Chapter 1
Lucia
“Lucia, where are you? " I heard mama yelling my name, but today she sounds worried. I hurry out of my hiding hole literally a tiny mouse hole that is in the kitchen. I screech and ruffle my feathers to make me look bigger that way mama will see me.
She comes running into the kitchen and scoops me up, then with tenderness she kisses me on the head. “Lu, my beautiful baby you must listen to what I’m about to tell you, after I put you down. I want you to go back to your secret hiding hole and not come out until everything is over, it doesn’t matter what you hear or what happens. Please don’t come out! I will come back in just a second with your brother and put him in the hole with you.” After she said that. She lowered me on the ground and rushed me to my secret hiding place.
Before I left for my hiding place, I looked at my mother and noticed she was crying, I wanted to stay with her and rub my tiny body around her to make her happy, but I couldn’t stay, I had to obey her and not make her sadder. I ran into the hiding hole and curled up inside making space for my brother. He was an egg and needed more space than me.
My heart started racing when I heard louder voices that did not correspond to my parents getting close to me. “Where are you freaks of nature!” one male voice screamed inside the house close to where I was. “Those freaks are probably hiding nearby. they wouldn’t leave the egg by itself” another man said. My parents left my brother alone. No, they wouldn’t. They must have a plan.
In the moment the man stopped speaking. I hear my father’s war screech. They did not leave us because they knew danger was near and they planned a surprise attack on the intruders. I moved closer to the holes opening to peak out. My parents were fighting one huge bear and a huge jaguar. The sight of my parents fighting didn’t scare me. My parents were strong Phoenix the last of their kind. They could easily overpower the two shifters. What truly frightened me was that shifters were nasty fighters and would do anything to win.
I was about to run out of my hiding place to go and search for my brother and bring him with me when there was a loud boom! That shook our house and made most of the wall's crumble down.
My tiny hole didn’t crumble; the wall it was in was intact. Although my little ears and head started to pound painfully. What just happened? What was that noise?
With the little strength I had left from my head ach I walked out of my hideout even after my mama side not to move from my spot.
Our home was destroyed like a hurricane had passed right through it, and on the floor in the leaving room next to each other were my parents in their bird form, I ran to them to check if they were alive but I didn’t have time to get close enough because a tall man intercepted me on my way. I puffed my feathers to seem bigger and intimidating but the man chuckled at me. “Henry, I found another one, the egg wasn’t the only one” another big man came in the house I suppose he was henry.
“Ah, it seems the birds wanted to keep their species line alive, too bad we got to them before they grew strong enough to defend themselves.” The man named Henry said.
The man that captured me grabbed a rope that Henry handed to him. “Tie the little bird up and put her close to her parents, and don’t forget the egg.”
Once I was tied the man, I didn’t know his name lowered me in the middle of my parents with my brother. “I’m sorry for this little fire bird, but we can’t risk our species for your species.” The man said to me in a low voice. He didn’t want Henry to hear him apologizing for what they were about to do to us.
Everything happened faster than I thought, Henry walked towards us with a pouch in his hands. When he was close enough, he opened the pouch and dropped some sand on us that had rainbow colors. I sneezed when it reached my nose.
“Alpha Henry, do you think that is enough sand to keep them from coming back to life after burning them? The man that apologized to me asked the other man.
“That is what the witch said. Let’s hope it’s true otherwise she will pay for lying to us.”
