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"What! Where are they?" Gadget panicked, looking all around for some sign of the missing people.
"VECTOR? ADAIN? WHERE ARE YOU?!" Sky screamed, soaring above the canopy. "Where are they?" She whispered to herself, before turning sharply and gliding back to the temporary camp.
"I can't see them anywhere," Sky reported when she landed in front of Hunter who looked equal parts worried and furious.
"I swear to god, when I find out who took them, I will personally tear them limb from limb!" She snarled forcefully. Shade nodded and a dark aura erupted from both. James just kinda sat behind them; rocking back in forth, muttering, "Please don't hurt me…"
"Why would they hurt you, James?" Sammy asked. "It's not like you took them."
"I know. I'm Shade's punching bag when she's angry."
"Oh…"
By now, Shade had activated her tracking nose and was following a trail that lead about ten feet into the forest, but then just… stopped. Like it had never been there in the first place. Shade let out a frustrated scream when she was once again led to a dead end. "WHERE ARE THEY?" She yelled, punching the ground. Sky put a hand on Shade's shoulder to calm her, but Shade shoved her off and growled, "Why don't you actually help us? What have you been doing this whole time? Just flying around at your leisure?"
Sky looked taken aback, and her eyes hardened and turned icy. "Is that really what you think?"
Shade looked rather surprised that Sky had asked this. "Yes it is. Otherwise I wouldn't have said it, right?" She snarled out, standing up and facing Sky, ears shoved forward and tail bristled.
"I can't believe this. You honestly think that I would waste time on my desires while our friends? What do you take me for, Shade? A selfish brat? I'm not the same person I was two years ago!"
"Really? Because it sure seems you haven't changed at all! Your still a pathetic, whiny loser with no one to rely on!" Shade shouted, pulling at her hair.
"Shade!" Hunter interjected sharply.
"Stay out of it, Hunter." Sky growled slightly. "You know, Shade, it hurts to know you still think of me in that way. I thought that we agreed to help each other though the hard times! Or have you forgotten? Are you following your mother down that path of insanity?"
"What is she talking about?" James whispered to Gadget, who shrugged, eyes trained on the dueling girls.
"DON'T BRING MY MOTHER INTO THIS, SKY!" Shade screamed, raising her fists. At this point, Hunter had decided that this needed to stop.
"Sammy, help me," She called over to the frozen boy. Sammy snapped out of his trance and grabbed Shade's arms, holding her in place as she struggled against him, screaming bloody murder. Hunter was in much the same predicament, arms locked around Sky's whole body so that her wings couldn't slap her in the face.
"Calm down, you two!" Gadget cried, helping Sammy restrain the struggling she-wolf. "Never! She insulted me and my mother! She deserves to die!" Shade howled, canines flashing.
"Nobody is killing anybody!" James shouted, catching everyone's attention. He marched in between Shade and Sky and placed his hands on his hips, looking very much like a disapproving mom. "What has gotten into both of you? Arguing is going to get us nowhere! We keep pointing fingers, and Vector and Adian are no closer to being found. This is helping no one! I cannot believe both of you. I am ashamed of both of you. Now, either suck it up and help us find our friends, or get lost!" He finished, glaring at both of them.
There was a stunned silence.
"…Fine," Shade snorted, wrenching her arms out of Sammy and Gadget's now limp grip.
"I'll behave if she does," Sky snarled, and Hunter backed up, hands in the air.
Sky and Shade stomped off in different directions, and the remaining of the group exchanged glances.
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"I'm still not over the fact that you told off Sky and Shade, but didn't get blown sky high!" Hunter exclaimed yet again.
"Really? I wasn't aware. It's not as though you have been saying the same exact thing for the past god knows how long!" James muttered sarcastically as he picked his way through the underbrush of the forest.
"Ok, I mean, I've been told off by Sky, and one time I blew up at Shade, but both at the same time? If I tried that, it wouldn't matter what I was! I would be killed! You probably wouldn't have been able to find what was left of my body for years!" Hunter continued on, either unaware of James's comment, or choosing to ignore it.
"Yes, yes, I get it, Hunter! But aren't we supposed to be looking for Adian and Vector?" James snapped, annoyed at how the conversation had kept pointing to him. His mom had simply yelled him so much that he had perfected the fine art of disapproving arguments. But right now, he just really wanted to get the changed the subject to something more agreeable with his sanity.
"Hmm? Oh, yea. Well, never mind your awesomeness now, we have people to find!" Hunter shoved a finger in the air and marched foreword, a sighing James trailing along behind her.
Gadget sat nervously between the two fuming girls. James and Hunter had gone off to look for Adian and James, and Sammy was on watch, leaving him stranded with the girls who looked angry enough to murder him if he made the slightest mistake.
Gadget sighed, wishing he were somewhere else, helping Hunter or watching the forest with Sammy. He really, really, really did not want to be there when Shade or Sky snapped and took out their anger on the closest punching bag. (And that happened to be him.)
"You got a problem, blonde?" Shade snarled, making Gadget flinch slightly. "Who, me?" Gadget pointed at himself. "No, no! Why would I have a problem?"
"You're over here sighing like you have something to be upset about right now," Sky spat, glaring to him.
"Oh, I have nothing to be upset about!" Gadget replied, internally adding, 'Only the fact that my sister is dead and I'm stuck babysitting you brats…' Of course, he didn't say that out loud, for he valued his life.
"You better not, blonde."
"Can you stop calling me blonde?"
"Why should I, blonde?"
"Because it is really annoying and also makes you sound stupid."
"Shut up, blonde!"
"Like, really, really stupid."
"I said, shut up, blonde!"
"Hey, just call it as I see it~"
"You little brat-"
"Oh, that's even worse…"
"Brat!"
"Come on, I know you aren't really that lame!"
Ok, so maybe he didn't value his life as much as he thought….
"Come over here so I can kill you!"
"If you're going to kill me, why would you announce it?"
"MORON!"
Not far away, Sammy chuckled at the resounding shout, as he sat perched in a tree.
He looked down once again, a small smile on his face that soon slipped away as he saw a mild shaking in the trees. Suddenly, Hunter appeared with James on her back. In any other situation, this might have been funny, but there was nothing amusing in their, grim, pale faces.
"What happened?" Sammy asked, his voice a little scratchy.
James simply opened his palm.
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Gadget had been happily evading Shade's attacks, when Sammy, Hunter, and James all landed next to him, causing his to jump at least ten feet into the air. He turned to greet them, but the words died in his mouth, as well as any good feelings he had harbored before.
Sammy, Hunter, and James's faces were all drawn and Hunter looked close to tears.
"What did you find?" He whispered.
There was a muffled sob from Hunter as James once more opened him hand, reviling a mutated lump of bloodied silver metal and a leaf die red.
"It's Blizzard… and that's my brothers blood."
Ok, done! Not much of a cliffhanger, as you already know what happened to them… maybe I should have posted this one first… oh well! You live and you learn! I hope you liked it!
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