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Chapter 3

Alex's PoV

I sat up against the wall waiting for… I honestly don't know what. The Spidems, with no one to beat up, sat glumly in some chairs near the whitecoats. Joey was still slumped on the floor- the Spidems had apparently forgotten their manners and not laid him and a seat.

Maybe a half hour later, the whitecoat had begun to get up and the one with funky panel typed in some commands. Suddenly, sunlight practically blasted through the windows, momentarily blinding me. We must've surfaced. I saw the silhouette of a Spidem come closer and yank me from the floor and dragged me out of the "thingy" and onto a wooden deck that looked like we'd be the first people on since George Washington.

As my eyes adjusted, I saw water on either side of me and a dense forest before me. I was seriously considering breaking free from the Spidem, grabbing Joey (who was still knocked out and currently hanging precariously in one of the Spidem's arms) and making a run for it (or a fly for it-hehe). The Spidem not holding Joey seemed to sense my thoughts and grabbed my other arm.

The whitecoats barked some orders at the Spidems and they began to pull us toward the forest. Off the wooden deck onto the grassy ground that had no tiles, no ugly white walls, no antiseptic smells, just open nature filled wilderness…

The shadows of the forest began to surround us as we left the sun for the dense roof of tree leaves.

I tried to make note of where we were going, what turns we were making, but everything looked the same! I finally just gave up and decided the only way to get out of this mess was to do what I do best- kick some Spidem butt and fly.

We were walking along in the forest, just you know, having a lovely afternoon stroll when unexpectedly, a bird kid twisted around and kneed a Spidem in the stomach!

Guess who that bird kid was? Yep it was me. And suddenly our lovely afternoon stroll wasn't so lovely anymore.

The Spidem I kneed was stunned from the sudden blow, but wasn't frazzled enough to let me go. The other Spidem holding me reacted quicker, but I blocked his punch by catching it half way to my face and twisting it backward. Crack!Oops…(evil grin)

I hooked my leg around his and brought him tumbling to the ground. His head hit a rock and I wasn't in the mood to whip out my handy-dandy first aid kit and go all nurse on him. One Spidem down, two to go.

I won't bore you with the details of taking down the other two Spidems, but I would like to include how I screamed like a maniac and ran at the whitecoats just to watch them scramble away, squealing and screeching like pigs. Nothing more satisfying.

Now, what to do next. I hauled Joey off the ground where the Spidem had dropped him, and bravely went forth as a warrior would after a long battle… yeah right.

After walking a few hundred yards that felt like a mile, I found a mossy log to set Joey on. Hunger came like a tidal wave leaving me with one thing one my mind: food. I was afraid to leave joey alone, but once I thought about it, I hadn't really seen any animals or living thing other than plants of course. Maybe a few squirrels here and there but not much else.

And so, I trudged off, hoping to come across a berry bush of some sort.

Sam's PoV

I'd headed toward the forest figuring there'd be some kind of animal I could catch and fry. Sorry that's disgusting but I'm getting pretty desperate.

Anyway, I found a small hole in the roof of leaves and land on the forest floor. I found a clearing and a plump groundhog sat in the center practically screaming "food!" I quickly picked up a sharp rock and was about to launch it when a someone ran out into the clearing straight toward the unsuspecting groundhog.

Alex's PoV

Finally! Something to eat!

I rushed at a fat groundhog, my stomach growling with fury. And abruptly stopped.

Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a figure near the edge of the clearing. I slowly turned to look directly at the person as frozen as I.

It was a thin teenage girl with green eyes and long dark brown hair. She had her arm poised to throw the rock she was holding, but the thing that caught my eye was her wings. Wings! She was one of us…There were feathers of blue, green, yellow, and purple. They were almost…beautiful.

My eyes slid back to the huge rock in her hand and I realized how defenseless I was. I slowly raised my hands to show I surrendered and wasn't going to attack. She looked extremely skeptical and a bit suspicious, but I guess seeing that I had wings sort of gave her a reason to trust me at least a tiny bit.

She took a hesitant step forward and a few more until we were less than a few steps apart.