Aura sighedto herself, she really only had two things she could do practice her ability at night and think back on every thing she had done in her 13 years, including what had brought her herre. This pink light that she could not describe, she had learned to make it appear though maintaining it was the issue, forming it into anything was even harder. She realized she must be a mutant right after it happened, her classmates chanting it even as she had been dragged away by the police. No one seemed to care that she ahd never menat to cause the person any permanent harm, no once they heard she was a mutant that had been all the police needed.

Aura punched the wall hard though did nothing to the wall she did skin her knuckels a bit. The Scene made her so angry, well she got angry a lot, but this was different. At first she had believed her parents would come for her, if not to get her out then to see her, her parents had seen her once for a few minutes just after she had been brought in. No one had visited her in almost three months, since just a few days after she had been brought here. Looking down at her hand, which was surrounded in a thin pink aura, she sighed. The reason her family had forsaken her to this cage was obvious she was a mutant and so they had left her to rot like some animal on the side of the road. The thought made her feel betrayed and a bit helpless. She knew she had not been the best kid out there, far from it, she had been fighting others since school began and even she did not know why, other then that she enjoyed fighting, the feeling and the way things flowed. Still it had taken a few days to get over the idea she had actually killed someone and that as well held the taste of power, it had been in accident, the first indication she was a mutant.

A siren pierced the air and Aura rushed to her window, the alarm usually meant some of them were trying to escape, though she had seen no one make it. She could see no one making a run for it, and the lights from the guards towers were all on the outside. She could hear gunfire if she strained her ears and guards were running for the walls that surrounded the place. Confused she kept looking until a bright flash caught her eye, by the time she looked one of the wooden towers was falling in flames, and then her attention was brought to the other tower, this one was covered in thick green vines which seemed to be crushing the tower. Her Idea was confirmed when some of the wooden support beams snapped like over sized twigs. Then the world grew quite and Aura wonderd if the Mutants had been captured, but she had not heard of any with such powers here.

Aura snapped out of her daze and ran to the bars that covered her cage. Their were no guards to be seen and so Aura proceeded to put her finger to the lock and made her Aura form around just her finger. It took her a few minutes but she made the Aura small enough to fit in the lock, hardening it as much as she could, she probed the lock untill she felt somthing give. Slowly pushing the door open Aura smiled as the taste of freedom teased her lips. Not quite recalling the way out, Aura took a left, she saw kids sitting in many of the cells, groaning to herself, she began breaking the lock to each door, which became easier as she went though, by the fourth one she was beginning to feel tired. Still several of the other Escapees began to open the locks in whatever ways, they could and soon, over a dozen children ran all around Aura only stopping when several surprised guards heard their footsteps and formed a barrier in their path.

"Mutant scum, return to your cages now and no harm will come to you for this disobedience" The Middle guard said, her blue eyes looked on them with a withering gaze. Each of them Brought a rifle to bear at he group. Aura was afraid, she knew what guns could do, any school kid knew that. Then from behind her several locks of hair grabbed onto each of the guns, trying to pull them from their grasp. Looking back she saw the young boy who was responsible for it. He was grunting as he pulled and two of the guards lost their guns to his silver locks, but the guard captain, squeezed the trigger, and the boy's eyes went wide as the hair went limp and he fell, dead a well of blood rushing from his head. Aura stared for what seemed like a life time, when she looked back one of the guards was bending down, trying to pick up his gun.

Aura was angry, they had not even harmed them and they had killed him like it was nothing. Wide eyed, Aura rushed forward, her Aura forming around her as she screamed, the guard looked up in time, for Aura's punch to strike his forhead, a blade formed on her hand cutting into the skull, the man had a few moments to look at her before he passed out from shock. Stepping back from what she did again, she barely noticed the inspiration she had caused. The two remaining guards had to much coming their way, another shot sounded and another child fell, and then the guards were cast aside and somone grabbed her arm pulling her along. "It will be ok, you did the right thing" the voice assured her as they moved. Rounding another corner they looked around searching for a way out, even as somthing exploded outside, shattering the windows after throwing them all against the wall. "What was that?" Someone asked. Quickly they lifted Aura up to the window, crawling out of it, doing her best to block out the pain of the broken glass leaving red line on her arms. Aura stood up to look, and saw the wall had been decimated, the entire section of wall lay scattered across the courtyard. Just past that a half dozen figured were walking their outline clouded in the smoke.

Then a woman in a long white dress stepped into view, the large rifle in her hand, gave Aura pause as did the several flasks the woman kept drinking from., kneeling to hide behind a piece of the rubble she heard someone call to her, and leaned back down to the window. "Someones attacking the place!" she said helping another one of the band up to look, as they came up each listened to the womans silky voice."Solkat, Kobera please take care of the guards, i do not want to be harassed by the animals. Via and Lambda your with me. She said and each looked at her and nodded, then at once they spoke. "Victory is Life, Loyalty our purpose, One path, One way. Then the Blue haired woman reached back into her hair and dropped something to the ground when her hand opened again in front of her. The ground began to shake as a tree shot up from the ground rapidly growing it's trunk expanding over the girls body untill she was over thirty feet in the Air, looking down at the once called Kobera, she smiled and a green vine rapidly grew from the trees top, down to her, wrapped around her gently and then retracted pulling her up. Aura watched the girl take out something and place it on her eyes and begin looking around.

"That was beautiful....."Aura said in wonder starting to stand, her friend pulled her back down putting a finger over his lips. He whispered something to her and dhe nodded, they had no idea these Mutants were freindly, but they were powerful. The other three broke off heading for the entrance visitors would normally use. The tree was beginning to look vert strange, as it began growing pine like needles all over it, despite it not looking like the right type of tree. Every few minutes the Other girl with shout and point, and the tree would move firing the neediles off in that direction. Keeping low Aura and the other crawled back into the hallway. Aura broke out of her daze as her feet stepped on the cold concrete again. "If i were just that powerful......" Aura said looking back at the window.

"Yea, but if they want to kill us they could" he said as they continued down the hallway, but they began seeing less windows as they went. The Building shook a few more times but the further they went the further it was from them. Then They came to a set of silver doors which were shit except if ou swiped a card, looking in the windows, dozens of computers were on, though only a few men in white lab coats remained. It was then her friend revealed he was mutant, he touched the keypad and the doors slid open. The remaining people in the room looked at the group of kids and most knew them right away from their studies. It was then several guards approached from the still open door. Surrounded at the scientists brought small arms to bear, the small group of kids raised their hands in submission. Those few who did not, were killed without a word, the group was backed to a wall. "You pathetic creatures really thought you could escape us? Who are your friends up thare!" The man demanded waving his gun in front of him. No one spoke and this seemed to anger the man so he aimed his gun, and put severl shots by Aura's head, at first she was relieved but then, a warm liquid reached her hand, and she looked over to her freind dead, his head a grizzly mess. She reactively let the body drop. He repeated his question and again no one answered though a few cried and Aura was one for them. She barely knew the guy but he had been the only one to help her since this whole mutation thing came to be. Her sadness quickly turned to anger and her aura surrounded her, the guards took notice right away even as the scientists went back to their computers.

"Stop that, or i will kill the rest of you!" he demanded, though Aura moved forward anyway, she had some control over her Aura but often it would not shut off when she wanted it to. It was harder when she got angry or agressive. She made it half way and the guard capion shot her twice the first broke her momentum as she staggerd back in pain, though she was not bleeding, and second brought her to her knees as she began to feel ill. The man was toying with her it seemed, Aura struggled to get to her feet She managed but somehow knew her Aura would not like another shot.

Then the woman in white arrive and without warning, she opened fire, cutting down the captain and several of his guards before they even knew they were thare. "Picking On Mutants, children no less, i suppose you are just animals after all" She said nodding to her guards. The first raised his hand, and several of the remaining guns were surrounded by black spheres then crushed. The Last dodged the gunfire of the last guards and buried her sword deep in the man's chest. The secound guard aimed at her Back and was about to fire, but Aura jumped and cut into the Man's knee, distracted the other woman easily cut him down two. Each of them smiled to her, and Miracel aproached as the other to made for the computers. "Thank you, for helping Lambda, Listen we will help you all, but you must come with us. The Humans will hurt you, they were planning to use you for tests so they more easily kill other Mutants. Nature had chosen us to rule, It's path is the one path and the one future" She said, the words washed over Aura but she embraced the woman's open arms anyway, comforted by her attention and voice.

"Downloading Data now, 5 minutes untill completion The raven haired woman said and after what seemed like an eternity she got up with a smile, the other girl Opened a door and began to put device inside, above the rooms door it said servers. The woman in white waived for them to follow. Following the woman and her friends they quickly made it out of the building whare the landscape made Aura pause. All Over were Humans impaled on wooden spikes some of which still twitched. Upon Seeing their freinds, the Two woman in the tree made their way down, the tree opening for the plant lady to leave and the other rode a vine to the ground. As the group reached the fallen wall, the lab behind them exploded, Aura stopped and looked back, breathing hard from all the action.

"Follow us and we will give you food, shelter and some cash"She said, Aura was just happ to be inited a long. Her parents did not wnat her and this woman had resued her and some of her cellmates from the place. Aura and four others followed the rest, mostly older mutants broke away and ran their own paths through the woods. Aura was happy, feeling sick but happy to be wanted by someone. "I am Miracle, My friends, from left to right are, Solkat, Kobera, Lambda and Via, We are a group dedicated to ensuring Mutants take their rightlful place as the dominant species of the planet. Nature has already chosen us to take the place of the Humans. We can help you control your powers and improve them" She explained dotly and Aura nodded before replying. "I am Rena, i have nowhare to go, so i will follow you gladly" She said only briefly thinking about it.

Miracle nodded and smiled, she had observed Aura's power and found it could prove very useful to what she wanted to do so long as she was trained to use it right. Aura wnated to get stronger and they were offering her the chance. Huans hated her anyway and her parents had done worse, forsaken her. Maybe that was just the way Humans were, uncareing animals, unable to appreciate their own flesh and blood simply becuse it was different. Aura had no idea if nature was involved or not but it did not matter, Miracle would help her become powerful and once she was strong, no one would ever be able to put her in a cage again. "So um what can you guys do?" Aura asked curiosuly, some of the members of the team looked a bit annoyed at the question and she was about to apologize when the blue haired woman stepped forth. I can control plants, i also can not die, if i would my powers whisps me off to a new universe to start all over" Solkat said sounding slightly sad as she finished, Aura watched her lighgt somthing and begin smoking the fragrant cigarette.

"A fair question though a bit rude, I can heal and i age at a fraction of a humans rate, Lambda over there can perceive whare an attack will some from and end up before they do, Kobera can generate and manipulate fire and Via can controll gravity, How about you??" Miracle explained, quelling the others annoyance with a simple look. "Well i can make this pink energy around me into blades or use it to absorb a blow or two" she said slightly embarrassed, each of these people could eliminate her easily. She listened as the others that had been in the cage with her spoke of their power, still miracle seemed to focus on her, and that alone Made Aura want to impress her. Yes maybe if she made herself as useful as the others Miracle and the others would keep her close and care about her, the way a family wa ssuppose to, what Aura felt she had been excluded from up until this point.

She looked over each of her new found allies, all were female exceapt the two boys she had escaped with. Via looked to be the shortest of Miracles four warriors and Solkat was easily tallest. Lambda was a cute looking girl with short black hair that locked at her chin, her brown eyes kept watch around them, though the others seemed calm and colelcted, Aura realized it was likely her abillity to detect attacks that made the others relax. Her Freind Via who had set what Aura know knew had been explosives, was blond and kept her hair long, she also looked to be of asian decent though Aura could not tell from whare. Solkat, the blue haired woman who walked off with kobera was very pretty to Aura' eyes, she hoped to get to talk with her a lot, though she could tell Kobera was very concearned with her freind. Miracle downed the contents of one the flasks quickly, tilting her head when it was empty. They were all diffrent and yet the same in what they felt matterd most, they were mutants.

Six Hours later, things got strange to Aura. She had never been in the woods, but somthing radicllay began tp change with the trees, that seemed to be growing closer and closer together the deeper they went untill Aura laid her eyes ona virtual wall of bark and wood. It took no expert to realize none of this could be remotely natural. Her Insticts were confirmed when she laid her eyes on Solkat, whose hands and eyes began to glow a slightly deeper pink then, her own Aura. Aura watched in fascination As Large spikes grew rapidly out of the trees forming a stairway of spikes, then she began to run her head a bit as she acended the stairs, Kobera in tow, whispering somthing into her ear until they dissopeared between a an opening in the trees.

Following the others Aura and the surviving kids from the cage made their way up the precarious spikes, almost thirty feet into the air, as she reached the top, she looked around finnaly, one of the boys called over to her, and slipped partly into the opening, following, all three stopped when they reached the other side, within the the illurion of a large knot of trees, was a large flat space, Aura thought could have easily fit her house and several others. Incide a number of people, some with very visable mutations wonderd around doing various chores and some were fighting eachother. Decending the Spike set on the other side, Aura was happy to reach the ground.

Looking around she saw many of those in the hidden tent village wore robes of pure white, that seemed to shimmer in the light. Miracle dismissed the others, exceapt For Aura and the other three and waived for them to follow with a bright smile, guideing them to the large central tent, that had a small flag over it, a picture of a hawk with the earth in it's claws, and the words, One Path One way. Entering the Test, Aura first noticed the Dozens of Large assult rifles and what looked like pictures of hand gernades she had seen in a movie once. Pulling her Gaze from that she saw that both sides were set with a verity of Smaller arms and even a few knifes, many still had dried blood upon them.

"Their is one rule, you will all learn quickly, Loyelty to the Team comes before everything else, even your own beleifs. That Means it is expected that you follow orders of those above you, even if you do not agree with the order. My orders are always first, for i am decended from the Goddess of nature, and Solkat our prophet......."Aura mind began to wander as Miracle kept speaking, the subject changed to why and how mutants were suoerior. Miracle speech stretched on for hours and well into the night. Finanly, Miracle handed somthing to Aura and the others, White robes. Guided to tent they were each asigned a bed to sleep in and Aura quickly fell asleep, from her long period without sleep.

Lambda awoke her and the others, their were several other kids her age with her. The older kids seemed excited though few spoke. The New recruits exited the tent and immediatly saw a circle of fire around a pit with a single entrence. Lambda's cuteness suddenly faded as her Face took a serious look."Today we will test your ability to follow orders, you will be pitted against a human captive in this pit, the winner is the oen who walks out alive" She said seriously. Aura was a bit scared wary of this, she she had killed a few humans now, but she had not meant to. Her mind kept picking at phrases from Miracles speech and the phrase One path one way. Screams could be heard aproaching and Aura quickly spotted a vine carrying a human male, Solkat walking becide it, when the human got to loud the vine would shake him violently, when that failed a fine grew to coverd his moulth. the fired receded a bit as Kobera became visable, and the man was thrown into the centor of the pit, much like an animal. The fire came back uo and Lamba drew her blade, taking a swing with it, then looking back to the group, she spoke again. I will go first, as none of us, will give an order we would not do She said flipping her sword blade down then shoving it into the dirt, she walked through the opening to face the human.

The Human male was easily three times, the Size of Lambda, but he looked a bit scared of her anyway. Over comming his fear the male struck at her first, but his fist struck only the air behind her, as She landed a kick right to his stomach. Aura quickly realized the Human stood no chance in the fight and grew board. lmabda's power was evident even if Miracle had not told them, every blow the man threw landed in the air behind Lambda who was already countering. It was the female grunt that brought Aura back to reality, as Lambda, was knocked back by a powerful kick to her chin. The man had faked, her out but Lambda smiled rubbing her chin. The man tried to press her further, sending wild but quick series of Kicks and unches and he did back Lamda up so the the flames licked at her back. SMiling he sent a punsh aimed tight at her, instead of striking, lambda rolled across the ground and deleiverd a kick to the back of his knee, the scent of burhing fleash was immediate as he staggerd forward, he turned quickly, But lambda struck the side of his knee, the man fell his arm landing in the wall of flame, the fire quickly coverd his body, his screamd dies in minutes as he coughed, choked and then fell silent. Then the fire dissopeared from the body and it was dragged off, through an opening in the flame, and another human, this one a woman, was dragged into the ring.

Aura was called to go first and so she enterd the circle. The woman looked a bit scared smelling the clear scent of burned fleash. Still she realized quickly the price of loseing and looked right at Aura. Aura focussed on her Aura forming it around just her hand into a small knife like blade. moving close to the woman, Aura struck first, her blade hit home, but lost substence almost on impact leaving only a shallow cut, her actual hand never landed. The woman wasted no time in delivering a swift kick, to Aura's ribs. Coughing, Aura felt a blow to the back of her neck, and found herself on the ground fast. Rolling onto her stomach, she could only raise her hands to weakly defend against the punch headed for her. Still as the punch landed, her aura flared into view taking the blow for her but quickly faded to nothing as it finnished. Aura rolled onto her feet, delivering a quick punch to the older woman's gut, The woman counterd but Aura shield once again blocked for her, this time the aura substence was more spongy and absorbed most of the blow but still seperated the two.

She wa sbigger then msot Aura had fought before, and better in an actual fight, Aura had to wonder of she did not have some sort of martial artists training. The womn would not let up and charged her, Aura did her best to deleiver a kick, her Aura flared up but the woman grabbed hold of her leg just behind whare the Aura was solid. Pulling her forward the Woman gripped Aura's neck and began to throttle her. Feeling her wind pipe close Aura flailed most of her attacks did little against the woman, and finanly Aura simply gripped her hand trying to pry her away, as she was about to pass out, her Aura flared up in a ring of blade, around her palm, sliveing easily and deeply into the woma's hand, forceing her to let go, as her main wrist arterys were severd and her other arm aquired a deep gash from her other hand. Dropping to the ground, Aura took a few moments to get back to her feet, red fingers marks evident around her neck. The other woman gripped her wrist trying to close the wound. As Aura stood, the other woman fell from loss of blood. Aura looked around as she recoverd her breath and moved over to the other woman, looking back at Lambda, she found littile other advice. "Finnish this, you have already been much to slow, and use your power to do it" She said calmly.

Aura realized she really had no way out of this and so Aura did her best to form a blade around her fist and brought down her hand on the ladys neck, killing her as she cut through vitals. Walking out of the pit, Lambda gave no encouragement and simply called next, which aura did not watch. Her hands felt the silk in the robe, she realized killing this time had not been quite as hard. Looking up she saw the next kid one of the boys who had escaped with her refused to fight, saying he did not wish to kill. Without warning a thick sharp green vine pierced his chest, impaling him, then the vine tossed the body into the fire and Solkat spoke. "Anyone else not wish to follow orders?" she asked tilting her head curiously. Aura's wide eyed face quickly shook her head no the realization that she might have been better in her cage came into her mind.