Nothing is mine, everything belongs to Kenneth Oppel, including the world! No really his books are all over the place, even in Tokyo. I own my candy, and you can't have any. Well OK, here you go.
Chapter Six
"So..." Lura advanced toward Romulus with uncertainty. "You saved Marina and Shade before? That's all well and good, but what are you doing here?" She heard a rustle of wings and saw Marina holding a wing to her head, slowly shaking it back and forth. "What?" The Graywing demanded. "Did I do something wrong because I'm not friends with a different species?"
"No!" The Brightwing snapped, glaring at Lura, wondering how she could say that. "Didn't you notice?"
"Yes I did notice! But why is he here? What does he want?" Romulus tapped Lura on the shoulder and she squeaked in fright. He took no notice and explained, "The rats are at war with these giant bats—the Vampyrum Spectrum—as they have been killing our kind. But they're killing bats and owls, too, and the owls think that your species have been killing them. You have heard that the skies are closed to bats, and especially to Silverwings, haven't you?" Marina gave Lura a peculiar look. "Where have you been when all this was going on?" She couldn't believe that a bat wouldn't have heard about this new war caused because of the Vampyrum. Lura whirled and bared her teeth, rasping out a hiss. Jabbing a claw into her stomach where the scar was still visible, she snarled with an infinite amount of hatred, "I was in the human building, getting metal sewed onto my skin," she finished with a hiss, and Marina winced, remembering.
"Then I was getting dropped over that blinding Human City, watching other bats being burned alive. Where were you when I explained all of this?" Without waiting for a reply, or a sharp retort, she spread her wings and soared off, anger fueling her wings. She didn't hear wingbeats following her for quite a while, so she found a place to roost and sank her claws deep into the frozen bark of a branch, folding her wings around her body to keep her warm. Suddenly she felt something brush against her, then grab her by the shoulders and yank her claws straight out of the bark. She yelped in shock and twisted her neck upwards to see what had captured her. She struggled, scratched, and bit, but she was suddenly hit over the head and, half-conscious, hauled along by the thing had had gotten her.
Marina flew back to Bridge City as fast as she could. You let him get away with her! You let another friend be kidnapped!
"SHUT UP!" She screeched to the insufferable voice inside her head, brought on by her guilt and fear. A guilt-trip now was the last thing she needed. "Ariel! Frieda! Help!" Ariel and Frieda, as well as the two other Silverwings and a few of the Freetails, glanced her way in shock and annoyance.