to trust someone so-”

“We can’t do anything ! We have to get out of here now!”Yuriy grabbed their wrists and ran to the bathroom.

There was a window above the tub. Tao broke the window and Yasuo climbed up and jumped out of it. Tao and Yuriy looked at each other. It was silently understood that Tao had to go first. They didn’t have the exact looks of Tao and Yasuo but they knew what Yuriy looked like.

The soldiers had broken the door and were setting up in the room. The soldiers only had stun rifles and Yuriy was thankful for that. Yuriy shut the oak door of the bathroom as the rifles shot off their electric charge. He climbed up into the window and jumped out.

He landed on his hands and feet. He took off in a sprint. The three of them were lucky that the window was on the second story. If it had been any higher, there would’ve been a good chance that there bones would have snapped. Angels had extremely strong muscles and strong attachments to their bones, but their bones were weaker than a normal humans’.

Yuriy caught up with his comrades and looked at Tao, “Now what?”

“What else? Get out of Russia!”Tao ran faster to where the ocean was.

Yuriy and Yasuo picked up their pace.

When they arrived at the ocean, they realized they were about eight miles from the port. They knew soldiers had swarmed the port, and if they could sneak onto the ship, there wouldn’t be confrontation. There was a wall of rock where they found a tunnel made by the tide. The tide was in, so the tunnel had water that was waist high on both of the older teens and up to the shoulders of Yasuo. They got through the tunnel without many difficulties. After they were out of the water, the three were freezing. It was night and the ocean breeze made them colder.

“I-its cold . . . .”Yasuo was shivering.

Tao shook some trying to get some of the water off of him, “I realize that Yasuo.”

“Let’s just get to port. If we get there, we’re home free,” Yuriy kept walking and the others followed.

An hour later, they came to another rock wall. The cliff was higher than the hotel they had jumped out of and it went into the water far enough to deter them from swimming. Yuriy looked up and looked to Tao, “I’ll go first.”

“Sounds good,”Tao smirked as he spoke.

The cliff looked hard to scale. There were few hand and foot holds and the few that were there, were slick with moss and water. He started up and continued at a slow pace. His hand or foot would slip once in a while, but he always recovered. After an hour, when he was half way up, Tao with Yasuo on his back began to climb. Tao was much stronger than Yuriy so he was able to climb and carry Yasuo with out much difficulty. The climb continued slowly.

Yuriy was near the top when he heard shouts. He turned his head and saw soldiers. His eye widened in fear and he shouted, “I hope you can climb faster Tao! They’re here!”

Tao was either ignoring him or he couldn’t hear him. He tried hand and foot holds only he was being less careful than before. His heartbeat increased and his mind was racing. What would happen if they were captured? Would they be punished? Would they be put through more experiments? His hand reached up and grabbed another ledge. Why were there greedy people in the wo-

The rock broke and he fell. A screech came from him as he hit the wall several times. Yasuo also screamed as he watched Yuriy fall. Tao knew this could be it. Without Yuriy, the plan to revolt would fail and the war would continue.

Yuriy knew this would be it. There was no way he could survive a fall from the top and even if he did, the pain he felt would kill him. Angels were never subjected to extensive amounts of pain. There were pinpricks from a needle but nothing that overwhelmed the senses. His scream continued until he landed on his back with a sickening thud.

The other two Angels could hear his bones shatter and blood vessels in his bones ripped open. Angels were given enough calcium that it would kill a human. It still wasn’t enough to make their bones strong. Their bone were brittle because the bone destroying cells called osteoclasts, broke down their bones eighty-five percent faster than a normal person, making the bones more brittle and fragile.

Soldiers ignored the other two because they didn’t see them and they thought that the screech from Yasuo was part of Yuriy’s scream. One of the soldiers and a medic got down by Yuriy. Tao knew if Yuriy were dead they wouldn’t have called a medic to help him.

The medic took Yuriy’s arm and took out a few medical tools. Yuriy’s arm was only broken in one place and from what the medic could tell, it was broken cleanly, despite its frailty. The medic took out a thick board and set Yuriy’s arm against it. He straightened the arm and then wrapped it tightly so it couldn’t be moved.

Just as Tao prepared to jump down to help Yuriy, another screech came from Yuriy. Yuriy’s body was forced up as he screamed. Everyone could hear his bones cracking, breaking and shifting. Yuriy’s body became nothing but a skin sack of muscles and organs as something pushed to get out of his back. Two bony wings pushed out of his body. A soldier could still see the cells forming the wings and he knew a thing couldn’t be human. A pale-skinned being came after the wings. It looked like a god of death. Tao knew this was no longer Yuriy. Purple eyes looked up at him and it screamed at them, bearing its fangs.

The scream sounded so unholy, sorrowful and hateful that anyone who heard it died instantly. Everyone at the port three miles away was able to hear the scream. They didn’t collapse onto the ground. They just froze as if stuck in time, as did the soldiers, Tao, and Yasuo. After the being of death screamed it collapsed onto the ground, dead. Silence was the only thing f This story is related to my oral history because I used some being severely injured because of them falling off a cliff.

The two facts from my essay are . Their bone were brittle because the bone destroying cells called osteoclasts, broke down their bones eighty-five percent faster than a normal person, making the bones more brittle and fragile.

And

Yuriy’s arm was only broken in one place and from what the medic could tell, it was broken cleanly, despite its frailty. The medic took out a thick board and set Yuriy’s arm against it. He straightened the arm and then wrapped it tightly so it couldn’t be moved.

or miles.