Expectations
Chapter 10
Thanks everyone for the reviews. I usually reply to the reviews person by person… but I was too lazy to log in this week… so yea. I'll be wrapping this story up by the end of this month… I hope. Anyways I hope you enjoy.
Sorry I haven't updated in like FOREVER.
Max POV:
"Is that like a huge bubble?" Nudge asked me.
"Uh…" Was my answer.
"Not exactly," Fang supplied.
Okay you're all probably confused so let's go back a couple hours.
"Okay is everyone ready?" I looked around at my flock and saw that they were all dressed in their little wet suit things and they all seemed ready to go. I got various yeses (Is that the plural of yes? IDK but I'll use it because I'm too lazy to find out) and a nod from Fang.
"Please be careful everyone," Brigid told us looking concerned.
"So Max do you think there's a monster or something? Because maybe that's why there is evil in the water, or maybe it's something else, because seriously…" Iggy covered Nudge's mouth with his hand and just shook his head.
"I don't know Nudge… well I guess we should get going. Nudge you'll be in the lead with me because we'll need you to lead us to where the feeling is coming from alright?" She nodded.
Gazzy and Iggy cannon-balled into the water and came up splashing each other.
"Is it cold?" Angel asked.
"Nope, actually I'm pretty toasty. These suits are really cool," Gazzy replied before Iggy dunked his under the water. Angel jumped in and then she beckoned to Nudge. Nudge ran off and jumped off the boat too.
I rolled my shoulders and made sure that my wings could still come out of the slits in my suit. These suits came in the perfect sizes and even had slits for our wings. Which I must say is pretty cool if a little odd and too convenient.
"When we get back I want to talk about us," Fang said before jumping off the boat too. You have got to be kidding me? He chooses to tell me that NOW.
I jumped in with the rest of them and made sure that my little air thing was positioned in my mouth correctly. I'm going to have to ask the voice what these things are called later. I swam under the water and looked around to see the rest of my flock following me.
I was just about to call Nudge over to me… but I realized I didn't know how to talk! How the heck do we talk with these things?
Just talk like you normally would, these are pretty high tech so you can talk even though technically you shouldn't really be able to. Oh my voice is back…
How can… I was cut off when my voice continued…
Don't ask.
"Hey Nudge come over here." My voice sounded a little gargled and like it was coming from a distance but I still could be heard. Everyone looked a bit surprised that we could talk and decided to all start talking at once. I rolled my eyes and watched as Nudge swam over to me.
"Lead us to where we need to go." She nodded and closed her eyes treading water. After about a minute her eyes popped open and she shivered. She pointed in a direction and that's where we set off to.
I looked around and noticed some fishes but wasn't too worried since they didn't seem to pay any attention to us what so ever. "Hey can you hear any evil thoughts Angel?" Iggy inquired.
It must be hard for him being blind especially when we are in the water! He reached out and touched Gazzy every now and then to make sure he was swimming the right way.
Whenever I see him lost like this I want to take those white coats and rip their throats out. I know I'm not a murderer and all but I can't believe they would do that to a person. Before I start seething and cursing all the white coats I should probably get a control of myself and get focused… okay I'm calm.
"Not exactly but I don't have a good feeling either," Angel replied to Iggy's question.
I looked around and noticed how funny everyone looks under water. Fang's hair was getting in his eyes more than usual and Gazzy and Iggy's usually spiky-ish hair floated around their heads. It was also deathly quiet down here. Of course there is some sound like us moving the water around us… but it really is quiet compared to how loud things get out in the rest of the world.
The deeper down we got the darker it was. I looked up and my breath caught in my throat. The water got lighter and lighter nearing the top until the water almost seemed to become golden. Fang looked over and must have seen where my gaze was because he looked up too.
'Hey Max, Fang is thinking how romantic that looks and wishes that the situation were different… ohh Fang is thinking about kissing you,' Angel giggled inside my head. I turned around and just looked at her shocked. Fang noticed and looked between Angel and me. Angel looked at him and must have said something because his eyes widened slightly and he turned away from us. Oh I wonder what she said…
"Max we have to go deeper down," Nudge turned to look at me. I followed her as she shifted and starting sweeping farther down in the water. After about ten more minutes the water seemed to get lighter. Which was a good thing since it was pretty dark and we were relying on Nudge searching for that evil feeling.
"Uh Max why is it getting lighter when we are pretty deep?" Angel asked.
"I don't know this is kind of creepy."
We swam a bit more and that's when in the distance we saw it. It looked like a building… sort of. It seemed there was a big glass dome over the building. Oh dear god.
"Is that like a huge bubble?" Nudge asked me.
"Uh…" Was my answer.
"Not exactly," Fang supplied. (Sound familiar? If it doesn't scroll up.)
"Uh oh we have company."
Out of nowhere we were surrounded by… well I don't know what they were. But they came out of nowhere. Gosh they were fast and STRONG. I struggled and punched one in the face. I kicked another in the stomach and took two and smashed their heads together… but they kept coming even after I hit them.
I looked around and saw the rest of my flock was fighting too… but they were struggling. I spun around to kick another one of those things in the head and then was spun around by one and felt a pinch. I saw that one had a syringe and had injected me with something. That's when everything went black.
I sat up and rubbed my temples. My head seemed to be throbbing and I felt itchy all over.
"Hey you're awake," a soft voice murmured. I sat up and opened my eyes slowly. I found that I was in a small, bright white room surrounded by my flock. Fang seemed to be the only one awake though. Everyone else looked asleep, but I knew that they were probably injected with the same thing I was.
"Are you okay?" Fang asked looking me over for any injuries.
"Yea except for a killer headache. Where are we?"
"I'm guessing inside that building we saw right before we were knocked out."
"Do you think it's ITEX?"
"Probably."
"Great, just great."
I know it's short. But I'm wayyyy more fond of this chapter than the last one. I've had the idea of there being an ITEX under the ocean even when I was writing my first story "What Happens Next?" a while ago. You'll get more info later on.
I hope you were a little bit surprised… but I think there is something else coming up later on that will surprise you all.