Pretenders

Bella~

After a moment of Kida staring at me, I spoke.

"What?" I asked, trying to keep my voice smooth and adorable.

"You...look different," he answered after a moment.

"I know." in response, I changed my appearance again, until I looked like a female version of him. "I can do that." he grinned, obviously intrigued by me.

Amber

"So... do you not want us to kill your master?" I asked, rather confused.

"No... I mean, yes, I want you to kill my master," the Djinni replied.

"Okay, I'll do it then and there's no need for anyone else to stay. I can't leave this place without finding out a few more things anyway and what better way to hide than in one of their bodies?" I grinned maliciously and hovered towards the door. I went to phase through it and found that it was coated in the strange electrical field that only I seemed to feel.

"Ouch," I mumbled, backing off. "Drat. Looks like I'll need to borrow a body this side of the door..."

"What do you mean?" Asher asked.

"They have some sort of current that my none-physical self can feel but if I phase through it in another body, it shouldn't be able to detect me."

"I'd like to remain here," Tranquility repeated.

"You sure?" I asked. He nodded. "Okay, I'll give you your body back as soon as we're on the other side and then we can look for a way to unlock the door or something."

Amber slid into the Assails' body. Now all that was left was to find a way to open the large double doors that kept them inside the EA.

"I'll handle this," Asher said as he approached the door. Black scales slid over his skin before he punched the computer panel that opened the door. It was locked with a fingerprint and eye scanner so they wouldn't have been able to hack it anyway.

He slipped his fingers between the doors and pulled as hard as he could. The doors slowly opened, but stopped when they were about half a meter apart.

"Go, now!" Asher said.

Amber, inside Tranquility's body, nodded before crawling under Asher's legs and slipping through the door. Once she was on the other side, Asher let out a relieved gasp as he let the doors slam shut.

Asher turned his attention to Katrina, who had until recently been spying on them. She wore a metal collar around her neck. That must be what the scientists were using to keep her in check. If she did anything she shouldn't it would send an electrical shock through her whole body.

He hated the thought of anyone being controlled in such a way. "Hold still," he said as he approached the girl.

She edged away. "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to get that thing off your neck."

Katrina look horrified. "You can't! The collar is set to explode if anyone removes it!"

"I know," Asher said. "I've seen lots of these before on other subjects. The range of the explosion isn't very big. I'll rip it off quick and throw the pieces away before it explodes."

"But... I'm scared."

"So am I," Asher told her. "But as long as you have that thing around your neck you'll be under their control. They've most likely put a tracking device in it as well, so they will always know where you are. The only way to be free is to get rid of it." He put a hand on her shoulder. "Please, trust me."

She looked into his eyes for a few moments before nodding. Asher grabbed the collar with both hands and tore it into two. One of the two pieces of the collar began to beep and flash with red lights. Asher threw the piece into an empty clearing in the EA. He wrapped his arms around Katrina and used his body to shield her from the explosion's shock wave.

*bowing out guys, sorry cant keep up with the posting and the storyline*

(this didn't go as planned. O well.)

(Sorry, did you have something else planned with the collar?)

Amber

'Okay so where now?' I jumped and turned, trying to locate the source of the voice and then realised that I was hearing Tranquility's thoughts. That was a strange development.

"To find a scientist," I replied, using his own mouth to shape the words. "And then to locate the Djinni's master. Any idea how to manage that?"

'Well the first part shouldn't be hard.' I nodded in agreement and walked around the corner.

"What... why are you out of the environment room?" A middle aged woman with curly, black hair asked worriedly. Good question, I thought. Instead of answering, I propelled myself forward, leaving Tranquility's body and diving straight into hers.

"Okay, now what's our story?" I asked.

"You're taking me to room 11 for a re-administration of the drug," Tranquility answered.

"Sounds... believable. Okay, let's find out where they keep their records and see who summoned the Djinni."

((I actually didn't know what to do. But now I dont know what to do now.))

**Now we all leave**

Trent-

Trent looked at the others. "Lets get out of here before they come in with those shot things." He said, They all walked to the middle of the EA room and Tylana pointed up. They would be able to get out through the roof. Somehow. "Is there anything we can change into to everyone carried out?" Tylana plopped down and she looked like she was thinking.

"Unless they can turn to fleas and ride on our backs, no." She replied sadly.

"Alright, do you think you could climb up to the top of the roof with someone on your back?" Trent asked Asher.

Asher closed his eyes for a moment, thinking. "Maybe. But carrying one person after another takes time and energy. I can start carrying people, but in the meantime you need to find another way out as well."

Trent nodded. "I'll try to think of something."

Asher looked around at the group. "Who's going to be first?"

Katrina held her hand up. "I'll go first."

Asher nodded and led her to the wall. He went down on one knee so she could climb onto his back. "I need both my arms to climb, so hold on tight."

"Right." She climbed onto his back, her arms wrapped around his chest.

Black scales slid over Asher's body as his hands turned into claws. He thrust his claws into the wall and began to climb.

*Bella can fly herself up, as can Trent and Kida. Selina can shape shift into a bird. Rek can also shapeshift into an animal. So only Katrina and Lana need a ride. *

Tylana-

Tylana picked Lana up and flew towards the top. Trent followed up in a bird as the others followed.




*all I got for now*

((Lana))

I sighed rather loudly. Tylana looked at me. "Tylana, Tylana. Please put me down."

Tylana looked confused, "Why? We're getting out?"

"I have my dignity left, don't forget."

Tylana struggled to land with me in her arms. She ended up dropping me because I was too heavy. I didn't mind. The ground was cover with a few billion feet of vegetation. I picked myself up and let my body flow with anger. "Go ahead Tylana." I told her. She took off towards the top of the ceiling.

"Rise!" I barked out. Once again a mound of dirt lifted below me and carried me up to the ceiling. My hands were held out by my sides. I was really starting to get tired.

"Asher, now would be a good time to bust open the ceiling."

Asher shifted his weight so he could stay balanced with Katrina on his back and open the ceiling up at the same time. He punched a hole through the glass that wasn't supposed to break for anything. I hovered near the center of the huge glass dome. Asher had made a hole big enough for one person to get through.

"Careful." I stated. I extended one of my hands towards the hole Asher had created. "Crush." I told some of the surrounding glass. The glass around the broken hole shattered into a fine powder and fell to the ground. The hole had doubled in size and it was definitely taking a toll on me. My head was throbbing uncontrollably.

"Let's get out of here." I said half to myself. Asher and Katrina were outside, Tylana followed. I willed the dirt to rise more so I could climb out. I scrambled onto the roof top and let the dirt fall below. I was met by a strong wind that almost blew me back into the prison. I surveyed the land around us.

Moorland continued for a few hundred yards and was broken by a tree line. That's where we were headed. And after that to the werewolf by the sea cliffs.

Asher was taken aback by the sight, he had never seen the ocean before. His heart fluttered at the sight of all that water. He didn't think, How are we going to get across all that water. Instead, he though, I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life.

"Uhh, Asher?" The dragon looked over his shoulder to the girl on his back. "The others are leaving."

Asher saw everyone flying off the building and heading to a nearby forest. Asher made an irritated 'tch' when he said, "Couldn't they at least wait a moment for us to catch up?"

The building was one giant dome. It would be hard getting down, especially with Katrina on his back. "Hold on tight," he warned her before running down the side of the building. As soon as the dome became too steep to run on he jumped, spun in the air and dug one claw into the wall. He slid down the side of the building, his claw left clean lines of ripped metal as he went down. He pulled his claw out of the wall once he was down. When he looked up he saw the building mending itself like it had in the EA.

Asher kneeled so Katrina could get off his back. "Come on, the others are waiting for us." Together they made their way through the forest to a cliff edge where the werewolf was waiting for them.

Amber

We didn't mean anyone else on the way to the records room and their files were neatly organised into each experiment so finding a name of the scientist who controlled the Djinni was not difficult but finding a picture took more time.

"Check their computer records," Tranquility suggested. "I think I know one of the passwords." I loaded the screen and turned it towards him. He typed in a long word and I didn't bother to try and follow it but the computer deeped and 'access granted' flashed across the screen.

"Quick," Tranquility urged, "they'll know someone's logged on." I nodded and suddenly realised something. I switched the computer off.

"Come on," I commanded.

"You found it already?" Tranquility asked.

"No but this body recognises the name. We need to go upstairs to the third office." I led the way and this time we were questioned once but fortunately the man seemed to buy our story. We reached the office and sure enough, there she was, sitting at a desk, logging some data into a computer.

"Hello," I greeted her. She jumped.

"Why have you brought him up here?" She asked. I didn't bother to reply. Tranquility had already crossed the room and was wrapping his hands around her neck.

Tylana couldn't believe the site in front of her, it was AMAZING. She didn't have shoes on and the coolness of the grass sent shivers up her back. It was so wonderful. She breathed in deeply of the fresh crisp air, nothign like the stuffness she had always known at the Center. She spread her wings out and jumped in the air spinning as she went up.

"This is awesome. I can't believe they kept this from us." Trent was laughing. He turned into a lion and rolled in the grass then jumped up into the trees and back down. Tylana landed next to him and he changed back to normal as Asher and Katrina stopped next to them. "WE probably need to keep going. There has to be more."