Winged Ones

Blake

We were lucky. Very lucky. Very, very, very, very, VERY, lucky. The girl that spotted us, she was a runaway. Longed for freedom and independence; everything that us winged ones specialized in. At least we wouldn't have to worry about a snitch. I looked down at her face and remembered what she said not minutes ago.

"Everybody thinks I'm just some dopey little nine year old. But I'm not. I can do things other nine year olds can't. When my parents died a few years ago everybody back home started to shelter me, like I shouldn't know about the bad stuff in the world. Like I can't handle it. But I can. I can live in the woods and survive. If you guys hadn't found me that's what I would have done. And I would have made it. I would have proven them all wrong."

Nine years old. But she thought like she was so much older, like her life had been rough and gained years of life, of experience in such a short time. Just like us winged ones. Stripped of innocence because we're different. In her case no parents. In ours, wings.

The past few weeks had seemed like years. How old was I anyways? It took me a little while to remember. Thirteen. Four years older than Jackie. Only. Thirteen seemed so young, practically a child. I looked over at Michel. Fifteen. That's how old he was. Barely older than thirteen.

Time seemed irrelevant. Like something rich people had to plan their lives around the tiniest little inconveniences such as sleeping and eating. Almost like it was a bother.

I sighed.

Jackie

I was glad I had found Blake and Michel. Sure, that meant that I was half trusting my life to a bunch of freaks, but really, it was better this way. They seemed nice. Plus, I've always wanted to know what it felt like to fly. Flying: the ultimate form of freedom. Restricted by not even gravity.

Ester Alice:

I jumped up and down on the spot, flaying my hands above me. "That's right, I won!" Swinging my hands around me, I forced my wings closer on my back so I could really rub in my cheated win. He, he!

Corbin began to speak, I couldn't really hear him because I had begun to sing. Casting a glance over at him, he twinkled his fingers smiling evilly. Shaking my head I ran behind the boulder. "No, Corbin!" I screeched childishly.

Jumping for me, I collapsed towards the ground giggling loudly as he attacked at my stomach and sides. "Stop, stop it Corbin!" Tears of laughter began to stream down my face.

"You know what-" he said stopping momentarily. I nodded wiping at my tears, opening my eyes again I stared into his sea blue eyes. I had always loved how they sparkled.
"What?" I asked, my voice coming out aliened.

~Ellie May~

The boy smiled at me, trying to comfort me I guessed. He didn't seem at all dangerous. I closed my eyes, looking for Blake. She was flying with Michel. But there was a girl with them. She looked young. She was a human though. My eyes flashed open when I heard the boy shift his weight. He stepped back, and I pulled my wings in. I turned on my heal, ready to walk back to camp. "Wait," he insisted, stepping forward after me. I stopped, spread my wings, and flew up past the trees.

~Ashton~

I followed below her, running through the forest. I saw her land in the clearing, more there with her. She turned in my direction, glaring at me. The others turned too, shock spreading over their faces. I stepped out, not so sure if that was the best thing to do.

Blaise

I had come back into the clearing to see a human boy. Well, that was just a little shocking.

"Who's this?" I asked, a bit defensively. "And how come you've brought him to our camp?"

~Ellie May~
Blaise didn't seem too mad. But I had expected him to be as scared as he was now. I looked at him, then the boy. We had invited him into the camp, and he was telling his story. "He followed me," I said, adding sarcasm to it, and narrowing my eyes and the boy. He looked down, no emotion on his dace. He was good at the poker face.

Blaise just stood there for a moment, then asked me, not him, "Who is he?" I looked at Blaise, shock on my face. I pointed at the boy. "You ask him!" I said. He sighed, not wanting to talk to a human at the moment.

"Ashton," I said after a moment of no one speaking. He looked up at me, then back down. I could only imagine how awkward it must be for some strange winged creature to say his name as though he wasn't there. Blaise nodded. "Why is he here?" Ashton answered before I could.

~Ashton~

"I ran away from them. I was supposed to be arrested for trashing part of that hospital." I pointed to the east. That seemed to interest him. Ellie had been just outside it. She probably didn't even realize it.

"Did you know that Blake and Michel are with a little human girl?" She asked. I was confused with the names, but I was sure they were winged ones too, by the way she said it. Then, I realized a little girl by the male. She stared at me for a moment, then went to Ellie's lap. They didn't speak, but Ellie shook her head. It seemed like some telepathic communication or something. But that was only in fairy tells.

Hell, none of this was supposed to be real. So telepathic communication was only a piece of it. The girl sat on Ellie's lap. She put her arms around the little girl's body. They seemed so much like family. All of them. More than family. Some of them were in love by what I got from Ellie. It was nice to see that, after all that they had been through, they still found love.

I really hope I am not messing up the storyline ...

Michel
As we walked towards the clearing I heard my name. As we stepped out of the brush I saw a boy. He didn’t have wings either.

“Another human?” I asked “This isn’t safe. We will run into someone dangerous soon.”

~Ellie May~

Ashton kept looking around at everyone. Michel and Blake joined us. “Another human?” he asked “This isn’t safe. We will run into someone dangerous soon.” I nodded. "But what was I supposed to do when he followed me? Kill him? We've been through a lot, Michel, and I know all of us hate the humans, but I wouldn't be able to kill him. He isn't who we're after." Michel nodded, not expecting me to give a lecture. But it wasn't; it was merely a fact. I felt the eyes on me, but I kept braiding Anika's hair.

Will he be OK to trust? She asked. I smiled and nodded down to her. She smiled to. I could tell Blaise knew, and Blake had to know by now, but did anyone else know?

~Ashton~

I knew how much they must have hated us then, but I didn't do anything to deserve the hate. Though I was sure that Michel one wasn't directing his anger towards me. It was for all of the humans that sent them to that island. I wanted to help as much as possible, but what could I do? I was basically helpless to them. But I was something they weren't, and I didn't have something they did. I was human, and I didn't have enormous wings.

I stood, not knowing what else to do. They all flashed their eyes at me. Even the little girl looked up at me, though her eyes were soft and gentle. Ellie's eyes were soft too, but scarred more than anything. They were a beautiful shade of light blue, even if they were worried.

I walked towards the forest. I heard someone follow after me, but I ignored them as much as possible. "Wait," Ellie said. I turned to her. "Where are you going?" She asked. I shrugged. "Why don't you stay with us?" Now, she seemed hopeful. I smiled a half smile, looking down, then back up at her. "Because I don't belong with y'all," I answered, amused by the face she made.

"You belong with us just as much as we belong together," she said. I think she meant her and the group, but it sounded like something different. My smile spread across my face. "What?" she asked, confused. "Nothing," I said. "Let's get back to camp or whatever you call it." She smiled, happy again.

"Camp," she said, giggling, and looking down. I laughed too. This could be a good thing, me staying with them. But who was I to talk about good things. I thought that trashing a hospital was a way to get my family back.

Anika

A human boy. It was interesting, to say the least. Blaise wasn't to happy about it, but Ellie seemed to like him. I was torn between the two opinions being thrown at me. I hated it when that kind of thing happened....

Blake

Ellie looked down at Anika and then nodded. Something weird was going on. So far Anika had weird powers. Something told me that she and Ellie could read each others minds. Whatever. Good for them.

When that kid--Ashton, I thought it was--walked away, Ellie followed him. Suspicious if you asked me.

I looked back at the rest--the winged ones and Jackie. I hoped she would fit in. As much as a human could. For some odd reason I wanted to protect her, to have her fit in. Maybe I was projecting my own wants to her, for her, but I didn't care. If my life had to suck no matter what I didn't want everyone else's to too.

Jackie

After Ashton and Ellie walked away I looked at the group. It seemed Michel had already accepted me, but I guessed that that was because of Blake. I mean, I caught them making out. It was obvious he would do just about anything for her, he was so hooked. And I thought she was the same for him, but it's harder to tell with Blake. She seemed so guarded.

Anyways, I was interested to see what everyone else thought of me. It was probably bad timing to have more than one human show up, because they seemed really iffy on one alone, as if that was pushing it. I didn't blame them though. I was kind of iffy joining them.

I looked to Blaise trying to figure out his angle on the whole thing. His face was stony, which could be either completely against the whole idea, or he could be simply still thinking. I looked to everyone else.

Blaise

The girl- Jackie- turned to look at me. Since obviously she was staying, and Blake (who was my best friend) really liked her... I decided making her feel welcome was all I could do. I walked over. "Hi, I'm Blaise," I said to her.

>sunstar, any reason why your posts turned really short all of a sudden? Because, no offense, it is kind of annoying when someone posts only a few sentences<

O.K. First I want to let everyone know that Michel isn't angry at people. He was just worried. Sorry, I have strayed from what I said he was like at the start too . . .

Michel
As Blaise walked over I slipped away. I always felt awkward around him because he had always been Blake’s best friend. Even though I knew he was with Kaylee I still always felt protective and stupid. I sighed as Jackie, Blake, and Blaise started to talk.

Suddenly I felt tired. Even with our resting I was still battered. I had tons of bruises, and cuts. We didn’t have very many supplies though. Most of them had been lost. I decided I better go get some food. I walked back to Blake.

“Hey,” I interrupted. “Can I use your bow?” She laughed.

“I have never seen you shoot a bow in my life.” I felt so weird. Blake and I didn’t really know eachother.

“Actually I am a fair shot. I used to practice a lot.”

“Oh,” She seemed surprised and taken aback. “You can get it from my pack can’t you?”

“Sure.” After retrieving the bow I walked into the woods.

~Ellie May~

I saw them eyeing me as I talked to Ashton under one of the trees. I was trying to make him feel like he wasn't left out, because I knew how it felt to be left out. He seemed pretty nice. He had been in a lot of trouble lately, but all of us had. Then, I closed my eyes, and frowned. I saw my worse nightmare. "The humans!" I shouted, standing. This wasn't the first time I'd given them a warning, so they took me seriously, putting out the fire, and packing things back up. Ashton seemed more than confused.

~Ashton~

I sat under a tree away from the others with Ellie. I was really starting to like her. She was cool, and very pretty. She seemed smart too, but I was sure she didn't like me much, or any human for that matter. I was happy at that moment, but when she closed her eyes, and frowned, I could tell something was wrong.

"The humans," she said, standing. I wondered what she meant. I was too confused to understand. They were all packing and running around. It looked like they had done this before. Personally, I thought they were crazy. Then Ellie explained.

"I can see things far away that are happening now, and I just saw the humans," she said. "They know we're here." This was to the rest of them. "About how long?" One of them asked. "Maybe forty five minutes," Ellie answered, shoving things in a bag. "How far?" the little girl asked, trying to help as much as possible.

"They're about three miles away, but they have a vehicle." She continued to answer their questions while packing, then she took the little girl, who, if I was correct, was Anika, holding her in her arms, and kissing her cheek.

Corbin~

I stopped tickling Ester and gazed down at her sparkling hazel eyes. "You know what?" I asked.

"What?"

"You're-" I stopped, I didn't know how to describe my feelings for her. She patiently looked at me, waiting for me to continue. Taking in her gorgeous hair, eyes, lips, cheeks, and just about everything, I whispered the first thing that came to mind. "You are the most beautiful person I've ever met."

She smiled at me, "And you're such a liar."

"Know really," I said desperately, "You're most gorgeous, sweetest person." And then I leaned over to kiss her. Her lips were soft and smooth, like rose petals.

Suddenly I heard Ellie call, "Humans!" and I reluctantly pulled away.

"We never get to finish, do we?" I joked.

She smiled, "come on." I slipped my fingers in between her and we jogged back to camp.

When I got there everyone was rushing around trying to get everything packed. I saw a human boy, about me age, standing in the trees and I rushed at him. Grabbing the boy's arms, I twisted them behind his back and then shoved his face in the ground. I dug my knee into his back. Suddenly Ellie screamed, "Corbin, stop it," and jumped on top of me, throwing me off the boy. I pushed Ellie off of me and looked around. The boy was watching me, but didn't look like he was about to hurt anyone, and I saw another human girl over by Blake.

I was completely confused, "Would someone mind telling me what the heck is going on? I rush over here to help because I heard Ellie screaming about some kind of human attack, and yet when I knock one to the ground you act like I'm the bad guy."

Kaylee:

Shaking my head I said a little bit to loud and frusterated "No Corbin. Those kids are safe as far as we know. They're runaways. The humans we're talking about are in a vehicle and are coming to kill us because for some reason they seem to hate us because we're different from what's seen as normal!"

Blaise grabbed my chin and looked into my eyes. "Kaylee," he said softly "you've got to relax hon."

Letting out a deep breath I softly kissed Blaise's shoulder where he had been biten. "I'm fine." I whispered.

Pulling away I knelt by Anika and kissed her cheek. "Half an hour." Ellie called.

The protective side of me came out and I rose. "They are not going to kill my family." I said firmly. "We have to move as far as we can from here. Tonight we need to get supplies to disguise ourselves. And as for you kids, we're taking you with us."

My face set so that they all knew, even the humans, not to question me. I scooped up Anika and placed her in Ellie's arms. "You take Ellie."

Pointing to one of the kids at random I said "You, your with me. Can someone grab them?"

She climbed onto my back worried. "Wrap your legs around my waist and your arms around my neck."

She did as told and I took to the air.
***Just to get getting there over with***
By the time we were far enough the sun was setting and everyone was about to collapse.