Crouched on the roof I scanned again for any souls that were not where they were supposed to be and I found two small groups both about to round the corner of the building in front of me. Slinking back into the shadows I was relieved I was still perched on the fire escape. When the two groups came into view I was shocked, mostly because one of the groups was the gang, Simon, Tori, Derek, and Kit they were all there. The other group made up of two native American looking girls, two native American looking boys, two blond girls, and two guys, I couldn't place them at first but I had a suspicion on who they could be. Which was only confirmed when the groups started talking.

"Who are you?" Derek was as gruff and to the point as before

"Who are you?" The native girl had guts to stand up to Derek that was for sure,

"I asked first"

The girl frowned and said "Maya, Maya Delaney" yep suspicion confirmed the other group was the escapees from project phoenix "now who are you?"

Derek scowled and Kit stepped forwards to speak, taking this as my cue I grabbed the fire escape ladder sliding down the sides of the ladder ignoring the rusting metal which flaked of on my gloved hands. Grinning slightly I said "oh my! Project phoenix and project genesis finally together, so cute." Raking my gaze over the gang I muttered "your missing one." Probably only Derek and the skin walkers caught it

Maya gaped and said "how do you know about project phoenix?" Apparently she wasn't bothered by the missing group member, though its not her group so its not her problem.

Smirking I said "there are other experimental groups and your not the only ones who escaped and have a grudge against the Edison group. This is my sixth, no seventh base, only three more after this one and then no more Edison group" flashing them a feral grin I continued "so if you guys are gonna stand around and potentially trigger some alarms go do it somewhere else I have a base to blow up" nodding at them I tipped an imaginary hat and crossed the ally crouching in front of the buildings wall.

"What the...how are you getting in?"

Glancing over my shoulder I said "the window silly" the blond, sam if I was remembering her file correctly, didn't look impressed at being called silly

"The window that is several floors up? And how are you going to get to the window?"

Grinning I said "like this" pulling as much dark energy around myself as I dared I jumped as soon as I reached the peek of my jump I kicked off the wall and summersaulted towards the opposite wall I continued to launch from wall to wall quickly reaching the second floor window, gathering the dark energy in my hands I slammed them on the wall hard and dug my fingers in the wall crumbled a little but held. Removing one hand from the wall I unlatched the window and pushed it open, swinging up onto the window sill I waved at the shocked faces bellow and dropped down onto the floor the other side of the window.

Gliding down the corridors I smiled to my self finally appreciating the years I spent doing gymnastics at school now, using my powers I scanned the building for souls and found that maya and Derek's groups had made it into the building. Huffing I started taking out guards aiming for small groups three at once max, when I finally reached the records room I shoved my memory stick into the computer and set it to down loading and then I moved back out and started taking out more guards. Five minutes later I made my way back to the records room only to run into maya's group although the other native girl...Annie? had shifted as had one of the native boys, I think it was her brother so there were six people and two large cougars.

Grinning I waved and said "hey guys what you been up to?" as I spoke I walked past them and into the records room, puling out my memory stick I glanced at the group standing by the door the two cougars bared their teeth. Snorting I shifted my left arm running my fingers lightly over the tattoo of a huge black wolf like animal on my right fore arm as I said "I wouldn't do that if I were you" and as I spoke I noted with no small amount of satisfaction that the tattoo rippled and shifted moving on my skin as though the beast was eager to move and leave behind the confinement of my skin.

The other blond girl which had to be Hayley stuttered "wh..what..did..t..th..that...did that tattoo just move?!"

Smiling I strolled past and was just about to leave the records room when Maya said "wait whats your name?"

Blinking I said "oh you can call me Styx"

The sandy haired boy spoke up "as in the river in the under world? Or the brown thing you throw for a dog to fetch?"

Smiling despite trying not to I said "you must be Corey, and yes as in the river in the under world"

"Wow wow wow how do you know who I am?"

Rolling my eyes I said "I read up on all of you in the event that I ever ran across any of you, and the other group too,"

Maya cut in "is that how you knew one of them was missing?"

Not bothering to vocalise my answer I just nodded, Daniel made his presence felt as he said "do you know why?"

"Why what?"

Rolling his eyes he said "why the person they are missing is currently...well...missing?"

Staring at Daniel I remembered the day I found out the group didn't want me any more.

flash back

Sitting up and stretching I groaned slightly 'god yesterday was long' it had been particularly long as we couldn't settle till we shook of the Edison group that had been following us ever since Tori snapped at me too loudly in a shopping centre and drew some much unwanted attention, which resulted in me being recognised and us being moved because of the half a million reward on my head and the Edison group found out so we had to leave in a hurry. Rolling out of bed I staggered into the living area expecting to see mess everywhere from when we dropped stuff when we came in and probably take out waiting for me along with the rest of the gang as I hadn't seen Tori in our room. But when I stepping into the living room I saw the room was painfully tidy and there wasn't a single sign anyone except me had ever been there save for a note on the coffee table, lifting the note I scanned over the neat print that told me Derek had written the note.

Chloe,

We are leaving. You can't come with us any more you are slowing us down, you are too recognisable and it is a risk. You are a liability to the group, the weak link. We can't risk everyone I'm sorry. Go home, I'm sure your dad would be pleased to see you and he should be able to protect you from the Edison group. Enjoy your life, your normal life.

Derek , Tori, Simon, and Kit.

I had sat and stared at the note for nearly an hour thinking maybe it was a joke and they would all come crashing in laughing at how gullible I am, and then it sunk in, they left me. Over the mall incident which had mostly been Tori's fault but of course I got blamed, well I was done with it. Being walked all over isn't fun and there is no way I'm going home so I can be caught, no thanks which means I now have to survive on my own.

That had been when I decided to train and work on my skill set, working with my powers, learning my limits and I found I didn't really have any. If I tried hard enough I could do pretty much anything which is how I found out I could kill people by yanking their souls out of their bodies and then banishing their souls, or just render them unconscious if I pull on their soul hard enough with out actually removing it. With a lot of concentration I could even command the living as I did the dead but so far my control only extended to one living person at a time, but I'm sure with practise I would be able to control more. The dark energy thing had been a surprise as had Hel (the living tattoo) but they were both stories for another time. Focusing back on Daniel I answered his question "she was too slow, held up the group so they ditched her"

Hayley nodded and said "survival of the fittest"

Corey whacked her arm and said "how would you like it if we ditched you?"

"Uh"

"Yeah thought so, don't be such a bitch Hayley no body deserves to be ditched by their friends especially when on the run, thats just harsh"

Ash snorted and muttered "don't know, she's probably better off without them if what I saw was any indicator of their group dynamics"

Frowning I said "what did you see?"

Looking at me carefully he said "well their group is falling apart, the big brute he is trying to be in charge but they all argue too much, I would say the girl was probably all that was holding them together and now they are starting to fall apart. I swear I heard the bitchy one start arguing with the adult just for sighing and it just escalated from there. It was honestly impressive that they could find that many things to argue about while in this situation"

Snorting I said "well they survived three years without her, I think they can cope for the rest of today"

Giving them another little wave I exited the room and started my trek through the building tugging souls out as I went, every hall was the same. I walked down the middle of the corridor, people saw me and panicked, and then I yanked their soul out and they collapsed. This continued for all of the second floor and most of the first floor until I reached the prison, swiping the key I stole of one of the dead guards in the lock I pushed the door open. Striding down the centre aisle of the prison section I started opening doors, the prisoners were slow exiting. Probably thinking its a trap, when they were all finally were stood in the hall way I turned to face them and said "come on then lets go"

A tall man near the back of the group called out "how can we trust you?"

Rolling my eyes I said "screw you, I'm rescuing your ungrateful asses, if you don't want to get out of here before I blow it up your welcome to stay..."

The blond woman standing next to the tall guy elbowed him harshly and said "nope we're good, lead on oh great rescuer"

Snorting I turned and leaned the group from he prison and straight up towards the nearest exit, any guard we saw collapsed dead before they could so much as scream. However after the fourth group of guards dropped dead on sight the blond woman from before sidled up to me and said "are you doing that?"

Smiling I said "maybe"

Eyes rounding she said "how?"

Smiling with a whole lot of tooth I said "I'm an experimented on necromancer, and it would appear their experiments rendered me with powers with no conceivable limit"

The woman gaped and said "so your..."

"..Pulling out their souls and then banishing them? Yep"

The woman looked distinctly ill after that revelation and said "I..I see"

Grinning at her discomfort I said "whose the guy?"

Blinking she smiled and said "oh thats Clay my mate, and I'm Eleanor"

Stiffening a fraction I said "he's a werewolf?"

Frowning she said "we both are, is that going to be a problem?"

Sighing I shook my head and said "no, no, nothing like that I have nothing against werewolves in general, just one in particular. Well actually three but ones dead now so to answer your question no it won't be a problem. Although I'm curios I thought you couldn't get female werewolves"

The woman shook her head slightly digesting this information before replying "no not normally I'm the only one as far as we can tell, the change usually kills women however I appear to have been an exception."

Nodding slightly I said "it must be nice"

"What? Being the only of my kind?"

"No, having a mate"

"Oh. Yeah, it is pretty great"

"Only pretty great?"

The loud gravelly male voice behind me would have at one time sent me several feet in the air but as it was I only raised an eye brow and said "you must be Clay, it nice to meet you, you can call me Styx."

The werewolf sniffed slightly and said "humpf how did you know I was there?"

Grinning slightly I said "I have to be able to sense a soul to drag it kicking and screaming from its body, I monitored your movements when I learned you're a werewolf and would be able to hear our conversation. I figured you would come over at some point and try to scare the shit out of me. You werewolves are so similar sometimes"

The last bit was said with a wistful smile which neither missed. Eleanor spoke up "you've had lots of dealings with werewolves before?"

Smirking at her I said "you could say that"

"What does that mean?"

"It means two tried to kill me/ take me captive so they could take my werewolf boyfriend, now ex boyfriend, to the pack and claim that he was a man eater, so they could save their own hides. Those two wouldn't give up so in the end we fought them and one of them died, the other gave up to take his friends body."

"Those two werewolves, you didn't happen to catch a name did you?"

Snorting I said "Liam and Ramon, right pair of assholes"

"Huh so thats what happened, we've been trying to work out what happened to them for a while now. They've always been a thorn in our sides and then they suddenly went all quiet about three and bit years back, so that was you was it?"

Raising an eyebrow I said "yeeeesssssss?" Drawing the word out I pondered their wording. "Your from the pack!"

Nodding Eleanor said "yeah"

Squinting I said "oh shit your that Eleanor and Clayton with the pups right?"

Cutting into the conversation Clay practically growled "how do you know about the pups?"

Sighing I explained about finding the emails on Andrew's computer and our subsequent research into the pack at a later and safer date, "...so yeah we wanted as much info as possible incase de..my ex boyfriend ever needed to go talk to you guys about some werewolfy thing." Shrugging at the end I watched the two werewolves digest the information I was giving them and as I looked up I saw the exit just in front of us, perking up I said "almost out the exit is just over there." Not waiting for any replies I hurried everyone over to the exit and then instructed them to either loiter, and I would help them set up new fake identities or they were welcome to just go. Most chose to just go.

Closing my eyes I scanned for the two groups still in the building I found the gang by the records room and the project phoenix kids were all the way on the other side of the compound, starting back into the building I noted there also seemed to be a very large number of guards in that area. Concentrating on only the guards souls I gave huge tug and felt the give when their souls left their bodies, quickly banishing their spirits I made sure both groups were alright before I hurried towards the phoenix group, the presence of two souls trailing me had me whipping round to see both Clay and Eleanor looking sheepish. "What are you doing in here?"

"We want to help"

Groaning I contemplated how long it would take to argue them out of the idea, giving up I said "can you find the group with the werewolf in the building they should be upstairs near the records room?"

Nodding the werwolves took of upstairs, and I started running towards the far south end of the building were I could still feel the phoenix kids souls.