My second story, if you like it check out my first one, 'The Triplets'. Please favorite and review, I will try to update quickly. Here is the key:
Delilah-, Grey blue wings- 12
Joshua- Josh- Different shades of brown, light to dark wings-12
- Ivy- red and orange wings -12
-Rose-whitish to pinkish-12
- Demetrio-grey greenish wings-13
- Drake- brown to white-12
- Sylvia- Syl- yellow wings with a black feather here and there.-12
- Vincent- matching blue wings as Ben-6- younger brother of Delilah
- Benedict-Ben- matching blue wings as Vincent-6- younger brother of Delilah
School Girl
I ran, my legs aching. The voices of my two sisters were screaming through the forest. The crazy robots were chasing me, and I felt the blood from my forehead drop down into my eyes. My arms were getting scratched by the sharp branches, and felt wet. Then I came to a river, I could tell that I would not survive the current if I jumped in. I whirled around, to see a gun right at my fore head.
I sat up, panting.
It was that stupid dream again. Why do I keep having the same stupid nightmares?
I thought, climbing out of bed. I had that dream almost every night, and the weird thing was that my five closest friends had the same dreams to. Except for them, their families were screaming for them. My sisters, who died eight years ago, were calling for me, their tiny three year old voices haunting my thoughts. We were triplets. More about that later. I shuffled through my closet, looking for my usual blue dress. I found it, put it on and walked through our apartment. I could feel the dress floating around my legs.
"Good morning!"
My dad called to me, from his spot on his computer. I called back a greeting, walked through the familiar living room, into the kitchen, to be met by my mom running around, trying to get my younger twin brothers' breakfasts ready. She was only 46, but she had completely white and grey hair, my dad had brown hair, and it was still just as thick. My mom was always teasing him about how his hair hasn't changed in twenty four years. My dad is fifty now. My mom finally noticed that I was leaning on the door way, and greeted me, her brown-green eyes flashing. I said hi back, and turned to go back to my room, when my twin brothers crashed onto the room, running up to me and hugging me. Their blond hair was shining in the sunlight streaming through the windows. Vincent looked up at me, letting go. Benedict let go to, and they took my hands and led me into their room, it had bunk beds and a large toy table.
"Sissy! Can you teach us how to fly today?"
Vincent asked, his blue eyes glittering with hope. I sighed.
" Fine, but I have to call up my friends first."
Benedict grinned, his long fang teeth looking as sharp as knives. Benedict and Vincent both have blond hair and bright blue eyes, and have poison venom like snakes, and the fangs too. I am basically the older/girl/darker hair version of twins wings are the same, but mine are different. Where theirs are a blue to light blue color, like a blue birds', where mine are black, with brown feathers here and there. I stood up and dressed them. They had to hide their wings from everyone, even Mom and Dad. We all did. We all knew deep inside that we had to leave our families eventually, be cause if anything attacked us, our families would be at harm. After I finished dressing them I stood up and sent them into the other room for breakfast. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and texted them directions to where we would meet. Demetrio answered immediately, saying
Time for the twins to learn how to fly?
Yup.
I texted back.
I stood up, walked into my room. I kneeled down by my guinea pigs' cage. I took Thunder and Lightning out, and petted them while sitting on my bed. We will have to leave eventually, and the only reason we haven't yet is because the twins can't fly. But we have no idea what will happen. I put the guinea pigs back into their cage. I stood up, changed into a tank top, and put a shirt on over that to cover my wings. I put a pair of shorts on and sneakers. I wrote my mom a note explaining everything and telling her not to worry. I walked to the kitchen again, passing my brothers eating their breakfast. I knew Mom and Dad were in their room talking, because the door was closed. I walked up to the fridge, took out lots of water bottles, lots of candy bars, 15 apples, and picked up 10 long knives for us to defend our selves. I shoved everything into a backpack, then started packing my brothers' packs with all their cloths, plus shoes. I handed them their packs once I finished, and we all walked out the door. We walked to the destination, meeting all 5 other members of our group. Demetrio is the leader, he is 13 while all the rest of us are 12, but Benedict and Vincent are 6. We, the twelve year olds, are Josh, Ivy, Rose, Drake, and Syl.
"Delilah! Are we leaving today?"
Rose, and Indian girl who has light pink wings which turn white on the ends called to me.
"Yes, as soon as the twins learn how to fly."
I replied, looking at Demetrio for approval, he nodded. He had brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. He is wings were grey greenish. I unstrapped my back pack, and got out the knives. I handed everyone one, and Josh, the other Indian person with dark spiked hair, and dark to light shades of feathers looked unsure. Ivy stared at hers like it was an alien. She is from South Africa, with red hair and orange wings. Syl started practicing using it right away, she is British, and has short blond hair and blue eyes. Her wings are yellow with a few black feathers here and there. Rose put it in her back pack, looking determined. Drake grinned when he got his, he has blond and brown hair and warm blue eyes. His wings are light brown, and white on the ends. None of us actually know where we were born, but the countries were on our adoption papers. I am the third oldest, Drake and Demetrio are the only ones in our group who were older than me. I hate to admit it, but I used to have a giant crush on Demetrio. Not anymore, though. He ruined his chances when he kissed another girl. I don't care if she forced him. Anyway, I took off my backpack, and picked Benedict up. I flew up, knowing my feathers were glowing. I flew about thirty feet up, then told Benedict to stretch his wings out. He did, and I dropped him. He flapped, and his wings looking like clear blue water. He flew up and down, until he figured out how to control it. I had to smile, and I felt pride well up in my chest. My sweet little brother is flying! Let's see how well Vincent can do it.
"Sissy! Look!"
Vincent called, swooping up beside me, I felt my eyes widen with surprise, then I looked up and saw Demetrio hovering about me, and smiled at him, he smiled back. He always seemed to know what I'm feeling, and I could tell what he was feeling, just by his expression and what he says. I dive bombed, and about 2 feet from the floor I shot out my wings, and dropped safely to pick up my backpack. I looked up, and jumped, shooting out my wings again and we were off. I was following close behind Demetrio, and Drake was beside me. Vincent and Benedict were flying under me. Syl, Rose, and Ivy were above me. Josh was probably behind me. They were chatting about where we were gonna go. At the moment we were just going west. No idea where. I reached back to my elbow length blond hair, that curled at the ends to undo the ponytail, when Demetrio called a warning before I was punched in the stomach, hard. My hands shot down and covered my stomach, my wings stopped flapping and wrapped around me, I dropped like a missile. The pain was horrible, and I was willing to do anything to make it go away. Then two warm arms caught me, and I automatically knew it was Demetrio. My mind was still clouded over with pain though. Benedict! Vincent! When I thought of them I jumped out of Demetrio's arms and did a 360, then I saw them, surrounded by a group of teens with wings. Some looked like they were our age. I dived down, and knocked three of them away, grabbing my brothers, and swooping back up. I felt my group surround me, I was still holding my brothers. I let anger swoop into my mind. Demetrio gestured for Drake to take one of the kids. I looked up, and saw that Ivy was shaking, but still looked determined. Rose was glaring at the strangers, her fists clenched. Even Syl was glaring, but though her arms were shaking.
"Who are the little kids?"
The one who looked about fourteen, and had bright yellow hair asked. They looked like a mixed age group, three looked fourteen, one looked our age, one looked eight, and another looked like Benedict and Vincent's age. Demetrio flew up in front of me, and gestured or us to get out our knives, and block our minds. I dropped the kids, who flew unsteadily in front of me while I got out my two knives, everyone else did too.
"Who are you?"
Demetrio growled, but I knew he was completely calm.
"We are human bird hybrids, who can kick butt and take names."
"No! You don't say! Let me guess, you have wings?!"
I said sarcastically to the girl who looked fourteen, and strangely just like me and my brothers. She seemed to be the leader of the group. We hopefully were not related. In any way. Whatsoever.
"You, against the seven of us with two knives each. Yeah. Sure."
Was all Demetrio responded. I could tell that the blonde was getting pissed. Strangely though, the two older guys were serene. I looked a lot like the guy with black hair and black wings. My brothers looked like the girl. I looked a bit like her. They could be my parents, the real ones. I pushed the thought to the back of my head.
"Could be a good time to practice our Max-Quan-Do. What do you guys think?"
The blond girl said. Her group lunged toward us, but before we could do anything a giant group of wolf people flew up behind the other group. They had captured the other group in seconds, and were coming after us. I felt the others tense, and I raised my two knives. Benedict and Vincent opened their mouths and their venom melted the wolf peoples' skin off. They howled in pain and dived down, that's when I felt so thing grab my leg and yank me down wards, my reflexes shot my hands down, and I cut off one of the wolf peoples' heads. I was surrounded. I did what any sain person would do. I screamed. I have a sonic scream, and all the wolves released the other group, who were covering their ears and yelling for me to shut up. I stopped and watched the wolf things fall to the floor and splat. I raced up to my brothers and covered their eyes.
"It's ok, I'm here, it's ok."
I murmured to them, they were shaking. Just then a giant net dropped down on us, and we were all enclosed, and our two groups were pressed together. I raised my knife to cut the ropes, but when it touched them my hand was zapped. I dropped my knives, and they fell into the forest. I was holding brothers, they were crying, and I felt like crying myself. Demetrio pressed up beside me, and whispered in my ear.
"We'll be fine."
Just then our rope cage was lifted up into a giant plane. We were released, and the rest of our group raised their knives. One of the wolf men just picked Ivy up and put its claw to her neck. Our group immediately dropped all our weapons. I opened my mouth to scream again, but a wolf thing came up behind me and scratched my cheek. I jumped up, and kicked its chest, knocking it out of the side window. I could feel another one behind me so I kicked it in the head, breaking its neck. My group had gotten up to join me, and Ivy had taken care of the wolf that had trapped her. I turned to Demetrio.
"What do we do with them?"
I asked, gesturing to the other group.
"We have names."
The blond girl said, before lunging at me. I saw it coming and stepped out of the way. She regained her balance quickly. She turned to me, and I could see the rage in her eyes. That's when I realized my mistake. I had turned my back on the other ones. I whirled around, but not fast enough. The dark one grabbed my arms and the dark skinned one who looked my age grabbed my wings, and pushed them shut. I tried to struggle free, but the dark haired one had a great grip. That's when some human guy walked in.
"Well, I see you have met your kids, flock."
He said, and the dark one was distracted, so I yanked free, and punched him in the face. I kicked the brown one in the stomach. I ran back to my group. We were facing everything in the corner, where nothing could sneak up on us. The blond one who I will presume is Max, gaped at him.
"What do you mean, kids? We don't have kids!"
The blond one yelled. The man gestured for us to follow him. We stayed put until their group had gone after the man. He led us into a room that had a long table going down the centre. Once everyone was seated, the man introduced himself. My brothers sat in my lap, and Demetrio sat on my right, Ivy on my left. Drake was next to Ivy, and Syl was next to Demetrio. Rose was next to Syl. Josh was next to Drake.
"My name is Jeb. I imagine that you must be confused. I will introduce everyone."
He gestured to the blond girl.
" This is Max,"
Then he gestured to the dark one.
"This is Fang."
He pointed at the blond boy.
"This is Iggy, he is blind."
He pointed at the dark skinned one.
"This is Nudge."
He gestured to the other blond boy.
"This is Gasman, or they call him Gazzy."
He gestured to the girl who looked about the twins age.
"This is Angel. Now, this side."
He gestured to me.
"This is Delilah."
I glared at him. I knew everyone else was glaring at him too.
"This is Rose."
"This is Ivy."
"This is Sylvia, but they call her Syl."
"This is Benedict, and this is Vincent. They are Delilah's little brothers."
"This is Demetrio, the leader."
"This is Drake."
Notice how he gave us more detail? I hate him already. Ivy squeezed my hand. Everyone knew I had the worst temper, no patience. I reached down and picked up my backpack. I got out some bandages, and put them over my cuts. I put the rest back, knowing that nobody else was wounded.
"Spill, Jeb. Not all of them can be ours. Besides that fact, we never had any kids."
Max growled.
"Let me explain. When you were in the custody of the School, they took samples. Of your DNA. They tried to combine all of you, and there were very few successful ones-"
I glanced at their group, who were all gasping. Then he pointed at all of us.
"These are the successful ones."
I felt anger pumping through me. I set the twins down to stand next to me.
"What are you talking about?! We were not created in a scientist loony bin!"
I screamed at everyone. Then I got out the smoke bomb, it exploded, and our group left the plane. My fists were clenched the whole way. But as soon as I turned around the other group was there carrying Jeb, and laughing as the entire plane exploded. Demetrio came up next to me. I still really want to punch something, but when would I get to do that? Is anything ever that simple?
"Let's leave, they were probably just messing with us anyway."
Syl grumbled, taking my arm and pulling me to follow her. Wait a second, where are Vincent and Benedict? I whirled around, only to see them flying towards Max. I shook Syl off and flew after my brothers, but they reached the group before I could get to them. They were asking who was their parents. I wanted to know who were our parents desperately, but I have self control. I got there in time to hear Jeb say Max and Fang. Max blushed, and Fang started taking extreme interest in his shoes. I could feel my face heat up.
"Vincent and Benedict! Gt back over here! They are not our parents no matter what the loony with a white coat says!"
I heard Gazzy mutter about me reminding him of Max. Stubborn.
"I heard that!"
I yelled at him. I took Benedict's arm and Vincent's shoulder and flew them away. Everything is so messed up. That's when someone grabbed my arm and stopped me. I let go of my brothers, and turned to see Demetrio's serious face. I sighed. We had to face this sometime. I turned back, I felt my friends fly up beside me, and we all just hovered there. Demetrio slipped his hand into mine. I felt my heart skip a beat. No! Do not go back there! I thought desperately. But I couldn't force myself to let go of his hand. It's so soft… No! Stop it! I pushed the thoughts into the back of my mind, and ignored them. We all landed on the forest floor. All signs of laughter gone. I was still clutching Demetrio's hand. My brothers were clutching my hips, I looked at everyone else. Rose and Josh looked determined. Ivy and Syl were holding hands, and looked determined too. Drake was standing, back against a tree, glaring at the other group plus Jeb.
"Explain yourself."
"Shut up! He doesn't have to listen to you!"
Nudge yelled at me, I could see the anger in her eyes. Demetrio lifted his hand, and a vine shot around Nudge's stomach, picked her up, and threw her at a tree. Demetrio can control plants, just FYI. Max, the one who was supposedly my mom, jumped at Demetrio, but he sidestepped, and she fell again. She growled, and lunged at me. I couldn't move fast enough, so she knocked me over. I grabbed her head and pulled it over to my mouth. Then I screamed as loud as I could. She jumped back, holding her ear. I stopped, and stood up. Our groups were pretty much at war now, even Syl was participating. Jeb was nowhere to be seen, so I went and looked for him. But as soon as I turned around Fang kicked my stomach. I feel back against a tree. That's when anger took over, and I have no memory of what happened. But all I remember is my group screaming at me to stop, and me coming to my senses. I looked down. Fang was bleeding in multiple places, and was pale white. It was like his scratches had scratches. I leapt back, and stared at my hands. I had claws, and they were covered in blood. My heart was racing. That's when I couldn't take it any more. I fell to the floor, on my knees and cried. It was not the first time this had happened. Two years ago I had gone ballistic on some teenager who was hurting my brothers. He died, and I had no memory of anything happening. My brothers always remembered, and knew I would take care of them. This almost never happens. Only when I'm highly stressed, mad, and someone I care about is getting hurt.
It happened again…
That's when Demetrio leaned down, brought my chin up, and kissed me.
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