Chapter three

POV Annika

"Hey could we talk, in private, guys, Angel…thanks." Max had done the job of evacuating the chillin's from the room.

I felt like I was looking in a mirror, except this one wasn't too happy at the moment, she was mad at me for scaring Angel. But who wouldn't be?

"What else can you do, besides reading minds, and controlling them too?"

"Out of curiosity or protection?"

"What's it to you?" she snarled at me.

"Why're you asking" I said, wearing an identical sneering face.

"Just tell me, please."

I decided to have fun freaking Max out. Which coincidentally I have an extremely dark gift of doing, you see. I can do anything I want to do, I can split myself in half and live, I can faint on command, I can mentally teleport people to wherever I want them to go, and I can make a copy of myself or anybody else, all on command of my mind WITHOUT becoming fatigued.

I copied myself behind her La-Z-Boy, and had me speak in Gazzy's voice, while on fire. (And if you don't think that's a weird sentence, read it again.) I stayed in my chair, a very non-chalant look on my face, while the other me started speaking.

POV Max

I heard Gazzy's voice behind me, but could sense it wasn't him. He felt different, the person felt like a girl (Max means that the person wasn't touching her, but they just felt different on the inside. Like you would know if a little kid, or a grown man was standing behind you, it's hard to explain.)

I slowly turned around to look at whomever was talking, and saw Annika. I whipped back around to see Annika again. How was she doing this, was this her way of telling me what her powers were. Could she duplicate herself, and talk in other peoples voices, even when she hadn't heard them before? I looked at the other Annika again.

"I can do what ever I want to do, I can kill with the snap of my fingers. I can turn myself into a talking telephone booth, that's fun by the way, scares the living daylights out of most people."

She burst into flame, then made water squirt the entire room, without getting it wet. This girl was the most dangerous person I had ever seen in my entire life. The "original Annika" made her duplicate disappear, and then turned herself into an armchair, and back again. She made wind whip across the room, but nothing stirred. She grew a tree from the palm of her hand, then moved it to outside the window without getting up. She was the master of everything, disguises, water, fire, air, She could do anything and everything. She was in complete control of her world.

She reverted back to normal state, which didn't look like me.

"How did you do that."

"With my mind, if I can think it, I can do it"

The other five flock members were thrust out of her eyes in the form of a hologram. Gazzy and Iggy were discussing in a corner of the next room. Angel and Nudge were playing a hand game. Fang was sitting against the wall, doing nothing, and total was lying down next to Angel.

"Is this what they're-"

"doing right now, yes"

"Who do you want to hear?"

"You can do that?"

"I can do anything, Maximum…Gazzy and Iggy it is.

The hologram started to produce sound, and Annika zoomed in on Gazzy and Iggy.

"No, that won't work because you need something that won't react to the bleach, use the wires connected to some polyester and add the fire, and ba-boom!"

"ahhhhh you want to hear what Fang's thinking."

"I can do it… and you're going to get some good dirt on him for later use, here goes.

Man-o-man-o-man. She is so God damn stubborn. I wish I could just hold her and kiss her, I wonder what's taking them so long, girl chat probably. Maybe their discussing how hot I am, yeah that would be the life, I wish I could get some time alone with her. And, wait, why am I thinking all of this, Angel's gonna crack up laughing.

And sure enough when Annika zoomed out again, Angel was quaking with mirthless laughter along with Nudge.

Not good, another subject, right . ummmm Annika, I wonder what she can do, I can't believe she looks just like Max. Max. She's so beautiful, I love it when she jumps into the sky, she's so powerful, and graceful, I love… Bad Fang, Bad Fang, Angel heard all of that.

"And not to mention us. I could if you really wanted, give you another power. I could give you the power of mind reading and control, and be able to talk to people in their minds. You and Angel and I could share a little joke, Max being able to read minds, you want to?

I could be able to read minds, ohh that would be sweet, I would never have to try to figure out what anyone's up to, I could just read their mind.

"Yes"

"I'm gonna bring Angel in here, and leave a replica of her that will act exactly like her in there, okay." She said as she removed the hologram.

POV Angel

I started to feel tingly, and then I was in the room with Max and Annika.

" What did you just do to me, Why doesn't she look like M-"

My mouth kept moving, but no sound came out. I gave up with my mouth, and started with my mind. But I couldn't reach either of their minds.

Don't talk, listen. Annika has an unlimited amount of power.

Annika's eyes went weird, then a hologram of Max's and Annika's discussion played in front of me, and the sounds echoed in my head.

I was left in awe, looking at Annika, who then made a carrot grow in mid-air. She took it out of the air, and starting eating it.

You can talk now, but Max and I would prefer you use your mind, we will grant you access.

Max, I am going to give you that power now, are you ready?

Yes, I am.

POV Max

I felt weird for a second, then it was over.

"Did it work?" I asked.

"Try to reach someone in the next room. Focus on what their thinking, only on what their thinking."

I followed the advice. After all, she'd probably been reading minds longer than Angel had. I heard Nudges thoughts echoing in my head.

I wonder what's for dinner. I'm really hungry. I just don't want spinach. Blech. Whoever had the bright idea of spinach being an edible food, I'd like too see them. If I could get near them, they would be dead before they could say " hybrid".

"It worked," I said, answering my own question.

YAY!! This was sooner than expected. I finished the HP series again. I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I want 15 reviews before I post the next chapter, probably by next Thursday. Everybody else gives virtual cookies, but I give virtual brownies to anyone who's reviewed every chapter, like Angelz On Edge. YAY you!!!