Wings

[LightofHeaven]

((At Elana, right?))

 

[rockerchic]

((I think he ment Elana))

Leo could do nothing; he felt so helpless with two guns pointed at him and an injury in his leg. Things weren't looking so good. Elana was their last hope.

"Dont trust him Elana. Shoot him!"

no one expected what happened next; again there was nothing Leo could do.

 

[Donkey_Kong_JR]

((ya at Elana))

 

[Sayci]

"Dont trust him Elana. Shoot him!" Leo yelled out to her.

Her hand shook as she raised the gun, she couldn't do it. She couldn't take a life, it's just not her place. She was about to speak when she heard a different sound, someone new was breathing loudly. She took her eyes briefly off the agent and they glowed red as she glanced around the hallway. Elana's eyes met the man's on the floor right as he rolled over and pointed a guantleted hand at her. The force spread out of the guantlet in a wave and hit every part of her and shoved her off the ground against the wooden paneling. Pain flooded her body at the sudden impact and the gun thudded against the floor after slipping out of her hand. Her head cracked against a picture on the wall as her eyes burned a brighter red in her anger.

 

[rockerchic]

"Elana!" He shouted as she was blasted out the door. Now Leo was angry, he wasn't going ot take this anymore. The gunmen were distracted; this was his chance, and he knew exactly what he was going to do.

"Wings appear" he wispered and his emense white feathered wings slowly emerged. All eyes however where focused on what was going on in the hallway. Next Leo did something that came along with his super strength, only this was strength in his wings. Leo pulled his wings far back, then pushed them forward with intense speed and power. This created a strong wind like no other, that sent everyone flying back along with papers, chairs, and other miscellanious items in the room.

"I told you to leave." Ignoring the pain in his leg, Leo then, started walking toward the men.

 

[K9Guardian]

“Hello, Zeve.”

The voice on the phone sounded educated, with an accent Zeve didn’t recognize. He quirked an eyebrow at Dari, who shook her head. She had not betrayed his identity. Not a good sign.

“Hello. What do you want?”

 

[LightofHeaven]

Hugh smiled again. What did he want? That was a predictable question. Not because he had heard it often, but because he knew Zeve. Better the man would expect.

"I would like to arrange an appointment to meet you in your office at the Beraht Vendor Company. Say, tomorrow at noom?"

 

[Donkey_Kong_JR]

Stinger felt himself slide across the floor, pushed back by the force of the bearer’s wings. “I told you to leave.” The bearer said as he approached them. Stinger got to his feet. He was done holding back. This one didn’t matter anyways. “You two!” He barked at his men by the door, “Take her!” He said motioning to the girl bearer who appeared to be at least stunned by the blow. Stinger turned his attention back to the male bearer. “You think you’re the only one with powers!?! Guess again!” The gem on his right gauntlet glowed. The floor around him began to shake. Stinger closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as he did, his hair seemed to move with his breathing. He opened his eyes, but they were changed. Rather then their normal brown, which they were a moment ago, they now had a red glow similar to the glow of his gem. Stinger let out a breath and a wave of energy rippled across the room at the male bearer, ripping up the floor as it went.
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Jakob flew against the wall from the force of the wings and his it with a thud. He watched Stinger as he got up. Jakob knew Stinger’s temper. He didn’t like to be shown up, especially by any bearer. Jakob figured he’d let Stinger fight the male bearer. Jakob turned his attention to the griffon who hadn’t moved since the initial conflict. It would be a hefty prize. Jakob reaching into a pocket in the pack of his jacket. Inside the pocket was a small throwing knife. But this was no ordinary knife. This one had been designed just for Jakob by the scientist. The blade was made from iron with a thin frozen coating of a special sedative that melts once the blade pierces the skin, and enters the blood stream. The sheath that he keeps the dagger in is also specially designed to keep the sedative from melting. Jakob unsheathed the dagger and threw it at the griffon’s arm, where Jakob figured there would be a vein for the dagger to enter.

 

[LightofHeaven]

Arguile tried to raise himself to a sitting position. Was this the storm he had sensed was coming? No, the storm had to be worse. This was likely only the beginning. It--

A seehing pain shot up his armEnter text here.d he groaned. He looked down at his arm where he saw a piece of metal protruding from it. He looked up and saw, through teary eyes, a man looking down at him; supposedly the man who had thrown the thing. The world was quickly fading. Arguile managed a thought before he fell back and the world dissolved.

"Body Change."

((Humanized))

 

[Sayci]

Elana shrunk into the shadows as the two men ran out to the hallway to get her. She held her breath and watched them search the area for her. She slipped through the shadows on the ceiling and over to the other wall behind them. She hated hurting people, but Arguile had just gone down and if she didn't do something soon she'd lose her chance.

 

[deepgreen11]

As Lex made his way to the stove, asking what food they were eating, Cerie eyed Paul. Her mind was full of questions and seeking answers, forgetting all about her good day and the fortune of finding her necklace. Paul was so young. Cerie couldn't imagine herself being his age and knowing about her wings, and had noticed the deep indentations on his back from prolonged use of a back brace. Her thoughts flew to the trunk in her room and the old leather device still hidden in the bottom of it. Her eyes stared into another place in time as she began to answer Lex. "Chicken pot pie stew and green beans," she said, not looking at him.

Noticing Cerie's dazed expression, Dr. Swhint looked at Paul and said "Here come the questions, son." Paul would soon feel at home in the house, and the old professor trusted Lex to take good care of him. He couldn't believe how much the boy had come to mean to him. Turning to Lex, a son in his eyes, Dr. Swhint opened his mouth to speak, but stopped before the words could escape his lips. There were blood stains on Lex's shirt. Dr. Swhint looked at him, dumbfounded and frozen in place on this hot summer night, his eyes wide and his extended hand shaking toward Lex.

 

[rockerchic]

The wave of energy sent Leo back. Everything that had just been sent flying toward the dorr now came back as the floor was torn apart. A chair came flying at Leo and hit him head on causing it to snap in half. The sharp wood scraped Leo's skin and Leo fellfrom the impact. As he fell, he bumped his head on the corner of the table which was now slammed against the wall, and Leo fell unconicous.

 

[K9Guardian]

“What?” Zeve saw Dari’s brow furrow in concern, and tried to smooth the scowl he knew must be creeping over his own face. He didn’t want to alarm her unduly. But this was heading towards code zero, by hs book. “I dn’t take business calls from home. Call the office tomorrow, okay?”

 

[LightofHeaven]

"Alright!" Lex exclaimed; loading a plate with food. He personally enjoyed Cerie's cooking; although he wouldat times tease her about it by saying how disgusting it tasted and ha he only reason he ate it was because he didn't want the poor garbage criters to have to experience such wonderful cooking. He remembered the first time he had done that, Cerie had given him a bit of a bruise on his left shoulder with a nice forward punch.

He finished piling his plate and turned to have a seat at the table across from Paul, only to find himself face to face with a wide-eyed Dr. Swhint, whose hand was reaching for him. Lex stared; confused.

"What is it, doc?"

 

[LightofHeaven]

"Very well then, Zeve." Hugh answered, "However, I would like to ask you this one question." he paused and leaned back into his high-backed leather swivel chair, savoring this moment. "Why have you killed the girl?"

 

[deepgreen11]

Cerie looked at Dr. Swhint, then at Lex, then to Dr. Swhint again. Soon she saw what the elderly man was pointing at. Swhint himself looked pale, and the focus of his gaze was crimson. There were blood stains all over Lex's shirt. Cerie became weakkneed and shaky, and held onto the back of a chair, trying to speak, but unable.

Swhint said slowly, "Blood...on your shirt." His heart was palpiting and his hands were shaking. "Son..." Thoughts raced through his mind. He couldn't calm down. His world went dark for a moment. Light again. Now dark. He felt Cerie and Lex grab ahold of him as he started to fall, easing him down gently and propping his head. They slipped the medicine into his mouth. He slowly came around. "Lex," he said weakly, "what happened?"

 

[Donkey_Kong_JR]

Jakob walked over to the griffon’s unconscious body. At least the used to be griffon. Like so many other of them it, or rather he, apparently had the ability to hide himself. Jakob kicked the body gently a few times to make sure he was out. While that dose of tranquilizer was enough to take out a man twice this guy’s size, you could never be sure with bearers. They were always unpredictable, especially when it came to their unique powers. Jakob was convinced that the creature was down, now the hard part, figuring out how to transport it. Getting the bearers down was the easy part, moving them was more often then not harder then it appeared. Fortunately he wasn’t alone. Jakob signaled to one of Stinger’s men. He and Jakob lifted the body, and with Jakob leading walked out of the room.
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Stinger felt himself calm down once he realized the bearer was down. He turned his attention to the men he sent after the girl, “Did you get her?” He yelled at them, “No, she just vanished.” Stinger looked at the unconscious body of the bearer. Sirens came into hearing range. Stinger could only guess that the commotion woke up some of the neighbors. “Take this one then!” His men did as they were told and walked out behind Jakob. Stinger stopped on his way out, “I know you can hear me witch! I’m taking him to a warehouse house across town, 88B. If you’re not there within 24 hours, he’s dead!” Stinger walked out, just as his men were getting to the end of the hall.

 

[Sayci]

Elana held her breath as they walked past her and down the hallway.

Stinger stopped on his way out, “I know you can hear me witch! I’m taking him to a warehouse house across town, 88B. If you’re not there within 24 hours, he’s dead

After they had made their way out of sight, Elana snuck back into the apartment to find the other man, who had been hiding, she whispered softly, "Excuse me? Are you there?"

 

[LightofHeaven]

"Lex..." the elder man mumbled. "what happened?"

"Easy, doc." .Lex said, sounsing almost as worried as Swhint himself"I'm fine." He pulled off his blood-stained shirt, revealing his well-built abdomn; whole and unhurt. "See? I'm not hurt or anything. It's just..." His voice trailed off as he remembered Paul. "Let's not talk about it rigght now, okay?"

 

[rockerchic]

((Sly is only about nine years old))

"Excuse me? Are you there?" Elana wispered softly. Sly slowly cracked open the closet door to make sure that all the men had left. He stepped out once he was sure that it was just the two of them.

"I'm here." Sly said quietly. He tried hard to be brave and hold back the tears, but his eyes were red and watery. Though he hadn't know Leo all that long, he still cared greately for him and now Sly wasn't sure what would happen to him. But rather than focus on his emotions, Sly knew he needed to be strong focus on what was going on. "We need to get out of here and fast." He walked over to the counter and grabbed Leo's car keys. "you can drive, right? No doubt someone heard the gunshots and called the police. We dont want to deal with the police, they cant do anything, and they'll only stand in our way." Sly walked back to tha closet and grabbed his coat, along with another small item he tucked deep into his pocket. He then walked over to the door way and looked back at Elana, "Are you coming?"