Lizzie cracked her eyes open slowly. Her lungs felt crushed up paper bags. She coughed up some blood and had blurry eyesight. She felt almost... Human? The wind shield was blown out. She blinked again to clear her blurry vision. She remembered the children in the back seat.
"Jamie? Sophie you okay?!" She yelled as she caught her breath.
"Y-yea we're fine" said Jamie as he held his seat belt with one hand tightly and one on his sisters chest with his eyes squeezed shut.
"Susan? Are you o-" she stopped and gasped at the sight of their mother. Her legs were crushed between the door and the center console. She was slouched over the wheel and there was blood coming from her head. She wasn't moving.
"No.. No!" She yelled. She looked to the hood of the car. Smoke started to rise and then a spark. It caught on fire. Lizzie lifted her hand to stop it. Nothing. She looked at her hand and glared at it. Why wasn't it happening? She pointed her hand towards the fire again and flicked her wrist. Again nothing was happening. She grit her teeth and grunted. She tried to turn around but her leg was stuck between the door and the seat. She hated feeling trapped.
She twisted her torso so her back was pointed towards the door. With all the little strength she could muster she unveiled her wings which made the door fly off and skid to a stop in the middle of the street. Well at least she still had her wings.
-drip-
She stopped and looked at the hood of the car. Then she looked at the huge tank in front of the crumpled up hood. She noticed that the cap to the gas tank was nocked off and slowly, gas started to drip out. Then the drips got bigger and coming out faster. If that gas made contact with the engine fire then this could get really ugly. Lizzie was running out of time. She needed to get everyone out and as far away as possible before this whole block went up in flames which for some odd she couldn't control.
"Jamie, get Sophie and come over to me." She said
Jamie opened his eyes and nodded, unbuckling his seat belt and moving over to Sophie and doing the same. He scooped her up in his arms. She held her upper arm and wailed in pain. He laid on his back in his seat and kicked his door open.
"Get behind me." She said as he walked up to her back. She put her wings around the two and sealed them shut creating a fireproof barrier and air pocket for the two. Then her focus turned to Ms. Bennett who hunched over the wheel. Still.
Lizzie bent down to her legs and pulled at the center console making Ms. Bennett's legs more visible.
-pop-
The front of the car exploded and made contact with the rest of the gas and made an even bigger explosion. Lizzie was blown out of the car and high into the sky. Eyes wide with fear. Her skin stung and sizzled. She then started her rapid decent. She couldn't spread her wings to slow herself down because they were occupied. So she was going to have to take this one. She folded in her arms and legs and braced for impact as she body slammed into the concrete creating a massive crater. She started to lose consciousness as the ambulance horns blared in the distance.