Hello everyone. Another installment for you today.

Oh yeah, and I do not own the characters or theme of this book. James is the Man! haha

"Up and at 'em Max." Gazzy said, lightly shaking my shoulder.

My eyes flew open and the sunlight stung my eyes. I looked around and everyone was all dressed and eating breakfast.

"What time is it?" I asked him franticly.

"Almost nine o'clock."

9:00! How could I have slept in that late? I'm usually the first to get up. way before anyone else!

"Okay, thanks. I'm sorry about that, you can go and eat. I'll be right there." I said, trying not to sound so frustrated. He didn't seem to notice as he walked away to eat.

How could I have slept in? What if something had happened and I wasn't there? I was right about to jump out of my sleeping bag, when I looked down and realized that I still had a that big gash in my stomach. I didn't look as bad as yesterday and it wasn't quite as painful, but it still hurt. But, I had to get up. So I pushed the blanket off of me and tried to bend my legs. They seemed to be okay, sore, but okay. Then I put my hands to my sides and tried to push myself off of the ground. Right when I was about to, Fang saw me and came running over.

"What, are you crazy? You're going to reopen your cut this way." He said with a concerned look.

"I have to get up. I've got to try."

Before he could say anything else, I pushed my self off the ground and onto my feet. My stomach throbbed, but it wasn't too bad. Once I was on my feet, I staggered a bit but caught myself. I felt well enough to try and walk. But when I took my first step, my knee shot a siring pain down my leg. I gasped and fell to the side. Luckily Fang caught me before I hit the ground. He then shot me the 'I told you so' look and picked me up. He walked me back to my sleeping bag and laid me down. I couldn't help myself but glare at him in frustration.

'Why does this have to happen now?' I thought to myself and groaned groaned.

"You stay right there. Don't move." He said smirking at me as he started to walk away.

"Fa-ang," I said in my best whiney voice (he hates when anyone does that to him), "Can you at least bring me over to eat?" I pulled down my bottom lip and gave him Angel's famous puppy dog eyes.

He rolled his eyes and sighed. He then took the ends of my sleeping bag and pulled me over. The rest of the kids looked at him and laughed. He whispered me under his breath "You so owe me for this", and dropped my sleeping bad with a thud.

"Max, are you okay?" Angel said to me with a mouth full of cereal.

"Not really I guess. Hey, Iggy? Can you hand me the cereal box in front of you?"

He took the box and handed it to me, well to the side of me. I took it and reached in. I got a handful of the corn flakes and shoved then in my mouth. Gazzy looked at me funny, "What?" I asked with my mouth full.

"Um, do you wanna bowl?" he asked as he picked up a bowl and handed it to me. I took it and started to pour some in. Nudge giggled and Fang rolled his eyes again.

I hated this. I felt so stupid, asking them to do all of these things for me. Some leader I was. I had to get better, and fast. We needed to me careful around here now. Who knows when we will get attacked?

"Guys," I said, they looked up at me, "Well, you this whole fight thing that Ari and I had right? Well, the reason I came back like this, is because Ari said that he had a 'cool new feature'."

Everybody raised there eye brows at me.

"I know this sounds insane, but I guess it's true, because he didn't ever get hurt. It was like he was indestructible, or something. And, I don't really know how many Erasers will be like this now."

They all sat there gaping at me. Ugh, I hated this. I didn't want to make them so worried.

"So what does this mean? Now what do we have to do?" Nudge asked.

"Well, I'm not quite sure yet. But, I think it would be best if we start to be on the move a lot more. That way, they wouldn't be able to find us so easily." I had no idea where that came from.

They all groaned.

"So I guess we should start packing up and get going soon." I said awkwardly.

"But how are you going to fly? You can't even walk." Angel said looking at me concerned.

"Well, my wings aren't hurt, I don't think. And, I will just have to be more careful now."

I have no idea how that will work out.

"You don't have to think so hard. Just do it. Be strong."

I rolled my eyes. 'Yeah, thanks for the pep talk. Why don't you go away now?' I thought.

"Okay, let's get moving." I tried to say with a smiling face.

Everyone got up and packed, while I just sat there. I felt so helpless. I had to get up and go, but honestly, I didn't even know if I could fly yet.

"You ready?" Fang said kneeling beside me, pulling his backpack on. I nodded my head and he held out his hand to help me get up. He pulled me to my feet and made me rap my arm around his neck.

"Gazzy, can you pick up Max's sleeping bag? You can just throw it in her backpack."

Gazzy smiled and nodded. He began to roll it up and stuffed it into my bag. I bent down and grabbed the bag to put it on my shoulders. Fang looked at me and nodded.

"You guys ready?" Everyone came over and stood beside us.

"Okay, let's go."

Gazzy took off first along with Iggy. Nudge followed with Angel behind her. Fang looked at me, "You ready for this?" I didn't really know, but I nodded anyways.

Fang started walking over to the edge of the cliff, with me limping along beside him. I took off my arm off of his shoulder and held his hand, shaking a little; I was so nervous. (I know. Me nervous? Yeah, sounds weird.) I looked over the edge and saw the steep drop of probably 200 feet, give or take. The ground below was all large spiked rocks and dead trees.

Fang looked at me before we took off, "I got you. I won't let you fall and die."

I smiled a little and tried to swallow my fears.

Then we took off. I spread my wings and let the air carry me as I flew. My wings were actually fine. I closed my eyes and let the air sweep across my face, it felt so good to finally be able to move again.

The rest of the flock was there waiting for us grinning. I caught Fang's eye and grinned. He smiled back, but still looked a little uneasy. We caught up with the rest of the kids and started to go.

"Where to?" Iggy yelled.

"Um, how about north." I said, not knowing where that would even lead us to.

Everyone nodded and started to head north.

We flew for a few miles perfectly. The air felt so good whipping past me.

But something started to not feel right. My head slowly started to throb intensely. I cringed a little.

"You okay?" Fang called out to me.

I tried to shake my head yes, but then a siring pain went from my head, down to my legs.

I cried out in pain as I started to descend through the air. I tried to catch myself, but my wings wouldn't work. I held my head in my arms crying in pain as I plummeted straight down toward the sharp rocks.

I closed my eyes and screamed, "What is happening?"

I kept falling with my head held in my arms, and my legs tucked in like a ball.

I couldn't fly, I couldn't think, and I couldn't move.

All I could do was cry and wait for the fall.

Okay.I'm not quite sure about this one so,tell me what you think! R&R please!