Chapter 2

"Ok, I see a forest down below, and close by is a town, is anyone getting hungry?" I asked. They all raised their hands, and even Total raised a paw.

"Ok then, we're going to land," I dived down, and it looked like I was going to hit the earth headfirst. Snapping out my wings quickly, I almost floated down, my arms crossed over my chest. Smirking, like it was no big deal…which it wasn't to the flock. Fang and Gazzy did the same, while Angel persuaded Iggy not to do it since Total was in his arms. When they came to the bottom (Just barely missing an evergreen I might add) we ran to the edge of the forest, Nudge somehow kept thinking an Eraser was going to fly out from a treetop and jump on her.

What a sight that would be.

We found a fast food restaurant nearby, and we picked up lunch there.

"Are you sure you want all of that food?" the cashier asked in disbelief.

"Yes," I said, trying to sound calm.

"You have asked us that three times already, here's the credit card, so we can have our food without being accused of stealing," I added, voice raising a little. The teenager took my car, swiping it through the register, mouth open, staring at me in shock.

(Paragraph)I took the food from him as soon as it was ready, and we took it outside of the restaurant, eating it heartily on a nearby bench.

"So what are we going to do about sleep?" Nudge asked in between bites.

"Err, our options are the forest, or that alleyway back there," I said, pointing towards it with my thumb.

"Forest," the flock chimed in, all at once. We crept in quietly, only are feet made the sound of crunching leaves.

Or so we thought.

Total looked up at Gazzy, who was at the time carrying him and said,

"I think I hear something," quietly, and it sounded like he hadn't spoken at all.

"Well, what was it?" He asked, turning to look at me he shrugged, and I came up beside him.

"Voices, I think. A radio…and that was all, voices and a radio." I turned my head towards him, and Fang stopped, whirling around to face us.

"You sure?" Fang questioned, not wanting to believe the talking dog in Gazzy's arms.

"Would I lie to you?" he said, starting to growl a little.

"Dunno," he responded, smirk on his face. We kept walking, and all of my senses were on alert, and I wanted to grab the flock and take off from where I was standing.

"There it is again," Total whispered. I whipped around.

"Then what is it?" I asked, growing very impatient. The dog was tap dancing on my last nerve.

"Me," Ari snarled, claws poised around my neck. Iggy had noticed first that an Eraser was near, but realized it seconds before the object spoke.

"How did he? How did you?" Nudge stammered, mouth open wide in amazement. I gave her a look that said, don't think, and just act.

Sometimes you have to think things through Max, even if it's not the best time to. My voice said.

Yeah? Well I don't give a crap! I screamed in my head. The Voice had become silent, and I wondered what he was doing. Erasers had apparently followed us, probably thanks to the chip in my arm.

"You move, you die," Ari said, claws tightening around my throat. Angel looked at me and replied,

"Neckerchu." Using a secret language we had made up at the School. Obviously she had been reading my mind. Ari spun me around, but was slow, so I could move backwards, and escape his grip.

"Still haven't gotten the hang of flying?" I asked, charging towards the. I snapped out my wings, right before I was going to hit Ari. Deliberately kicking him I craned my head around to see them (No not the Erasers) doing the same, without the kicking Ari part. But Gazzy and Iggy did manage to drop two bombs on them. Eraser's surged ahead after us, flapping their wings madly. Once when we visited another one of the School's 'connections' and Nudge had figured out they made an Eraser like us, only he could turn into a wolf along with have bird-kid abilities.

"Well, how did they manage to find us without us knowing?" I asked, unworried about the Eraser's behind us.

"Dunno," Iggy responded, shrugging a little.

Look out in front of you.

My Voice said, cutting into our conversation.

"Max!" Angel and Nudge shrieked, pointing ahead of us. There were about half a dozen Erasers in front of us, all having greedy looks plastered on their faces. Greeeaaattt. I thought sarcastically.

I veered off to one side, hoping the flock would follow quickly. There were no Eraser's on that side, so obviously they hadn't taken much time to think their plan through. Fang was right behind me now, Gazzy, Iggy, and Total coming up on my side.

"They aren't attacking mu…"
That's all I heard, because the next thing I knew I was spitting out Eraser fur and rubbing my head from banging into one. She poised herself above me, ready to sink her fangs into my neck, and I was just kind of hovering in the air, almost hovering, frozen, because I realized it was clone Max, gone Eraser. I knew it because she looked like the Pekinese-like Eraser I saw of myself at the hospital with Fang. Jeezums. A girl Eraser never thought I'd see one of those…She must've been the one with our powers, along with an Eraser's, but she looked too much like Ari, so it wasn't likely.

"It's over Maximum, your going to die, right here, right now," she snarled.

"Not unless I kill you first," I muttered, taking out a knife from my pocket and slicing at the clone Max's skin harshly, repeating the process many times.

She didn't even flinch.

I dropped out of the sky like a plane that had just lost a wing, now I was puzzled about this whole, Max gone Eraser thing, but ignored it for now. I snapped my wings out, looking up to see Fang, Iggy, Gazzy, and Nudge doing the same.

"Where's Angel?" I asked, now concerned that she hadn't come with them.