Chapter 35
Anya Eden
Even though I have been away from my sister for over a year, I can still tell when she is lying. It also didn't help her that I could see the same boy that I saw heading to her house last night now in the reflection of the sunglasses she had worn on her head.
I'll just follow you, I think as I quietly jump from tree to tree behind them, her flying and him running.
What could this be about, and who the heck is he? My eyes catch the tail that's swinging around behind him, he's a monkey, just like Ziddy…I wonder if they know each other…
"What is this place?" Phantina asks as they stop just outside a small cave; I stay crouched in the tree as I listen closely to their words.
"This is my hideout." He grins a grin that creeps me out, "I know it's not as big or as nice as your house but I think I've done pretty well!"
"No, I like it…It's cozy and nice," my sister says too easily, "So why bring me here?" She cocks her head in the way she used to when she questioned my master plans from childhood.
The man actually reaches his hand towards my sister and ruffles her hair in an intimate way, as if they had been friends forever, maybe something more, "You're cute when you do that…Anyway, look at what I found in the lab…!" He turns Phan towards a wall, "I believe she's experimented on both of us, isn't that right?" I hear soft sobbing. "I said, isn't that right!?"
To my shock, Phantina actually smiles at the sobbing coming from inside the cave, "We're going to get information out of her."
"And like she'd do to us…" he spoke, but then my sister's voice joins his, "We'll dispose of her."
My sister walks further into the cave and bends over slightly, "'and you, experiment #32075 are going to be my new little project'." The words strike true in my heart, I know who said them so many moons ago; I know who they have in there.
My suspicions are confirmed when I hear her panicked voice, "Y-You can't get any answers out of me! Y-you're just an experiment!" The infamous Doctor Vanpiercim, the bane of my past and my captor from yesterday….ugh, this woman seems to always find a way to cross my path. She's so sickening… I shake my head back and forth and quietly swear under my breath about the doctor.
Phantina lets out a shrill laugh that echoes through the forest, "Oh but I can, because a perk of being an experiment is discovering you can do things a human can't. I want answers and you're going to give them to me now…"
Let them do what they want with her, I am tired of that woman. I don't even know how the flock successfully got me out of there, I was knocked out shortly after I took my shower. I jump out of the tree and unfurl my wings. My right wing brushes up against a tree and a few of my maroon feathers fall off, but I don't care if they knew I was there, they don't have to worry about me stopping them, torture the wench.
I fly a few miles away and land, wanting to try out my power that I haven't used in a long time Come to think of it, I haven't seen my hawk in a long time.
Hawkeye! Come to me! I shout with my mind and wait a few moments, nothing happens so I try again, Hawkeye! I need you! Still nothing. "Anyone!" I call out, sending a few woodland creatures running.
I'm sorry, can you guys hear me? Can you understand me? I let my mind reach out but it feels like it hit a wall that has never been there before.
Silence echoes all around me, causing the realization to sink in, I can't talk to animals anymore.
You called? A voice enters my mind as Hawkeye lands next to me.
"I thought I couldn't speak to animals anymore?" I say, surprised.
Normal animals you can't, but I am not normal so you are stuck with me for now, he replies, so why did you call for me?
"I just haven't heard from you in a while and I just wanted some advice as well," I pause and look into his black eyes, "about powers."
What kind of powers? he says after a few moments of thinking.
"Well, powers like the ones that the flock and I have," I say, hoping he knows about the other powers.
Ah, you mean Bond Powers…I know little of them so you will have to find more about them on your own…I suggest a place over in Asia to have the answers for this sort of thing, this involving the soul of course.
"Asia? I've never been out of the country before," I flail, "I don't even have a passport!"
Anya, he tries to sound patient, you have wings. You can just fly out of the country.
"Duh!" I smack my forehead, "When should I go?"
Now would be a good time, but make sure you rest up before you make the trip, you will need all your strength to cross the ocean.
I sit in the living room quietly while my mind ponders the words "Bond Power", what could they mean? I go on for a while in my mind, trying to make sense of those two simple words.
"A-anya?" Phan says from across the room, worry written on her face, though I am not sure that my silence is what caused her worry.
"Yes?" She snaps me out of it.
"Would you like some tea, or maybe some hot chocolate?" she asks, composing her face when my eyes catch hers.
"Yes, green tea would be nice." I nod and add a smile for extra measure, I can't have her thinking I am trying to stop them if she saw my feathers where they landed.
"S-sure." She walks to the kitchen and Blaze comes out of the boys' room to sit next to me on the couch.
"So, how are you?" Blaze nudges my side with a wicked grin on his face.
"More importantly, what do you want?" I look at him cautiously.
"Oh….nothing..." He leans over and whispers in my ear.
"You pervert!" I slap his face and head towards my room, forgetting about the green tea my sister is preparing for me.
I throw myself on the bed and lay there, trying to fall asleep when my sister knocks on the door.
"Anya?" she says.
"Come on in Phan." I smile even though she can't see it.
"Did I hear a slapping noise?" she laughs, "Blaze's ego is hurt."
"Yeah, I had to knock some sense into that little brain of his." I laugh with her, though I feel bad for Blaze and his overactive libido.
We talk for a few minutes, remembering old time and laughing about them, until I accidentally let out a yawn and she thinks I need to sleep.
"Oh, you need to sleep, I am sorry for keeping you up for so long." She smiles at me and takes away the tea cup and heads towards the door, but before she leaves, she turns to me, "this was nice."
"I liked it too; we should talk more often like this. It just seems like so many new people have been entering our lives and distancing us. We can't let that happen, our bond needs to be re-established again." Something in my core tells me that our bond is more important than I'll ever know.
Confusion crosses her face but clears up and is replaced with genuine interest, "We will work on restoring that bond, I assure you." She smiles sweetly.
I toss and turn in my bed, but sleep just won't wrap me in its sweet arms around me and take me to the realm of dreams.
Something picks my head up gently and slides under me and rests on my pillow, I start to panic and fling the covers off of me.
"Shhh!" a voice calls to me from the dark.
"Who is it?" I ask, but my question is answered when lips join with mine in a passionate way.
"Need me to tell you now?" Shadow says softly, a little out of breath.
"All I have to say is that you better not be Blaze," I laugh quietly and rejoin our lips.
"No, I am not the Fire Ball, come to defile you." He laughs.
"Oh, thank goodness, I was worried," I reply.
"You don't have to worry about a thing," he chuckles.
"Oh, I won't worry, I will just be cautious around Blaze." I play with his hair.
"Yes, we need to get that kid a leash, I swear I am going to choke him out one of these days." He takes my hair into his hand and twiddles it.
"Don't hurt him," I say, feeling guilty for slapping him, "but he did kind of deserve it…"
"What did he deserve?" Shadow gets under the covers and pulls it up around me, noticing that I had started shivering.
"Well, he whispered some pretty perverted things in my ear, so I slapped him," I sigh.
"Well, he did deserve it then, he can't just get away with acting that way, it's not right," Shadow says matter-of-factly.
"Yeah, he can't just act like a male dog looking for a female in heat; he needs to control the animal side of himself," I agree with Shadow.
"You should really get some sleep now, you look very tired." He pats my head in a comforting way.
I nod and cuddle up next to him.
The dream I had this night resembles those of other nights, where my head is removed from my body while the silent-up-until-that-point Ice Queen was wailing, the Fire King only slightly amused, a wicked smile pulls at the corners of his mouth. Shadow and Night, who were standing by their sides, raced over to me while the axe was being drawn back, but they were too late and the horror shows on their face. Blaze, in his cage, hides himself by turning around and chanting "this isn't real, this can't be real." I see Ziddy has now entered the dream and is bouncing around frantically trying to hold Shadow and Night back, but Night slaps him with such force it sends him flying into a wall, knocking him out. I am watching from above as the dream progresses past the point it had stopped the other night. My head detached from my body brings up mixed emotions, I feel awful that I couldn't reach out to the Ice Queen to stop her power-hungry obsession, I feel regret that I hadn't told the flock that I love them enough, and I feel calm about death, as if it didn't really change anything, like at this point in my life that the dream portrays, I am already dead on the inside.
"What does this mean?" I sit straight up in bed, the morning light already seeping through the windows. Shadow isn't in the room, but that's okay because I'd rather be alone right now.
I quickly dress into my day clothes and open the blinds of my bedroom, letting the sunshine fill my room completely. Okay, I am going to make the trip today, but I will leave a note letting them know that I will come back, I am not running away. I quickly grab a pen and a piece of paper to scrawl down my explanation for my absence.
Okay, I know we all hate to find the notes, but this is a good note, I assure you. I am going to do some research and I will be back in a few days, so please do not think I am leaving forever, and no that wasn't an insult to anyone I know. I spoke with Hawkeye about some things, things that I believe can help me, help us, internally. I don't want to talk about it now, only because if I happen to be wrong, I don't want to get our hopes up for nothing. Also, here's a little random thought, if we all got cellphones, we wouldn't have to deal with all these notes! But, I don't have that kind of money so oh well, this will have to work…why am I rambling? Anyways, by the time you read this, I'll be out of the country so just hang tight till I get back!
Love,
Anya E.
I leave the note on the fridge with a magnet, knowing that Night would probably find it, his appetite picking back up and all. So I pack a few essential items in my back pack and I decide I will go to South Korea, they may know a thing or two about things dealing with the soul.
It takes a day or two to actually reach South Korea, but that is only because the dream I had still left me weary and it really did drain from my energy so I stopped in countries that I didn't even recognize just to take a nap. Well, I made it to South Korea and decided to land and tuck my wings in, then I walked around with the general population.
Wow, I think as I walk amongst the commoners, so many pretty faces, I wonder how I look to them, I mean, I really don't know what nationality I am, due to being from a lab, but I don't look Asian, aside from my smooth skin…I do have the big eyes that they try to obtain…and I look cute with bows in my hair…what am I going to do if one of them tries to speak to me? I keep walking until I crash into a hard wall.
"Excuse me," someone bows and continues walking.
Did they just speak English? I continue to stroll down the street.
"Hey, give that back!" some young voice screams in the distance.
"Whatever, cry all you want, but it's mine," a slightly older voice shouts back.
"Oh, this would be cute on me, don't you think?" a female voice carries from a store.
"Please don't hang up!" a hurried young man rushes by me, "I can explain!"
"Excuse me!" are the words I try to say to the person next to me, but the words that leave my mouth sound foreign to me.
"Yes?" The girl looks at me, confused, "Are you lost?"
"Um, no," the words feel weird on my tongue, "well, yes actually…is there some place here," I don't know the name of the city I am in, "that I can find a place that deals with the soul, inner things like internal powers?" I feel stupid asking a stranger but she cheerfully answers.
"Oh, the best place that Seoul has for that sort of thing is actually really close, it is over there." She smiles, points, then bows and continues on her way.
"Thank you!" I smile as the Korean words roll off of my tongue easily.
This is very odd, I have no idea how to speak Korean, but here I am speaking it fluently…could this be a new power, a 'Bond Power' perhaps? I try not to get excited as I head towards the shrine she pointed at.
There is a woman at the front desk of the main room, so I figure she is in the best place to start.
"Excuse me?" I ask when I get closer.
"Oh, welcome to Seoul's public library, how may I help you?" she smiles warmly at me as she stands up.
"I need some books on the soul," I pause thinking if I need to add anything, "books that tell about inner properties, like internal powers." I add a bow for extra measure.
She leads me to a room and motions to the wall that's filled with a bunch of books with binders that I should not be able to read, but I can.
"Please don't take too long, we are going to close soon." She bows and leaves the room.
I slightly bow back and begin my research into these books that seem incomprehensible, but as I read more from them, I find some answers to my problem, but the time slips away and closing time arrives so, with a guilty conscience, I put a few of the books into my bag and I slip out of there.
So, I think once I am in the sky, if I understand this right, the bonds we make in life can give us powers if we aren't normal. So if I lose a bond, I lose the power that the bond gave me, my mind immediately thinks about the loss in ability to speak to animals, since I lost that bond with Phantina, I lost that power…. Now I can speak Korean, and maybe other languages due to my bond with Shadow? So it seems as if each bond gives a different power, and if that bond is broken, the power is lost…the books also mentioned that the bonds had to be made with sincerity, not falseness. The books said that if these powers are used for good, many good things will come to those with the bond…but it didn't say much about the evil ones that use these Bond Powers, it only says that it could fuel the destruction of the world.
"Hmm," I say as I make my journey back to the states, "I have to talk to Shadow about this, he may have some ideas."
Questions and Answers With the Flock 2: This time with main and side characters!
Q: How has the past year changed your life?
A: Night: "I think it's been weird, I lost a part of myself when Phan left that I haven't been able to gain back though I think I learned a lot of new things as well."
Phan: "I think it's been an adventure! Though I'm glad to have the flock back!" Phantina smiles at Night
Jaisa: "Well once Asiaj was put under control, I felt terribly guilty. I don't know how much longer I can go on knowing what I did."
Anya: "Different…I have missed Phantina terribly, but I also got to get closer to the rest of the flock. Shadow and I have progressed in our…relationship I guess you can call it and Blaze has grown so big!"
Blaze: "Yeah, I know right, Anya?" Blaze raises his eyebrows at Anya, to which she returns a glare, "but anyways, yeah, I feel that the past year has left so many opportunities for us to take. I have changed from who I used to be."
Shadow: Shadow scoffs "Whatever, Blaze, you are still the same pervert you have always been, I mean have you read the past few chapters? You dirty freak. And yes, Anya and I have advanced from just holding hands," Shadow does the ASL symbol for 'Thank God', "and Phantina is back, her leaving really tore my brother up, so I am glad the pig is eating again.
Night: "What. Did. You. Just. Say!?" Night hits the interview table.
Shadow: "Just shut up and eat your Doritos, and might I add that they were for everyone." Shadow waves his hand towards the bag.
Night begins eating again.
Q: How do you guys feel about the new characters added to Flight of Destiny?
A: Anya: "Let's see, Ziddy is fine, just still new so I gotta keep an eye on him. Jade is like just…ugh, like I think she would scalp someone if they did her wrong. Farris….pervert, but I know how to handle those do to the freaking Fire Ball sitting to my left." Blaze elbows Anya to which she raises a fist and he shies away, "Anton seems to be the same mutant as Ziddy, so I wonder if they knew each other in the past, though Ziddy never speaks of him. To be honest, Anton seems like an arrogant man who thinks he can have anything at the flick of his finger."
Shadow: "Don't like Ziddy, Don't like Jade or Farries. I do not like Anton. And I cannot stand this Han Joon Soo guy that Anya keeps mumbling in her sleep about! I just can't! I don't like anyone other than the originals. Can't stand them. I still don't know if I like Blaze, and he's been with Night and I before the girls." Shadow brushes something from his shirt and off of his pants.
Blaze: "What the h*ll?! I thought we were bros! Jerk off! I think Ziddy is a cool person, though I still don't like how he messes with my cereal in the morning. He pours salt in them before I eat the food. That guy needs to stop monkeying around. I don't like how Anton tongued Phantina, I want to tongue her myself.
Night: grunts angrily and crosses the room, " I don't like that Anton kid! He kissed Phan! I tell you, lemme at him!"
Anton: Anton reels back, "and you think I am happy about this, Night!?" he hisses at Night, "Phan can't concentrate because of him!" this causes Night to grin smugly.
Jaisa: "Well I haven't really met anyone formally, but Ziddy seems nice."
Phantina: "I like everyone new, as the phrase goes 'the more the merrier!' though I think Anton and Night are over exaggerating. And I have my own thoughts about Ziddy."
Q: For Anton and Ziddy: Where were you before meeting the flock, what brought you to them, and how do you feel about them?
A: Ziddy: "I can't really say, though I did reveal that I meet some rather un-enjoyable mutants on the way, one would not shut up, and the other was a brat. The leader obviously didn't know what she was doing and the quiet one was a cliché. I met this flock on the beach, though I like Anya the best, I feel Blaze and I can become good friends. Shadow hates me, and Night is indifferent I guess."
Anton: "Well I think I went over what I was doing before in the story, but I saw them all fly overhead one day and became enthralled. I sensed something about Phan, I like her the best. The rest of them are tolerable." He pauses to scratch his temple, "Oh and Ziddy, I like him, but only because we are blood…though I don't believe he trusts me." he grins evilly at Ziddy
Ziddy: "Stop being so full of yourself. I know you well brother, I know what makes you squirm." Ziddy smiles innocently.
Anton: Anton scoffs, "Whatever, you're forgetting I know the same of you." Anton kicks a chair over, making Ziddy's reply inaudible, "Oops, next question."
Q: What do you like about Blaze, Anya?
A: Anya: "What's not to like about him? The fact that he doesn't clean up after himself or the fact that he doesn't ever offer to run an errand for us? Ah, I am joking, Blaze is great. I love how his attitude doesn't seem to ever turn sour, and he can always make a joke out of thin air. Though I like the fact that he can be serious when the situation calls for it. Hmm, is there anything else?" Blaze clears his throat rather loudly, "Oh, and he is as cute as a button!" Anya flashes her 100 kilowatt smile at Blaze.
Blaze: "A button!?"
Q: Is it true that Jaisa is no longer a member of the flock?
Shadow: "Who's Jaisa?" one of the two authors from the side run up to him and whisper in his ear, "Oh! Her, yeah, I haven't seen her in such a long time! Um, is she still a part of the flock? No, that chick went crazy. I know what you are all thinking, 'but what if she changes?'" Shadow raised his voice for the quote to sound naïve, "I say once you are bat-crap crazy, you will always be bat-crap crazy. Same principle as 'Once you go black, you never go back.' So no, I count her out. Excommunicated if you will, just like England during Henry the VIII's ruling period. Gone." Shadow waves his hand in a shooing manner.
Anya: "I think that everyone deserves a second chance, but I would not accept her right away. Like she wouldn't live with us for a long time. But as for now, she is not a member. I still have my questions about Phantina, but the only reason why is because I don't know if she wants back in, though we would all accept her cheerfully."
Blaze: "She didn't let me get away with things. She's def out."
Phantina: "No." Phantina says immediately, causing a hurt expression on Jaisa's face.
Jaisa: "I would like to consider I am."
Night: Night speaks through mouthfuls of food, "Well, I dunno cause Shadow, Blaze, and I grew up with her. I'd be ready to take her back I think but it would take some consideration…I don't know."
Q: Since it takes money to live, how do you guys get food and pay for the apartment?
All: "Phan's powers!"
Shadow: "But before we got her back, Anya had a job," he pauses, "Yeah, you read right, she actually worked."
Q: Phantina and Anton, what happened to Dr. V?
Anton: Phan and Anton exchange glances, Anton smirks, "Well of course she hardly had useful information for us so we decided to play a little game…:
Phan: "Anton came up with a good name for it, is was a great way to get revenge,"
Anton: "We liked to call it,"
Phan: "'How loud we can make doctor V scream."
Anton: "It was fun while it lasted…I finished it and now she is buried in the woods somewhere."
Phan: "and we have to wash her clothes before I wear them…"
Anya: "How morbid….Good."
Blaze: "Anya, they killed someone!"
Shadow: "Someone that deserved it."
Q: What is your earliest memory?
Blaze: "GIRLS! I mean, the moment one of the scientists brought in his wife to nurse me, you see she had a baby at the time, I was in love with the gender." Blaze closes his eyes as he reminisces.
Anya: "Okay, gross…" she looks at Blaze, "Mine actually is when Phantina and I had discovered how much fun crayons were…we pretended to write notes back and forth to each other, although we didn't know letters or words at the time. I think we were four…yeah, four….cause that wasn't long after I approached her after the experiment.
Phantina: "Umm, my earliest? I think it would be a very long time ago, I had to be at least three or four and it was the first time the scientists actually hurt me so bad it left a scar, they poured acid on my skin to see if it would grow back. I screamed and cried but they just covered up the sound with ear plugs. When I got back I cried in the corner of my cage, and Anya came over and made me laugh by telling a joke…we've been closer than ever since because I knew she was really like me then."
Night: "Food, good food, I'd been good for once in the lab I guess and they gave us non moldy food. I wasn't that old and they never gave it to us again. I think that's when my love of food began." Night begins to rummage for more food in the mini snack fridge.
Jaisa: She frowns, "I lost a lot of my memories when Asiaj surfaced."
Anton: he grows grim and cringes, "It was bad…they locked me in a dark room for days, I couldn't see, I was sobbing, maybe only four. They wouldn't feed me and I couldn't stand all the way up. I don't know when they let me out."
Shadow: "I remember what Night is talking about too, though it's not my earliest memory. I remember a bright room, a maze in the middle. It wasn't as bad as the other mazes because she was the one in charge," he adjusts in his seat, " it was very simple and I was rewarded with candy at the end of the maze, I was seven at the time."
Q: To change the topic from the grim turn it has taken, what is the most fun you've ever had in your life?
Anya: "Umm," she crosses her legs, "fun…..? OH! When Phantina and I discovered music! It was the best, that and anime."
Night: He smirks, "well I really like it when Phan feeds me, but I think the most fun I've had is when…um, really I just kind of like it when we're all together."
Phan: "My favorite? But we've had so many!" she starts to think very hard, "all of them?"
Blaze: "Well, there was one time when I had a camera and—"
All: "WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT BLAZE, SO SHUT UP!"
Ziddy: "When I first tasted a banana…" Ziddy's face resembles the face shown beside this text':3'.
Q: Who was your first crush? And it can be a celebrity or someone you know personally.
Phan: "Night I have to say, besides scientists he was the first guy I saw that was like me and his eyes….it was like we had a connection."
Night: he blushes, "W-well, as much as I'd like to say Phan, one of the male scientists had a nude calendar in his office, and I had dreams about miss February…" Phantina reaches over and smacks him
Blaze: "Why didn't I see that?! Anyways, I think that I really liked…and do not laugh…the teacher that taught us numbers…."
All: Erupts into laughter
Shadow: "Dude!" Shadow sets his water down out of fear for spilling it, "she was nasty! And the only reasons these guys are laughing is because we all knew who you liked and I saved pictures of her for blackmail! Gross! She had a mole on her eyelid….her EYELID….and her hair was bowl cut!"
Blaze: "It was a beauty mark, b*st*rd!" Blaze crosses his arms.
Anya: Anya interrupts, "My first crush was Channing Tatum, I mean have you guys seen that boy dance?! Ha! Don't tell Shadow, but I am going to rent Magic Mike and watch it while he's asleep."
Shadow: "I am right here, I heard what you said."
Anya: "Yeah, so? You gonna stop me from watching the movie?"
Shadow: he sighs, "I suppose there is no stopping you. My first crush was the lady from the Zorro movies…Catherina Zeta Jones. Though her roll in Chicago was quite frightful during the Cell Block Tango…."
Q: We all know most of you have had your first kiss, but can you refresh our memory and tell us who and how it was felt?
A: Anya: "Shadow," she uncrosses her legs and leans forward to the interviewer, "and to be honest, he tastes good. So it was great."
Shadow: "Some scientist's daughter I had a fling with a long time ago…I was 16 and she was 15…it wasn't very good cause of our age and it being my first kiss, but we did practice often enough when he father wasn't around. Sorry, Anya.." Anya nods, showing it doesn't bother her.
Phan: "Night, it was really special…like when it happened, I knew it was right."
Night: "Phan, I was too nervous to even realize what was happening until it was over," he frowns slightly, "but I liked it, I know that."
Anton: "Phan, and she was asleep."
Ziddy: "No one…"
Blaze: "Either Phan or Anya, I can't remember who came first…maybe it was me!" Blaze laughs hysterically at his dirty joke and the pelted with couch pillows.
Q: Favorite color?
A: Anya: "Forest green."
Night: "Black, maybe red."
Anton: "White, it is very pure, I am also a fan of purple."
Shadow: "I personally like silver, or maroon."
Blaze: "The blue color a fire turns when it burns on drift wood.
Phantina: "Green or blue…"
Jaisa: everyone is startled when she speaks, they had forgotten she was there, "Yellow."
Q: How often does Blaze talk about girls? And do you think he's actually been in a relationship?
Night: he rubs his head, "he never stops….ever…sometimes I wish he would get a girlfriend so every time a girl with big breasts walks by, he wouldn't elbow me," Night groans, "No, he's never had a relationship."
Phantina: she laughs, " I think Blaze is kindof funny though he does get on everyone's nerves," Phantina leans forward to whisper, "though do you ever think about Ziddy and him?" she snickers harder.
Night: his face turns disgusted, "Aww, Phan! I can't believe you!"
Blaze: "Hey!" he stands up, "our friendship is simply platonic! I like breasts, thighs, and butt. Ziddy doesn't appeal to me in that way!"
Ziddy: "Thank for shipping me," Ziddy laughs, "but I also have to say that I prefer the female gender…..I like bouncy chest bumps…" Ziddy's face goes back to ':3'
Shadow and Anya: "All the time, the boy will not shut up. EVER!"
Blaze: "I'm a man!"
Shadow: "Any girl to back this theory up?"
Blaze: "No…"
Shadow: "Then sit down!"
Q: How do you feel about Anya's trip to South Korea and her discovery about bond powers?
Phantina: "Power is wealth in this world. I'd like to know more. It might help the cause."
Night "I missed her! But Phan's cooking was great. I don't like to think about gaining and losing powers, why can't we all just be happy and live on?"
Anton: "The more power I have, the more I can control others that are less useful. I want to know more."
Shadow: "I couldn't stand her being gone like that, I hate finding notes so when I saw hers, I automatically assumed the worse. Note's haven't been too joyful in this story. Anyways, I think that the bond powers are awesome, but not for the powers they give us, the connection I have with Anya, and the rest of the flock, is amazing and I wouldn't trade it for anything."
Blaze: snores softly
Anya: "I want to use my powers for good, to make the world better for us mutants…so everyone can accept us for who we are…"
Q: Last, but not least, how do you feel about the readers?
Anya: "They are amazing! I wish I could hug them all! And everyone knows I am not a hugger, so it they should know that they really mean a lot to me."
Shadow: "You guys are awesome, I mean I'd like to personally shake all of your hands for putting up with…whatever seems to go wrong here…maybe next time I am sprinting around with my speed ability, I will pay you guys a visit. Look out for me!"
Phantina: "I like them! Thanks for reading guys, it's good to spread the word! Though for those of you who are "tiring" of me, deal with it! Or I'll sick Night on you!"
Night: he politely waves the question off, "Ahh, I think they're good people, but I wish we'd get some fanmail that has food, I've heard of that you know…."
Blaze: "I like them, because I assume they like me. But that doesn't matter, as long as the ladies see me and want me, read on. I'll always be here for you, babes!"
Anton: "The readers all support me I think, the more knights we have, the better chance we have of winning! Keep up the good work guys!"