Chapter 11

It was Elijah. I immediately ran to him and checked his pulse.

Then I felt a beating pulse. He was alive.

"He's okay," I told Jae who then relaxed his expression.

I leaned down and placed Elijah's left arm over my shoulder to help him stand up, so that we could move him from here.

"Hey, I'll do it," said Jae, who then reached out to take over my place to carry Elijah down.

However, before Jae could assist me, we heard loud footsteps. We immediately turned our attention to where the noise was coming from. Then I gently placed Elijah down against a tree, because I knew that wherever and whoever the noise was coming from, it wasn't a good sign. Jae and I exchanged dark, worried looks. Our senses were stronger so we knew something was coming. Our guards were up. Then from afar, we could see big figures coming towards us. Without guessing, we knew who they were. They were back. Erasers were back.

Jae, Elijah, and I were soon surrounded by Erasers. They sure brought a lot of them today. There were around a dozen of them. Meaning we were seriously out numbered. Elijah was still not awake, which seemed to be in our favour because I didn't know how to explain this to him too. Then one of the Erasers took a step forward;

"It is good to see you again Sherra. My dear little girl," he said, and without a doubt, I knew it was the scientist from my dreams.

"It's you, again. Why don't you come out and talk to me in person? That way I can at least choose one person to point my finger at for everything that's happened to us," I responded with hatred in my tone and expression.

"Oh Sweetie. Why would I want to come out when you threaten me like this? You should be more convincing than that to get me to see you," he said with a joyful tone. I clenched my jaw tight. Now I was just pissed.

However, before I could go on, I heard someone yelp behind me. I turned around and saw an Eraser laid dead on the ground while Jae just stood there and looked down on it.

"Is this more convincing for you?" asked Jae with no expression.

"Ah, You. You're not the ideal person I would've chosen, but this is the way it is. So how does it feel to have so much power? Did you tell your parents? Although, I'm guessing that you didn't knowing what had happened to Sherra's sister," the scientist stated as he smirked at Jae.

"Oh I feel great, thanks to you showing up today. Because I heard that you did this to us, so it's so nice finally meeting you," said Jae with a sarcastic tone and expression.

"Well, you're a funny one," replied the scientist with an annoyed expression.

I smiled at Jae as he succeeded in annoying the scientist, which I couldn't do.

"What did you do to Elijah?" I asked, angrily.

"Dear girl, I think you already know the answer to that," answered the scientist.

I clenched my jaw tight with hatred on my face. My mind was filled with anger and hatred towards him for hurting innocent people and ruining my life. I quickly released my wings and started running towards him. Without having a second thought or stopping, I pulled my first back to punch him. He grinned at me. Then, suddenly, a few Erasers threw themselves in front of the Eraser that the scientist was using to communicate with me and Jae. I had no choice but to get rid of them first.

Soon, I realized both Jae and I weren't fighting to win, we were fighting to survive. We were strong, but seriously out numbered. By the time I knocked down the Erasers who were standing between me and the scientist, the scientist was nowhere to be found. I looked around to every direction from where I was standing to find him, but he was already gone. He got away again. I was furious. When I focused my attention back to the fight, all the Erasers that I knocked down were starting to get back up again. There were still too many Erasers left for just me and Jae to get rid of. This was never going to end unless we killed them. There was no other way. Either we die or they die.

I pulled myself back together and flew up. I then jumped down on one of the Erasers and snapped his neck as hard as I could. With a "snap" sound from his neck bone snapping, he fell and laid soundlessly dead. I got up and breathed hard. I didn't have time to think. I just moved onto the next one with a unconditional desire to survive. I turned to face Jae who seemed as hopeless as I was from this fight. Jae and I continued fighting.

It seemed that Jae already figured out they had to die in order for us to survive. He seemed to have figured that out before I did, because, so far, he killed more Erasers than I did. Yet, there were still so many of them left. Jae and I continued fighting.

Then I suddenly heard Jae yelp. I immediately turned around and found an Eraser's claws in Jae's left arm. The Eraser immediately pulled his claws out of Jae's arm. Jae gasped in pain and took a few steps backward. It was a deep wound, but I could see that he was beginning to heal himself. Then suddenly, I felt something piercing into my back. I immediately knew it was an Eraser. But I couldn't move to push him away. I should've never turned my back against my enemy. I fell on my knees. I could feel my own skin, tissue, and body tear apart. Jae immediately ran over and snapped the Eraser's, who pierced his claws into my back, neck. The Eraser was now dead, but his claws were still inside my back. Then, Jae pulled the Eraser away from me, pulling his claws out of my back. I gasped and yelped in pain.

"I'm sorry," apologized Jae.

"No, you did me a favor," I thanked him.

I was still kneeling on the ground in pain. Jae looked at me with a worried expression. "Don't worry about me. I'll be fine in any minute. Go." I reassured him. Before Jae could give me any kind of response, a few Erasers left alive ran towards us.

I knew my injury would take a bit longer to heal than Jae's arm injury which had already fully healed itself, but I knew mine would heal itself pretty quickly also. I just needed some time. I saw blood dripping down on Jae's face from a cut an Eraser's claws created. But he couldn't even seem to have noticed it from the fight. I felt myself almost completely healed. I slowly began pulling myself together to join Jae in the fight until when all of a sudden, I heard someone call my name; "Sherra?" someone called.

I immediately looked over to whoever it was coming from. My eyes widened. It was Elijah. His eyes directly facing me. Elijah was awake. However, that wasn't the reason why I was shocked. My eyes focused from Elijah to something dark brown on his back.

"Sherra." called Elijah, again.

I was too shocked. I mean, how was I going to explain all of this to him.

"Jae. Jace!" I called for Jae.

"Just a sec. I'm kind of busy at the moment." Jace replied. I had completely forgotten that Jae was still in the fight, trying to get rid of the rest of the Erasers, which I was going to join until I got distracted by Elijah.

In just a few minutes, Jae landed down right beside me. I realized he had successfully killed the last few Erasers there were left. I could hear him pant hard.

"What's wro..." began Jae, but trailed off as he noticed the exact same thing I did looking at Elijah.

I pointed my finger at Daniel and the big brown object behind him. Jae was already looking at it too. Looking at Elijah's dark brown wings.

"Is that what I think it is?" Jae whispered quietly.

I just nodded in response.

"Did you just fly?" asked Elijah who seemed too confused by Jae's and my wings that he didn't even notice his own.

Then, Jae just silently directed Elijah's attention to his own wings. Elijah followed the direction Jae was pointing at, turned around, and noticed his own wings. Elijah couldn't even seem to express his shock, he just stared.

"I think we just found our next member," I told Jae. Which he didn't even seem to be shocked about as he stared at me with a worried expression on his face.

"Are you okay?" Jae asked, while looking at my wound.

"Yeah. I'm fine. I've completely healed," I responded and began standing up. "Are you?" I asked Jae.

"Yeah," Jae responded with a tired expression. Jae and I both turned to witness all dozen Erasers who laid dead on the ground. We both just looked at them with exhausted and tired expressions. Then suddenly, we saw one of them twitch and move.

I took a step forward, but before I could move any farther, Jae grabbed my wrist and stopped me.

"What are you doing?" I asked with a confused expression.

"Why don't you leave this to me and the newbie to take care of?" offered Jae while looking back at Elijah.

"Are you out of your mind? He just got his wings," I stated.

"He has to learn eventually. I'll just show him what we're dealing with. He can take it," Jae answered. He sounded so sure. But before I could stop him, he leaned towards Elijah and helped him stand up.

"Just be careful. Okay?" I said. I wasn't worried about Jae. I knew Jae was capable of killing one Eraser. I was worried about Elijah, who just literally got his wings.

"Okay mom," Jae sarcastically responded and he was off with Elijah.

Jae made Elijah stand just a few steps in front of me. He then went through step by step to show Elijah what an Eraser is and what kind of threat they have against us. As for me, I just stood there judging. Jae seemed to be enjoying this way too much. Then I looked down at my shirt. There was blood everywhere on it. It wasn't all my blood. I could still feel and picture me killing and Erasers dying. I shut my eyes tightly, remembering through what happened today, until I was interrupted by a familiar sound. It was the sound of a neck snapping.

I looked up and saw Jae standing with Elijah. They seemed to have killed the last Eraser there was. At first, I thought Jae killed him, but when I looked at Elijah, I knew Elijah had killed him. Because he had the same expression that Jae and I had when we first killed an Eraser. An expression that seemed to have lost its way. I could see that we were all exhausted and tired from today.

"Let's go home," I said gently.

Elijah quickly checked his phone, "It's 4pm. We were supposed to leave at 3pm. We're definitely going to get in trouble," stated Elijah.

"Well, nothing new for me there," joked Jae.

Then we began walking down the mountain forest. But then, I noticed a person behind a tree that was just a few feet away.

"Wait. There's someone here," I immediately stopped and pointed my finger at the tree that I saw the person at.

Jae, Elijah, and I all just stared at the tree. Waiting for the person to make any kind of movement.

Then without another word said to make the person come out from hiding, the person revealed oneself. The person had a shocked and scared expression on her face, yet she didn't seem to be afraid of us as she revealed herself to us.

Then I took a step closer.

My eyes widened and I gasped.

The person had blue-gray eyes with blonde hair. She looked too familiar.

Her blue-gray eyes stared back at us.

"Haley" said Elijah.