Take What Matters
Song: Love the Way You Lie
Max held the baby girl close, fighting as well as she could with one hand. Nearby, Fang was fighting off others, quickly becoming enswarmed. Ella fought her way through the crowd. The turmoil was becoming death doomed for both avians.
"Take Aero!" yelled Max, handing off her only little girl. She watched her for a split second, absorbing her delicate black wings, their down rustled in the wind. Then a solid kick hit her face, and she turned to defense again . Ella excaped, weaving through the crowd of bloodthirsty mutants. All she could do was watch from a safe point as Maximum and Fang, Aero's parents, were overcome. She looked into the split-colored eyes of this little gift, the last thing that the world's greatest leaders left.
Could one child make such a difference?
Twenty years later...
Aero
I smiled faintly, looking at the only known pictures of my parents. Mom, her long whitish wings outstretched, and Dad with his large black wings around hers.
My gaze extended, gazing off to the other Flock members, my Flock members.
My parents died saving me.
They took what mattered out of danger.
I would never feel their touch.
Hear their voice.
Or fly with them.
What I miss most?
Knowing that they're more than a picture.