Muse's POV

I was at a family reunion. I loved my family, even though they annoyed me... a lot. "Hey Lynne toss, toss the Frisbee," my favorite cousin yelled. We were in Nebraska, and it was a warm summer day. I tossed the Frisbee to Jessie. She was a cute little kid. We looked nothing like each other, but our grandmas were sisters, so that made us cousins.

The dream shifted to a meadow... My meadow. Where it was warm and sunny, with green prairie grasses and tall pine trees surrounding it. It smelled wonderful, like sagebrush. I loved that smell. It was so familiar. I reminded me of days long ago, roaming the school grounds of my elementary school. My three best friends in the whole wide world would wander with me.

My dream moved to that day, the last day. I was walking with my friends, going to the Metro down town. It was our tradition. Amber and I had gone there on the last day of my seventh grade year, which was also the last day of her eighth grade year. Now it was Josh and I's last day of eighth grade, and by extension our last day of middle school. Abi was coming with us since she was kind of like a little sister to me. I treated her like a sibling, and constantly reminded her of how she was two years younger than I was.

So Josh, Abi, Amber, and I were walking to the Metro. We were acting like little kids, jumping in mud puddles, splashing each other, and laughing hysterically. Us girls were debating which of us would win the hunger games if we were all thrown into an arena, while josh tried to figure out how the hunger games worked.

Out of nowhere we had bags thrown over our heads, and I screamed as my world went dark.

I woke up to see that it was dark out side. We were somewhere in the west appilacians. "Sorry I woke you," Josh told me, "I was just starting to feel tired."

"That's okay just go to sleep, it's my turn to take watch anyway." I looked at my friends, and they looked so much happier free. We had escaped the school a few days ago thanks to my awesome new powers. I had seeped away the scientists' strength a little at a time. Absorbing it and giving the energy and strength to my friends. Josh and I grew strong and fast in our cages. Josh and I developed a telepathic link to where we could share thoughts and images.

I had grown mocking bird wings, Josh grew bat wings, Amber grew butterfly wings, and Abi had grown hawk wings. We were strong now. All I had to do was find some help. There was one thing we knew for sure though, and that was that not one of us could ever see our families again. We had been gone for a year, and no doubt they though that we were dead.

When every one was up I gave them the news; "Today we choose names, and then we build our house," I informed them. "I am now Muse. It's short for soft music playing loudly." They looked at me like I was a lunatic, and Amber had a look on her face that told me she didn't like the idea.

"Choose names?" She asked, crossing her arms. "Like, we're not going to be ourselves anymore?"

"Amber, we have to change names. We can't have people seeing us and hearing our names and realizing who we are. You know full well that we can't go back to the lives we used to live, and we're most likely on a missing persons' list." She shook her head, sitting down.

"Fine, Muse. But if what almost happened to Chihiro happens to me, I will be very angry with you." She said, and I laughed.

"Amber, we're not in Spirited Away." She shrugged.

"For all I know, we could be." She grinned at me. "And I'm only building a house if you draw the blueprints and figure out how we're going to build it, because I'm no architect. Although, if you build it then we'll be living in a house that will collapse on us in our sleep." We all laughed and I realized that this might be easier than I thought.

Hey! I know this is a really short chapter, but I'll be posting, like, 14 or 15 in the next few days because the chapters are already written and are on my computer haha. Hope you guys enjoy! :)