[A/N Hai, First chapter sort of i guess, anyway i'm gonna need a beta reader on this story, so if you're interested in reading what i have in mind before most everyone else, then this is the job for you! This is just a fun fic that i've decided to start writing so i can have something to keep myself busy with when i'm not in the mood for drawing too much]

It all started a month, maybe longer ago. We had escaped captivity together and were on the run, scavenging McDumpsters for McTrash that was still hopefully edible. We were living off the land and staying off the radar.

"Another feast fit for kings, I say." Carter joked with a slight smirk on his freckled face as he dropped a half eaten big mac in Crow's lap and sat down next to him.

We were camping out in a little wooded park in some small Virginia town i didn't care to learn the name of. It was already starting to become dusk and Seven was curled up against Ro, ready to sleep. Carter had gone out to the nearby shopping strip to look for food or something useful, and had come back with a paper bag full of half eaten discarded food from various eateries and a blanket under the other arm.

"Thank you Carter, but couldn't you have grabbed some drinks too?" I asked with a slight grin as i took another sip of the water we'd gotten from the stream nearby.

"Hey, i had to fight off a rat the size of a small dog for that burger Phantom's eating, i didn't have time to stick around to search for drinks too." Carter defended as the snake mutant next to me almost choked on his burger trying to spit out the piece of burger he had been chewing. "Don't worry, i got it before it even touched your food." Carter added with an apologetic grin.

"Did you see anyone strange in town while you were out there?" Atlanta asked, she'd finished her burrito and had her arm around her younger sister, Alice, who was nibbling a piece of pepperoni pizza.

"Nah, no suits or random hairy bodybuilders." Carter informed us, swinging back a large gulp of water from a plastic bottle. Since going on the run with my friends, we've been on the lookout for tell tale signs of Erasers. They usually wore suits as far as we could tell, and they were larger built and more hairy than the average American we saw.

Erasers are these crazy monster like wolf guys that work for this evil place we like to call the school, just so you know. If only they remained monster like wolf guys though, that would have made our job spotting them so much easier, but no, they have this ability of morphing into almost human looking 20 somethings. I say almost human looking because in reality, they aren't that great at morphing, they're usually large muscle masses with body hair, that and they look somewhat unnatural to the untrained eye.

"That's good." Atlanta smiled and closed her eyes for a moment, she looked so relaxed for a moment, the most relaxed i've seen her in ages.

Atlanta was always so worried about keeping us safe, but now that we were out, she sort of took on a leadery role, and made it her personal mission to keep us alive, Carter sort of assumed the role of her second in command in keeping us all alive.

There's 8 of us, Atlanta, Carter, Crow, Ro, Me(Rayne), Phantom, Alice and Seven. We're all mutants and on the run as you've probably gathered. Most of us are some kind of bird mutant, while Phantom's the only non flyer being a snake mutant and all.

We've spent most of our lives in cages being experimented and tested on, but not now, now we were free and on the run.

"I'll take first watch, you guys get some rest." I suggested and got up to my feet.

"Thanks." Atlanta smiled and laid down, Alice curling up next to her. The others said their goodnights as they all laid down on their blankets, Phantom the only one curling up under his.

I pulled my headphones off of my ears and flew up into the branches of the large tree we were sleeping under, with my small finch wings i'm able to easily fly up there and land on a thick branch. With my headphones off i'm able to hear every sound around us for what felt like miles.

Off in the distance i could hear cars on what i guessed was the interstate, closer by i could hear the stream, some bugs singing serenades to each other and a bird or two getting ready to call it a night. My powers usually only came in handy for keeping watch and things like that, as i had hawk like vision and above normal hearing, well i'd say painfully good hearing to be more accurate. If it weren't for my trusty noise canceling headphones i would have gone crazy from all the fine little sounds i could hear that would have been too quiet for others.

Anyway, keeping watch was a terribly boring job, but it was nice listening to my sleeping friends down below and knowing they were safe, it was the small things that kept me going some days, that kept me positive.

I crossed my arms and leaned back against the tree's trunk, just listening to the night sounds around us.