"Ok while you continue to stare us down like were some sort of mutant, do you think you can tell us where the hell Fang is?" I broke from my trance as the older boy spoke.
"Mind telling us who you are?" I snapped back. The blonde boy rolled his eyes.
"I'm Tracker. The little girl is Serenity and the one holding Rider is Shadow." He said in a bored tone pointing to each person. "Now where's Fang?"
"Honestly? I have no idea. He flew off awhile ago." I said shrugging.
Suddenly the ground beneath us began to shake the vibrations getting stronger as the seconds stretched by.
"Guys U and A" I shouted unfurling my wings as the rest of my flock followed. I glanced over at Tracker to see if he was as worried as we were. To my surprise he looked very calm. Eyes closed, arms crossed and leaning against the tree behind him. He opened them and stared at me as I began to rise off the shaking ground. A smirk played across his face as he made a small hand gesture towards Serenity.
"I don't think so" the young girl giggled. Her small hands rose above her head where they began in a small circular motion. The environment around us shifted again. Now, along with the vibrating earth, the air around us created a small yet strong wind tornado around just my flock.
"What the hell is going on?" I heard Iggy shout over the thundering wind. I really wish I knew, but this was all new to me as well. Max. They're the ones doing this, they can control the elements. Angel's voice rang through my head. This all made sense now. As quickly as it began, the strange weather was over and we landed with a thud on the ground.
"Let's not try that again shall we" Serenity said, helping Nudge and Angel up.
"That was so cool. How did you do that? Man I wish I could have a sweet power like yours, like you can control the wind that is amazing. The only thing I can do is like find out what happened by touching something. Your power is so much better" The Nudge channel has begun. I sighed and covered Nudge's mouth with my hand. She stopped instantly.
"Yeah it is pretty cool but we can only use our powers when all of us are together, so I guess this means Fang isn't that far away" Serenity said cheerfully.
As if on cue, Fang dropped from the sky, landing almost silently between the two flocks. He glared at me then turned his attention to Tracker without taking notice that anyone else was there.
"It's about time you decided to show up" Tracker said, walking up to join the Shadow and Serenity in front of Fang.
Fang's POV
I couldn't believe they were here. Tracker, Shadow, even little Serenity had gotten out of the school. But how, they couldn't have done it on their own. Who helped them?
I looked over my friends that I was forced to leave behind when Jeb rescued us from the School. They had all grown so much.
"Yeah we've been here forever" Shadow sighed. I broke from my trance.
"Never were very patient" I joked. Shadow stuck her tongue out at me. "Now that was mature" I said rolling my eyes.
"So now that we have Fang, we can go do what Jeb wants right?" Serenity asked. Wait, they know Jeb?
"Yeah I guess we can" Tracker replied "You ready to go?" he asked looking at me. I didn't even know where they wanted me to go, and if it involved Jeb then it can't be good.
"You can't take Fang, he's with us. Anyways how do you know him?" Max asked. Well more liked demanded, but hey that's Max for ya.
"He was with us way before he was with you" Serenity stated, crossing her arms.
"Well I can feel a flashback coming along" Iggy said taking a seat near the fire and motioning for everyone to do the same.
"Alright start telling the story" Gazzy said pulling out a bag of marshmallows.
Tracker sat down next to Shadow, who now had a sleeping Rider with her and began to talk. "I guess we could say our story starts when Serenity was about two…"
Flashback
"James, I think it is about time we introduce these element experiments of yours" The Director said to a scientist who had just come back from feeding four of the experiments. "The youngest is old enough to know it had power and should learn to use them. You already have a chance of the older three being failures with waiting so long to create this last one"
"Yes I will bring them together first thing in the morning" James replied.
"Very well" The Director walked to the door and turned around "Oh and James don't disappoint me again. You're lucky I have given you another chance. I could have had you expired after your last disaster."
James nodded. "You won't be disappointed I swear."
"Very well" With that the director left James to prepare for the events of the next day.
He walked through a set of door towards the room that held he experiments. "OK kids this is your one and only shot blow it and I'll watch the Erasers destroy you myself" he threatened a group of four small children cowering in a corner of the small cell they shared. They stared back at the man, unsure if they should make a move. Then his face softened and he brought out four granola bars and handed them through the bars, one to each child. "You know what you have to do. I have complete faith in you. And if you succeed then I guarantee life will be much easier on. Once that was said he left the children to sleep and called some white coats to help him prepare a cage outside where they were going to test his experiments.
The next morning James walked into the room where his promotion awaited him. "Get up" he shouted to the kids. "I want you ready to go in five minutes." James handed each child a different outfit each had their product number and their given name on the back.
The children hurried to get dressed, helping each other so to be done faster. They were then each tossed into a crate and carried outside, covering their eyes as the bright sun touched them.
"Are you really sure this is going to work?" The director asked James as the children were placed into separate thick glass cells no more then a foot from each other.
"I assure you, this won't be a waste of your time" James replied, trying to hide the fear in his voice. The director nodded, not taking her eyes from the children. "Which one shall begin?" he asked looking at his notes.
"Let's see what your oldest experiment can do? It's the highest risk of being a failure." The director mumbled. James quickly glanced at his notes for the information of his experiment
"Tracker step to the middle of your cell" James shouted. "Tracker here is able to create earthquakes and control the earth's crust." He said to the director. "Show her what you can do" he shouted again
Tracker trudged slowly to the centre of his cell, terrified that he wouldn't be able to do what the white coat wanted. He barely knew he had this power, let alone know how to use it. Standing on the centre of his cell Tracker looked at the ground'please work, please. I don't want to get hurt again' he thought to himself as he thought about the earth beneath him moving.
Suddenly small pulses of vibration emitted from under Tracker, spreading in ripples around him. The director stared in amusement as the ground rippled like water. "Seems your experiments might actually work" she said to James, who was too surprised to speak so just nodded. "Let's see if the others are also successful."
"Shadow it's your turn." The black haired girl nodded and walked with confidence to the centre of her cell. Within seconds water filled the thick glass cell engulfing Shadow. As fast as it was there, the water was gone.
"There you have it, another mutant who works to your expectations. So can I live a few more years?" Shadow said sarcastically to the Director.
"Let's see what the young boy can do" the director said to James, ignoring Shadows comment.
"Fang you're up?" The dark boy nodded not moving from the corner of his cell. He pulled a lighter from his pocket and flicked it until a flame sparked to life. He took the flame in his opposite hand creating a large fire ball. Glancing up at the director he threw the ball which exploded overhead from where she and James were standing.
"It seems some of your experiments could use an attitude adjustment" James just nodded once again. "Let's see this last experiment. I have other matters to attend to shortly."
"Ok Serenity, can you show us what you can do sweetie." The toddler bouncing in her cage stopped. She made a small wind tornado that raised her off the ground about 50 feet then dropped her; she created an air pocket to soften her fall.
"All done" she shouted happily.
"Well it seems like they are successful. I want them in full time training. Learn their limits and weaknesses. They are going to become some of the best warriors this sector has ever seen" With that the director turned and walked away.
(End Flashback)
No One's POV
"Yea so that's basically our story. And why Fang belongs with us." Tracker said once he was done telling his story.
"He's still staying with us" Max demanded. "You're not taking him"
Tracker and Max began fighting over Fang, members of the two flocks joining in. Fang, finally getting fed up with this, unfurled his wings and took off to think about which flock he wanted to go with. On one hand he wanted to go back with Tracker and them. It just felt right and he missed being able to control the fire. On the other hand he felt he should stay with Max, her flock seemed to get into more trouble that Fang had to help them out of. He landed in a tree some distance from the arguing where it was nice a quiet and started thinking.
Ok I'm not very happy with this chapter. Sorry I took so long to write. I don't know where to go with this anymore. It's not turning out to be the story I was hoping.