Although, nobody exactly said that I had to walk, did they? I walked into an alley and used my wings to jump from wall to wall, until I was air-born. I flapped to keep myself generally in the same air space. I pulled the hood of my jacket over my head, then I took to the skies.
It should be illegal, to feel this powerful, to feel this......heh, high. In the city lights below, I could see houses with parties starting to wind down, people talking around parked cars in empty street lots, and people walking in the streets with lit cigarettes. Not the prettiest sight in the world, but still pretty neat that I can get a view like this from this high in the sky!
This was almost taken away from you. I don't know where the thought came from, but I didn't have a response to it. He almost succeeded. Who is to say he won't do it again? This is why you must--What?
Something down below caught my eye. I had to focus on it, but it looked like someone was crouching on the edge of a roof top. He or she was holding something and pulling his arm back. I decided to drop in, literally. I dive-bombed the building and pulled up at the last second, and then flapped my wings for a landing. I probably shouldn't have done that. The person was a girl, and I startled her. She yelped in surprise and turned around with the bow and arrow. She let it fire, and it hit my wing.
Luckily, it was the metal wing and clanged off the metal part. It dropped to the floor as I landed. The girl held her bow at me, as if it was loaded; she was speechless. I said, "So, just practicing some moves up here?" As I looked closer, I saw that it was the same girl from the party a little while earlier. I said, "Hey, I know you. You can't really stay out of trouble, can you?" She shook herself out of the shock and tried to sound ticked. "W-what's your deal? Why do you keep messing up my plans?" I gave her a confused look, "And.......what plans would that be?"
She stayed silent and gave me the usual cold, unmoving glare. She then said, "Here." she pulled a pair of binoculars and pointed to a lit warehouse.
I hesitated, but I got to the edge and looked through the binoculars. After a lot of focusing and refocusing, I could see an operation going on; like, a criminal operation. I felt a tinge of fear, but shook it off; they couldn't see me, yet. I put the binoculars down and saw that the girl had decided to stick around. She was trying to look at my back, to see my wings again, she jumped a little when I turned to her. I said, "So you're a lookout Archer now?" She rolled her eyes. "Did you see those uniforms? Those are not the MMXII guys, that's a feminist group called the Amazons." I did notice the uniforms in variations of black, pink, red, and purple; but mainly black. The girl-what was her name? Right. Carmen- she said, "That girl, the one standing on the crates and watching the other girls, is their leader. That's Katherine Perry. There are a lot of rumors going on about her, and I wouldn't be surprised if every single one of them were true."
I said, "What, she owes you money or something?" She glared at me, and I swear to you, I felt a shiver ripple through my body. Carmen snapped at me, "She killed my father." Oh. After a minute of awkward silence, she said, "Yeah. Oh. She killed my dad just to intimidate my neighborhood. She took him away from me....Mom.....Zach." She gulped down, and her softening face became hard and cold again. "At first, I thought the rivalry between the Amazons and the MMXII thugs would get me close enough for me to kill her, but that was three months ago. I'm not going to let some...... some........ angel, or whatever you are, stop me now."
I didn't have a response. I handed her back the binoculars I had been fiddling with. Then I heard my voice say, "Can I help?" She showed her second emotion tonight, and it was surprise. She said, "I'm going to kill her, you know that right? There's nothing you can say to-" I held my hand up and interrupted her, "Yeah. I know. Believe me, you and I are in the same boat on this one." She looked at me skeptically for a few minutes, then she said, "Okay. I guess I could use your help. What I need, is a distraction............"
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