The Beginning
"HOLD IT! I am NOT going. Forget it!" I yelped. Fang looked at me with surprise.
"What? Afraid of flying in the storm? That's not like you." He stroked my hair. I shrugged.
"We've been flying for HOURS trying to find those cats and they aren't here. Everyone's tired. There's a storm on the way, there is a perfect sleeping spot right under our feet..."
"Your right..." Gassy chimed in. "I'm real tired." He yawned and found a branch.
"Ok. Fine." He said with reluctance. "HEY! Everybody, we are staying here for the night." He started to set up camp and successfully finished 30 minutes after starting.
Suddenly, a crash of thunder echoed throughout the mountainside. The mountains were large and bare, with a few pine trees lining he sides. I growled at the thought of having to reach such altitude, while staying so near the ground. Made me feel uncomfortable. This whole plan was very risky. Itex was gone, but not the other dangers. I thought it was so unreal for Itex to not be chasing us the first year, but now, I am 16, and it has been two whole years since it's destruction!
"I hate this place." I muttered. Currently, we were searching for the old Itex creations, like us, who called themselves, the Cat People. They helped fight off Itex the final time. When I was fighting Omega 2 years ago, they were not there, then suddenly, once I had finished with Omega, they like, just popped out of nowhere. I didn't know any one of them. They were HUGE. Massive and muscular. After they came, the whole fight got easier. The people who had been around when they were created must have left, and I don't blame them. The stories I heard about them went like this.
The Cat people were one of the first creations of Itex. They were given many things, such as a conscience. They had the ability to morph from human to cat like Erasers did, except, they looked more graceful and easier than the Erasers. After a few years, the few cats alive, about 20, started to get rebellious. A she-cat named "8" started to organize them. She soon took the name of Star, and other cats took new names other than their numbers. The humans realized too late that the cats had become more powerful than them. The cats had increased in size from about human sized, to the size on a mini-van in their cat-forms, which they stayed in more often. Itex offered a peace treaty. They would release the cats, if they left one behind. The cats were unsure, but eventually agreed and left one, named Echo behind. They were released and were agreed to never be found again. Like us, the Flock, they mutated, as we call it, and got powers. They have been living somewere in the Appalation Mountains.
And that is where we are headed. Well. Not tonight anyways. We are staying here until this huge storm passes.
Its been 5 hours. I am so restless. Everyone except Me and Fang are asleep. He stares at me.
"What are you looking at?" I growled, folding my arms in front of my chest.
"I'm looking at how beautiful you are." Lightning flashed, as if it was showing how shocked I was. He rarely said anything like this. The confusion must have shown on my face.
"Wanna, uh, sleep with me tonight?" He asked, clearly looking for words.
"Uh, sure. It is cold…" I got into bed with him. He snuggled. I looked at him curiously. I then grinned and snuggled back.
I woke up exhausted. I had NO idea what happened last night. AT ALL. I vaguely realized that both Fang and I were completely exposed. I felt very funny and Under his blankets of course. I gasped, and yanked on my clothes. It was raining only a little bit, but in our pine tree, it was cold. You could see everything. From the mountains, to the valleys. Iggy was already awake, preparing our breakfast feast of POWERbars and energy drinks. Nudge walked in looking tired and happy.
"What's up girl?" I said cheerfully, ruffling her pretty brown hair. I seemed to have obviously tried to forget what MIGHT have happened last night.
"I had a great dream! I dreamed that I was flying in a sky of marshmallow clouds…" She said serenely. I looked at her with slight confusion. She giggled and skipped off to eat. I shook my head and laughed. It's hard to be mad at Nudge. Angel was next to enter the our campsite's fire place. Lastly Fang and Gazzy. Fang had this playful look in his eye, and I smiled. I think I know what we did last night.
We finished our breakfast and took off. Flying over the mountains, I wondered out loud to Fang,
"What if we can't see them, because we are so high up?"
"Well, let's just go and walk then." He replied reluctantly. We landed gracefully. The odd thing, was Total had not said ANYTHING all day. It was actually kind of weird. His wings are really working well.
"God. Where are those cats. I guess I scared them up a tree." He said with a cocky air. We all laughed until our sides hurt, while Total gave us the stink eye.