HAI HAI HAI Welcome to meh story.... Im soo gonna fail, but eh. Most stories do, right? I'm terrified- Everyone keeps talking about ' Mary-Sues' about how they are to perfect, or too imperfect, and I have a sickening feeling I'm going to have one of those problems... I hope the old characters don't seem to OOC too.... Bare with my spelling and grammar please, and lets see how this turns out.

I sat on the front porch of my Adoption Home, and that's when everything started. I live in Manhattan, the city of lights. Every night I would walk out to see all the Christmas lights flashing out the dark, as if all the other lights didn't already. One day, my nightly stroll was different.

I was walking down the street, only about two blocks down from Broadway. It was kind of quiet, but footsteps and talking broke the eerie silence every once in a while. My black hair flowed behind my thick dark-silver parka. My hazel-green eyes were smothered with sleepiness, yet I was wide awake. It was about 7:20 p.m, Friday, the week before Christmas, that my life was turned upside down.

Suddenly, I was rammed into an alley way, and as I opened my eyes, a ugly bird-humanoid creature stood in front of me, two others flapping down near it.

They chuckled darkly. " Look, girls, we have found our little Jamie." cackled the tallest-one. I was shocked, really, a bird-human thingy just came down and said my name, and I had no idea they existed.

" W-What do you want?" I stuttered, crawling backwards almost crab-walking like.

" Just your soul!" cackled the shortest one.

I was freaked out at that point, so I slugged the one closest to me in the face with my boot, and got up, running down the alley way. Luckily, there was only a fence, instead of a wall, so I climbed right over it, and ran full-speed as the evil birdy monsters hissed, blinking away their shock, and following me.

" HELP!" I screamed, all the way down the block. Apparently, a 13 year old girl getting chased down the block by soul-wanting birdy people wasn't important enough.

After half a block of running, I hear squawking, and a small screaming noise then a noise as if someone threw sparkle-glitter everywhere. I looked back, and two figures fighting the birds with what looked like swords.

They looked up at me briefly as they finished off the last two monsters, as if saying they were just going to help, but I ran. This was way out of the normal zone for me.

I could hear the echoing stomping of the two kids coming after me, calling me to stop, but i just ran. One block...Two...Three... eventually I got tired, and stood at the end of the street, panting. I thought I had lost the two kids, in till I hear a " Hello." from behind me. I just up.

I turned around, and saw two boys. One older than the other- They both had swords, one was more of a bronze-gold color, and one was black.

One has dark-brown hair, and black hair. He wore a blue shirt with a trident on it, and some regular jeans. He was the one holding the bronze sword. The other didn't look as friendly- He had black hair, with dark brown eyes, and wore aviator jacket, and darker jeans, and a skull ring, and the dark larger-sword.

" Did you see what attacked you?" asked the shorter one flatly.

I rolled my eyes. You think I would run if I didn't see them! I kept my mouth shut, then just answered with a small nod.

They muttered something to each other, and then the taller one sighed. " Okay, come with us." he said.

I huffed. " Why?" I asked.

The blue-shirted one blinked, then sternly said. " So we can explain the whole thing that just happened to you.... Whats your name?"

" Jamie." I said, " Jamie Loin."

" Well, Jamie, Follow us." said the boy, and I shrugged. Whatever had happened to me back there, with the ugly birds, had something to do with them, and I had nothing better to do at my adoption home, anyway.