Chapter 13

Hey people! Thank you for all your wonderful reviews! I have enjoyed writing this story so much! But I hope to finish it by the time I go back to school.

Anyway, enough reminiscing. I'm going to go ahead and get to the story.

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(Max POV)

"Fly!" I yelled at the flock, turning to run.

The white coats came at us at top speed. Gazzy, Iggy, Nudge, and Angel launched themselves into the air, and began flying south. I tried to follow them on foot, not that it did much good. My legs burned from the injuries and it was a matter of seconds before the white coats were me.

I was scooped up as if I was nothing. But something went wrong. My wings clipped the scientist who had hold of me, knocking him senseless. Someone shouted something behind me.

I seized the man by his, (guess what?), white lab coat, and threw him off the snow mobile. I seated myself, and began revving the thing like James Bond in one of his many movies.

The shouts increased and I heard shots being fired behind me. Bullets and what looked like tranquilizer darts whizzed past me. I barely missed a tree, trying to figure out how to drive the stupid snow mobile.

I finally got the hand of steering it. That was all I needed. Keeping your grip though, was harder than it looked on tv. My fingers kept hurting, and the wind was biting my face, so I bent low behind the small piece of plastic that you could hardly call a windshield. My wings also kept catching the wind and making it hard to keep my seat.

"Max, you need to look for the flock. Dodging trees and bullets aren't going to be enough. You need them. Find them, and they will help. That's what their there for," said the Voice.

"Long time, no annoy, Voice," I thought. That was all I needed. A jolly, helpful hint from the ever-pleasing Voice. Excuse my sarcasm.

All the same, I started searching the sky for my flock. It wasn't easy, trying to keep low to avoid lethal bullets, while trying to angle your head to look up at the sky. Did I mention that I also had to avoid rocks and trees? Just letting you know.

The white coats were even closer now. They had there guns hanging from their arms and

backs. They seemed to be having a bit of trouble avoiding the trees. Apparently, they've been doing a little too much chemistry, and not enough driving, seeing as they've lost their touch with steering.

I tried to figure out how to go faster. To say the least, I wasn't succeeding. I somehow managed to slow it down.

A shadow passed over me. A shadow in the shape of a bird kid. Gazzy flew down in front of me with something in his hands. He grinned at me, and passed over me again.

"DUCK!" he shouted at me. I did what he said. Cause when Gazzy yells duck, you better do it, else you might just end up a bird kid splatter.

A large boom sounded through the mountain. A normal person a mile away could have heard it.

Shrapnel, snow, dirt, you name it, rained down on me. I looked behind me for a moment, and saw nothing but smoke. Those white coats had their fix. Now to get far away.

Four bird kid shadows loomed beside me, then were replaced by the real thing, one person at each corner of the snow mobile. They held out their hands.

"WHAT? You can't carry me! I'm to heavy!" I yelled over the roar of the engine.

"Just do it! It's the quickest way to get away, and we can carry you together for a while!" Iggy yelled back. He grabbed my left arm, Nudge took my right.

They lifted me into the air with some difficulty. Nudge strained to gain altitude. Then Gazzy and Angel took my legs, and the going was easier.

It was so weird, not moving my wings, yet flying. It felt very...wrong...and I felt insecure, even though I knew they would never drop me. To sum it up. I hated it. For once, I wanted to be on the ground. If I can't flap my wings and fly myself, I would rather not do it at all. And that's coming from a MUTANT BIRD HYBRID!! A PERSON WHO LOVES TO FLY!!!

We flew south until the sun started to go down. It had been a whole day of flying, almost, and the younger kids were exhausted. As were the rest of us. Gazzy found a cave inlaid into a hill. We built a fire, and sat shivering in the temporary luxury suite.

After a time, Angel came and leaned against me.

"What are we going to do now, since the Itex people are after us again?" Angel murmured.

"We will be on the run again. Once we got off these cursed mountains, we can tend to our injuries, then start fleeing all over again," I sighed. The rest of the flock seemed to fall into a state of depression after I said that.

"Where do you think Fang is?" Gazzy asked, kicking a rock outside. I had been thinking of that myself. Where was Fang? I was almost positive the wack-jobs had him. "We can't leave Fang."

"I think either the School, or one of the Itex locations must have him. If the white coats were in this particular area, looking for us, it must mean they found someone that was also in this vicinity, someone like Fang. They couldn't have known where we were on this stupid ice mountain otherwise," I said, stroking Angel's hair. It had dirt and dead leaves in it. I pulled out what I could.

"So....so, we are going to go find Fang?" Nudge asked uncertainly.

"Of course we're going to find Fang! He's family, and will never be left behind! We will find and rescue him if it's the last thing we do, right?" I said loudly, all the while wondering where to start.

They all seemed to awake from a deep stupor and nodded with conviction. I smiled, looking at their eager faces, wanting to go out and tear some stuff up. They wanted their flock brother back, and I would find him, even if I have to blow up every School, and every Itex building to get to him. Even if I have to swim to the bottom of the ocean and fight 100 Flyboys.

Fang will be rescued.

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Yay! Well, I hope you enjoyed it! I certainly had fun writing it. Not as much sarcasm as usual though....

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