Chapter 16

Sighs

"Fancy meeting you here." I heard a voice say, I wasn't sure if it was part of my dream or not cause I could have sworn it was Shadows, but that probably wasn't possible. "Gaz, wake him up."

"How?" I heard another voice respond with a hint of mischief showing in his voice.

"You choose."

I heard a loud farting noise and woke up coughing, choking for air. I looked around my eyes burning with tears and realized that they really were here. Oops.

Shadow whipped out her wings and fanned out the area so that me, Total, and Nudge could breath again. For some reason her, Iggy, and The Gasman were not affected by this putrid stench.

After I got a few breaths in, Shadow walked up with her hands on her hip, something told me that she was in no mood to do good cop. I was stuck with bad cop for now. On the bright side, she looks really pretty when she's angry.

"So, what are you doing here?" She scoffed.

"I don't know really, I just came. What are you doing here?" I replied honestly, some people say i'm a little too honest sometimes.

"Trying to find clues to where they brought Star and Nightmare. But that is besides the point. Why would anyone come out to the middle of a forest just for fun? Won't your parents get worried?"

"Ok, first of all, It wasn't for fun. I was just trying to clear my head. Second, they are not my parents. I am a clone and an experiment just like you."

I could tell Shadow wasn't angry anymore, but she was trying to hide it, I could also tell she was spooked about something and I decided to address that to change the subject before things get anymore awkward. "You look like you've seen a ghost, what happened?"

"None of your buisness, why?"

"I'm trying to change the subject."

Shadow rolled her eyes, "Way to come right out with it."

"Was I not supposed to?"

"Well people don't usually just flat out tell other people stuff like that."

"Oh, I'll try harder next time… So, what happened?"

Shadow sighed defeated and looked over at Nudge, probably hoping that if Nudge explained I wouldn't process any of it into my brain. For once, Nudge shook her head and stayed quiet, I guess we were all kind of relieved because I heard a collective sigh. Then I realized that the others were looking around, trying to figure out who had sighed.

"It came from down there." Iggy commented. Shadow and Gazzy went to the edge to try to figure out who it was. Gazzy was staring at the floor and Shadow was closing her eyes and concentrating.

"There are some peoplish things down there." Gazzy said to Shadow.

Shadow sniffed the air and looked confused. "They don't have a heart beat, they aren't breathing, and they don't have a sent…"

"They are the people who went missing in this forest I think…" I said, quoting my observation from before.

"What?!" Shadow exclaimed.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and read them the article, smiling at the sight of their eyes going so wide.

"So, so those people are… Are dead?" Gazzy whispered hoarsely.

"I guess so, but that does not make sense, there are no such things as ghosts or anything like that." as I said that Shadow rolled her eyes and the whispers from below became furious shouts.

"Yea, just like they are no such things as Avian-Humans. You really need to open your eyes a bit Nova." By the tone of her voice I could tell she was still angry about before.

I blushed and was about to apologize when Nudge interrupted. "Oh! Shadow! Tell Nova about the cereal!"

"Oh yea, this morning as we went through our food supply for breakfast, all the food we had packed was replaced with 5 bowls of cereal and cans of coke!"

"Yea, I got some a can of coke and cereal to… Wasn't it delicious!" I asked excited that I wasn't the only one.

Shadow, once again, rolled her eyes and sighed, "Should have known that it happened to you to… Let me guess, you didn't even give a second thought when you shoved it into your pathetic mouth."

I paled again, she seemed to be getting a little annoyed, "Umm… Nooooo." I lied, and let me just say, I'm terrible at lying, with a capital T!

She shook her head and turned around spreading out her wings, she took of into the sky and circled around a few times then landed. "I don't think it would be a good idea if we split up. We are going to stick together. Now who has any suggestions of where we should go?"

I stared at her open mouthed. She had gotten everything under control so easily.

"How about we go over to that lake over there?" Nudge exclaimed, trying to hide the hope in her voice.

"That's one, very reasonable idea, any more?"

"Actually, I've gotta go sooo." I gushed.

"Actually, you don't. There is more than one reason I don't want you out of my sight." Shadow growled, glaring at me.

I gave in sighing, not of defeat, but at how pretty she looked when she was mad.

"The lake it is."

(end of chapter 16)