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So this is chapter 2, I hope you enjoy and please review. Thanks.
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-Edward's POV-
Emmett, Jasper and I were all hunting when we heard this cry of pain. Now, when I say hunting, I don't mean like with guns. My family and I are all vampires. We call ourselves vegetarians because we drink animal blood instead of human blood. Alice, Jasper's mate, Jasper and I all have extra abilities apart from the regular enhanced senses, super speed and strength. I can read minds, Alice can see the future, and Jasper can feel and influence the emotions around him.
We all started to run towards the sound, thinking that maybe someone was hurt. Out of my family, I am the fastest at running, so I got to my meadow before my brothers. When we got there, we were surprised at what we saw. There were six kids from the ages of six to fourteen. The oldest girl was laying on the ground in a crumpled up heap. I could tell from Jasper reading her emotions that she was in a serious amount of pain. The oldest looking guy there was standing in front of her protectively glaring at my brothers and I. The middle girl with mocha colored skin was attending to the oldest behind the dark haired boy. Standing to the right of the dark haired boy was a strawberry blonde haired boy a few months younger than the oldest. He wasn't looking directly at us, but in our general direction. To the left and slightly behind the oldest boy was the youngest boy and girl. The boy was standing protectively in front of the little girl, who was staring at us with a perplexed look on her face. These two looked to be actually related. I breathed in and that only enhanced my confusion. The group of kids smelled like a mix of bird and human.
Strange, Jasper thought and I couldn't agree more.
Who are these kids? Emmett's thoughts were a perfect reflection of my own.
So far none of them said anything so I decided it was time someone spoke up.
"Hello, my name is Edward Cullen, and these are my brothers Emmett and Jasper." I pointed to each of them in turn. "We heard someone cry out and wanted to see if everything was okay."
The dark haired boy glanced at the littlest girl. She quickly nodded her head and he spoke up. "My name is Fang. This is my flo...family. Iggy here to my right, Gazzy and Angel to my left, and Nudge is tending to Max."
"If you don't mind me asking, but why is she in pain?" Jasper asked.
"Well, we would kind of have to get into a huge backstory about that. We know that you're not human, and we know that you know that we're not completely human, so why don't we swap stories later. Max needs help." Fang spoke really fast, obviously worried about Max.
We just stared at him in shock. All three of us were speechless.
"Are you going to be able to help us or not? If not then can you point in the direction of someone who can?" Fang finally spoke up sounding annoyed.
"Yes, of course, if you follow us then we can show you to our father. He is a doctor." I said pulling out of my trance.
"Okay, we will follow." Fang went and picked up Max. "Lead the way."
"You may want us to carry you. We can go pretty fast." I suggested.
"No need. Up and away guys!" Fang shouted to the other kids. All of a sudden they all unfurled wings. WINGS! I could not believe my eyes.
That would explain the bird smell, Emmett laughed in his head.
"Yeah, we have 2% anvian DNA in us." Angel said. Had she read his thoughts? "Yes," she answered.
Well okay then. "Alright, follow us." We took off running back home. I looked up and saw them flying very fast, even as fast as us.
After a couple minutes of running, we slowed down and approached our house. I saw the rest of my family waiting outside.
I saw what was gonna happen so I informed them, Alice said to me.
Just then, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel landed.
"Hello, My name is Carlisle. I'm a doctor." Carlisle said.
"Okay, please help her." Fang asked.
"Will you tell me what happened?" Carlisle asked going into doctor mode.
"Well, we are experiments for The School, a really evil lab. We were given avian DNA before we were even born. We grew up in cages and being experiment on. One thing that started happening to Max in the past year was she started getting Brain Attacks. (A.N. I don't really like the voice, so I decided to not include it) The only way she has described it as is feeling like her brain is going to explode. She isn't ever this unresponsive. I'm very worried." Fang finished up the brief explanation of the kids' past.
"Yes, bring her in upstairs. I will see what I can do." Carlisle instructed.
"Hi, I'm Esme. The rest of you kids must be hungry. Would you like some lunch?" Esme asked, her motherly instincts kicking in. Those poor kids, having to go through all of that, she thought.
"Yeah, but I have to warn you, we have to eat much more than the average human because of our metabolisms." Nudge explained.
"I can help you cook. And before you say anything, I figure you should know that I am blind. However, I can still do things, so don't underestimate me." Iggy spoke up.
We all walked into the house. The kids took seats at the counter and us vampires just stood. Esme got started on the cooking. Iggy and Esme started up a conversation about what happened to Iggy's eyesight.
"Oh, I love Iggy's cooking. He is the BEST cook! He was constantly making us food at our house in Colorado. It was so good. It's really funny because Max is like the Mom of the group but she can't cook to save her life. I'm not joking, Iggy doesn't let Max anywhere near the kitchen. The last time she tried to cook, she ruined the pan she was using. It was HILARIOUS! He got all upset and yelled at her for ruining his pan then Max yelled at him for yelling at her and they just kept going back and forth and forth and..."
"NUDGE!" the rest of the kids yelled.
"Sorry," she replied sheepishly.
OMG! I love Nudge already! I wonder if she will want to go shopping with me... I quickly tuned out of Alice's thoughts.
She's as bad as Alice, Jasper thought.
Oh no, there's another Alice, Emmett.
Look at the little one. She's so tiny, how could someone do something like this to babies? Rosalie's thoughts were surprising.
"Hey, I may be little, but I pack a lot of punch." Angel said sounding offended.
Rosalie just gaped at her. "You read minds?"
"Yep," Angel replied, popping the "P".
"Well, even less privacy in this house," Emmett complained. This earned him a smack in the back of the head from Rosalie.
Conversations kept up. Jasper and Emmett talked to Gazzy, Rosalie talked to Angel, Iggy talked to Esme, and Alice talked to Nudge. A smile slowly crept its way across my face. It was nice seeing these kids getting along so well with my family. Maybe they could even stay here. We would be able to keep them safe and protect them from harm.
"I'm sure all of us down here would agree, but it's Max you have to talk to. Like Nudge said, she's like the mom of the group, but she's also the leader. She will consider all possible options, but in the end, what she says goes." Angel said.
All the others looked at us. "What did we miss?" Emmett questioned.
"Edward was just thinking that it would be cool if we stayed here with you vampires. Also, I already told the rest of the flock, that's what we call ourselves, that you're vampires, and they're cool with it." Angel informed the rest of the group.
"Yeah, that would be so cool. We would have actual beds to sleep in, instead of the hard ground and trees. We would also get three meals a day. That sounds like so much fun. But Angel's right, it's Max you need to convince." Nudge agreed.
I couldn't believe that they found the simplest things like a bed and three meals a day fun.
"That's what you get when you've been on the run almost your whole life." Angle said, once again reading my mind.
Irritating, isn't it? Jasper asked me when he felt my temper rising.
I simply nodded my head.
Conversations about the flock staying with us started up. It sounded like everyone was on board. They started talking about how to get Max to agree. Iggy told Esme that Max only wants what's best for the flock, so once she sees that we aren't a danger, she will be totally fine with it. As I listened around, it sounded like everyone was on the same page. All of a sudden, we could hear a scream up stairs. Everyone froze.
