66 Planning and Unwanted Attention *

After waiting for an hour Chloe's husband walked through the door and jumped back by the sight of so many people. He also quickly realised a few of these people were unique like his daughter.

"Hello there Mr Wart, the names Lachlan I'm a friend of your wife"

"Oh, hello there, my names Flynn and forget about the formalities. I'm not interrupting anything am I?" He asked.

"No, rather we were waiting for you to arrive," Lachlan said.

"Oh, hope I didn't make you wait too long, so what can I do for you?" Flynn asked.

Lachlan began explaining his thoughts. Talking about how he wants to protect the children that have been abandoned by their parents or have lost their parents. In other words, start an orphanage but for every child no matter how unique their appearance is.

Flynn was excited by the idea, but had a few questions, "Where will it be stationed?"

"I'm not exactly sure where a good place would be since we are protecting all children, certain unwanted individuals may try destroying the orphanage. You have any suggestions?"

"You're right to think that, a good place would have to be somewhere isolated from any major city, possibly at an abandoned town"

"So how large do you want this to become?" Flynn asked.

"Hopefully one day it could become worldwide. Currently, people are afraid of anything that looks like a beast, especially an intelligent one. However, should people see that they're on humanities side, maybe they'll begin to accept them. That's the end goal"

"How many others have joined?"

"Well currently there is only four of us, but this isn't something that'll happen instantly so I'm expecting some of these kids to help out when they've grown up. There is also the others from the group that might help out. Also, should we search hard enough we could probably find a lot of parents that would help, especially if their child is in the same situation"

"Alright, I suppose we should at least find a place to stay, hiding in the middle of the city isn't the best place," Flynn said as we sat down at the table and opened up a laptop, going to google maps.

"They've changed google maps, now it also has different zones all categorized with a danger level. From low to high, they're determined by the number of beasts and how strong they are. There is also death zones, which are occupied by groups of strong intelligent beasts," Flynn's knowledge of everything was definitely helpful.

"So, what zone should we go to?" Lachlan asked.

"Well going to a death zone would certainly keep people away, and if we manage to kill the group of intelligent beasts, others will hopefully stay back in fear," Flynn explained.

"It's going to be hard to beat them, we fought one in Sydney. Although we managed to defeat it, it was incredibly difficult and a few of us were quickly incapacitated," Chloe said.

"If everyone from the group agrees to help out we should be able to defeat a small group of intelligent beasts. Does the map show how many intelligent beasts are in each death zone?" Lachlan asked.

"Unfortunately not, they do however have the minimum number of intelligent beasts to each area, but that's playing with luck," Flynn explained.

"So what areas have the least?" Lachlan asked.

"Well, almost all areas near the centre of Australia have almost no intelligent beasts, they're ranked as medium to high danger zones. However, the areas with the highest number of intelligent beasts are all across the coasts, probably due to intelligent beasts having strong human desires to live lavishly," Flynn said.

"Do you know if there are any more unique children?" Lachlan asked.

"Well, from what I've seen, whenever authorities get information about the children they go in and capture them, after that they trap them in cages and send them out in the wild," Flynn explained, his fist clenched with veins popping out of his skin.

"Do you know where they let them out?" Lachlan asked, he was slightly annoyed at how the authorities handled the situation.

"I know where they leave the city and seeing as how the surrounding area is almost all high to death danger zones, it's likely they barely went out the city, maybe only went 1kilometre away," Flynn stated.

"True, I should be able to track them down by their scent. When was the last group of children sent out?" Lachlan asked.

"I believe it was 2 days ago," Flynn said.

"Alright, they probably haven't gone far or separated from each other," Lachlan said.

"Right, if we go now we'll have the best chances of finding them since tomorrow is going to have bad weather," Flynn explained.

"Sweet, everyone ready to go?" Lachlan asked.

The children all replied with a yes, they were excited to make more friends. Chloe had already joined, and she was strong, she didn't want her husband dying out in the wild.

"Let's go then, be quick we don't want anyone to notice us," Lachlan said.

They walked through the door and got onto the elevator, luckily it was empty. Seeing how high class these apartments are, not many people would be able to afford them.

"That reminds me, what is the currency now?" Lachlan asked.

"Oh yeah, you were isolated from the world for two years. So, the world has completely united and create a world currency, which is just dollars and cents. The average rent is $50 a week, this apartment complex is $130 due to its location being in the centre, so it's protected from all angles," Flynn then went on to explain how the world is currently working.

Schools have almost stopped entirely, they are now only teaching sciences and maths, with some schools teaching Design & Technology or STEM. The rest of the day is spent doing combat training, which has now become a compulsory subject.

The only way to get out of it is to partake in research, being an assistant and for the older more smarter kids, being a researcher. The main topic researched is the beast bodies, finding their weak points, seeing if their meat is edible and if any body parts could be used as a weapon.

Turns out that a majority of beast meat is delicious, only poisonous insect meat is disgusting.

Then the group made their way through the lobby, but unfortunately gained some attention from the receptionist, a different one than before.

"Ash There's a group of intelligent beasts here!" The receptionist screamed at the top of her lungs. People in the lobby and just out the door started running and panicking. Phones were brought out and numbers were dialled.

"Alright, now we run," Lachlan said.

He shot out the door and summoned Temp, he got everyone on quickly. The authorities just arrived, armed and pointing towards the children.

Lachlan jumped up, "Fly!" he shouted.

Temp shot up, the wind from its wings pushed everyone in the area to the ground.

The military that was there picked up a communicator, giving a warning to the base.

…

At the base, after James heard the description of the people he called off the attack. Saying that it won't end well for them. He did however, want to ask Lachlan about the intelligent beasts he had with him.