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* Jini *

"This Subject here we like to call the Mad Hatter. She came from the same generation as the rest of the subjects on auction here. Though she is young, she is very obedient and hard working. The bidding price will start at $500,000. Begin."

Numbers were being screamed out of the crowd. My price was growing. My freedom was gone.

"Ghost...Addy..." I uttered.

I would miss them so.

* Adaline *

"We have to get out of here!" I wailed, banging on the bars of my cage. "Jini! Jini!"

"Yes. Like I really enjoyed being lashed." Killjoy sneered.

"Race!" Falle was exclaiming. "Race! They're gonna auction Race!"

"Calm down." Shade muttered, putting a hand on my shoulder. "There's nothing we can do, Adaline. I'm so sorry."

"Jini..." Ghost sobbed. "My sister...my sister..."

I ran my fingers over the bars one last time.

"I'm. Getting. Out. Of. HERE!"

With my hand that wasn't shackled to Shade, I wound up, punching a bar of our cage with all my might. There was a crack and the bar bet outward. I tugged on it more, kicking out, the bar clambering to the ground.

"Adaline-"

I ignored the throbbing in my hand, not glancing down at my bloody knuckles. "Let's go."

We slipped out of the bars. I knew there was a Conductor sitting just outside the door. Driven by fury and anguish, I grunted, kicking down the trailer door.

The Conductor cried out as the door flew off its hinges. He turned, tazer in hand, but I snap kicked him in the face, grabbing him by the hair and slamming his face into the trailer wall. I plucked the keys from him, unlocking our shackles.

"Go free the rest." I instructed. "Get outside the tent as fast as possible. I'll find you. Just run. Don't leave anyone behind."

Shade nodded. I grabbed the tazer from the Conductor, heading into the tent.

* Jini *

"Three million dollars!"

The crowd was silent.

"Three million dollars going once...going twice..."

"Goodbye, Addy. Ghost." I croaked, the tears finally falling.

"SOLD!"

And just as this cry had come, people started to scream.

* Adaline *

I held the tazer to the tent flap, watching the electricity turn to flames as soon as the dirty skunk bag had yelled 'sold'.

People were screaming. Shouting. Rushing for the tent door, getting trampled in the process.

"Jini!" I screamed, snapping out my wings and taking to the air.

"Addy!" She yelled, reaching a desperate hand towards me, tears pouring down her cheeks.

"Fox form!" I hollered, swooping down. My small little girl was a fox, her tiny ankles slipping out of the shackles, her nimble paws rushing towards me. It must have been a sight to see watching a small little red fox dressed in a gown...

As soon as she reached my arms she was a human again. I beat my wings, wincing as some of my feathers were singed. I landed, ducking under a tent flap and into the night.

"We're safe." I muttered to the shocked Jini in my arms. "We're safe."

Jini's ears twitched, her head turning towards the trailer.

Someone screamed.

* Thorn *

"Help!" I screeched. "Help me!"

I was trapped in my cage, the mutants that had freed the others must have missed me. I screamed high and loud as the flames licked the sides of the trailer.

No one could hear me, I knew it. I pleaded for my death to be painless...don't let me be burned alive...

"Please!" I sobbed, struggling with the bars. "Help me..."

A shadowed figure burst through the trailer door, rushing towards my crate. The figure ran her fingers over my bars, her face concealed by the smoke. She paused at one, her hands clasped around it. She gave a grunt then a tug, and the bar popped off.

I crawled out into the figure's arms, desperate to avoid death, my head spinning with the burning fumes. I soon recognized Adaline running me through the smoke. She ducked under a tent flap, diving out into the night.

It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

Stars glimmering like back lights in the sky, the moon casting its pale gray glow over the dew crested grass. Grass...oh the grass! Adaline set me down. It felt beautiful between my toes. Tickling and soft, wet and silky all at the same time.

"Take to the air. We have to meet with the others." Adaline told me. I nodded, bursting into a coughing fit. She patted me on the back.

"Adaline..." I started. "I...don't know exactly how to fly."

"Beat your wings." She nodded. "It'll come naturally. We were meant to fly. You'll see."

If I thought the grass was wonderful, it was nothing and I mean nothing compared to flight. I had to suppress a cry of glee as we rose in the air. The feel of the breeze whispering in my feathers, the way the strokes of my wings were powerful and so natural...

"Look back." Adaline suddenly whispered. She spun around in mid flight, hovering my moving her wings in almost a circular motion. I tried to copy the spin and hover, but it wasn't as graceful.

The trailer and tent was burning, engulfed in flames. The screaming had been out screamed by the roar of the flames and crackling of melting metal. Adaline's fists were clenched. She didn't even seem to notice that the knuckles on her right hand were gushing blood.

"Adaline..." I couldn't help but breath.

"Our nightmare is over." She sighed, her eyes welling up. "Freedom has come at last."

But what we didn't realize as we took off into the night...

Was that our nightmare had just begun.

* Ring Master *

I handed the scrap of cloth to the mutant. Her tongue flicked out, taking in the smell of the blood on the cloth.

"Who is this?" The mutant hissed. I looked into the shallow, light blue eyes of the girl. She flexed her lips slightly, revealing a pair of long, venomous fangs.

"Adaline." I responded cooly. "From when she was lashed."

Saffron nodded. Her nostrils twitched slightly as she took in the scent again, her forked tongue flicking.

Besides her stood Spike, a shark mutant. His mouth was open as he sneered, revealing his many rows of razor sharp teeth. They were both dressed in the same outfit-a tight black shirt, shredded black pants, and black combat boots.

"You know the drill. Kill everyone but Adaline-bring her back alive. Play them. Torture them."

Saffron nodded.

"Let's go." She nodded to shark boy. They both took off into the night.

I turned around, watching my tent smolder out. When Adaline was brought back...I let out a cackle of laughter.

She'll wish Saffron had killed her.