AN: Ok, my writing might alow down due to the fact that I get to return to school at the end of the month. Joy. Not really, I don't like going to school and not getting to write as often. And also, until then I will keep writing at my usual pace, which granted is not the fastest, sorry.

Garnet Flight

Chapter Ten

Nia's POV

Max and I flew off from the boys. The plan was that the girls would come from the air and the guys would attack from the ground, then at least one set would act as the distraction from the other. Most likely Max and I would beat the boys; actually, with the car they were stuck with, we would surely beat them. I refused to look back at them standing there, I couldn't have a moment of weakness; I had done that wonderfully last night.

The plan wasn't' a good one, but it was the best I had. And I refused to loose my little sister, as she was the only blood family I still cared about at all. Even if I haven't talked to her since she was five, that didn't mean I didn't still want to take care of her. I looked over at Max. "How long are we? You've come this way more recently then I have."

"Maybe another mile, we'll be there all too soon for me."

"Yeah, well sooner we get there sooner we get out, that's the way I'm looking at it."

"Good, so we can get there even quicker, wonderful."

"Yep, basically," my attempt at carelessness was ruined by my grim tone. We were both very quiet for the rest of the flight.

"If you look to your left, you can see the roofs of the world famous torture compound, the School." Max and sarcasm went hand in hand. We landed silently, like the amount of noise that we made was at fault if they found us. We had no doubt already set of eighty million laser wires in the air. Yep, here came all the ugly mutts now. "Play a game of tag? Sure, your it," one of them scraped his claws over my side. I punched him in the nose, and he put in an uppercut to my ribs. Heck that hurt, but not enough to keep me from getting strength from my anger. Now I wanted nothing more then to wipe the smirk off his face in the most violent way I could think of. And I had the ability to be a very violent person.

We were lucky, there were only about ten of the things. And we were unlucky at the same time, one of them was Ari. Dang, does that guy ever give up? Anyways, it took me around three minutes to clear out the extra people—cough cough Erasers cough cough—so that Max and Ari could have their usual one on one match in privacy. I stayed on the outskirts so that I could break in if it looked like Max was loosing. Fang would kill me if I brought her home injured. Speaking of, I hope they are okay. Secretly, I hoped that we cold get this done and meet them before the boys even got into this mess. I watched as Ari threw the first punch, only after a couple of minutes of taunting.

Max was doing well for herself, with only a couple of minor scratches on her. Ari was worse off. It looked like Max had broken a nose and a jaw, don't ask me how. She then basically kicked butt. I saw she was doing well, and motioned for her to speed it up. We needed to get Artemis and get the heck out of here. It was about that time when I heard the sounds of fighting outside.

"The boys!" I yelled. Please be alright, please. Of course, praying in your head didn't get you anywhere. We ran around just in time to see a door closing.

"We're going to save them." It wasn't a question, and I agreed with Max.

"Right now; let's go." We ran into the building. The Erasers were nowhere to be seen, so we starting looking through the windows in the doors. I don't know who got the idea for those windows, but I was thanking God for them. Finally, Max said, "Here, this one has people." I looked inside.

The first cage was heartbreaking. The kid seemed to be four or five, and his body was covered in bruises. His eyes were a bright yellow, and had pupils like a cat. He just looked at us without saying a word, I wondered if anyone had ever taught him to speak English. I noticed the angle of his arm; it had been broken, more then once. His hair was on edge, like he had been shocked. I looked away before I could see anything else. Next cage was an animal; it didn't seem to have any human DNA at all. The cage was huge, inside it was a small crocodile. Only, it had the mane of a lion. I hurried past this one too.

Finally, a completely normal looking human. If you call half starved and covered in wound normal, that is. But she was more normal then anyone else in this room. She had dark skin and hair; her eyes were a deep blue, almost black. Not Artemis, but still. She was the first experiment to say anything. "Could you open this cage please, I'll get out on my own but I can't reach the cage lock." Max opened the latch, but I wasn't doing something for nothing. "Have there been any new experiments brought in lately? Girls, about your age, looking a lot like me?" She did look around thirteen; I wondered how long she'd been here. "Yes, she's part tiger, even though she has wings. Almost everyone now is given wings, and another animal."

"Thank you, you can come with us, but we have a couple of more people to rescue."

"Who do you have? I've been here thirteen years, so I might know where they are."

"Two boys and the girl you just told us about."

"The girl is in the room next door. What are the guys like?"

"You're awfully coherent to have been here all your life. Most of the ones who have never been taught can barley talk. Anyways, both of the guys in question are in really dark clothing, and probably haven't said a nice word to anyone."

"I'm not sure, when were they taken?"

"About five minutes ago."

"Well, the new ones are usually put in one of the rooms on the next hall for a few days."

"Right, we'll get Artemis first then the boys and out the door. Is there an outside door at the end of the newbie hall?"

"No, you'll have to go through a window. Can we fly?" Answer a question with more questions.

"Are you coming with us, and do you have wings?"

"Yes and yes."

"We can all fly, lets go save some people."

I didn't notice until later that Max hadn't said a word. That was so out of character for her that I would worry when I figured it out.

The next room was as bad as the first. There was only one redeeming factor; we didn't have to go through the whole thing. The random girl took us straight to my sister's cage.

"Artemis, its Nia." Artemis looked at me dazedly.

"Nia? Why are you here?"

"I'm here to rescue you. Let me get you out of that thing." I unlatched her cage. Jesus, she had grown up. Thirteen years old, no longer my cute little five year old sister. But even I could she that she had managed to grow up pretty. She crawled out on her own, and stood up, she was tall, like all of the Flock, I wonder how that happened, she was a tiger hybrid.

We ran down the hall, hoping to get out of here before the Erasers came hunting. Room One, Room Two, we finally got to a room with cages. No Adrian or Fang though. I won't describe everything I did see in that room; let's just say it was horrible. Next window, just a whitecoat. I stopped in horrified fascination; the whitecoat was trying to teach a kid to transform into a wolf. That kid was an Eraser, but Erasers grew up so fast, he couldn't have been more then a couple of months old in human time. He looked like he was ten of eleven. Max pushed me, reminding me to keep moving. Well, pushed might be a light way to put it, she nearly knocked me over.

All the way at the end of the hall was another room of cages. Please be the right room. That would be the first free ride we've gotten in years. Yes, we were lucky. Two cages sat side-by-side in the front of the room. Adrian and Fang. They were a little beat up, but they should heal up fine, unless one of them was hiding an injury which was perfectly likely. Max ran over to get Fang out; I did the same for Adrian. Now all we had to do was get the heck out of here.

"Okay, did anyone think to steal one of Ig's bombs? No, shoot." Well, that cancel's out just blowing up a path out. Hmm….this room didn't have any windows, but the one with the whitecoat and the baby Eraser did. It shouldn't be too hard to get past them. "Follow me."

I ran straight out into the hall, ready to fight as Erasers had the time to catch up with us. But there were none, and that was starting to scare me. The weird little girl was still following us, and she hadn't said anything without me asking her, other then that first request. Into the room with the evil scientist and experiment combo. As we passed, I gave a solid punch to the idiot's nose. Adrian did the same to the Eraser pup thing. Now they wouldn't know in which direction we flew, even though I'm sure that there were cameras they could see though. So we still had to lay a false trail.

I stopped everyone from just flying out the window. I didn't feel like flying straight into a bunch of chicken wire, and it would not be farfetched to think that the School had some in all of their windows. I kicked the unconscious whitecoat out of his chair. Then I threw the chair at the window. It shattered without a problem. Good, we had an exit. It took almost thirty seconds to get everyone out.

"South, let's get out of this place." Good, Max was taking control again. I didn't like to be in charge, Max knew more about all of this, in spite of the differences on our ages. That was a weight of my back, so I could live my life. I didn't need to take care of others, though I might end up with the new girl if she didn't work out with the Flock.

"Max, where did you send the Flock?" That would be where she and Fang were going, but I was laying a false trail before I headed to Bella's to tell her that I was alive.

"There're either at the Cullen's place, Bella's place, or the La Push Reservation. I figured it was a handy spot to meet up."

"False trail?"

"Duh, I don't think they are planning on letting us get away."

"They have an interesting way of showing it so far."

Fang, Adrian, and Artemis hadn't really said anything, though I had noticed the boys looking us over carefully for injuries, and looking over the new girl. Just then, Adrian lifted himself up to the same height I was flying at. Now I could get his side of the story.

AN: Does the end sound anticlimatic to you? It sort of does to me, so I might have someone help me work on it. Also, I would be eternaly grateful for name suggestions. I haven't thought of a name for my new girl. So please review and tell me if you have anything you don't mind me using!