"Marley, please recap what the hell we're doing. Why are we on a plane when we can fly?" a young man growled from his comfy airplane chair. His skin was pale like someone mixed white with a touch of peach. His eyes were a deep blood red color and his hair was pitch black. It lay in a sort of crown of messy spikes. His wings were an emerald green color and were uncomfortably scrunched against the seat. He was talking to his "brother", a brunette man with tawny wings and green eyes named Marley.

Marley sighed, asking tiredly, "You didn't listen at at the debrief, Harley?" He was slumped against his chair, his lack of energy quite obvious.

"You really think I'm going to give that slime-ball Black any attention?" Harley answered with his own question, smirking lightly at his brother's frustration with his slight immaturity. Marley snorted, shaking his head like he was scolding himself because he expected his brother to listen to his boss.

"We're going to Europe," Marley replied, "Because Boss-man wants us to get rid of some competition. Myth Corps."

"Ah. Then why isn't the whole team here? Why send a few of us?" Harley asked, referring to why all the BIRDS were not on the plane. It was only Harley, Marley, Barley, Arrow, Rose, Dagger, and Caesar on the team for this mission.

"Boss says that this should only take us a few months. Our time limit is up to a year and a half. He doesn't want the others getting cut early from the group. Said something about them needing more training," Marley answered, "So, it's a bit of a test for us."

"Wonderful. Fucking wonderful," Harley growled, turning his attention to the night sky outside his window. His wings itched with his want to fly through the inky black canvas and it aggravated him not to. He growled to himself, closing his eyes and going to sleep.

Her home was burning. All of the trees were lit with oranges and yellows.

She looked around frantically, trying to find the source. "HELLO?" she cried out before howling loudly. "Where was her pack? Were they safe?" she thought to herself, clawing through the burning foliage.

"No one will answer," a familiar voice chuckled darkly. A horned figure appeared in the flames, lean yet threatening. It brought a heavy sense of evil to her mind and made her heart pump heavily in her ears.

"LOKI!" she snarled, pouncing at the figure. But she seemed to jump right through him, into a dark deep hole. She screamed as the space seemed to get smaller and smaller, closing in on her.

Suddenly, it felt like she was thrown into someone's arms. She barely heard the flapping of wings over her pounding heart. Air – sweet, sweet air – rushed over her face, soothing her. A voice rumbled in her ear, "Going up." She looked up and all she saw was her rescuer's red eyes.

A young woman woke up in a cold sweat. She wrapped herself in a purple blanket and stepped out of the hut. The cold night air soothed her as she looked out onto the forest. Nothing was burned. Her pack was blissfully asleep. The moonlight reflected in her eyes, turning them a soft yellow – jonquil. Her brown wolf ears flicked at every unusual sound, locating each one. Her wolf tail was brown and was hidden by the blanket.

"…I wonder what that was all about," she muttered, looking up to the sky as a homeless person would look at a house – something seemingly unreachable.

"Diane! Go back to sleep, lassie! We have a big day tomorrow!" her adopted father's voice echoed from his own hut. The young woman, Diane, smiled lightly as she looked up at the full moon.

"No more dreams like that tonight, okay?" she asked it. It, unsurprisingly, did not answer her. Diane gave a soft howl to it before going back in.

A/N: Please note that this is set before the BIRDS split, which I think is sometime during the time period between CATS vs. DOGS and CATS vs. BIRDS. My reason for using mostly the future bad BIRDS...is mostly because I know them better. Dagger's just in there because Aurorawolfa said she'd be a nice addition to the party (*is totally covering up on how Aurorawolfa forgot that Dagger was a good BIRD*).

This chapter wrote itself. ^^ It was nice...now, if only Define Deity will do that...