I lay curled in the fetal position on my bed, clutching a pillow to my chest. I thought about nothing. If my head was completely cleared of all thoughts I wouldn't have to think about what to do. Everything had been going smooth with the experiments. They caused me a bit of pain but that was nothing because I was going to get Iggy's eyes back.
Then the scientist told him he would have to come in to the lab for a few days and get some sort of hands on operation done to him. He had been given twenty four hours to come home and make up an excuse. That had been twenty three hours and fifty six minutes ago.
It wasn't the question of how to lie to the flock that I was avoiding but if I should. The scientists would take me somewhere far away probably and my flock would have no idea how to find me. What if the scientist didn't keep their promise? I avoided the question for another four minutes. The scientists had told me if I didn't show up bad things would happen and you know what? They did.
There a crashing sound as all the windows in the house broke and blurred shapes came rushing through. I covered my neck to protect it from shattered glass. When the blurred shapes stood in the center of my room, I realized they were strange people like creatures but with incredibly long and sharp looking nails, ready to kill or at least bash my brains in. When the glass stopped falling I dashed out my door and towards the kitchen.
The others had gotten the same idea and we stood in a circle, back to back to face the intruders. Angel stood next to me in our little feathery circle and she did not look happy. She knew. "Gassy, I didn't think it would come to this! You idiot!" cried my lovable sister.
"I knew something like this was going to happen," Nudge whimpered as at least two dozen of the humanoid creatures surrounded us. "What the hell," asked Iggy, Rose and Dylan in almost perfect unison. I didn't have time to answer.
Close up I could see the creatures had distorted, gruesome faces with ripped flesh here and there. You couldn't even tell who had once been a boy or a girl and they had empty sockets where there eyes should have been. The worst part was that all of them were smaller than Angel; children. They snarled at us as there leader placed a small mechanical device on the floor. Some sniffed the air and started licking there chops. I wondered if we would taste like chicken.
The mechanical devise started humming and a holographic image of two people in lab coats projected in the middle of our kitchen. There was a women and a man. The women spoke with an ice cold voice but one very familiar. Could this really be the same person?
"Young man, did you really think you could toy with us? We are true to our word but not the kind of people you mess with... We were considering keeping our promise. Anyways, now you all will pay." She turned to the creatures. "Beat, no eat!" She yelled. The creatures began to whine. "Fine," she said "Only one, if you must." Then the mechanical devise shut off and the leader pocketed it before the nailed creatures attacked.
They were vicious. Clawing at us repeatedly and biting us whenever they got the chance. One tried to bite the meat off my arm. I screamed and another one came and pushed the first one out of the way. He started in right where the first one left off. I punched him and ripped his clothing. The creature backed off for a second and now half naked I could see every bone in the creature's body and the crudely stitched seams that made him look like a patch work rag doll. I knew why they were so vicious; they probably hadn't eaten in months. I vomited.
As I was keeled over on the ground. There was a crash as another monster jumped through the sky light. But this monster was our monster; Max. She landed on one of the nailed creatures that had been chewing on one of Angel's pig tails. Angel didn't even notice she was missing hair. She just sat there curled in a ball not moving, staring at a point on the floor.
Rose had this wild frightened look in her eyes as she sat down next to Angel and held her. They just held each other and rocked back and forth slightly, both staring at the same point as if they could see something the rest of us couldn't. Iggy, Dylan and Max took out the rest of the nailed creatures. Nudge helped at first but eventually she vomited too. She lay down on the couch in the living room and covered her face with her hands. I crawled over to her and put my arm around her. It was more to comfort myself than her.
Max was the only one with the stomach to actually kill the creatures. You would think it would have come up before but we had always killed with a bomb or in the heat of battle. This was too much. She took a kitchen knife and finished the deed. Dylan sat down with his face in his hands. Iggy tried to comfort Rose and Angel for a while but they were unresponsive so he came over to talk to me.
"Were they that horrible? What did they look like?" he asked. Pretty horrible, I thought. They were ugly and cruel but they were also hungry and looked like children.
"Trust me, you don't want to know. It will only haunt you," I said.
We only got a minute rest because soon Max had hauled all the dead bodies out of sight and had come to survey her pathetic flock.
"Guys we have to get moving," she said authoritatively. We all came around then. I couldn't help but smile and maybe I saw a hint of a smile on the others too. We had our Max back.
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