Hey fan people!
I have missed typing and reviews so much this week and am so sorry I couldn't post sooner. (I blame school) but anyway, you all were so awesome with the reviews. Every single one of them made my day.
I Had a second stupid writers block so I had to skip the second half of the date, but I can tell you that nothing really all that interesting happened during it, They pretty much just ate and went home.
Okay so here is a recap of what has happened, kind of incase you are confused, Kale and Nudge went on their date last night, and are now inseparable, Fang is friends and trusts, Aaron and Mark (As people who aren't going to kill him) The flock and their three new companions are going to find John, Mark's best friend, and are about to leave Fang's mom's house.
Also MARK AND MERRIC are the SAME PERSON
Just FYI
Dark Night comes out soon; I can't wait to get it. (It may already be out but I have to wait till Christmas, not that you care, I just thought I would let you know.)
And. Here We. Go.
Chapter 20
(Fang Pov.)
I picked up my backpack and slung it over my shoulder. Kale and Nudge had gone out last night and now they were suddenly inseparable, within boundaries but inseparable. Max and I, well we were more or less the same, but there were small changes, like the way she looked at me, and the way she talked to me. We were leaving today, I still have no idea how Aaron and Kale are getting away with it, but we are all leaving.
"Matt, be careful, I love you." My mom said hugging me.
I really am not big on the whole hug thing, unless I'm hugging Max. You can't avoid hugging your mom though so I hugged her back. "I will Mom, Thanks for everything I love you too." I said as she handed me a new box of fudge.
The corners of my mouth twitched upward and Max grinned, "That's his version of a smile." She explained to my mom.
My mom's lips twitched upward too, "I know. It was good to see you again Max, Iggy, Nudge, Angel, Gasman, you are welcome here anytime."
Max nodded and turned, "Let's go guys; this world sadly refuses to save its self."
"Nice one Max." I smirked as we left. She punched me softly and hit me with a wing as she spread them.
I naturally hit her back, only to be slapped even harder when we were in the air. I decided to let it slide for now. "So what about food?" Iggy interrupted our playful banter.
Angel decided to comment on this thought saying, "Fang, that was not playful banter! You were flirting, in your own Fang and Max-like ways."
I watched Max's cheeks turn pink; Wait could Max be flirting with me? Did Max know how to flirt?"
"Yep, sure she does. Well with you anyways,"
"Okay, enough insight from the mind reader." Max said laughing what I took as nervously, "Iggy did you ask about food? Mark said he would take care of it. Then Kale said Mark knew what he was doing and was trustworthy."
"Why do we trust them so easily? Couldn't they be bad?" I asked the thought having just occurred to me.
"Kale isn't doesn't know where he came from, and Aaron has a whole history. Not only that but her mind works a lot like yours and she wouldn't put Mark in danger for anything. Mark has real memories of Hex, so that can't be a lie. Ashton is CIA but he has no idea about mark or Kale so they aren't going to tell him about us. And the voice told Max to trust them." Angel answered.
Max spun around so she was flying backwards, a feat I am still unsure how she accomplishes, to stare at Angel. "Ashton is CIA? And you thought you would wait till just now to tell us this?"
Angel shrugged, "You would have freaked out and we would have left too soon if I had."
That girl was growing up so fast, She wasn't six anymore. Max looked down, "This is where we meet them." She said. Max then flipped herself into a dive and I followed suit dreading the pain that would come from pulling my wings out at the last second but not willing to be outdone by Max. Soon I could see the three lone figures in a small clearing. Max pulled her wings out just before she passed the trees. She grimaced from the pain and I did the same-well I wasn't grimacing but she could see the slight pain in my eyes.
She smirked, "You knew it would hurt, so why did you do it?" she asked as I shook my wings out then let them hang limp.
I smirked back, "I'm not going to be out done by you just because you're my girlfriend."
"Fang! Don't call me that! If the flock finds out I swear I will kill you!" She hissed.
I held my hands up in a gesture of peace, ignoring Kale Aaron and Mark who, Max hadn't noticed, were watching us intently. "Nudge and Angel already know, and Angel most likely told Gasman, which ensures that Iggy knows."
"How does Nudge know?" Max demanded angrily as I wondered what was taking the flock so long.
I rolled my eyes, "She had to help me trick you, I had to tell her." I said
The flock landed then. Nudge ran directly to Kale and hugged him, rambling on and on about how she missed him. It had taken ten minutes to get here, and she had just seen him this morning. She was a hopeless romantic and it was kind of sad. I turned to Max, "We won't ever be like that." I assured her.
She nodded, "Never." She grabbed my hand though, and I couldn't help the small grin that spread across my face. I was completely surprised; I figured that the other night would have been claimed as a moment of weakness and that Max would pretend nothing had happened. She noticed my surprise and shrugged, "Well if they all already know there is no point in hiding it."
Mark stood up and walked over with Aaron by his side. "Well Fang, it looks like you did pretty well for yourself." Mark and I had struck up a friendship when Kale and Nudge had gone out last night. He was quiet and took most things way too seriously but was somehow able to still recognize a good joke when he saw one.
"Well you seem to have a pretty good looking girl yourself." I replied.
Mark smiled flashing his lethal K-9s. It was amazing to me how he could hide them so easily. "She's the best, but you seem to have all the girls gunning for you, have you seen your blog lately? Aaron says you have a whole fan club of girls who want to go out with you and they haven't even met you."
Max growled, but it wasn't animalistic like when Mark growls. I could imagine it being animal-like though, it was very close.
Aaron held up her hands, pulling one of Mark's up with them. "I never said he responded to them, just that there was a fan club. They are all idiots, they don't even know him. None of them would like him if they actually met him. He likes fire arms and you, and a girl who can stand up for herself." She stated. Wow, that was harsh in my opinion, but that was what I liked, Max, firearms and Max.
"She is right, I do like you." I said knowingly. Max laughed. What? I can be funny when I want to be.
"Only girls like you and me like guys like Fang. And I've already got a man. I don't want yours." She said leaning into Mark.
"Fang is way more of a man than Mark." Max said leaning into me. I decided I liked where this was going, If Aaron pushed things anymore, Max would end up kissing me, just to prove a point.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night?" Aaron said.
Max shrugged, "So where are we going, and how are we going to get there? I assume you and your," she made air quotes, "Man, can't fly."
Mark grinned, "no, but I can run."
"Oh, really?" Max asked her eyes wide in mock surprise, "So can I."
Mark rolled his eyes, "I can run fast."
Max dropped my hand and crossed her arms over her chest, "How fast?"
Mark shrugged, "thirty-five. Not as fast as you can fly, but still fast."
Max nodded, "What about you?" She said, looking at Aaron.
Aaron grinned, "I'll catch a ride, you all are flying and Mark and I are running."
"Kale knows where we are going just follow him." Mark added.
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Flying at thirty five miles an hour, is extremely slow. We ended up circling a lot and stopping to walk so Mark and Aaron could get ahead.
We were now setting up camp in a national forest in North Dakota. Mark had disappeared to go get food, with two wolves that he had introduced to us as Callie and Lincon, to go find food. Aaron was talking to Max, and Kale was sitting beside Nudge listening to her ramble. Angel, Gazzy, and Iggy were plotting something beside the fire.
I was sitting by my self just thinking. I felt bad for Angel because she had lost her partner in crime, Nudge. Not that it seemed to bother her but it would.
(AUTHOR NOTE: if you're a vegetarian you might want to skip this part, it is kind of nasty. But very important at the same time, the choice is up to you)
"I hope you like deer guys." Mark said as he dragged a deer carcass over by the fire. Nudge ewed, and Gasman ran over with Iggy to look at it. I stood up to help him the animals neck was completely gone and one of the legs was missing. "Hey Fang, Can you help me with this?" Mark asked. I hopped up and complied.
"How did you catch a deer?" I asked as I picked up the remaining back leg.
Mark grinned, "We caught two."
"His instincts allow him to hunt like a wolf, and with Lincon and Callie flanking him it is easy for Merric to Pounce and rip its throat out. Don't let him cook it though. He will burn it." Aaron answered. Now that she mentioned it I could see the blood stains on his shirt.
"Why are you calling him Merric now? You always called him Mark before we left." Max asked as Mark and I dragged the carcass over by the fire.
Aaron shrugged, "That's who he is and he acts more like himself out here."
Merric, who is actually Mark, quickly stepped back from the fire. "I can try to find another one that probably won't be enough for all eight of you." He said.
"You said you already caught two, and who isn't eating?" Max asked.
"I already ate, I'm a… nasty eater, and it would probably cause Nudge and Angel to get sick." Mark said shrugging.
"We can eat this first if that isn't enough then you can go hunting." Kale said looking up from his conversation with Nudge.
Mark nodded and pulled out a knife to skin the deer with. I did too. "So ho do you know how to skin and clean a deer but not how to cook one?" I asked.
"John couldn't eat raw meat. So he taught me how to skin them so he wouldn't have to do it alone."
"Who is John exactly?" I asked.
"He is my best friend the only family I have left. He's family like the flock, we aren't related, but we are brothers in spirit is suppose you could say. He saved my life, we had to split up when we found out Hex was looking for us though." Mark said.
"Hey Iggy, come get this meat started." I called as I finished cleaning it.
(End of animal "cruelty")
"So, you finally got Max." Merric started,
I sighed, "Yep, I'm not sure why she was okay with it now. She wasn't last time I tried."
Merric grinned, "That was two years ago, she's had a while to come to terms with it. You did way better than I did, by the way."
I gave him a critical look, "She ran away."
Mark shook his head, "I didn't kiss her the first time. I licked her. You didn't' lick her did you?"
"Seriously? Why did you lick her."
Mark shrugged, "It was an impulse, I just kind of did it, I didn't even realize I was doing it until afterwards."
"So you just met this girl and licked her for no reason?"
"No that was a year after he met her, it wasn't quite random." Kale said looking up from his conversation with Nudge. "Hey Aaron tell him about how you met him."
"Why can't he tell it?" Aaron asked crossing her arms over her chest.
"You tell it better." Merric said
Aaron thought about it for a minuet, "Weren't we trying to kill each other?"
"No you were trying to kill me and I was trying not to kill you." Merric said.
"Oh yeah, you were stocking me."
"I was not! I saw you beat up Jimmy Banst and was curious about you."
"So you followed me home, STALKING!"
"Whatever just tell the story."
*Flash Back of the story Aaron is currently telling so I don't have to do it all in Quotes*
(Third Person)
"Hey beauty why don't you go out with me tonight?"
Aaron rolled her eyes, what was with the losers today. "Don't call me beauty. And No." She said with an edge of steal.
"Oh come on honey give me a kiss." Jimmy said puckering his lips.
Aaron stepped back as he leaned forward, worried about the odds of winning. She decided it would be worth it so she sidestepped and brought her elbow down on the jock's back. What were they going to do, suspend her for self defense? She reasoned as she spun around with her fists up ready for action.
"Stupid ****!" the jerk yelled.
Aaron sighed, these were really bad odds. "Hey, watch the language Banst." She snarled swinging a lower jab to his gut. "I don't want the elementary school kids repeating stuff like that. AND DO NOT CALL ME HONEY."
Banst was doubled over, but he looked up surprised.
This not being the first time she had fought a boy she answered, "What, just because I'm a girl you think I don't know how to fight fair?"
Banst charged her, Aaron sidestepped again this time bringing her fist into his head. "Crap"
The jock collapsed. Aaron dropped down and checked his pulse then looked up at the fifth graders that had now surrounded her, "He's fine, just passed out; he'll be fine."
Mrs. Fields made her way to the center of the children and gasped.
Aaron looked up, "I didn't mean to knock him out, but he was sexually harassing me." She said. "It was self defense."
"Regardless you should have told an adult, and let them handle it." Mrs. Fields said.
Aaron resisted the urge to roll her eyes, why couldn't they under stand that a little talk was not going to stop something like that. She was fourteen and could take care of her self.
"Detention, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday."
"Yes mam.(Sorry, couldn't figure out how to spell it)" Aaron stood up and turned to walk home. She was half way home when she noticed the green movement following her. She sighed, hadn't these boys had enough for one day? "Hey show yourself. I know your there." She said turning to the trees that lined the street.
Very slowly, a boy, about her age, dressed in a ratty green shirt and torn blue jeans stepped out of the trees. He looked, weary, maybe even afraid.
"Are you stalking me?" Aaron demanded.
"No, I just wanted to see who you were." He said.
"So you're stalking me."
"no, just following." He said quietly stepping forward.
Aaron spun into a round house kick, hitting the boy square in the chest.
The boy automatically fought back, punching her in the face. Aaron grinned; she hadn't had a real challenge in a long time. She fought back for some time. They were well matched, and neither could seem to get the upper hand. Until she kicked him into a tree, that is. The boy howled in pain, holding a now bloody arm.
Aaron sighed, weather he was a stalker or not she couldn't just leave him there. She walked over and reached for his arm.
The boy pulled his arm closer to himself, his eyes filled with fear. "Look I want to help I'm not going to hurt you I promise. Just let me take you to a hospital or something."
"No! No hospital. I can't go to a hospital." The boy said franticly
Aaron rolled her eyes, "you're bleeding out you need to get medical attention."
The boy shook his head doggedly.
"Then let me take you to my house I can stop the bleeding and do half way decent stitches." She said desperately, as the blood began to pool on the ground.
"Fine." The boy whispered.
He was weak from loss of blood, and passed out before they got to her house. Aaron dropped down beside him and picked him up. She quickly carried him to the house. Thanking Ashton every step of the way for allowing her to work out in the home gym in the basement. She dropped the boy on the couch and grabbed an emergency kit from underneath it. She quickly cleaned and stitched the wound as best she could. Then she bandaged it up and prayed that the bleeding would stop.
She picked up her cell phone and dialed, "Kale?...Aaron. Are you still at the hospital?"
"Yes, but I'm on my way back now wha-"
Stay there; I need you to get me some blood."
She found a blood test, and filled it out, thankful that Ashton kept that kind of stuff around the house.
"I need you to get three bags of A positive, stat. there is a boy bleeding out on the couch."
Five minutes later Kale limped through the door with a bag of blood and a needle. "I got a whole medical thing in the car."
As he bent down and expertly administered the blood, Aaron asked, "You don't have a licenses and you were driving?"
Kale shrugged, "Sounded like an emergency. Go get it."
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*End of flash back*
(Fang Pov.)
"He woke up later and was fine, our friendship started from there." Aaron finished. Then she turned back to Max and resumed whatever their conversation had been about before she told us how she met Mark.
Well, that was a very long chapter in my opinion.
I hope you liked it, I have the next one typed up and will post it once I get to 170 total reviews.
It is shorter than this one but still really good (Then again I am biased)
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God bless you, and have a merry Christmas.
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