Iggy's POV
I flinched, waiting for her to slam me into a tree or light me on fire or something.
"What did you call me?" she asked softly, her eyes still glowing red.
"I know everything" I said and it was silent. I watched as her eyes slowly faded back to blue.
"Oh" was all she said.
"And you're not a freak of freaks. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and the scientists are the freaks, they're the ones that did this to you" I told her taking a few cautious steps towards her.
She didn't kill me which I took as a good sign.
"You don't need to block yourself off from everyone, they'll understand. It's not your fault who you are, you don't have to be evil" I said softly, walking over until I was right in front of her.
"I don't?" She asked softly and for those few seconds I saw her vulnerability, I saw the young, sweet and innocent girl in the photograph.
"No, you don't have to be. You can be happy. You can be safe. Stay with us, have a family. Have people who'll love you" I said, putting my hands on her shoulders.
Her eyes glistened with tears as they formed and a few drops of water fell from the sky. Before I knew what I was doing I pulled her into me and hugged her. Her head buried into my chest and after a few seconds her arms wrapped around my waist. I stroked her hair and I could feel her heart beat. The sky turned clear.
All of a sudden she froze. I opened my mouth to ask what was wrong but before I could ask I was flying through the air. I hit a tree with a thump and slid down the trunk.
I was lying on my stomach and I looked up. Pyro was hovering in the air, her hair flying around her face, her eyes glowed red and she looked deadly. I yelped as I was thrown in the air again.
I hit another tree but this time my head hit it and I had blacked out before I hit the ground.
Pyro's POV
Iggy slumped to the ground unconscious. I looked at his unmoving body and flapped my wings, taking off.
Iggy was wrong, I was evil.
I couldn't forget my past, all those people I had killed, all that evil I had done. And as Iggy hugged me, I felt my past coming for me. And by that I mean I had felt the buzz in my head I got when erasers were close.
They got closer and I had just frozen. I hadn't known what to do. I had felt their eyes on me from the bushes. I knew what they were seeing; they were seeing their tough emotionless target hugging a flock member, looking vulnerable. I couldn't have that so I had knocked Iggy out.
Now as I flew away from the house I could feel them following.
I flew as fast as I could until I came to a clearing, far enough away from the flock's house.
I stood in the middle of the clearing, my palms on fire, my eyes burned red, the wind picked up, the sky turned dark and lightning struck.
The erasers piled out; there were more than I'd ever seen.
Fang's POV
I sat on my bed, still stewing over how Max and Jet were still gone.
There was a knock on my door and it creaked open.
"Hi" Shadow said walking in.
"Lost again?" I asked and she rolled her eyes at me.
"I was wondering if you had nothing better to do, if you wanted to go for a walk or something?" she asked.
"Uhhh" was all I said.
"I know your in here sulking about Max, so why not take your mind off her?" She said.
She didn't say it in a judging way, she just said it in a matter-of-fact way.
"Ok" I said getting up.
We walked out of the house and into the trees.
"So what's the deal with you guys?" She asked suddenly.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I don't know, you guys are so innocent like. You use your powers for good" she sounded like she was quoting someone.
"I don't know. It's just the moral thing to do. We had a different childhood to your guys. When I was about 8 Jeb took us away from the school and raised us" I told her unexpectedly.
"How do you know I wasn't brought up like that?" she asked and I chuckled.
"I just know" I said and she pondered for a moment.
"Your right. I wasn't brought up like that" she said and we both went silent.
We continued walking in silence, though it was a comfortable silence. All the words in the world were spoken in that silence.
Pyro's POV
There must have been 50 erasers closing in on me. They had never sent so many, the scientists must be getting lazy, or desperate.
"Lizzy, Lizzy, Lizzy" one eraser said and he stepped towards me.
"Don't call me that" I hissed.
"Why? Missing your friends back home?" He sneered.
I involuntarily screamed and he burst into flames. He rolled on the ground screaming in pain but before long he stopped moving and the air smelled of burnt hair.
The other erasers all growled and moved in on me.
There was no way in hell I could beat them. There was no way I was going to live.
Just then I felt another buzz in my mind. I could feel Max and Jet were flying above us, coming closer. They had no idea all this was going on. They'd be killed before they would know what's going on.
I felt another buzz. Fang and Shadow were walking towards us with no idea what they were about to walk into.
I then got another buzz. Iggy was awake and heading this way. He was calling my name. There was something in his hand. It was my necklace. That boy just didn't give up.
That's when it hit me.
I hadn't pushed Iggy away so I didn't look weak. I pushed him away so the erasers and scientists didn't think I cared for him and couldn't hurt him to hurt me.
I had flown away from the flock's house to protect them all.
As much as I didn't want to admit it, I cared for them.
"Time to die freak" an eraser said as they closed in on me.
"Have you looked in a mirror lately?" I asked.
I grinned and they all looked at me like they were scared i knew something they didn't, they were right. I knew Iggy was right, I could be good. I could love.
I threw my head back, my head burned as I let out the biggest and most painful scream ever as everything around me blew up. Fire indulged the erasers and it came at me fast as I waited to die.
Iggy's POV
I was knocked to the ground as there was a heart piercing scream and an explosion that shook the earth.
"Pyro" I whispered and got to my feet and started running towards the fire.
