The sun starts to set as the four of us sit by the fire.
'Found out that the island is bigger than we've thought; I also found a cave on the other end of the island.'
My head perks up.
"There is a high chance that they would end up on the other side of the island. Let's go!"
I pop up with a smile on my face, but he pulls me back with his beak.
'We wont make it there in time, we'll have to go tomorrow.'
I took a deep sigh and sat back down.
"You know, we don't know what's going on; we can only hear what you're saying Phoenix."
"Well Xavier said that on the other side of this island there's a cave, and there's a chance that my family is over there. But he wont let me go till tomorrow, since we wont make it there to actually see what's in there."
"It makes sense, since we don't know if there's any demons lurking around here. And now that there's more than one Innocence here, demons will come for us. While's there's light out we should set up camp."
"Not out here, it's not safe. Tide comes in deep at night, that's why Xavier and I set up our living space in the jungle off the ground and under trees."
With Xavier on my right shoulder once more we walked back to where the two of us use to sleep together, but this time we will be sharing it with more people.
"When everyone is up and ready in the morning we're heading over there!"
I say happily as Xavier grew in size once more and covered my as I undress.
'This brings back memories, doesn't it Phoenix?'
I nod my head as I got settled under his wing once more.
"I missed this feeling."
And then everyone was sleeping including Xavier and I. Morning didn't come soon enough, but when it did I wasn't the first person up. I got dressed and sat down beside him, Xavier and Lavi still sleeping.
"I don't think I've ever seen an animal carrying something like this."
"Is that a bad thing?"
He shakes his head, and we sit there and talk for a while, the next person up was Xavier and he found his rightful place on my right shoulder; we had to wake Lavi up, I dumped water on him and he popped right up.
"Come on time to get going, it's all ready half pass noon."
He mumbles, but does as he is told; after everyone was ready we took them out to a clearing.
"Can you carry both of them?"
'Not sure.'
"Let's not risk it then. Lavi, you are to ride on Xavier's back and Bookman I got you."
They nod their heads, even though Lavi wanted to ride his hammer thing . . . Never seen anyone riding a hammer, but then again I've seen weirder things. And we were off, took to the skies I was flying right beside Xavier.
"How are you doing down there Bookman?"
"My arms are going to sleep, but other than that good."
"Time to switch!"
I call over the wind to Xavier, he does a barrel roll and Lavi falls as I toss Bookman over to Xavier I catch Lavi, as does Xavier do to Bookman.
"The hell was that for?!"
"Just to make things fun."
I smiled a goofy smile down at him.
"You know something Phoenix . . ."
"I know some things, not a lot of things."
"Never mind, I'll tell you when we land."
I nodded my head and the rest of the ride was quiet, well besides Xavier filling me in on what I missed since I was taken away, it was kind of sad . . . What he told me, all those lonely nights, him waiting by the shore to see if I came back alive, and flying in the skies to see if could find me there. Something bright other than mine's or Lavi's hair caught my attention, a demon, and two others following it, I flew a little closer and saw that they were chasing someone; this person had bright blue hair . . . It was Avice. My heart nearly leaped out of my chest.
"Xavier Hold him!"
I toss Lavi without a second thought and activated my Innocence, and killed those demons. I missed one, and it ran into the cave right after Avice; I flew back up and told everyone what I found and they followed after me.
"Xavier, can you check and see if there's any harmless animals in there first, don't want to end up killing one."
He does and a whole bunch of little critters run out of there along with a huge boar.
"I knew that they were still alive."
Just as I was about to run in Bookman stopped me.
"We have no way of seeing, look how dark it is."
I pull my wrist from his hand with more force then need be.
"Sorry . . . Just don't like it when people grab me like that. Besides, seeing in here wont be a problem."
I walked into the mouth of the cave and have my wings out I plucked off a hand full and set it ablaze.
"There now, light problem is fixed my friends."
Xavier flew to my right as the guys walked closely behind us, I saw that same purple light, I dropped the feathers popped my wings out, and grabbed the three of them and was able to dodge it.
"Exorcist can't find me! The poor girl is going to die soon."
'Great another one that can talk!'
"Don't worry Xavier, we dealt with this kind before; we can do it again."
He lands on my shoulder as I land once more.
'Can you spot it?'
'Make it talk again.'
I nod my head and took a step forward.
"If you're so high and might why not get your ass out here?!"
"Phoenix you know better . . .Ow!"
"You're wasting time Miss Exorcist."
'Found them.'
"Right."
He takes his form and I grab hold of him and he told me to throw him to the left and close to the ground, I was about to follow after him, that was till the demon zoomed on right pass me.
"The hell was that?!"
Xavier flew back to me.
'That was the demon.'
"Where's Avice?"
He showed me where it left her, and Lavi went after it. I brought her back out from the cave and laid her down out in the sunlight and hugged her tightly, careful not to touch her wounds.
"Avice, its so good to see you alive! Where's mother and father, are they all right too?"
She starts to cry, that's not a good sign, she never really cries, she didn't even cry when our dog died.
"They're dead, I watched them die, just like I watched you jump out of their arms. I wanted to save them, to save you; but I wasn't strong enough."
"But . . . But we have each other Avice."
She stands up and looks at me with those dead brown eyes, not like they use to be. They use to look like they had no end to it, it use to have that glint in her eyes, but its not there anymore. Not only that, but her body, it felt empty, but heavy at the same time. Is that what someone feels like after they watched their sister jumping away into the ocean, after watching your mother and father die right in front of your eyes.
"Avice? Avice are you okay? You're really starting to scare me."
I try to reach out to her, but she just smacks my hand away.
"You, scared?! You have people around you now! I had no one, I watched your father died! I watched our mother grab his dead body and jumped into the sea with it! And I hung on to the boat for dear life! I was scared. And look at you, new clothes, a new pet, people!"
I looked away from her.
"I know you had it a lot harder than I did Avice. You always do, but I try my best to cheer you up."
"Phoenix look out!"
Her body looked like it was being shocked from every which way, but I couldn't move, my brain told me to run, but my legs just wouldn't listen. She turned into one of them . . . My sister, Avice was a demon.
