Lylah's POV:

I was counting the minutes. Counting the seconds. It was almost time. Almost time to break out of this prison they called school. The place where they had been doing experiments on us since we were all small.

Who are we? We are creations of the white coats. We are 98% human, 2% bird and 100% awesome. We are bird people. Together, we are a flock, my flock.

I wasn't the most patient person in the world. Actually none of us are, but I was having a particularly hard time. I looked at the clock on the wall. 11:50 AM. Ten more minutes now. I decided to take a look around the awful white room one more time, before I left it for good.

Seven cages were arranged around the floor. The first was Elly's. She was playing with her braided black hair nervously. I could tell she was nervous, but I couldn't blame her. To make our escape, we had to go through the air vents. Since she could see in the dark, she would have to lead the way. Plus, she was only 9, and had experienced a lifetime of pain. I knew she didn't want to anymore. I was very determined to get her and the others out, even if it cost me my life.

The next was Dio's. He was watching the clock almost as intently as I had, his silverish hair shining in the white light. His gray eyes suddenly wandered to look at me. He smiled, then cracked his knuckles, signaling how ready he was to kick robot man ass. He could make his skin as hard has he wanted so he never got hurt. He was a very useful 11 year-old at times like these.

The third was Dancia's. She was playing with something on the floor of her cage. I knew she was thinking about something, because from time to time she would shake her head causing her short flame red curls to bounce up and down. Red was a good color for her hair, considering the fact that she could manipulate fire. It also represented her personality. She seemed to be "right" at everything, and even though she was a year younger at 13 she was smarter.

The next was Davon's. He was just sitting there with a dead look on his face, arms wrapped around his knees. I could tell the 13 year old he was thinking too. His spiked brown hair looked like tiny mountains on his head, and his purple eyes were shining with excitement. He never showed any emotion on his face or in his voice, you just had to read his eyes. His eyes weren't just for reading how he felt, they were also for his power. If you looked into his eyes, he could make you see anything he wanted, even if it wasn't there. Also pretty helpful.

The fifth was Jaclyn's. She was holding onto the bars of her cage, and bouncing up and down with anticipation. Her long shiny chocolate colored hair swung from side to side and her green eyes showed two times the smile on her face. Though she was 14, she seemed like a little kid. Maybe it was because she had a big part in our escape mission, Since she could bend light and make force fields.

The next was Kane's. He was leaning back on the cage, with his icy blue eyes closed. His black bangs were swept to one side and his face completely relaxed. I don't know how he could be like that, but he just was. All the time. And it pissed me off. He pissed me off in general. He was the most annoying 14 year old on the planet. I wanted to scream at him to get up and get ready, but that would totally spoil out plan, since the white coats would hear us. Even though he was annoying, he had a pretty cool power. He knows when someone is lying. It can be useful, but then annoying at the same time.

Finally, there was my cage. I'm Lylah. I am the leader of the flock. A lot of people have told me that I'm bossy and over protective but they also say I'm understanding and easy to talk to. My power is two things. One, I can heal almost any wound, but I can't bring people back from the dead. Two, I can move plants with my mind. I can make them grow, shrink and move any way I want.

I looked up at the clock again. Two minutes. I whistled to get the attention of my flock. They turned toward me and I cocked my head toward the clock. They nodded and got to ready to bust out.

The next few minutes were excruciating. Nervousness and excitement pulsed through my veins as we waited. Then, before I had time to relax, it was time. I turned toward Jaclyn and nodded.

"Um, excuse me." She said to the only robot man in the room. "I need to go to the bathroom,"

The Robot stood up and unlocked he cage. He grabbed he wrist and pulled her out. When they were just under the security camera, Jaclyn sent out a light beam that destroyed it. Mr. Robot stiffened and reached for walkie-talkie on his belt loop.

"Oh, no sir! I'm so sorry," she said I a suck-upish voice. "I didn't mean to. My powers went out of whack. You don't have to make anyone alarmed. Just call them and tell everyone it was just an accident."

The Robot stared at her suspiciously, but picked up his Walkie-talkie.

"It was an accident. Do not be alarmed. I have it under control. Over," The robot waited for a reply.

"Over," a voice sounded on the other line.

The robot clipped his Walkie-talkie back to his belt and tried to pull Jaclyn back through the door. When she didn't move, he turned back around.

She smiled sweetly then said, "I lied."

Suddenly, she lunged out and kicked the back of the robot's leg so he fell down. She sent hundreds of light beams down upon him, slicing him up into little tiny pieces.

Dancia melted the bars of her cage and both of them started letting the rest of us out.

Dio started doing a victory dance. "We did it, we're out. We did it, we're out. We di-"

Kane clapped his hand over Dio's mouth. "We aren't out yet. So, you better shut up if you want to get out." He hissed in his ear.

"Right, sorry." He whispered back.

"If, you want to be helpful, you can start by making a hole in the air vent." I said to him.

Dio smiled crazily, "My specialty." He opened his white wings, which were speckled with gray, and flew up to where the vent was. With a swift kick, the vent door went flying off. Dancia grabbed it before it clattered to the floor.

"Ok, Elly," I said softly to her. "Time to do your part,"

She looked at me with a scared look plastered on her face.

"It's ok," I said trying to reassure her. "I'll be right behind you." That seemed to make her feel a little better. She spread her black wings and flew swiftly into the vent. I followed. I didn't look back to see who was behind me, but I could hear the others. We crawled as quietly as we could through the vents until with Elly leading us in the right direction. Soon, we came to the end with one huge vent cover in front of us.

"What do you see," I whispered toward Elly.

She peered out. "I see a bunch of robot guards with huge guns. What should we do Lylah?"

"Do you think you could get it open Elly?" I asked her after two seconds

"If I could, we would get ourselves killed,"

"No we won't," I said. "We have Jaclyn."

Suddenly I saw a warm yellow light surround us.

"Jaclyn, the force field at your service." Jaclyn said, proud of herself.

"I still can't get the door thing open, though." Elly said.

"I can do that," Jaclyn said. "When I say go fly out, and keep flying."

We all grunted.

"Ok, Ready, set…" Her light reached up slammed the door open. "GO!"

We all flew out one by one surrounded by the force field. It was so strange, I saw the bullets flying toward us and I heard the sound, but I didn't feel anything. Once we were all up in the air, we started to fly south, toward the nearest town.

I heard shouting and more guns going off but soon, we left all the robots behind. Believe it or not, we did have a plan. It was simple, find the famous flock, and ask for help, if they could give it to us.

I think the most excited of us about out plan was Elly.

She found out a year ago that she had a brother, and that brother happened to be in the flock that we were looking for. I wanted so bad to make Elly happy. She had not ever been happy once, and I needed to make that dream come true for her. I needed to find her brother, Fang.

I shook that from my mind. There was one thing I needed to feel more than anything else right now. Freedom.