Getin' to know ev'ry 1

Getin’ 2 know everyone
Well that was about a week ago, it’s hard to believe that just a week ago we were living in a cage, being called ‘experiments’ this ‘experiment’ that, done evil inhuman experimentations on and having absolutely nothing normal to waist our time with, like maybe writing a blog, hmm.

Still 1 week ago
The kid who helped us introduced himself when we landed in a clearing in the woods a few kilometers away from the school we just escaped from. His name is Zander, he’s some sort of other avian hybrid, not like me and Jay, he has 1% avian DNA and then 1% of something he doesn’t even know himself and then 98% human, or that’s what he tells us, I feel he’s hiding something. He was ‘made’ in another lad at the same school we were made, and goes around saving avians he thinks could help him fight the school or any other hybrid he finds out are about to be exterminated ‘coz there ‘mistakes’ like Jay and me (well that does a lot for your self esteem). Jay woke up on our way towards the clearing, he had such a scare he almost forgot he had wings when he fell from Zander’s arms, I had to dive down behind him to remind him. We explained the whole thing to Jay and he got easy again, and insisted on flying by himself towards the place Zander was taking us.
We got to the clearing, Zander introduced himself and called into the woods.
“T.K., Lily, Marcus, Em!!!” From four hiding spots around the clearing came four kids, 2 boys and 2 girls. Zander turned to us and smiled then continued.
“This is sorta my family, our flock, that’s T.K.” He said and pointed at a blond boy dressed in all white, his wings was also a pure white (he sorta looked like an angle), he looked a little younger than me, and he smiled and lifted his hat and did a bow, the whole time his eyes caught my attention, they looked unseeing, yet he looked directly in our direction. “He’s blind, but don’t tell him.” Zander continued in a jokey way, trying to say it like a secret.
“I heard you, you know, and OMG I’m blind, that explains a lot!” The blond guy said, also joking.
“This is Em” he said while a little girl with black hair with white streaks gave him a hug, she looked over at me and my brother and smiled, she looked to be about 6, was that fangs I saw!? Probably not, I didn’t even see her wings. Zander continued.
“and they’re Lily and Marcus” he said and pointed at a girl with a truckers cap on, short brown hair with one pink streak in, she looked about 11 years old I guess, she also looked really shy, her wings were a hazel color, like her eyes. The boy with her looked about my age, he had red hair and blue eyes, he didn’t have a shirt on or any shoes, only a black jacket and some pants, his wings were reddish. Markus looked at me and smiled, he winked at me and Jay looked around towards me as if the answer to Marcus’ wink was written over my face in magic marker, I gave him the what-was-that-about look, and being my twin, only he saw it and raised his eyebrow and shrugged.
“Guys we gota move, they’ll probably send erasers after us, I did a real number on one of their labs” Zander said turning back to his group, flock he called them. Jay felt his neck, it was starting to turn blackish blue, it looked painful, the memory came drifting back into my head. It was ‘coz of Zander’s number that Jay almost got his handed to him, but it was also ‘coz of Zander that we got away. I’m so confused, who are these people, why did he help us, why did the man back at the school sort of warn me of him coming for us, why did he say don’t trust, what’s going . . .
“What’s your name, hello, you awake?” I finally snapped back to reality when the little girl, Em jumped up in front of me, waving her arms and asking.
“Am, well names Lexis, my brother calls me Lex, white coats call me ‘that annoying pyromaniac experiment 21’ I like to accidently burn them on our tests.” I gave a giggle at the thought of setting one of the white coats’ pants on fire.
“O and he’s Jay, short for Jayson, he’s emo so he doesn’t talk much, the strong silent type.” I said gesturing to Jay, he smiled and gave me a look.
Everyone except Jay looked at me, Zander finally spoke, probably asking what everyone was wondering about.
“. . . accidently burn them on your tests?”
“Ya, that’s my power, I can create fire out of thin air, not sure how actually.” I smiled, and for the first time in my live I gave a straight answer.
Zander quickly gave directions to where we’ll meet if something happened to happen. Our new flock jumped up into the air, Zander had Em in his arms (looks like she did after all have no wings), we were off.
Like fate would like it, something did happen. Not long after we took off we heard screams and saw flashlight beams.
“Found them! They’re taking of! Stop them! Boss is gona kill us if we let them get away! How many are there?” It was a bunch of erasers screaming and yelling and pointing up towards us. My heart sank and turned to ice, we weren’t even free for 24 hours and we’re already caught, lives unfair.
“Guys go as high as possible, if we get scattered we all meet at the place, T.K you stay with Lily, Jay can you carry extra weight?” Zander instantly started barking orders.
“ya, I guess so?” Jay answered. Jay knew instantly that meant he was supposed to carry Em, and sit this fight out. He flew a little closer to Zander and stretched out his arms.
“Here, then you take her, be careful-“ Zander handed Em over trying not to get his wings tied up with Jay’s “Lex, you up for a fight?”
“Sure!” I bowled a fist.
“Marcus, no use in sneaking off, your with us.” Zander said as we all noticed him trying to fly off.
Jay, Lily, Em and T.K flew off, leaving me, Zander and Markus to keep the erasers busy. A few of the erasers, still in human form, morphed, growing uglier, their faces got more wolf like, claws erupting from the tips of their fingers, wings sprout from their backs, I didn’t know they could do that, the ones at school couldn’t fly. They howled and jumped into the air.
“Oh holy cow, I forgot how scary they were.” Markus said under his breath, mainly to himself.
“Come on guys-“ Zander started but I interrupted.
“Ah hem?”
“-And girl, the best offence is a good defense, get ready.”
We stood our ground, I mean air, they came closer and came to a stop in front of us, we had a standoff on our hands.
“Double zero sixteen, we give you one last chance, come with us and you won’t share their end!” What I guessed was the alpha eraser snarled at Zander, me and Markus looked at Zander wondering what they wanted from him.
“Never, I won’t be turned into a monster that easily!” Zander practically snarled back, his eyes glowing bright yellow for a second, Zander bared his teeth and I saw fangs, what is he?
“Good then we have our permission to use deadly force.” The alpha said, sounding eerily calm. “Take them, the rest, go after the others.”
The five erasers who were with the alpha launched at us, their wings making them slower and not so nimble like us. I caught a glimpse of four erasers flying past us after the others.
One eraser grabbed my leg, making me remember I was in a fight, I kicked at him but it was useless, his claws dug into my ankle.
“Get . . . off!” I yelled as I summoned up the fire within me, like all those times before the fire erupted from the palms of my hands, barely scorching me. I gave a giggle as I sadistically threw my flames at the erasers face, I briefly smelled the smell of burned hair right before the erasers will to let me go and fly for the nearest water overpowered the erasers order to take us no matter what, the eraser let go and fell to the ground, screaming all the way down. I quickly stole a glance at Zander, he was going head to head with the alpha, Markus was out flying four erasers, and it didn’t even look as if he was trying. Two of the erasers finally got tired of chasing something they couldn’t catch and came for me. I gave a startled gasp, one eraser saw it and smiled at me.
“Stupid” I said as I composed myself again, summoning up my fire again, I gave a smile and created a fire ball in my hand. Bouncing it up and down in my hand I decided which one I should use it on, just to even the odds, so to speak. I decided on the one who smiled, with surprising accuracy I hit him between the eyes, his smile turned to a howl of pain, or anger, he clutched his eyes and forgot to flap, he started to fall to earth, howling all the way down. His friend looked like he got a little discouraged by his friends fall, but only for a sec or two, after that he came at me, renewed anger fueling him.
I readied myself for his attack but before he could get to me I saw Markus speed by, missing me by just a little, he was going way faster than any avian should or could go. Suddenly it hit me, literally like a ton of bricks, the eraser that was chasing Markus flew right into me, knocking me out of the air, just before I blacked out I heard Markus yell. “Sorry . . . Zan help!”

After that . . . . . nothing.
~Lex~