Four

"There it is! THERE IT IS!" Nudge squealed as the mouse-eared tower came into hawk-view. We were still a ways off, but you know, I'm not the only one who can fly at 200 miles when the world of Disney comes into view. Those kids can really zoom!

"We'll land inside the park, guys," I said, as we finally appeared to be right over the central area of Disney. "Over there," and we winged our way over to the large area of trees, landing in the branches we dropped to the ground as much out of sight as someone dropping out of a tree in the middle of an over-populated theme park can be. Fly? Us? Never! And quickly mingled. Total was again dressed as a guide dog – don't ask me how that gunk was all saved – and Iggy was playing the blind-human like a super star. Probably helped that he was blind and totally lost in all the noise, but, you know.

"That one first!" Gazzy bounced up to me, left hand holding a cotton-candy stick, his right waving towards a rather dangerous looking roller coaster. Is it legal to have that many loop-de-loops and ups and downs? It looked sickening - Which of course made it brilliant to the younger kids.

"Ok," and he tugged me along at high speed, the others following as Fang explained what the ride looked like to Iggy.

"Line isn't too bad," he added, stepping up beside me.

It wasn't, and we all loaded ourselves on, Angel and Nudge at the front, Gazzy behind Angel, and me behind Gaz. Iggy was next to the Gasman, with Fang behind him, next to me. We strapped ourselves in, and awaited take-off. It was absolute horror.

"Oh, my, God." I said slowly, climbing out of my seat and herding the rest of the flock out down the exit hall.

"That was brilliant!" Nudge said in a high-pitched excited voice.

Yeah, right. I solemnly swear never to go on a rollercoaster like that again.

"Max?" I looked over at Fang, who was frowning at me, the rest of the flock and Total were in front of us, pointing at two different rides and then trying to decide which to go on.

"Yeah?"

"You look… sick," Fang said slowly, frowning as he studied my face. I grimaced.

"I now understand why humans are afraid of heights." I said matter-of-factly, and marched past him. He looked totally lost, and it was really funny. He caught up with me, still frowning and we followed Iggy as he was dragged off by Total towards one of the rides. The others were laughing.

"What does that mean?" Fang asked quietly.

I flushed, not looking at him, but watching Angel. "I don't like being locked in. It was… wrong." What did you think I was going to say? Scary?

"Well then," he smirked at me, "You'll love this one." I frowned at him and he nodded at the ride chosen by the Flock – or rather, Total – and I stopped dead. Ok, so I thought the loop-de-loops and ups-and-downs were wrong. This ride was death.

Ok, so I went on the rides last time we were here, but you know, those were pretty tame until the main bit – like that water ride – but these were all twisted and spiny the whole way through. To get out of that, I'll have to look weak, but you know what? For once I didn't care. Fang was smirking at me.

"No way in hell." I said firmly, but he grabbed me by the arm, just above the elbow, and proceeded to drag me towards the ride; when did he get so mean?

"Max?" I was digging my heels in and slapping at Fang's hand, eyeing the ride off. The sound of Nudge's voice whipped my eyes around.

"Yup?" I asked, shaking Fang off now that we were in line.

"What were you doing?"

"Me?" I asked innocently. Nudge nodded. "Well," I started, "I was… escaping." And I bounded over the fence that showed where the cues went, and waved happily. "I'll wait at the exit." Fang was smirking at me, and the others looked surprised as I marched over to the exit to await my foolish flock.

Fang's POV

"Uh, ok…" Iggy said slowly, taking a shuffling step forwards. "What was that about?"

I was still smirking as the others looked up at me. "Max doesn't like the roller coasters."

"Oh. Why was she escaping?" He was puzzled as he looked blindly at me, frowning.

"Fang dragged her into line," Angel said softly, also shuffling forward. "She really doesn't like the rides, you know."

"Really?" Nudge asked, blinking.

"Yup, her mind was in chaos on the last one."

"I thought she told you not to read her mind?" I scolded, looking down at Angel's blond head. She wasn't looking at me, but peering around the people in front of her to see the ride.

"She did, but not many people were scared, and you know, she sent off vibes."

"She was scared?" Gazzy asked, eyes wide, and Angel pursed her lips.

"We're next!" Total hissed, not listening to the conversation, and tugging Iggy forward.

I followed the Flock, feeling slightly guilty about dragging her into line, but mostly confused. Why would Max fear a rollercoaster? It wasn't like it was that bad.

Max POV

"Liz! Come back here!" The boy's voice broke through my musings as I waited for the flock to have their go on the ride. Turning, I looked around to see who was calling out, and instead found my face filled with the small, round face of a girl. She had dark red hair, cut to about two inches long, with the last half an inch dyed black and it was spiked up with gel. She was much shorter than me, less than five feet. She had brilliant green eyes lined by black eye-liner, and blinked at me, then looked down at something in her hand. She looked back up at me, frowning, then turned around and called out to her friend. "This is her!" I froze.