This one's a little bit of a filler, but I like it anyway. Yes, it is super short, but I had, like, a half hour to write it before my mom came home. I like Fi, Wings are me17 suggested it! I love it, so that's her name. I still have to think of a way to stick it in… The Hyaks are this local team, they're at North Beach, but kind of far away from Lake Quinault. I love the name, I think it's maybe Native American, and their little picture- thingy is a show with wings. I always wanted to be a flying shoe, but I ended transferring over to Hoquiam and I'm a grizzly now.

Dream

Chapter Seven

I was in a jungle. The vines dripped off the trees, moss hanging everywhere. There was no sound, nothing but me. I heard nothing, smelled nothing, but I felt something.

Despair.

Fear.

Alone-ness.

My ears twitched and my tail swished back and forth.

"Fang?….Splash?….Iggy?……Father?….."

There was no answer, only the vast echo to tell me how huge this place actually was.

I started running, not bothering to use my wings. They would only get tangled in the vines.

I yelled and yelled at the top of my lungs, but nothing happened. The jungle looked exactly the same.

I ran until I started to stumble. It felt like hours.

I started to see Father. He was dressed in his usual Hyaks sweatshirt and jeans, running as fast as he could to keep up with me.

I heard his voice, too, faint and off in the distance.

"You can do it, you just need to trust yourself, daughter, trust yourself."

He faded, gone forever.

Iggy was there, now, flying alongside me as I ran.

"Come on, sis. You can do it, hurry it up."

He faded, though not as fast as Father, and it was more him turning around, looking back and waving goodbye.

Next was Angel. Her little wings were trying so hard to stay with me.

"Yeah, you can do it. You can do anything if you set your mind to it…."

She faded too, drifting off till her wings disappeared.

Suddenly Splash was right next to me, running. Golden white fur flashed again between the trees, weaving through them to avoid crashing.

Come on, almost there. Hurry, or you won't make it…

He was gone in a second, like a flash.

Last of all there was Fang.

His wings beat hard to race me, pushing me till I eventually flipped out my wings and started beating them, too.

His dark wings looked even darker next to my pale blue ones, the faerie dust shedding from them.

He started to go faster, urging me on.

"Faster, you can do it. You're nearly there."

The darkness started to lift, light filtering in. I turned to him, trying to get to him, but I couldn't go any farther thana few feet. He was still flying, well past me, and I heard him shouting as I tried to catch up.

"Come on, hurry, Iggy needs you! Nudge needs you. Angel needs you. Max needs you. Gazzy needs you. Splash needs you…..I need you. So hurry it up. You need to get to us, fast!"

He started fading, flickering in the light, almost as if the light were eating him. I turned to him, scared as I started to lose him.

"No, FANG! Don't leave me!! Don't go!!" I yelled louder than I had before.

He turned to me and tears started coming down in rivers, blurring my eyes. I saw a few tears drop down his face, too, before he totally disappeared.

I collapsed, crying and crying.

"Fang…Fang…no…." I mumbled.

I kept going, though, and I think it was the thought that Fang might come back, but he never did, and I didn't pay much attention to the growing shafts of light, holes in between the trees. I was still crying.

After what seemed like hours I stopped, and fell over, asleep on the warm sand.

When I awoke, the sand had cooled, the sun was down. Dry tear tracks were still on my face.

In front of me was the huge jungle, on the other side, the pristine ocean.

I recognized that I had to choose.

There was Angel, Iggy, Fang, and Splash waiting in the ocean, loneliness and almost- hallucinations in the forest. I would have to wait to find Max and the others, but they were waiting directly behind me, although insubstantial, I could still talk to them.

I turned to the ocean and started running. I would choose the real thing over hallucinations anyday.

As I jumped I pulled in my wings and cannonballed throught the air and into the ocean.

I fell, deep, and struggled to get to the surface. Bubbles came out of my mouth as I lost air.

I held it, as long as I could, and started to claw my way to the surface, but I got turned around.

The water started to get darker, fish swimming below me. I tried to turn around but my leg was caught on something.

I turned to the side, and I saw my boot in the mouth of a dolphin, swimming up to the surface. It's body twisted like a snake, undulating. The dolphin was the last thing I saw as it broke the surface.

And I was drifting on the ocean.