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Harsh daylight was the only thing I remembered after my eyes closed. It felt like I haven't slept on bit, and I hope I didn't look like I did either. Cause there's nothing pretty about that picture.
So as I was saying, the afternoon heat beamed down on me, corrupting the first dream-less dream I ever got. And hence, did I observed that I over slept. [Insert a colorful word here].
"Angel? Nudge? Gazzy?" I asked, and later panicked as to no one replied. I sat up, trying to calm myself and figure out where in the world were my flock? So far, all that I could remember was the incident yesterday with another mutant freak like us. [Insert another colorful word here].
I jumped to my feet, noticing how all our stuff was still on the forest floor. Even Celeste sat under a tree. And Celeste never left Angel side, which brought me back into the conclusion that they were ambushed by Erasers. Or, even worse, the girl, which was unmistakably not where we left her last night, took my family.
I spread open my wings, adrenaline pumping in my veins already. I just had to go search for my flock. They we're my world, and I couldn't bare it if even one of them was hurt. And so I took off, into the afternoon sky, my own priorities behind me.
I flew around in circles for minutes, and I hoped that nothing bad has actually happened to them. Possibly nothing as bad as being back at school, but I had to keep my hopes up and rely that someone in the group, like Iggy or Fang was sensible enough to fight back.
I yelled out in frustration. If stomping in the air was possible, that's what I should look like. And then something caught my eyes. Something small and slender, moving gracefully and hopping from tree to tree, like a amateur gymnast, or a baby monkey.
The girl, my brain registered and hot fury erupted inside of me. What did she think she was doing?
She was yards away from me, and it seemed like she doesn't hear me flying. She was holding something up and it looked like a string and a stick of bent over wood. A bow, I thought. Not realizing what to do, and realizing she could be hunting someone, I tackled her.
"What'cha think your doing missy? Hunting's not into the season yet." I snapped at her, kicking her bow out of her hands and managing to get on top of her on the ground.
And surprisingly, she growled something inaudible back. All I hear is my own heart beating and something moving up in my right side. It was an ambush, and I fell for it! I'm so stupid, and I mentally slapped myself.
Bringing up my right hand, I slammed a fist into her face, hearing a crunch and brought it back up for another one. Surprisingly, again, she was still growling, but didn't do anything to stop me. Like she was allowing herself to get beaten.
"Max!" I heard Nudge's voice somewhere above me, and I only had time to register a shadow above me. Or more like shadows above me.
Leaning forward, mouth pulled back, an Eraser smiled a toothy smile at me. He was huge, but he looked like he was alone. This brings me back into the conclusion of our traitor girl over here.
"Bombs away!" Fangs says, dropping out of the sky and landing on the Eraser. They fought for a while, snarls and punches thrown and even blood was thrown into the mix.
"Max!" I heard Iggy cry from above and I had to look at my blind pyro, half expecting a bunch of Erasers swooping in. But to my surprise, there weren't any Erasers anywhere but with Fang.
"Iggy, I'm right below you." I called back, almost forgetting he's blind after he swooped down besides me with perfect aim. My little Nudge followed him, landing on her toes and bubbling something about image projections. The Gasman landed in the tree, with Angel holding his hand, still wary about the scene. I almost cried. I taught them so well.
"I smell blood." Iggy wrinkled his nose and I almost said something about Fang, when I realized our particular bird friend still was bleeding under me. Her almond shape eyes were cloudy grey, and they threw daggers at me, but not once did she wriggle her way out of my lock.
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Iggy's POV: (a/n: sorry for changing POVs all of the sudden)
"I smell blood." I observed as the rustic scent went up my nose. I almost gagged too. After years of fighting, you'd think I'm used to it. But no, I wasn't. It reminded me of School, where they cut you up, and then leave you alone time for you to heal and then cut you up again, even when you least expect it.
It's hard being blind, even though I might say it's easy to let the other see that I'm not so much of a dead weight. Sure, I joke about it, and yeah, I could get along with the others even if they forget I was, but I could never really say how much it pains me in the inside. And to top it all off, I indeed remember seeing, like them, and that makes the pain burn up again.
"Max, she's not evil." Sweet little Angel said, somewhere above me to the right. Sweet darling little Angel was like my little Gasman. I cared and treated her since they were a baby. Max, Max always led the flock; Fang defended it, so I did what I could do best. I cared for the younger ones.
"Max, she isn't." Fang said, or rather grunted. I could tell he fought a while ago, and so at first, I thought the blood scent was coming off him, but no, it wasn't it was from something nearer.
"But she was hunting something." Max said, clearly hesitating. I could hear labored breaths on the ground, and I think Max was on top of a wounded. There was shuffling of Fang's feet- and yes I do know what his feet sound- some more movement, and I felt Max tap her finger on the back of my hand.
"Max! You know, Alex is special? Yeah, she is. Like Angel, only Angel's a little more creepy. She could project images in other's mind! Isn't that special? Huh? Like the projectors we had back at school." Nudge began, being all motor mouth again.
"Wait, I need to use my hearing Nudge, don't let it bleed just yet." I said sarcastically, standing still to get all information about my surroundings. Gazzy and Angel, who I think are the ones flying down, landed in front of me. Fang was shuffling cotton, wait, no, bandages, and Max was checking everyone for injuries.
"Nudge, who's Alex?" Max asked, as she finished inspecting everyone.
"Oh, Alex is the girl. You know, she projected images in my mind for a while in the morning. She sent pictures of the desert in my head, and it was so cool-" a hand cupped Nudge's mouth, thankfully too. In truth, I didn't believe them. Call me skeptic, but she never did anything to me, who am, may I point out the obvious, is the one who can't see. Yeah, leave the blind kid alone would you, I thought.
"Well, the good news is, she's fine and no more Erasers are within the area." Fang said in his low voice.
"Oh yeah, is that what you've been doing guys?" Max asked, snapping at Fang. And she never snaps at Fang. I may be blind, but I could still sense the relationship they had. Honestly, for the first years of my life, I had a small crush on Max. But as the years passed, Fang was the one she always asked for advice on, not me.
But I did learn to accept that. Even if it means I'd grow alone in a house with only potato chips as my life long partner.
"Max, we were just finishing off a bunch of Erasers after we went to hunt for breakfast. We woke you up, several times actually, but you didn't wake, so we went ahead. Erasers arrived, and well, we've been busy." Gazzy explained, sounding a bit like Nudge, and probably remembering the morning.
-flashback-
"Max. We got to find something to eat now." Waking up the body I think is Max's. I cursed silently to myself, not knowing what to do, if it was really dawn or not. I've been assigned for the shift before dawn, so I had the privilege of waking everyone up and know if the sun was up. Yeah, it was clearly a job for the blind kid.
"Guys, up and 'em! I'm starving." I said, and heard several sleepy yawns and words. But I knew they were ready. I heard everyone unclip their wings . And so did I, but a tap on my shoulder stopped me.
"What's the matter?" a new soft voice reached my ears. I stiffen, ready to attack when Fang answered for me.
"Food" Fang said calmly and I literally felt someone jump 15 feet up into the sky.
"You know, the dark conceals monsters well. And it so does to you." She, uh, complimented to Fang from above, flapping her wings softly. And that's the time when I thought we could get along. 'Cause she's a survivor and a witty bird.
"Why thanks. Now, we go find us some nutrition." Fang said, leaping out to catch a soft breeze, and his wings barely making sound, except for my ears.
"What about Max? Why won't we wake her up?" Gazzy asked, and so I came to a conclusion that she's still asleep. I'm awesome aren't I?
That was a rhetorical question, don't answer that.
"Iggy, what does rhetorical mean?" Angel asked, clearly reading my mind. Oh h-e-double stick.
"Uh, why don't we ask Max when she's awake, is that alright Ange?" I said to her and turned to the Gasman when I heard her nod.
"Uhm, I think we better let her sleep Gazzy. She's been pretty banged up." I said to him and felt him nod too. Wow, I really was awesome.
"OMG! OMG! You guys, we could totally live off the land! Alex here has a real life bow and arrow!" Nudge, hyped up as usual yelled from above. I grinned at her enthusiasm but got confused. So far, I knew no Alex. "And look what she could do! She could show off images in the mind! Cool huh! She'd be awesome to show something to Iggy! Right Iggy?"
"Nudge, it's too early." I complained but the idea of having to see pictures, real pictures and not just feeling it in my mind was something to really look forward to.
"Alex?" Gazzy asked, probably as confused as I was.
"Oh, Alex here's the girl Iggy rescued!" Angel chirped up.
"Riiight." I said, stressing out the 'I'. "Well, I don't know about you, but I think mountain rats seem appetizing."
I heard three sounds of 'Eews' and laughed.
"Way to get the image in Igs." Fang muttered, trying to calm the others. Since Max was out, I guess he was in charge.
"Well, Max might not want to miss-" I paused. The familiar grunting and hard flapping of wings reached my ears. "Erasers." I muttered, growling a bit.
I heard Fang moving in the air, and I heard Angel and Gazzy go up too.
"C'mon, let's lead them out of the clearing, away from Max." I said, not taking time to wake her up. I only heard 5- wait, no- 4 set of wings huge, non-avian, in the air, almost yards away from us. Nothing we couldn't handle right?
"I'll protect her." Alex, I guess that's her name, said, swishing the air and landing on a branch with a creak.
"Sure." Nudge said, probably having her shortest sentence of the day. I was going to pipe out something about leaving Gazzy and Angel too, but Angel beat me to it.
"I won't leave. I want to fight, like what you guys do." Angel said. I don't know if she was using her powers, or I was just a sucker under her will, but I agreed to keep them with, as long as they stay out of the chaos too much.
"Yo Iggy, 8 o'clock!" Fang warned, after we flew behind some mountains within 10 minutes, and engaged in the battle. I held up my hands in a punch, to heard a sickening crack. Perfect aim, even for a blind, mutant, kid. I heard a sweetly, sickening crunch, and something liquid stuck to my fist.
"Why I oug'ta." He began, but I wasn't finish. I grabbed his arm, twisting it up, and dislocating it easily. I kicked his stomach, hearing the air go out of his lungs and went up for a round house kick, when he bit my arm.
"Gah!" I screamed, shaking his fangs off my limb. I brought down my other arm, on his neck, and I felt the mouth went limp before hearing it land to the ground.
"You're not flying." I hear Angel say, and then, another lump fell from the air, crashing loudly in the trees.
"You're not supposed to be here." A deep growl left my ears, and some more fighting movement was heard.
"Yeah, and so were you." Fang said, kicking the guys butt.
"Hiya!" Nudge said, probably kicking the Eraser's face. She was swirling air with her wings, maybe looking like a fighter jet in the process.
"Take that!" Gazzy said, near Nudge, and I think I might be hearing a weird combination of Avian tag team.
"You're going to pay for this." The Eraser grumbled and fled, probably knowing it was for the better too run instead of trying to win a losing battle. Good for him too.
"Well, that's about it." Fang said, and I relaxed. My kiddies were growing up. Little Angel could even beat a grown Eraser by herself! I was going to cry-not.
"We better go find Max now." Gazzy said, sounding pleased with himself when we heard yelling.
5 pair of wings began to race back to our camp, and to what we will find.
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"Busy." Max muttered, probably irritated that she overslept. "Well, Alex, heard you got something special in you. Show me." She said skeptically. Yes, show us, I thought, curious.
"Yeah, just remember to not tackle me again." She muttered, but I heard her sigh.
Just then, something happened. Colors flashed in my eyes.
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Ooh! Cliffy! Well guys, now is your job to keep me off my lazy streak okay?
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