Teemo: Hey Enia.

Enia: Hey, what's up?

Teemo: Nothing, I just blew up the kitchen so Arin's mad at me so I had to flee the premises.

Enia: Oh, sorry about that.

Arin: Teemo! Get back here and clean this up!

Teemo: Uh oh, gotta go. *disappears*

Arin: *appears* Enia, have you seen Teemo?

Enia: Um...

Teemo: No she hasn't!

Arin: Teemo! *disappears*

Samik: What was that all about?

Enia: Teemo blew up the kitchen again.

Samik: Ah.

Enia: I'm in science class right now, we're learning about germs.

Samik: I know, I'm sitting right behind you.

Enia: Oh, hi.

Teemo: *appears screaming* AAA! Save me! She's going to kill me!

Samik: Arin doesn't normally react like this.

Enia: I know, maybe Teemo did something else to set her off.

Arin: *appears wielding water-whip* Teemo! Get over here! Stop running!

Teemo: Enia! Save me!

Enia: Uh...

Samik: Why's she attacking you, Teemo?

Teemo: I donno, all I did was blow up the kitchen for the third time this week.

Enia: *sighs and moves to intercept Arin* Arin, what did Teemo do this time?

Arin: This is the third time this week he blew up my kitchen! Each time he never helped me clean up, he just ran off cackling!

Enia: *sighs (again) and turns to Teemo* Teemo, apologize and go clean up.

Teemo: Why is my daughter telling me what to do?

Enia: Oh just do it.

Teemo: *disappears grumbling*

Arin: Thanks Enia. *rubs hands toghether gleefully* Ha ha ha, now I can work him like a slave! Ha ha ha! *disappears cackling*

Samik: Uh...

Enia: Uh is right.

Onyx (Enia's other best friend): Enia, stop with the super long Author's Notes.

Enia: But they're fun!

Onyx: Too bad. *whacks*

Enia: Ow! What was that for?!

Onyx: Just get on with the story.

Enia: *grumbles angrily to self* Fine.

2013 Enia: This was the original Author's Note. I kept it in 'cause it amuses me. I will warn you now; I am the queen of long Author's Notes. And typos, but that's one title I'm trying real hard to loose.

Stop Undermining My Authority!

Fang's POV

We wandered back into the house in a daze after the weird episode with the so-called elves and the giant chicken. Iggy automatically walked over to the stove and turned on a burner to start making lunch. "How does macaroni and cheese sound to everyone?"

We all said it sounded just fine, thanks Iggy.

The room fell into an awkward silence, broken only by the sound of water slowly bubbling away in the pot. Angel and Max glared at each other from across the table, Gazzy busied himself building some sort of bomb thing, and Nudge mumbled to herself, flipping through a random magazine. I backed away from the rest of the flock to practice my disappearing technique against the wall; I sensed an argument coming on.

"Max," Angel said in a cold voice," you need to stop undermining my authority."

Hey, I was right!

"What the hell are you talking about, Angel!" Max snapped. "You've got no authority! How many times do I have to tell you that you are not leader? So you mind-controlled me into agreeing with you for one second. That doesn't mean anything! The whole mind-control thing automatically makes your claim illegitimate!"

"Yes, it does," Angel retorted stubbornly. She planted her hands on her hips.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

Not again. "Guys!" I yelled. "Shut up!"

Everyone stared at me. At the stove, Iggy chuckled a little. "Ooo dang, Fang. I didn't know you were capable of such a dramatic outburst."

"Shut up," I snapped at him.

Enia: Soooo apparently (and there actually was an Author's Note placed here, this isn't just me interrupting the story), when I wrote this chapter I was very, very hyper. You have been warned.

"Augh! The stove is on fire!" Iggy yelled suddenly, making everyone jump. What?

"What the heck did you do?!" Max yelled. I was kind of surprised she managed to not cuss violently at him. The flames leapt up and down the walls and started spreading quickly across the ceiling and floor. Okay, maybe the all wood house had been a bad idea when living with pyromaniacs.

"It doesn't matter!" I interrupted. "We have to get out of here!"

"No!" Angel contradicted. I almost thought for a moment that she'd said it just to argue with me. "We have to put the flames out."

"We'll all be burnt to a crisp! Come on!" Max yelled. She lunged forward and grabbed Angel's arm, and started tugging her towards the door. Angel tried to resist, but Max was stronger and very angry. I grabbed Iggy and Gazzy and started hustling them out of the house with Nudge right behind me. The boys leaned back over my arm to stare at the flickering orange and red flames, mesmerized.

We stood in the slightly swaying grass, watching our beautiful house burn, the flames leaping higher and higher towards the bright blue sky. I glared up at the fluffy clouds; I was sure they were mocking us with their happy color. In no time, the house was almost completely enveloped in flame. I thought the entire thing was going to go up and leave us with nothing more than a charred patch of grass. A sudden shout cut the air behind us. "Bending powers…go!" The Flock spun around to see the three weirdos from the odd scene earlier today. They were racing across the field, stupid grins on their faces. "Arin!" the one called Teemo yelled. "Water magical-i-ness...go!"

"Right!" The red-haired girl ran at the building, moving her hands up over her hand and down in front of her. Water leapt out of the small pond beside our house on its own accord and splashed down on the flames. With a hiss, the roof extinguished itself, leaving behind fine trails of smoke.

But it was too soon to relax. The fire was spreading across the dry grass as Teemo sprinted forward and leapt over the Flock in an impressive bound. He did a single somersault (show off) and landed almost lightly, his fist punching the earth. A large crack appeared. I had to work to keep my mouth from dropping. He jumped back and stomped down, splaying his hands out to his sides. The rocky soil split and a deep trench formed around our house. The Flock stared. Not possible. Arin splashed more water across the burning building, extinguishing more flames.

The only thing left burning was the left wall. The flames were slowly oozing past the trench. A flat piece of earth jumped up from the ground and slammed down on the fire, quickly putting it out. The low boom made several of us jump. At the same time, the water of our pond drenched the last of the hungry flames. But it hadn't been enough; our house was still a smoking, charred skeleton.

"Yeah!" Teemo cried, pumping his arms and jumping in the air like a child. "That was awesome! Score one for super awesome bending power! No points for nature!"

"Wow, maybe you guys really are fr-" Max stopped herself before she actually said the word. "-elves." She looked sadly at our no-longer-a-house. Her computer had been in there.

"Yup, we really are!" The guy totally didn't notice that she'd almost insulted him.

"Did you find the chicken?" Gazzy asked excitedly.

Teemo's face fell. "Uh…no. He tossed an explosive at us and got away in the confusion."

Gazzy's eyes sparked in a way that scared me. "What kind of explosive was it?"

"I donno, an explosive-y type?" He shrugged.

I saw Max shoot a glance at Angel. "Do you want our help finding him?" she asked.

"Sure!" Teemo answered, but he paused suddenly, considered. "Well, as long as it doesn't involve the government. If the Super-Awesome-All-Powerful-Government finds out that we lost track of Darrel…"

"Let's just say that would be very bad," Fred finished, nodding solemnly.

"What's the Super-Awesome-All-Powerful-Government?" I asked skeptically. If that was what the government liked to called themselves when no one was listening, well, they were even stupider than I'd thought.

"They're the actual world power," Arin explained. "The human government has no real power at all. They're just a puppet. The Super-Awesome-All-Powerful-Government or "secret" government for short makes all the decisions. They also enforce the magical laws so that humans don't freak out and try to kill us all."

"Why would they be mad if they found out you lost Darrel?" Max asked.

Teemo snorted with 'that was the dumbest question I have ever heard' laughter. I glared at him. "Are you kidding? Darrel's an insane, ultra-dangerous, mentally unstable man – chicken – who wants to take over the world! So if we leave him alone…" He really needed to work on finishing his sentences.

"World goes boom?" Gazzy guessed.

"Yeah," he agreed. "World goes boom."

"Don't 'insane' and mentally unstable' mean the same thing?" I asked.

Teemo hesitated, a puzzled look coming over his face. "Erm, possibly. I was…I was reiterating my point!"

I gave a derisive snort of laughter. Teemo stuck his tongue out at me. Okay, can I say childish much?

Max jumped in before things could dissolve into a fist fight. "So we've got to catch him."

"Yup," Arin said. "And that's a lot harder than it sounds."

Enia: You guys have no idea how hard it is to type Super-Awesome-All-Powerful-Government over and over again. You're lucky I love you all so much. I think I wrote the majority of this story during my Global Studies class. Yay not paying attention!

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