Next Chapter! Whoo! I'm on a roll. I hope this last a while longer. I just finished reading ANGEL and I'm in a terribly angsty mood which in turn somehow makes me a much better writer. Go figure.
JP owns regular flock I own flock's kids. Just so we're clear.
Max POV
I stared blankly at mine and Fang's future daughter. What could they possible need help from us for?
"Uncle Iggy is missing." Alex clarfied, folding her arms across her chest. Melanie shuddered slightly and pulled her jacket tighter around her, a frown pulling the corners of her mouth down. That's right...Iggy is going to be Melanie's father in about 20 years.
"And that means you need us because?" I pressed. Alexa's mouth was blanched line.
"Because they are somewhere here, in the past." Ash interjected. I glanced at him and saw him leaning against the hearth of the fireplace. Wearing a pair of dark jeans and light gray t-shirt he could have been Fang's twin.
"They? I thought you said it was just Iggy missing." Nudge asked, leaning forward some.
Alex shot her twin a look and turned back to us. "Our parents," she gestured to herself and her brothers, "left 4 days ago to go find him. We haven't seen them since." She explained.
I was utterly confused. Angel smiled and tugged on Alex's shirt. "Maybe you should explain from the beginning, Max and the others are still confused."
What did I say about mind reading? I thought vehmenatly at Angel. She blushed a little.
Sorry Max she apologized mentally, coming to sit on the ground at my feet.
Alex and Melanie sat down on the loveseat across from Fang and I while Blade plopped down on the floor. Ash stayed where he was, leaning against the hard brick fireplace.
"Okay, from the beginning then." Mel started, sighing. "About a week ago, my dad was out in his workshop. You know, the one in the backyard. Ever since you guys left, he's been like...I don't know, on edge. Like he was waiting for something to happen. Well, it was about dinner time and Mom told me to go and tell him, because he'd been out back all day. So I went to get him and...and..." Mel broke off with a choking sound and place her hands over her face. Alex reached out and petted her hair.
"Uncle Iggy's workshop had been torn apart. Whoever took him was obviously trying to find something. No one knows what they wanted but Mom and Dad found a note stuck to the side of a ceiling rafter with a bunch of random numbers and symbols. The next day they packed up and left." Alex finished. So whoever took Iggy wanted something he was working on? Or something he had finished? But why take him then?
"But what makes you think they're here?" Gazzy asked.
Alex sighed. "Aunt Angel told me. She said that she had a bad feeling about what was going down, but didn't know what was going on. She said the only thing she knew for sure was that Mom, Dad and Uncle Iggy are all in this time period."
"But why send you four?" I asked. If she knew something was happening, why not just come herself, or with Gazzy and Nudge?
"I don't really know, she said that she could get Uncle Gazzy to make a time paradox for a few days so we could look for them, but that's all she would say. She never explained why she wants us to look for them." Alex said with a shrug.
Fang was stiff as a board and Iggy looked paler than usual. I'm starting to get the feeling that good things don't happen when these guys show up.
"So your telling me that they just sent you here with nothing to find your parents and Iggy and somehow we're suppose to help you?" I mused.
Alex made a rude noise in the back of her throat. "Of course they didn't send us with nothing. And yes you can help!" She snarled, sounding a lot like me.
"How?" Iggy asked, clutching the material of his jeans in his hands.
Ash peeled himself off the fireplace then and shrugged off a backpack I didn't know he had on. Unzipped, it looked empty inside but he reached his hand in and pulled out flat metal square about the size of a napkin. He tossed it to Alex.
"Wow...you have a Mary Poppins bag." Nudge said in awe. "How does it work? Can you stick anything in there or just little stuff? Is it heavy?"
Nudge barrage of questions did seem to shock Ash at all. But, then again he lived with Nudge's future self who also talked a lot. "It's not really heavy and Uncle Gazzy designed it, but I don't think he named it a 'Mary Poppins Bag'." He said calmly. Gazzy made a disgusted face at Nudge and nodded.
"It's just like her magic carpet bag though! I bet you can fit an elephant in it." Nudge protested. Iggy did a coughing laugh and Ash seemed to be holding back one.
"Why would you put an elephant in bag?" Blade questioned, scratching his head.
"For more trunk space" Mel answered with a snicker, making Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, Blade and Ash bust out laughing. I heard a strangled sound come from beside me and saw that Fang was trying hard not to laugh as well. I rolled my eyes.
"So lame." I muttered, laying my head in my hand. A sharp pain resonated through my temple and I squeezed my eyes shut for a second. Then just a quickly as it had come, it disappeared.
A quick pinch caught me off guard and I yelped. "Ow!" I sounded, looking up. Alex was standing next to me and had one strand of my hair dangling between two fingers.
"Sorry, needed a DNA sample." She said almost bashfully. I narrowed my eyes at her and rubbed my head.
"Well, ask next time." I snapped.
"Yeah yeah." She mumured, laying the hair down on top of the square Ash had given her. It made a humming noise and a slight glow radiated from the shiney metal.
"Ughhh..." She groaned, flicking the square and tapping her foot.
"What is it?" Mel asked, recovering from her laughing fit.
"The tracker. It's got a screwy signal on Mom. Says she's in 9 different places at once!"
"Uncle Gazzy said it wouldn't be as clear in the past." Mel said knowingly.
Blade's eyes lit up and he pulled a folded peice of paper out of he jeans. Carefully spreading it out on the coffee table he let us see it. It was a map of the US. There were blue dots and green dots placed all over the West coast as well as a few on the Eastern side as well.
He turned to Ash. "Toss me a red marker." Ash smirked and reached into the bottomless backpack, brandishing a red Sharpie in his hand when he pulled back. He threw it to Blade.
"Where are all the places she's at?" Blade asked Alex. She shook her head and knelt down beside him.
"Here, here, here." She said, pointing to different places on the map. Wherever her finger touched, Blade marked it with a red dot.
"Here and right...here." She finished. Blade marked the last one and looked intently at the colorful map.
"Well, there's 3 places where all the dots are. They've got to be at one of those places." He said, looking at his sister. She nodded.
"I don't understand. What do the dots mean?" Fang questioned. I had gotten on my knees in front of the table to get a better look and Fang was behind me.
"Everytime we put in DNA from either Mom, Dad, or Uncle Iggy, the tracker says that they are anywhere from 5 to 25 places at once. Uncle Gazzy said when he gave us the tracker that it wasn't as accurate here in the past because anyplace that they spent more than a couple hours at would show up." Alex said, examining the map with a frown.
"The blue one's are Uncle Fang, the red ones are Aunt Max, and the green ones are Dad." Mel said, a smile of hope I suppose bring her face up.
"And since Mom and Dad have been gone for a few days now, we think that they are probably all together by now." Blade added. He sat back and put his hands behind his head. "I feel like a genius."
"One good idea and your head looks like a hot air balloon." Alex smirked, teasing. One side of Blade's mouth drooped and he stuck his tongue out at her.
"So where are the three places?" Iggy asked, running his fingers over the dotted map.
Blade pointed as he said each place. "Seattle, Washington. Vancouver, Oregon. And Las Vega, Nevada."
"Goodie, Goodie." I whispered under my breath.
Alex looked like she was about to say something but I put my hand up. "Let me guess, if we don't help you, our future selves will die and the space-time continum thing with topple and somehow plunge everyone and everything into a horrible, grueling doom." I narrated, since it sounded like the kind of thing I'd get mixed up in.
Mel, Blade, Ash and Alex looked thoughtful. "Yeah. Pretty much."
"Sounds about right." I mourned, laying my head on my hand again.
"Oh! I almost forgot. We have 5 days left to find them." Alex added, almost gleeful.
I stared at her. "Of course." I nodded. Geez...
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~Elizem18
