The Book of Death by Alexis Sapp (best business books of all time .txt) 📖

I blacked out after I got hit with whatever it was. I woke up groggily and heard voices mumbling around me. I kept my eyes shut and listened. It sounded like Dr.Martinez, but I couldn't be sure. "They need fast healing and flight. Both of them. I need it done NOW. Got it?" An unfamiliar voice replied. "Okay. I can have it done in six hours." "It better be."

I heard footsteps coming towards me. I kept my eyes shut. I did a quick inventory. Lets see, toes? Yep all there. Fingers? Good. Anything missing? Nope. The footsteps were now right beside whatever I was laying on. I opened my eyes now. I looked up to see someone standing over me. "Hello May." "Who are you?" "I'm Dr.Carr." "Where's Jake?" "Oh, don't worry. Jake is fine. He's in another room down the hall." "Take me to him." "I can't do that."

Remember that whole hating authority thing? Yeah..

So, I was gonna get up and go find Jake for myself. But when I tried to get up, I found that I was strapped down. "Oh, did I forget to mention that?" "Yeah I think you did." I could feel my body going into fight or flight mode."When the plane crashed you sustained some injuries. You can't feel them because you're on heavy meds right now."

He's lying to me. I know it. The plane never crashed. I decided that if lying was his game, why not play along?

"Whoa, the plane crashed?" "Yeah you and Jake blacked out. I'm going to be operating on your hand soon. I'm going to put you under now." He turned around and picked up a syringe. "Ready May?" "No! You lying son of a-" I didn't get to finish. By then the Dr. had already plunged the syringe into my arm and I was slipping.

Man, those meds act fast. I had about three seconds before I was out. I used them and all I had left in me to bend the arm he had just injected, and elbow him in the gut. "You lying bitch." I spat. Suddenly I was surrounded by darkness. One last thought crossed my mind before I couldn't even think anymore. 'I hope Jake is okay.'


I woke up feeling hungover and like I hadn't moved in days. I kept my eyes shut for few seconds. When I opened them I saw that I was in a different room and I wasn't tied down. Jake was sitting up resting his head on his arms in a chair on the other side of the room. He was staring at the floor.

I sat up. Jake looked up at the noise. A smile crossed his face. "May!" "Hey Jake. How long you been awake?" "A while. The meds didn't act as well on me." "They tell you the plane crash lie too?" "Yeah. I didn't believe it but I couldn't do anything. Before I could even speak there was a syringe in my arm." "Same.I managed to hit the doc first though." "Oh May, you are crazy."


I stood up and stretched. I knew I had been laying still for hours. I had a funny feeling in my back. Everything looked really clear for some reason. Jake had a shocked look on his face. "What?" "T-t-they did it to you too." "Huh?" In response Jake stood up. Then he stretched out his wings.

I'll admit I was a little taken aback. "Whoa what the.." "You got em too." "Whoa.." I touched my back. He was right. "How do I use them?" "I don't know. I just figured out how to stretch them out and retract them." "Maybe they're connected to our nerves like a normal part of us." I tried to stretch out my wings. Nothing. I tried again. There. My wings were huge. I had a wingspan of like ten feet.

I have to admit, as much as I hate that they modified us, I'm loving the wings. I've always wanted to fly. I looked over at Jake. His wingspan matched mine. His wings were beautiful. They were black with streaks so dark they looked blue. I looked at mine. They were a pretty shade of brown with red streaks. At least these lab freaks have good color taste. I thought about how I'm going to look to people now. Like five foot eight, not even a hundred pounds,long blonde hair, and huge beautiful wings. I can live with that. I looked over at a wall. I saw red outlines headed towards the entrance. I thought I was seeing things. Surely enough within a few seconds Dr.Martinez and Dr.Carr entered the room.


"So, I see you have found your wings. Like the color? I picked them out myself." I looked over at Jake, then back at Dr.Martinez. "Uhm..Yeah. I like the wings and the colors are perfect and all but..Why do we need wings? And why did you have to lie and tie us down to give them to us?" "You have a big mission ahead of you. Flying will come in handy. Trust me." "Trust you? You knocked us out, lied to us about a plane crash, and sewed wings to our backs! How can I trust you?" I was practically spitting blood with every word. Jake folded in his wings and took my hand. Dr.Martinez was having a hard time coming up with an answer. "Because we did it so you'll both survive."

Dr.Carr spoke up now. "Uhm..The wings aren't all. May, you have the heat vision. I'm guessing you saw red outlines through the wall. That was our heat footprint. You also have the strength of about ten people,give or take. Jake you have the strength of about twenty people, X-ray vision and can blend into pretty much anything. You both heal fifty times faster now. Wait.. Actually no that's not it. May, you also have night vision. And, you both have 2000/20 vision. What most people see at twenty feet away, you see at two thousand feet away."


I'll admit, even I was speechless for once. Only for a minute though. I found something to say though.

"You made us into freaks." "We made you into miracles." "Miracles?! We are complete freaks! I can never be normal again because of this! Flying and heat vision and all that other crap isn't normal!" "Whatever. Lets talk about your mission." "We'll talk when I'm good and ready." "We'll talk now May." Jake was tense as he spoke. It was clear he wanted to get this over with.

We all sat in the chairs spread around the room.. Dr.Martinez spoke first. "Well, the book is part of your mission, but that's mostly our job. You just had to bring it to us.You will still be helping us regarding the book, but only minimally." "Mhmm.. So what exactly is our mission?" "To prevent the end of the human race." "What?!" "Just stay with me now. You and Jake are preventing an apocalypses. The end is coming. You have to stop it. Evil wants to kill off the innocent and good guys."Uh-huh. You expect us to do this alone?" "My god no. You will have a small team of genetically improved people like yourself at your side." "Okaaayy. Wait! Is THAT what was behind the door back in London?!" "Yes.Here I'll call the boss and have them brought here." "Yeah, whatever."


She dug around in her pocket for a minute before pulling out her cell phone. Obviously a disposable.

She dialed and waited for an answer. "Hey, boss? Yeah. We're ready for the gang now. Okay. Bye." She hung up and turned to me and Jake again. "Your partners have been trained and know what they are up against. they will prove very handy. They should be here any minute." Just as she said that I began to see faint red outlines in the walls again. Four this time. Noticing my reaction Jake spoke. "Uhm.. I think they ARE here." I nodded. As if on que,four people entered the room.


One was about average height,brown hair and brown eyes. She looked like a normal thirteen year old. I wondered to myself what she could do. One of the others looked to be about seven. She had very straight blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes. She kinda reminded me of myself. She had wings too. hers were slightly outstretched. I'm guessing she had a wingspan of about eight feet. She was ADORABLE. One of the others was a tall guy. He looked about thirteen. He looked pretty much normal. He had brown hair and green eyes. The other boy looked to be about nine. He had jet black hair and brown eyes. He looked completely normal to me. What the heck can these kids do?


We all sat in silence. Sort of studying each other for a minute.


Dr.Carr finally spoke. " So, May, Jake, this is your new team." He walked over to the older girl and put a hand on her shoulder. "This is Victoria. Victoria, this is May, and this is Jake." She spoke in a very angelic tone.Her voice was higher then most girls'. "Hello. It's nice to meet you." "Hi. What exactly can you do?" "Well, it's kinda hard to explain. I'll have to show you if that's okay." "Okay." I watched as Victoria took the red sweatshirt she was wearing off to reveal her yellow t-shirt. She had wings. Hers were different though. Hers were more, fairy like. "So..You're a fairy?" "Kinda. I fly like one. I have extreme vision like you do. I can change people's emotions to whatever I want." "Oh. that's really cool." "Oh yeah,I'm thirteen, and call me Tori." "Okay. welcome aboard Tori." She nodded and took a few steps back.

Dr.Carr walked over and put his hand on the shoulder of the younger girl. "This is Allison. She's a little young, but she can handle it." "Hi Allison. What can you do?" "Hi. Call me Alley. I can fly obviously. I have extreme vision as well. I can hack almost anything and make a bomb out of absolutely anything. You need an explosion or pass code, I'm your kid. I'm eight years old."

So my thought at this point. I've got a thirteen year old fairy and an eight year old pyromaniac. Isn't being fourteen supposed to be fun? I wonder what the others do..

"Nice to meet you Alley." I looked over at the younger boy. "What's your name?" "I'm Aaron. I don't fly per say. I hover. I also have extreme vision. I can lift up to two hundred times my weight. I can read faces well enough that I practically read minds. I'm ten." "What do you mean you 'Hover'?" "Well, I don't fly, I just have the ability to defy gravity. That allows me to fly. Just the same, I travel as high and fast as the rest of you do." "Oh. Okay. Me and Jake looked over at the last person. He looked up,feeling the eyes on him. "Hi. I'm Avinion. Call me Avi. I got wings like you, the same vision. I can root through anyone's thoughts. I can break an arm with one finger and make fire with anything. I'm twelve." "Oh. That's awesome." "Eh."

So me and Jake are the oldest. At least there won't be anyone older trying to boss us around. I guess that