Jake (in the beginning)

Scarlet

I froze, staring at the boy. He had dark hair, eyes like coal. But even more important were the black, slender appendages coming out from his back. He had wings, just like me...

“Hey, hey, hey! They’re over here!” Called one of the EDs. He came around the corner and about ten more followed- armed with guns. Now, when ten dudes run over to you with guns, you might just want to run in the opposite direction. Just maybe. I’m not saying the people who wouldn’t run are evil or something- just that I personally wanted to run. But where was there to run, we were cornered! I was going to fly off but never got the chance. Because suddenly a large figure landed in front of me. He was facing away, with wings stretching up behind him. His wingspan was roughly thirteen and a half feet across!

Then suddenly all the EDs in the area started screaming in pain, gripping their heads. Most made a run for the gates of the junk yard. The rest hid underground, in the sewers-until there were no more EDs in sight. They had fled…… because of the guy kneeling in front of me.

“Who…..are you?”

Suddenly someone ran around the corner, and screeched to a halt like one of those cartoon characters. She stopped and stared. Then two identical people also ran around the corner. Bright red hair and eyes, freckles. That was about all I could see, and then the fact that they were pretty short, because they ran into the dark haired boy. They fell back and then looked up at him. “Wow, who are you?” they said simultaneously. It sounded like two recording systems playing at the same time. It was freaky to tell you the least.

“Who are you guys?” Asked the blond girl who had run around the corner.

“Time for introductions later- for now, we have to get out of here.” Said the boy in front of me, standing up. I walked backwards, about to try to fly off again. “Unless you want them to catch you, I wouldn’t do that,” The guy turned around and his looks alone were enough to stop me in my tracks. Now, I don’t usually stop and stare at boys, especially since I have no time to. But this guy…… gee, it was like an angel fell. “Who…..are you?” I ask hesitantly.

He sighed. “Jake. Just call me Jake. I know who those guys were- and they were trying to get you guys-“ Jake started but the dark haired boy interrupted him. He stepped forward too and…..I had to admit, he had looks too. “We already know that they want us- what I want to know is why you care.”

Jake ran a hand anxiously through his hair, looking around. “Well…..let’s just say I have a long past with them.” He sounded reluctant, unsure even.

“So do we all,” Pointed out one of the ginger headed twins. We all nodded, he had a point. Weren’t we all mutations because of these jerks?

“Look, can I just explain when we get out of here?” Jake said hurriedly and we heard the sound of metal against metal. Jake looked worried, glancing around again.

“Say we go with you- what would happen? Where would we go? How would we get there?” I asked and everyone stared at me like I was crazy. No doubt thinking ‘was she really going to just go along with this stranger?’ Well, maybe people. That was my answer. Getting away from EDs seemed like a pretty good idea to me.

“We’d just travel around a lot. Watch each other’s backs. We’ll fly to our first destination.” Jake explained as another sound rang through the night. A yell. Then another yell. Pounding feet and a screech from the gate.

“Okay, we’ll go! But how are we going to get in the air?! Some of us don’t have wings.” Rushed in the blond girl, walking closer to our little group. It figures that Jake had an answer for that. Did he just plan all this out? He seemed to know what to say every time….

“You’ll grab the twins-“ He pointed to me. “Dark boy and I grab the blond girl. Let’s go!” We all got into action. The boys rushed over to me and I only twitched when they wrapped their arms around me. I did the same, pumping my wings. We lifted up quickly, as if I didn’t have two teenage boys hanging on to me for dear life. I followed after Jake, feeling a dart fly past my ear. Close one. We all flew higher, where darts couldn’t hit.

“Okay, from here on out, we head East.” Jake called back to me and I changed track also.