I laid silent as my world continued to crumble around me. Flames of all colors and hues lashed out at my pale skin as i tried to scrape my way between the cars, packed like sardines on the thin road. No one was going anywhere, though. Another explosion hit home at some big shot corporation and it soon came crashing down onto the surrounding bystanders. Poor them. But there is no reason to waste time to feel sorry, and for people you don't really care about?
With my mind preoccupied on trying to slip through the streets, I was awoken from my thought when i was slammed into the side of a tattered building. At once i knew it had to be a Flashbang or a stun grenade since others on the street had been blown back and were now stumbling around like blind mice trying to find their way. I hit the ground as soon as i came to my scenes and just in time by the sound of it. Bullets came swirling into the crowd and i struggled to grip onto something. Any protection i could find.
People were dropping like flies as the enemy continued their onslaught. We civilians were not really seen as a threat, just as worthless dogs in their way. Now I'm not stupid, and i know well and good there was bound to be a patrol behind them that was picking off stranglers that has survived their first attack. Like me.
It took me a moment to realize one of the shooters had snagged the palm of my left hand, so i ripped off the shirt of a victim and wrapped it around my mangled hand. I stood and began to run after the shooters. They had a good 10 minute head start on me, so I jogged steadily through the now empty rubble. Then I stopped to gaze at the pillaged building at the edge of Valley Way and Cemetery Drive. After a pause to remember the fallen heroes none of these people knew about, I slipped unnoticed into the pathetic building.
My eyes hadn't even had enough time to adjust to the light before I was scooped up into my partner’s arms. She then released me and I was able to take a deep breathe and I felt like I was waking up. Ash and dust was all I could taste, and I wipe my brow. I had not come to see I was shivering and my body convulsing every now and then. "Finch, you okay?” Whytt, our team’s leader, asked and bent down to pick me up. I was the smallest and youngest in the group, only 14 and about 5'1", and compared to the giants in my team, like Whytt, I just seem almost doll like. I looked around at my own team and felt a pang of guilt for leaving in the dead of night to go patrol for any danger. Found it.
I was carried and laid on the couch gently by my leader and then was blinded a moment when they clicked on a light. Really it wasn’t bright, but I had just been able to adjust to the dimness in the room that for a second I was blinded. Then I saw my team begin to fall in. Winnow, the only other girl in the group, was one that I was able to see first, her tall dark frame standing over me and her being the only one with long black hair falling down over her shoulders. The next I was able to make out was Otto; his tall dark outline was blunt against the light. He was also the tallest and an easy to place. Libo and Indigo stood a little off to the side. The sturdy statue of Indigo came lumbering towards me to fix me with a stern look and I grinned when Libo smacked him in his ear. Whytt smirked and patted my back as Winnow patched me up.
“Well? What happened birdy?” He asked and smiled when I hit him weakly. He chuckled and patted my head and I snickered in distaste. I said nothing though, since he was not really expecting and answer.
I looked up as Winnow laid my mangled hand on my leg and I pushed myself up. She then went to Whytt and sat next to him, leaning against the wall. The ignored the high risk of it caving in and Winnow curled up against the boy-leader.
I rolled my eyes and looked at Otto as he dropped down on the couch next to me. It created and groaned, but then fell silent. “Hey Finch.” He said quietly, though it sounded more like a growl. He laid a dark hand on my dirty bronze hair and tugged at the bright red bandana the held the messy strands. See because it can be kind of a hassle to get a shower while the entire city is up in flames.
