Chapter 11
Percy's dream and play fights… just another day in the messed up lives of the Skygate family
Rea
I woke up to the dawn light seeping through the trees branches, "Jackson, Jackson wake up." I whispered and poked his arm. He was about to turn over when I said, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Jackie groaned again and sat up.
The rest of the group was still peacefully sleeping and for once; I let them sleep. I felt bad for being so vicious and ordering everyone around all the time, but no one else except me was going to step up to the plate and volunteer to be leader. They were all too worried about the responsibility it held. Jackson wouldn't be able to control the kids, Lucy hated getting everyone in bed, working, paying bills; pretty much everything. And Hazel, Percy, and Angel were just too young to take on this kind of responsibility.
I was interrupted from my thoughts when Jackie said calmly, "Well, you've woken me up. What do you want?" He rolled his eyes at me and sat on the swaying tree branch giving me the darkest glare he could conjure up. Yeah, it was pretty pathetic…
"Aww, I love you too. Anyways, you wanna go for a quick morning flight. We'll be leaving soon, so I thought you might wanna get warmed up with me," I said while putting my long-ish hair up into a bun, "You don't have to if you don't want to; I just thought it'd be kind of fun, you know like old times."
"What are you hiding from me?" He asked suddenly and jumped onto my branch. He sat down next to me and stared straight into my eyes, it was a little creepy.
"Nothing," I answered truthfully, "I just… I just don't want to be found by the erasers anymore. I'm also worried about the kids and sleeping and finding a new home and job and how much farther should I go?" I put my head into my hands and groaned. I hated our current situation, but I had no other choice. There was no way in hell I was just going to sit back home and wait for the erasers to come a knocking! No! I wouldn't risk my team's life like that.
"We'll pull through this Rea; I know that as soon as you get back some confidence and maybe suck down a nice hot cup of Jo, you'll be throwing ideas at me like a hurricane. You always do and you always will," He soothed and again wrapped his arm around my shoulders.
I couldn't help but choke a laugh out on that one, it was true though, as soon as I got my coffee or a chia tea latte I'd be back in business, "So you want to go for a morning flight or not?" I asked again as I sat back up and sighed.
Jackie thought for a moment and looked at the others, "Sure, but let's make this quick." I smiled and adjusted my glasses before standing up, with the help of Jackie and spreading my wings.
"You're lucky, you actually have color in your wings," Jackson grumbled as he slid his pitch black ones out.
"Not true, you can fly in the middle of the night without being seen; me, I'm like a glowing neon sign that says 'hey erasers, come and eat me!'" We both laughed at that and high fived. It was a thing Jackie and I did, in fact we were more like twins sometimes then he and Lucy were.
"But I mean like your whole family. I mean come on; Percy has the most vibrant wings, full of color that I've ever seen! And Hazel looks like a deer with snow on its pelt, how fricken cool is that!" Jackie complained as we took off slowly into the air.
I rolled my eyes, "We just got injected with more colorful birds, that's all."
"Still," He pointed out. I motioned with my wings for him to take a sharp left and we headed off towards the lake. It'd be a good day for flying, that's for sure and it was early and already warm enough to be swimming, not that I wanted to though…
A sea of green was zipping by under me as I reached a stunning 160 MPH, Jackson was at my side trying hard to keep up when I realized I was kind of over shooting the speed thing. I smiled at him and he grunted back even though it was only a whisper in the wind.
While I was distracted with looking at Jackson I hadn't exactly been looking where I was going, or to what was coming at me…
Jackson's eyes narrowed and he shot at me. The next thing I knew we were plummeting through the clouds down to earth. I flapped my wings around hoping to catch some kind of lift, but nothing came, "Jackson, what are you doing!" I shouted as the wind rushed through my popping ear drums. The pressure was outrageous and I got worried the farther down we fell.
"Saving your butt!" He shouted back right as we slammed into the canopy of the woods. I let out a terrified screech as we broke through branches and landed on the ground with a bone crunching smash.
"Remind me again exactly HOW that was supposed to HELP ME!" I shouted as I sprang up and pinned him to a tree. With one hand I clung onto my pounding head and with the other I pinned him to the Fir tree and gave him my angriest look.
"Shut up! Look up Rea, look up NOW!" He snarled back. I was about to snap back at him but my curiosity over powered me and I looked up into the sky. I couldn't exactly see anything because one, my glasses were knocked off on impact, two, my head was throbbing, and finally because the sun was blinding me.
"What is it?" I asked. He gave me a hard look and pointed to one big fluffy white cloud in the sky. I looked harder at it and saw… shapes? Suddenly my veins boiled and my anger sky rocketed, "Who the hell are they! Oh my (insert your choice of swear word here) GOD, I'm going to kill them!"
Jackson grabbed my arm but I pulled it away with a quick whooshing motion and shot up through the broken tree branches… blind, pretty much. You see, when I was being poked with needles back at the school, they decided that I was in dire need of better vision! I cringed at the memory of that one faithful shot entering my eyes painfully and making me near sighted forever. It's harder than you think especially when it's mostly important to be able to see at least two feet in front of me.
I let out a bone chilling battle cry and slammed into a body that was leading the others. Whoever they were, they let out a petrified scream as I aimed ourselves down and started barrel rolling in the air, going down, "You can't take me back! You sick bastards! I'll kill you before you can touch me!"
"Rea! Reannean, what are you doing? You're going to kill us!" They shouted and flailed in my arms. I froze for a moment and spread my wings. I caught a harsh up draft that hurt when I pulled me and the other person to a stop. I was holding her in my arms as she dangled there struggling to unleash her wings and fly away.
"Rea, what's gotten into you? Put Lucy down!" Someone shouted and a soothing hand was now placed firmly on my shoulder. I looked over to see Percy's face, I think. I brought supposedly Lucy's face very close to mine so I could actually see her and I was met with her blue eyes… oops.
"Lucy, oh my gosh; I am so sorry, your BROTHER here told me there was danger and I kind of flipped out. By the way, JACKSON I am going to kick your ass!" I apologized with a hiss in my voice.
"You'd like to try!" He countered. Lucy still looked confused and I shook all the anger from my body.
"Again, Lucy, I'm so sorry. I don't have my glasses on so I couldn't see you and what are you doing up and flying around so early in the morning. If Jackson and I had come back to see you guys gone we would've flipped!"
"It's fine. One question, how did you do that move?" She asked back and shook out her red hair.
"Beats me, I was in attack mode and I was already angry because of your brothers AMAZING job at hiding us." I shot a glare towards Jackson and he smirked back. Oh, no. He didn't just do that to me. Lucy pulled away from me and beat her wings at a steady pace to stay at the hovering position.
"Ok, well, when are we heading out again?" Lulu asked with wide eyes. I knew I had startled her pretty bad and I felt overly guilty about it.
"As soon as I'm done beating your brother to death," I responded with a quirky smile.
"Oh, ok. Well, we're all hungry so hurry up please." She said back and slowly decreased her altitude until she was sitting cross legged on the rocky lake shore.
"Sis, can we go swimming before we leave, the water here is pretty warm and I want to wash off?" The sweet little voice of my Hazel asked. I slowly turned towards her and glanced at Jackson to see if he thought it was a good idea. Jackie nodded and I smiled back with a devious grin telling him I was about to murder him.
"Of course Hazel, but I don't want you going in those clothes, if you brought some shorts and maybe a t- shirt I'll be a lot happier." She smiled at me and reached back into a back pack she had been hauling around to pull out the various clothes I asked her to wear.
"Go ahead and change behind those trees and maybe Lucy would be kind enough to hold up a jacket or something for you." Jackson said coming up behind me.
"Ok, thanks Jack and thanks sis!" She said with a huge genuine smile that always brightened my day.
"Now, where was I? Oh yeah!" I playfully growled and turned towards Jackson while I cracked my knuckles. He smirked back at me and mouthed "Come at me girlfriend" I was about to lunge at him when someone tugged on my wing.
"Yes," I asked while turning back to see Percy, he looked a little upset though…, "Hun, what's wrong?"
"May I talk to you privately?" He whispered into my ear. I looked back at Jackie and gave him the look that said "I'll be right back; you're leader while I'm gone" I slowly flew off after my little brother and looked at how beautiful his wings were. Blue, white and black, the perfect blue jay mixture but it was like he was always in winter and his wings were so vibrant. I'll admit, I was beyond belief jealous. After about ten minutes of flying Percy swooped down into a tree and I followed him. We were on the other side of the lake now gazing at the others splash around and play in the water.
"What is it champ?" I asked meaningfully. I gazed deep into his eyes; they were like pools of the perfect blue water, like his wings. Again jealousy set in.
"I had the same dream again last night except it was in more detail," He sighed. I put my hand on his shoulder for comfort and let him continue, "There was tons of erasers and you and Jackson were fighting back to back, Lucy and Hazel and Angel and I were all back to back too. One of the erasers came up and whacked you out of the sky…"
"Go on," I urged.
"Well Jackson and I shot down after you to help you but Jackson was tackled out of the way and another eraser shouted, "Let her go you fools, you're not the ones we want!" Anyways, I reached out to your hand and we fell together until we hit the ground and you hit your head. I clung onto you though and the erasers came down after us and the other ones went after Lucy for some reason. Bennie, the lead eraser came down and tugged on your arm trying to pull you away from me."
"Ok, what happened next?" I asked and saw he was truly afraid that this was going to happen.
His voice got a little shaky as he continued, "Bennie pulled harder and I was only able to keep a grip on your hand as you struggled. The whole time you were furiously screaming and desperately trying to get away from him but he wouldn't let go… I started crying and with one last tug, they pulled you out of my grasp. I was thrown to the ground and Jackson rushed after the erasers trying so hard to save you, but Lucy was also being drug away. You demanded that Jackson save his sister and he went for her but she was already in a big sack being carried away. I was shouting your name and you were shouting mine and holding your hand out towards me, you were struggling so hard and cursing up a storm that finally Bennie slapped you hard enough to make you go limp in his grasp. The last thing you shouted was I love all of you and then you were gone. They took you!" He shouted, "They ripped you right out of my arms and I was helpless, I was such a pathetic little kid! I should've done more to help you!"
"Percy, Percy. It was just a dream, that won't actually happen and I promise you they can't take me away from you and I won't let them take you away from me either. You don't have to worry. I don't think they'll find us anytime soon anyways so we'll be ok, I promise." I vowed and hugged him close to my chest. He was a very sensitive little guy when it came to our family but other than that he was strong about almost everything.
"I know but-"
"Am I interrupting something?" Jackie asked landing next to me.
"No," Percy said quickly. I gave him a hard look and he just repeated no before flying off to be with the other kids.
"Percy wait!" I called out but he didn't seem to hear me, or he didn't want to.
"What was that all about, sorry for interrupting by the way," Jackie said and gazed at Percy with curious almost hurt eyes.
"Nothing to be concerned about, that I know of yet. Anyways; where were we?" I said with a wave of dismissal and turned towards him getting ready to pounce.
"Right about-"
"Here!" I shouted before he could finish. I tackled him out of the tree and we were sent into a flurry of laughter and we tumbled through the branches.
"No, it was more like here!" Jackson shouted back and tackled me down to the leafy forest floor. I let out a playful shriek and put my leg under his chest, I shoved him off backwards over my head but of course he saw it coming and grabbed my arm making me tumble over with him.
We both laughed and sent out fake insults at each other as we wrestled. "Slow poke!" I taunted and slithered out from under him. I jumped onto his back and he rolled over crushing me.
"Dumb ass, I can't believe you fell for that," He taunted back and sat on my chest.
"Ha! I didn't!" I wailed and rolled out from under him. I side tackled him and knocked the wind out of him as I summersaulted off him and landed on my back in the leaves.
"Good try," Jackie teased and grabbed my leg. He flew up into the air about five feet letting me dangle.
"Oh so that's how you wanna play?" I asked and with a whoosh I flung up over him with my own wings and lightly slammed him into the ground. I sat on his back and muttered in his ear, "You give up yet?"
"No," He grumbled back and pushed up to make me bounce off. I let out a squeal of surprise and we were suddenly rolling down a grassy hill. We were going round and round and round! It was crazy and fun all together! I landed on my back and Jackson landed on top of me.
He pinned me there and looked deep into my eyes before breaking out into laughter, "Well Ms. Leafy hair, do you give in?"
"It's a tie," I said back and stuck my tongue out at him.
"Fine," he agreed and we both sat up.
"Well there are two love birds if I ever saw them," Someone said and I snapped my gaze over to see Lucy smiling down at us from a tree.
"We are not, we were just play fighting," Jackson argued.
"Yeah, how could I ever love HIM?" I teased and play fully shoved him.
"And how could I ever love her!" He shouted back and sat on me again.
"Ok, ok I get it now come on the others want to play with you guys too, except Percy's a little out of it and he doesn't want to talk to us.
"Uh oh," I grumbled and stood up. Jackson got up after me and we took to the skies together still giggling about the funny parts of out play fight. Lucy with her crimson wings was on my left and Jackson with his black ones was on my right, we looked pretty cool I had to admit with all our wings just tip to tip. It was awesome!
I swooped down first and landed on the beach near Percy; Jackson went to playing with the others and I walked over and plopped my bottom down on the rock Percy was stationed at, "Percy…" I began.
A/N2:
Invadercari here in da house... OK that was stupid =D
Hey everybody, this is my first authors note! AMAZING! Well I hope you all like this chapter it took lots of thinking and I added almost everyone in there with a semi good part, Angel didn't really get her time to shine but maybe next time.
so here's a little somthin somthin about Rea.
She was just a kid of about nine when her parents abandoned her and her siblings Percy and Hazel as I'm guessing you know. Phantom (who is not mentioned in this chapter but maybe later) is my actual dog, she's a black lab gray hound mix in case any of you are wondering and I absolutely love her. Anyways, Rea has always been kind of a loner and was mentally scarred for life from the white coats, well they all were but Rea was taken from her home at around ten and they murdered Phantom right in front of her. That's why Jackie shoves the picture back into her hand. Jackson and Rea have been best friends since they met at the school and figured out the escape plan together. They are not lovers in case any of you are wondering. Jackson is like Fang in a way just more talkative and what am I saying! OK so he's just like Rea's right hand man he's nothing like fang well except for looks lol. Rea has defended her 'family' since they broke out and as you can see she is very important to everyone in the flock. But here's a slight spoiler for you guys to keep you hooked and wanting to read.
Rea met another man, also a hybrid like herself in the school but they went there separate ways once everyone was out. Well that other man and her fell in love at the school and have since forgot about each other but will fate bring them back together and make them remember each other, well that's my decision lol but you guys have to read and find out, please review and by the second part of this trilogy we will use one or two maybe even three of your OC's out there so be ready to review in the story. They will play big parts, have there own chapters bla bla bla be one of the flock, but you have to tell my and my co author about them and we shall use them.
For all of you who have enjoyed this story I will be writing Invader Zim fan fiction books and Iris another one of my OC's story, she is a hybrid too and how her and Zim end up meeting. Iris is used in the another trilogy called Unique Trilogy part two chapter 12 and I sincerely think you guys should check it out it's an amazing book with an amazing writer and you get to learn all about Iris anyways my IZ book won't be for a while sorry but it will be there
please R&R and for those of you who don't know what that means it's read and review!
Thanks guys! Keep reading, it gets more AMAZING LIKE ME! Lol kjk
P.S. this is a rare thing for me the authors notes but every once and a while you'll get to read about me blabbing some funny nonsense but not often just a warning.
