A/N Hey there people, sorry about last week and not updating. Lets just say I hate school and leave it at that shall we?

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I knocked politely on the door before opening it and entering

I knocked politely on the door before opening it and entering. Nudge and Angel where sitting on the bed doing each others' hair. Why am I not surprised? At least the room was clean. Very clean, in fact. The smashed lamp was no long there, the beds were made up and the room was cleaned.

I looked over at them. "Have you packed everything?"

"Yep." Angel pointed over towards the door where three bags were leaning against the wall. "One's for Total."

Total jumped onto the bed. "Yeah, one's for me. You don't expect me to go to France without being prepared do you? I mean come on Max, it's France. I've even been practising my French to woo all the ladies. . ."

I walked out the door and left Total to his French speaking practice. Moving over to the other side of the room, I knocked on that door and entered into Gazzy and Iggy's room.

Okay, I didn't enter per say, what I did was press myself against the wall, place a hand on the door handle, take on deep breath, open the door, dive back and sidestepped behind the wall as fast as possible. Angel, Nudge and Total were no where in sight and when I reached the count of eight, their heads popped out from behind the bed. By the time I reached the count of ten, I took a quick look around the corner before pressing myself back against the wall. I glanced one last time at the girls plus Total hiding behind the couch, closed my eyes and stepped out into the open.

After I reached twenty seconds and nothing had hit me yet, I opened my eyes slowly, afraid of what I might see flying at me. Instead I saw Iggy and Gazzy rushing around like mad men trying to clean the room on time. I'm not surprised, the place was worse than a pig's sty. Typical boys, leaving the packing to the end.

I watched them, smirking the whole time from the doorway. "Busy packing boys? We've got to be at the airport in just over an hour. I suggest you pack faster if you want to come with us on the plane and meet all those air hostesses and hot French babes you two keep talking about."

"We could always blow up the room if you want," replied Iggy as Gazzy was busy stuffing clothes into their bags.

"And do you mind leaving?" asked Gazzy, "We're kinda busy right now you know. Come back and gloat in a couple of minutes if we're not done. Right now, you're just distracting us from important work."

The girls decided to join me at the door. "Is it alright if we stand here and laugh at them Max?" asked Angel sweetly.

"I'm not sure. . ." I glanced over at them. "I know I wouldn't object and I'm fairly sure Fang wouldn't object either. . ."

Iggy rolled his eyes at us, walked over and closed the door in our faces before locking it. I looked over at the girls. "If you laugh loud enough they might hear you through the wall. You never know until you try."

There was a loud thud as something was thrown against the wall. I think Iggy heard me. Ah well, it's not my fault he's go such good hearing now is it? Though, I suppose I should teach the boy to stop eavesdropping on conversations. It's just down right impolite.

"It seems our flight has been delayed," remarked Fang next to my ear.

I titled my head so that he was in my line of sight. "Can you please stop doing that?" He opened his mouth to reply, but I cut him off, "And don't you dare act innocent and ask "You mean stop breathing?" That got old a long time ago."

He gave me that innocent look of his. "Who me?"

I rolled my eyes. "How long has the plane been delayed?"

"The website says thirty minutes," he replied. "Do you think we should tell them?" He jerked his thumb in the direction of the door.

I shook my head. "They need the exercise, plus they've been getting lazy lately."

Total placed a hand on leg and I glanced down at him. Instead of saying anything, he gestured towards the two girls who were whispering in the corner. Watching them, they slowly eased towards the door and started talking to each other in a casual tone.

"Did you hear Nudge? Apparently Fang read the time of our flight wrong and we're meant to board in fifteen more minutes, not thirty," said Angel.

"Really? Good thing we're done packing then. But getting your hair done in time will be difficult. If I do. . ." Her voice trailed on as she rambled to Angel.

Gesturing to Fang, I leaned my ear against the wall and listened as they rushed about with renewed urgency. Words such as "hot" and "babes" were being thrown about. I cracked a smile and pulled a thumbs up to the girls.

Clamping their hands over their mouth, they ran out the room and Fang closed the door behind them. Even though there was such a barrier, I could still hear the laughter that filtered through the walls.

"When should we tell them the truth?" whispered Fang.

I chuckled in reply, "They'll find out in-" I glanced down at my watch. "-thirteen more minutes."

Fang chuckled in reply and opened the door into our room. And rolling on the floor of our room was Angel and Nudge in a heap, laughing their heads off. I chuckled louder when I saw them and looked down at Total who was grinning like a mad man.

"Perhaps we should join them?" asked Total.

I nodded and rushed into the room before I could burst out laughing, joining the girls on the floor. Total was in there somewhere as well, as for Fang, well, he was standing off to side, an amused glint in his eyes.

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"Can I please have seven tickets to France please?" I asked the guy at the counter.

He glanced over at us, his eyes strangely slid over Total, not noticing him at all and nodded. "Sure, which flight are you going to board?"

I replied, "Which one will get us there the fastest?"

He started typing away on the computer. "From what I can tell, the earliest flight that'll get you there the 12:15pm one."

I glanced down at my watch. It was 8am right now, so we had over four hours of waiting to do. I looked over at Nudge and Angel, they'd have no problems talking and doing their hair for an hour or so, maybe longer, but four hours? I think not. As for Gazzy and Iggy, well, I don't think they'd risk blowing something up in an airport. I made eye contact with Fang and he gave the barest nod.

I turned back to the guy at the counter and replied, "Sure. We'll take that one then. What time will we arrive at France by?"

There was some more typing. "Within the day."

I nodded. "Thanks." With those parting words, I paid and left. It was fairly expensive, but cheaper than what I thought they would be, which was good. Probably should have gotten Fang to check the ticket prices and how much money I had left. Though, if truth be told, the money that came in each month was worth three months living, maybe more. They must think we're pig hybrids instead of bird hybrids or something.

We waited and waited and waited and waited. It was a very long wait, full of drama, action and romance. There were heroes, villains, gun fights, damsels in distress, suppressed townsfolk and monsters. Everything a good film needs. It was such an action packed four hour wait. I so wanted to do it again because it was that much fun.

The only thing missing was some special effects involving explosions. Then again, if Iggy and Gazzy found out, it wouldn't be special effects— it'd be for real. Good thing they didn't find out, then.

I glanced down at my watch. Just over an hour to go. I stood up and picked up the bags. "Come on people. We should check in now." I glanced over at Iggy and Gazzy before they could say anything. "And yes, you get some money each to buy some things."

They cheered and raced off in front, running at dangerous speeds, how they managed to get up to such speeds while dodging all those people is a mystery. Good thing we've got good reactions otherwise they would have caused some major accidents. I glanced down at Fang who snapped his laptop shut and glanced up at me. Standing up, he packed everything and started following the rest of the Flock. I followed him and more than once lost him in the crowd only to see him a couple seconds later.

It was slow moving and by the time we caught up to the rest of the Flock, my foot had been stepped on five times, elbowed twice, thought someone else was Fang four times and knocked a person over once. So much fun.

I finally managed to catch up with Fang and together we squeezed past the couple in front. As I did so, I noticed a giant red poster telling us what we couldn't take in and that we should declare it as soon as possible. Almost everything on that poster could be found on either Gazzy or Iggy. I tugged on Fang's sleeve and pointed at the poster, he simply rolled his eyes and pointed up ahead where the rest of the Flock were waiting.

I lined up with them and glanced around. The queue was massive. Absolutely, insanely, long. We'd be waiting here for an hour at this rate. And the Flock were already bored from the long wait before hand. This is so not going to be fun.

"Max?" whispered Angel.

I looked down. "Yeah sweetie? What's up."

"They're about to open a new line at the very end in a couple of minutes. We should go down there. It'd be faster."

I simply stared at her. I hoped she didn't use her mind control powers to open up the line. "Thanks Angel."

She smiled up at me innocently and grabbed Gazzy by the hand, dragging him away causing both Iggy and Nudge to follow in tow, asking questions all the while. I looked at Fang and simply told him, "New line opening up."

He nodded and followed us to the furthest right line and waited there. A couple minutes later, a security guard came up and unhooked the line along with another and we rushed into the new line. I took out the passports and tickets from my bag and handed them out. "Okay people, Iggy goes first, Fang will do third and I'll go last. However you want to go in between is up to you."

Iggy nodded and walking up to the counter, I placed his passport and ticket on the counter. By his side stood Gazzy who told him were everything was. I whispered in a hush tone so that the guards couldn't hear, "Let's play a game called guess the items confiscated."

Angle chuckled and Nudge laughed, Total had a mischievous smile on his face and asked me, "Why don't we say you get one item correct you get paid ten dollars from everyone else and if you get the number right you get five dollars?"

Before I could reply Angel and Nudge already agreed and Fang placed a hand on my shoulder. "Let them play it out that way. It's fine."

They whispered amongst themselves and I glanced up at Fang. "So you're letting them bet? Aren't they underage or something?"

Fang simply shrugged. "Don't worry, the only one making any money will be Total. Do you really think Iggy and Gazzy would go be so calm if they were going to get caught?"

I watched them place their bags through the convey belt and take off watches and the such, placing them all on the tray. Straightening his shirt, Iggy winked at us and stepped through the metal detector. I held my breath. The thing went off. Smiling sheepishly, he pulled out the metal bracelet he had on and stepped through it once again, this time with no mishap.

I heard cursing from both Angel and Nudge. Glancing over at them, they stopped and gave me a combined innocent look. I withered under their combined power. What happened to the whole great power and responsibility thing? When did that fly out the window?

Next came Gazzy who followed Iggy's example and showed both his ticket and passport before taking off everything metal. When he walked through, the sensors didn't go off and he gave us the thumbs up. Once the two pyro's had gone through there was a lot less to worry about. Even Total managed to get past, with some obvious mind manipulation on Angel's part.

In the end, I was the only one who had any real problems. Not any security problems, but the guy at the counter insisted on hitting on me, despite any attempts from me to tell him otherwise. In the end, Fang tapped him politely on the shoulder and he left me alone. When I say tap, I mean, a punch that's strong enough to break the guys arm. Not that you saw anyone rushing to aid the guy.

Taking off my bag, I threw it through the X-Ray and took off my watch, my cell phone and various accessories before stepping through the metal detector with no problems. No problems at all.

And then, the world decided to go upside down on me.

I was thrown off my feet, landing in a heap on the ground along with who knows how many people. The earth shook and trembled underneath me and I could hear cracks. Glancing up, I saw dust everywhere. I couldn't see through the dust. It was a blanket over me. Smothering me. Dust in the air, dust in my mouth, dust in my eyes.

I groaned and tried to stand up, but couldn't. I looked around and tried again. Still nothing. Tugging hard on my leg, I felt a jab of pain race up my left leg. I called out, but heard nothing. Only screams of confusion and pain.

I reached down and felt out my left leg. I winced at what I found. A slab of concrete on my leg. Feeling my way around the slab, I found the edges and slowly eased it off my leg, gasping in pain as I did so. I am so yelling at Iggy and Gazzy once I get out of this. Them and their stupid bombs. They are so dead.

Groaning, I managed to shove the cement block off me before the sound of gunfire filled the air. Blinking, I moved over to where I thought a corner was and pressed myself against the wall. A couple seconds later, the dust started settling and the commotion died down. A figure stepped into view, an Eraser. How did I know so fast? Easy, it was in wolf form.

Looks like they're coming out of the shadows and all the important people are gathered here in this airport. Great.