Chapter 9
I woke up to a voice talking to me.
"Harrowle, please wake up. Can you get up? Everyone wants to leave right now. So we need you to get up."X gently shook my shoulder.
I groaned, I was still tired and I was also sore. This day couldn't- I just had ice water dumped on me. I angrily got up and slapped Matthew who was holding the ice water bucket and emptying it onto me and Charline. He angrily grabbed my wrist and hugged me. Impulse to do so I guess.
"Matthew! What did you do that for?" I said angry and slapped him again.
"Ow, and you wouldn't get up! I think we should keep heading to New York. We shouldn't stay here any longer because of the Erasers getting o damn close to us." Matthew said as he rubbed his cheek.
"Fine." I sighed and expanded my wings.
They ached a bit as I tested them out. I smiled when X stood up and looked disapprovingly at Matthew and said some silent words to him about me possibly getting hypothermia. I laughed at them and hugged X happily giving him a kiss on the cheek. He hugged me back and returned the kiss.
We took off an hour later after we found some breakfast and lounged lazily for a bit.
I was flying ahead of everyone else trying to scout out New York City. I saw a large city a few miles from where we were and smiled.
"Hey, let's land a few miles outside city limits, I don't wanna disturb anybody in the city. They've already seen Max and her flock." I said hovering in front of Amy's and my flock.
"Umm, how do you know that? They never mentioned it." Amy asks as she lands softly right next to me.
"Uhh, I don't know. It kind of just came to me like a vision." I said scrunching my eyebrows together.
Everyone else landed and started to make camp as I sat down and ruffled my hair. I heard rustling but ignored it. I was too immersed in thought to care right now. I felt a hand go over my mouth and yank me back quickly. I screamed, but it was muffled by the hand over my mouth. I struggled and then found myself a few feet off of the ground.
This was really weird. The figure dropped me and I turned to try and punch the guy who kidnapped me. But it wasn't a man that I saw, it was a centaur. I looked at it surprised, this was truly a crazy mixed up world.
"What, the, Hell." I murmured.
The figure looked at me and then picked me up by the scruff of my neck onto its back. I sat silently there waiting for it to stop and put me down. He finally stopped and let me get off. I stared and darted hoping that this thing wasn't gonna catch me. It was creepy.
But it sighed and grabbed the back of my shirt. I turned and glared at it but it just stared at me with sadness in its eyes. I stopped and muttered,
"Where the hell am I? Why are you here? And what the hell is going on?"
"My dear you have no idea where you are? It should be obvious to you by now. You're at a safe place." It said looking at me confused.
"Yeah, well I do certainly see a man that has half a horse as his lower torso. And I've been through more fights than you could count. So nowhere is safe for me or my family." I said putting my hands on my hips.
"Ah, then how come you all can see me?" He asked and kneeled in front of me.
I stare blankly at him. Then I hear rustling and out burst everyone. They stop and stare at the sight of a centaur kneeling in front of me.
"Umm, what's going on here?" Matthew asks and pulls me away from the centaur.
I was kind of fond of the guy, he was pretty nice to me hadn't tried to kill me yet. I frown and yank my arm out of his grasp.
"Matthew, I'm fine. You don't need to baby me anymore. I am flock leader aren't I? So act like it." I said sternly.
The centaur was looking at me ordering a 22 year old guy around and raised his eyebrows when I said flock leader.
"Children, you may come with me. I don't think you want to stay out here for much longer or the harpies may try to eat you." The man said as he got up and motioned for us to follow him.
"Harpies? Like myths and all that stuff? Really, that stuff just isn't possible." Mint said as she climbed onto Matthews back and he held her there.
I grin at her and then nod in approval for Amy and her flock to tag along. Amy crossed her arms and nodded firmly, she was kind of against it but was okay with tagging along. I look ahead at the the mythical man and try to put his name into words, but it was on the tip of my tongue. I sighed and followed him with everyone else following me.
We walked for a mile and stopped at the door steps of a giant blue house.
I feel X grab my hand and kiss my shoulder just in case something from the school was in there. I gently lean closer into him and hug him. He just pats my back and pulls me inside.
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