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"Complete"

Being tired is not fun. But what is so bad about being tired? It's not like it's a serious problem or something. I am tired all the time! That is not the tired I'm talking about though. The tired that I am talking about is fall-asleep-while-your-flying tired. Not-paying-any-attention-to-anything tired. Fall-of-a-cliff-and-not-care tired.

I looked around at my family, one at a time. Seeing the faces that I have already studied for many years, I wished that I could do more for them. We were always on the run, eating garbage most of the time, not having anyone else we could trust. Maybe if they had better leadership, they wouldn't have it so hard.

"Max, I'm hungry," Nudge complained

I sighed.

"I know sweetie, we're going to get something to eat here pretty soon."

After a short period of silence, Fang flew up to me.

"So what's the game plan?"

"Fly until we see somewhere to land."

After looking around for a few minutes, he pointed to a small clearing.

"How about there?"

"Sounds good," I said to him.

Raising my voice, I said,

"All right, we are going to land for the night in that clearing, eight o'clock."

After we all landed safely, I did the normal, count and make sure nobody was abducted during flight. What, you never had to do that on your family vacations? It's perfectly normal. Not. So I started giving orders and getting organized.

"Okay guys, Fang and I are going to get some grub, Iggy you are in charge, behave yourselves."

I turned my attention to Fang, nodded, and took off, with him right behind me.

We flew for a relatively long time, without much of a scenery change. The sky had no clouds, and the trees were all the same and I didn't see any animals.

After a while I started getting pretty impatient.

"I think there should be something coming up," I said trying to seem more in control.

"There"

I looked where he was pointing. It was a little cottage right in the middle of nowhere. With a mutual look we landed and made sure nobody was there before we crept in.

It looked like a hunting cabin; it had deer on the wall, a fireplace, a gun rack, and some other weird stuff.

"This is kind of creepy, let's grab the food and get out of here." I said cautiously.

Fang nodded and we split up stuffing our backpacks with any food that was lying around.

On our way back I was thinking about the fact that maybe they would have better lives if I wasn't their leader. I mean, I led them around and told them what to do, but other than that, did I really do anything important? I took up space and hogged food. I wasn't really worth a whole lot.

"Are you okay?"

Of course, Fang had to pick up on whatever I was going through.



"Yes I'm perfectly fine, except the fact that I can't even take care of my family that ended up with ruined lives and will never know anything about what a real life is supposed to be because they are constantly on the run from people trying to kill them, yea, I'm just peachy"

Whoa, that was not supposed to come out.

Fang paused.

"None of that is your fault, Max."

I didn't say anything back so I wouldn't end up having another freak out. I mean, I was the one who made the decisions most of the time! I f I made a wrong one, which I know that I have, that would affect all of them! If I made better decisions then maybe we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now!

They are smart, they would probably be better off without me!

"Max," Fang cautioned.

"What?" I said acting fine.

He looked at me fiercely.

"We need you, don't ever forget that."

I saw our camp and landed, ignoring the worried glances Fang was sending in my direction.

Later on, after we finished eating, I went to take first watch, but then I remembered what I was going to do tonight.

"I have first watch," Fang said, ready for a fight.

I paused for a long minute "thinking about it".

"Fine," I said trying my hardest to look mad.

Fang was a little shocked, but, as normal, composed himself quickly.

"Goodnight Fang." I said to distract him from trying to figure out something was wrong.

He paused, "Yeah, night."

I went over on the edge of camp, where I couldn't be seen very well, and settled down to wait for everyone to fall asleep. Do you remember what I said about being tired? Well, it's really hard not to fall asleep when you are that tired, and on top of that, its night time, and you have nothing to do to keep you occupied.

I tried to keep myself awake with anything I could. I tried pinching myself and making things out of leaves and tons of other things, but in the end, it just made me more tired.

Jeez, if I waited any longer I was going to fall asleep! I desperately prayed that everyone was knocked out and started to slowly get up. I quickly reviewed the plan in my head. I would sneak out of camp and run for a while then, when I thought it was safe, I would fly to Itex, or whoever is after us, and give myself to them so they would leave my flock alone. Then they could live a normal life.

I quietly slipped into the night, satisfied that I could finally help my flock like I wanted to.

O.o What will happen next. O.o

Don't worry, I'm not evil, most of the time...:)

Remember, I did say FAX. How could there be FAX if she disappeared forever? Huh? Glad I could help:)

You know you want to press that pretty purple button!!;)