Chapter 4: Water Wings
Chapter 4: Water Wings
"Sea World?"
"Yep, Sea World."
I asked, "Do you like pull these Ideas's out of hat, or is it well planed."
He shrugged, "I just think it would be fun."
I stared at Adam, "You're joking right?"
"Nope."
"We'd be surrounded by people, and easily identified."
"No, we'd go at night."
"What?"
"Yeah, we can just fly in at night, the animals will still be there and we can work the rides."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure, why not."
"Uhh… Legality?"
"We don't have to listen to the laws of the humans."
"Yeah, we do. We are humans." I said,
He shook his head, "Nope, we have a 2 percent DNA difference between us and humans. This technically makes us a different species."
"Really?"
He shrugged, "How the hell should I know."
I shook my head and walked down the stairs, Iggy was cooking was cooking all of them dinner. Walking into the modern kitchen, I saw that everyone else was already in there.
"Hey Max!" said, Angel.
"Sit over here Max." she said, I shrugged at Adam.
He gave me a kind of reassuring smile and walked over to a cabinet and pulled out something.
I investigated the meal in front of me.
"Oh My Gosh, Iggy you had to have help…" I said, looking at all the food.
"Nope… not a single one of them knows how to cook." He said,
Talon shrugged, "We usually get take out."
I laughed, and I realized someone (Adam) had filled my glass with something… Wine. Now that I looked I realized everyone even Angel and Pain had glasses of wine in front of them.
"She can't have any; in fact none of us can have wine." I said,
"Why not?" he asked, eyebrow raised.
"Under 21?" I said,
"Well, technically anyone under eighteen is a minor. Minors aren't legally aloud to live by themselves. But you and I are living proof; plus it's not like I'm going to let them get drunk… I have a conscience you know?" he said, smiling.
"Could have fooled me…" whispered Fang barely audible.
"Don't be mean…" I whispered back,
Angel looked at me uncertainty, I shrugged, held up one finger (indicated she can only have one), and took a slip of my own.
Pain was already half-way through his glass.
When she took a sip of it.
The meal was delicious; Iggy was a master chef… or he could have been, if not for the whole mutant thing the world has against us.
I feel a little embarrassed admitting it, but by the end of the meal I was well into my fourth glass of wine… not the best choice, but whatever.
Most of the older kids were on their third one, so I didn't feel too guilty.
Angel had been true to my word and stopped at one.
But still the meal… it was amazing.
When everyone was finished, Adam stood up. Everyone looked at him.
"Ok, the first thing I should say is that I am so happy that Max's flock has decided to stay with us; I'd like them to know that they're welcome to stay here as long as they wish, or until other circumstances allow it… now onto other more fun stuff, some of you have brought it to my attention that you want to go to Sea world. I personally would love to go; but I think we should do this democratically… We'll have a vote… Now who wants to go?"
Twilight's, Bank's, and Ny's hands shot into the air fallowed by Talon's and Pain's rising slowly.
I noticed that Angel hand tentatively raise, I slowly put my hand on her's and lowered it.
Adam turned, "I think it's even, 6 yes. And 6 no?"
"Wait are we allowed to vote?" asked Gazzy.
"Of course you are." Said Talon, "Your opinions matter too."
"Oh well then." Said, Nudge. She raised her hand with Gazzy and Angel; Iggy shrugged and raised his hand. Fang and I exchanged a glance.
Fang said, "Wait, why are we going?"
Talon answered, "Because we can."
Sadly neither I nor Fang required a better reason.
We shrugged and raised our hands.
"So it's settled we'll leave tomorrow."
This was met with lots of cheering, and fist in the air.
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3 hour's earlier
Adam's POV
I walked into the living room; saw that it was six o'clock, and hoped onto the couch.
Simpson's Time.
He loved this show, it somehow made him feel better about his own dysfunctional F-ed up family.
I was half-way through the episode, when Twilight walked into the room. She was short for an eight year old mutant, while Gazzy was something like 4ft 6in; she was 4ft 3in. Angel and Pain were something like 4ft 1in.
She had here strawberry blond hair, in pig tails wrapped with pale blue ribbons. She had the perfect sweet innocent little girl look on, that put me on edge.
She walked over and crawled into my lap,
"What's up, Twi?" I asked her.
She sighed, now I was really on edge.
"Do you love me Adam?" she asked randomly,
"Of course, sweetie." I said, confused.
"Would you do anything for me?" she asked,
Now I wasn't some idiot, I wasn't going to fall for this. I was however going to humor her.
"Sure, what's up?"
She sighed, "Can we go to Sea World?"
I thought for a couple of seconds,
"Sure why not."
"Really?" she asked, excitement rushing into her.
"Yeah."
"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!"
She planted a kiss on my cheek, "thank you!" she leapt off my lap, and ran up the stairs shouting, "Hey Angel! Guess what!?"
"I'll regret this won't I?"
"Yeah." came Max's voice from the stairs.
"I can't believe you agreed to that. You're not a very tough leader." She said, sitting down next to me.
"I think a good leader need's to be like a thick bungie cord, able to bend but still infinitely tough." I said to her,
"You sound like my voice." Max said,
"Voice?"
A frightened look appeared in her eyes, "Never mind." She said so urgently that I couldn't help by raise my eye brows,
"Max…? Tell me."
She sighed, "Promise not to laugh, or chuck me in a loony bin."
I laughed, "Sorry, I promise I won't."
She sighed again
"I have a voice in my head…" she began quietly,
"It tells me what we should do, it told me to go to that bank, where we "met" you. 4 days ago."
" It convinced me to stay here." She looked she was braced for jeering and teasing.
It didn't come.
I pulled out an old poker chip; the left side was red with the ace of hearts on it, with a burn mark on it. The right side had the ace of spades on it, was black, and had a cut in it.
"You want to know how I make my major decisions." I asked her,
Not even Talon knew this… she might kill me if she did.
She said, "Sure…"
I flipped the chip like a coin.
"You flip a poker chip to make all your executive decisions?"
"No, I flip a poker chip to make all my personal decisions; I would never risk my flock's life on it."
"You flip a chip?"
"You listen to a voice in your head." I pointed out,
"touché." She said, laughing playfully.
She slid closer to me and looked at the chip,
"How did it get this blood stai-" she turned to him, and stopped mid-sentence.
We were close, really close. Our lips mere centimeter's away, our eyes met.
Green to Brown.
Wow, her's eyes are beautiful.
He was getting lost in them……
He knew she was experience the same thing…
Our lips grew closer, and closer. Her eyes began to close, the suddenly sense flew back to me, and I blinked, by now her eyes were closed and she was moving closer to him. They were barely a millimeter away from kissing,
I stood up, making her jump with surprise.
"I'm going to check on Pain and Twilight." I said with no hint of distress. I passed Ny on the way up. She was sketching on a pad, she was an amazing artist despite being blind.
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Max's POV
I blinked in surprise, as I saw the tail of Adam's jacket head up the stairs.
I was sure we were going to kiss; it actually scared me, because I hadn't chickened out.
I hadn't had a problem with kissing Adam; in fact I was, at the time, looking forward to it.
I swore under my breathe; I just got too lost in his beautiful green eyes.
"What's up Max?" asked a female voice; I jumped three feet in the air in surprise.
It was Ny, she had a drawing pad, and plopped down next to me.
"Hi, Ny." I said to her.
"Hey Max?"
"Yeah."
"Try music."
"What?" I asked caught off guard,
"He really likes music; it's like one of his weaknesses. If you want him to kiss you, try putting on some music…"
I stared at her, I didn't know what I was more surprised with the fact that Ny knew this, or the calm almost not caring way she said it.
"I think his favorite song is Viva La Vida." She said,
Coldplay?
I looked over her shoulder curious to see what she was drawing,
I gasped in surprise and fear.
On her drawing pad, was…
Ari.
Only this Ari was fully morphed, he looked slimmer and more streamlined than he did before; he had a deranged look in his eyes, and was screaming something. He wasn't the Ari, I had loved at ITEX headquarters; he was the Ari that had almost killed Fang on that beach. He didn't have wings.
Ny was writing a speech bubble above him,
I.
W.I.L.L
K.I.L.L.
Y.O.U.!.
M.A.X.I.M.U.M.!
I WILL KILL YOU! MAXIMUM!
I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up strait.
"Ny?"
"Who is that?" I asked,
"I have no idea… but he hates you." She said she ripped off the drawing. And handed it to me.
The amazing thing was I knew Ny had never seen Ari, back when she and Iggy could see, Ari hadn't been born yet.
Ari was dead, I reminded myself.
She turned towards my general direction, "Max?"
"Have notice how Fang and Talon have been spending time together?"
"I wonder if there's anything going on between them."
The honest answer was no I hadn't noticed it, but now that I thought back they had been spending time together. Laughing, talking, and spending time together.
Hmmmm…………
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Max's POV.
We walked through the deserted theme park at night; I guessed it must have been about, 12:00AM. Adam was right, it was peaceful. The animals were out, and about. The twelve of them walked over to a gift shop.
"Wait what do you want to do?" I asked Adam,
"Ok, well we forgot our bathing suits at home. So we're going to "barrow" some…"
"Why do we need bathing suits?" asked him,
"Well I don't know about you but, I'm not going swimming in my underwear."
"Why are we going swimming?" I asked him,
"Duh…" he said, without explaining any more,
"Max?" asked Angel.
She was holding a purple one-piece bathing suit with tinker bell on it.
"What do you think?"
"It's cute Ang." I said, and hurried off to go get changed.
"I'll show you, what i mena by swimming." said Adam, grabbing a suit at random and moving off to the bathrooms to change.
"Hey Max!" I turned to see Nudge; she had already changed into a yellow and white one-piece, with her clothes over it.
"Would you wear this one?" she asked, holding up a red bikini.
"Uh…" I said,
"Just try it on!" she said, throwing it to me, I shrugged and went and got changed in the bathroom.
"It fit's fine, it's fine." I said huriedly, walking out past Nudge.
Everyone was already changed, when I came out.
"I want to go and play with the sea turtles." Said Twilight to Adam,
"Won't that be fun Gazzy?" she said turning to him, he shrugged and said, "Yeah, sounds good."
"Ok, Ny you mind taking them to the turtles?"
"Nope." She said,
"I'll go too." Said Iggy and the four of them left.
Angel turned to Nudge, "Let's go to the Dolphins."
"Yeah." Agreed Nudge and the rest of us went to the dolphins.
The dolphin area was very inviting; it had a beach on the other side, Adam and Max sat down on the beach and watch the younger ones run off into the water, except for Pain. He just sat cross-legged in-between me and Adam. That kid creeped me out.
Angel, Nudge, and Bank were playing in the water…
I turned to Adam, "Where did Fang and Talon run off to?"
Adam looked around, "They were right behind us."
"Maybe they wanted to see something else."
"I can't believe you're not worried."
"I trust Talon." He said,
Splash! One of the Dolphins had launched Angel high into the air; she flew back and gracefully landed back in the water. I knew Angel had probably sent friendly thoughts to the Dolphins, and now was probably as talented as a trainer.
"Come on, Pain!" yelled Angel waving her hand, Pain looked back nervously to Adam, he nodded reassuringly. And Pain pulled off his shirt and walked into the water.
I felt Adam's hand accidentally land on my own, we both quickly pulled back.
I heard Nudge ask Angel, "What's this one's name, he really like me."
"His name is Tide!" yelled back Angel.
The next thing I know Nudge was catapulted into the air, and she also gracefully landed.
"Max, Adam! Come in! Don't be like that!" yelled Bank and Angel.
"Alright!" Adam yelled back, he stood up and pulled off his black shirt……
…… He was fit.
That's it…
That's all I'm telling you…
Because if I told you what I actually thought at that moment,
I'd have to kill you… it was just that embarrassing……
Don't press the subject………
I got up and pulled off the clothes over my Bathing Suit,
I saw Adam glance back, slightly.
First time in a Bikini and I'm already getting looks great job, me.
The water was frickin freezing!
But I soon got used to it,
Now I don't know how you feel when you're swimming but with wings let me tell you it's weird. You can get them wet, but I mean still. You don't want to.
I saw that about six dolphins were swimming around Angel, one Nudge was playing with, and two more were playing with Pain and Bank.
"Hey Max, float like this." Said Angel turning herself on her stomach and floating like a turtle.
"Like this?" Is said, my eyes not on Angel…
Adam was standing by Pain, he was looking at me. A bemused look on his face.
"Yep." Said Angel
He – "WOAH!!"
Suddenly I felt two Dolphin noses on my feet, and they were pushing me forward at a really fast speed. They eventually let me go and I fell,
Angel was giggling with Nudge.
"Hey that looks like fun." Said Adam walking over and doing the same thing.
The Dolphin's propelled him into the side of the enclosure.
Ouch! That had to hurt,
Now everyone was laughing.
"Oh! HA-HA!" yelled Adam, indignantly.
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Fang's POV
Talon and I were sitting on a beach not far from Sea World; we had ditched the flocks after we had both decided that we didn't want to deal with the heptic-ness that was sure to occur at Sea World. Talon and I were talking to each other… I never talk. But I was chatting it up with her for some reason, I just feel like she gets me, so it's ok to talk. You know?
"I want to go for a swim." Said Talon, getting up and walking towards the ocean, she stripped off her clothes walking towards the beach… my brain went numb… she was really hot.
They way the moonlight glistened off her……hair.(Few... Good Save.)
I decided to use my new invisibility ability; I had been slowly mastering it over the past weeks.
I stood up invisible, and quietly walked towards the water; I took off my shirt, and threw it to the ground and silently slipped into the wavy water.
"Fang?"
"Dun dun…"
"Fang… this isn't funny."
"Dun dun Dun dun Dun dun Dun dun Dun dun Dun dun"
"Fang?"
"Arg!!" I yelled appearing next to her, "Boo!" she reacted so quickly, I didn't see her move. She shoved me, and I fell into the water, she dove after me. I pulled myself out of the water, and looked at her. We were really close…
"I'm glad you came…" she said,
"Why?"
"Why do you think?"
She was only about 4inches shorter than me; she went up on her tippy-toes.
The next thing I knew she's kissing me, and I was kissing her back.