The man stood at the top of the table, going over drafts and old notes on god-knows-what. His thoughts wondered as he flicked through the papers...the girl had escaped his facility. But not before he had taken a blood sample And added a tracker. He logged onto his computer with a sadistic grinn and pushed the pendrive into the socket. The satalite picture came up and zoomed in. Bringing up a small red blip. She was in Happy Harbour.
" Have you found the girl?" A cold voice drifted from the shadows.
The man smiled to the darkness. " she's in happy harbour. We will have her in your grasp by the end of the month"
The dark figure emerged. red skin, claws and bright yellow eyes with gleaming fangs stared back at the man. " excellent"
come on Avalon! You can do it!" Shouted Cassie from her vantage point in the clear blue sky. Avalon stood on the edge of the mountain, gazing over and down into the sea below.
She fluttered her wings and backed away fron the edge, shaking her head.
" Come on, just jump and flap your wings. Like this" cassie interpretted wings by flapping her arms. " you won't fall"
Avalon slowly extended her wings, feeling the cool breeze flutter her new feathers. She breathed deeply.
" Come on angle girl! Fly!" Bart shouted from below. With that last word of encouragement, she took the plunge. Literaly jumping a cliff. She was steady to start with but started to wobble. Cassie flew up beside her and gave her a thumbs up.
Slowly, Avalon flapped her wings and gained altitude until she was at least 400 ft. Up in the air. She soared and dived, feeling her instincts kick in. She was meant for this. Meant for flight...meant to be free. The wind whipped at her hair and dress And from below she looked like a weird shaped kite. Bart, Wally, Artemis and Cassie clapped when she landed.
The girl bowed and follded her wings as Artemis hugged her.
" you did great, Ava...that will strengthen your wings right up and then some" the blonde winked.
Bart was next to hug her. She squeezed him tightly and giggled when he tickled the space between her wings.
She thwaked him with her right wing Playfully.
" Ow..." Bart deadpanned, rubbing his arm lightly. Wally who had been iff to the side cuffed his ear. " O-o-o-w-w!" He said again drawing out his sylables. Artemis shook her head and sighed.
" Boys will be boys..." She mumbled.
" team, inside now. Mission briefing in ten!" Nightwing yelled. Artemis and Wally shook their heads and Bart pouted.
" aawww, why is it everytime I have a good day." he threw his hands up in asparation " a stupid mission ruins it!"
" team!" Nightwing called again, this time Bart's expression turned sheepish. " coming!" And with that he sped off, followed by the others. Artemis trailed behind with Avalon. The archer had to admit...she had grown fond of the girl And when they found out who she was...well she wasn't sure she'd be able to let her go. Avalon had this aura about her. Wherever she went people became happy. But thanks to that expirience with the dream her sunny nature was sometimes cloudy and darkend. Artemis could see it now, the way Avalon stared forward...
" You okay?" Wally jarred her from her thoughts.
" Hm? Yeah I'm fine" she smiled thinly. Wally raised an eyebrow. " I'm fine Bay watch" she reasured. Still Wally stared.
" Is it something to do with the kid?" He asked finaly nodding ahead where Avalon was walking. Artemis nodded.
" I have a feeling something's going to happen" she shook her hear and pressed a hand to her temple. " I worry when she's here. I know it sounds strange but I don't think she's safe here."
" of course she's safe here. It's the cave, they have saftey mechanisms ev-ery-where" he sounded. The blonde smiled. " Nothing can get her here"
Artemis grinned and bit her lip, looking at the grass under her boots. " maybe you're right. Maybe I am just feeling paranoid" she shifted her gaze back to his and kissed his cheek. " plus. I think Bart has a crush on her"
" uhmmn" wally hummed his agreement and took her hand in his before the pair walked back inside the cool of the cave.
Avalon stood next to Cassie. She flexed her wings with childish glee and sometimes pushed herself off the ground a couple of inches. Nightwing who had finished part of the debriefing pulled an image up on screen. Avalon's happy exterior diminished in seconds, she recognised him instantly. He was one of the men in the lab coats. A member of cadmus. An enemy.
" This is Jark Cameron" nightwing said " one of the head scientists of cadmus. He along with another two men and conduting experiments designed to give a normal human meta-genes or superpowers. We also beleive this man could have information on Avalon's orign. Your mission is to find these files or any info Jark may have on her and get samples of this so-called meta-gene. Understood?" There were nodds all around.
" Right, team dismissed" the team filled out. This only left Avalon, Artemis, Wally and Nightwing.
" Avalon, can you?.." Wally gestured down the hall and the angel girl nodded once before vacating the room.
Once she was gone Nightwing began to talk once more. " right so I gathered some research last night..."
review. My head hurts and I had a math test today first period. Was not nice. Not nice at all, have another one tomorrow and would appreciate a little back up help. Please.
I really need ideas that is one of the reasons I haven't updated along with the revision I had to do (so sorry chapter is very late!) and the horrific science homework (doing reprodution, good thing I am mature)
thanks for your reviews so far and I will update hopefully by sunday or next week!