Welcome to my Nightmare

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It was about three in the morning and I woke up in a cold sweat. Instinctively I ran through cave where we were staying and couldn’t find anyone. Everyone had disappeared! I ran up to the mouth of the cave and snapped out my wings. All of us have amazing night vision but the night sky was clear of any teenagers with wings.

Are you confused about that last paragraph? I said it right the 9 other people in that cave are genetic experiments like me. Four of us are 3% bird and 1% wolf (Sarah, Ryan, Johnny (sometimes I call him Johnny Boy but he gets real mad) and Me, Nicole but everyone calls me Nikki). Another three of them are only 3% bird (Lauren, Carl and Ethan). And the last three of them are 3% bird and 1% tiger (Madelyn, but we call her Madi also she’s my sister, Peter and Tanner). The pure bird people are truly the most functional at flying. But everyone with the 1% either wolf or tiger are a hell of a lot better fighters. Now, back to my story…

Out of everyone Sarah, Tanner and Peter should have been the easiest ones to find. Tanner has pure white wings, but now they’re brownish gray because of all the dirt that was caked on after going for weeks with out a shower. Sarah’s wings are light tan, which matches her hair color perfectly but other than that she was hard to find because of the amount of black she wears. Last, Peter whose wings are light brown and tan.

Carl, Ethan and Ryan have medium color wings; Carl’s are brown, white and blond; Ethan’s are Brown with white flecks; and Ryan’s are light brown and darker brown. I am a bit odd though so I kept my eye out for Johnny, Madi and Lauren. They’re like me, in the since that they have black wings. Only Johnny has pure black wings though. Madi’s are black and gray with a purple undertone. Lauren’s are black with a blue undertone and mine are dark brown red and black.

I saw a white glimmer in the sky and figured that it was either Tanner or Sarah. I quickly I jumped out into the night and began to fly. I felt myself dropping like a dead weight I lifted my hands and saw that they were covered in fur. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath our cave was so high up that since I was freefalling to my death this was the end.

Right then I sat up in my nice soft bed. It was small but it was better than sleeping on a cave floor, we had all come too familiar with that. We had broken into this house last night, we guessed that it was in the Arizona desert but you can’t ever be too sure.

I got out of bed and thought about the dream that I had, had last night. It made absolutely no since because I can usually fly when I’m in my wolfish state. Johnny came up behind me and brushed the hair out of my face; about a week ago I tried to cut my hair short since it annoyed me when it was long. It looked okay but when I offered the other girls a hair cut they laughed. Note to self: Don’t become a hair stylist.

Johnny put his arm over my shoulder trying to make me feel short since I was the shortest person in the group. Compared to the average I was really tall at 5’8” but in this group I was the midget. The next person ‘shortest’ person was Lauren, but she was 5’10”! Also Johnny was one of the shorter guys at pretty much 6’ (actually almost 6’1” but since he hasn’t passed 6’1” I just call him 6’) but like everyone else he made sure to rub in my lack of height. Since I am one of the ‘more mature’ people out of us all I just pushed him away. If I were Sarah I would have gone into my wolfish mode and ripped his arm open, trust me she has done that.

We walked into their other room to see the other people in our group. Tanner looked half asleep and more depressed than usual. He poked a fork at the pink scars on his arm from when his half-sister, Sarah, ripped his arm open a month ago. Luckily we all heal extremely fast so his arm was fine in three days.

“Tanner is it impossible for you to smile?” Madi asked him and started to cook breakfast.

Tanner gave her a dirty look and went back to poking his scars.

“Are you almost finished with breakfast?” Carl complained.

“No, just wait a second!” Madi said. She always got frustrated when anyone tried to hurry her up.

“It’s been a second!” Carl whined.

“Fine, just have under cooked food! I was making eggs and bacon but you can just have raw eggs and uncooked bacon! See how much I care!” She began to put eggs and bacon on nine plates making sure to save a bit for Carl incase he stopped complaining. “Foods ready!” she said.

Immediately Carl ran up to get food just before he got there Madi stepped in the way. “You’re not going to eat now,” She said laughing under her breath.

Lauren passed by Carl and put the remaining food on a plate and handed it to Carl and began to walk over to the table. Madi glared at Lauren and walked to table, plate in hand.

Everyone got their plates and began to eat, except for Tanner who continued to poke his arm with the fork. Sarah sat down next to him and put her hand on his scars and felt where the skin rose up from the scars.

“Aren’t you going to eat?” Sarah asked him and took her hand off of his arm. Her hand was becoming slightly pink since Tanner had refused to stop poking where his scars were.

He shook his head and began to stand up to walk over to “get breakfast”. At least that’s what everyone, except for Johnny and I, thought. Oh yeah this is something I forgot to tell you all of us have special abilities other than flying. But I’m not going to tell you all of what we can do because well what would be the fun of that? But you know one thing for sure; two of us can read minds.

I looked at Johnny and he stood up. Johnny is the strongest out of all of us so when Tanner tried to get past him to “get breakfast” he couldn’t. Only Johnny and I knew that he was really trying to get a knife because the fork wasn’t doing squat when it came to piercing skin.

I closed my eyes and mentally told Tanner not to do this, and that we all needed him. A split second later he turned around and sat back down at the table. I looked up and Johnny stared at me and blinked, he knew what I’d done.