A.N- Time for baby names again! Ok so I'm pretty much telling you the baby's power in this chapter and I was looking for baby names and came across 'Aaryan' (Ari-en). Aaryan means "utmost strength", and it also sounds like Ari. Then there's 'Zaila' (Zay-la), which means "might" or "power(ful)". The other possibilities are: Arianna (for Ari), Nikki (for Fang/Nick), Sorin (for flight, since they fly), Light (for being one of the only good things right now for them, like a symbol of hope) or you can review with a name and its meaning (and don't forget to suggest a name for Kate and Ratchet's baby too). I'll be putting up a poll for this soon, so be sure to vote.

I thank there peeps from the heart of my bottom:)- nerdkoala, dopeycookiemonster, FallenArchangels, & LOVE HATE DUH

Kicks

"You're getting slow, Fang." I say just loud enough for him to hear.

We didn't want to go any further than a mile in case something went wrong. Which, let's face it, always does.

It was a cool February night, tonight. It was around twenty-five degrees (f), which was the norm here in Colorado and absolutely perfect for us.

I know that might be cold for you, but the heat from flying plus our higher-than-a-human body temperatures summed this night up as being just wonderful right now.

I land inside a small clearing in the forest and look up, waiting for Fang to catch up.

"I'm not getting slow, you're just cheating and using your powers." He tells me, as he lands a few meters away.

I walk to him and hug him around the waist as I say, "I wasn't using my powers, Fangy." teasingly.

"Well you're just a faster flyer in general. Maxi." He says, hugging me back.

I laugh as he kisses my head.

"So are you tired yet?" He asks, taking my hand and walking closer to the middle of the clearing.

"A little." I admit. "I don't want to go back yet though." I say, as he leads me.

"Alright, but we're not staying out here all night." He tells me as he sits down.

"I think it's a little too late for that, it's already past one." I say, joining him on the cool grass below.

"Well I meant let's not fall asleep here." He clears up.

I nod in agreement. It was actually starting to feel cooler now, after the warmth from our flight was wearing off. I was starting to feel really grateful that I actually brought a sweatshirt, and so I zip it up.

Fang lays back and puts his arms behind his head for support and I decide to join him. So I lay back with him, and put my head on his warm chest. I could smell his scent now and realized just how much I loved that smell, just because it was his.

Now before you go calling me a weirdo for sniffing people, I just want to say that, for the record he was right there, under my nose, and I can't just stop breathing, OK?

"So, Max?"

"Yes, Fangles?"

He breaths out a small chuckle kind of thing, "Have you thought of names yet?"

I pause. "For that baby? Yeah I guess I thought of a few."

He waits.

"There's Arianna or Nikki for a girl, and Sorin or Light if it's a boy. Well, I think light could be used for both, actually. I just can't really think of any- OH KAY!" I say as I sit up and clutch my stomach.

"What's wrong Max?" He asks worriedly, sitting up quickly.

I keep my hand on my stomach and my eyes widen.

I quickly snatch Fang's hand from behind me and put it on my stomach so he'd feel too; all without saying a word.

"Whoa." He breaths and scoots closer.

"Yup that's him. He's been kicking all day, but this is the first time I felt him move with my hand."

He smiles and looks down at me. Then we both feel him kick again and he takes his hand away. "This kid's strong Max." He comments, sounding a little worried.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. My stomach's been hurting all day because of it."

He pauses and looks down at my stomach again. "Can I?" He asks, holding the end of my shirt and sweatshirt with his hand, gently.

"Sure." I say, raising an eyebrow in question.

He holds it up and with the moon light you could faintly see dark patches all around where the baby was kicking.

"Oh my God…" I gasp.

"Shit." Fang breaths.

"Is that from him?" I ask and lightly touch one of the bigger spots.

Fang shrugs. "Most likely." He tells me, now looking at what I was doing.

I put a little bit of pressure on that spot and wince. "Yup, they're bruises." I conclude and take my hand away.

He puts his hand back on my stomach and starts to lightly feel it. "Is this his foot?" He asks, twisting his head a little.

I look down and put my hand by his. He moves his hand on top of mine and guides it to where his was. I could feel something really small and slender. "Might be." I say. "I wonder if he can hear us." I whisper.

Fang shrugs. He takes his hand away and looks up to the starry sky. "He's developing faster than I thought he would." He sighs.

I don't take my eyes away from my stomach and start to feel what we think is his foot. He moves around again and I laugh. Fang looks down at me, "He's ticklish." I explain, with a smile. Then he kicks again and I wince, closing one eye. "Fuck…"

Fang takes my hand with his, away from my stomach. "Maybe you shouldn't touch him." He suggests, with worry in his eyes.

I nod and put my hand down. That's when we hear something in the surrounding shrubbery.

Fang jumps up and stands in front of me, facing the sound. "Who's there?" He shouts.

There's some more shuffling and then Ratchet comes out from behind some trees. "Chill dude, it's just me." He says.

"How long have you been there?" I ask as I see Fang's shoulders relax.

"Since just now. I was walking around, trying to get back home, and I heard you all so I've been walking here for a few minutes." He says as he walks closer.

"So you heard us?" I ask.

"Ever since you landed." Ratchet answers. "So you can feel him now?"

"Yeah." I answer calmly. I could see that Fang was still a little tense by the way he was looking at Ratchet, but I didn't really care.

I already knew how Ratchet was the one who liked the idea of me being pregnant the least, but I also knew the situation he was in right now. And since he was part of Fang's gang, and pretty much part of my flock for the time being, I didn't want to make it any worse by saying something that makes Fang go off on Ratchet.

But it still surprised me a little when Ratchet says, "I'm really sorry for the way I acted. Especially to you Max, with all the things I said. I know you all weren't really in control of the situation, but I was…"

My eyes widen. Was He going to tell Fang about Kate?

"What?" Fang asks.

Ratchet looks down at me, then back at Fang. "Max didn't tell you, did she?"

Fang looks down at me and I look at Ratchet. "I didn't think I should interfere. It's yours and Kate's business." I explain.

"Yeah, thanks for that." He tells me and then looks at Fang. "Well you see…" He scratches the back of his head with his hand. "…Kate's kind of pregnant." He says.

Fang's eyes widen.

(Fang POV)

My God! The dude's only known Kate for a few months and he's already- pardon my French, but- knocked her up? I mean I know this might not even be my kid, but at least I've known Max for a long time… Well actually I've known her my whole life. Not saying that it's Ok, since we're still only fifteen, but we have a longer standing relationship.

"Since when?" I ask.

"Well I found out today, but I'm pretty sure since like, maybe a month before we joined the flock."

"Eww." Max teases from below.

"Don't even; you did the same thing." Ratchet says, smiling.

"I was just kidding, and I wasn't exactly in control as you put it." Max teases again.

Ratchet rolls his eyes. Then his head snaps up and he holds his hand up to silence us.

We all stay frozen for a moment until Ratchet asks. "Did you all hear that?"

"No. What was it?" I ask quietly and hold my hand down for Max to take, which she does immediately.

I help Max up as Ratchet talks. "I'm not sure. Maybe a twig snapping? Not more than two hundred meters in that direction." He says lowly, pointing away from our hideout.

"Take your wings out." I tell Max, in a whisper.

She does slowly, so as not to make a sound. I do the same as Ratchet and I both slowly walk closer to the edge of the clearing, to where the sound came from.

We're a few steps away from the edge when I hear something. "Does that sound like slithering to you?" I whisper to Ratchet.

"Yeah." He answers, sounding confused. "Whoa, what is that!" He shouts and starts to back up quickly, shoving me back with his arm as well.

"They look like giant lizards! Max! Fly!" I scream as I grab Ratchet from under his arms and flap as hard as I can.

By now the lizard things were only about ten meters away. They were quick little buggers.

As I finally manage to get us airborne, the lizard things start to jump up with their hind legs and snap at our feet with razor sharp teeth-filled mouths.

Ratchet starts kicking at one that got a hold of his foot. He kicks one of its red beady eyes, which makes it finally let go and fall to the ground with a heavy thud.

There were about twenty or thirty of them and it didn't look like any more would be coming out of the forest any time soon. Thank God for that.

"Can they fly?" I shout over the high-altitude wind, as I hover beside Max.

"I don't think so!" Ratchet answers, just as we all see a few of them snap their wings out. "Never mind!" He shouts quickly.

Their wings were like bat's wings and not feathery like ours, from what I could see at least. They looked like lizards with dragon wings and varied from four to five feet. The ones with wings looked a little shorter and smaller than the ones who stayed on the ground, which were now slithering toward where our hideout was.

"Max, use your super speed to go back and get everyone out! Now!" I shout.

She nods and shoots away, sending a quick gush of air my way on accident.

"What are we gonna do Fang?" Ratchet yells at me, starting to freak out slightly, at the fact that the flying lizard things were getting closer and closer.

"We follow Max." I answer as I race off, behind her. "And if they get close enough, we take them out."

(Max POV)

In only about ten seconds, I'm there. I land on top of one of the secret doors under the leaves and open it quickly. We don't use these to get in because it's impossible to reposition the leaves once we're in, but it's the quickest way in and the closest.

I jump down the ladder and surprisingly don't hurt myself. Then I race down the tunnel and place my hand on the scanner. Once the door opens, I start screaming "Everyone wake up!" as I run down the hall, pounding on all of the doors.

They all start to open quickly and everyone runs out into the hall all speaking at once. A chorus of "What", "What's wrong?", "What's going on?" and "Is everyone OK?"

"Some lizard things are on their way here! We need to leave as quickly as possible, right now! Don't take anything with you that you don't absolutely need!" I shout as I race to the door I came in from. A few second later I see that everyone is coming and I start running out.

When we all get outside I start to take charge again. "Those of you who fly, take the person you usually take. Star you're with me. You can't run this time; we don't know where to go yet."

Everyone nods along with Star, who doesn't object.

The Flock and Maya take their wings out. I take Star, Maya takes Kate, and Dylan takes Holden. Iggy, Nudge and Gazzy are already up in the air when the rest of us finally take off.

"Where's Fang?" Maya asks, coming closer to me.

"I don't know. Oh wait, there!" I say, pointing with my nose.

I hear him shouting something but can't quite figure out what.

"What'd he say?" Maya asks.

"I don't know." I say.

He's closer now and shouts, once again. "Go!"

We all hear him this time and fly away.

Four hours later…

We had started to fly in a V about an hour after we started. With me in the lead. Iggy, Gazzy and Fang behind me on the left. Nudge, Dylan and Maya behind me on the right.

Those lizard things had speed, I'd give them that. They had no stamina however, and we'd lost them after maybe ten minutes.

I'd given Star to Iggy about two hours ago because I couldn't carry her anymore, but I was still feeling exhausted. I remember that we'd flown sixteen hours straight once, but it's only been four and I already feel as exhausted as I did then.

"Max, do you want to take a break? I can hear you breathing heavy over the wind." Nudge tells me.

"No, Ih-m, fi-hne." I breath.

"We're going down everyone!" Dylan shouts casually.

Everyone breaks away and goes down, me along with them. We land in a forest just outside some small town. It was pretty bright now, and so probably a good idea to land anyway.

When we landed Star asked "Where are we?"

"I'm pretty sure somewhere in New Mexico." I say, since I knew I'd led us south from Colorado.

Hey, I might not be very school smart, but I know my directions and most of the states.

"So are we just going to be on the run again?" Gazzy asks.

"For the time being." I tell him, sadly.

It's quiet for a moment until Kate says. "Well, I might as well tell the rest of you who don't know already: I'm pregnant."

"Well that wasn't random at all." Iggy states bluntly.

"That's just great! We're on the run; out in the wilderness, with not one, but two, pregnant teenagers! Is anyone else pregnant? Anyone?" Maya screams.

Everyone else just stays quiet and looks at Maya. Dylan walks over to her and touches her shoulder, instantly gaining an angry look on his face, but leaving Maya happy looking.

"Thanks Dylan. Sorry, guys." She says, "Just a little crabby from having to fly without a full night's sleep."

Everyone shrugs it off and disperses.

Well this was great. We were being chased again by God knows who, with a new type of mutant weapon that was even worse looking than Erasers. And on top of all that, we had two expecting mothers…

Oh, how I hate my life…

Even though Max hates her life, I still love you.

~L