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Okay, some people are all i love breeze! And some are all breeze sucks! But, i ma keeping it as that. Sorry if it offends you, but its only a name.

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Chapter 21

I was going to kill Fang.

I had woken up early to feed my baby, and while I was, I had noticed Fang's laptop lying next to him, still on. Being the curious soul that I am, I opened it to find his latest blog. In which he had changed my baby's name. To Breeze.

So here I was. I put the laptop down and held onto my baby tighter as I sent Fang my glare while he slept. I glared harder as he stirred, subconsciously feeling my gaze. He pried his eyes open and blinked a few times before focusing on me and the baby in my arms.

He started to smile, but stopped when he saw my expression.

"Wha-?" I pointed to the laptop and he stopped. "Ah."

"Yes, Fang." I was practically hissing. "Ah. You only went and changed my baby's name on a stupid blog!!!!!. You should have talked to me!" I glared at him again.

"I was just sat there , and it came to me, and she really seemed to like it, and it suits her." He stared me down. "She's my daughter too."

I resolve wavered slightly. I actually liked the name Breeze much better than Skye, but I wasn't going to tell him that. He must have seen it in my eyes because he started to smirk. Then I had a brainwave, and my smirk soon beat his.

He looked slightly wary as I began to speak. "Okay, she can be named Breeze. But you owe me. Big time."I know, you're probably thinking, what's so bad about that? But you weren't there the last time he owed me, when we were twelve. I saw him pale slightly as he remembered.

The rest of the Flock had woken up by now, and were watching us. "Breeze? Sound's like the kinda name you'd give a dog." Iggy said, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. I punched him hard on the arm as I got up to take a sandwich out of my backpack.

"Hello? Maximum? Fang? Iggy? Nudge? Phoenix? Angel? The gasman? Do they seem like your average name to you?"

"Well, you named yourself." I punched him again, before straitening up.

"Right guys," I began, munching on my breakfast. Tuna, yum. "We need to get going. I have to defeat Itex before they get a chance to take Sk- Breeze away from us."

"Cool." Iggy stood up and walked over to the food bag before taking out an apple.

Angel walked up to me and signalled for me to bend down so she could see Breeze better. I did so as she said "How are we going to find Itex, Max?" She looked up at me, her blue eyes wide and trusting.

Yeah, Voice. How are we going to find Itex? Guess what. No answer. Shocker.

Grumbling, I hurried to think of a plan. "We'll go to the nearest town and find a, uh, library. That should have computers, and we'll search for any recent documents on Itex and such." Everyone started gathering our supplies, and we leaped into the air one by one, me at the front and holding Breeze.

We flew North-North-West for about a half hour until we found a large town. We landed in a small bunch of tree's and pulled our wings in before heading to the centre.

"Right." We were stood in some kind of market place, with masses of people flocking (flocking . . . geddit?) around us. "We need to find a library. Can anyone see one? Or any maps or something . . ." I trailed of, looking around curiously. No-one replied, so I set of down a promising looking street with my head held high.

Breeze looked up at me, her small face wearing a tiny smile. I Looked into her eyes and noticed they were changing slightly. Instead of the deep blue they had been, they were now even darker, and had a hint of brown in them. I reached down next to me and grabbed Fang's hand as we walked along the street.

Before Fang had left, I would never have held his hand or anything where people could see us. But, since I had found him again, and had his baby, I had relaxed a little bit.

I heard Gazzy whispering to Iggy, probably telling him we were holding hands, due to the retching noises he immediately made. Angel was walking behind me, looking at all the shops we passed with wide eyes, a smile on her face. Nudge was basking in the sun, her curly hair shining in the sunlight (curly hair shining in the sunlight? I'm so bonkers) as she looked into the windows of cloths shops longingly. I looked down at my own clothes. They were actually kind of gross really, and my top was majorly stretched and baggy. I made a mental note to buy us some more clothes while we were here.

Phoenix was walking with Gazzy and Iggy, joining in with their conversation. I was glad he wasn't on his own again. He was about a half foot shorter than Iggy, a tiny bit shorter than me. I suddenly wondered how old he was.

"Phoenix, do you know how old you are? I mean, we don't know our actual birthdays or anything, but we think we know how old we are in general. I had slowed to a stop, and now we were all stood in a huddle, looking at Phoenix expectantly.

"Uh, I remember this one time, the whitecoats were talking about me. They were saying something about when I was born, I think it was the 30th of April or something. So that means I'm thirteen, fourteen soon. How old are you?" He blushed as soon as he asked this, as if he hadn't meant to in the first place.

Nudge answered first, obviously. "I'm twelve now, more or less. I mean, we had a sort of birthday before Fang left, but it wasn't like our real birthdays. So now Angel is seven, Gazzy is nine, and Iggy, Fang and Max are fifteen. Oh, and Dylan too."

"Who's Dylan?" Phoenix asked, looking curious. I answered quickly before anyone else could.

"It doesn't matter." He looked confused, but he didn't ask anything more. I didn't want to bring up the subject of Dylan. I had sent him away with Jeb, but since he had turned traitor, I had no idea of where he was. I guess I sort of hoped he'd escaped somehow.

"Look, Max, there's a library." I turned to see Angel pointing at a huge building a few hundred feet away.

***

Okay. So, basically, Itex had sort of shut down since me, Nudge and Angel had blown up the German one, but after exhausting the poor computer we had paid $4 to use for an hour, we had found where the final branch of Itex was.

Arizona.

Yep, you heard me. The one place I needed to find had practically been under my nose for months. I was fuming. I was surprised there wasn't steam pouring out of my ears.

But nooo, that wasn't it.

Nudge had used her hacking skills to access some secret files on the Itex database, and it had pages of information on its most successful experiment and the follow-ups. Yep, me and the Flock.

And in a teensy little footnote at the bottom, in red writing, was 'Find and destroy first batch. Take new mutant for genetic testing. Dead or alive.'

And you wanna know what it said under that, even?

Written by Jeb Batchelder.

That ass.