It took us half the time it usually took us to set up camp with four more people helping. When Angle, Max and I got back to camp, Max and started to gut the fish. H and Robin watched us in amazement.
"What?" I asked them. Max shot me a 'be nice' look, so I shot back an innocent 'what' look.
"It's just we've never seen anyone gut a fish before. You guys do it really fast and get all the yucky out too," H explained shyly, taking a step back while he explained.
"That's coz we've done it heaps of times," Max told him gently. H and Robin exchanged a few words, and then H went over to talk to Angle. I had also noticed Iggy and Edge had been getting in really well.
"Max would you please show me how to um gut a fish, so you know I'll um know how to do it if I ever had to?" Robin asked Max nervously. Robin was the quietest member of Roo's flock. Despite her quietness, I had seen her and Nudge talking and laughing together as if they had known each other for years.
"Sure," Max said. I finished gutting my tenth fish and took it, as well as the other nine fish I had gutted, over to Iggy to start cooking.
'Hey what's up with the blind kid cooking?" Roo asked me as I handed Iggy the fish.
"Hey I may be blind but I'm not death," Iggy defended himself.
"Besides if I didn't cook, the flock would die of starvation or food poisoning."
"Why doesn't Max cook?" Iggy and I looked at each other, then he cracked up laughing.
'Max. Cook. Yea right," Iggy said between laughs.
"She burns water."
"Hey I may not be the best cook, but I'm not that bad," Max protested, while handed over the rest of the fish. Forty minutes later we where all sitting round the fire eating our weight in fish. Not litually, but it felt like it. I watched Max as she talked to Roo. I could tell by her body language and facial expression, she was in a serious mood. Scanning the rest of the group, I saw Angle and Gazzy had fallen asleep next to each other and H was also asleep, leaning against a log. It was defiantly time for bed.
"Max," I called softly. Interrupting her conversation with Roo, she turned to look at me. I motioned to the three sleeping kids, then bent down and picked up Gazzy.
"Oh right. Bedtime, Nudge, Iggy you to. We've had a long, get some sleep. I've got first watch."
"Second," I called.
"I guess I'll take third then," Iggy said while climbing up a tree to sleep in. I passed Gazzy up to him. Iggy set him on the branch, then climbed up onto the branch above. Max settled Angle onto a branch. After kissing her forehead, she jumped out of the tree and went and sat on one of the logs around the fire. I sat down next to her. We needed to talk, I just wasn't sure how to approach the topic of 'us'. Roo sat down on the log opposite us. So much for talking to Max ALONE. I guess our conversation was going to have to wait until later.
"So ," Roo broke the silence. His voice seemed unusually loud, with no one else talking over him or at the same time.
"I think we should go over any powers, that any members of our flocks have," Roo suggested.
"Then I have a very important question for you. But first powers. As it must be obvious to you everyone in my flock has wings." I glanced at Max and could tell she was thinking the same thing I me. There were more hybrids out there. We thought we were the only ones besides that girl we had freed earlier this year. I feel as if this isn't going to be the only surprising news tonight.
"Everyone in my flock has a power. None are the same as anyone else's. I can move extremely fast, even compared to us hybrids. I can also slow down time but not completely stop it. Edge can control all types of metal, as well as sense emotions. When he uses his power to sense emotions he's more of a pain than of any help. Robin can change the shape of herself as well as other people and objects. But she doesn't use her power except when she has to because it drains her energy fast. H can control water and talk to all types of animals. Quite a cool power I have to admit." He flashed us a smile.
"So what about you guys? Has anyone else got any powers besides Max?" I frowned. How did he know so much about Max? I caught Max's eye and nodded.
"Well as you seam to know already I can fly really fast, at what I like to call hypo drive or super speed. Fang can turn invisible when he sits still. Iggy can sense the colour of things. Nudge is what she calls magnetic and can feel what the person who touched the object/thing before her was feeling. Gazzy has the gross ability to let out a disgusting smelling green gas and can mimic any voice that he has herd. Angle has the most powers out of us all, which is surprising considering she is the youngest. She can read and control minds, breath underwater, talk to fish that's how we got all that fish we ate for dinner and we've recently discovered she can shape shift. Our last member of the flock is Total. He…"
"Total. Who's Total? I've only meet six of you," Roo interrupted.
"Total is Angles dog. He can talk and I growing wings. Don't ask what type of DNA he has coz I don't know. He's asleep in Angles backpack coz one of Iggy and Gazzy's sleep bombs went off and he was knocked unconscious. ( sorry I for got to put Total in the last few chapters so this is where he's been. Alika isn't in this story, she's living with Dr M and Ella)
"Wait, what. The blind guy and the what nine year old are making bombs?"
"I try to stop them but they all ways seem to have some stashed somewhere." Roo looked at us in disbelief.
"Don't underestimate Iggy he's smarter than you think. By the way he's eight." Roo looked at me, clearly confused.
"Gazzy's eight not nine," Max explained.
"Oh. Anyway I was talking to my flock earlier today and we were hoping you would consider joining our two flocks and forming one lead by Max, with me as second in command."