I heard five gasps. Fang looked like he was going to pee his pants, Angel didn't look surprised at all. That would be because she already knew. Gazzy looked like he was about to rip one from surprise, Nudge just had a blank expression on her face, and Iggy was pale white.
"WHAT?!" they all said next. Everyone but Angel that is. She was in deep thought, concentrating hard on something. Probably trying to figure out what caused this disaster to strike.
"Wait, Max, how exactly did this happen?" Fang said with more emotion than I was used to hearing from him.
"I…don't…know…they just all of a sudden disappeared after you guys left." I was shaken. Extremely so.
I was shaking in my skin.
"That's weird…how long ago exactly did this happen?" Fang was now asking questions which was unusual for him.
"I'd say about an hour ago." It was silent for what seemed like hours until Nudge broke the silence. I knew she would be the one to do it with her and her mouth that has to be moving at all times.
"So, you guys, what are we going to do? It's not like we can carry her out of here. She's too heavy. Even with us and our enhanced strength and all…even though shes barely 100 pounds…"
"That might pose as a problem. " Fang said, a little more worried than usual. He didn't look like himself anymore. It looked as if something inside of him would burst at any given moment aside from the fact that he can always keep his cool.
The shaking was starting to go away and I was getting a bit more relaxed. How could I ever think that they would ditch me? They would NEVER do that to me. Why was I so worked up over nothing? Ok, it was a lot of something, but the flock was more important to me than my wings.
You know Max, you're wings aren't really GONE GONE, theyre just temporarily gone. Great. Just what I needed. The voice. I still had no idea who it was. I didn't think I would ever really find out. No matter how hard I tried and tried,I know I would just continue to fail.
What do you mean? I asked the voice.
There must have been some mistake, some malfunction. I know they will come back. I'm certain of it. I'm thinking it was a side effect to the experiments they did. Hmm…that sort of made sense.
But why FOURTEEN years later? Silence. The voice always left when I needed something important. Oh, lets say like…GETTING MY WINGS BACK! I thought for a few more moments. I chose my words carefully on what I was going to tell the flock.
"Ok everybody. Listen up. My wings are apparently just gone temporarily. At least that's what the voice says. It was that it could be a malfunction or side effect or something along those lines from all the experiments." I guess I didn't choose my words too carefully. But whatever. I was just relieved that my wings were most likely coming back. But I still had a knot in my stomach from the possibility of them not.