A/N: I am so sorry I haven't updated soon. The past few weeks have been hectic and I just got home last night after two weeks on vacation, and two weeks with my best friend. I have unfortunately been busy. So, without out further ado:

Chapter 6 - Time to Go

"Suzume." She says, taking my hand with a smile. Her smile suddenly falters and her grip on my hand tightens. Her eyes flutter close and she drops to the floor, taking me with her.

"Suzume!" I check for a pulse and sigh in relief. I put my hand to her forehead. No fever.

"Arya! What happened?" Daniel comes running in most likely at my panic.

"I don't know. We were introducing ourselves when she suddenly fainted." Orlando comes around the counter to see the commotion. One look at Suzume and tears start sprouting from his eyes. Shida and John stop and come over.

"I'll get water!" Shida cries, and bolts away.

Suzume suddenly takes a gasp of breath.

"Suzume! Wake up!" Unexpectedly, this came from Orlando, sprouting a small fountain.

"Here! Use this!" Shida says, coming in with a bucket of water.

"No! Wait Shida! Don't..." The water is thrown down on top of Suzume, Daniel, and myself. Suzume sits straight up, most likely from the shock of the cold. She looks at me with a terrified expression.

"What's wrong?" I ask, putting my hand on her shoulder. She looks down and mutters something quiet enough that only Daniel and I can hear.

"Experiment 279-2759." My eyes go wide and a chill falls over me, and it's not from the water.

"How do you know that?" I ask in a shaky voice. When I escaped, I never ever wanted to hear that again. I feel Daniel's questioning gaze on me, but try to ignore it till later. She looks up at me, a look of horror in her eyes.

"They're coming for you." A flood of fear runs right through me, not wanting to believe it. The look in Suzume's eyes, however, only confirms my fears.

"Arya, Suzume, what's wrong?" Daniel says, worry in his voice.

"I have to go." I say, standing up.

"What do you mean?" Daniel asks.

"They're looking for me and that means you guys will get caught up in the mess. I'm not risking that." I find a door leading outside. As I'm about to reach it, I feel a hand on my shoulder and am spun around.

"And you think we're going to just let you walk out of here and get caught?" Daniel says with serious determination in his eyes. I try to match his determination, but truthfully I am scared to tears. His gaze softens along with the grip on my shoulder.

"Orlando! Suzume! Start grabbing food! No cans, we need to pack light. Shida! Clothes! And no funny business! John! Grab the old maps!" He calls behind his shoulder

"Wait, no. I can't let you leave your home." I protest as everyone starts rushing around.

"No worries. We try to move every so often. It's our third home and we've been ready for a while." he says with a reassured smile.

About half an hour later, we were all outside and ready to go. Each of us had a light backpack with food and clothes. I look down the line, each person with excitement on their face. Well, almost each person. Arya looks like she's ready to pass out.

"Alright, one by one take off!" I say, taking a head count as each of my siblings go. Shida is the first to go, like usual. She jumps off the cliff, free falls for a sec before she spreads a pair of black wings spotted with white that lift her up into the sky. Next was John, following Shida with light brown wings. Orlando jumped with a happy smile as his pure white wings pulled him up with the others. Suzume followed Orlando on a pair of dark purple wings, often mistaken for black. I turn and see Arya watching the others in amazement.

"Your turn." I say. She comes out of her trance and looks at me as if I've got two heads.

"I can't do that. I've only flown once in my life and it ended in an unexpected dive bomb." She says, referring to the night she escaped.

"It's easy. Just jump and unfurl. You saw the others." I say, pointing to my siblings.

"Yeah, but they've been able to practice for a while." She protests, watching them do flips and fancy turns.

"Well," I start before I hear the sound of a helicopter in the distance. "We have to go. Now!" I say, grabbing her hand and racing toward the edge.

"Wait! What do you mean?!" She asks, shocked at the sudden movement.

"They're almost here. And fast." I say, getting to the edge.

"Wait, what do you mean they're almost heeeerrrre!" We jump off the edge and free fall, all the while the sound of the helicopter coming closer and closer. I wrap my free arm around Arya's waist and unfurl my dark brown wings, lifting us up with the others.

"A chopper is coming!" I yell above the cool wind at the others. I bring myself up to them, taking the rear.

"Where are we going?" Suzume asks.

"Just keep going. I'm figuring that out." I had absolutely no idea where to go. Right now, my goal is to get ahead of that chopper and someplace safe. I look down at Arya. She had a look of amazement on her face, even as we're close to facing intimate doom. With the wind blowing in her face, I could tell this was where she belonged. She looked up at me with a huge grin on her face.

"This is amazing!" she says, holding her arms out and closing her eyes. I couldn't help but smile. I remember my first time up in the air. The sense of freedom, wind in your hair. It had been the first time I felt good in my life. Arya looks exactly how I felt. I found that she was surprisingly light in my arms as I flew ahead to start turning us south so we didn't have to fly through a lot of desert. Even though the sense of danger never left me, I'm glad to up in the sky, somewhat relaxing. I close my eyes as I feel the wind brush my bangs to the side. I let myself get lost, forgetting about the world around. I get about two minutes of this before my 'spidey-sense' starts kicking up a storm, but only a moment to soon. My eyes open wide just as I hear the sound of a rifle go off. I feel a hard tug from Arya, who pulls me hard to the right. Next minute I know, I feel a sharp pain in my shoulder and drop about 25 feet. My vision gets hazy as I fight to keep upright.

"Daniel!" I faintly hear. I look down and see Arya with a panicked expression. I see the others had flown ahead.

"Just keep going." I tell her as I lose consciousness.

A/N: I hope you guys liked the chapter. I had a lot of fun writing this one and I think the next one will be better. If you guys have any suggestions, please let me know. I am having writer's block more often and a few suggestions really couldn't hurt. But, if you have no suggestions and like the fact that I am making this story up as I go along, pleeeeaaaassssee let me know and review! I love reviews and would really appreciate a few reviews. See ya soon! :D