Chapter 7

A Forested Event

What in the world was he doing? Was he kissing me? Of course he was kissing me, that was his mission, to try to get me to love him back. But he was being a little desperate for some reason. Ok, I need to pull back now… Come on Shadow! Pull back! And then I was finally able to snap out of it and pull back. In the process I was able to punch him in the gut. "Why in the worl-" then I got a snip of his thoughts, I finally realized why he was so desperate. He was scared. His creators wanted him to give a report on how well he was doing, put he wasn't doing well.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just, I'm sorry." He choked looking a little too happy after having the wind knocked out of him.

Normally I would have been scolding his butt off, but I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him. He was only 6 months old and didn't know how things worked. I mean he was practically a baby! So instead I just shook my wings back out and took off. Thinking about what my next move would be while trying to forget the feeling of his lips against mine. I enjoyed that a little bit too much. Heck I shouldn't have enjoyed that at all! I have Iggy! And Iggy was all I need. I made up my mind then and there that I would never let Nova in in that way. But by how things are going, I knew I at least cared about him. I care about everyone. Even the freakin whitecoats. I will never be able to hurt someone and feel good about it for more than 10 seconds. That has always been my weakness, and we all know it. So many of our problems would have been solved if I just had the guts to do what had to be done!

I decided to fly over the forest Nova said Star and Nightmare were taken in. I knew I would never be able to find it on my own, I mean it could be right under my nose and I wouldn't realize it, so I started heading to camp (the place me and the flock have been sleeping and stuff) As I landed I noticed it was a little too quiet and started to worry.

"Shadow? Shadow! I thought you were taken to!" I hear Gazzy shout.

"Taken? What do you mean taken?" I practically shout.

"The others were taken by erasers. Me Iggy and Nudge are the only ones that escaped."

"That Star kid I told you about and Nightmare were also taken." I said my heart dropping. "Nova found footprints in the forest I was coming to ask someone to go look wing me." I was freaking out on the inside but there was no need to scare Gazzy any more. If there was one thing I learned from Fang, it was how to keep my emotions locked up… I used to be a lot better at it. "Go get the others, we shouldn't split up again. Oh, and how would you like to skip school tomorrow?"

He did a fist pump in the air as he ran off to get the others, who were apparently in the kitchen, go figure.

If I could see I would have done a 360 of the area to see what happened, but I couldn't, so I didn't.

What first alerted me of the others coming was Nudge's motormouth. Then I saw Iggy, and then, of course, I smelt Gazzy. "Gazzy did you cut the cheese again?" I ask grinning. Me, Iggy, and The Gasman himself were the only ones that could stand his stench. On the other hand I found out what Nudge was talking about.

"Don't you know it! So are we gunna leave right now?" The Gasman asked

"First tell me the state the camp is in." I replied, noting on the pause the others take.

"It's pretty bad. All of the rooms have collapsed, and the explosive room exploded. The explosion made it all the way to the bathroom, which, by the way, Gazzy forgot to flush last time he went cause the remains went EVERYWHERE! The kitchen is a MAJOR pigsty i mean MESSY. Speaking of messy you hair looks horrible! No offence but when was the last time you brushed it? It looks like you've got a nest up there! Is that a fork? That's a fork! Why do you have a fork in your hair! That's not as bad as what i found in Gazzy's hair yesterday-" and that just kept going on and on for at least 10 minutes until i FINALLY decided it was time to shut her up. We gathered what was left of our supplies and put them in a cellar we made a few miles from camp. We put the essentials in back packs we decided to bring along. We were just about to leave when I heard Total, get this, barking in the cellar.

"Nudge! Gazzy! Iggy! Shadow! I'm down here!" I heard him shout.

"OK! I heard you! I'm not deaf!" Though when Nudge gets going I wish I was. I thought bitterly as I climbed down.

Right when I got to the bottom Total jumped into my arms licking my face.

"It's times like these I wish I was a dog." I heard Iggy mumble. But I knew it wasn't him. I wouldn't give Gazzy the satisfaction of thinking i fell for it, no matter how much I wanted to lift his spirits. But that didn't stop Iggy from almost tearing him apart.

"Boy's Boy's you're both pretty! Now break it up!" I screamed.

"You guys really need to calm down." Nudge mumbled.

"Sorry Shadow." Gazzy said.

"No need to say sorry to me! I mean if I were Max then that would be another story. I just think we should be saving our strength for the real enemies." I said, but he knew I liked it when he accidentally talked to me as if I were Max, but I'm not the leader, she is. "Do you guys know if we have any explosives left? Or do we need to make more?"

"We had a hidden storehouse of them a few miles from here, you can never have enough bombs!" Gazzy exclaimed.

"Ok then, we will go scout the forest were Star and Nightmare disappeared then we will come back and see what we do from there." I thought outloud. And then we were on our way. But what we found in the forest, was something none of us had expected.

(end of chapter 7)