Yes! The story is up! This is my first story, so it might suck. Oh, well. Sorry it was so late. I was waiting for Emily to make the pictures, otherwise it would have been posted a week ago. So it'll be quicker next time. Emily: Bitch. Me: Shut up. This is my fanfiction, get off! ANYWAYS...This chapter is dedicated to all the people who made a character! So, let's not drag this out and get it started!

Okay, so Emily/summeranderson and I made pictures for everyone in the flock. Well, mainly Emily found them and edited the eyes and cropped the pictures while I sat there reading a book. Emily: Sorry if they suck, :P Me: Oh, and Emily's here too! Say hi! Emily: And I'm fucking epic, too. So anyways(REMOVE THE SPACES):

Skye- http:/t /7utoapn

Linnie- http:/t /7hgw6x6

Evie- http:/t /87y4ed5

Ali- http:/t /88pra9t

Sen- http:/t /7r7nzke

Todd- http:/t /7wqq34z

Blade- http:/t /6m5x8lm

Jacob- http:/t /6t3xdgh

Polar- In Progress. . I have no idea how to make a wolf pic.

Total: Oh, and I'm here too! Enjoy!


Skye POV

"Skye!" I heard the youngest among my flock cry in a strangled voice.

"Linnie!" I screamed back. I heard the cry ringing in my ears and began to run through the labyrinth.

"Skye?" I heard the voice again, but fainter and less sure. I came to a dead end. Crap. I began to turn around, but the exit had sealed shut behind me. Double crap.

"She won't be able to save you this time, runt." I heard an Eraser snarl. I heard the young girl's voice cry out in pain, and the cruel chuckle of her attacker. "Now, how to finish her off?" I heard the hostile voice say. I heard him walking. The footsteps were getting louder and louder. "I could tear her apart, limb by limb." The footsteps came so close I could swear the fiend was right next to me. But the only thing next to me was a cement wall. "Or better yet, we should let her suffer first. By watching her role model die. Maybe that will set her off straight." Then the wall crumbled, revealing an Eraser with a coat matted with Linnie's blood, and my terrified, bleeding sister.

I sat up in our shelter. "Anything wrong, Skye?" I heard Senna ask. She must have taken watch after Evie last night. I turned around to face her. In the dim light that streamed in though the dirty windows, I made out her face.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, standing up to stretch. "Come on, let's wake up the others so we can head out to go get breakfast." She nodded and we began to shake them awake. When they wouldn't wake up, I said aloud "Bacon!" and they all shot up, saying "Where?" I laughed hysterically at them.

Now, most people would see this as a typical family scene, right? Well, that's where our story starts to get interesting. We're not blood related. Well, except for me and Linnie. But we're all family just the same. And we're not human. We're mutants.

Yeah, you heard me right.

Though all our stories differ slightly, we've all got the same basic one. One way or another, these sick jerks at a scientific lab got a hold of us. The sick jerks are what we refer to as "white coats", and the scientific lab is commonly referred as "The School." Little bit of mutant kid lingo for 'ya there. Anyway, after they got a hold on us, we were experimented on. We are some of the few that get past testing, and, even more rarely, we busted out. We had lived in a house for a while, but then the white coats had found us again and we had just recently been brought back to The School and we busted out again. We couldn't have been in there longer than 3 days! We were starting to make our way back home.

Let me introduce myself. I'm Skylar Ross, but people call me Skye. I'm 15, and my mutation is 2% avian, .5% tabby cat, 97.5% human. I'm the leader of our flock, despite the fact that I'm the third youngest out of nine of us. Around regular humans, I appear to be shy. Around my flock, I'm my usual leaderly self. And, if necessary, I fake complete insanity. I have long, wavy, muddy red hair that's almost always in a ponytail, blue-gray eyes, and muddy red wings with lots of small black and brown streaks.

Senna is the oldest. But we don't usually call her Senna. She's usually referred to as Sen, or Sen-Sen. She's 17, and she's 2% albatross, 8% shark. She gives off this casual air, but she's pretty in her own peculiar way. She has dark brown hair that's up to her waist and eyes that are a deep shade of gray, but not deep enough that you would mistake them for black. And if you comment about her style, there's a 99.99% chance that you've earned yourself a slap across the face. And she's crazy smart. If the rest of us have IQ's around 130, then hers has to be around 200.

And Evie, well, Evie's a category in and of itself. She has black hair with blood red streaks that she dyed in, and eyes that can be either light purple or light, mist-like blue and have flecks of sea green and silver in them. Her wings are jet black. She might wear a skirt, but don't let it fool you. She's just as tough as any of us, maybe even tougher. Even though she's usually silent around the rest of us, she likes some of the weirdest things. Like Bleach. I mean, it's about a teddy bear! (AN: I'm only saying that 'cuz whenever I ask Emily why she likes an anime about a teddy bear, she starts getting all defensive, like, "IT'S NOT ABOUT A TEDDY BEAR! SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M SO EMO!" *sobs* jk about those last three things. BTW, she's standing over my shoulder watching me type this, so it's 'kinda awkward…)She's my second-in-command, though she's not the oldest either. She's been acting kind of weird lately, but I can't say exactly how. She's just acting… different.

Alice is second youngest, and we all call her Ali. She's half human, half silver fox. Her hair is blonde and up to her waist. Her eyes are bluish-greenish, and, even though none of us girls are big makeup fans, she wears some eyeliner. She is kind of a smart ass around other people, but not as much around the flock. She was the only one of the flock who I didn't bust out, with the exception of Jacob. We had found Ali on the streets when she was 12, and when we offered her to stay with us, she accepted. At first, she hadn't been close to us, but after a while, she had warmed up, and she was part of the family now.

Jacob is 16. He's half wolf, half human. He's got his hair into this style that's not exactly a Mohawk, but not exactly regular either, and it's an auburn color. His eyes aren't exactly hazel, but not exactly brown either. Come to think of it, he's got a lot of things about him that are like that. We found him on the street too, and we found him after we found Ali. He fought us at first, but when we convinced him that we were like him, and there was nothing to be afraid of, he almost immediately warmed up to us. It helped that Ali knew what he was going through, and she had helped him. They had both swapped stories about their street life, and had become close friends during that period. He only likes being called Jacob, so sometimes I call him Jake just for the sole purpose of annoying him.

Then there's Todd. He's 15 and has a lot of personalities. He can be helpful, stubborn, or strong. But he cares about his family, and protects them. He gets angry easily, but is always quick to forgive, unlike the rest of us. Todd is 1% tiger, 2% avian, and 97% human. His hair is the color of cinnamon, and it's short and shaggy. His eyes are a yellow-golden color and his eyes are slanted. His wings are mostly dark gray.

There's also Blake, but we call him Blade because… well, to be perfectly honest, I don't know exactly why. Because it sounds like Blake, I guess… He's 16. His hair is black with white tips, his eyes gold. The only thing he really has in common with me is that we both hate Justin Bieber. The whole flock hates him (AN: by him, I mean Justin Bieber, not Blade), actually. We all watched him dying for 10 hours straight laughing our asses off. Anyway, Blade's 2.4% Eagle, 0.6% Wolf, and 97% human. His wings are pitch black, the only difference between his and Evie's wings are that she keeps her feathers neatly groomed, and his are messier.

Next is Kvothe, who's 16. Come to think about it, all the boys except Todd are 16. Anyway, we call him Polar, mostly because he's part silver cross fox. I say mostly because I tease him that we call him that because his name is hard to pronounce. The white coats accidentally mixed too much silver cross fox into him, so he can't fully return to human. He's always got his muzzle, ears, and fur. I think this sucks because he can't go into restaurants, libraries, etc. with us, but he sees this as a bonus because he has more claustrophobia than all of us combined, and that's saying something. He has straight white hair that has red streaks in it, but the streaks are natural, not dyed like Evie's. His fur is red with a sliver cross on his back. One of his eyes is blue, and the other gray. He barely talks, and has a very short temper.

Then, of course, you've got my little sister, Linnie. She's 9, the youngest in the flock, and is 2% bird, .5% Siberian husky. 97.5% human. You know how cats and dogs are supposed to be, like, mortal enemies or something? That's not the case with me and Linnie. I love her, and she loves me. She has hair that's way brighter than mine that I usually put in a French braid for her, and she has deep brown eyes, the color of melted milk chocolate. Her wings are a shade not too much duller than her hair, and have a couple small brown streaks.

Okay, now you know the flock, and that's out of the way. Here's what we did after I got them all awake and promised that yes, we were going to get food, yes, we weren't at the school, and yes, they could all get bacon at breakfast. Of course, they had all been pissed at me because I lied about the bacon, but they weren't too mad. After all, that's how I'd been waking them up for the last year.

"Okay, who wants to stay back with Polar?" I asked. Someone always stayed back with him, so if Erasers came, he stood a better chance against them with one of us around. He had protested at first, but I had reminded him that I'm leader, so I do everything for a purpose. Sen raised her hand. "Okay, Sen will stay back." I said. "What do you guys want us to bring back for you?"

"Bacon, hash browns, bacon, and did I mention bacon?" Sen said. I rolled my eyes.

"Sen, we know you want to marry bacon. Who doesn't?" I turned to Polar. "What'll it be?" I said in a nasally voice that I'd heard waitresses use.

"Ha-ha, very funny Skye." Polar said in an unamused voice. "I second Sen, except for one more bacon and one less hash browns." This time, it was my turn to say "Ha-ha, very funny." So Linnie, Evie, Ali, Todd, Blade, and Jacob and I left.

We ended up at an internet cafe with free Wi-Fi and computers built in to the tables. It was pretty cool, and they didn't charge you extra for using the computer. After we ordered, we took turns using the computer.

"Oh my God!" Linnie exclaimed.

"What? Did you find anything about The School? Itex? Your parents?" Ali asked.

"Better." Linnie said smugly. "A cat with a pop tart body farting out rainbows flying across the sky eternally!" She said triumphantly. (AN: Nyan cat! LOL XD)

"Err, just wondering, what did you search to get to that?" Blade asked.

"Well, I wanted to get a pop tart for breakfast, but they don't sell pop tarts here. So I searched up "pop tarts", then I thought about how awesome it would be if pop tarts could fly, and I searched "flying pop tarts", so I got this." Linnie explained.

Jacob said, "And that's better than finding information to shut down a hell for the living because…?"

Linnie turned to him with disbelieving eyes. "Pop tarts are awesome, and rainbows are awesome, and flying is awesome, so if you put them all together, you get a triple awesome!"

Ali said in a sarcastic voice, "Wow, that logic totally makes sense!" Then she said in a normal voice, "My turn on the computer, Linnie."

"Mine." Linnie growled.

I rolled my eyes. "It's Ali's turn on the computer Linnie." She began to protest, but I gave her the evil eye. "Now." I said in a sharp tone. Linnie shrank back, the switched seats with Ali so she could have a turn on the computer.

Evie groaned. "They better get my bacon done soon, or I'm gonna kill someone."

Todd smirked "It's only been 5 minutes, Evie."

She looked surprised. "Really? It seems like it's been forever."

"Trust me, it feels like that to me too." I assured her.

After what felt like an eternity, but in reality, was another 5 minutes, our food arrived. We scarfed it all down, and then asked for Sen and Polar's food to be boxed up. The waitress compiled, and within another 15 minutes, we were out the door. We walked quickly back to the shelter, gave Sen and Polar about 30 seconds to eat, in which they managed to finish all their food, and we took off. The flightless were amazing runners anyway, so they kept up, and the winged took to the air.

And that, my dear reader, is the events that befell us before we came to the first stair. The moment that changed everything.


AN: Yeah, this chapter kinda sucked, and it was too short, I know. It's only, like, 3 and a half pages! If the story's too rushed, or anything like that, let me know and I'll try to fix it. If you want me to do your characters POV, then let me know and I'll make it happen. So far, the only POV's I have are 3rd person, Skye's, Linnie's, and Evie's. So, review and tell me what you think! Oh, and I remember this time that I said to Emily "You know in the Authors Note? What does AN stand for?" Gods, I felt like an idiot. Just a random memory. (Emily: We all know you're a fail.) Me: SHUT UP EMILY! Well, I got to go beat Emily up.-Sunsets P.S. The next chapter will be up hopefully soon, maybe sometime today.