Chapter Twelve

Max, Fang, Angel, and the Gasman had little to go on. The searched and searched and searched. They kept coming up with nothing. They didn't go to the School.

To go to the School would be suicide. What if the School was prepared this time? Last time, rescuing Angel, was shear dumb luck.

They couldn't go to the Institute either. The Institute would also be more guarded than last time.

The four of them where staying in the wood near Danni's house. What if they escaped? What if Iggy and Danni went looking for them here?

It had been three months. It was September. Danni was supposed to be in school, high school. Instead she was missing. Her father came home to an empty house with broken windows. Kidnap?

He called the police. The police figured she'd run away. Her parents were going through a divorce, they yelled and fought verbally. Yeah, that would be incentive enough for a teen to pack up and run. Her dad now spent a lot of time at the bar and would sometimes come home at dawn.

The moon was huge in the starry sky. Max was lying on the ground alone. The others were asleep. She kept hoping to see a flash of wings fly by. Iggy with Danni in his arms trying to find Max and Fang and Angel and the Gasman.

A branch crunched under a foot. Max bolted up. She looked around to see Fang.

"Don't do that!" she scolded.

He frowned, "What?"

"Sneak up and scare the heebie-jeebies out of me."

"Heebie-jeebies? Who says that anymore?"

Max stared him straight in the eye, "You know what I mean."

He sighed and sat next to her. "You know the chances…" Fang stopped talking mid-sentence. He bounced up and flew into the sky leaving Max behind.

Fang flew higher and higher. He flew past what he saw and tilted up, getting in Iggy's way.

Iggy skidded to a stop.

"You know me and Max were just talking about you," Fang said not containing his excitement at seeing his brother.

Max had reached them by now, "Hey!"

Iggy stared at Max, "You look awful."

Max started to hit him then froze, "Wait a minute. What?"

"I hate to interrupt your family reunion, but I prefer to be on the ground," Danni said.

They descended. Max and Fang were smiling like idiots. They landed back in the clearing.

Fang was the first to speak. "Tell us everything," he said when they reached the place where they had been sleeping. Angel and the Gasman had awoken and were now listening and they all sat in a circle. Oh camp theme going on here.

"Can they handle the whole story?" Danni asked Iggy.

"I don't know? Can you?" Iggy asked the flock.

They nodded as Nudge joined in.

"Well, lets see," Danni started while Iggy took her hand, "I was born one dark and stormy night…" She stopped as a leaf, thrown by the Gasman, hit her lap. "Okay, okay. So we, Iggy and I, were captured. Right? Riight. Then I got stabbed with a needle and I wake up part tiger."

"Excuse me?" Max asked.

"Part tiger. Kinda like you guys except take out the bird and add the tiger. Get it?" Danni said.

Nudge stopped listening but got the gist of it. Iggy had his sight, then made a bomb and knocked out a few corridors of the School and they flew here.

Iggy has his sight but still is all over Danni. The slut! I'll just have to wedge between them. One way or another he'll be mine. Nudge had a plan forming in her head and a mischievous smile spreading across her face.

Danni, watch out for this bird. Looks as if the food chain is about to get turned upside down. Big cats no longer in charge.

AN: Sorry this took longer to get up but I didn't want to put it up with out having a few more chapters written. Chapter 13 should be up next week or this (Sep. 3 or 4, 2005) weekend.

Kool-Wolf - Thanks for reviewing again. About the length of the chapters I'm working on making them longer. Chapter 14 IS twice as long as the usual chapter lenght I've been using.

Laiannon-fae-elf -Thanks for the review. I'm glad you like it