First, this entire chapter is dedicated to yuui-kun, for giving me my first review from someone I don't actually know. Ever, with any story. You have no idea how ecstatic I was. This is a major breakthrough. :)

Yuui-kun, if you're talking about America as in the states, you can have it. I have no need for that section of land. But if you mean America as in North and South America, not a chance. I will share though. To everyone else, Yuui-kan volunteered to help me with world domination, so I will be sharing the world with Yuui-kan, along with Sanraita and NOtalka who I know will help me anyways.

Severely sorry about the amount of time it took me to do this chapter.

Here's chapter number 9. I think it's nine…hmmm. Yup, it's nine.

Wyll POV

It felt good to be flying again. The mountainous air of the Himalayas was slightly chilly, but refreshing. We were searching the mountains for anything that might be a School. No luck so far of course. (Caps lock is working again!) There had been a few false alarms. Unfortunately they all turned out to be rocks or irregularly shaped patches of snow. It could take us days to find the School. Actually, I should say days more. We had already been here for three. "Any luck?" I called out, hoping that the majority of the group would hear me. We were spread out a little bit far.

"No," came the faint calls.

I searched futilely for a few more hours. Let me tell you, mountain air is cold! Thankfully we had bought fancy gloves and winter clothes, along with the much needed cell-phone.

Seeing a likely looking rock, I dove down, beetle wings buzzing furiously. The cold was definitely not good for them. It made them brittle and cold. They were fairly thick, since they were in relation to my body the same size as they would be in relation to a bug's body, but the cold still didn't agree with them. Not wanting another false alarm, I searched the rock's edges for hinges, metal, doorframes, or anything else that didn't belong on a mountain. On the top of the stone, my gloved fingers skidded across some lumpy things. Moving my glove away, I saw some hinges, cleverly disguised as rock. "I found something," I shouted at the top of my lungs.

Where are you? Natalka asked in my mind.

I pulled out my little pocket map of the Himalayas. Shanyn had decided we would all need one. Examining it, I figured out I was on the Kangchenjunga mountain. I pinpointed my location a bit closer, than replied to Natalca's mind question.

North face of Mount Kangchenjunga, about a hundred meters east of second camp.

I'll send everyone over.

After a few minutes, everyone else made it over. "Did you find it?" Madysen asked hopefully.

"I'm pretty sure I did. Either that or there's a secret door carved into the mountain that's supposed to be there."

Iggy was already feeling around the edge of the doorway for the invisible hinges. "That is definitely a door," he announced, "Congrats Wyll."

"Thank-you," I said, doing a fancy bow.

"Good job," Taelyr congratulated me, giving me a hug, "Would you like to do the honours?"

In response, I spun a rope of spider web from my palm and stuck the edges onto the sides of the door. I passed the rest of the length of rope to Madysen, Shanyn, Iggy, and Taelyr, and we all pulled. The perks of having superhuman strength. After about thirty seconds of pulling, the frozen door finally cracked open. Inside, there was sleek laboratory hallways, tiled in the classic white. With white walls. And white lights. I wonder if they have a favourite colour?

Ignoring my combined feeling of déjà vu and nausea, I led the way into the School. Unlike the School in Oxford, this one didn't have handy maps at regular intervals, so we were left to find our way about on our own. "Which way?" I asked at the first interval.

"Left," Madysen suggested, "I like left."

"You have a favourite direction?" Natalca asked her.

"Don't you?"

"I do," Taelyr said, "Up."

"Clever," Madison appraised, "And fitting, considering you can fly and all that."

"You two are bad for each other," I told them, "Are we going left?"

"I think so."

"Wait!" Shannon said, "Listen."

I strained my ears. I didn't hear anything. "I hear it," Madysen said, "Footsteps."

I still didn't hear anything, but Madysen, Shanyn and Natalca had bat hearing. "Which way are they coming from?" I asked.

"Left."

"So we will turn-" I began.

"Up!" Taelyr said.

"Taelyr, that doesn't work," I reminded her sarcastically, and a tiny bit annoyedly, as I started to turn right. We seriously didn't have time for her randomness at the moment.

"Yeah, it does, she said, pointing up.

I looked up. There was indeed an air vent above us. "Well don't I feel like an idiot."

I gave Taelyr a boost up to the vent. She unfastened the screws quickly, using a dime she pulled out of her pocket. After she got the screws out, she silently passed the cover down to Iggy, who grabbed it and laid it gently on the floor. I pushed Taelyr's feet through the vent, and then lifted Iggy up through it as well. Followed by Shanyn, Madysen, and Natalca. As soon as everyone was in, Taelyr and Shanyn grabbed me by my wrists and pulled me up. I hooked my feet around the vent cover and pulled it up with me, sliding it through the square entrance. I figured a vent without its cover was less noticeable than a vent cover lying on the ground. Right underneath the vent that is missing a cover. A little suspicious, don't you think?

Once I was in the vent, I began to hear the footsteps Shanyn had been talking about. After a few more seconds, two whitecoats came down the left hallway and walked under us. With our luck, they would probably look up as well. With a bit of quick thinking, Taelyr picked up the vent cover and slid it through the hole, and then dropped it on the heads of the unsuspecting whitecoats. It made a dull thunk when it hit their heads, and before it could make a louder one on the ground, the whitecoats fell down like a couple of rocks and cushioned the path of the air vent cover, so it didn't make a big loud clang when it hit the ground.

The rest of us swung down from the air vent, landing beside the unconscious whitecoats. We continued down our original direction, left, and eventually stopped at a room marked, 'Experiments: Supernatural powers'. "Does that mean they're trying to control our powers? I thought that was spontaneous," Iggy said.

"Apparently they don't think so," Shanyn replied, "I think it's a glitch in our genes, so that when they're put together a certain way, we mutate. They're probably trying to figure out how we mutate exactly, and who knows? Maybe they succeeded."

I did have to agree with her. These whitecoats did have brains. Sick-minded, twisted brains, but brains nonetheless. I shrugged her theory off and looked at the door. There was a tiny window on the door, about half the size of a porthole on a hip. I peered in through the window and saw a computer in the room's corner, a row of about five cages on the left hand side, and a printer in the other corner. "Look out," Shanyn called, and her foot whizzed past my head into the door's lock, creating a loud bang, but breaking the lock, allowing us entry.

"That really wasn't smart," Madysen commented as Shanyn opened the door, "The whitecoats probably heard."

Natalca grinned evilly. "We can take them," she said, cracking her knuckles.

Madysen shook her head and followed Shanyn through the door.

Inside the room, we could see that only one of the cages was actually inhabited. A boy about sixteen years old sat in it, bent over, knees by his chest. He had dark straight hair, and when he looked up, we saw he had shining coal-black eyes. He was sturdily built, and looked to be around six feet tall, but I wasn't sure when he was crouched down. When he spoke, his voice was quiet, "What do you want?" he asked, sounding bored with us.

"Well, who are you?" asked Taelyr.

"My name's Aaron. What do you want?" he repeated forcefully.

Madysen looked slightly annoyed. "Can you tell us where Syarrah is?"

"Not here. She died the day after she was brought here."

"She died?" Madysen asked, the universal what the hell expression on her face.

"They messed with her genes and her body couldn't take it. I'm one of the only ones who's survived having their genes messed with," Aaron responded, "They had my brother in here. He died along with Syarrah."

Aaron amazingly sounded completely neutral as he talked about his dead brother. He made his voice uncaring and cold. But he had to be lying about Syarrah's death. Madysen's Voice had told us to come for her.

Message from Madysen, Natalca's voice appeared in my head, she says that the Voice is now telling her we have to take this idiot instead of Syarrah. Why it couldn't have told us to take this idiot back when we thought we were coming for Syarrah, I don't know. But other than the tiny flaw that the person we're supposed to rescue is dead, the Voice hasn't been wrong before, so I suggest we listen to it. What do you think?

I think we might as well take him. If he's been messed with so that he has extra powers, he could come in useful.

That's what I say. Same with Shanyn, Madysen, and Iggy. Congrats, your mind works the same as everyone's here. Except for Aaron. I can't read his, which greatly annoys me. And scares me. That's part of the reason I'm calling him an idiot. If I can't read his mind, I won't know what he's thinking, and I won't know if he's on our side.

Her voice went on and on. I really wanted her out of my head right now.

Don't you try to kick me out of your head. I know you can't do that...

Much to my amazement, her voice faded away. Natalca? I called out in my now empty head. (Ha ha, that seriously made me laugh my head off. I just realized after I typed it. Taelyr! You're boyfriend has an empty head. LOL.)

What?

I can block you out.

What?! That's not fair.

Tell me if you can hear what I'm thinking.

I concentrated and blocked Natalca out. Her voice wasn't in my head anymore. This was awesome. She wouldn't know what I was thinking every second of the day anymore.

Natalca glanced at me, confused. I gave her a slight smile. She sighed at me in annoyance, and then turned back to Aaron. "Are you gonna come with us or stay here?" she asked, a hint of anger on her voice.

Aaron changed his position so he was on hands and knees, ready to get out of the cramped cage. "I'll come," he said. "The people here are evil."

"No, really? What was your first clue?" Shanyn asked sarcastically.

Aaron raised an eyebrow but didn't respond as Madysen unlocked his cage. He sprang out gracefully and stood up.

He was tall. We had judged his height to be six feet while in the cramped cage, but he was taller than Iggy, who measured in at 6'4" (If that's the wrong height blame Wikipedia. It said that was how tall Iggy was, and I wanted Aaron to be a freaking giant) Aaron had to be 6'5", if not 6'6". He was muscled like a body builder and probably sixteen, like I had guessed earlier. His bulky build made it hard to tell his age for sure.

I realized I was staring and caught myself. I was tall, but Aaron was a giant. I used my presto-chango-now-my-hair-is-purple-power to make myself grow a couple inches, so I wasn't dwarfed quite so much. "Ready to leave?" I asked casually.

"Yup," Natalca replied, leading the way out the door.

We all followed Natalca out the maze of hallways in the mountain's interior. Eventually we came to the still-open doorway that led into the mountain air. "Just a sec," Iggy called, tossing a small, explosive bundle of fun down the hallway, "Okay, run. Fast. You've got twenty seconds."

When Iggy tells you that you have twenty seconds, you get the hell out of there, no questions asked.

We all flew away at high speed, Madysen and Shanyn grabbing Aaron's arms and dragging him through the air. In twenty seconds, we were at a safe enough distance to watch the magnificent explosion. There wasn't huge mushroom cloud, just a puff of smoke and the whole mountainside caved in. It was awesome. After the cave-in, a huge pile of snow slid down an outhanging cliff. The snow continued down the mountain, finally coming to a stop when the slope levelled out. It was awesome.

"So where are we going next?" I called out around me.

"That depends," Shanyn called back.

"On what?"

"On what our friend here does," she replied, indicating Aaron.

"Does?" Aaron asked.

"Yeah. In case you haven't noticed, this entire group can fly. What can you do?" Madysen asked him.

"I can run. Fast. About the speed of a cheetah," Aaron replied. I was pretty sure I could hear a note of smugness in his quiet voice.

Shanyn shared an evil glance with Madysen. I instantly knew what they were gonna do. They were only a few meters in the air. They would drop him in the snow and make him run to our hotel in Kathmandu. (I have no clue how close that is to Mt. Kangchenjunga and I'm too lazy to go Google it. My computer thinks you can't type 'Google' with a lower-case G.) "Don't," I told them.

"Why not?" Shanyn asked, "He's freaking heavy and I don't want to carry him to Kathmandu. I'm not an airplane, I'm a person. We brought a spare jacket. We can give it to him and meet him at our hotel."

Aaron looked insanely annoyed. Without any warning, he let go of Shanyn and Madysen's hands, dropping to the ground lightly. "Toss me the jacket," he said, "I haven't gotten to run in forever, and I want to now."

Well, if he wanted to run, I would let him run. I flew up high in the air, as high as I could before the air got to thin to continue ascending, and as I free-falled, I carefully pulled the backpack off of my wings and arms. By the time it was off, I still had another two hundred feet of freefall. I dove down to the ground, pulling up when there was about ten feet left, and hovered as I pulled the spare jacket from my backpack. I handed it to Aaron, who snatched it impatiently from my hand. Taelyr, who was hovering above Aaron, dropped down and thumped him on the head with her boot. "Be nice!" she told him angrily.

Aaron raised an eyebrow at her, "I'll behave however I please," he said testily, and took off running across the mountains.

As soon as he was out of earshot, Madysen spoke up, "Isn't he just a cuddly little ball of fun?"

"Oh definitely," Natalca replied sarcastically.

"Oh well, we can still fly faster than him," Taelyr said, "Which means we can easily beat him to Kathmandu.

The end. I'm really sorry it took me so long to update, but I'm updating now, so be happy. I'll try to update faster. If any of you are reading my twilight/Night World Fanfic, it definitely won't be updated for a very long time.