Sorry I haven't written for a while. I just didn't feel like it and was letting thoughts float around in my head. Anyway, here's Chapter 13!
Chapter 13
I woke up to the roaring of fire and the screaming of people. I opened my eyes, and saw that I was lying on a street. In front of me was chaos. People were laying on the ground, kneeling next to others, sprinting in every direction, and screaming. Flaming cars littered the street, along with broken glass and bodies. I looked upwards and saw fire shooting out of the shattered windows of two skyscrapers. As I got up, pain shot through my head and limbs. The screech of police sirens filled the air, making my headache even worse. I turned around as a police cruiser screeched to a stop. Two officers jumped out of the car and immediately pulled out pistols and pointed them at me. This is why I refuse to pay taxes, aside from the fact that I don't have money, but anyway…
"PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" one of them yelled, not able to hide the fear from his voice.
"What the heck," I yelled back as I put my hands up. "I didn't do any-" I stopped talking when I felt my foot touch something hard. I looked down and saw a rocket launcher laid down at my side. "Now listen officers, I didn't do anything," I protested as they slowly made their way toward me. I tried to remember what had happened in-between when the destruct sequence started and when I woke up, but I couldn't. "Please, don't do this," I pleaded. I made up my mind when the first policeman was three inches from me.
"Sorry," I said as I grabbed his arm and flung him into the second officer. Then I jumped into the air and spread my wings, beating them as hard as I could. Windows behind me shattered as bangs echoed in the air. More people screamed. Hooray for the NYPD. Then the sound of an automatic rifle filled the air. I shot upwards as more windows shattered. Then more gunfire came, making me realize that I reallyhad to get out of there. I pumped my wings as hard as I could, until I reached 200 miles per hour.The lights of New York shot off into the distance.
I swore as loudly as I could, for three reasons. 1) I didn't know where Iggy, Gazzy, Fang, Nudge, and Angel where or how they were doing. 2) Jeb was going to be wasted by an assassin soon. And 3) I WAS THEN PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1!!!! Then the chopping of rotors interrupted my relaxation session. I looked back and saw what I assumed was a military chopper behind me. I dived just in time to avoid a stream of bullets from twin gatling guns. I literally felt the heat of the bullets as they rushed over me. I shot downwars, reaching my terminal velocity of around 100 miles-per-hour.
As I was about to collide with the trees of a forest I leveled out very quickly, shooting into the branches. Then I heard hissing and dodged to the side as a heat-seeking missile crashed into a tree, exploding and sending flaming woodchips everywhere. One shot across my face, cutting deeply into it. I yelped as I avoided another tree.
Then I heard the gatling guns shoot again, but no bullets shot my way. I looked up and saw two flying people or, more accurately, one flying person and another plummeting one. I shot out through the canopy, performing a half loop and shooting back the way I came. The falling body had wings, but the color, I couldn't tell in the darkness. I caught it lightly. I also realized horrifyingly that it was Fang, a large bullet hole was present in his shoulder. Beginning to notice a pattern in these books.
"FANG!" I yelled, but he made no response.
"WATCH OUT!" came Nudge's voice. I looked up and saw the helicopter, with fire shooting out of its windows, falling from directly above me.