Chapter 37

FANG

Iggy's plan was simple, yet effective.

The grouping wouldn't be too difficult, at least not in my mind. All we needed to do was make pairings where each person played off of the others strengths.

Max and I, just for example. When we fight, it's like we're one person. It feels natural to fight with Max by my side. It feels natural to do anything with Max by my side. I feel whole…

Oh yeah. Cause she's my perfect other half…

Anyways, my ideas for the teams were this:

Max and myself for reasons beyond the fact that she's the love of my life (Don't tell her I said that)

Iggy and Nudge because she's the best at explaining things to him and they fight amazingly together

Angel and Gazzy because I know Gazzy wouldn't let Angel out of his sight again after what happened to her in Paris

Maya and Dylan because… well they were the only two left… and because they were kind of awkwardly getting along with each other

I voiced these opinions to Max as we were sitting by the fire waiting for the rain to let up as the flock caught up on sleep. We had a long day ahead of us.

"Those are probably our best bet." She nodded before lapsing into silence.

She was biting her bottom lip and staring at her ratty-checkered converse high-tops.

I sighed. "Do you wanna talk about it?"

She slowly raised her head. "No. I just don't want it to change 'us' and the way we act around each other. "

"My sentiments exactly." I nodded. "But I don't want to forget about it either."

She smiled. "It's like you read my mind."

She leaned her head on my shoulder and I wrapped my arms around her. We could've sat like that for hours.

The rain finally let up and we all launched into the sky once more. The air was sticky and cold from the recent downpour, but it felt great to fly.

We had around five hours left in our flight to the Martinez house, or whatever was there now. I can tell that Max is worried about what she'll feel when she see's her mom up there on that huge stage leading the Doomsday Group.

You're right, Fang. Angel thought to me. She's freaking out on the inside.

Angel. Sweetie, how many times have I told you stay out of my head? I smirked at her.

She sighed and didn't think anything to me again.

My gang was meeting us at the Arizona border and we were going to split up from there. It was to difficult trying to keep in touch when half of us are in the air and the others are flightless.

I flew in silence, as usual, listening to the beat of wings all around me and the flocks conversations. Not in a creepy way though.

Max was talking to Gazzy and Angel about some sort of strategy to keep the two of them out of the fight as much as possible. They responded with outraged cries, which Max ignored.

Maya was talking with Dylan on their position/stake out place. They seemed to be coming up with ideas that they both agreed on.

Iggy and Nudge were flying side by side with Nudge rambling on about how amazing Iggy's plan had been and how it was tooootally going to work and bla, bla, bla.

The temperature was beginning to rise as we flew farther and farther South, but all that we were thinking about was that it meant that we were getting closer.

Everything was falling into place.

Then Iggy's face went hard as stone and he yelled "DIVE!" and took Nudge's hand, jerking her down with him.

Max practically threw Angel and Gazzy towards the ground and we tucked our wings in and all dropped like stones.

Then we all heard the high-pitched wiz of a bullet and Nudge let out a pained cry, her right wing stopping its flapping motions.

Hey!

I'm super sorry for the long wait. I had a bad case of writers block and I just couldn't get any ideas. That's also why it took me so long to unfold the plot and why there was so much action fluff in this story.

Sorry about that.

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