(Iggy) Crap. I'm in love with two girls, how in the freaking world is this going to work?! Curse Nudge and Ella being so perfect!
We were all sitting in our cave talking. Nudge and I were on one wall, Fang and Max on another, and Gazzy and Angel on the remaining one.
(Max) I'm not the love police or anything but Iggy seems to be jumping girls pretty fast. I mean, he just made out with Ella in the closet and now he and Nudge were a thing. I just really hope he lets Ella down gently. I caught Fang staring at Iggy and Nudge and jabbed him in the ribs with my elbow.
"Ouch! What the h," I glared at him giving him a 'hello they need privacy too' look and he shrugged rubbing his ribs. The whole flock was staring at us now. Well hello there.
"Uh, we should play a game or something guys any ideas?" I said trying to get rid of the awkward silence.
"Yeah, let's play truth or dare!" Angel shouted at once.
There were heads nodding in agreement so I said, "Ok who goes first?"
"Oh! Since I came up with the idea can I go first?"
"Sure sweetie, go ahead," Angel put her finger on her chin thinking.
"Ok, Iggy, truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"If the world blew up and only you and one other girl survived who would you want it to be?" Iggy looked shocked and he blushed.
"Nudge," he said quietly and there came a few aww's and nervous giggles (the giggles coming from Nudge).
"Ok, Iggy, your turn," Angel said sweetly.
"Max, truth or dare?" Crap.
"Dare," oh man this is going to be bad. Angel smiled at me, oh Max, it's going to be fun.
"I dare you to sit on Fang's lap until we're done playing this game," Iggy gave an evil grin. "Well go on," yet another set of dagger looks not working on Iggy. I climbed onto Fang's lap and said, "Gazzy, truth or dare?"
"Dare," Gazzy said challenging me. Dare him to say something in Fang's voice it'll be really funny Max.
"I dare you to sing 'I Believe I can Fly' in Fang's voice," this was going to be good.
"Ok," and Gazzy sang it. By the end of the song, everyone was rolling around on the ground laughing their heads off except Fang who just glared at me.
"Ok, Gazzy," I said between laughs. "Your turn."
"Fang, truth or dare?"
"Truth." Fang looked at him as if saying 'don't do anything you're going to regret'.
Too late, "Do you love Max?"
"Yes." It was silent.
"Your turn Fang," I glanced around at Nudge and seemed to come to a decicion.
"Nudge, truth or dare?"
"Da," Nudge didn't get to finish her answer because someone else inturrupted her.
"How sweet, game time with the mutants," we all looked towards the cave entrance and saw at least 20 erasers with horrible smiles on their faces as if they had just won the mutant lottery or something. They were just the ones in the cave, there were a lot more hovering just outside waiting to be called in.
"Fan out guys," I said and tapped Iggy's hand. We were cornered in the cave but if we dove right at their feet we might be able to get out. Angel, tell everyone to dive at the eraser's feet out through the cave on tree. Got it Max, we're ready.
"One," the erasers tilted their heads and began to move closer.
"Two," they were getting closer, this was our last chance.
"Three!" We all dove for the ground and knocked some of the erasers off their feet. One of them kicked at me and caught my thigh. Oh my god that hurt. I let out a pained yell and kicked the eraser in the fork of the legs as I slid out of the cave. We were all freefalling for about 100 feet before we let out our wings. The erasers were in close persuit with us. This must be a new version.
"Guys, their gaining we need to speed up!" Iggy yelled from my left. He was right, they were really fast.
"We can't let them just hunt us down again, we can take um," Fang yelled back from my right.
"Fang's right guys, Angel, Gazzy above, Nudge left, Iggy flank, Fang right!" We got into our formation and turned to face the oncoming cloud of erasers.
Man there were a lot of them, there had to be at least 150! Jeez, they really wanted us gone. I really thought that the whole destroying Itex thing would've ended these guys' rampage for world domination and maybe their obsession with the kill the mutants campein but who knew?
We collided with the erasers and started working our magic. I punched one eraser in the neck and then kicked it with both feet in the chest sending it plummiting towards the ground. While I was fighting this one, three more had moved in on me. I spun a roundhouse kick on them with my unjuinred leg and caught two of them in the jaw popping it out of place. The other one ducked though and punched me with both fists in the stomach making all the air rush out of my lungs. I dropped several feet sucking in air ready to puch an eraser's lights out. I heard Fang yell in pain and I whirled to nine erasers attacking Fang at once. "Fang!" I shot towards him and knocked two eraser's heads together making them howel with pain. They had Fang held tight with two erasers holding his wings and four holding each of his legs and arms. One was pounding on every square inch of his body and he was beging to loose contiousness. I practically tackled the one that was whaling on Fang. I swung a kick at his neck and his head jerked sideways. He dropped like a rock. I kicked the one holding his right arm in the stomach and then punched it in the face. Now that Fang had a free arm, he joined in repeatedly punching the one holding his other arm in the head. I had picked off the ones holding his legs as he finaly got his other arm free. He began screaming in pain as he was now suspended by just his wings. I know how much that hurts and I needed to get him out of that pain. I grabbed one of the erasers inbetween their wings and pulled them together hard. It squeeled in anguish and dropped. I kicked the other one in the troat, it gaged and let go. Fang dropped a few feet then caught himself and came up beside me.
"Thanks, I owe you," Fang said. He had two black eyes and his nose was bleeding.
"Yeah you do, you're a mess," he really did look horrible. There were about 20 erasers left and the kids looked in pretty good shape; Angel looked untouched and was using her mind control to make eraser's wings fold in and drop out of the sky, Gazzy's mouth was bleeding, one of Iggy's eyes were swelling shut, and Nudge looked fine. An eraser was coming up from behind me and Fang but we didn't notice. I felt a blow to my back and it gave me a huge whiplash. I dropped about 20 feet and caught myself. I rubbed my neck and if I wasn't pissed before when they were hurting Fang, I was deffinately pissed now. I drove my wings down hard and shot up. Oooo, he was really going to pay. I drove my fist into the eraser's face and heard a satisfying crunch as his nose broke under my fist. Blood started gushing out and and I kicked him with both feet hard in the chest. He plumited real fast and I felt much better. Ah, now there were six left and we each took one. Angel made an eraser commit suiside, Nudge kicked one in the back of the neck and it's head snapped back, Iggy stuffed a bomb down one's shirt and it now had a hole in it's chest, Gazzy was darting around his eraser delivering blows faster than you could track, Fang was getting some revenge even though he could barely see through his swelling eyes, and I was whaling on mine like nobodies busyness. I delivered the final blow to my eraser and it fell.
"Report," I looked at my flock registering injuries.
"Fine," Angel said breathing heavily.
"I think I just got rid of the rest of my baby teeth but other that that I'm good," Gazzy said whiping some blood away from his mouth.
"I'm fine," Iggy said rubbing his black eye.
"All good here," Fang said obviously lying through his teeth because he was the most injured out of all of us. He really needed to rest or you know to go to the hospital.
I gave him one of my famous 'ya right you lier' looks and said, "We need to find a place to rest." Everyone nodded and we were headed west.
We had been flying for 25 minutes now and I heard a moan from behind me. I turned to see Fang drop. "Fang! Iggy help!" I dove after him, grabbed his arm and then yelled, "Iggy, over here!" He followed my voice and grabbed Fang's other arm.
"God he's heavy," Iggy grunted.
"Ok, now we really need to land. Uh, there's a clearing down there lets go." We spiraled down toward the clearing. "Angel, Gazzy, lay out blankets for Fang, Nudge get a cool cloth," I felt Fang's forehead, it was blazing hot. "I think he has a fever. Iggy, come check him out," Iggy trotted over and removed Fang's t-shirt to reveal his chest covered in bruises (it matched his face). I gasped and put my hands to my mouth.
Iggy's fingers brushed over Fang like butterflies, "How bad does he look?"
"Really bad," I said feeling more worried than I ever have.
"Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, go get some water," we just passed over a river we'll go there. "Go to the river we just passed over." The kids nodded and went to gather water. "Max, Fang is in really bad shape," I looked at Iggy and he looked as worried as I was (if that's even possible).
"What can we do?" I asked hoping there was something we could do.
"Um, just let him rest at this point but I don't really see how we can do that seeing as we're on the run and ya," he trailed off.
"Crap, we need a hiding place, a really good one and fast." Iggy nodded. I looked at Fang to examine him more closely. He had two black eyes, there was dry blood down his right cheek, his body was covered in bruises, and he was out cold. Damn those erasers! Where could we stay? Go to Helana, Montana and stay at a hotel there. There are no schools or erasers in Montana. Thanks Jeb but how do we get Fang there fast enough? Fly him there, you and Iggy take turns carrying him. He wont be very happy about it but you can't let him fly, it could permanently injure his wings. Thanks we'll go there. You're welcome sweet heart.
"Iggy, we're going to Montana."
"What, and just how do we get Fang there? If you haven't noticed, he's kind of uncontious."
"You and I have to take turns carrying him, we'll switch every half hour," Iggy's eyes widened and then nodded ok.
"Jeb tell you this?"
"Yep, now lets get out of here." The kids came back out of the woods and Iggy and I told them the plan.
We took to the air and I was first in shifts of carrying Fang. His limp body was in my arms and he still had this pained expression on his face.
My half hour was over and I called Iggy. I dumped Fang into his arms and Iggy grimaced.
Before I knew it Iggy was handing Fang back to me and I saw he was awake. Thank the Lord!
"Max, why won't you or Iggy let me fly by myself?"
"If you fly now, you might not ever be able to fly again," I looked down at him.
"Oh," he said quietly and looked embarrassed.
"Well we all have to take chances," he said and he rolled out or my arms. I quickly grabbed him and held him tighter this time.
"You don't get off that easy," I said smirking at him.
"Damn it Max," he said under his breath. Good to see things were back to normal.
