Chapter 14

14 years Later. (Wow… I have no ideas…)

Fire POV

Daddy will be proud. I wonder what Hope is doing?

Hope walked in, her orange hair with blond streaks was swishing behind her, Her blue eyes shone. When Brigid adopted me she didn't realize that Hope was under my shirt, but she let her stay. Then I noticed the new piercings in her ear, she had 3 peircings in her ear now, all of which had a little wing shaped earing in them.

She walked over and hugged me.

"Hi babe! Whats up?"

"I just missed you is all… Do you ever wonder who our parents are?"

"Yeah, what Brigid told us about us being adopted isn't very believable, not many kids in orphanages are like us."

I replied, moving over to the couch in the penthouse that we lived in. She followed me and curled up next to me, it felt nice.

" I can't believe that they are gonna go through with the By-Half plan, and make you leader on the planet! That would make me queen, and our kids the next leaders. I wonder if that stupid Maximum Ride will mess it up."

"Her and that stupid flock just think they're the greatest. You know I heard that her Twins used to be Triplets and one of them got kidnapped! How stupid is that!"

I snorted. "Yeah."

"You know what else? Apparently she has been trying to break into our building to stop us, and she thinks your name is Josh! And mine is Ivy! What kind of lame loser she is!"

I picked up the remote, in time to hear the alarms go off, meaning that some one was breaking in. We both jumped up and ran into the security camera room. I say The flock running down the hall towards our room.

"Fly."

We both ripped our jackets off and jumped out the window, my fire colored wings almost glowing in the sunlight, and Hope's cheetah spotted wings reflecting the light. We flew for a while, until I couldn't see the Itex block we were in.

Man! That group is annoying. We really should get a grip on them. Dr. Chu was right, but killing them is a little too much.

"God they're annoying! Butting into other people's business!"

Hope exclaimed.

"I agree, but where do we go now?"

"I dunno, maybe we could just sleep in the forest and check up on the house tomorrow."

"Good idea."

I responded, pulling in my wings and dropping about 50 feet, pulling out my wings when I was about 12 feet from the ground.

I LOVE doing that!

I felt the wind blow over my longish hair. I assumed Hope was following me, and we walked into the forest, found a big tree and I pulled 4 candy bars out of my pocket. I tossed 2 of them to Hope who was on a branch about 2 feet away from me.

"Fire, I love you."

"I love you to Hope."

I took a bite out of my first candy bar. We both sat in silence for about an hour, watching the birds fly by and the squirrels run up trees, and listening to the leaves rustle.

I wish I could do this more often.

I felt Hope crawl onto my branch, and sit on my lap. She leaned up and kissed me, and I pushed her hair away from her face. We were kissing for a long time. I stopped when I heard a stick snap and voices, Hope heard it too.

"Who is that?"

She whispered.

"I don't know, but you stay here, I'll check it out."

I jumped off the tree silently, and shot out my wings. I landed and ran behind trees. Just in case they were mind readers I blocked my thoughts. I got closer to the voices and saw the flock sitting in a circle and starting a camp fire.

"Guys, some ones here."

The one called Iggy said. I automatically summoned fire and burnt all the surrounding trees. Then I ran using my super speed back to the tree. When I got there I jumped up and hovered Hope automatically jumped and flew beside me. We took off. We flew in the setting sun. When I looked behind us I saw the Flock following us.

"We've got company. Faster."

We both flew as fast as we could, and when I looked back only the twins and Max were keeping up.

****!

I flew back wards just as fast and conjured up a few fire balls and threw them. I hit Storm, who proceeded to fall.

"I will get you Josh!"

"It's not Josh, its Fire! Get it right!"

I called back. I didn't turn back, just kept flying, hearing Hope fly beside me. We exchanged a glance. Once we got back to head quarters Brigid was waiting for me.

"What happened? I came to your house to deliver a present, but nobody was there!"

"Sorry, the flock showed up."

I saw Brigid visibly pale.

"What did you say about a surprise?"

I asked, breaking the silence.

"Oh yes, I will go get it"

She replied, hurrying off. When she came back there was a kitten in her arms. It had brown fur and white streaks, that looked like lightning 's wings were big enough to fly with, they were black with the familiar lightning bolt design.

"This is a cat I got for you two in the science labs. It can fight, can talk, and can run as fast as you can fly."

"I can talk for myself!"

It said in a small and babyish voice. I saw Hope's eyes widen, but I kept a straight face.

"What's your name?"

I asked taking it from Brigid. She walked out, after saying bye.

"I don't know. Isn't that your job?"

Hope and I exchanged a look.

This kitten is soft…

"Okay, are you a boy or girl?"

"Girl."

Hope gestured to its paws.

My god those claws are long! Then I looked closer at her mouth. It had long teeth that looked very scary, besides the fact that they looked like knives.

"The scientists told me that they had to give me claws that were 3 times longer, but I can still extend them. I can extend my teeth too!"

She showed us and Hope gasped, this no longer looked like an adorable kitten, it looked like knives with a body. She brought everything back in.

"How about Claws?"

Hope asked.

"I love it! It sounds so cool! And you could call me Claw for short!"

I handed Claws to Hope.

"Come on, we need to come up with a plan to capture Maximum ride and her flock."

I had full access to all the machinery that was at this faculty, including the Fly-Boys. We went into the board room. We sat down and started planning. Claws sat in my lap and took a nap. We had a full plan by the end of the hour. We got to work, sent the plan to so that Gozen could get to work immediately. About 3 days later word got to me that the flock had been captured, so I got them arranged in my office with about sixty flyboys with machine and I were in chairs that were so big you couldn't tell who was sitting there.

"So why are we here big chair people?"

I gave Hope the signal to block her mind. I did the same. I turned around and heard everyone in the flock gasp, Hope turned around to.

"You are here because the by-half plan must commence, and you are getting in the way. I am the new leader of Itex, so I will deal with everything."

I stood up, giving Claws the signal to extend. They all gasped. I looked at them, and noticed Iggy staring at Hope, who was smiling and nodding at me, and Fang, Max,the twins, and Dylan were staring at me with strange looks on their faces. I walked up to a graph on the wall.

"You see, adults are polluting the planet, I have gone the extra mile to create a machine that makes toxins into oxygen, and replace all bad machines with new ones that are solar powered."They were still staring as I walked back to my chair and sat down, and Claws automatically sat on my lap.

"What did they do to you Fire and Hope?"

Max asked.

"Nothing, adopted me, Brigid raised me, taught me to fight, and made me leader. She took care of Hope, taught her how to fight, and so forth."

"We lost you 14 years ago when Brigid kidnapped you and Hope from us. You were triplets with Night and Storm."

"Why would you say such foolishness? I was adopted, and so was Hope. I could have you killed, but I am much more forgiving than my father, !"

Just then Dr. Chu came in, in his wheel chair.

"Fire, what are these imbeciles doing in the building?"

"I was just capturing them so they will not get in the way of the by-half plan. But I must ask you some thing."

I said, in a respectful bow.

"Please ask my son."

I heard Fang growl when he said my son.

"Max seems to think that Hope and I are missing members of the flock, please inform them."

"Well, Fire, she is telling the truth."

"What?!"

Hope and I both exclaimed, staring at him.

"Hope is Iggy's missing child, and you, Fire, are Max's."

I stared at him my jaw dropped.

"Command: take the prisoners away."

I yelled at the Fly boys. I got up, and punched the wall out of anger. I heard Ash mutter to Nudge about me taking after Fang. I walked over to Claws and picked him up, the grabbed Hope's hand and led her to our penthouse. When we got there I jumped on our bed and groaned with my hands on my head.

"Why are you so upset?"

Hope asked. She walked over and snuggled beside me.

"Because I remember my childhood now, how Brigid kidnapped us, how I cried for days, and how I took care of you as a baby. It's too much to handle…"

I said, I could tell Hope was crying so I held her, letting her cry into my shoulder.

I hate it when Hope cries.

We fell asleep, and woke up when Claws yowled.

"you guys might wanna save the flock, it looks like is trying to kill them."

I jumped up, Hope scrambling beside me. I ran to the window, looking out to see the flock in a cage tied up, and a flyboy preparing to tear Angel's throat. I opened the window and jumped onto the ground, in time to hear say:

"It didn't have to be this way, all you had to do was stay away from Fire, he needs to rule the planet, since you were a failure Max."

I picked up a bar that was on the ground and ran towards the flyboy who was bringing his hand down to kill Angel.