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Mel's POV
That was a long night…
When on watch, I believe in a practical approach. Do not attempt to adhere to "mad eye's" strategy of CONSTANT VIGALANCE!!!! Look where he ended up. But instead, attempt to go on auto pilot , and scan the skies while your thought are a thousand miles away. It passes time so much more quickly, and you can be alerted to the presence of another individual / threat quickly enough to rouse the others and escape. Hopefully. Anyway, things were going just swimmingly (note sarcasm), until a harsh voice whispered into my ear "Turn around and you die." That sounded like Ari (a/n: she only knows about him because she has read the MR books). I brought my fist up to punch him- and met air. I was so surprised, that I turned around and saw… "GAZZY! I'm gonna kill you!!!! Don't do that while I'm on watch!!!!!" I yelled, chasing after him. My yelling woke the others, and Max had to hold me down to stop me from actually carrying out my threat. Cuz I would have if she hadn't. After I had calmed down (which took a while), Iggy took over watch, and we all went to sleep. For some reason, having Iggy on watch comforted me more than anything. With him, I just felt safe, which was something that I rarely felt.
Max's POV
In the morning, when Fang woke me to take watch, I quickly got up, and took over. As I sat down, I began to think about my life. I had almost everything I had ever wanted, and I was happy. Itex was gone. The school had been destroyed, There would be no more babies ever kidnapped to be used in cruel scientific experiments, I had saved the world, found a friend, we had a new flock member, we were all still breathing, I had found my parents, and my mother was my favorite person in the world, I had a sister, and (best of all) I had Fang. Those were pretty much all of my dreams come true. But were the others as happy as I was? Did they desperately want to find their parents? And what should we do next? I had suggested the mountains and they all seemed happy with that, but what should we do when we get there? Buy a house and settle down? Well, even though that idea didn't suit me too well, the others seemed to like that idea last month, and I had promised. Well, I guess that was it. We're going to get a house in the mountains. Maybe Montana. I did not want to go back to Colorado, too many bad memories. With that, my mind was made up. We're going to Montana, people, so watch out!
"Hey guys, it's time to get up!!!" I said about two hours later, it was six thirty, and I wanted every one up. I got grumbles of five more minutes, from everyone except Fang and Angel. Fang was up, and digging out power bars and pop tarts like there was no tomorrow, and Angel was still unconscious. "Come on, Angel, wake up. It's time to go!" She still hadn't heard me, and was a looong way away from waking up. When Mel finally dragged herself upright, she walked over to Angel, and I, and blew a loud raspberry in her ear. Angel woke with a start, and began giggling. I looked at Mel, and asked "Where did that come from? You don't exactly seem to be one for blowing raspberries." She shrugged, and said "well, it always worked getting my cousin up, when he came over to visit." I smiled. "cool." After we finished our extremely wholesome and nutritious (note sarcasm) breakfast, I stood up to make an announcement. "Ok, guys, we're going to Montana. Fang thought a month ago that we needed a home, and I didn't agree then, but my exscuse is useless now, so we're going to buy a home in the mountains, in Montana." There were whoops from the younger ones, and I immediately felt guilty for what I was about to ask, but I had to before they got their hearts set on MT. "But before you guys get too excited, I really have to ask you all something." Fang glared at me as if he already knew what I was going to ask. "Do any of you really want to find your parents? As in, go looking for them, and …stay?" "No." that was Fang. "I don't want to, it would split up the flock, and that was bad enough for one time." "two, you're forgetting about me, and I obviously don't want to go back." That was Iggy. "Ok, two then." replied Fang. "Not me, mine are dead." Said Mel. That left Angel, Nudge, and Gazzy. "I'll go where ever Angel goes." Said Gazzy. "I'll stay, if they're horrible, it'll be better not knowing." Said Nudge, extremely seriously. "I want to stay." Angel said. I hugged all the little kids, as tight as I could. " I never really wanted to let you guys leave, but I would have if it would have made you happy." I said squeezing them extra tight. "Can't… breathe… lungs… crushed" gasped Gazzy. I let them go. "Come on guys, Montana awaits!" and we took off flying into the sky.
Once the others were out of earshot, Fang turned to me and said "I'll be expecting a proper thank you later, you know." I laughed and grinned. "You know how much I hate PDAs, so you'll be waiting till we can get Mel and Iggy to baby-sit again, and after what Gazzy did to Mel last night, I can't see that happening anytime soon." "I'll work on it." He said, flying off to find Iggy and blackmail him most likely. I shook my head and flew off to look for Mel.