7.
Where were they? Flutter and Squid couldn't have gone far, could they? Finding a clearing I spread my wings.
"What the...," someone said behind me. I whirled. Behind me stood six people with gaping mouths.
"Sorry, um, bye!" I stuttered as I backed slowly away.
"Wait!" called one of them, a girl who looked about eleven. As I watched she slowly extended her own set of wings. I gasped, as the rest of them showed me their wings as well.
"You looked like you could use some help," the oldest girl sighed. "I'm Max. This is Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel."
"Um, could you help me find Flutter and Squid?" I desribed what they looked like, and with one powerful flap of my seventeen foot wings I was up in the air.
