Our story-

Ok, so. For those of you who don't know, My name is Kameo. But I go by Kam. I'm 14. I'm from a place called the Institute. I also happen to have wings. I was broken out of the institute by The Flock. You know, Max and Fang and them.

I also happen to be the leader of my own little flock. We where all from The Institute, but.. you know. In all there are six of us. Nine if you count imaginary people and a really cool guy we met in our travels. But My flock is made up of me, Lily, Isabelle, Krystal, Ash (Lily's twin brother) And my best friend, Sparrow. Also Krystal and Izzys imaginary friends, Jaa and Jimmy Carl. Don't ask. Anyway, this is our story. Let me start from the beginning-

The tall, Dark one ushered us into the sewers. We quickly made our way through, and up onto the street.

He turned to me, "It's ok. We'll get you somewhere safe." He said quickly.

"No, I'll take them somewhere. I can do this." I said, shaking my head.

He started to argue, but I quickly cut him off.

"We'll be ok. I can take care of them." He looked hesitant but reluctantly nodded.

I turned to the others, looking through the group I spotted Sparrow. He was one of my only friends. He was in the cage next to mine.

"Sparrow!" I called, he turned at the sound of his name and quickly made his way over.

"Help me get them away from here, ok?" He nodded and I turned back to the others.

"Izzy, Lily, Ash, Krystal! We're going to need your help!"

The four young bird kids stepped up, I looked at them,
"We need you to help us move everyone somewhere safe, ok?" They nodded silently.

I immediately launched into action, "Lily, go see if anyone else has wings, if they do tell them to gather up anyone who's sick or disabled in some way. Izzy, you and ash go find all the sick ones," Lily, Isabelle, and Ash nodded and moved back into the crowd,

"Krystal," she stepped forward.

I heard the other guy, the dark one, laugh behind me. I turned to him, confused,
"What?" I asked.

He shook his head and muttered something that sounded faintly like "Nudge would be jealous."

"Whatever. Krystal, I need you to go and gather up all of the smaller children." She nodded and hurried off.

I turned around to face Sparrow who was watching me quietly. "Go get everyone ready, we're going to have to fly. We'll get out of the city, go south west, stop at the first clearing." He nodded and went to go relay the instructions.

I turned to the Dark Guy.

"Thank you." I said, he nodded, still looking unsure about letting us go.

I walked over the where Sparrow was standing, everyone in neat groups behind him. He nodded, I picked up a Little sick child from beside me, He had cat eyes and a cat nose instead of human. I knew he was probably not going to survive, but I sure could try.

I looked around, nodding to my friends, I slowly unfurled my Dark blue wings, glancing back at the dark guy one more time, then I ran and launched into the air clumsily.

Quickly balancing myself out, I glanced behind me, everyone with wings was holding at least one child. There were about sixteen of us in all. Even lily and Ash, who were only 12, where carrying a smaller child in their arms.

I finally allowed myself a small smile. We were free. Facing forward, I shot off, heading towards the outskirts of the city, everyone following close behind.

We did it.

After about twenty minutes I saw a small clearing, I slowly descended, keeping a tight grip on the six year old in my arms. I stumbled slightly on the landing but managed to stay upright.

I turned as everyone slowly landed, I counted heads. Twelve. I sighed. As lily landed, she stumbled with the weight of the baby in her arms, I quickly steadied her and glanced around.

I knew Most of the children were either dead or dying. I felt the boy in my arms tense.

I felt his heart speed up, then he relaxed, and his heart stopped. I looked down at him sadly. I gently laid him down on the grass. I went around, taking all of the dead children and laying them down next to him.

Six.

All that was left was me and my friends. Ash and Lily where standing next to each other, Isabelle and Krystal were a few feet away from them, and Sparrow was right next to me. This was the first time I ever really got to see them, outside of a cage that is.

Sparrow was a few inches taller than me and had jet black hair and dark blue eyes, lily and ash both where a bit shorter than me and had fair blonde hair and electric blue eyes.

Isabelle was shorter than me but taller than ash and lily, she had dark brown hair and green eyes, and Krystal had light blonde hair and brown eyes, she was a little bit taller the Isabelle.

I could see their wings sticking out from behind them. Sparrow had Dark Blue wings, almost exactly the colour of his eyes, with a thin silver lining. Oh, he also had Black cat ears and a black tail. Heh. Did I forget to mention that?

Lily had black wings with the slightest bit of red. Isabelle's wings where orange with redish down, causing it to resemble fire. Krystals where a light purple, with pinkish down, fading to violet at the ends of them. Ashs wings when a light green in the down but it slowly darkened around the middle, with dark green tips.

I already knew what I looked like, more or less. I had dark red hair and dark blue eyes. My wings were the Same as my eyes.

I looked at us all. Six hungry, tortured bird kids in tattered, ripped clothes. With no money. This should be fun.

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"So... What do we do now?" Lily asked, walking up to me and Sparrow. We where filing it the graves we made for the dead children. I looked up and out of the corner of my eye I saw that Krystal, Isabelle, and Ash where putting wildflower a that they had picked on the graves we had finished.

"Now I suppose... We survive.." I replied, looking over to her.

"Ok we'll have to get our priorities set before anything.." I mumbled, partially to myself, "ok clothes, food, flying skills, fighting skills, and education." I counted them off on my fingers. I looked up slightly as I heard Lily's stomach growl at the mention of food.

"Ok, food, clothes, flying, fighting, education. Got it." I reorganised quickly. I stood up, causing everyone to turn and look at me.

"So." I began, putting my dirt smeared hands on my hips and smirked, "who wants to steal stuff?"

I walked down an aisle in the large store, looking at the products lining the shelves. After about 20 minutes of flying we managed to find a large store. We had all grabbed a back pack and I quickly listed off the items they needed to get, then they all set off in groups. Isabelle and Krystal, ash and Lily and Sparrow was with then to make sure no one messed with them.

I grabbed a duffel bag and walked over to the aisle that had, what looked like, food. I quickly grabbed a random assortment of food then I went to go get some other things we might need.

K&I POV

"Krys, I don't see why we would need this stuff." Isabelle was confused with her friends idea of necessities. Krystal didn't even look at her when she responded.

"Oh come on Izzy, we can't just go without this stuff. I've looked awful for the first twelve years of my life, I'm not going to continue." She replied breezily.

Izzy frowned but didn't say anything more on the subject.

"Come on," Krys started, "Let's go get some new clothes."

Izzy nodded and put the book she was looking at in the green back pack she had grabbed. Then, the two girls headed away from the makeup counter and over to the clothes section.

A&L&S POV

"Look, all I'm saying is, you never know when a deaging ray might useful." Lily reasoned logically.

"What does any of that have to do with you getting a bow and arrow?" Sparrow asked, raising an eyebrow at her.

"Everything!" She exclaimed, throwing her arms up.

Ash suddenly came running up to them, a ton of fireworks in his arms.
He looked up at Sparrow hopefully, as did Lily with her Bow.

Sparrow looked at the two filthy bird children, then at what they had in their backpacks. Sparrow facepalmed so hard, he thought it might bruise.

Here they where, three filthy children who just escaped from a torture/experimentation facility, and they where begging for weapons and and fireworks. Brilliant.

He shook his head and turned around, towards the clothing section.

"Come on you two. Let's get you some new clothes."

K POV

I looked at my reflection in the mirror and smiled slightly. It took me about ten minutes to get most of the dirt and blood and grime off, then I went to seek out some new clothes.

After five minutes I was happy with my new outfit. I was standing in the full body mirror in the changing room. I had on a blue shirt that was so dark, it was almost black. On top of that I had a light gray patterned hoodie thing, and I had another jacket, this one being black, on over that.

I had black ripped jeans, and dark blue converse. To carry all of my stuff I had a rucksack with a Union Jack pattern, and a large black duffel bag.

As I walked through the store to the place where I said to meet back up, I grabbed a few extra things that caught my eye. What? You never know when an iPod might come in handy. Anyway, I found my flock right where we agreed.

After I took a head count to make sure no one was missing, I took a minute to take in their appearances. The first thing I noticed was that they weren't nearly as dirty as before. They had managed to get off most of the dried blood and dirt.

Next, I noticed their clothes. Krystal, being the fashionista she is,(she would always complain about the colour of the clothes they would give us in the institute, just to upset the whitecoats, but I knew she actually did mean what she said) she went with a 'stylish' outfit.

She had a plain light pink shirt, along with some white skinny jeans. She had a black leather jacket, some pink, white, and black bracelets, and teal blue flats. To top off the outfit, she had a head band with a big white flower on it.

Izzy chose something a bit simpler. She had on a light green shirt and blue skinny jeans, as well as a brown jacket and green flats.

Sparrow went with a darker choice, Black shirt, jeans, jacket, and backpack. The only thing that wasn't black was the blue converse he had on. I won't go into detail, but you get the picture.

Lily had on something similar to me, except a bit lighter in colors, and Ash had a plain Red shirt and blue jeans. Both had converse.

Ok, so that's done. Now that we have all of the stuff we need, there will only be a few problems. The main one being: How do we get out without being seen?

It's ok, though. Because, I have a plan.