YAY! NEXT CHAPTER NOW DONE!! I LOVE IT WHEN I FINALLY FINISH SOMETHING!!

ME: HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY IGGY?

IGGY: UHHHH......NOPE (POPPING SOUND ON THE P)

ME: *SHRUG* OKAY

Alex POV:

Ok, how to do this. Now I'm stuck with the delimma of letting them meet and better yet, how to let them meet and have my mom not kill me in the process. Crap.

I go into the kitchen and motion for everyone but the past flock to follow. We need to have a quick meeting now.

We all stand quietly around the island for a moment when I think that the younger kids don't really need to get involved.

"Ok Skylar, Alle, Zach, Air and Blade. Why don't ya'll go for a fly out back. We'll all join you in a minute." I try to smile convicingly. Sky, Alle, Zach and Air smile back and run out the back door. Blade stands and looks at me skeptically, one eyebrow raised.

I suppress a sigh. "Well, go on" I say

"If something's going on I need to stay, I'm 14. There's no need for me to go outside with all the little kids" Blade argues.

I really am not in the mood to fight.

"Blade...."

Ash must have read my feelings on this because he interrupts.

"Blade, us three are in a good amount of trouble as is. We don't want to add you to the list as well. So its not because you're too young...because your not." Ash says calmly. Have I metioned that 'sometimes' this twin telepathy thing is great.

Blade opens his mouth to say something, but turns and walks out the door instead, spreading his light brown and tan wings for take off.

I look at the granite countertop and begin talking.

"Now guys, since it's inevitable that they're all going to meet now....how should we do it?" Might as well just pop the hard question out there.

I look up slightly to see Melanie and Ash's thoughtful faces.

"We could just throw it out there, let them go ahead and meet, blow up, then deal with the problems after." Ash said. Not my favorite option but definately one to think about.

"Or...." Melanie adds,"We could stall for a little time" She has a sort of wistful look on her face and is staring straight at me. Oh no, no way.

"Mel, I am NOT, I repeat NOT, going to use my powers to hide them. Even for a little while." That's just, wrong. Yeah that's the word. I have the ablilty to make an invisiblity field. It is kinda cool but I really don't like using my power often.

"Why not"

"One, I don't know how much good it would do to just stall for time. But even worse, my parents will know if I have a field up."

"Oh yeah, thats right. You have to keep a hand open toward the object. But, can't you just like...I don't know, stand in front of them and keep your hand behind your back?" Mel sounds hopeful. I don't really blame her. We're gonna need a lot of hope to get through this alive. Or at least not sealed into our bedrooms for the next year.

"I could, but as soon as one of my parents see my hand that's the end of it. So I don't see the point in doing that at all." I really don't. Why not just get screamed at real quick then that be the end of it.

"Well," Ash says, interrupting Mel, "I kinda see where Mel's coming from. I mean if you keep them hidden for a couple of minutes, that may give us enough time to explain. You know, ease them into it instead of just throwing it at 'em." Wow, Ash doesn't normally say that much all at once. But he does kinda make sense.

"And," Mel adds, "We might be able to totally avoid our parents having a major meltdown at the same time!" Mel....ever the optimist.

"Always an optimist" I tease and Mel smiles. At least now we have a plan.

"So, now we have a plan and," I look at the timer on the mircowave beside me, "about 4 1/2 hours to kill. Lets all go for a fly, you know....relax" Ash and Mel nod and we walk back into the living room.

Max POV:

I watch everybody but the flock walk into the kitchen. Alright, I feel like being here has stunned me so much that I'm losing touch with my flock. Time to put the leader hat back on.

I stand and walk to the center of the room and stare down at everyone.

"Ok guys. This has been great and all but we have stuff to do and a world to save so we need to get out of here. Any suggestions?"

Nudge raises her hand.

"Yes Nudge"

"Umm...I thought that you broke the time machine so now we're stuck here?" Wow, Nudge must still be a little shocked. That was an awfully short sentance for her.

I sigh. "One, I didn't break anything. That girl Melanie broke it. Two, there is always more than one way to get out things. Sometimes you just have to search a little harder than other times. This just happens to be a harder search." I explained

Nudge nods. Angel opens her mouth next. Now what....

"You don't need to worry Max! Alex, Ash and Melanie just finished coming up with a plan and everything is going to be great!" Angel smiles, well, angelically and I feel my face turning into a scowl.

"I don't care what plan they come up with. We're not going through with it. This is all so..."

"Nice to see you have such faith in my planning Mom" I whirl around to see Alex smirking at me. Ash and Melanie are standing behind her.

I stare at her. How did I not hear her coming! This place is making my senses go numb....and I hate it.

"We just wanted to see if ya'll wanted to go for a fly. We own about 15 acres of land. It makes for a good place to stretch the wings." At that moment, Alex shook her shoulders a litte and a casade of pure black/purplish feathers fell around her. Like carbon copies of Fang's wings.

I glanced at everyone and they all look as if they were about to bust a gut. Well...I do enjoy a good fly. I nod and every pops off the couches and follows Melanie and Ash out into the kitchen. Alex stays behind to wait for Me and Fang.

"So," I start, curling my hand with Fang's, "What are we like in the future." If I have to meet my future self, why not quench the curiousity.

Alex gives a half smile and crosses her arms.

"Uh, Mom's really...well, my aunts and uncles say she's softened some since she had us, but she's basically like she was a teenager. Looks....she has like shoulder length blondish hair and light brown eyes, like Blade. I have her body shape but she's more curvy than I am. She's really pretty." Well, I don't sound too bad. What do they 'softened'? I'm not that bad right now, jeez.

"Dad's kinda like Mom's opposite, but they like mesh together right. Not really sure how. When I was little his hair was longer but he keeps it a little shorter than Ash's now. Well, acutally, if you just took Ash and turned the age dial up, you get Dad. So...yeah." She just settled on looking at us now.

"Um, my wings have been tucked in all day, so if you don't mind talking and flying at the same time...." she trailed off.

I shook my head and stood with Fang. "Uh, sure."

We walked into the kitchen and out through a sliding glass door that separated the dining room and kitchen. Stepping out a small patio gave way to green grass and tree filled land. I looked up to see a bunch of happy bird kids sailing through the air. My eyes automatically scanned and found my flock, who were happily flapping along with the others.

I took a moment to take in the beautiful wings of all our future kids. Melanie, Air and Alle's wings were all pretty similar except for a few differences here and there. Melanie's were a dead ringer for Iggy's and Air's were too, except for like odd blueish tips. Alle's even had light blue streaks running through the primarys, like a blue jay.

I put my hand up to shield my eyes and glanced over at my future kids. Skylar had white wings with what looked like tiny light brown speckles. Zach's started out black then faded to white at the tips, with different shades of brown and even red highlighted throughout. They looked exactly like a hawks (Fang probably likes that). Blade's suprised me a bit. They looked almost identical to mine. Just a little bigger. Ash and Alex had Fang's wings but Ash's were Huge! They had to be like 17 maybe 18 feet across. Dang, how did he keep those folded in so long? Even Alex's were a little bigger than Fang's, and his are about 14 feet. Man alive.

Alex fully extends her wings and jumps into the air, catching a drift and starts steadly rising. I let go of Fang's hand and snap out my own. I love my wings, they are just...amazing. I leap into the air and can feel Fang right behind me. We fly up to everyone else and begin to circle.

"Hey Max!" Nudge yells as she comes to fly to my left.

"Hey!" I yell back. I smile wide at her, the feeling of flying loosening my worries and nerves momentarily.

I stiffen a litte when a hand suddenly touches mine, when I notice it's just Fang. He is over top of me and reaching one hand down. He likes to do this a lot now. But...I don't really mind. I take his hand and he lowers himself even closer to me, our wings beating together. I can feel his breath on the back of my neck and I shiver. He chuckles.

"You okay?" he asks.

I look up. "Yeah, just fine" I feel a lot lighter up in the air like this.

Fang gives me one of those bright, makes-the-world-spin-and-my-heart-stop smiles and leans down to kiss my forehead. I close my eyes for a second and enjoy the feeling of his warm lips on my skin.

"Whoa Max, check them out!!!!" I hear Gazzy yell from beside me. I open my eyes and look over where he's pointing.

Alex and Asher are doing some kind of manuver and are flying one over the other. But then I see what has Gazzy so psyched up. Alex is flying over Ash UPSIDE DOWN! How is she doing that? I watch with interest as they do a barrel roll so now Ash is upside down. They then shoot up almost vertical and grab each other's hands from behind. They both flip over to face each other, hands still clasped, and tuck their wings in. They start rocketing toward the ground, doing a super fast spin. I feel my stomach in my throat for a split second as they come to the ground but thankfully they come apart maybe 5 freakin' feet from the ground and snap their wings back out. They flap back up to us. WHOA.

"Oh my gosh!! That was awesome! Where did you learn that! Can you teach me that!! How do you fly upside down?? Wouldn't you just fall over, like a rock? I don't know if I want to do that cause I would probably hit the ground and then...." Nudge stops when Gazzy plows into her and she loses about 20 feet of altitude. I guess she feels better now.

"Hey!" she says, coming back up.

"We learned it from our parents" Ash says. I haven't heard him talk to much. Must be like Fang.

"How cool!" Angel exclaims.

"Do ya'll know how to play feather tag??" Zach yells from half way across the circle.

"Yeah!" Nudge screams back and we begin playing games for the next like 3 hours. Finally it gets pretty dark and we all head back inside. All our faces are flushed and hair is tossed this way and that. But it was nice.

I shiver at bit but Fang comes up behind me and starts rubbing his rough hands up and down my arms. I smile and lean back into him. Everyone else is in the kitchen getting hot chocolate I think so we're alone. Fang leans his head down and places a chaste kiss on the side of my neck and I feel my insides melt. I grip his arms tight around me and stretch my head to the side to give him a litte more access.

I feel him smile against my neck. "Your cold" he says.

"I know that. And your warm. So warm me up"

He turns me to face him and I stand on my tip toes to kiss him. He grins and kisses me back quickly. I put my arms around his neck as his wrap around my waist. My fingers lock themselves in his dark hair. Fang strokes my back with his hands and sends tingles up and down my spine. I love it. His tongue suddenly pushes my bottom lip, asking for enterance and I willingly grant it. We battle for dominice but I end up letting him win. He massages my tongue gently and I feel a moan build up in my throat.

"Crap!" is suddenly yelled from the kitchen and Fang and I break apart abruptly, gasping slightly. I turn in his arms to see everyone piling into the living room. Alex is telling everyone to stay calm and act normal while guiding Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel over by me and Fang.

"What's going on?" I ask, a pinch of panic entering my voice.

Alex turns to me. "They're here. Showtime guys!"

Everyone else scatters around the room, finding something to do and the flock stands next to me and Fang.

"Ok, I'm gonna put an invisibilty field around you, so you'll be able to see each other, but no one else but me and Ash will be able to see you. I'll also have some mind blocks up so Aunt Angel won't be able to read your minds. You'll have to stay quiet though, because my field doesn't block out sound." Alex explains hastily.

"Why are you doing this?" I ask seriously, gauging the dangers that could be invovled.

Alex just groans. "Were losing time so here's the short version. Me and Mel are going to try and explain a little before we do introductions so hopefully we'll avoid any meltdowns this may cause. I'm hoping that explaining some will help prepare them a bit. But, we're about to see how well that works."

Just then Alex spun around and opened her hand. She kept her hand tightly open behind her back, and looking around, me and the whole flock had like a blueish glow around us. But no one else did. This must be the field.

Then the doorknob started turning.

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