A/N: I just want to say thank you soooo much for reviewing, it means a lot. Also I wanted to remind those of you reading that all the dialogue from the episodes is from the subtitles in the Japanese version, not the English.

Thank you so much to my beta, Killing Lies!!

Disclaimer: Don’t own, if I did the series would be about the Schiff.

We all sat or stood in different parts of the room, each in our own thoughts. I stood in the middle of our only light patch, thinking of the deaths of all our friends and how no one seemed to care at all. Thoughts and images of the thorn swirled in my head.

I was vaguely aware that Lulu and Karman where leaning against the wall behind me, and to my left sat Irene, staring at the pile of crystal dust. She reached her hand down and scooped some of it up, then let it slide out of her hand, back onto the floor.

That’s when I decided to voice the thoughts in my mind.

“We’re getting out of here tonight.”

“What do we do after that?” Karman’s response was soft but questioning.

I didn’t turn to him; I just continued to stare up through the grate.

“Search for some way to live without fearing the thorn.”

It was Lulu’s turn to speak up.

“Do you have a specific plan?”

“No.”

“Well then…”

I could hear the doubt in Karman’s voice and the feelings I had been having finally rose to the surface so that they could be heard in my voice.

I reached up and grabbed hold of the bars in front of me, almost willing them to disappear and let us out.

“If we just wait here, the thorn will appear on all of us! I want to believe in the word “hope” as written in the book for the humans!”

I could feel the others shifting around me, touched by the word “hope”, as if it had lit a fire inside of us.

We didn’t know what it was but it filled us with a desire to get out, to leave and try to survive.

I knew I had finally gotten through to them.

We didn’t take time to plan; we knew we just had to go for it. However, first we had to get out of our cage.

Irene ran to the door and started to pound on it.

"Please!" she cried, "We need help! Someone – please!"

Immediately the door opened and a guard stepped in. Dismas and Gestas double teamed him, knocking him unconscious. Irene darted out the door and knocked out the other guard that stood outside.

She glanced around and motioned for us to come out. We left the room and ran down the halls towards the circular room. When we got there we opened the closet door that stored our weapons and pulled out the deadly instruments.

Now we could escape.

We ran out of the room and down the hall, in the direction that we never went. We met some scientists and several soldiers, but none of them where a match for us.

At some point someone pulled an alarm because more soldiers filled the halls and a loud blaring noise filled the building.

We turned the corner to find a “firing squad” lined up at the other end. The second they saw us, they opened fire. Bullets blazed past us; if they hit us the wound quickly healed.

I rushed towards one of the men and sliced him in half, while next to me one was brought down by Karman’s spear. Guy quickly slid behind one of the soldiers and right before she slit open his throat I heard him call us monsters. As we left that corridor his words echoed in my head.

We were monsters? Compared to whom? Compared to the soldiers and scientists here? What sort of person watches creatures suffer? Who are the monsters in that situation? The observers or the victims? The thought made me scoff under my breath. Humans…

As we moved through the building, the soldiers lessened and the scientist grew more numerous. We killed all of them; after all, they were responsible for all this, weren’t they?

Then we turned onto a new hall and there at the end of it was Boris.

Faster then he could blink we killed the scientists surrounding him and stopped him from going any farther. I grabbed him by his tie and looked him dead in the eyes. I could feel the others standing behind me, watching, on guard in case he tried to escape or if more soldiers came along.

“H-how did you-? What do you think you’re doing?”

I could see the shock and anger in his eyes.

“We’re escaping from you’re little zoo, now tell us what we are.”

He paused a moment, but then seemed to come to a decision.

“I’ll tell you why you’re programmed for early death and the stigmata on you’re skin. It’s because you are weapons. Thinking and autonomous weapons, with no need for maintenance. And when the time comes, you will die, all by yourselves. You’re the most economical tools for war.”

Anger welled up in me and I slammed his head into the glass behind him.

“Tell us how we can escape our fate!”

“You must drink the blood of a special girl and those who surround her. Her name is…”

A trickle of blood made its way from his mouth and he paused as if considering something, then contempt flared across his face.

“Saya.”

I whipped my scythe around and quickly decapitated him, finally removing that loathsome smirk from his face.

I took a moment to calm down and turned towards the others.

“Let’s go.”

“Where to? Where are we going?”

Irene’s clear voice cut through the silence that filled the building.

“Anywhere but here.”

The others nodded and accepted my answer, then they looked to me as if I were to decide where we were going. That’s when it hit me, they expected me to lead them. But to where? None of us new, but they trusted me to be their salvation. So I walked toward the exit, stopping briefly to look at documents concerning us on Boris’ desk. That’s where we learned that we had been created from Diva’s blood; Diva and Saya were connected, so maybe she could help too. Then we opened the main doors and stepped out into the night.

Like the Moses from the book of the humans, I led “my people” away from those who wanted to harm us and into the unknown of the world.

A/N: Well, this one’s early. - Anyway, I was watching the episode that had these scenes in them and I saw that Moses called the lead scientist “Boris” and that’s when I realized I was a dork and had been calling him Faris this entire time, so I’ve fixed it in all the chapters. Anyway, I hope you liked this one, the next one should be fun to write, it’s when the Schiff see the real world… including animals and cars…