1994, 5th of January
Victoria Plains, Western Australia
A helicopter was flying low over a line of gum trees. It circled low over a bare clay paddock, before coming to rest with the few clumps of dead grass dotted over the paddock. It had barely touched the ground when the sliding door burst open.
Three people hurried out. The first was a young woman, about twenty five, with long, light brown hair. Her grey eyes flashed as she checked the paddock for strangers, and came to rest on the car waiting patiently in the paddock. She hurried over too it and started the motor, before the other two were halfway too it.
There was a man and a baby. Then man had black hair, dark eyes and was about average height, with a stocky build. He looked around the same age as the woman. In his arms was the baby. She wasn't yet a week old. She had a few curly blonde hairs, and bright, hazel coloured eyes. On her back, hidden by the blanket he held her in, were two feathery growths. They were a bit bigger then the man's hand. Wings.
1995, 7th of February
Juneau, Alaska
An old man sat in his house on the edge on Juneau, watching two people coming across the ground on skis. Although he could barely hear the barking his dog was making, his eyes were still sharp enough to see the baby strapped to the mans chest, almost smothered in blankets. A young husky padded by their side. The two people checked around them before going into a house. They had been dressed in clothes for extreme weather. He wondered where they came from. He also wondered about the baby. They didn't look a likely pair. He sighed, closed his eyes, and went back to sleep. His old dog padded up to him and settled across his feet, and quickly fell as
1996, 27th of February
California
A black helicopter hummed almost silently to the ground. It was about 2am in the morning. A woman slipped out, dressed in dark clothes. In her arm was a bundle. It was baby who was wrapped in a black blanket. A man slipped out behind her, holding a puppy in the crook of one arm, cradling a gun in the other. They ran quietly to some bushes. There was a call. Two shots rang out, fired from the man's gun. The helicopter flew off, pursued by two jets. The man, woman and baby waited for almost an hour in the cold night before a black sedan raced up. They hurried into it, and it sped off.
1996, 5th of March
Somewhere along the coast of New Zealand
On a quiet, deserted jetty, a man was sleeping in a Ute. The jetty went into deep water. The man shouldn't have been sleeping. He'd just replaced another and a friend had brought him a coffee. Complete with sleeping pills. If someone had been standing by the jetty that night, they'd be in for a shock. A submarine rose from the depths, a woman hurried onto the jetty, holding a baby, and a man appeared after her, cradling a gun, he shut the hatch behind them, and they ran too a waiting car. The submarine slowly sank back into the water, and if you watched closely, you could see its dark form floating away from the coast.
1996, 24th of March
Somewhere in England
A boat pulled up at a wharf. It was a carrier boat. A crane hooked up a sea container, and placed it, facing away from the water, on the dock. There was lax security at the dock. That night, about 4am in the morning, three people crept out of the container; two men and a woman. The men both carried handguns. The woman carried a baby. The cold night air made the baby start to cry. A spatter of gunfire broke out. The baby wailed harder. The second man cried out and fell down.
"Leave him." Hissed the first. A few more gunshots rang out. A hummer came roaring into the dock and the man and woman and baby were ushered in. In the morning the police were called to inspect the murders of 4 men. Only one was from an English speaking country…