The Other Side of Reality

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So, let's get our facts straight. I'm 15, do the math for all the flock's ages yourself cuz, being a school drop-out, I can't do math so well myself and it would take up precious time. Itex is gone. No longer exists. Extinct, call it what you will. Iggy has been drooling after Ella for a month now. And depressed since we left. Did I mention that he can see? Well, my bad. Fang and I are NOT together FYI. I don't know who got that notion in your head. *insert rolling of eyes here* So, to the present. We got a house, aka mansion, and this is where we begin…

Nudge had hooked up my Ipod to our enormous speakers. Tzu – She Gets Up blared through the speakers. She grabbed my hands and yanked me up on the couch to dance. (I don't dance. Feel free to paint this killer picture in your head.) I went ahead and started to jump around with her. Angel joined us. This progressed into Gazzy grabbing some microphone and singing the song.

I know a girl who's laughter makes the whole world feel like it's brand new again

My lover and my best friend and when we talk on the phone she makes my heart burn

I saw Fang lean against the doorway and watch amused as we all danced around. Iggy ran and did a dramatic pirouette into the room as the chorus started up. Listen to the song to get the image. It is one kick ass song ladies and gentlemen. BOYS AND GIRLS! Okay, I'm done. We ended up applauding ourselves as we waited for our next song to come on. The doorbell then went off. I gestured with my head for Fang to go get it. When he opened the door we saw… Jeb.

Fang gave him a wary look. But, Jeb walked right past him and over to me.

"Hello Max. I just came over to say that there is another sort of division, Ice. It has recently been having problems with a group of mutants. Five, to be exact. One girl, four boys, two of them her brothers. I brought their files." He held up a manila envelope as he said this. "I was hoping maybe you would find them and take them in. I think you would all get along wonderfully. You are all on the same side, after all." Then, he walked out the door. Just. Like. That.

"What the hell…" I muttered. Then I shook my head. Who were these kids? I grabbed the envelope and plopped down on the couch. The flock gathered around me. Let's see who these kids are…

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On the front of the envelope there was one word. "Flamers". Okay I thought who are the Flamers? Those mutants from… Ice? So many questions began to whir through my head.

"Come on Max," Angel said. "We wanna know who they are!"

"Sorry. Got sidetracked," I muttered. I pulled out five folders from the envelope. The first one, on top, had "Leader" in large letters on it. And under that, "M57894". Lovely, they have little code names. I scoffed, disgusted at the cruelness of the whitecoats. I opened the folder. I gasped, there was a picture. She was reeeeally pretty! I smiled to myself. She seemed like a "one of the guys" type too though. Iggy whistled one of those little perverted wolf calls or whatever. Nudge smacked him. Speaking of which, she isn't gabbing…

"ZOMG! MAX! SHE'S GORGEOUS! LIKE YOU! But she looks so stubborn too…" She gave me a side glance and a smirk. "Just. Like. YOU!" The flock all laughed as I made a pouty face. Even Fang was chuckling! Butt faces. I went to the next folder. This one had "Right 'Wing' Man" on it. I frowned. That's what Fang was to me. Wait… are they? Can they? No wayyyyy… I gasped.

"I think they may be able to fly like us." I said. The laughter stopped as they all read the front of the folder.

"M57898. What a great name for a person to have." Fang muttered.

I opened the folder and saw a picture of a guy, this time. And man… he was HOTT!

But not as hot as your Fangy Poo right?

Shuddup voice. I growled back.

You need to have a make-out scene soon. I'm tired of waiting. It replied.

HOW DARE YOU! I yelled. Incidentally, out loud.

Everyone jumped.

"Voice?" They all said together.

"Yeah." I sighed.

"Max? Can we go fly outside?" Iggy and Gazzy asked me.

"Go on! I'll find out more about these guys and then maybe we can track them down tomorrow. Alright?" Everyone nodded in agreement and ran outside. Minus one hot guy dressed in all black with a smile that… STOP MAX! Okay. Back on track. Minus Fang.

"So, how are we gonna find these guys?" He asked.

I shrugged. "Let's just finish looking through these folders."

I looked at the next one. "Brother 1" it said. And then "M57895".

"I guess this would be that first girl's brother!" I said. Fang gave me this look that said 'yea, figured that much' and I blushed as I looked at the folder. Another hott guy, this one had blonde hair and blue eyes, and the next folder which said "Brother 2" and "M57896" revealed another that had blonde hair with brown streaks. This is quite hilarious, because the girl had brown hair, and the other guy had blonde. This guy got caught in the middle of the two hair colors. The last folder showed another guy, this guy though seemed sorta Fang-ish yet with dark brown hair. Speaking of which, the right wing man was also Fang-ish. He had black hair cut like fang's. This one had a different tone to him or something though, I couldn't quite figure it out yet. Oh well. Suddenly the doorbell rang again.

"Fang, do you know who that would be?" I glanced at him.

His whole face was the color of a lobster as he tried to hide it, after glancing through the peep-hole. This made me run to the door and open it. "Lissa" I hissed her name. That Bitch… excuse my language. She flipped her red hair over her shoulder and strode past me. HOW DARE SHE! I watched as she sat on Fang's lap and played with his hair.

"You called?" she purred in his ear. She must have thought she was being all slick and I couldn't hear her. But, being a mutant bird kid, I easily picked out her words. I took off at a run past Fang and the bitch, out the glass doors, onto the deck, into the FOREST, and THEN into the air. I warped so that nobody could follow me. Tears streamed down my face, thinking about why it hurt… I had been gathering up all my courage throughout the day today to ask him to go see the new Transformers movie with me on Friday (it's Tuesday FYI) and there he goes… with Lissa. I let out a scream as I went, warp speed, twirling around in the air.

I flew for about 9 hours. Sorry I didn't tell you where we live! Currently, New York New York! So, I'm about in Michigan or some place like that. I landed in the middle of the forest. I sat in one of the trees and just bawled my eyes out. None of the flock knew where I was, and we had no way to contact seeing as I left my cell at home. Awh shit.

"Screw you Nix. You just hate trees because they're prettier than you."

"I do not! I love trees!"

"Sure. That's why you enjoy making huge, unnecessary fires right?"

"Right. Wait, what did you say?"

"I win. I just got you to admit… something."

"See! You don't know what I admitted so it does NOT count!"

I listened to the two voices. One girl, one guy. The guy's name presumably being Nix. I looked for them on the ground. I didn't see anything.

"Look up Max. We're not on the ground."

That was the girl. So, I lifted my head up, and saw the experiment from the folder sitting in the tree across from mine. The Right Wing Man, Nix, was next to her. I saw brother 1 and 2, as well as the other guy. The one with no writing on the cover of his folder… which confused me earlier.

The girl frowned. "You got the envelope from Jeb?"

I gave her a confused/freaked out look and nodded.

She tapped her head. "I can read minds as well as a LOT of other stuff."

Nix chose this time to speak up, "She can do anything. Fly warp like you, even faster if she wants. Telekinesis, turn invisible, change her voice like Gazzy…" he shrugged. "Whatever."

She shot him a look. Then, she gave me a kind look. "I only read to trust. Or to understand. Why are you so upset Max?"

"Fang," I muttered. She closed her eyes as she seemed to concentrate.

"Oh. Him and Lissa." She said knowingly. Then she smirked, "Let's put him back in his place. He can NOT play any friend of mine." Wow, friend status already. The defeat of Itex has softened me up so much. Oh well, I liked this girl already. Oh, what is her name… I voiced my question.

"Oh my… I forgot introductions." Her brothers snickered over on another branch. She shot them a look, and they instantly stopped. Nix chuckled. "I'm Selina, this is Nix 'Tree hater. Right "Wing" Man, as you know', Sean 'the blondest of them all and voice thrower', Joey 'the one stuck in the middle. And bomb master mind', and then Drake 'The dark one'." We all laughed at her little quick descriptions.

"It's dark. Let's all sleep, okay?" She looked at me to seek my approval. I nodded. Then, we all settled down for the night. The great return journey was waiting for me, but I had a feeling that I was going to see something simply amazing, and be carried by Selina… hmmm… what… the… fuck…