(A/N): Sorry for the shortness, even though it is a prologue.
Disclaimer: Do I look like James Patterson to you? No? Then you should probably know by now that I don't own anything other than my OC's Tammy, Claxy, Lanie, Janine and Sparks.
One year ago
Prologue
Her dark blonde hair flitted across her face in the wind as her turquoise eyes squinted in concentration. Her twelve-foot wingspan tilted as she banked hard right, heading back towards the building in which she was kept. A sigh escaped her pursed lips as she landed, ignoring the hollow applause he was supplying.
"You know, you should really work on your landing." She rolled her eyes at the elder man as she sunk into the pool chair, keeping her wings extended.
"Fuck off." A bruise began to form rapidly on her cheek as the lab-coated man hit her.
"Have you not learned anything? Or did your creators simply forget to give you a brain?" The girl growled angrily stood, enraged at the insult to her intelligence.
"We have put up with your abuse for too long! I think it's time we take a stand. You are going to pay for your misdeeds to human kind." He shrunk back but still smirked back evilly.
"And who are you to deliver that vengeance? You aren't human, not completely. You and your band of freaks are as bad as those we train you to hunt." The girl scowled, her teeth showing menacingly.
"We do not choose to hunt others, we simply do because you do not have the intelligence to do so, and thus force the job onto us. We are held against our will, and now I think it is time to change that." The man glared at her thin figure, the top of her head level with his, if not higher. Admittedly, this man was not the tallest in the world, but by any standards she was abnormally tall.
"Oh? What are you going to do about it? You don't have the guts to-" His statement was cut off as he was catapulted into a tree by the force of her punch. She stalked over to his near-unconscious form, crouching down to slide a key off his large key ring. She sprinted over to the large cage that was also too small, for it contained five other humans. Human-avian's to be exact. They were all 98% human and 2% bird, in other words, the perfect match's for the flock, the first successful version of the recombinant DNA workings. They were to help the Erasers in capturing the flock, but they rebelled. Usually in small ways, like flipping off the guards or starting fights in the cafeteria of the institute. Now, it was this group of rebellious teens that were to flee the lab, perhaps even join the fight against it while they hid from the bloodthirsty Erasers. The keys rattled in her hands as she ran the last few meters to the holding cage. Hands shaking, she unlocked the cage door and held it open for the other beings she had shared most of her life with.
"Tam! Are you alright?" She grimaced at her twin, beckoning them all into the air. They charged forward and launched themselves into the air as sirens echoed across the field alongside the institute, the guards must have found their unlucky comrade. Bullets rocketed through the air as they raced away, leaving only angry scientists, confused experiments and bad memories behind.
"Yeah Dyl, I'm fine." She shouted over the wind to her twin so he could hear. Dylan nodded and surged into the lead, immediately starting a race between the team.
"We're free!" Janine and Lanie crowed, rolling in the air. Sparks and Claxy rolled their eyes, grinning the entire time.
"Alright, let's go!" We soared higher and higher till we reached the clouds, hiding amongst them.
"This is the start of a new life, lets savor it while we can!" Tam shouted over the wind, watching as her family sent her mock salutes in reply. We better, because there's no telling when they will come for us.