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5 minutes later the bars of the window lay mangled on the floor, she slipped her skinny frame though the small hole then using one long slender finger picked the lock. She called to the others and then one by one they leaped out of the now open door.
They had been driving through a forest they all now hid in some bushes, behind the trees, Carlos and Jessica fought back the not-so-happy memories.
“This is my fault” Jessica hit the tree and it shook violently.
“WHAT! It is no way you’re fault!” Carlos’s stared at his sister and the others nodded viciously in agreement.
“Yes, yes it is” Carlos’s stare increased tenfold.
“I should have told mum and dad about shadow guy when I had the chance”
“Oh yer, you wanted to worry you’re parents, how the f*** were you meant to know that he was gonna do this?” Arachcana’s voice was harsh and everyone glared at her as she swore.
“He said he would take us away, even when we got away” Jessica was choking back tears.
“Yes, but most psychos and paedophiles say that” Arachcana’s tone softened.
“And could have told mum and dad to” said Carlos
“No because I’d made it clear that we were not going to”
“Jessica this isn’t your fault, he came to me and Volto to” Electrona had a look of concern on her face.
“Yer but we convinced ourselves it was a dream” As Volto said this Ebony plonked herself on Jessica’s lap, purring loudly.
“We thought it was just Lock, Shock and Barrel playing a trick on us, they said they didn’t, but they always said that, we should have told dad because he could always get the truth from them.” Beatlan nestled further into the bushes as he spoke.
“See Jessica it wasn’t your fault” Carlos looked desperate, it was tearing him up to see his sister like this. Jessica realized this and pulled herself together.
“We’re gonna need new names, shadow guy will be able to find us real easy if we keep our names, I’ll be…Sticks but I’ll spell it with an z rather than a s so Stickz”
Carlos looked around then said “halves z not s” he smiled at his sister
Arachcana was next “Bugcy c not s” she grinned wildly.
Electrona dipped her head in thought then said “Lectra”
“Amps with an s” said Volto he smiled smugly after this pleased with his own intelligence (amps and volts are ways of measuring electricity, volts and amps measure different parts of electricity but we will just say electricity in general as this is a fan fiction not a science lesson).
“Skuttlez k not c and z not s” Beatlan finally spoke after all the others had decided their new names. They sat in silence 1000 schemes going through their heads.
“Yes! Ca-Halvez do you still have your charm bracelet?
“Yer” Halvez looked at his sister, part of him was worried were this was going. Stickz slipped the silver bracelet off her slim wrist.
“Do you remember what dad said on our 4th birthday when he gave us these?”
“No” Stickz gave him an exasperated look and carried on,
“He said “if you are ever taken from us and left alone in the real world, then these bracelets will help you.””
“He did?” Halvez looked sheepish
“Yes he did, you have the memory of a gold fish” Stickz looked at her bracelet it was a simple thing, a chain with two black gems and six pictures on it; each one with its own frame, the pictures were, Halvez, Jack, Sally, Ebony, one of all of them (including Ebony and Kibou) and her.
She spent a while looking at the last photo, the girl in the photo was not her, not any more; the girl in the photo was pretty and carefree. She looked at the plump cheeks and the chest which she knew had a beating heart in it, and for the second time that day, she choked back tears.
Then she looked at the black crystals, she then reached out and touched them, as her two fingers hit them they broke, her eyes grew wide as the black sparkling gunk leaked out of them both. They enlarged until she had not one, but two soul robbers on her wrists.
“Aw yer” Stickz smiled.
Halves reached out and touched the two coils of wire around his own bracelet and almost instantly two massive whips fell at his feet. A click of a gun sounded defiantly loud compared to the silence of the surroundings as Bugcy holstered two pistols.
“They were on my necklace, I asked the witches to have them shrunk and not to tell my dad, I was meant to have them when I was eighteen, oh and the holsters came with them”
“Same” Skuttlez voice was muffled as he sheathed his short knives or long daggers.
“Nice,” Stickz paused, she relaxed Lectra and Amps were playing with orbs of sheer electricity.
“Ok, do we go home now?” Halvez sounded hopeful but he knew the answer.
“We need to find home first” Stickz’s voice was uplifting and strong.
Suddenly they were all racked by pain; they all felt something pierce the backs of their clothes and the seat of their pants. When they finally stood up they were all supporting wings and tails; Lectra and Amps had wings and tails of (you guessed it) electricity, Bugcy and Skuttlez had insect wings and long tails with nasty wasp stingers on the end, Halves had one angel wing and a harsh metal with a evil pointed metal tail and Stickz had big black wings supported by finger-like bone struts, she had a tail like a devils trident except the three points at the end moved of their own accord.
“Well transport’s sorted” said Amps
“Let’s go” said Halvez
“We will find home… one day. No matter how long it takes.”
Bugcy sounded hopeful but part of her tone gave way that she knew that they weren’t going to be home by tea-time.
They then flapped their new wings and soared into the darkening sky.
“NO” shadow guy turned over the truck in his fury. THIS COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED his plan had been perfect foolproof, apart from one thing he had not thought about the children’s genetics. Of course children made by electricity would be able to survive it. Insect DNA was bound to defended against black widow venom. He should have repaired the boy himself it would have made the boy trust him then he could have turned him into the ultimate weapon and then sent him to kill his parents and the girl…oh how she would pay for her tongue in cheek and her survival.
The truck driver and the two surgeons walked over to him and threw themselves at his feet,
“We are sorry your highness”
“Please forgive us”
“We beg of you o fair and mighty ruler” they all shook in terror as the shadows surged towards them.
“No”
They screamed the first was simply stabbed, he was the driver his job had been simple and he had done exactly as he had been told, he deserved a quick death. The second was pulled limb from limb and the third had shadows forced into him the shadows expanded making him explode in a mass of blood and guts.
Shadow guy walked away plans forming in his brain.
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