PHOENIX FIRE

Chapter 1

THE PAST (9 YEARS EARLIER)

The beginning

First thing I remembered was cold and dark alleys, streets, and buildings. It made my head spin. Then I remembered that men that kidnapped me. Well I was in a pickle.

I then thought about why they kidnapped me and what probably happened while I was unconscious and it made me feel violated, EXTREMELY violated. I tried to curl up into a ball but was unable to.

I tried again but felt paralyzed. My muscles were frozen. I started to panic but then they started to twitch. I moved my hand up to my face slowly and felt it. I was sweating like crazy and breathing heavily. That's when I heard the voices.

They were both male. They sounded like they were young and it was very quiet. I slowly opened my eyes only to see a pair of violet and blue eyes staring at me with confusion.

It scared me so much that I jumped right up and ran a little away from them. I turned around and looked at them like a scared little child. They looked at me and then turned away. It looked like they were…blushing. I wonder why.

That's when I realized that I was extremely light. I looked down only to see that I was wearing nothing at all. Now it was my turn to blush madly.

I screamed slightly and tried to cover myself as much as possible. When I saw what came to cover me up I froze.

They were a pair of red and orange wings. They looked like they were made of fire. They covered me completely making my whole body feel warm. I stared in wonder at them.

They were beautiful but…why were they on me? I looked up at the two males with a questioning look. What happened to me…?

KAI'S POV

Voltaire had sent Tala and me to go and watch a new member at the Abbey, which we didn't want to do. We walked down the cold, damped hallways and entered the lab room doors. One of the scientists led us to a room that had a steel door on it with 5 locks.

He opened all of them and told us we could enter. We walked in and heard the door close behind us.

"Wow…didn't think we would have to be in here," Tala said quietly.

I nodded in agreement and then looked over to the table in the middle of the room. There was a girl in a red and orange blanket on top of it. She was asleep and looked a like she would be out for a while.

Tala looked over to and walked up to it and looked at the girl. I followed and realized that she had red-brown hair with orange streaks. She had pale skin and scars, bruises, and cuts all over her visible body.

"She looks like she has already been given the welcoming," Tala said in a disgusted voice.

Still looking at her, I nodded my head in agreement. He then looked back at her to.

Just then, her eyes snapped open and her hand went up to her face slowly. Her eyes were a deep red and orange color. Then in a flash, she was across the room looking frightened. We both looked over to her and noticed that the red and orange blanket was really a pair of wings.

We then noticed that she was wearing nothing at all. We both looked away at the same time, blushing like crazy.

That was embarrassing!

Seems to me that she just realized it to, because she screamed slightly and then tried to cover herself, but froze. She noticed that she had wings. She let out a gasp and looked back at Tala and me with a confused look.

Who is this girl? And why does she have WINGS?

Embers POV

I looked at the guys in front of me that had the same look of confusion on their face just like me. The one with red hair and blue eyes then walked up to me slowly.

"Hey, sorry we scared you. We are just here to help. What is your name?" he said slowly. It made me angry. I wasn't retarded or anything!

"I'm not retarded, Teme!" I screamed at him.

That made the one beside him chuckle slightly. I looked at him next and noticed that he had two-toned blue hair with violet eyes. He had what looked like blue triangles on each of his cheeks, two on each, one big and one small.

"Who are you two? Why am I Here? And why do I have WINGS?" I asked.

They both looked at each other and had a silent conversation. They then nodded once and then looked back at me with emotionless eyes. It was sort of awkward. You would feel awkward to if you had no clothes on and were standing in front of two extremely hot guys.

I frowned slightly at that thought about them being hot. I didn't know where THAT thought came from.

"We can't explain anything because we don't know anything. All we were told was to come down here, watch you until you wake up, and then show you around the building. We don't know anything." The one with red hair spoke again.

"Well you do know your names, don't you? Or do you think I'm to retarded to remember you names to tell me?" I said annoyed.

"I'm Kai." The one with the blue hair said. He was so quiet up till now. He had a sort of deep voice but it was mellowed out by the sweet tint to the voice. It made him sound like he was around 15-16.

"I'm Tala." The one with red hair said. He had sort of a deep voice to. But it barely sounded like it had anything to mellow it out with. He sounded like he was around 17-18 years old.

"What is your name?" Kai asked quietly.

"Ember. Ember Rose." I said to them quietly.

It had been 5 years since the last time I said my full name. I always started crying when I said it.

My mom was the one who gave me the name Ember because she said I felt so warm and had a spark to my eye. The last name was my father's. He always treasured that name and he would always say that I looked like a rose. He said that I was just like one. I could cut your heart to pieces but still look like the most beautiful thing in the world. He sometimes called me Rosie just for the heck of it.

I started to cry silently. The two just looked at me and let me calm down. I was relieved that they didn't make fun of me for crying. The kids at the orphanage always did.

They thought that I was kicked out of my own home and dragged to the place because they didn't want me there with them. They were still to young to realize that they were there because they lost their parents like I did. The orphanage always said that that was what happened to me when I was brought here. I was the only case they had that involved two parents being murdered before.

"We should take you around. We need to find out were you will be staying." Kai said after I calmed down.

I agreed silently with a nod.

(A/N: the wings cover her body, you'll find out what it looks like soon enough.)

They took me to where the dining area was and it looked terrible. There where some boys eating there and the food on their plates looked like barf and garbage mixed together.

Next, they took me to training rooms and told me what they did everyday. I just listened silently the whole time. Only speaking when absolutely necessary.

After they took me around the place, they then took me to Voltaire's office. I learned who he was before we got there. I was completely surprised to find out that he was Kai's grandfather.

When we reached the door, Tala knocked once quietly and then we heard a voice on the other side say to come in.

The office was huge. About half the size of the training rooms, which where fairly huge. It had nothing on the walls. The only things in the room were a desk, the chair behind it, a rug, and two more chairs in front of the desk. The desk chair turned around suddenly and showed an old man with grayish-white hair with a big cloak around his shoulders.

"Well, good to see you awake miss Rose." He said in a sickening voice. He smiled and showed a pair of white teeth. His smile made me instantly think of a demon with a cruel plan.

"Please, have a seat."

I slowly took a seat in one of the chairs and felt Kai and Tala stand just behind me in a way that made me think of an Alpha Wolf being flanked by his two comrades.

"Why have you brought me here? What are you planning to do?" I asked quietly.

"Well…we are going to use you for a plan that I have created. It involves you and the young men in this Abbey."

I was confused as crap to put it lightly. This guy is crazy.

"What?"

"Never mind that now. Right now you need to be given a room. How about you stay with Kai and Tala. They have an extra bit of space."

His made the decision clear. No arguing.

"Oh, we will find you some clothes that will allow you to have your wings out."

Ember just remembered that she had no clothes on, but her wings made a dress sort of around her body. It was like fire and had a beautiful tint to it.

"Now, off you go. The clothes will be there when you reach the room. Tomorrow you three with Bryan, Spencer, and Ian will report to the lab. You all are going to see what I have in store."

He then waved his hand in a 'leave now or I will hurt you way' and went back to what he was doing.

Tala and Kai remained silent through the whole trip back to where their, scratch that, our room was.

We got the 5 minutes later and opened the door. Their room had nothing in it but three beds and 3 dressers. The beds only had one sheet on them.

It must be really cold when it comes time for winter. Maybe even colder than the streets during winter, I thought ideally.

The one on the far right was Kai's because he walked over to it and plopped down and looked like he fell asleep. Tala's was the one on the far left so my must be the one right in the middle.

I walked up to it and laid down, feeling more drained than before. I then sat up and looked at the clothes on my bed. They were all black and red. The shirt was a black with the upper back cut out and had a string that was tied to keep it up when I wore it. The pants were black as well.

I saw that they had their own bathroom. I thought that was weird. I would expect that they wouldn't have their own of anything except bed, clothes, and dressers to put their clothes.

I walked in there and saw my reflection in the broken mirror. My wings were huge and were so beautiful that I sucked in a breathe of shock. I looked at my naked body and noticed that it was covered in bruises and scratches. Some were barely healed and others looked fresh.

I pulled the shirt, with some difficulty, over my head and on my back. It fit just right. And then pulled the pants on and noticed that they fit fine to.

I walked out of the bathroom, because it was so cramped and I needed to stretch my wings.

Kai and Tala were just sitting their own thoughts and didn't notice me until I spoke.

"Do you guys mind if I stretch my wings out. They are really big and I think might go over both of your heads."

They both looked up and saw that my wings were huge. When they saw me before, they were closed around me and formed clothes on me.

They both shook their heads. They wouldn't mind.

I stretched my wings, realizing that I had an audience. They did go slightly over their heads and they looked at me with shock.

I didn't know why.

Kai's POV

When her wings spread out, she got a sort of light behind her. It made me think of the sun coming up over the water. It shined like a new star and the moon combined.

It was beautiful to say the least.

I could tell Tala was thinking the same. He had a look on his face like on mine.

I then felt something tickling my face and saw that one of the feathers had fallen off. It felt warm to the touch and when it touched my hand, made my whole body fell warm.

I then got this image in my head.

It was of a family. The man looked like he had brown hair and he had deep brown eyes. The woman had bright red and orange hair with red eyes. She was holding what looked like a little version of Ember. She had a huge smile on her face and had her hair tied into two ponytails. She was holding a red bird in her hands.

Then I saw the same family but, 3 years later.

It was Ember, sitting in a pool of blood and had tear stained cheeks. She was crying over their bodies.

I looked over and saw another man with blood around his body. He had a mask on and had a gun by his feet. By the look of it, he had scars and scratches all over his body with burn marks too.

I heard a noise and saw that Ember was screaming an animal like cry. She then had a pair of red wings like the ones I just saw, on her back. Her eyes became white and he face contorted into a look of pain and anger.

Then, I looked around and noticed that I was back in my room.

The feather in my hands vanished into a pile of ashes that blew out of my hands and disappeared completely.

Ember's POV

I saw Kai's face become still and then it went back to normal. He looked at me with shock and I just gave him a confused look.

"Wow…those wings are bright, and…warm?" Tala said.

They did feel warm. They felt like the beach when you walk on it at noon.

"Well, let's go to sleep. I'm tired from all the things that happened today."

I said quickly.

I crawled in bed and felt my wings fall back and rest gently on me. They made me feel warm. The whole room felt warm.

I fell asleep quickly. Just before my head hit the pillow.

Then…the nightmare began again.