I love this story already!!

I hope you guys like. Kind of confusing for me, but that's the writer's point of view. I love to hear what you all think, so feel free to give suggestions and other such and such, flames are accepted.

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Danger

Chapter Four

Angel's little brother was pigging out on his macaroni and cheese too much to notice my very odd appearance, but then he did a double take and his jaw dropped open.

Cheese coated noodles fell out and Max reached over and shut his jaw for him.

He nodded slightly and started chewing.

Angel was surgically attached to Max's leg, her balance a little off as she half smiled at me in the friendliest way she could summon.

The other girl was stunned. Her eyes were still a little bit red from the crying last night, but otherwise the only thing wrong was the fact that her eyelids must have been glued to her eyebrows.

Fang took my hand and dragged me over for Iggy to feel. His hands slid over my face, the tips feather light. They glided down my nose, across my cheeks, then eventually up to my ears.

Well, where the human ones would be. I tilted my head a little to guide his hands to my real ears. The furry ones. His breath caught as he rubbed the fur.

I grabbed one of his hands and put mine in it. He rubbed the tips and his nails caught on the notches my claws came out of.

With that familiar shhht, they came out. He felt around the bases and up and down the hard claw. His breath came out in a whoosh.

Pretty soon, they were all feeling my ears and tail, rubbing my fingertips. I flicked my tail back and forth in front of Angel's face. A giggle erupted out of the girl. Fang and Max were the only ones not by the couch.

They stood in the corner, their noodles untouched. Fang kept looking over to me and nodding. Max was nodding about every other shake of the head. This didn't look good.

"Hey, um, do you need me to leave? You want to talk to Angel and them?" I asked nervously.

Fang started to say no, but Max interrupted halfway through.

"Yes. If you don't mind." She said boldly.

As I walked out the door to the woods surrounding my house I glanced back at Iggy. He was staring at the sound of my steps and I couldn't help but let out a small "Iggy… brother…" light and under my voice.

The door swung shut behind me and all of the group started babbling at once.

I set down my empty bowl and let out my wings.

Within a few beats I found Splash running around, chasing deer. I shrugged. A tiger's gotta do what a tiger's gotta do. I couldn't keep him from getting food every once in a while.

I held his jaw and stuck my nose in front of his, staring hard in his eyes.

"Don't let them see you. Be nice. And please don't eat strangers." He nodded obediently, then turned back around to run after some meat.

I turned around one last time and caught a glimpse of an Iggy shape huddled in blankets staring in my direction.

I faced forward and started beating my wings again. My sleeves fluttered behind me, my cloak streaming. The rain ran down the spaces between me and the forest. Within a half hour's run I was in town.

I walked in the grocery store, in my blue cloak, brown shirt, short skirt, and tall, soft leather combat boots.

As usual, I didn't get any weird looks. They all knew at least a bit of the truth and how I was what I was. It was old gossip by now.

Halfway between sundown and noon I started home again. The rain was gone, the only clue that it had been here were the puddles spread across the forest floor and dripping off the leaves.

My feet ground in the soggy leaves that had already started falling overnight. The trees looked strangled, deciduous trees half naked, evergreens full and green as ever.

The branch reached out to grab me as I flew by, faster than earlier. Brown streaked by along with the usual autumn colors.

The watery sun filtered through the silent forest, empty except for the moldy grinding my feet made.

And then I saw a hunter. Just a few miles from my house, staring right down his gun barrel at Splash. He was ill equipped for a creature as out of place as my tiger in rainy Quinault.

Splash was quivering, scared out of his fur.

He had seen people before, but none as big as this man, and none with guns. He knew what a gun was, and how dangerous they could be.

He was just too scared to do anything about it.

I perched on a tree, holding on with one hand as I lay my backpack on the tree branch.

Red spots danced in front of my eyes and I started running, faster than ever. In a flash I was on a tree behind the hunter. I dropped down behind him silently and started creeping towards him.

I was right behind him, hand over his mouth before he knew what had happened. I started yelling at him as I sprung over his head, using his shoulders as springboards.

My hood fell off, exposing my ears and he was terrified.

"GO AWAY! NEVER COME BACK!! LEAVE US ALONE!!" The last came out as a roar, in his face as I snatched the gun out of his hands and ripped the barrel right out of the stock.

He ran, and right he should've, with me chasing him, catching up every once in a while to whip him with his own gun barrel. After a few miles he dropped to the ground, his pants pissed and tears streaming down his face.

I threw the gun barrel down by his feet and ran off, back to Splash.

He was exactly where I had left him and if big burly bengal tigers could cry, he would've.

I pet him roughly, staring in his eyes.

'Why in the heavens didn't you defend yourself??'

'You t-t-told me not to eat s-strangers' he answered.

I rubbed his head and sent him home as I crawled up my tree to the pack and brought it down. I walked the five miles back home, tired to the point of sleep.

So it was a huge shock to walk into the 'yard' and have a tiny Angel barrel into me. Hard.

I fell on my back, trying to catch my breath and failing miserably. She was still hugging me tight as I got to my feet.

"Angel, what in the world was that for??" I started prying her hands off of me.

She hugged me tighter and mumbled out a muffled, "You disappeared. I thought you left us here. I thought you lied."

I finally got her off and knelt down, holding her tiny shoulders.

"Angel. I wasn't lying. I was out buying more food. I don't plan on leaving any time soon. Ok?"

She nodded fast and wiped the tears out of her eyes. I hugged her hard and took her hand as she started to walk back to the house.

As we got closer I saw the Iggy shape facing me, in the same spot. He was slouched, hands shoved in his pants pockets. The blankets were lying on the ground.

He looked at me and a slight smile drifted onto his face.

"So tell me how I came to be the brother of a faerie, sister."