The Risen Tide
Chapter Three: Silence
The next day we had went on search for Itex. I stayed by Iggy's side, holding his hand, or touching him somehow the whole time. Yes, he was right, even though I hate to admit it, I was still in love with Max. Even when she's being a huge bitch. But I loved him more. Oh let's see… 'Cause I know that you're there Angel, and I know you wanna hear this, so here it goes: Three years ago, three years ago I started to like him a bit more than just a as a friend or brother.
I glanced back at Angel and she grinned at me. I kept it hidden for two years. Well hidden as best as I could, my feelings got a whole hell of a lot stronger, and a year ago I spilled 'em. Happy?
'Thank you! I always wondered how you guys got together,' she thought, before I felt her leave my mind.
"When are we gonna get there?" Nudge asked in a whiney voice. "Nothing can be more boring than walking," she began, and then, went loose, talking and talking. I had learned the art of tuning her out.
After a while, we found Itex. A big, huge, castle-like building, that offered tours. So, of course, we had to take one. We slipped away from the group and snuck down to the basement. Iggy picked the lock and cracked the door open, we peeked in.
There were two cat-girls, one had orange hair, and the other one had black hair. The orange-haired one looked over at the door, we quickly closed it and pressed ourselves against the wall, not daring to move. Then the door opened, and there stood the black-haired one, with the other one right next to her.
I took a better look in the room, there were about ten cages, all filled with one or two experiments, the successful one's. Then I looked at the girls, they both had collars around their necks. I glanced over at Max, and she looked back at me, and began mouthing, 'One, Two-'
"Don't even think about it," the orange-haired one said. "Ya see," she began, walking in front of us to where Angel was standing, and standing on the stair step behind her. "I can read minds," she put one of her hand's on Angel's shoulder. I felt Max tense next to me, and grabbed her wrist so she wouldn't do anything drastic, like try to kill the bitch without thinking about it, and ending up with a much worse situation.
The two were slender, but still had a full figure, the black-haired one was much taller than the other. Though, cat-girl number 1 was very short. "Now," she began again, "We are here to protect these poor souls," she smirked, tapping her black claw-like fingernails against Angel's shoulder. I tightened my grip on Max's arm as I felt her twitch, I glanced at her and she looked like she'd rip the head off from the next person that spoke to her. Even if it was one of the flock. The cat-girl laughed, "I won't hurt her." Angel swallowed and gave us a nod as the cat-girl pulled her closer.
Max was literally growling.
"Go on," she gestured to the room as the other one moved. "Go," she repeated slowly. We reluctantly filed into the room, they closed and locked the door again once we were all in.
I took Iggy's hand, and let my eyes scan the room again.
"Who are you?" the black haired one finally spoke. She was dressed in a dark green tank top, and regular jeans. Along with the collar, of course. When we didn't answer, she asked again, "Who are you?" with more of a colder tone.
"Max, Fang, Iggy," she smirked slightly, "Gazzy, Nudge, and Angel," she listed off, pointing at each one of us. She leaned against a desk in there, her hands firm on the edge of it, crossing her legs at the ankles. "They call themselves a 'flock.' And look at that, there's a romance story goin' on," she smirked and laughed at that.
All of the experiments stared at us. All expect one small boy, who was pressed against the corner of the cage, away from everyone. Well, as away as he could get.
"Oh I'm sorry, my name's Kari, and this is Ava," she said, the orange haired one. She looked at the other one, "What should we do with them?" she asked. "They're runaways."
Ava just shrugged. "We could always just keep them for ourselves," she winked at me.
"Oh yeah, like they wouldn't know about that," Kari rolled her eyes. She pushed herself off from the desk and walked over, in front of us, standing particularly close. "They'd be discovered sooner or later," she sighed.
"How about you be nice and just let us go?" Max chirped in.
"If we do… We'll get killed," the black-haired one, Ava, spoke bluntly.
Kari shrugged, and reached between me and Iggy, making our hands break apart so she could reach over to the desk and press some button.
In a matter of only minutes, we were back In the cages. Well, actually, shared cages since Itex, I guess, ordered some more crates, but they haven't gotten here yet, so experiments had to share a cage. Of course I was with Iggy.
We knew that we couldn't talk, but now, we couldn't think without that cat-girl hearing our thoughts. It was a total invasion of privacy, but when had they ever cared? Now Max is going on and mumbling about how stupid Itex is in her cage that she shares with Nudge. She looked at me and said, 'We need a plan,' in our own language. Never thought of that…
I replied with, "No duh," and sighed, and continued with; 'I say we just go and try to kill all those a-holes.'
She gave me a doubtful look, and I shrugged, it was a plan. She began pacing around the cage again. I sat down next to Iggy and just kissed him, what else was there to do? We really couldn't plan, or anything. He kissed back, and I wrapped my arms around him.
Then a rock hit my head, I twisted around to look at Max and glared at her, "Keep it PG over there!" she shouted at me.
"Whatever," I muttered.
If you haven't noticed, you can't get rid of me... No matter what ya do, so, don't even try. *sighs* Well... Sorry it took so long... uh... *points at a random tree* LOOK! SQUIRREL!!! *runs away before anyone can do anything* Anyways...
Fang: *Glares at me*
What?
Fang: I hate you
*rolls eyes* Why? What did I- *thinks* Okay, I don't blame ya
Iggy: *is cooking*
Kari: *comes up behind him and turns the stove off* *sighs and whispers* Stop cooking so much, no one's gonna eat it. Seriously, you've made enough food to feed all 47 of us. You can quit now. We don't all have as big of appettites as you guys do. *walks away yawning*
Iggy: *glares*
*blinks* No wonder I'm insane. This is the type of stuff that goes on in my head every minute of every day...
