Get up! Ava, awake!
Ava felt uncomfortable and not quite ready to be woken.
Ava! Now!
Who was that shouting? For just one moment, she wanted to reject the world the way she felt Alex had rejected her. Just one moment. Couldn't they give her some freedom?
The pistol, Ava! Use it! Now! Get up!
Dad? Ava's eyes shot open at the realisation and after quickly recalling what had happened. Her hand flew to her holster. She spun the pistol in her hands. Two of the scientists who were on the verge of experimenting on her were already shot. She jumped out of the operating table-like object where they had laid her unconscious body. She bent down to her boots, revealing a small knife. Within seconds, the knife was at the throat of the remaining scientist.
His heartbeat was increasing. That was too quick. His last few seconds of life were going away too quick.
She smiled, "Have fun in the underworld. Say 'hi' and 'thanks' to my dad when you see him lead you there."
He made no noise as the knife cut through his veins, but fell to the floor with a thud. The knife was back in her boots as Ava looked up at four cages by the opposite wall.
All her angelic friends had backed up to the furthest corner of the minuscule prison cells. Well, almost all of them;
"Are you sure your father isn't Ares?" Ben started.
"I even saw a headshot there." Kai whistled.
"You're more violent than you seem to be," Faye commented.
"Can you let us out now?" Ruth complained, obviously a very phlegmatic person.
Ava was also as stunned as three of them. She didn't think that these children would be so afraid of her for saving their lives. Being 'violent' to avoid these freak scientists seemed to her the only way to prevent their capture. Didn't her friends do this kind of thing everyday?
"Let's go," she commanded when they were eventually free.
"Where to?" Kai asked.
"Let's get out first, then ask that," Ruth cleverly suggested.
"Daughter of the god of the travellers. Can we travel 'out', please?" Kai bowed.
"I already know where the exit is," Ruth walked ahead.
"I'm sure Ava has much more simpler ideas than alerting the whole School that we've escaped." Ben looked at the girl, expecting a huge griffin to come out of the ground and fly them to safety.
Ava had something better in mind.
"How about a portal?" she smiled and revealed a hole in the ground that was dark and seemed to go nowhere.
However, they all jumped in anyway, more in favour of the alien travelling system than getting thrown back into the cages.
"That was awesome! How did you do that?" Faye exclaimed.
Ava shrugged.
"Alright, I believe you're not lying about your godly parent now." Ben said using his bird-like instincts to travel in the dark.
Once they reached their destination, they breathed in the cold bitter air of the night and sighed. The darkness of Ava's portal dispersed around them into nothingness.
"Phew, glad that's over." Kai collapsed on a patch of grass.
"Jeez, why was it so dark in there? Was that a view of your violent mind?" Ruth commented.
"Ruth!" Faye reprimanded, then turned to Ben. "We should tell Max and the others about this,"
"Does anyone have a phone?" Ben asked.
"We don't need one; we have the master right here." Ben said, pointing to Ava.
"Can you call them… or make a rainbow or whatever you do?" Ruth was puzzled. How was she going to communicate with them?
"I have to make my own phone calls first." Ava replied.
"To who?"
"Another possible recruit. A child of the Big Three. None other than the eminent Nico di Angelo."