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My life as a mutant bird-kid

Waking up

Heidi POV (Probably only time you'll see this)

A mind reader? A voice mimicker? A psychometrist? (A/N my computer says it's not a word, but it is. That's what Nudge does by the way, the feeling leftover senses thing) A blind pyro? An invisible dude? A psycho with a voice in her head? I let out an uneasy breath. This was a bit much.

I saw Mum sit on Ruby's chair. I looked back to the 'Flock'. They seemed to be waiting for us to say something. I flicked a strand of hair out of my eyes and introduced myself.

"Well, I'm Heidi, Ruby's sister. I'm 12 and uh, I don't have any 'abilities' or anything. No wings either, which sucks." I frowned at Ruby's sleeping form, envious. "Dad?" I wasn't going to introduce Ruby; she could do that when she woke up.

Dad cleared his throat. "I'm Ruby and Heidi's father, but you can call me Charlie. You don't need to know how old I am, I'm ancient." I rolled my eyes, classic Dad. "I work at the Auto-shop in town and that's about it, unless you want to go into star signs."

"No, they don't want to hear what your star sign is, Charlie." Mum cut in, rolling her eyes. "I'm Christine, and not as ancient as Charlie." She smiled. "I run my own business, I sell second-hand. You have no idea what treasures you can find in this business." She winked.

"Most of Ruby's wardrobe came through Mum's business." I muttered, rolling my eyes. No-one seemed to know what to say for a while, and it got kind of awkward. I hate awkward silences, they're just so. . . so awkward!

Thankfully Dad broke the silence. "So, are you guys gonna stay here, or have you got somewhere to stay already?"

The little one, Angel and the dark-skinned one, Nudge started jumping excitedly. They turned to the leader, Max at exactly the same time. It was scary.

"Oh, can we stay here Max? Please, please, please, please. . ." and you get the picture. Once again they were perfectly in sync, like twins or something. I heard a small giggle from Angel, and I remembered she could read minds.

Max however, was far from giggling. She had her hands covering her ears, much like everyone else in the room. "Yes," she shouted at them, making them pause in they're pleading. "We can stay here, as long as it's alright with you." She said, looking at us in turn.

"Course you can," Mum said. "Just obey the rules." Mum started giggling. I soon joined in and even Dad was laughing. The Flock just looked at us like we were crazy, which made me laugh harder.

We stopped laughing as we heard a gasp come from Ruby's bed. Our heads whipped around and we saw Ruby had woken up. "Hey, sleepyhead, how you feeling?" Mum, obviously was worried about her. Ruby grimaced, touching the side of her head.

"What were you laughing at?" she seemed to notice the Flock then, 'cause her eyes widened a fraction. "Actually more importantly, did I miss introductions?" she absently grabbed Einstein and started petting her. She purred contently. A small smile touched Ruby's lips.

"Sorry sweetie. Ok, rough introductions, Angel, Gasman, Nudge, Iggy, Fang and Max." she said, pointing to each Flock member in turn. Ruby nodded, putting Einstein on the floor.

She leaned back. "What happened after I blacked out?" I turned my head to the Flock, they turned their heads to Max.

"Well, I used my super-speed to get to Ruby, then I knocked out the Eraser." She saw our puzzled looks at the word 'Eraser'. I immediately thought of the bit on the end of a pencil and frowned. "Uh, that guy was an Eraser, an experiment, if you will. Part wolf. Anyway, I knocked out the Eraser, grabbed Ruby, landed, then the Flock caught up and we flew back here." She looked around the room, not comfortable with the spotlight.

"Well, I guess you would like to know where your rooms are." I was greeted with 3 rounds of furious nodding, 2 rounds of slight nods, and one blank look. "Mum?"

She nodded, walking out. The Flock soon followed. I turned to my sister. "Hey, what happened?" she grimaced, leaning her head back.

"Well, everything that happened in my vision, then, when he flew, I started attacking him. My legs hurt too much to kick, and when I started scratching him, he held my arms tighter, I couldn't move them. So I resorted to biting 'im. Let me tell you, Flying dude's blood tastes horrible." She grimaced again and I found myself doing the same. "then I remembered my Voodoo doll powers. But, and this is the weird bit, when I concentrated my energy into his head, it like, bounced back. It hurt like fucking hell! So, I screamed, blacked out, and woke up to you laughing."

I nodded, frowning. "Did he say anything?" I asked, maybe we could get something from that.

"Yeah," she answered, face brightening somewhat. "Before he pushed Dad, he said something like, 'not all visions are good ones' or something like that. He also knew what I was, 'cause he called me 'birdy'." She yawned, eyes drooping.

"I'll let you get some sleep." I mumbled, walking out to find our guests.

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