Adrenaline is the best Drug
My family, we're in it together till the end. We'll kill for each other. And we thought we we're the best. We thought we we're unstoppable, then we ran into them. None of them take anything from anyone. When it comes down to it, they are all blood thirsty, and lethal...

Chapter Two: A Beach House

With living on the run, you know how to break and enter. All in all, we like to stay on the down low and stick with garbage can food, but every once in a while, your stomach won't take anything but stolen.

As you may have guessed, we're sneaking into a beach house. It was about ten miles from the big city of L.A. so we guessed it was a weekender hot spot for whoever the owners were.

This is the part where we guessed wrong.

With his uncanny ability to pick locks, Austin got us in with two trys on the back door. Now, when we do this, we make sure no one is home, and probably won't be for a while. We check for some high tech security. Of course we make sure they have no pets, and we ALWAYS leave the house in the same condition it was in when we got there.

The first thing we do once our check list is complete, is find the kitchen. The kitchen is oviously where all the food is. And when there is real food, we like to help ourselves. First off, none of us really know how to cook. But all our food is edible. Secondly, we have little to none experience with stoves and ovens. But, we never burned a house down. And thirdly, we are not vegetarians. We are very much so carnivors. So if a house is lacking the supply of meat, we either find a new house, or one of us runs to the store.

So as we rumaged through the pantries and fridge, we felt almost as if the owners of the beach house knew us all to well. We found Seven large steaks, some harty potatoes, and countless cans of all the healthy plants. We also found candy, chips and dip, energy drinks, you name it!

After we decided what to make for dinner, we went around to find somewhere to rest. I didn't take long to find the livinh room. It had two couches, a love seat, and a few reclining chairs. Sierra and Gabby could share the love seat, Ic and Aus on one of the couches, Micheal could have the other, and Erin and I can each have a chair.

I went back into the kitchen to see Erin laying the seasoned meat onto the indoor barbque. While Micheal pour seven or eight cans of corn into a pot. As Gabby mashed some peeled potatoes. And Aus started the gravy. So I had Sierra and Icarus start making some kind of juice. They found a bucket of strawberries and wildberries, so they decided to make smoothies.

I went to the pantry again and found some cake mix. I decided it would be okay. I mean, one of our birthday's has to be around this time. So I started baking a chocolate cake. Everyone was busy making our meal. And in about an hour it was done. We all sat down at the marble counter. Gabby ran and gave Molly some of the last cat food we had.

"Thank you!" Molly said as she started to eat.

"Okay guys, everyone washed their hands, right?" I said. With no surprise Austin and Icarus stood up and walked over to the sink. Once they sat back down again we began our prayer, "Dear God, Thanks for the food. Thanks for everything." Ya, we pray. We really don't know what religion we follow, but we believe there has to be some guy up there leadin' our lives. So we thank him at dinner.

Once the prayer was over everyone immediately dug in. We probably look like kids with absolutely no manners what so ever. But no one was here to see us, so why not?

We all finished at about the same time. We all went into the huge living room and laid down. It was around one in the morning, so everyone was tired. Erin tucked Gabby, Icarus, and Austin in and threw the others some blankets that we had found in the laundry room.

While everyone was getting settled, I went and did the dishes, and she went and started a batch of laundry so we all had some clean clothes. In the morning we'd have to find the bathroom and take showers. When I came back I found that Gabby had made Molly a bed by the couch. Only, when you looked harder, you could tell that it had a wood base.

"Gabbs, where did you get that?" I asked

"I found it over there!" She said, "By the doggie one."

I looked over and sure enough, there was a larger dog bed, just like the one Molly was sleeping on, "Well put it back in the morning."

Soon everyone was asleep except for my. I had the first look out duty. It was kind of boring, but a safely precaution. As I sat in my chair I doodled in the leather with my finger.

It had been about three hours, and so it was Michael's turn. I woke him up and he offered me the couch. So I took it and he went to sit in the chair...

Early the next morning I felt someone shaking me. In a loud whisper, Sierra said, "Shadow! Shadow! Someone is here!" She was panicking.

I rubbed my eyes, almost immediately awake, "Inside?"

"No, they're out there, but they are coming in soon." She said

"What are they thinking? Do they know we're in here?"

"Uhmmmmm, that's the problem, I don't know. I can't read their minds. It's like they can block me, like a wall." She was about ready to cry, she hates not being able to do something, she hates being the one that has our lives on her shoulders.

"Okay! Guys come on! We got to get all of our stuff fast and book it out the back!" I said in my leader voice.

Everyone was awake instantly. To bad we weren't fast enough. The front door clicked and two people walked in, a girl and a boy. They stopped dead in their tracks, dropping everything they had and moving into a fighting stance. Following them was another boy. He stopped inches away, as if he didn't realize what was happening, he just stood there, looking for direction. The girl slowly reached back and tapped his hand three times. He suddenly knew and threw the stuff in his arms to the side, getting into a crouching position, ready to fight. Then a little boy and a girl walked in, they stopped and then ran back out.

"Max! Max! Someone is in there!" We heard them scream.

Then they came back, this time followed by a taller girl, with a little girl by her. They all moved into a fighting stance, ready to go. Of course all of us were crouched over and ready.

Then the first girl to come in started to laugh, "You think you guys are good enough? What does good enough mean?"

How did this girl know that all of us were thinking we were better, we were good enough to take them?

"Because they think they are the only ones of their kind." The little girl smiled

"Our kind? You are crazy! What do you mean by our kind?" Sierra said

She smiled again, darker, "Show me your deepest, darkest secret." She said, harshly. As if we were going to follow her orders. And to our surprise, we all did, except for Sierra.

"YOU GUYS! NO!" But it was to late, no matter how hard we tried not to, we had unfurled our wings in front of complete strangers.

With the most arrogant of smiles, she nodded to the others. Slowly, Something from all their back started to move. And soon, we saw that they all had a pair of wings. Just like us.

"See, your not the-" But she was cut off.

"What is taking you guys so long!" Someone screamed from outside, "Akila and I are getting HOT!"

The little black girl ran out, we heard a car door unlock and then open and close. And When she was back, two dogs followed her.

"Jeez! Forget about us! We don't min-" He stopped once he saw us, "Uhmmm, Woof! Woof! Woof Woof!"

Then he saw the wings, "Oh! Well, yes. Hello. I'm Total, this is my wife, Akila." Dogs have wives? He started sniffing, "I smell," He paused, thinking about it for a minute, "I smell cat!" he said disgusted.

Molly poked her head out of the backpack that she'd crawled in for our great escape. "You don't smell so fine either mutt."

"IT TALKS TO!" The little boy screamed, "OH GOD! NOT TWO OF THEM! NO! I CAN'T STAND HEARING ONE!" Then he giggled, his voice was strangely girly.

"GAZZY!" The girl with black hair said very meanly.

"Sorry! Sorry! I couldn't help it!" He said, this time his voice fit his looks.

"Well, since you have already apparently made yourselves at home, you might as well tell us your naems." I'm guessing Max said.

"Shadow."

"Hi! I'm Gabby!"

"Austin is the name."

"I'm Icarus."

"Sierra."

"Hello, I'm Erin."

"I'd be Michael."

"So, do you want to tell us your names?" I said

"Max." I guessed it!

"Hi, I'm Angel." she smiled sweetly at us.

"Hahahey! I'm da Gasman! But I go by Gazzy, Gaz, whatever."

"Uhmmm, I'm Iggy."

"Fang."

"Thunder."

"Hi! I'm Nudge! I like you guys! You seem cool! Almost exactly like us! What school were you from? I wonder if there are any others of us out there. This is so cool! I hope we can be friends!-" Uhmmm, oh, Iggy put his hand over her mouth.

"Sorry, she's a talker." Max said.

"What's your story?" Thunder asked randomly, staring at Sierra.

"Well,..."