Chapter 27
"How long are you going to wait?" I heard whispers nearby, "He's been out for three days. I don't know if he will ever wake up."
"I'll wait one more day," A girl's voice replied, "Then we'll go. We can't stay here any longer than we have. Not with what they plan on doing. But Nathan's lost his foresight ability. It will be harder to plan now."
"Laura," The first voice responded, "If Nathan hasn't woken up by sundown, then we have to leave him here, understand?"
"Alright, Dean," Laura replied, "If he hasn't woken up by sundown, we continue with the plan, using the notes Nathan had. He told me where to find them."
An image flashed before my face, a small scene that showed Erasers surrounding Laura and Dean, they had escaped from this place, only to be caught. But that hadn't happened yet, had it? My eyes flew open. I felt Laura's hand in my own and looked down at it. Dean saw the movement and nodded towards me. Laura saw I was awake and let go.
"If you plan on using the forest as an escape route," I replied hoarsely, "make sure you aren't detected until you are at least two miles away from here. By the way what color are my eyes?"
"They're blue," Dean replied, "they have a faint purple tinge to them, but they are blue."
"I guess the cure worked," I replied, "just not the way my mother wanted it to."
They both smiled at my attempt at humor. I slowly sat up on the bed, feeling the pain, but ignoring it. I got up and stretched until my limbs were loose and I was able to walk around without any soreness. Then I walked over to the window and looked out.
"You planning on escaping tonight?" I asked them, "How come?"
"I found out what they plan on doing," Dean replied, "They were going to let you escape, after planting tracking devices in you. They might already be there. But they wanted you to lead them to Keira. They want her back. She holds information that is vital to their plans for our kind. If the world finds out about that information, we're screwed."
"Can you fly well?" I asked, "Can you fly fast and far in a short amount of time?"
"Yeah," Both of them replied at the same time.
Why?" Laura asked me.
"During my Flying lesson about three or four days ago," I replied, "According to how long I've been out, I was able to spot a cave high up in the mountain. We can hide out there for a while. The only way in is by flying."
Dean and Laura nodded. They understood my thinking. Darn it, I was already falling into the life too well. I should be a shivering wreck sitting in some padded cell somewhere. But my dreams had shown me things worse than this, so maybe that's why I was able to accept this so well.
"We'll do the escape as it happens," I told them, "There is no time to plan. I'll try and figure out if there are any tracking devices planted in us."
"How?" Dean asked me.
"I can see through time in both directions," I replied, "Not just one. I'll be able to search the past. I haven't done it often, butit's there.If I'm guessing correctly, what my mothers done to me, has helped me focus the stream of things through time."
I didn't have time to ponder this. The clock next to me bed began to chime, saying we had our afternoon training session to attend. This was going to be fun…
Chapter 28
A whitecoat stood in the middle of the room, clipboard in hand. We were in one of the larger gyms which meant this wasn't going to be pleasant, the only good news was, Laura had been allowed to join our class, it seemed they were finished with examining her. I leaned against the wall and wondered what they had in store for us. You're probably thinking why not use my ability? I don't use it for petty things I'm about to find out unless it's a life or death situation. They wanted us left alive, so why bother?
"Alright," The whitecoat said abruptly, making everyone shut up, "This is a test to see which of you are gifted and which aren't. We have given the Erasers orders to kill you. So unless you want to end up dead, knock them out, or use your abilities on them."
Then again, I had been wrong before. By the looks they actually wanted to see who was strong and who was too weak to keep alive, natural selection. It was survival of the fittest. Glad to see even they stick to the rules of nature. There weren't many people in the room though, about five others like Me, Laura and Dean, all avian kids. A whistle sounded and we all turned our heads as eight Erasers came charging through the doors, fully morphed and ready to tear our throats out. Some of the avian kids let out screams, other stood in shock, but I didn't. Laura and Dean moved along with me and we attacked the first Erasers the came our way. Guess who I got? Old Splinter face, the Eraser that I had broke the small table across. His facewas filledwith stitches from the splinters. I got to say, seeing all those stitches in his face, even in his wolf form, made him look a heck of a lot better.
After seeing us attack the Erasers some of the other kids stopped screaming and started moving. They attacked the Erasers and soon feathers and fur were flying and I mean literally. These kids were younger than us, about fourteen through to sixteen, but man, were they little savages when they needed to be. Splinter face snarled at me as I collided with him, lashing out with his claws, but I saw it coming and blocked it, getting three slash marks across my forearm. I kicked him in the stomach, winding him and then shoved both feet under him and launched him into the wall, this time creating an imprint of the Eraser on the wall. The first time I fought an Eraser back at the house, I was surprised that I could launch one into the wall, man they are heavy. Could have been the adrenaline or something I don't know.
"Duck!" I heard one of the kids shout and hit the ground. A fireball went flying over my head and hit another Eraser that was running at me from the side. He let loose a howl of pain as the fireball connected and burnt him. Man burning flesh and fur stink like heck. Well we had now found out there was a pyrokinetic in the house. Things were looking to get a little heated, pun intended. Splinter face had managed to free himself from the wall and was charging at me again. I quickly sidestepped and gave him a roundhouse kick into the face. I heard a scream and turned to see a girl about to have an Eraser tear out her throat. I was too far away, I couldn't help her.
I flung out my arm as I lungedto try, to at least try, and save her and I saw something move in the corner of my vision. Darkness was swarming down my outstretched hand and curling around like a serpent. It coiled around my arm and then struck out at the Erasers holding the girl down. It twisted around him and slowly began to squeeze him like a snake would. I jerked my arm and the coil of darkness followed jerking the Eraser off her and into a wall, well should I say through the wall.
I lost focus as a sharp pain dug into my back. The coil of darkness disappeared. Splinter face had leapt on me and sunk his fangs into my shoulder, making it almost useless. I punched his snout and stunned him, causing him to let go, then twisted around. My right arm was numb from the bite. I only had my left arm. The Eraser recovered and pounced at me, this time I focused and found nothing came from my arm, but darted out of the shadows in the corner, a small fast shape that look almost like a panther. It collided with the Eraser and knocked it away from me. I used the time to look around.
I was one of the only three left fighting. Two avian kids were badly wounded but would live. A third was lying on the ground out cold or dead, I didn't know. Two more were still fighting. Pyro kid was helping the others out and I noticed one was controlling the air around him, making it more lethal than air should ever be. Laura and Dean were holding off, dean using his Telepathy to keep the Eraser confused, Laura didn't seem to have a scratch on her, but had used no powers from what I could see. I switched my attention back to Splinter face and caught him as he pounced at me, I had not time to dodge and went to strike his chest to stop his jump, and ended up sticking a blade of solid darkness though the Erasers ribs and into his heart. I felt the beat through the blade as the heart slowly stopped pumping and the Eraser died. People say Revenge is sweet; I say it's bitter and useless, especially when you kill someone who can't control their animal instincts…