As we went out of the diner we passed a bunch of ragged kids. A yearn to see what made them so ragged started to fill me. I saw a lump on one of their backs and before I could do anything Lief lifted the shirt of the tallest one. We all gasped. Wings were tucked neatly near the spine. "Run!" yelled the ragged blonde haired girl. The ragged gang of kids took off.

"Follow them," Shadow ordered. Quickly we sped off. Me and Jack caught up with ease because...well you know why. We ran ahead blocking their way forward, Spike, Karee, and Lief came up behind them and Shadow and Ash blocked their way from the air. They halted for a split second then sprang into action. With a swift roundhouse kick the blonde hit me square in the chest. I lost all my breath, but recovered quickly and delivered a good aimed punch at her nose.

Blood erupted from it and I turned to see how everyone else was doing. Jack was fighting a girl about his age and was doing terribly. I had no idea what that girl was doing but I rushed over to her and knocked her feet out from under her and told Jack to run. He ran a bit them turned and came back. In the time it took to get Jack out of trouble the blonde came and attacked with a new found vigor. In a series of punching and kicking I was found under her. She started to slowly crush my ribs and I clawed her legs.

She gasped and took her leg off me. I jumped up high to survey the area. Shadow was fighting a boy that resembled him except Shadow wasn't that dark, Lief and Ash were double teaming the tall boy and were holding off on their own. Spike was doing the best out of all of us. His spikes were out causing the boy he was fighting to stay clear of him.

I did that all in half a second as gravity pulled me back down. The blonde looked a little shocked to see that I could jump that high. When I was back down I ripped my tail out of my jean and flicked it angrily. I found more energy in my body to continue the fight only I never did.

As soon as I touched the ground a huge, overwhelming thing happened to me. I was experiencing memories one by one. Faster and faster they went pulling me under, until all the colors were one and everything sounded the same. Then all at once it stopped and I remembered nothing more.

I awoke to stillness like no other. I sat up and very quickly realized that was a bad thing, for it hurt to breathe. The memories of yesterday, and only yesterday, came flooding back to me. I looked around and saw why it was so quiet. Nothing moved, not one leaf stirred, it felt as if I had gone deaf.

But I knew I hadn't because I heard myself get up. I did a 360' turn and saw the ragged kids from yesterday were sprawled around a dying fire. I fed the fire then put it out as I realized I was helping the other gang. "What are you doing?" someone hissed from the fog that covered the ground. "Who the hell are you?" I said putting my guard up. "Shut up! Do you want to wake everyone else up?" they whispered angrily. I didn't reply but went to where the voice was coming from.

I looked him up and down and at first thought it was Shadow but after a quick look over it wasn't. I got ready to fight right as Shadow came from the fog. "It's okay Kat. He's a friend." I still was tense and ready to spring into action at any time. A voice behind me made me jump a few feet in the air. "Why are you all so loud?" It was the blonde girl from yesterday. "I'm Max," she said obviously pleased she had scared me somewhat. "Kate," I said coldly. I didn't really like her and I could tell she didn't like me.

"Where's everyone else?" My question was directed toward Shadow, instead the other boy answered, "Sleeping."

"Sleeping where?" I asked. "Over there," he said.

Okay now I was getting frustrated. "A few feet away from the fire," Shadow filled in to prevent me from doing anything. "That's Fang," Max said, "He's usually dark and quiet." I pretended not to hear her and saw Jack and Spike were quietly fighting. "What happened to you guys?" Shadow said sighing. I guess this happed a lot for them. "Spike took my bread," Jack complained.

"Did not!" Spike protested angrily.

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too"

"Did not!"

"All right! ALL RIGHT!" Shadow yelled waking everyone else up and silencing the two boys. "Why is everyone yelling?" Karee asked groggily. "Nothing," Shadow muttered. "You alright there Kate? You had us worried yesterday," Ash said concerned. "I'm good, thanks," I said my cheeks growing hot. Max smirked and introduced us to her "flock". The little girl Jack was fighting terribly against yesterday was Angel; Spike was fighting a boy called the Gasman; Ash and Lief were fighting a boy named Iggy; Shadow was fighting Fang; and I, Max, but you probably all ready knew that.

Anyway as I came to that realization, I noticed that Karee wasn't involved in that fight. I brushed it aside and thought she was probably hiding. "Kate?" Ash said forcing me from my thoughts. "What?" I snapped. "Shadow wants you to see him, now," he added. I nodded and went over to where Shadow was surveying the area. By now all the fog had been lifted and I saw we were in a hilly place with huge looming mountains overlooking the valley we were in. "Where in the sane heck are we?" I asked bewildered. "Canada. Anyway there are more important things to discuss. You know the other kids?" I nodded. "Well," Shadow continued, "they came from the School too. All of them have wings."

"What's the School?" I asked. I felt really dumb today, asking all these questions. "It's where your mom worked." I nodded in understanding. "We're sticking with them," he said. "What!?" I asked in disbelief. "You heard me, they're our best bet. They've seen stuff we haven't, Max told me. So we leave when everyone is done packing," he finished them walked toward Max. I flicked my tail in frustration and looked down at my hands and noticed that my gloves were ripped, but the nails weren't sticking out.

I was puzzled then thought I could pull them long and short at will. I tried it and it worked perfectly. I did it with the hair on my arms and face and it worked too. This was the best thing that had happened to me all day. Little did I know that, that was going to be the best thing that would happen to me in awhile