I walked out of school that day half way through it with my mother glaring at me all the way to the car. My left eye had a darkening, purple bruise over it, probably the smallest one, and my body ached all over. They always told me to stick up for what I believe in, yet when I do I'm the one that gets in trouble for it. My mom didn't even turn on the music a little bit during our, what seemed like forever, car ride. As soon as I got out of the car, she started. "What did you think you were doing you idiot," she screamed at the back of my head as I unlocked the door to our little house. "I was just doing what we both know is right," I stated, knowing that it was completely true. She sighed and walked past me into the living room. "Sweetheart," she began," You should have just left it alone. The kid would've been fine." I stopped listening after that. I knew that girl wouldn't have been fine. I saw it in the way she trembled at everyone that came near her. I just snapped when I saw that jerk treating her like he did. That bully deserved that broken nose and arm and every single bruise that I had given him. You don't treat someone like they are garbage. Especially that poor girl. I went to the kitchen and got an ice pack for my eye because it hurt like crazy from where the ring had smashed into me.
"Wow. Does it look like she got hurt really bad to you," Lilix asked from beside me in the tree near the outside of the child's bedroom. "She seems to be pretty banged up, but she isn't showing it. That's a good thing. Though, she does seem pretty torn up inside. Whatever happened must have made her angry. And a little. Depressed." They had somehow managed to work the contraption that Elih had used to find the girl and tracked the signal to this house. Synet then sent the device back to the, hopefully now conscious, body of Elih. When they arrived at the house, they decided to split off into teams. Alasia and Lilix decided to scout out the child and see if there were any signs of powers and to be sure that the majesty hadn't gotten her yet. Jaqz and Synet did a ground patrol of the area to be sure that there were no traps laid out by the royal pain. Lastly, Kero and Zol did an air patrol and scouting to see if anything had been following them or if anything suspicious was headed their way. So far, nothing had shown up for anyone. After about thirty minutes had pasted, Alasia had Lilix give the sound for everyone to come back and report. The sound was very distinguishable if you had gotten used to its eeriness and were listening for it, upon which everyone was. It was sort of like a combination of a whistle and a low scream, and only Lilix could do it. Once everyone had returned, they spoke of the unthreatening area and then focused on how they would get the child.
"You could go in there with your invisible self, tie her up, gag her, and then carry her out without anyone seeing. Then, once that's done, Synet here could 'transport' us all to off radar island. We'll explain everything to her when she wakes up," Kero said to no one directly, but they all knew what she was talking about. Though she had said it all in that twisted, almost evil voice of hers and when she made air quotes for the word transport, Lilix stepped behind Synet out of fear that she would never admit to.
"No," Alasia said immediately," We are not going to have this girl untrusting of us and if her parents walked in and saw me creating floating rope, they would freak and possibly call the police. We all know what that would mean."
"She only has a mommy," Lilix said now in between Synet and Jaqz. They all ignored her small comment and went on discussing. Lilix stayed quite for the rest. Just like always. She knew better than to prove smarter than the older kids.
I had climbed out onto the small roof outside of my window and gotten near the edge, ready to jump, when I saw something out of the corner of my eyes. There was a group of kids near a tree in my side yard. They looked kind of like they were fighting. I slide back up against the side of my house and into the part where shadows would hide me. I didn't want them to know that I was watching. They all looked to be in the range of twelve to maybe eighteen. Except for one of the girls, who looked to be maybe seven or eight. She was standing slightly behind the tallest boy and kept inching backwards. I moved forward about half a foot. The little one slinked silently over to the tree and jumped up to one of the lower branches. She then climbed half way up without a falter or making notice by the others. And then she looked up. She looked right at me and I think I saw her smile a bit. Just then a whisper came into my ears and I gasped a little bit and slide deeper in the shadows. Hello Charlotte, my name is Lilix. How are you? , the whisper had said. I stared at the little girl and gave a thumbs up sign. She inched closer and I could tell that she did have a smile on her face. I saw her mouth move slightly and then I heard, You can really hear me already? Hold both hands out, one palm up and one palm down. I did as the whisper commanded and the girl started to giggle. Then her face changed into something unreadable and I heard, Sorry, but I have to go now. The girl jumped right out of the tree onto the empty ground. The others were gone and I hadn't noticed them leave. The girl waved and then ran off in a direction where I quickly lost her in my sight. Then, I got cold. Really cold. Suddenly, a clammy like hand wrapped itself around my mouth and another gripped my side. I tried to scream, but only a tiny muffled sound escaped. The hands started dragging me backwards into the darkness that was my shelter.
"Oh no," Lilix suddenly burst out as they were rushing towards the horde of beasts. "What," commanded Alasia. "This was a set- up. One of them got her," Lilix said as she stopped running and something deep inside her shifted a bit. The small child then grabbed the machete out of its carrier and ran faster than all the others. The first beast to fall was by her small, innocent hands.