Rising Ch. 19: Sadie

We were in the elevator, heading to the top floor. Pierce had a three foot long quill in each hand. Micheal was helping the little kids and the police. That's just fine.

The doors finally opened. It looked like a regular house up here, with furniture, fireplace, and everything. I saw a couple of doors, I wondered where they lead to. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard a voice. "You two want to hurt my daddy." A little girl slid out of one of the chairs that was in front of the fireplace. She was Asian, and couldn't be any older than nine. She had long black hair and was dressed in a pink shirt, jeans, and Reeboks. She stood there and stared at us.

I said, "Uh, hey there little girl. Uh, what's your name?" She glared at me. "Sadie" she said. "Look, Sadie. We don't want to hurt you, or your dad. We have to take him to jail. Now if you'll just-"

NO!

I blinked. Did she just say that in my mind? Ouch. I got a head ache. "Yes. I did. I have an advanced sonar ability. You can't lie to me. You want to kill Daddy!" Pierce stood between us. He said, "Look, I know you want to defend your father, but he's done some terrible things. We need to keep him from doing any more of that stuff. I wanted to defend my father too, but there is no denying on what he did. If you can read my mind, then read it, and you'll know I'm telling the truth."

For a moment she faltered. Her expression turned sad, then it regained her rage. "No! Your lying! My Step Father would never do anything to hurt anybody! You both will die here!"

Pierce stepped back. She crouched slightly and revealed that she had a set of wings of her own. They weren't wings like mine, or the others I saw. They were small and looked like kinda like flippers. I realized that they weren't flippers. The wings looked like they belonged to a hummingbird.

They flapped and didn't stop flapping. They gained speed and soon became a blur. She was lifted off the ground.

Crap.

She came at me with punches and kicks from the air. I did everything to block and dodge them, but she got a good one in my face. She pushed her legs against my chest to launch herself at Pierce. Pierce had no choice but to drop his quills and block her attacks. He said, "Gabe! Go get the big guy! I'll keep her distracted!"

After she heard that she turned to me and tried to come at me, but Pierce picked up on of his quills and put the middle of it against her neck and pinned her aginst his chest. Her wings flapped uselessly against his arms. She cursed the way only a censored nine year old can. "You jerks! I'm gonna get both of you and beat the crap out of both of you!"

I didn't want to leave them, but I had to get to Williams. "I'll be right back." I said. And I ran into the next room over.