Me: Well, it's currently 3:03am. Amazingly, my cousin and I are still awake. Oh, and Iggy is too-

Iggy: SHUT UP!

Me: Okay, it's just me and my cousin

Laura: -is about to fall asleep-

Me: Okay...maybe it's just me, listening to My chemical Romance and feeling hyper, so I decided to update this story

Iggy: -mumbles- Bell juzt update the dam thin' an' sleep!

Me: Fine...Small prank in this chapter, big and funny one in the next one ;D

Uh, thanks to Rain for betaing the chapter :D

When we arrived home, the usual was going on.

Jeb was taking care of two year old Angel in her room, four year old Gazzy was watching some show on TV and letting one rip every two minutes, seven year old Nudge was doing her nails at the kitchen table and Fang was God knows where as far as Max and I were concerned.

"Alright," Max said as we sat on the couch behind Gazzy who was laughing at something he saw on the television. "We have ten minutes before we have sparring practise outside."

"So?" I asked crossing my legs on the couch.

"So, we can't go through with my plan until after we finish that," Max said sounding slightly pleased with herself.

I sighed. I was beginning to think that I didn't want to know what she was up to...

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So, anyway, Jeb took us outside and then got us to spar against each other. Fang broke my wrist and after I knocked him over, he hit his head on the floor. Somehow, Max got out of all of this unscathed and Nudge and Gazzy had a few bruises. It was a normal day, and no one got severely injured. I guess back in those days Fang and I took it a little bit too far...but enough about that. Let's get to the point of this story.

The rest of the flock walked back to the house and Jeb took me into the kitchen to move the bones in my wrist back into place and then began to bandage it up.

"So, I see that you came out of that tree," Jeb said while he wrapped the cloth around my aching wrist.

I didn't say anything.

"Why did you run off like that anyway?"

I continued to say nothing.

"You know what, Iggy? There's a really important lesson that you need to learn," Jeb said with a sigh as he finished bandaging my wrist, fastening the end with a clip. "Instead of running away from your problems, you need to face them head on."

"How?" I asked quietly.

"That, I'm afraid, is what I can't tell you. You need to figure that part out for yourself."

I rolled my eyes. "Okay, Jeb. I will. Thank you for fixing my arm," I answered as I headed to my room and closed the door behind me.

"So, are you ready?" I heard Max ask from the corner of the room and I jumped.

"What? Ready to be scared to death by someone that shouldn't be in my room?" I asked angrily, glaring in her direction.

"No, are you ready for this?"

But before I could ask further questions, Max threw something at me and, somehow, I managed to catch it. I ran my fingers along it and my eyes widened as I realised what it was. At that moment, I was suddenly splattered with water from a random direction and Max started laughing. I felt a smile spread across my face too as I loaded the water pistol that she had thrown me and squirted her back. She screamed in a very un-Max-like way and bolted out of my room – spraying me with more water on the way out.

The both of us raced down the hall and I pelted her with water in the back as we did so.

Surprisingly, I had no problem following her loud footsteps. It seemed a lot easier than usual.

Before I knew it, we were running around the sofa and weaving around the kitchen counter really fast.

"Better run faster, Igs, otherwise the Erasers will eat you!" Max taunted as she stopped behind the kitchen island and I stopped on the other side as I heard her fake left, then right then she ran left and I followed.

"No, I'm sure that the Erasers will catch you first and while they're picking you out of their teeth, I'll get away," I joked, as I jumped over the sofa and Max squirted me with more water.

"Hey! That looks fun!" Nudge shouted, sounding jealous as she rushed off to her room, probably to fill up her water pistol.

"I'll play too!" Gazzy shouted as he darted out of the room to get his pistol too.

"If you're going to do that, do it outside!" Jeb shouted as I heard him turn the page of either a book or a newspaper.

"Fine, Jeb," Max said as she opened the door and slipped outside, me following close behind.

She splattered me with water one last time before we took off into the air.

The wind blew my wet hair off my face and Max and I laughed as we squirted each other happily...that is, until we ran out of water.

As you probably guessed, we weren't about to stop out water fight over something as small as 'running out of water.' So we decided to go back to the house and get some more but, that never happened.

Mainly because the sound wing beats stopped both Max and I from heading back to the house.

I bet that if you were in that situation certain things would have rushed through your mind at the time. Well, the things that rushed through my mind were something along the lines of:

Holy crap! A flock of mutant birdkids have come to get me with their water pistols!

But, you know, that's just me.

I heard Fang snicker before Nudge started a countdown.

"THREE!" She shouted and I clenched my fists.

"TWO!" I held my breath.

"ONE!"

As she shouted 'one,' I stopped flapping and fell into a fast-paced dive out of range of fire.

"IGGY YOU TRAITOR!" I heard Max screaming behind me.

I turned to face her and then laughed. I had to clutch my stomach to stop it from cramping up and pretty soon, the whole flock, excluding Max, were laughing with me.

'I'm going to assume that you're soaking wet," I called as I rose to join them again.

"Soaking, is the understatement of the century!" She shouted and I could practically feel her glaring at me.

I glared back.

Silence.

Then the whole flock, even Max, was laughing again, most of us trying not to completely fall out of the sky.

"Let's go back to the house," Fang said after the laughing had subsided. "I can't wait to see the look on Jeb's face when he sees Ig and Max."

"Gaz, can I borrow your water pistol, please?" Max asked in an angel-like way.

I heard Gaz had it over, followed by the sound of Max squirting it at someone. I held back a snicker as Fang groaned.

"Now I can't wait to see his face either," Max said as she beat her wings, flying away from Fang who was now chasing her.

"That was completely and totally awesome! I wish that it had lasted longer though...hey, Iggy. Do you think that we could do this again later but make sure that the water doesn't run out. Never ending water pistols! That would be totally wicked! They could just go on and-"

Do I even need to bother telling you who said that incredibly long speech? No? Didn't think so.

"Thanks, Gazzer," I said as the three of us started to fly home as well. He'd learned how to shut Nudge up very quickly - simple hand to the mouth usually worked

You guys are probably thinking that that was the end of the day and things went back to normal after that. But you couldn't be more wrong. I promised you a prank war! Remember? So how could it end like that with nothing else happening? That would be just a pointless end to the story, wouldn't it?

As I landed on the soft grass outside the house, Nudge and the Gasman rushed inside squealing like two little overexcited pigs, and I turned to face Max who I knew to be standing next to the door.

"This isn't over," she said in an angry but teasing tone. "Not by a long shot. I'll get you back for abandoning me like that."

I felt an evil smile slip across my face.

"Bring it on, Maxie."

I got pummelled for calling her that later...

Me: There you go. The pranks start after this chapter, including something with a certain lock...

Iggy: Are yo' goin' to' sleep yet?

Me: Yeah...I think I might

Laura: -playing with her phone-

Me: -shrugs- I really can't think of any good convo starters when Iggy sounds drunk and my cousin is on her phone so I'm just gonna sleep...

R&R!?

Bell, Ig and Laura