Chapter 23

Shadow POV

"You ready?" I asked looking up at Silent. His parents had asked us to come right away to this address. The house was a decent sized a 2 story house as the least. The white paint was chipped around the door and the windows. The yard was mowed and there were flower along the pathway to the door. It looked like a real normal home, I guess it was.

"Let's do this" Silent said as if we were on a mission or invading a school. This was a mission for all of us. This was uncharted territory since none of us even knew our parents names. I glanced back at my flock and gave a small nod before turning back to the door. Silent raised his fist and gave the door a firm knock. At first there was no answer then I heard the click of a lock and the door opened. It was them.

"Please come in all of you" his mother stepped aside and welcomed us in. Silent immediately stiffened up since he wasn't use to the surroundings. His eyes scanned the room the minute we entered. I gave his hand a squeeze as she showed us into the dining room. Slowly we all took seats at the table. Leo and Ian's both hands tapped nervously on the table. Bright and Talia shifted in there seat eyeing all the exit ways.

"It's great to have you all here" she said setting out plates and silverware. "I'm glad I finally get to meet you" Her eyes drifted to Silent and she smiled. I elbowed him and he gave a faint smile.

"It's nice to uh meet you too" He stuttered uncomfortably. His fingers tapped nervously on the table.

"Now normally I would have run up and hugged you, but since Shadow. That's your name right?" I nodded, "Shadow informed me you're not the huggy type person"

"Or the kind type person" The Twins muttered together. I narrowed my eyes, causing them to slump in there chairs.

"Its nothing personal" He replied his voice uneven and rough, "Just not use to being hugged" His mother nodded before heading into the kitchen bringing out several large bowls of food, with some help of her husband. There were mashed potatoes, pot roast, ham, peas, corn and yams. Yum! Each of the flock members flashed to me, I slowly nodded and everyone began eating.

"So Chri-Silent" His dad began stuttering at the name, "You were kidnapped from this house when you were 4 months old. What happened to you?"

Everyone at the table stiffened up. Bright dropped her fork onto her plate, the twins stopped chewing, and Sound sat his glass down. None of us made a sound until I decided to be the brave one.

"We were taken to a scientific facility" I said softly, "They experimented on him and all of us" His mother covered her mouth in horror.

"What…did they do to you?" She whispered in terror. Instead of speaking Silent slowly stood and pulled off his jacket setting it in his chair, and then pushed his large black wings threw the slits in his shirts. They both gasped at the sight of his 18 foot stark black wings. This was it. If they excepted him, he would be happy. If they thought he was a freak we would have to wipe there memory and leave.

"There beautiful" All of us let out a breath of relief. "All of you have them?" I nodded slowly.

"All of us do" I said unconsciously running my fingers threw the feathers in Silent's. He shivered closing his wings quickly, they slapping against his back. He glared at me as he sat down, I only blushed.

"How did this happen?" Then we broke off into our story.

"Well we were all kidnapped at different times." I began, "We were taken to this scientific facility we call "The School". They kept us in…dog crates and experimented on us when ever they wanted."

"They hardly fed us" Bright added, "They kept us in those cages for days on end, with little water and food"

"When they needed to test something they picked one of us. They would cut into your chest" Zack touched the front of his shirt at Ian's words, "Inject you with needles and make you drink these weird thick liquids that burned your throat"

"Or make you find your way threw a huge maze, and run for hours" Leo whispered under his breath. Silent sat up straight.

"And tare you away from people you care about. I met Shadow there when I was kept me from dieing that day. I had been running for hours and had been in the ring several times and was barely alive. She fed me her food and gave me her water til I was up again. When we escaped she didn't leave me behind when I snagged my pant leg on the fence. She came back and saved me. We met the twins and Talia when we were 14. I was in the hospital and apparently so was Ian. Talia got lost and Shadow helped her find Leo. Me and Ian ended up sharing a hospital room, the moron snores like a bitch."

"And then they met me in the city" Bright said smiling lightly, "I was being attacked by Erasers and they saved me. They took me and made me feel like family"

"I don't know much about these guys" Sound said sheepishly, "They rescued me a few days ago, maybe a week."

Silent's parents just starred at us. Had we freaked them out? Scared them? The mother recovered first. She cleared her throat elbowing her husband.

"That's terrible…" She said, "I do have one question, what are erasers?"

"Human-Lupine hybrid" Bright said, "Or well half wolf half human. There always trying to kill us or kidnap us."

"And what about this little guy?" His dad asked. Zack slumped in his seat kicking his feet back and forth, "Sore topic I guess. So Ch-Silent. Are you going to stay here with us?"

That was the one question all of us had been dreading the entire night. Silent looked his dad in the eyes and answered him. His answer was…

Authors Note- Heres the next chapter! Sorry it took so long. i write them out but hate typing them!