Authors Note: I am soo sorry people. I've been messed up with Exams and assessments around school that I've only just been able to get online and post up some of the chapters I've written recently. But I'll be posting them up until I've got them up to date.

Chapter 47

The shadowed figure watched them sleep through the trees. She wasn't surprised she had managed to get this close. They are amateurs and they had never gone up against someone who could turn invisible. She had watched them since earlier in the night, when she saw her, the blond girl they were with. Either they were stupid, or they were working with her. Trackers, she thought, when will they give up hunting us escapees? I guess never.

She had watched how the guy, one with similar wings to the girl, had held her hand, how she kissed him, how, even now, they lay together in the clearing. She felt sorry for the guy, not realizing he was being manipulated like everyone else who had come in contact with her. She always found ways to manipulate people. She wasn't capable of feeling.

The figure nodded to another shadow on the opposite side of the clearing, giving the signal. The figure dropped lightly from the tree, not making a sound and approached the two figures sleeping in the clearing together. A needle fine spike grew out the figures hand and he removed it carefully, it was a poison tipped spike, part of his abilities. It was coated with a very strong sleeping agent that would work instantly. The figure approached the couple and injected the spike into the girl, she never awoke. The figure moved back into the trees and she nodded her head to the girl in the tree next to her. She disappeared and then reappeared next to the unconscious girl, placed her hands on the girls arm then both of them were gone as she teleported them out of there.

The figure smiled, her plan had gone of flawlessly. Now all they had to do was figure out why they were out here in the first place. She crept down from the trees and approached the bags they had kept near the campfire. Slowly and carefully she rummaged through the bags, making sure not to wake them up. There were food provisions and medical supplies her and the others could use and some spare clothing that might be able to fit them. Then she found one of the devices that the Erasers carry to track the escapees with their chips. She picked it up and was about to break it when she realised it was already on, but no signals were being picked up from the sleeping forms in the clearing. Perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye, She thought, All the more reason why to figure out they are here. She placed everything back the way they had packed it and left the clearing and the figures sleeping and returned to the trees. The other figure walked up next to her out of the trees and she nodded to him, letting him know they weren't a threat… yet.

They had made camp about three miles from the clearing, in a small cove of trees. When she arrived there, they had the girl tied up and blindfolded. Once the sleeping agent wore off she would question her about why they were here and she wanted answers. The Erasers had been hunting more and more ferociously lately, bringing in escapees dead or near death. Their bosses weren't happy, but at least the situation was being contained.

She looked down at the girl lying asleep there on the ground and felt nothing but anger toward her. The last time they had met, she had tried to kill her. The whitecoats had tried to kill her by using a clone of her, that same clone who was now lying unconscious on the ground right in front of her.

"Keira," The male figure said, "We'll be starting as soon as she wakes up. You find anything?"

"Yeah," She replied, "the backpacks were property of a Nathan Corway. It's the Corway family. When they come looking for her, kill them, otherwise we will never be left alone."

Chapter 48

I hadn't slept long before I was woken again. It would have been about three in the morning, meaning I had gotten about two and a half hours sleep. I looked around the clearing and saw that Cass had returned while I was asleep. Then I realized Laura wasn't next to me. She must have woken before I did. I looked around the clearing again to make sure she wasn't there then got up. There was a noise from the bushes, a twig snapping, feathers brushing against the leaves. I didn't shout out, I did say anything. It would most likely be Laura, but there are others, people in similar situations to what Cass was that are still working for the Erasers. I moved quietly, the knife forming in my hand automatically. I didn't use the darkness to search for who it was, someone would sense the darkness, Pyro's are good at sensing it and so are telepaths, as I figured out.

I moved into the bushes where the sound had come from, careful not to step on anything that might give away my position to whoever it was. The faint sound of feathers brushing against a tree to my right confirmed that this was either, a wild bird, Winged Erasers, or more kids like me. I was hoping it wasn't the second and I would feel stupid if it was the first. A twig snapped and I heard a muttered curse from whoever it was in the bushes. Guess it ruled out theory one, wild birds can't curse. I moved closer, seeing a figure creep through the bushes towards our camp. The figure was too light and swift to be a flying Eraser, so there went theory number two and I was left with my answer.

The figure moved into a shaft of moonlight and I got to see the golden hair and the snowy white and tan brown feathers. At first glimpse I thought it was Laura and was about to call out to her, but then I was a second figure approach through the trees and talk to her. The figure couldn't have been anyone from our group. Suddenly things began to fall in place in my mind. We had been searching for Keira and she had happened to come across us camping here. I moved closer to the two of them, surprised they hadn't picked up on me yet. They were having a heated discussion, but I missed most of it, hearing only the last part of the conversation.

"Get what you can out of her," Keira commanded, "I want to know what they are here for, then once you have that information, kill her. I don't want a repeat of last time."

The figure disappeared into the trees and Keira was about to return to watching our camp when I stepped out of the shadows, hand hidden behind my back as a gun formed in it.

"You know," I said, "If you wanted information, you could have just asked. It's not nice kidnapping someone, interrogating them and then killing them."

Keira spun around upon hearing my voice, obviously surprised at how close I got without her knowing. Her hand lifted up and I saw the glint of steel as a throwing knife appeared in her hand and she threw it towards me. I didn't even bother moving, but raised the gun and fired right at the knife, shattering the blade. There was no sound from the gun, just the shot propelled from the gun. At least that answered my long unanswered question. Can a gun made of darkness fire? Yep, I guess it does.

Keira was surprised at the shattered knife and hesitated for a second. That was when I took my chance and tackled her into another clearing behind us. She began to struggle as I wrestled with her in the clearing. The gun had dissolved back into darkness and we forgot we even had weapons or powers. I happened to get pinned beneath Keira and she smiled down at me, a knife in her hand. I placed my feet under her and flipped her over my head and elsewhere in the trees. I recovered and composed myself to find the clearing and the trees nearby empty.

Something rammed into my right shoulder, sending me stumbling as I tried to see what it was, but couldn't. The next hit came from behind and to the left, a roundhouse kick that planted on the side of my ribcage. I felt the distinct print of a shoe and realised what had happened. Keira could turn invisible. This was going to be an interesting fight. I focused the darkness around me, blinding her and giving me a chance to find her. For people to become invisible, they must be able to bend light around themselves. For me to find her I only had to bring the darkness around me and wherever it couldn't go was where she was. After a few seconds, I heard a twig snap and then the darkness dispersed from an area to my right. I had found her…