Mist Walkers

Gifts

Well as it turned out my gift was fire, the more excited or angry I got the closer to lightening the flames would become. Lilly said it was one gift with two sides. I had figured out the hard way that the only way I could practice my gift was while I cooked food, otherwise I started torching everything in my way. The ventilation system had to work overtime to get the smoke out of the garage.

            The time flew by as we trained, and the year went by quickly. We already celebrated Zeus’s birthday and he shifted, his wolf was Apollo, they stood eight feet tall and their fur was still rainbow in color but darker and had black at the tips. Zeus was now six foot five and if he weren’t my brother, he would be rather attractive.

            We started playing hide and go seek with our mist and had gotten good at it, until Zeus’s gift showed up. He has the gift of shields. He can create a barrier around himself and those near him. It enabled him to figure out where I was as soon as he threw one on me.

            “Ok that’s cheating,” I pouted as he walked over and touched my shoulder yelling, “Tag your it” he laughed and disappeared.

            As I closed my eyes to sense where the movements in the room were, I heard a sudden chirping noise come from the kitchen. Ignoring the snickers I heard coming from the corner of the room I walked into towards the cell phone on the kitchen table that was making all the noise.

            “Hey Zo, we got a message.” I said as I unlocked the screen to read it.

            Not safe, they know where you are. Run! It was a message from the friend's of dad's. We had been in contact with them when we decided to stay longer.

            “s**t! Grab your stuff we are leaving now!” I screamed as I ran for the bugout bags.

            Thankfully we already had the bikes loaded on the truck, we were still  in the process of loading all the dead drop boxes, but there was no time we would have to deal with what we had.

            “I got the keys, were do we want to go?” Zeus asked rushing by me.

            “I’ll ask just get in the truck” I stated as I typed a message asking for which direction they were coming from

            You safe?

            No we are fighting them now, if you don’t hear from me in an hour lose your phone

            Will do, be safe

            "Just head north we will figure it out as we go" I said as I scrambled to grab everything.

Zeus opened the garage door and started the truck, I looked around the place we had called home for the last year and half and sighed as I ran to truck.

            “We can stop by our first dead drop on the way to maybe as far as Higgins.” I said while climbing in.

            “Alright, here we go.” Zeus said as he floored it. We speed off down the tunnel and headed towards our first location.

            The tunnel went for about a mile underground before we came out in an old barn. I got out and ran to the barn doors to open them when lilly started to get agitated.

            Hey you ok?

            They are close we have to move if both of you use your mist we should be able to make the truck vanish but we need to go.

            Zo you hear that

            Yep, just get back here I’ll ram the door.

            I ran back to the truck and proceeded to spread my mist out as did Zeus, He also put a shield out and soon as I was in he rammed the truck through the door. We were surrounded, “Run them over, just get us out of here,” I yelled and he grinned

            We sped of down the dirt road only ran over two hunters who stood in our way, the thuds sounded sickening in the quiet of the morning. Zeus kept the gas to the floor as bullets and arrows ricocheted off the truck.

            “You good?” I asked Zeus as he seemed to grimace when the arrows would plink off the truck.

            “They are using silver and it hurts when it goes through the shield.” He said, as his breathing seemed to quicken and his claws extended.

            Crap he was close to shifting, “Get us out of here and off this road,” I yelled

            We barreled down the road and came out into a small city. We knew this area well from the maps we had so we took a few twists and turns before we hit the highway. We had lost our pursuers a few turns back so I started to relax and he dropped his shield, we still kept the mist going for a few more miles, until we pulled off on the exit that brought us into our first dead drop which was a rest area.

            I got out and started checking my phone, there were no messages. I snapped the phone in half and threw it in the garbage. Zeus was looking in the be of the truck with worried look on his face.

            “What?” I asked

            “ The one of the bikes is shot and so is most of the food.” He sighed as he pulled a can of beans out that was leaking everywhere.

            “How's the truck?” I asked as I heard what sounded like water dripping from underneath.

            “Radiator is toast, and I think we lost a brake line. We go on foot or piggie back on a bike from here.” Zeus said while running his hands through his hair.

            "On foot it is," I sighed as I shoved the last of the good food in my backpack and started into the woods. This was going to be a long walk.