10 minutes earlier…

Joshua Garrett POV

We walked silently down the paved roads to the square. I could already hear the crowds forming around the poor man on the pole. Tulia had sent us to collect him once it was over. She had warned us all not to make a scene. Maddi and Darren where god-knows-where and Tulia put me in charge of everyone, well four of us. We didn't know where the others were.

I looked down sharply at my hoodie's pocket. "Bo, either stay still or get out!" I complained. A ginger haired kitten jumped from my pocket to the ground and changed into a a 19-year-old girl. She frowned. "Mean lion! Very mean. Chickadee is more fun." She said. Bo had a little thing about calling people the kind of animal they remind her of. Maddi is the chickadee.

"Whatever, let's just go. "

We moved a little further until we reached the square where the whipping was alright taking place. "Okay, everyone ready?'

Rosalia held up a tiny box. "I got the Band-Aids."

I rolled my eyes and she sighed. "Yeah, yeah." She flashed me the white bandages. The other Joshua, whom we called Josh nodded. Bo was looking around nervous and sniffed the air. "Wrong, wrong. Something wrong. Doesn't smell right. It smells bad."

Stanley Watt, our resident feline hybrid, blinked slowly and nodded as well. "Smells like… sulfur?"

"Sulfur?" I muttered. Bo nodded in agreement.

"Kitty is right." She said. "Sulfur… and…oil? No… No…" she muttered, looking down. "Bad…bad… quiet please. Bad. Very bad. This is bad. Something is bad. Bad." She repeated. I frowned at her. "What's bad, Bo?"

"Bad! Whipping post is bad. Under whipping post is very bad. You should be careful. Stay away. Stay away. Stay away!" she pleaded and grabbed my arm. "Stay! Very bad. Need Chickadee!" she stammered out.

That's when the explosion went off. We were all thrown to the ground from the shock. Bits and pieces of the street and metal went flying in all directions. For a scary moment, I couldn't hear anything.

I saw a piece of metal flying towards a guard, who was busy shouting orders into his datapod. I ran towards him and tackled him out of the way. We both rolled and came to a stop. We both stared at one another before I scrambled up and ran away. It was still quiet. There were small fires everywhere.

Then it all came back at once.

It was eerily quiet until the sirens went off.

"CODE RED, CODE RED."

I ran back to everyone else. I was coughing up smoke, and I'd be removing gravel from my knees for weeks.

"C'mon! We have to go! Now!" I said to everyone who were all staring at me. "Now!" I urged. Rosalia moved first. She stood up quickly and kicked Stanley who stood up as well.

But, Bo was still on the floor in a tight ball. She had her eyes closed and was muttering something over and over. "Bo! Bo! C'mon!" I tried to get her to move but she shook her head. "No..No…please. Quiet! No! No… please!

"Bo! Bo! C'mon! They're arresting everybody! Bo!" I pleaded.

"No! Where is chickadee? She'll help. She'll help." She started to cry.

"Oh god, Bo." I muttered. Maddi and Bo had grown pretty close since Bo had come to the Home. Maddi had been helping Bo take control of her powers through mediation. I had never expected for Bo to depend so much on Maddi.

"Move!' ordered Rosalia. She shoved me out of the way and grabbed Bo. She yanked Bo up and slung her across her back. "Let's go!" she said. All three of us started to move through the smoke. A guard aimed a dart gun at us. "Rosa!" I called out.

Rosalia waved her free hand and the gun exploded into tiny bits. For an extra messure, I changed his memory to never having seen us.

Then, we ran into Tulia. Literally.

"Tulia!" I exclaimed, shocked.

"Joshua! Rosalia! You didn't cause this did you?"

"No! Someone set of a bomb!" I said. Tulia swore. "Those AAM members!" Stanley looked up from looking around. "Ham?" he asked.

"No!" Tulia and I said at the same time and he shrugged. "Sorry." He muttered. Tulia shook her head. "Give me Cassidy, Rosalia." Who obeyed and gave Tulia Bo.

"Let's get out of here. We were at home the entire time, got it?" We all nodded and took off running.

About 5 minutes later we arrived at our home. Tulia made sure everyone got in first before slamming the door shut behind us.

We took a collective gasp of breath and then everybody started talking at once.

"What happened?

"We were just standing there-."

"And someone set off a bomb!"

"You didn't cause this, did you?" asked Tulia.

"No!" everyone said at once.

"Chickadee!" came Bo's cry as she hugged Maddi tightly.

This went on for several minutes until a I noticed something. "Where are the others?" I asked. We were missing a few people.

Tulia's eyes widened. "Oh no! Weren't they with you?"

"No!" both Rosalia and I exclaimed at the same time.

Maddi gasped and we all looked at her. A huge tiger was sitting on top of her. "Someone…get…Bo…off…of…me!" she choked out. Darren walked over and simply pushed Bo lightly off of Maddi, who gasped. "'Bout time!" she complained.

Darren smiled sheepishly.

Tulia sighed and sat on one of the only chairs we had in the house. "The only thing we can do is waiting."

Rosalia cocked her head. "For the others or Bo to shift back to normal?"

"Both." Tulia said. She looked exhausted. "You kids are gonna be the end of me." We all chuckled. There was a knock at the door and the room went dead quiet.

"Here the whole time." Tulia muttered as she walked up to the door and opened it. It was two guards, one holding a quiet blonde kid in handcuffs. Josh! He looked a little worse for wear.

"I believe this belongs to you." said one guard, un-cuffing him and shoving him into the house. He stumbled back and started forwards again, but I grabbed his wrist just in time.

For the first time, I noticed the other kid the guards were holding. It was a girl with brown hair. She had a split lip and black eye.

Tulia looked her over as the guards handed her some papers. "This one is yours as well. Be careful, she bites." He said. She rolled her eyes and he shoved her into our home.

"Found her and a few others in the sewers. She was the only we caught." He said, as if adding that extra bit of information would help. They left as quickly as they arrive. We were all staring at her.

She sighed. "I'm Vivi Conners." She said. "And before you ask me, I can only do this." She waved her hand and all of the dirt off the counter fell onto the floor into a neat pile.

Tulia nodded wisely. "Level 2, I suppose?" Vivi nodded. "They made that quite clear." We all had number rankings on how powerful we are. 10 is the highest and 1 is not even having powers. 2 was pretty weak.

Well, so was dirt.

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