Chapter 1: Birds, hoods, and Chicago.
Yo, Kuz here, and I have only received ONE review. Not bad but I might need more to keep goin. Well this one might be hard to follow, because of a time jump and lots of flashbacks. Well, enjoy fellow readers and writers.
Daniels POV
Five years later.
A rough bass line drifted into my sleep. The five eighth notes were strummed again, and again only lower with each passing time. Again only along with the five eighth notes, two more followed after. (Look up the song '25 or 6 to 4' by Chicago on Youtube; it will most likely be there.) I looked at the clock that was making the song come to life when the singer came in and sang "Waiting for the break of day." I got up rubbed my eyes, and walked over to the clock. I sang with the radio "Searchin for somthin to say." I tuned the alarm to "off" and decided to go into the kitchen and see who all was awake. As I made my way over the little window over by the hall, I recalled how Sam found this cool place.
Two years earlier.
Myself, Riu, and Sam were doing a little recon in the early morning, before dawn. When out of the corner of my eye I saw something that resembled a-
"Look!" shouted Sam. "A house." Sure enough there was indeed a house. But, why did the currents move on their own? A loud crack was heard, the glass window exploded outward, then Riu staggered and began to fall down.
"Sam," I shouted already running for the window. "get Riu." By the time the second bang had gone off, I had taken cover behind a large coastal red wood, Sam had dragged the unconscious Riu to the shelter of a crashed car. The bullet struck the bark of the tree. I heard the bolt slide back, but I needed more knowledge of the enemy, so I can be sure that I'm not running at the end of the bayonet. So I looked for a large stone or branch that I can through from cover to give me just one minute so I can-
Crash! A second window, on the second floor, exploded outward littering the soil below with the remains. I scooped up a hand full of dirt and yelled to Sam, "Get the gun ready. Festlegun der Deckung Feuer." She gave no sign of hearing me, like I had always told her to. I through the dirt up and bullets were shot into the cloud. Perfect. I thought as the striper magazines were being emptied into the dirt. Now they have to reload, giving me the chance to get my luger. I pulled out the pistol from my ankle holster. This gun was old, dating back to the first World War. It had the ability to fire a .9 millimeter round with semi-automatic firing capacities. This magazine could hold 20 rounds, more than enough to deal with these 1.0's(The original Eraser. Always furry, always angry, complete failures.) Sam made her move. She rose and began to fire the AK-47 up at the upper story window to hit or make the dog go into cover. I heard a howl of pain then a shriek and a thud. That's when I stood and made four shots. First, at the upper window to make it look as if I didn't know he was there. Then as he came out of hiding, the other three bullets struck the monster in the chest and skull. No cry came from this one; he just rolled out the window.
I tried to stop the adrenaline from making my breathing so ragged, but failed. I tuned to Sam to see if she was okay to keep going. I walked back to the car and took a look. A huge smile was present on her face, odd. "You know," I said as I put the gun back in the place it belongs. "Usually after one helps kill two people, and a friend is bleeding, they aren't smiling like its Christmas morning and they got just what they want." I finished with a jester towards where Riu—was no longer sitting. Panic began to course through me until Sam said, "Calm down Danny boy." She said just to piss me off, "he's over there." She finished with a wink. I looked to the spot where she pointed to find Riu washing his cloths in a small gurgling steam. I ran to only to find him hold up—"Want some soup?" he asked holding up a can of Campbell tomato soup with a large bullet hole going only into the first hole of the can. I threw a swing only to hit the air.
"You got me all worked up over a can!" I was PO ed. Then we all heard a moan. We all whipped out our weapons. Me and the luger, Sam and the AK-47, and Riu with the Panzer Faust (One shot anti armor weapon.). We carefully made our way back to where the house, to find two bodies. One tried to crawl to his riffle as we were walking up to him.
"I surrender. I quit." The Eraser who had fallen out the second story window slurred. "I will even tell you where my other men are at. Deal? Just let me bleed out."
I had an idea. "Deal." I replied after I the riffles with bayonets and side arms away from the dead and the ground.
"There." He pointed over to a small garage with a steel door and lock. "Keys. To open door. We ar—we were 10 strong, but now eight."
"Thanks." I said "but you know the policy, no prisoners." I spun and stuck him with the blade on the end of the Mauser (WWI German bolt action riffle.). With a quick sucking in of air he had passed on. "Riu, I'll open the door, you fire the rocket into the garage. Sam will then open a can of death with the machine gun." The two of them gave me nods of understanding. Then we stalked over to the door. Sam put her ear to the door and gave a thumbs up, and I pushed the keys into the slot and turned them. The moment the door was raised an inch, an engine from inside revved and instantly I threw the door up and dove out of the way to barely dodge a black truck fly out of the building, scraping the door. I rose to fall back down as I saw the Panzer Faust sail from the launcher in Riu's hands. The projectile slammed into the side of the truck and exploded causing the flaming vehicle to tip and the now burning wolf men tried to make a run but to no help. At once, we all shot the guns and ended the foes. "Well, we have a place to call home." Sam said and we all slapped high fives.
Present day.
I was drawn back to reality by my sudden awareness of the time. Mainly because of the clock striking 4:00 am. I sighed, well, I thought as I opened the front door. Time to feed the flock.
I took a quick running start then jumped and snapped out my massive wings and was airborne. My wings are the biggest I've ever seen, a huge 15 foot wingspan. The wings are colored black with red tips so it looks as if they are bleeding. In the early morning sky, not a single creature was seen for miles around.
Our house was in Northern-Western Canada, just above the border with Washington State. The forests here were some of the oldest in the world, and one of the few with real Coastal Red woods. The trees can grow to be the tallest in the world. Another factor is that the trees are almost immune to fire, because of their thick bark and high branches.
After a few minutes of flying, I landed atop one of these massive trees to check my heading. I had just touched down when I saw something very unusual, even for my life. A man in an all black body suit and robes hood boots you name it, was falling from the sky. Only that wasn't the odd part. The odd part was he just appeared out of nowhere. I was staring right where he appeared and now was plummeting toward the ground at dangerous speeds, even for us avian human kids.
So me being all about the protection of mankind, I leaped off the branch and started after him. I was rocketing towards the place we would collide at around 254 miles per hour when he turned so his feet would hit first and just stopped as he touched down. Even a mutant freak with all the stuff I've been through, I was still so shocked I almost slammed into the guy. That is if he hadn't simply turned and looked at me through his veil. All he did was raise one open gloved hand and I was frozen in mid air.
"Do my eyes deceive me?" The man in the Hood said while holding me in place. I couldn't even talk, but if I could, I would have said. "If you see a bird kid with wings come barreling out of the sky and now stuck in place, than no, your eyes don't deceive you." But I can't. "He could be useful to my." He paused, looked off into the woods and was gone. Not like he ran off into the forest, but just vanished. Suddenly, the force holding me 15 feet in the air was no longer there and I fell onto the ground ass first.
After a few minutes of nothing, I decided to go get an answer to the major question I had at the moment: Who the hell was that?!? At the time I could think of only one family who could help me with the situation I was in. Look out Forks, here I come.
Forks Washington, population: 3221 people, a perfect place for a large coven of vampires to hide. Some of you may be wondering why am I going to a town that has blood-sucking monsters. Well I trust the Cullens with my life, and so does the rest of my flock. I remember the first time I saw them.
Two years ago.
I was scouting the town of Forks to see if there were any threats in the area. This was my last stop then I would head home. I didn't think that a city of 3000 people would be a threat, unless they were all armed and some sort of mutant freaks that can fly faster than us, THEN we would be in trouble, maybe. So after half an hour of searching the town I decided to search the high school for anything out of the ordinary for a regular high school. The school was rather large for only a couple hundred students attending it. Today was Friday so I figured that most kids would ditch and have a three-day weekend. Most of the classes were very complicated for a bird kid who has never been to school, like: Bio, Algebra, and my favorite, human anatomy. So I was being my uber sneaky self until, "Hello." A girl with short spiky hair said from behind me. "I knew I would find you here." She continued. She was almost bouncing up and down as she spoke.
"My name is Alice Cullen." Man, I thought as she put her hand out to shake. I took it but almost jumped at how cold and rock hard it was. This chick is weird. "You don't go to school here." She said as a fact instead of question. "How come Edward doesn't get anything from you? Have you met the rest of my family? What's your name? Why are you sneaking around? Why is a gun attached to your leg?" How does she know about the luger? What does she mean by Edward cant get a thing from me? I thought as she began to smile even wider. "Don't worry. I see us becoming good friends very soon." She said as the bell rang for class to start. Still holding my hand in that vice grip hold of hers, she began to walk towards a building titled 'office'. "Do you want to go to class today with me? You know as an observer? Of course I will have to take you to the office and have you fill out the campus guest pass or you could--."
"My name is Daniel. I would love to attend a day at your school. Don't bring up the gun. No I haven't met the family. Who is Edward and what does he want to get from me?" I interrupted as she looked as if she would pass out from lack of air. So I tried to open the door for her but she threw the door open before my hand got there. She did most of the work for the paper work while I just looked around in place. Nope, no weapons to be used against me. After I signed the code of contact, she dragged me off to her first class of the day, Advanced Placement English 11.
"Class," the very stout teacher said as we entered. " We have a guest who might go here. Please give a warm welcome to Daniel Ride." The class erupted into various levels of cheers. "We have a seat open next to Eric." A kid in the back waved and I sat next to him.
After English was geometry, then French, P.E, break, Physiology, than lunch. Alice took me by the arm to the very back of the room where four other people were sitting, talking, anything but eating the food on the trays before them. "Every one," Alice said when we arrived at the table. "This is Daniel Ride, the one from my you know." She lowered her voice as she continued with her sentence.
"So you're the um bird kid." The big guy said as he flexed his biceps. How the hell does he know this?
"That's Emmet." Alice said as she pointed to the big guy who had just spoken. "The other guy is Jasper. And the girl is Rosealie. And Edward is the guy who is sitting with Bella." She pointed to each person as she spoke. Jasper looked like he was in a lot of pain, Rose looked so beautiful, and Emmet looks like he might be a threat. Then all of a sudden a rush of air came up from behind me. I spun around to see Edward right in my face with Bella right behind him.
"How come I can't get a thing from you?" Edward said. "What are you talking about?" I said as he was saying "Meat us at the house on the hill. You will see it." He spun around and left as the rest of the family followed.
After that I decided that I had enough of school and I would go cheek out this house. I snuck out during the switching of classes and took off as soon as the coast was clear. Only took one minute to find the Godzilla sized house and land deep enough in the woods so I wouldn't be seen if any one was inside the house.
I looked in one of the windows on the first floor to see if anyone was inside. Nothin. So I carefully made my way over to the door and before I could open the door "Come inside, before it rains." Called a mans voice. I slowly opened the door to find two people coming down a death trap of a staircase hand in hand. I walked in and closed the door behind me but made sure it would open again if I needed it to. "Well sit down." The man called as soon as the door had been closed. I sat at the nearest seat. "So in case Edward hasn't told you already," the woman said with a grin of some sharp teeth. "We aren't like everyone else."
"Really!" I said sarcastically "I never would have guessed." They laughed and smiled warmly, much nicer than Edward was. "Well that's because we are vampires." They said at the same time.
"Well, in case Alice hasn't figured out." I said as I stood and slide off the Metallica hoodie I was wearing. I don't know why, but I trusted these people with my life. Slowly I extended my dark wings to show them. After that, we told each other a lot of stories and how it all happened.
Present day.
There you have it, any way, I made my way to the ever-beautiful house of the vampires. As I go to ring the bell a voice calls from inside. "Come in Daniel, before you catch a cold." Carlisle called. I walked in and received hugs and handshakes from the various members of the house. That's when I told them of the man who had fallen from the sky. Carlisle rubbed his chin and said, " He was wearing an all black hood and cloak you said?" I nodded. He got up and walked into the kitchen. He returned holding a book of sorts. "Does he look like this?" he asked as he pointed to a picture of a group of eighteen people, all of which were wearing the black ensemble with hoods. The one he pointed at was standing in the lower corner of the photo holding out an out stretched hand. The way he looked was an exact image of what he looked like this morning.
I nodded. "Stay away from him." Carlisle said as he rose to return the book. "He is very powerful and his mental stability is questionable." He added. I said my good byes and took to the sky once more.
After a good thirty minutes of flight I had arrived back home. I used my key to open the front door. Once I had entered the house, I was aware of someone watching me. I turned to see Kristen sitting at the dining room table staring at me. "Did you forget something?" That's when it occurred that the time was 6:30 A:M.
"Crap!" I shouted as it hit me. "The food!" I tuned around and almost ran into the door. I shoved the door out of the way and tried to run but a wicked looking knife struck the ground before my feet. I looked in the direction of where the knife came from to see the hooded man from this morning off in the distance standing atop the tallest red wood staring right at me. The next thing I new, he was next to me with a sword at my throat. "You can not fight, what you can not catch." the hooded man said as he made his move.
I hope you all enjoyed that. Now I will explain most of what happened next time, or the time after.
Well later,
Kuzo Kun.