80 Framed

Lachlan stood by the door as the guy walked away, through a small conversation he managed to convince the man that they really didn't have anything to do with it. After that, he ran through the house to get to the TV and turn it on.

The first thing he saw was the headline 'Massacre at Perth Caused by Extremist Group' they were straight out calling Bloodied Wings an extremist group, a terrorist group. He listened in on the reporter as she talked about the incident.

"Earlier toward at Perth there was a bloodbath, caused by the extremist group Bloodied Wings, this was the first time they've struck back and it's shocking to say the least. 57 soldiers were killed, including high ranking ones, "This will be seen as an act of terrorism," Defence Minister says at a conference".

Lachlan just watched it shocked, although he knew the government liked to twist black and white to make them look good and everything, but this was a bit much. However, it could also be seen as to why they might think they actually did it. They certainly didn't clean all the corpses on the ground, didn't think they needed to.

Oh how sorely mistaken Lachlan was.

Simon walked through the door, he already had enough of staring at a seed. He looked at Lachlan who seemed rather focused on the TV, "What you watch?" Simon tried to get a better look, but it just seemed like he was watching the news, nothing odd.

"Well, we've now been labelled as an extremist group, they're even calling us terrorist for some reason," Lachlan said rather nonchalantly, of course inside he was fuming. This made everything much more difficult, as people would begin to doubt their motives.

"Huh," Simon thought he didn't hear Lachlan right, even though his perception is rather high he hoped he heard Lachlan wrong, "Can you repeat that?"

"Yeah, it's true. The government has labelled us as a terrorist group, now they're really pushing the argument that we're just a bunch of intelligent beasts in human bodies. How ridiculous,' Lachlan sat down on the couch and put his feet on the table, he laid his head back and looked like he was about to go to sleep.

"This isn't really a time to go to sleep is it?" Simon asked, he was rather annoyed that Lachlan isn't doing anything. There had to be something they could do that would lessen the pressure on them, otherwise they'll lose quite a few members.

After a few minutes of silence between Simon and Lachlan the rest of the group just walked through the door, Flynn still had a grin plastered across his face, every couple of seconds he would turn back to look at the sapling in the ground. Although it took a while for it to grow, it had finally grown enough, and he tamed it, he finally had a tamed beast.

Chloe was by his side holding onto his arms, she was happy as she could be. Seeing her husband so happy was rather joyful, it was like he became a kid again.

"What's going on in here?" Georgia asked, Lachlan looked rather exhausted on the couch while Simon was staring at Lachlan with daggers in his eyes.

"We're now a terrorist group, the damn government has labelled us as a terrorist group, some even saying we aren't human but are just intelligent beasts," Simon angrily said, his fist was clenched rather hard as veins could be seen popping out of his arms.

"What!" The rest of the group shouted, this didn't make any sense, they haven't done anything bad yet, let alone become a terrorist group.

"Yeah, it seems we're getting blamed for the massacre at Perth, they're even going to the extent of saying that the beast horde that attacked them a few weeks ago was instigated by us as well," Simon had been watching the news for a bit and more and more events were put onto them. Even events where they weren't even in the country, back months ago when they were on the island.

Every time they connected them to more horrific events Simon would get more annoyed, by now he was fuming, he looked like a flame would burst out of his nose and smoke out his ears in a minute.

"But that can't be right, we didn't do anything," Flynn tried to logically think this out. When they were at Perth the soldiers were already dead, they were killed by the Ent which the military should know if they keep up constant communications. Why were they getting the blame for it, unless there was a reason?

"They're framing us," Lachlan said, his face turned towards the group. At the start, he thought this would be the case. The government has tried to do it before, but because their group hasn't actually done many violent things that were caught on camera, they were unable to succeed. But now they've got a bunch of 'evidence' they could use.

Although everyone was thinking that they'd rather not believe it, even though Bloodied Wings and the government have different ideas about hybrids, they were still all humans. However, now that they've been classified as an extremist group or intelligent beasts, either way, people would begin to lose trust in them.

"Anything happened yet?" Flynn asked.

"Indeed, one of the parents down the road had some concerns with us 'massacring soldiers' and there will probably be more like him, people beginning to doubt us," Lachlan explained, he seemed rather tired of everything. Dealing with the government and military at every corner, taking care of supplies and other resources, constantly fighting and travelling. Just all the stress was building up.

He was still a child, after all, it's rather surprising he even managed to make it this far without breaking.

"What's wrong?" Phoebe asked, she noticed that Lachlan was acting strange, he would usually be the first to act against this but now he seemed rather tired. Although, she too was having a bit of trouble dealing with the stress.

"I'm just tired, dealing with so many troublesome people is beginning to annoy me, and there's also the government and military trying everything to cause trouble for us. To be honest, I just really want to go back to the island, it was much simpler times," What Lachlan said did cause everyone to think.

They all also missed those times, when the only thing that was on their mind was training. Dealing with people is really tiring and dealing with people that scheme against them is even worse. But they couldn't give up yet, they still had a lot to do.

"If you need a break take one, go back to the island and train till your heart's content, we'll take care of everything here," Chloe abruptly said, she had expected this to happen ages ago. She knew Lachlan was still young, letting him carry such a huge burden was never a great idea.

"But you guy will need me," Lachlan said, he was a bit stunned by what Chloe said.

"Yeah, we need you in good condition, and right now, you are not in good condition," Chloe explained.

Lachlan felt that, although he wanted to argue he knew himself that he just wasn't in the right mindset, "Alright, but I'll stay until we calm down this situation".

"Good, you can be in charge of taking care of the children, we'll take care of his situation," Chloe said. There was another motive for doing this, it seems Lachlan has forgotten why he began to this operation. He needs to spend more time with the children, especially his sister, hopefully, he will get his mind out of the gutter.

Lachlan had always been going on the operations, no matter where they were he would go. Meaning he limited the amount of time he could spend with his sister, which is also why his sister values the time he is here and is almost always with him.